Sentences with phrase «controversial dealing with»

As evidenced by the 407 to 10 vote, the legislation doesn't tackle anything controversial dealing with guns that has been proposed since the Feb. 14 shooting in which a former student killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at the Parkland school.

The company has fought hard to protect IP on the latter product, including by striking a controversial deal with a Native tribe to safeguard its patents from certain challenges.

Chicago Park District commissioners voted Wednesday to pay about $ 2 million to end a controversial deal with the private Latin School for a soccer field in Lincoln Park, but said they want to finish it on their own by summer's end.

The management of the University of Ghana has disassociated itself from reports that it criticized Prof. Kwesi Yankah, the Minister of State in Charge of Education, on his position on the school's controversial deal with Africa Integras.

London mayor insists no investigation is needed into controversial deal with Chinese developers

Syngenta had to back away from a controversial deal with the Indira Gandhi Agricultural University in Raipur that would have given the company commercial rights to over 19,000 rice varieties held by the university that were collected from local farmers in the 1970s.

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Probably the most controversial aspect of Aequitas's approach is how it deals with high - frequency traders.

As with Magnetar's mortgage bet, investing in M&A deals with the primary purpose of challenging them is also controversial.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

The previous month, the media giant had announced, with great fanfare, that an upstart Internet service provider based in Northern Virginia would be appending its initials to the front of the Time Warner name in a monumental (and immediately controversial) corporate marriage — a deal that would close a year later, on January 11, 2001.

The first deals with the controversial Enbridge project.

But with the help of international allies, and diplomacy, he said the U.S. could use current sanctions as leverage, offering some relief in exchange for controls on the nuclear program — as occurred in the controversial Iran deal.

OTTAWA — The Harper government is buying itself some more time to deal with a political hot potato, extending a review of the controversial $ 15.1 - billion bid by a Chinese state - owned company to acquire Calgary - based oil and gas producer Nexen Inc (TSX: NXY).

The saga of the failed BHP Billiton bid for Potash Corp., which was heightened by the potential involvement of a Chinese state - owned enterprise, carries several lessons for Canada as it prepares to deal with a growing number of large, and potentially controversial, acquisitions by state - owned and other enterprises.

A more controversial group also dealing with suicide is the Hemlock Society, founded by Derek Humphry, who assisted his wife to take her own life in England several years ago.

In terms of his natural theology, Mascall does not hesitate to deal with one of the most controversial of traditional doctrines about God, namely the doctrine that God is impassible.

Though the networks sought to make all religious programming emphasize broad religious truths rather than individual tenets of denominations and to avoid dealing with controversial economic and social issues which were of religious significance, many programs produced by the churches in relation with the networks were critical or prophetic in nature.

A simple and effective method of dealing with controversial issues is just to ignore them.

The contents of the Bible deal with many controversial subjects.

A work of reference dealing with the modern Islamic world must inevitably touch on a number of highly controversial questions, some of them relating to conflicts between Muslims and others, some of them» the more delicate and important» to conflicts of interests and ideas within and between Muslim countries.

It avoids those controversial issues, a treatment of which is not required by the argument, and it deals at length only with questions that become important in the application.

Over the past few years, I've come to really appreciate McKnight's humility and gentleness, especially when dealing with controversial issues, and my impressions of The Blue Parakeet were no doubt influenced by my respect for its author.

Ten hugely controversial deals on the cards this summer, with Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham all involved...

Bayern recently announced a controversial new partnership with the Hamad International Airport in Qatar, much to the displeasure of a section of their match - going supporters, who frequently express their opposition to sponsorship deals involving states with questionable human rights records.

Depending on who you talk to, a new federal report on nuclear waste disposal either offers a start at dealing with a growing problem or merely kicks the can down the road on the controversial issue of Yucca Mountain.

While de Blasio has promised a public airing of grievances over the city's more controversial statues, he said a commission to study them has to stay quiet — for now — because it's dealing with «very sensitive, complex subject matter.»

