Sentences with phrase «faces over proposals»

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University endowments would face a 1.4 % tax on income and 20 % excise tax on managers paid over $ 1 million in tax reform proposal.

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

I have been studying and thinking about this subject for fifteen years so far, and have been working on a book for over a year which explains my proposal, but I am facing problems with putting it into words.

While Astorino would face a difficult challenge to convince the Legislature to approve his proposals, governors have enormous political leverage over lawmakers and can rally the public on behalf of reform.

The move comes as a blow for the government, which is already facing backbench revolts over health reforms and is set for a battle over proposals to give schools more freedom.

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

The governor is facing a loud and well - organized backlash over his proposal to reduce state funding for CUNY by $ 485 million, with advocates painting that move as a stain on his liberal agenda.

Prime minister Gordon Brown has faced opposition from his own party over the plans resulting in chancellor Alistair Darling telling the House of Commons that a proposal to assist pensioners under 65 and workers with no children was under consideration.

Mulvaney was asked on CBS News» «Face the Nation» whether lawmakers were «wobbling» over the proposal to scrap state and local tax deduction.

In the flier, the group praises Lugar for supporting the Keystone pipeline, a proposal that Republicans argue would create thousands of private sector jobs but has faced heavy pushback from Democrats and the president over environmental concerns.

Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.

Cuomo faced pushback over proposals that would give him more power over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices.

As Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick defends his proposal for a first - in - the - nation supervised injection facility for heroin users, his city faces myriad messy questions over the legality of taboo supervised drug use.

Faced with a deadlock over transportation funding and highway tolls, Democratic legislative leaders last month quietly resorted to an audacious proposal that would have permitted the establishment of highway tolls without the approval of the General Assembly.

Most of the elements of Cuomo's proposal have been offered over the past 30 years, but have died in the face of local opposition.

On Monday, the New York State Bar Association fired the opening salvo in what is likely to be a protracted struggle with Mr. Cuomo and the hospital lobby over the malpractice proposal, which will most likely face an uphill climb in the Democratic - controlled Assembly.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced pushback Thursday over proposals that would give him more power over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices.

The proposal, however, faced heavy criticism by environmentalists — even garnering an oppositional resolution from state lawmakers in New Jersey — over its potential threat to a watershed there.

Members of the Rye City Council, including Parker, have faced criticism over claims of unrelenting support for the Sustainable Playland proposal, which grew out of Rye, but Parker said she is eager to tackle the Playland issue and bring her insight to the county level.

The row grew today as Mrs May faced a showdown with senior Cabinet ministers over a proposal Brexiteers see as a watering down of the pledge to leave the EU Customs Union after Britain leaves the EU.

Although it faces stiff opposition on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposal would dial back spending reductions to provide a 7.2 percent increase over 2015 levels, and a $ 329 billion increase cumulatively through fiscal 2021, when the so - called sequestration caps expire.

Despite its passage with majority vote, Proposal 2 has faced an uphill battle in the courts over the past seven years, and last November the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down.

Leaving aside the merits of the Trump school choice proposals, those plans face «uphill battles» in Congress, where Republicans are eager to assert their prerogatives over the budget, said Martin West, an associate professor of education at Harvard University and a former K - 12 adviser to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) may be the face of a plan to allow charter school operators to take over North Carolina's worst performing schools, but he's not the only Bryan with fingerprints on the proposal.

A Conservative MP has said the government could be facing a backbench revolt, over its proposals to change school funding in England.

Rural schools in Arizona have a broad spectrum of needs and the proposal to increase teacher funding by 20 % over three years and restore soft capital funding over five years enables local school leaders to more effectively address the challenges facing our schools.

Extensive behind - the - scenes work to develop proposal Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) may be the face of a plan to allow charter school operators to take over North Carolina's worst performing schools, but he's not the only Bryan with fingerprints...

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

The Conservatives only have a working Commons majority of 14 and the interventions from influential Tory backbenchers over funding highlight the battle Theresa May's government is also likely to face over grammar schools proposals.

Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal he's really promoting is more offshore drilling — a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan, and one that will not make a real dent in current gas prices or meet the long - term challenge of energy independence.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

Faced with an impending proposal to stripmine over 6,600 acres, local residents have come up with a better idea.

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 proposal raised tensions between hikers and bikers, who face off against one another on dirt byways all over the country.

Jerry's advice on delaying the exchange of numbers, eliciting meaning from numbers, and demanding a variety of numbers - based proposals should be useful to any mediator who faces a positional negotiation over a fixed pie.