Sentences with phrase «during tense negotiations»

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

The new initiatives were approved during tense negotiations at CMS's annual conference, held in Quito from 3 to 9 November.

During tense negotiations over the bonds late last year, the city said the state threatened to zero out the fall funding entirely — a charge the governor's officials insisted was untrue.

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During his father's run for governor in 1982, Andrew Cuomo served as campaign manager and participated in tense negotiations with gay advocates, whose support his father was quietly courting.

I even resent the big chunk of time Shelly Silver takes off during tense budget negotiations so he can go lounge around in a posh hotel and «observe» whatever the hell it is he observes.

In a bit of drama that unfolded during the end of the year, city and state officials were locked in a tense negotiation over how much the de Blasio administration would receive in its annual reallocation.

A number of fairly remarkable incidents occur during Daniel's time in Little Boston, including an explosion with personal consequences, the appearance of an unknown half - brother (Kevin J. O'Connor), tense negotiations with agents from Standard Oil, and Daniel's baptism in Eli's church.

In many ways this Russian transplant was the leading American authority on Alaska of his day, a prominent position he held until he was discredited in a most public and humiliating manor during tense international negotiations.