Sentences with phrase «fighting over the fact»

He and union leaders have been fighting over the fact that the law firm he founded represents people suing the city and bringing cases before the board.

Not exact matches

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

There have been plenty of wars fought over a wide range of reasons, not all wars are over religion, when are you athiests going to get off of your high horse and accept the fact that everyone, religious and non religious cause violence at some time.

The fact that they are fighting over this issue and insisting that the Steel Cross be placed at the site of the museum nullifies all arguments in its favor.

In fact, his biggest fights with humans have been over their habit of reacting in fear and violence against other life forms and possibilities.

or a war aginst invaders... if smeone enters ur home and starts taking over it u'll try and get them out by any means possible... Jihad is a war fought if ur country is invaded by outside forces... which is a right for any human being... one again before passing judgement yuou might want to get ur facts straight... don't listen to what u're told... God has given u a brain... use it... study a religion..

For in spite of the fact that they did not even get time to sleep over their resolution, aesthetics treats them nevertheless as if they had courageously fought for their resolution during many years.

All western civilization is based on the fact that at key points in history the people that believed in the Cross triumphed over the people that believed in the Koran or Marxism or the Swaztika — secularism is an illusion that creates a vacuum and nature abhors a vacuum — and something evil is always there to fill it — I salute the brave italian catholics fighting for Christ.

the fact that the UFC still treats everyone like shit while bending over backwards to appease (while profiting from) McGregor is such a bad look that i find it hard to imagine fighters being eager to fight for this promotion any longer.

Though facts are facts and whoever's wrong on them should take ownership of it, let's not get into fighting over general views of the Wizards, and whether «Everybody Eats» is a good thing.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

Mohamed Elneny has never really become a regular in Arsenal's first team since moving to the Emirates from Basel over two years ago, and in fact has only 34 League starts since that time, but he is still determined to fight for a place in the starting XI.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

David Luiz, though, misses out for Chelsea with a knee injury whilst Juanfran is a doubt for Atletico KEY FACT: Atletico need to win and hope Roma do not to finish second MATCH ODDS: Chelsea 6/5 Draw 12/5 Atletico 5/2 ANDY SAYS: Close game for sure, can see it ending in a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think Atletico need the win here and might just sneak it... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Don't see much in this, be close and hard fought, goal-less too... 0 - 0 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Draw half time, Chelsea full time @ 4/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Antoine Griezmann has dropped out the top ten and is just over # 4

Smolinski said Medinah's «all - or - nothing» position appeared to ignore the fact there is a dispute over the meaning of an intergovernmental agreement, and that the two sides are «fighting in a fog.»

There are a number of regular contributors who came to fight with Dr T and ended up changing their views about homebirth and medical care in pregnancy, because, whether or not you care for her tone, Dr T is all over the facts.

other people that left double stroller reviews really liked the fact the seats and canopies are independently adjustable, no more kids fighting over where to put the canopy an the back or the seat.

That, coupled with the fact that she hates getting her diaper changed and fights me tooth and nail meant that I left her in not one, but two poopy cloth diapers for far too long over the course of two days.

But it is Smith's response to those concerns that, perhaps, gets to the heart of why so many in the parliamentary Labour party believe that the fight to remove Corbyn from his post is, in fact, a fight over whether Labour is to be a social movement using parliament merely as a platform or a party seeking power through the Commons, and making compromises along the way.

In fact, it was probably this charming UN-humanitarian-worker look that had all those French female socialists fighting over him so publicly.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Two weeks after her candidate in a Bronx State Senate Democratic primary fight went down to defeat, Public Advocate Letitia James met with members of the Stonewall Democratic Club, presumably to begin mending fences over the fact that her man in the race is a fiercely anti-gay pastor who recently traveled to Uganda to laud that nation's homophobic regime.

Love the fact you're a fellow thrifty vegetarian but I'll have to fight you over Daniel Craig, he's mine!

At the time this fight was made Couture was already a legend of mixed martial arts which meant the draw for this card was huge, in fact, it was the first UFC card headlined by heavyweights to get over 1 million PPV buys.

My personal opinion only, but I think the actual problem is the fact that so few black men are able to cross the barrier to become a sugar daddy and seek out that special ebony / coffee / cappucino princess sugar baby of their dreams, and that leaves a lot of deserving young women fighting over men of other races whose own women are fighting for them to begin with.

