Sentences with phrase «fight over leadership»

Democrats currently are involved in an internecine fight over leadership of the chamber.

But in an amazingly similar chain of events to what happened 2008 and 2009, the chamber was fraught with Democratic in - fighting over leadership, paralyzing any activity.

Not exact matches

THE URGENCY OF NOW: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER — A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Under Vice President Biden's leadership, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force catalyzed novel, innovative and impactful collaborations among twenty government agencies, departments and White House offices and over seventy private sector entities designed to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Get Me also largely stayed out of the Prop 1 fight because the essence of the fight was over ride - hailing companies» ability to effectively set their own rules over what local governments may prefer, which isn't how the firm's leadership believes that relationship should work.

The LDS leadership fight any attempt of members to claim the right to legitimately have a controversy over them and their decisions.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

«They are fighting a bitter proxy war over the leadership of their own party.

For over twenty years the Reform Party of the United States has been fighting for honest leadership and real solutions.

And if there's a fight over Cox's leadership, the healing process is only going to take that much longer.

Attorneys for Chicago asked a federal judge for a nationwide halt to Trump administration requirements that cities enforce tough immigration laws in order to receive some federal grants, staking out a leadership role for the nation's third largest city in the fight over so - called sanctuary cities.

During a Seante leadership news conference today in DC, Senator Chuck Schumer joked that the House Republicans have mellowed since their recent retreat to Williamsburg, Virginia, where the conference decided not to fight the White House over raising the debt ceiling.

At the same time, she attacked Democrats for their brief, two - year stint in the majority between 2009 and 2011 that was marked by tax increases and in fighting (Democrats have pointed out that much of the conference has since turned over and the entire leadership from that era has departed in the chamber, mostly in handcuffs).

For now there will be a leadership contest in a party that has not fought one for over a decade.

More broadly, the fight over the party has rested on an effort to gain control of the WEP's rules, with three different groups competing for leadership of the party: One led by allies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, another backed former Sen. Cecilia Tkacyzk and a third backed by two Niagara County clerks.

Danny Finkelstein joked on Newsnight yesterday that Gordon Brown might as well have «phoned the Tory leadership everyday over the last few weeks to check that we had our manifesto ready, candidates in place, and a fighting fund in the bank!

Tensions between upstate and downstate Republicans boiled over during a leadership fight last year after previous Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos gave up his leadership post following his arrested - and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.

«If we're going to have a fight with the leadership, we want to have a fight over the bill, not the movie,» Armstrong said.

The in - fighting in the Tory ranks, with its increasingly unsavoury attacks on the leadership, is very reminiscent of 1846, and the split over the repeal of the Corn Laws.

The former mayor and the former governor have been on one side of an internacine fight within the GOP over the future of the party, with state Chairman Ed Cox and the current leadership on the other.

He also confronted Cameron over the vital issue of funding, forcing the Tory leadership to fight with a vigour that was proportionate to the disaster of defeat.

Simmering tensions within Labour over Mr Corbyn's role in the Remain campaign are threatening to boil over, just as senior Tories are preparing to fight for the party leadership after David Cameron announced his resignation on Friday.

Over in the other chamber, Labour's Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt have reportedly formed a group dubbed «the resistance», to fight back against an anticipated victory for Corbyn in the leadership contest.

The bookies favourite to take over from Tim Farron as Liberal Democrat leader says she will fight for the deputy leadership instead.

«A few stout - hearted MPs and peers, and hundreds, maybe soon thousands, of candidates, councillors and Lib Dem members all over Britain are now fighting constituency by constituency for a leadership election,» Oakeshott said in a statement.

ALBANY, NY (01/09/2013)(readMedia)-- «Just weeks after communities were ravaged by Superstorm Sandy — the third massive and deadly storm in just over 12 months — Governor Cuomo showed true leadership by speaking up on the need to fight climate change.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The fight over health care reform took center stage on Capitol Hill on Friday, as the House Democratic leadership stepped up its push for passage of a bill before the August congressional recess.

In January, during the fight over DeVos» nomination, Moskowitz released a statement saying the nominee had «the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides.»

While we applaud the UFT leadership for standing their ground, the MORE Caucus has no intention of giving up the fight to prevent our teachers and students from being given over to the standardized testing regime.

In my experience, these types of leashes a.) tend to cause dogs to act more aggressively and to pull hard on the leash; b.) are more likely to trigger a fight with another dog since the dog that is straining at the end of the leash looks like it is in attack mode; c.) tend to be purchased by lazy and irresponsible dog owners who do not train their dogs to obey, and who tend to spoil their dogs, causing more aggression and bratty behavior; d.) undo most of the important aspects of your obedience training and leadership over your dog, especially obeying around distractions and coming when called, and over time they teach your dog to charge after other dogs, animals and even people; e.) are hard to control once the dog is at the end of the line, and can get caught in the leashes of other dogs, increasing the potential for a biting or attack incident; f.) do NOT cause the dog to get more exercise on the walk; g.) can cause a dog to run away from you, because if you accidentally drop the leash handle, many dogs will run from the plastic handle «chasing» them from behind and that could cause your dog to run into traffic and die; h.) have resulted in injuries to dogs and owners.

If you have a pushy dog he'll be glad that the fight for leadership is over and his new role is that of devoted and adored pet.

Members of the nonprofit school the Art Students League are fighting a legal battle against the school's leadership over the decision to sell the air rights above its historic West 57th Street building.

As it had always done, ExxonMobil under the leadership of Rex Tillerson fought back aggressively with well - funded ad campaigns, legal action, and a stubborn insistence that maximizing extraction and production took precedence over all else.