Sentences with phrase «constituents over»

The aim of a total return index is to reflect the full benefit of holding an index's constituents over a given time.

«We stand at the doorstep of the next millennium,» goes the vapid speech that he's expected to deliver time and again to constituents over the weekend.

Consolidation proposals, he said, do not require board of supervisors approval, which means lawmakers could opt not to reappoint him if they receive blowback from angry constituents over unpopular proposals.

The senator was already in trouble at home, particularly with his local GOP leader, Assemblyman Bill Reilich, thanks to his decision to sue his own constituents over a trespassing allegation.

11:36 - «It is simply heartbreaking to see so many friends who have served their constituents over so many years lose their seats due to forces outside their control.»

That's good news for Alesi, who was facing a difficult re-election bid next fall, thanks to his very unpopular decision to sue two constituents over the broken leg he sustained while trespassing on their property.

I though politics was about getting results from the people, putting your constituents over your party, not this ideology of party first and the tribal mentality of the mainstreams.

«We again passionately appeal to principals to desist from harassing our constituents over the payment of utilities and to also make refunds for those who have been compelled and humiliated to pay,» the statement said

Mulvaney, a former GOP congressman from South Carolina, said Tuesday that he would only meet with lobbyists who had donated to his political campaigns but valued the opinions of his constituents over hired guns.»

The mayor also responded to several questions from people concerned about arrests for low - level crimes and sparred with a constituent over where an indoor pool he promised the borough at his last Staten Island town hall should be located.

Not exact matches

Dara Khosrowshahi, who took over as Uber's chief executive officer in September, replied: «I will take a look at your suggestion — I will take it seriously but we have to take all of our constituents into consideration.»

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the oldest nonprofits advocating for digital rights, said «the legislature demonstrated that they put the profits of Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast over the privacy rights of their constituents.»

With jurisdiction over every constituent in the securities trade, from brokers to mutual funds to accountants to corporate filers, it would seem to be the voice of Oz.

Concessions to China over Scarborough would likely alienate Duterte from his constituents at home, who have given him high approval marks amid a bloody crackdown on drugs that has earned international criticism.

«This was a constituent - based inquiry, and we wanted to assist a South Carolina resident who had concerns over these specific prescription costs,» Michele Exner, Scott's press secretary, told us.

Yet, with key economies in different stages of the business cycle, «the risk of the global economy, or any of its major constituents, running too hot over the next 12 months is contained,» says Elga Bartsch, Co-Head of Global Economics.

This Tuesday I'll host a town hall for my constituents, where I'll go over the developments in Congress since Feb. 14, and what our strategy is moving forward.

«I think it's safe to say very simply that Facebook is losing the trust of an awful lot of Americans as a result of this incident,» said Peters, tying his constituents» questions about mobile data mining to their outrage over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Uber didn't reveal a data breach for over a year, and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro thinks the company failed his constituents.

Details of the measure are still being worked out as constituents balk over the potential loss of tax deductions for state and local taxes, as well as potential changes to the tax treatment of retirement plans such as 401 (k) s.

Corporate earnings season for the U.S. market has passed the half way point with over 260 of the S&P 500 constituents having reported and results have been stupendous.

We have six two - hour constituent roundtable meetings scheduled over the next two weeks.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

The good news is that the payout ratio of the S&P 500 constituents has come down over the past several decades.

Each novel moment is a constituent of an imaginative series over which the entity endures.

His solution, following his own reading of Whitehead's doctrine of societies, is to argue that an organism or compound individual entity exists wherever one of its constituent subsocieties is dominant over the other subsocieties within the organism (PEW 215).

We maintain that a person's influence is direct and immediate over the constituents of the next level down, and each of these in turn over those below.

In many books and articles over the years, I have argued that Whiteheadian societies, while not possessing agency in and of themselves, nevertheless possess an objective ontological unity from moment to moment in virtue of the collective agency of their constituent actual occasions2 The unity thus achieved is in my view the unity of an ongoing structured field of activity for successive generations of actual occasions undergoing concrescence within the field.

Leclerc insists over and over again that his theory is different from those of all others before him because it recognizes the reality of relations founded on mutual interacting, and that the action produced by such an interacting transcends the constituents, and indeed emerges as a new substance.

That is to say, the concept of a molecule entails that the entity have a group character dependent upon a group structure, and that this group structure — and concomitant character — is something over and above, and not reducible to, the individual characters of the constituents.

Our members made over 600,000 constituent contacts just in the couple months leading up to the final vote.

And I deal with tearful constituents every week who are being told the council can no longer provide the sufficient housing benefit to cover the rent because it takes them over the cap so therefore they have to move, to Barking, to Luton, and it's dreadful... I will absolutely oppose it and I was disappointed my colleagues didn't.»

Following over 2000 letters being sent from constituents, many more MPs have been lobbying Government directly to urge them to act now.

On my return, I took a call from the clerk of a prominent select committee who had been fielding calls from constituents for over an hour.

Last year, we had a letter returned in January from a constituent thanking us for the card sent to the previous occupant of the house who had died just over two years ago.

A former deputy minister at the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection Rachel Appoh has revealed that she had to pay her constituents to reduce the NO votes against President Mahama during NDC's primaries held over the weekend.

Jon Wheeler has worked for over 15 years at the intersection of politics and technology, beginning with managing a Congressional constituent database in 1994 when there was no such thing as online organizing.

As the SMC was preparing to hand over political power to an elected government after a Constituent Assembly had drafted the Third Republican Constitution, the country was hit by another military uprising on May 5, 1979 which was swiftly quelled by the authorities.

«Louise fought for years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding, so it was only logical and necessary for Amtrak to rename the train station after Louise, a legend in her own right and a fierce advocate for her constituents,» Schumer said.

«But Espada's constituents in the Bronx are sick of him siding with landlords over tenants and diverting their tax dollars to fund his personal schemes.

The page shows a bizarre mix of images of the MP engaging with constituents, pornography and a «goatse» meme stating «welcome to the internet» over a picture of a shocked boy.

«How they can support President Trump's tax plan, that decimates their own constituents and is a prime example of putting partisan politics over the best interests of the people they represent?

When retired politicians look backgloomily on forty years of thankless struggle over long - forgotten policies andan eternity of pounding pavements to engage constituents who can hardly bebothered to vote, they are often overcome with a sense of futility.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

Graziano's latest campaign gimmick places his own personal bitterness over the best choice for the constituents he wished to serve with nothing more than a disgraceful and petty act of revenge.

Over 100 family members, constituents and lobbyists wrote letters on behalf of the disgraced former Assembly speaker, Silver himself apologized in a letter, and his lawyers pleaded for mercy.

«Dan Maffei was a strong and passionate advocate for his constituents in Congress, and his leadership has been sorely missed over the last two years,» Cilento said in a news release.

In 2011, Thornberry challenged David Cameron over his false claims about wages at Islington Council, [39] campaigning against government measures which Thornberry claims have exacerbated child poverty in Islington, [40] and answering over 1,000 enquiries a month from constituents.

However, Markowitz has also infuriated his share of constituents, including bike activists over his opposition of a bike lane at Prospect Park West.

As of now, Obama - style integrated communications / volunteer - management is relatively rare, but some CRM (customer / constituent / contact - relations management) systems are beginning to incorporate multiple - channel features, and these should become increasingly common over the next election cycle or two.