Sentences with phrase «council members refused»

Although they eventually decided to commit money and start the program immediately, council members refused to agree with animal rights advocates who asked for a straight $ 25 rebate.

Williams and 9 other council members refused to vote Wednesday for a symbolic resolution condemning the Palestinian - backed Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, an effort to delegitimize Israel over its treatment of Palestinian people.

Reluctantly, she asked the executive council to hear her concern, but council members refused.

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However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

The majority of U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives and dairy processing companies — members of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) or the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC)-- threatened to withdraw support from the pending Trans - Pacific (TPP) trade agreement if Japan and Canada refuse to follow through on pledges to provide comprehensive market access for...

Knievel is convinced that Raymond Nakai, the chairman of the Navajo Indian Tribal Council, is receptive to what Knievel calls «my program,» but the 74 - member council has so far refused to grant him permission to build takeoff facilities; this, despite his offer to deposit $ 100,000 to guarantee the wages of whatever Indians he would employ to construct the ramp, runway, access area and parkiCouncil, is receptive to what Knievel calls «my program,» but the 74 - member council has so far refused to grant him permission to build takeoff facilities; this, despite his offer to deposit $ 100,000 to guarantee the wages of whatever Indians he would employ to construct the ramp, runway, access area and parkicouncil has so far refused to grant him permission to build takeoff facilities; this, despite his offer to deposit $ 100,000 to guarantee the wages of whatever Indians he would employ to construct the ramp, runway, access area and parking lot.

NYC Council members vowed to force a vote on hotly debated police reform bills if Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito refuses to allow a vote this year.

Claim 19: «The Chairperson through her arrogant posture brought embarrassment to the Commission by refusing to grant audience to the members of the National Peace Council and the leader of the Africa Union Delegation Mr. Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa during the 2016 General Election.»

But she refused to say if she will swear allegiance to the Queen when she is made a member of the Privy Council.

The Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York has been wreaking havoc at 50 Hudson Yards, ordering its union members to refuse to make concrete deliveries or to block the entrance and picket the project, according to new court papers.

I am not sure whether the president of the Commission could legally speaking refuse an ambassador without involving the Council but I don't see him doing that without prior agreement from the member states.

On Tuesday, Olatoye further evoked the ire of council members when she refused to name names, or to say whether anyone had been punished for providing her wrong information, saying instead that the agency was absolutely «having conversations about the integrity of our data.»

Some said the individual union members in the Building and Construction Trades Council refused to agree.

Tanya Murat, a member of Southwark Benefit Justice, says: «Councils could overturn the cut by refusing to implement it.

In a meeting with Council members last Thursday, the speaker told her colleagues that the long - stalled act — which would require the city's police officers to identify themselves when stopping an individual and to let that person know that they have the right to refuse a search if the officer does not have probable cause — would not go before the Council but rather would be handled internally by the police department, despite having a sufficient number of sponsors to pass.

Mark Weprin, who was in the Assembly when he ran for Council last year, chose not to put out the newsletter and two other current Assembly members from the borough — Ann - Margaret Carrozza (D - Bayside) and Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria)-- refused to do so this year.

Today's advocates and Council Members who say they support the sick leave bill refuse to use the discharge tactic — ceding control of the Council to Quinn as well as deep - sixing the sick leave bill.

The Chief - Leader, the city's influential weekly newspaper for civil service union members, and the Jewish Press — outlets that endorsed de Blasio in 2013 — have thrown their support to Sal Albanese and Malliotakis, respectively, citing the mayor's ethical lapses and policy failures, and several Democratic City Council members have refused to back him.

Franklin Mayor Tom Taylor and members of the city's Common Council said they want the Interstate 94 interchange built but refuse to spend local taxes on the project, which is east of the city's border with Oak Creek.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito repeatedly refused to criticize Andrew Cuomo today — but that didn't stop at least one liberal council member from jumping on the governor after his latest dispute with Mayor Bill de Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito repeatedly refused to criticize Andrew Cuomo today — but that didn't stop at least one liberal council member from jumping on the governor after his latest dispute with Mayor Bill de council member from jumping on the governor after his latest dispute with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

This has the effect of giving each Member State a de facto veto over the withdrawal negotiations by refusing to consent to the European Council's decision establishing negotiation guidelines.