Sentences with phrase «by opponents of the project»

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Anyone questioning whether the Wolf Pack have enough fuel to sustain a deep run need look no further than their first two games in the NCAA tournament, when they outlasted a pair of high - major opponents with multiple projected first - round NBA draft picks between them by making double - digit comebacks in the second half.

More than a month after the Town of Glen planning board rejected a proposal by a Canadian company to bring a sewage sludge facility to the area, opponents are still working to keep the project from moving forward.

A vocal opponent of the federal government's capacity zones, which could raise utility rates in the Hudson Valley by 20 %, Dr. Murphy sees this as the opportunity to promote and incorporate green energy projects to stabilize our...

Vice President Kwasi Amissah Arthur has urged supporters of the NDC to go to town and remove clothes covering the faces of opponents of the Mahama - led adminitration, which is making it impossible for them to see the several developmental projects executed by government across the country.

Opponents of the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline gathered in Knox to warn people about the dangers the project could bring to the area, bolstered by the recent support for their cause from U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer.

And that's because the other fantasy vividly entertained by Indian Point's opponents is that New York will become the home of enormous wind and solar projects.

The Kingston Common Council Tuesday night approved a resolution drafted by opponents of the Niagara Bottling plant proposal to extend the public comment period on a document that will guide an environmental review of the project.

Cross cited several accomplishments during his two terms as supervisor: completing a long - delayed comprehensive plan for the town; settling a lawsuit with New York City that allowed the town to raise the assessment of city - owned lands; obtaining extra funding from the city for the Phoenicia sewer project that was then lost by his opponent's administration.

While Mohammed Rauf's Islamic Society of New York quickly became an epicenter of Islamic life on the Upper East Side when it opened in 1991, Rauf's son Feisal Abdul Rauf is drawing an equal amount of attention with his own proposed Islamic Community Center, the Park51 project, decried by opponents as the «Ground Zero mosque.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, kicked off the block party outside the center, which was attended by hundreds of supporters carrying flags and cheering any time they heard Clinton had a lead in any state — even as projected results indicated that her opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, was leading her.

Last month, the house voted by 280 to 141 to axe the project — three days after the supercollider's opponents leaked the findings of a government audit which details a string of financial abuses.

In a setback for opponents of one - shot, «high stakes» tests, New York state Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills last week rejected a bid by about 40 nontraditional schools to substitute individually tailored projects for the English examination the state recently began to require for graduation.

This web site, which is part of the NCTM Illuminations project, allows students to challenge themselves or opponents from anywhere in the world by playing games that are organized around content from the upper elementary and middle grades math curriculum.

During the two - hour meeting, Leonard A. Lauder — the Whitney's chairman emeritus and largest benefactor, and until now an opponent of the project — surprised everyone by voting in favor of the new building.

It «is another attempt by opponents of Keystone XL to try and delay this project,» he said in an email.

Political opponents on the right and in some sectors of the oil and gas business, for their part, accused Trudeau of shallow political theatre, posing as a friend of the industry to win a few Red Tory votes by pretending to put his weight behind a project his environmentalist allies would surely block.

Well - funded opponents of the project backed by Koch brothers coal money, according to Cape Wind spokesman Mark Rodgers, claimed National Grid's PPAs should be made on a strict «least - cost basis.»

The National Grid PPA's first - year price of 18.7 cents per kilowatt - hour, increasing 3.5 percent per year for the 15 - year contract, was challenged by project opponents who argued it was a burden on Massachusetts ratepayers.