Sentences with phrase «by city leaders»

«Policies and practices put in place by city leaders a number of years ago have yielded greater equity over time, although charter students continue to receive less public funding than their peers in district schools,» he said.

Todd Dickson's track record of success in California lead to his recruitment to Nashville by city leaders, including Mayor Karl Dean.

The Council support is part of a concerted push by city leaders for a «home rule» message that would allow the city to increase taxes on its highest earners.

Tarrant County voters are among those May 5 who will weigh in on whether to remove elected officials or deny agreements approved by city leaders.

Finding # 600m of savings after year - on - year «efficiency measures» has been described by city leader Sir Albert Bore as «the end of local government as we know it».

Not exact matches

By the 1870s, the Los Angeles city council was fighting against tamale wagons and lunch carts, and San Antonio's leaders worried that Mexican street vendors were upsetting other business traffic.

Some farmers and city leaders worry that the fracking boom is consuming too much of a scarce resource, while others see the push for production as an opportunity to make money by selling water while furthering the nation's goal of energy independence.

The next day Sandoval briefed delighted legislative leaders, laying plans for a Thursday press conference in Carson City to trumpet the news, followed by a special session to approve the legislation to benefit Tesla.

That project was spearheaded by noted economic development expert Ed Morrison along with area business leaders — in particular, Charles Van Rysselberge, who headed the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce at that time.

Last month Amazon announced it will be building a second company headquarters — dubbed «Amazon HQ2» — somewhere in North America, inviting city and state leaders to submit proposals by October 19.

By showcasing the most innovative and successful city solutions out there today, we hope to inspire local leaders throughout the country and the world to capitalize on the potential that cities hold to take meaningful action against change.

He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as «Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year» (2011); and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017).

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Strongin's perspective is widely common by the city's business leaders.

Climate change activists around the city, including the leader of a Sunset Park group, are praising a decision by the de Blasio administration to divest $ 5 billion in pension holdings from companies dealing in fossil fuel.

CALGARY - On her first visit to Calgary as New Democrat leader, Rachel Notley said that the city is a priority for the party and that New Democrats will build on the work done in these by - elections.

The two - day event was presented by VentureWell and hosted by the Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo, an annual event convening 200 + global city leaders to prospect and partner with innovation technology and service providers.

On her first visit to Calgary as New Democrat leader, Rachel Notley said that the city is a priority for the party and that New Democrats will build on the work done in these by - elections.

Instead, by submitting their proposal — no doubt replete with the hefty tax incentives Amazon requests — Baltimore's leaders are once again conflating benefits to developers with benefits to our citizens, prioritizing courtship of business over formulation of substantive vision for our city.

(CNN)-- New York's Cardinal Timothy Dolan sat for questions from lawyers for victims of sexual abuse by priests in Milwaukee while he was that city's Roman Catholic leader, his office disclosed Wednesday.

There was still silence when, at around the same time, the sons of pastor Alexander Pavenko of the charismatic Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord were murdered by separatists in the city of Slavyansk, when the priests of the Patriarchate of Kyev and the Muslim leaders were expelled from Crimea, and when Greek Catholic priests were tortured by the «Russian Orthodox Army.»

Last week, Kong Hee and five other leaders of his 17,000 - member City Harvest Church (CHC) were found guilty by Singapore's charity commissioner of siphoning $ 35.9 million in church funds to support the singing career of Kong's wife and church co-founder, Sun Ho, in the United States and Asia.

200 there died at Lyons in France the bishop of that city, Irenaeus by name, one of the outstanding Christian leaders of his time.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

Should I, as a Creole, mixed - race, African American, Evangelical leader sit quietly by, not saying a word about what has transpired in Ferguson and many other cities so that your white daughter would not feel compelled to speak out and the comfort of your reality would remain.

While the spontaneous street celebrations that broke out in American cities like New York and Washington over the news of bin Laden's killing by U.S. Special Forces have not been repeated in the Muslim world, there has been praise for his death from some Muslim political leaders.

