Sentences with phrase «controversy over plans»

Or consider the long - running controversy over plans to dispose of the nation's nuclear waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

There have been any number of libraries and library directors who have found themselves in the midst of hurricanes of controversy over plans to vastly eliminate or move the collections of their libraries.

The research programme emerged from the controversy over plans for a pulp mill at Wesley Vale, near Burnie in northwest Tasmania.

More controversy over plans to build a 911 call center on Pelham Parkway, which city Controller John Liu has called out for wasteful spending and the fact that the project is way over budget.

This year he testified for more than three hours, and faced detailed questions relating to city policing, public housing, taxes, the condition of school cafeterias and even a controversy over plans for an especially tall billboard in the Bronx.

There was some controversy over the plans to delete previous convictions for consensual gay sex, with activists pointing out that convictions will actually remain on criminal records.

In light of recent controversies over Planned Parenthood, it is helpful to have a book that illuminates the organization's motivating ideology.

They discuss Paterson's goals for his final months in office, his legacy, Race to the Top funding, and the controversy over the planned Islamic center near Ground Zero.

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The controversy over BC Hydro rate increases began last March when the company announced plans to increase electricity prices by nearly ten per cent for the next three years.

Planned Parenthood claimed computer hackers hindered traffic to its websites on Wednesday, the second cyber attack against the organization this week as a controversy continues over...

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

With many American Muslims already feeling intense scrutiny over the controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center and mosque near New York's ground zero, many mosques and Islamic groups are dramatically altering their usual plans for Eid ul - Fitr, the end of Ramadan holiday.

LONG GROVE — In light of controversy over the potential development of a 14 - acre parcel on Old McHenry Road, the Long Grove Plan Commission will re-evaluate the site to determine whether it should be taken off the list for future development.

Anyone paying attention to the current controversy over the $ 606 million plan to renovate Soldier Field will recognize Tranter's purposeful stare and easily tousled black hair.

A limited number of mute swans would be allowed to stay in upstate under the DEC's latest management plan for the species, released last week after years of controversy over the huge white birds.

There is a new controversy over the Puerto Rican Day Parade's plan to honor a former leader of a group blamed for terror bombings in the 1970s.

An application for a four - lot commercial subdivision in East Hampton that has been stalled for the past six years over road access issues was the subject of heated controversy at an East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting on June 22.

Responding to the ongoing controversies over the non-indictment of a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a seven - point plan to change the way cops and communities interact and to reform legal proceedings involving police - related fatalities.

A similar controversy over the pledge in regard to New Paltz's town planning board not so long ago played out in a far more civilized manner.

This can be seen most clearly in the controversy today over plans by Momentum to set up a network of children's groups for Labour activists and their children under the name «Momentum Kids».

There is a new controversy over the Puerto Rican Day Parade's plan to honor a former leader of a group blamed for terror bombings in the 1970s as a Republican candidate for mayor is demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio bow out of the march.

FBI Director James Comey says he plans to serve his entire 10 - year term, even as controversy swirls over his attempt to rebut Trump's claim that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the election.

Controversy continues over a rail - to - trail plan in Ulster County amid an agreement announced Tuesday between a railroad operator and the county executive.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, for his part, called he proposal a «very commendable idea» and that it «looks like a real step forward» but said that he looks forward to getting more specifics about the plan, recalling a «big controversy» last year in the state budget where he stated «tried to move some important costs over to the city.»

House Republicans plan to ask for a new FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information, this one focused on whether she lied to Congress about it, as the two parties continued to duel over fallout from the controversy.

The Labour conference is over, and the caravan has left Brighton, but the controversy about Ed Miliband's plan to freeze gas and electricty prices is still raging.

Still smarting from a controversy over the role of women in science, Harvard University President Larry Summers today gave his thumbs up to a plan which would pump $ 50 million over the next decade into creating a more diverse academic community at the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Congress has yet to cut off federal payments to Planned Parenthood (payments that only cover non-abortion services), but the controversy over the use of fetal tissue in medical research has made its way into congressional negotiations over the federal budget.

This opening unit will lead on to the second title - the modification of water within the Basin and then on to the third title which considers the Murray - Darling Basin Plan and the controversies over water management and distribution - issues raised during 2017.

When you pick up the Milwaukee newspapers these days, two issues fight for your attention: plans for new taxes to build a fancier stadium for the Milwaukee Brewers and the controversy over providing vouchers for religious and private schools.

But Bexon - Smith also attracted some controversy, including after telling a school not to give staff too much «professional discretion» over their lesson plans and marking.

The state's teachers» union said it plans to call for a vote of no confidence in state Education Department Commissioner John King on the ongoing controversy over new student testing and teacher evaluations.

In Wake County, North Carolina, frequent student reassignments created controversy over the school district's long - standing socioeconomic integration plan.

The plan to reform the exam system comes amid controversy over this year's GCSE English exams - with head teachers claiming that grade boundaries have been unfairly altered.

The mobile phone network Three caused a bit of controversy when they announced the # 25 a month One Plan tariff in July, which was accompanied by a 2,000 minutes, 5,000 minutes to any Three mobile phone numbers, a 5,000 text message bundle and a 1 GB data allowance over 24 - months.

The agent helps shape the proposal (so that it is clear how the proposed work is different from and better than the competition) or work of fiction, finds a publisher, negotiates the contract, sells subsidiary rights to the work, intervenes when there is a controversy, whether it be over an editorial question or the publisher's promotion plans, weighs in with an opinion (e.g., the book cover), monitors the publishing process and steers the author's career, book by book.

There's a fair amount of controversy over early mortgage plans and payments.

My original plan was to review it and not to even mention the loot box controversy, but after struggling with it over the weekend, I can definitively say that Star Wars Battlefront 2 is so inaccessible for me personally, that I can not give it the standard review.

Discussing these issues will be footballer - turned - developer Gary Neville, whose plans for new developments in Manchester city centre caused some controversy when first revealed; Ali Grehan, the city architect of Dublin who has led that city's design strategy over the past decade; and Katie Tonkinson, partner at Hawkins \ Brown, the architects creating a rooftop garden in the Northern Quarter.

In particular, there was controversy over whether they should include plans on how to adapt for the impacts of climate change and further financial donations from rich nations to the poor.

Plus, as demonstrated by last year's controversy over Mojave Desert land suggested as a home for solar arrays, projects planned for «spoiled» land face fewer political headwinds that threaten renewable energy proposals in more pristine areas.

The plans for recycling and re-using the new buildings were impressive but a huge controversy has developed over

Google chose to ban the game that the botnet was planning on running within because of controversy over this method.

The controversy over Wi - Fi Assist — a feature you can toggle on or off in your iPhone's settings — started last month with the release of iOS 9, when some people noticed higher - than - usual usage of their data plans.

Bitcoin development has slowed significantly amidst controversy generated in the community over exactly how Bitcoin should scale, and the hard fork Dashjr proposes acts as a contingency plan in case this trend continues.