Sentences with phrase «favor of changing»

Other commissioners are in favor of changing the labels to describe a dog's size, or personality.

Tillman said this week he'd be in favor of changing the formula to better account for students» academic growth over time rather than one - day achievement on tests.

Parents, Students Want to Rename Cortines Campus Parents, students and staff have voted in favor of changing the name of the downtown Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, setting up an unprecedented conflict within the nation's second - largest school system.

According to a July 2016 district newsletter, an online survey found that 66 percent of the more than 2,900 survey participants indicated they were in favor of changing start times.

NORMAL — The McLean County Unit 5 board of education voted unanimously in favor of changing school times at Wednesday's meeting.

Both Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and new Richmond Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras have said they were in favor of changing the name of the school.

On election night, there was a 48 vote spread in favor of changing the charter from a commission form of government to a city manager and expanded city council.

Of those who testified, only one said he was not in favor of changing the name.

Common Council members voted in favor of changing the name back in June.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA voted today in favor of changing ordination standards to remove language requiring ministers «live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.»

If those in the church who are in favor of changing long - held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier.

4) The Commission voted 30 - 5 in favor of changing the Church's position on contraception.

«We've got casinos in Iowa, right across the river from Omaha, and the argument [in favor of changing the law], which is persuasive, is that Nebraskans go over there and deposit all their money in Iowa.

Sources close to the board said that a majority of those shareholders are in favor of this change.

In the imagery employed by those in favor of the change, the paradigm is not the old «God - church - world» but rather «God - world - church.»

Protesters from ADAPT camped out at the headquarters of a nurses union to protest in favor of changes to the Nurse Practice Act.

After much heated debate and delay, the Village of Oxford Board of Trustees voted 4 - 1 last night in favor of a change in the municipal zoning ordinance that clarifies a prohibition against gas exploration, extraction, and disposal, establishing the first fracking moratorium in Chenango County.

The Plan Commission voted 5 - 4 Monday night in favor of a change to the city's zoning ordinance that would let the $ 93 million project sidestep the city's waterfront setback requirements.

The Council of Chief State School Officers did not return messages seeking comment, though school chiefs from Massachusetts and Tennessee spoke in favor of the change during the conference call.

However, after much back and forth, the board ruled in favor of the changed ordinance with a few requests: to have a map made for areas in the county that cats can't be returned to, as well as an effort to educate the public about the importance of keeping cats indoors.

Those in favor of the change face an uphill battle against a deeply entrenched insurance industry that has so far successfully squashed previous efforts to adopt comparative negligence rules in the mid-Atlantic region, according to the Post's report.

From there, operators who are in favor of the changes can upgrade their systems.

Not exact matches

«It is a privilege to practice again, and we want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good,» Edwards said.

The change also follows a public stance taken by the White House, with President Obama saying in November he favors maintaining net neutrality by using the heavy regulatory approach of Title II.

Challenges also usually involve some level of tracking and accountability, and are often also (naturally or formally) social: all these things stack the decks of change in your favor.

That may all change by this coming summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases that have the potential to rebalance the scales in favor of small businesses.

CalPERS, the California Public Employees» Retirement System, which voted in favor of the climate change proposal at Exxon's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, also released a statement.

If changing your greeting results in nearly one more out of 10 people responding to your emails — whether you're cold emailing, trying to connect, or simply asking a friend for a favor — it's definitely worth it.

Let's get this one out of the way first: Working longer will change the math in your favor, and powerfully so.

In one change earlier this year, Facebook (FB) said that it was going to de-emphasize articles from mainstream media sites in favor of posts from a user's friends and family.

But Beck of cg42, says that in the months since his survey was completed, he has seen little to suggest that attitudes are changing in the big banks» favor.

A little more than half of Americans say they disapprove of the change, while nearly 40 percent favor it.

In early October, Stonecrest's City Council voted 4 - 2 in favor of the name change.

But once I learned about the trend «phubbing» — snubbing your partner in favor of looking at your phone — and how it can negatively affect relationships, I decided that I needed to at least try and make a change.

United President Scott Kirby wrote in a memo to employees that the carrier was «pressing the pause button» on unpopular changes to its merit bonus system that would scrap quarterly performance bonuses in favor of lottery drawings for cash prizes, luxury cars and vacation packages.

Bogle told me that he favors a speculation and derivatives tax precisely because of market changes «in the last quarter century» and the fact that «we've taken almost all the friction out of the system.»

(On the flipside of the favoring drivers or riders argument, don't forget a group of drivers has sued the company to change its employment practices.)

If you tuned into a talk by Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., this week, you might think the NSA had begun to change its tune about encryption — the technology favored by Apple and its Silicon Valley brethren to scramble users» data and communications (much to criminal investigators» chagrin), making them unintelligible to spies and hackers alike.

It's unclear how long it will take Google to complete the updated algorithm since such changes typically weeks or months to refine, and what sites will be favored as a result of the new emphasis on «more high quality, credible content.»

Demand for change favors Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who represents a fundamental break with the investor - friendly economic policies of recent years, particularly for the newly opened energy sector.

It's also reeling from drastic changes that Johnson has made to its business, including slashing the number of sales in favor of everyday low prices, bringing in hipper designer brands such as Betsy Johnson and remaking outdated stores.

Ford Motor Co. reported a $ 1.7 billion profit for the first quarter, but it's planning big changes — such as phasing out nearly all of its cars in favor of trucks and SUVs.

In January, Facebook tried to soothe investors after announcing changes to its News Feed that demoted news in favor of updates shared by users» friends and family.

Instead, what I favor is a careful elucidation of those factors that influence the economic outlook and how monetary policy is likely to respond to changes in the outlook.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher, who is due to retire in March, said he was favor of broad changes that would see power moved away from the New York Fed, in a speech on Wednesday.

That said, a simple model of price growth that includes an index of the dollar against our trading partners does an OK job of tracking year - over-year changes in core PCE inflation (the Fed's favored gauge).

Don't participate in the death of the B2B salesman; adapt to the changing selling environment and go into your prospecting conversations with the cards stacked in your favor.

I certainly favor significantly increasing the ownership threshold, but I also believe that the rule needs substantive changes to prevent activists from meddling in matters that are appropriately the responsibility of the board and management rather than shareholders.

Additionally, there is a report on WSWS.org that Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday he is planning major changes aimed at deprioritizing news and political content on individual news feeds in favor of «personal moments.»

Blomquist recommends taking advantage of any changes in market conditions that work in your favor, too.