Sentences with phrase «by stalling the action»

By stalling action on the majority party's agenda, the minority leader may be able to launch a campaign against a «do - nothing Congress» and convince enough voters to put his party back in charge of the House.

For example, by stalling action on the majority party's agenda, the minority leader may be able to launch a campaign against a «do - nothing Congress.»

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In our last blog post, Benefits of a rules - based trading system, we said the following: «On May 1 (Tuesday), the combination of heavy volume selling in the Nasdaq, bearish «stalling action» in the S&P 500, and a «distribution day» (higher volume selling) the prior day forced us to cut long exposure in our model swing trading portfolio from approximately 38 % down to 17 % by the following day's open (May 2).

Thanks to the bounce off the April 15 lows, followed by last week's stalling action, now is the right time to sell short $ QQQ.

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First, the power - sharing government that followed the disputed election results of 2007: by bringing a large number of political actors on - board, government action has been stalled and many of the ministerial responsibilities duplicated, leading in turn to a lack of accountability.

Last year's negotiations stalled for months after Democrats demanded action on young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals praction on young immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals prAction for Childhood Arrivals program.

A budget was passed that included a provision that will not allow Democrats to use a Senate filibuster to stall or to prevent actions proposed by Republicans.

Even before the recent push to bring on a full - time marine mammal guard to look out for almost a dozen of the Navy's submarines and 9,500 personnel, the Navy considered bringing dolphin guards to Kitsap - Bangor two decades ago, but the move was stalled by a lawsuit from environmental groups charging that the Navy failed to analyze the effects of the proposed actions on the dolphins themselves and then a loss for security funding in the 1990s.

Some people are susceptible to the «insulinotrophic» action of whey — a tripling of insulin output by the pancreas, a situation that stalls weight loss.

If you feel like your relationship's taken a boring stall of ordering pizza every night, then show off your athletic side by going on an action - packed climbing date.

Ghost in the Shell isn't the first attempt at adapting anime in live action — Attack on Titan, for example, was released in 2015, and Akira's red motorcycle has stalled in various levels of development hell for more than a decade — but it's by far the highest - profile Hollywood attempt.

Bureaucratic bungling has stalled a critical animal welfare rulemaking action aimed at cracking down on the barbaric practice of horse soring — with the U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrawing new regulations today that had been broadly supported by hundreds of lawmakers in Congress, the veterinary community, a wide range of horse industry organizations, The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund.

Its stalls start to shutter their doors by 3 p.m. most days and the real action there is in the morning.

Fussing about stalling until China takes equivalent action can be dismissed by pointing out that per capita we are emitting 15 - 20 times as much, and have put up far more of what's already up there.

Blue - state lawmakers, emboldened by protests and worried that federal climate action may stall, say they sense new momentum to take action following Trump's victory.

In addition to calling out the most prominent current climate change denier of them all — Donald Trump, we profiled eight other leading climate change deniers in the world of politics, individuals whom — as the commentary notes — have been responsible for «clouding the climate change debate» and stalling action by participating in «a campaign of deliberate misinformation.»

Their dwindling but still powerful movement seeks to stall progress on climate action by persuading the public that the science on the issue remains unsettled.

But it does mean that we're seeing states that have previously stalled on solar initiatives suddenly jump into action (most notably Texas), and hopefully more states will follow suit by insituting, renewing, or expanding their solar incentives.

Levies on international air travel have been suggested for many years, but, since the issue is governed by the International Civil Air Association (ICAO), which has been stalling any major action on reducing emissions from air transport, such a plan is unlikely to be implemented anytime soon.

The Claimants sought an order for alternative service on the basis of good reason, rather than exceptional circumstances, which had to be their case in the light of English authorities on service where a treaty made exclusive provision for service in the state in question, but I would have considered the circumstances exceptional in any event in the light of the evidence before me as to the likelihood of the KRG seeking to utilise Article 10 and the stifling, stalling and obstructive tactics adopted by the KRG in the arbitration and enforcement actions in the UK and the District of Columbia, as set out in the relevant witness statements before me at the time, to which I have already referred.