Sentences with phrase «fight over funding»

After reading yesterday's post on the brewing fight over funding for nuclear fusion research, Robert L. Hirsch, who directed the country's fusion energy program in the 1970s through the Atomic Energy Commission, got in touch to describe how his views of the prospects of harnessing fusion as a practical energy source have evolved.

The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over funding in 2016, with the Department for Education (DfE) insisting schools can be more efficient and schools asserting that, with 80 per cent of their spend going on staffing, the curriculum is at risk if staffing is cut.

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Amid a fight over funding, the Cuomo administration is set to appoint a management organization expert to help find efficiencies at the City University of New York.

Wozniak reiterates the «this is a distraction (from the real fight over funding cuts) argument that has been floated by the state Council of School Superintendents.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo controls the MTA, but de Blasio is still at the center of the fight over funding for the system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deserves the blame for the MTA's failing subway service, according to a new Q poll, as he and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio fight over funding its improvements.

Senior Trump administration officials involved in the talks about the spending bill are prepared to concede that in the main, the fight over funding for President Trump's border wall will now be put off until the fiscal 2018 negotiations.

Trump, McConnell, and Ryan are set to meet at Camp David over the weekend to hash out the strategy for year two of the Trump presidency — both in the immediate fights over funding and in the longer - term push.

Still, he expressed frustration with de Blasio, Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota's fighting over funding for subway repairs.

The two pols also weighed in on yet another round of fighting over funding mass transit between Cuomo and de Blasio: new MTA Chairman Joe Lhota asking the state and city to split the costs for funding his $ 836 million short - term subway rescue plan.

There will be perennial fights over funding, charter expansion, and the teacher pipeline, but what's the next big issue to captivate lawmakers on the education front?

In the years that corporate entities in Canada, the United States and Europe have fought over the funds, retirees and bond investors have awaited repayment.

LAO is fighting over funding with the Federal and Provincial governments.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 25 - Billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday abandoned his effort to buy the irreverent news website Gawker.com, enabling the Silicon Valley venture capitalist to avoid a possible legal fight over his having secretly funded litigation that led to its demise.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

«Over the last four years we built a network in Uganda of over 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing woOver the last four years we built a network in Uganda of over 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing woover 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing world.

Some investors, notably the Starboard Value hedge fund, disagreed with the board's belief that the company would have won a tax fight over the original plan.

For over 60 years, Heart & Stroke has been dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, preserving life's moments, funding breakthroughs and saving lives.

The religious right are in the courts fighting for control over women's reproductive rights, defending their pastors for illicit se x ual indiscretion and misappropriation of funds.

The recent fight over taxpayer funding of abortion in the national health - care bill revealed not only that pro-life Democrats exist in the U.S. Congress but also that they come in three distinct types: stalwarts, sellouts, and snakes.

Farmers were divided yesterday over Coles» fighting fund for dairy farmers: some applauded the decision and others said it was a PR stunt.

As the talk is the rebuild will be over a 2 year contract, that would mean all those 18 months left now will be out of contract before his 2 years are up, with funds to rebuild then players will hopefully feel the need to fight for their place more.

We might never have signed him if we had the funds to have bought better back then, however since then Giroud has proven he can score in the EPL, he has also shown over the years how to get the best out of him... make him fight for his spot!

That tactic has played well so far, but it will become much less effective once the Labour leader is seen fighting a reforming battle over his own party's funding.

Saujani's campaign did not dispute the numbers I've presented here, but insisted she'll have sufficient funds to fight hard against Maloney over the next eight weeks.

«Louise fought for years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding, so it was only logical and necessary for Amtrak to rename the train station after Louise, a legend in her own right and a fierce advocate for her constituents,» Schumer said.

DiNapoli declined to pick sides in the latest fight between Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding for NYC Health + Hospitals, the nation's largest municipal public hospital system and New York's largest provider of safety - net care.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.

«The hospital industry has never liked the Health Department looking over their shoulder,» said Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, who is fighting to get the audit funds restored.

There is division at the grassroots; our MPs in parliament are fighting each other; national, regional and constituency executives are at each other's throat over our defeat and alleged «hoarding» of campaign funds,» a senior member of the NDC who does not want his name mentioned told this paper.

The political fight over who should pay for a rescue plan for New York City's beleaguered subway system deepened, with state and city officials deadlocked over funding disputes that reach back more than half a decade.

That's more saying it's important to avert a shutdown now than in September 2013, just before a budget fight over federal funding for some portions of the Affordable Care Act led to a partial government shutdown.

Amid the fighting over how to fund universal pre-k, one Assemblywoman is asking for an extra step to make sure it really is universal.

Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock - down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

She says the remaining fight is over how much control Cuomo's budget department has in handing out the funds, and whether total cost for counties» legal defense services would be financed by the state, or only a portion.

De Blasio, whose most recent fight with Cuomo is over funding for the MTA and city subways, downplayed the significance of their unity this week, saying he's remained willing to work with Cuomo when possible.

After fights over taxation to fund pre-kindergarten programs last year, de Blasio is preparing to be more of a presence on Cuomo's turf in the final five weeks of the legislative session.

Sherrill compared the impending fight over CUNY and Medicaid funding to the battle between de Blasio and Cuomo over how to fund the MTA's capital plan.

They noted that Slaughter spent years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding for the station.

But the origins of the fight over government funding and Obamacare from 2013 are instructive.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

«I've kept my promise to fight for Long Island by voting over 175 times against raising taxes, delivering a $ 20 million increase in aid for South Shore schools, and passed a plan to prevent corrupt pols from receiving taxpayer funded pensions.

The race has become something of a proxy war for the fight over the online rental site Airbnb, with the company funding advertising against Serino and an independent expenditure campaign backed by the Hotel Trades Council and the Real Estate Board of New York running commercials critical of Gipson.

«That's why I've voted over 175 against tax increases, passed a plan to strip convicted politicians of their pensions, delivered a $ 4 billion middle class tax cut, and fought for an additional $ 20 million in funding for South Shore schools.

The Democrats fought over everything from immigration policies, taxes and school funding, and their open warfare was played out by advisers on Twitter and by lawmakers on the Senate floor.

The challenge for Cuomo and lawmakers, also in a re-election year, would be to close the deficit without spurring a high stakes fight over education and health care funding.

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The district has been fighting for some time over funding, with the Orthodox Jewish - controlled school board diverting funds to Yeshivas — religious private schools that educate a minority of students — and away from the public schools attended by a majority of students, many of whom are black and Latino.

While the education fight last year was largely waged over the policy of testing and teacher evaluations, the debate this year is broadly over funding.