Meanwhile, Wednesday's emergency summit in Brussels saw the creation of a package to deal with the eurozone's debt crisis, which includes a controversial extension of the European Financial Stability Fund to one trillion euros.

Although Rohani argues for constructive interactions with other countries and although he supports applying a softer political tone — as opposed to the combative, controversial and provocative language that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or other hardliners utilize — when dealing with the international community and regional state actors in regards to Syria, Rohani has not called for an overall sweeping shift in Iran's foreign policy.

12:20 - The mood in the Commons chamber remains very turbulent, but Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton - Brown soon deals with that with a constituency question about funding for an important, but not especially politically controversial, college.

In WA state, some examples of that could include the voter referendums that legalized marijuana and gay marriage... topics that politicians felt were overly controversial and preferred not to deal with.

The chairman of AstraZeneca has said the «tax - effective» structure of the proposed deal with Pfizer would have made it a «controversial» deal.

In the months leading up to a state - imposed negotiations deadline in January, the Real Estate Board of New York and union leaders came tantalizingly close to coming up with a deal to renew 421a, the controversial tax abatement program for new developments.

It took more than three decades of sanctioning Iran before the Obama administration significantly dialed them down with the controversial Iran Deal.

Tony Blair met with eastern European leaders last week to try to secure their support for a deal on the 2007 - 13 EU budget, where he indicated that Britain's controversial rebate could be reduced in an effort to reach a deal.

And while he praised Bloomberg's efforts to improve public health, snuff out smoking, and pass immigration reform, he vowed to improve the way the city deals with small businesses, bolster affordable housing, and reform the controversial stop - and - frisk policy to improve community relations with police.

Negotiations between the de Blasio administration and the City Council over the mayor's controversial housing plans are intensifying, with both sides hoping to reach a deal by the end of next week.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan today debuted the «framework» of a deal that will extend the city's rent regulations and the controversial 421a tax abatement for six months — with some tweaks to the former, and potential for the latter to last through 2019 if the real estate industry and labor reach an agreement on construction wages.

Once the campaign year begins they are anxious to get back to their districts and are often reluctant to deal with controversial issues fearing voter reactions.»

A woman has suffered 40 % burns after decanting petrol in her kitchen, following controversial advice from ministers for dealing with a potential fuel strike.

Keep in mind that anything construction related at the Peace Bridge that deals with traffic is an automatic controversial issue because of the longstanding and well - documented health problems of residents living near the bridge.

In 2005, Driscoll distanced himself from both men, criticizing their involvement in real estate deals with controversial Miami investor Eli Hadad.

That's the attitude of self - satisfied state lawmakers, who may wait until October to return to Albany to pass a range of important measures dealing with President Obama's health - care plan, Mayor Bloomberg's controversial outer - borough taxi deal and a new state labor contract.

At the risk of being controversial, I am really concerned that shortage of funds means that HMRC and the Government are failing to provide the necessary levels of support to ensure the tax system deals with such people properly and I do feel that LITRG is sometimes doing things that unquestionably should be done by Government.

Negotiations between the de Blasio administration and the NYC Council over the mayor's controversial housing plans are intensifying, with both sides hoping to reach a deal by the end of next week.

You have been responsible for successfully handling two of the most controversial issues with which this Government has dealt.

«The Deputy Prime Minister challenged the Immigration minister Mark Harper's scheme, and said the controversial billboards in north London were not a «clever way of dealing with this issue».»

Controversial items that might otherwise have been contained in the bills have been moved into an as - yet - unreleased bill dealing with state revenue.

Given that Remain MPs far outweigh Leave ones, it is possibly May will do a deal with some of them to grant a vote on Article 50 in exchange for support on some of her other controversial proposals, such as grammar schools or Heathrow expansion.

Neither Priebus nor the members of the Growth and Opportunity Committee had simple answers for how to deal with controversial voices within the party, like former Senate candidate and Rep. Todd Akin (R - Mo.)

Maybe a frontbench spokesman in our 24 - hour media driven society can not be seen to set out controversial policies to deal with what they see as a pretty dismal scenario.