Anna Kendrick has always been the «second girl», the best friend of Twilight, always fighting for screen time, the sister in Scott Pilgrim... Kendrick's filmography is mostly spent sat in the shadows of great movies (please breeze over the fact I just called Twilight a great movie).

We have different answers to these questions, but agree on at least one thing: We must stop fighting over basic facts, and respectfully tackle these crucial questions.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Through all this one fact remains certain, over the last three decades of attempted education reform, children have fallen through the cracks while adults fight about who is right.

But with Los Angeles kids circling the drain (and remember the frightening fact that LAUSD educates one in every eight or nine kids in all of California) and with the union fighting most attempts at change, those days seem over.

In fact, my middle - aged parents and college - age sister spent much of the weekend fighting over the remote for the Disney Channel on the backseat TV.»

In fact, it was a battle royal for 9 hours and 10 minutes between Corvette, Ferrari, BMW, and Porsche, fought over the hills and valleys of the 2.54 - mile circuit in the Georgia countryside.

The novels about the sparkly vampire and the werewolf fighting over a clueless teenager sold millions of copies despite the fact they were badly written derivative crap.

I spoke with Douglas a few weeks ago, and stressed to him that these negotiations between Amazon and Hachette are over the price of ebooks, and that by urging Amazon to stand down and by emboldening his publisher with his PR moves, he is in fact fighting for a return to $ 14.99 ebooks.

Page 268: «We have a perception of these large companies that they must be creating a lot of jobs, but in fact they have a small number of high - paying jobs, and everybody else is fighting over the scraps.

However, after playing the game for over twelve hours, I'm still no expert — the depth of Bayonetta's combat is almost unbelievable, and in fact, it's comparable to fighting games such as Soul Calibur.

Fans may be quick to point out Star Allies possesses the most levels of the past seven years of Kirby games — just over 40, in fact — but when considering that half of those are optional EX stages or brief boss stages, not even one of the most rousing final boss fights in series history can stave off the feeling of «that's it?»

I do think that by the end of the game I was actually just spamming my abilities over actual fighting, which I think was a failure of the combat design, but also may be an issue gleaned from the fact that I was way overleveled by the time I entered the final area.

I won't sugarcoat the fact that his books did get slowly worse over the years, understandable given his fight with alzheimer's, a disease which he described as an embuggerance.

Im actually thinking about buying Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & The Monster Seal do to the fact that i loved the story and the gameplay itself, you have more control over it, as in Operation abyss you do nt have controll when it comes to fights, its more of a auto battle system in a way, they hit random enemys as you cant make them focus: -LRB-

If anything, the fact that it was so easy to just run a screen or two over and fight the boss again motivated me to keep trying rather than skip out and take a break when losing multiple times in a row.

Cede is still very much in the alpha stages of development, but I think it has a ton of potential, and I haven't even touched on the fact that you'll be able to bring materials you find in the worlds you fight over back to your own personal hub farm to grow crops, and then use those crops to level up your Lil Boi, making them stronger!

Another problem comes from the fact the fights take place in huge open areas (to have enough room for 8 players flying all over the place) which makes it hard to keep track of where everyone is and what is going on.

In fact, you spend a lot of time in Automata running through familiar environments, fighting enemies you've already killed over and over before.

While it's fashionable these days to fight over who's in denial about what facts on climate change, a focus on known uncertainty goes way back.

Americans are indeed fighting a «culture war,» but one over facts, not values.

Craven's ingenious argument was that when it comes to global warming, the facts we fight over don't actually matter.

And let's not overlook the fact that most conflicts are fought over natural resources (do we really need to even mention Iraq or Afghanistan?

I disagree with him about the notwithstanding clause — hardly ever used outside Quebec, and I don't think that's a problem; about property rights — an open invitation to fight every kind of government action on the basis that one's property (i.e. right to do whatever one wants without regard to others) has been infringed (the US took over 100 years to fight that one out, and the right to govern is back under attack there); and about secession — in fact the SCC managed to give a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution (not the Charter in particular) on that point.

But when we talk in a consultation, I can go over the facts of your case in detail, tell you what is good and bad about it, and explain exactly what I would do to fight the case, and what I think our chances would be in winning.

On a similar note, the fact that Apple did not keep on fighting for an injunction over its design patents also indicates its strategic priorities.