Our lovely city leaders decided to break up a homeless camp that had been established by spreading chicken shit on the ground right beside where people were sleeping, right beside where they had their few possessions.

Wahlberg's claim that the Apostle Peter's «first successors might have been something like the leaders or chairmen of the presbyterial college at Rome» is belied by the careful scholarship of Peter Lampe, who, as we point out in our book, «developed the «fractionation thesis» to illustrate the house - church - decentralized flavor of the city along with its various Christian districts.»

Speaking of how Bethel have engaged with Redding's population of 90,000, Valotton says, «The Lord spoke to us about people in our city who are Romans 13 people, they are civic leaders who are called «ministers of God» [by Paul].

The New York City Leadership Center, a coalition of Christian leaders from around the city, estimates the number of people identifying as Christians multiplied by more than 300 percent between 1989 and 2City Leadership Center, a coalition of Christian leaders from around the city, estimates the number of people identifying as Christians multiplied by more than 300 percent between 1989 and 2city, estimates the number of people identifying as Christians multiplied by more than 300 percent between 1989 and 2014.

These apostles were not missionaries, in Judea, but leaders of the Jerusalem church; (Cf. Acts 8:1) the actual mission was conducted by their emissaries; and probably James came to the city at the time Peter and John first left it and went to Samaria, during the persecution that followed the martyrdom of Stephen.

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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — In celebration of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22, Pittsburgh will be home to a series of activities focused on identifying causes and solutions to America's food waste problems, led by student leaders from across the country who have gathered in the Steel City to compete at an annual national scholarship competition.

That viewpoint is supported by the fact that the Merseyside outfit are languishing in eighth in the Premier League table, 15 points adrift of leaders Leicester City.

It comes just a fortnight after they were defeated by Manchester City, while their overall form hasn't been good enough and that's reflected in the fact that they sit in sixth place in the Premier League table, a point adrift of the top four and 12 points behind leaders City.

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

It sometimes seems like Leicester City are on top of the League by default, with Arsenal, Man City and Man United continually dropping crucial points in the title race, but Arsenal are still sitting pretty just two points behind the leaders.

I'm infuriated by pundits especially carragher that twat ex Liverpool player talking crappie about arsenal hasn't got leaders on the field, we won 7,8 games on the trot before season end unfortunately it's down to arsenal coaching staff to snuff that mentality from the players, we beat Chelsea, man city, man u, it's all down to bad blood from all those pundits sometimes I watch match of the day revisited the likes of sourness, carragher all making elementary mistakes, they are all jealous idiots anyway

Premier League champions Manchester City and title - leaders Chelsea have been beaten to the status as the most dangerous team in English football by, wait for it... League One outfit Brentford!

While City look set to put together a strong run of form, they still trail Premier League leaders Chelsea by 10 points after 24 games.

Reinforcements will be expected at Old Trafford as the Red Devils continue to trail Premier League leaders Manchester City by some distance at the top of the table.

City are unwilling to match that amount but sources have told Goal that the Premier League leaders are hopeful they can avoid a repeat of the protracted summer saga by tying up a deal long before the transfer deadline at the end of this month.

The Gunners have slipped to 11 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford in the quarter - finals on Sunday.

Third - place City are now four points adrift of Arsenal, who trail leaders Leicester City by two points.

Arsenal lost two away games in a row to go nine points behind the league leaders Chelsea as they were beaten by the gallant Manchester City side who rallied from behind to beat Arsenal 2 - 1 in the match.

The weekend's woes were completed when the league leaders Man City scored a very late winner after it looked like they may be held by West Ham and that goal gives them a huge gap of 15 points over Arsenal.

Manchester United are Manchester City's closest competitors this year, but they still trail the league leaders by 12 points.

Premier League leaders Chelsea fell 4 - 2 at the hands of third tier Bradford City at Stamford Bridge, whilst reigning league champions Manchester City were also beaten at home by Aitor Karanka's Middlesbrough.

Royal Revival Bolstered by castoffs such as righthander Jose Lima, Kansas City is the unlikely leader in the AL Central.