Sentences with phrase «fights about public»

The editorial proclaims that Baltimore land is great for new development because «all of the potentially messy fights about public subsidies for infrastructure have already been resolved.»

Not exact matches

He's working with clients in public health and politics to put his experiments to work, whether that means fighting disinformation about vaccinations or selling a candidate.

In a blog post about their return, Uber struck a conciliatory tone, writing «we're sorry, Austin — for leaving the way we did; for letting an honest disagreement about regulations and consumer choice turn into a public fight.»

Unlike many sensitive topics, public opinion about the Apple - FBI fight does not break along political party lines.

A simmering dispute between Dauman and Redstone, who has so far successfully fought off legal claims about his competency, broke into public view last week when he fired Dauman and Abrams from the trust and told Viacom executives he opposed the company's plan to sell a stake in the Paramount Pictures division.

No big deal for me, but I do worry about my fellow Americans who I have fought wars for, done public service for, and «care» about — because I am a christian and an American.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

For either of them to engage in a public argument about who would win a in a violent fight is reckless and irresponsible.

I'm sorry that this season has become about fights over manger scenes on public property, about complaining when clerks say, «Merry Christmas,» instead of «Happy Holidays,» about rampant commercialism and faux persecution.

I'm sorry that this season has become about fights over manger scenes on public property, about complaining when clerks say, «Happy Holidays,» instead of «Merry Christmas,» about rampant commercialism and faux persecution.

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

Also the media will usually show this as a clash of Sikhs and make it seem like we are all animals when in fact it is the just fighting back the radicals, so again the media plays to the unfounded fears of the public about Sikhs.

The «fight» for Christmas belongs in the public discourse about those areas we share.

He writes, correctly I think, that «gay - marriage proponents succeeded so quickly because they showed the public that what they were fighting for was consonant with what most post-1960s Americans already believed about the meaning of sex and marriage.»

Unless the general public — not just the highly educated leaders of church and society, but the general public — knows about these problem with all their pros and cons, and are able to weigh and consider alternatives and solutions from every standpoint — left, right and center — unless that happens, our nation will never be able to fight its way back toward solutions that will build us up, strengthen our resolve, and re-create the nation I used to love and I now would love to reform.

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

Holdsworth's all «I didn't want to talk about within the first 2 and a half years it happened, because I didn't want to sound like a bitch, instead I'm going to wait until 6 days before they fight to go public.»

And you know, my own husband had some difficulty when he was with me and we were in public, and we fought about it a lot, and he actually said: it's not you, it's... he called them a «lookie loose»»... He's like: I don't like the lookie loose!

On its face, the issue of public breastfeeding might seem like a fight about what's best to feed a baby.

An immediate suspension of alcohol sales and consumption at Vineyard 48 in Cutchogue was ordered by the state Liquor Authority after police received complaints from neighbors about public sex, fights and intoxicated patrons on or near the premises.

The Conservatives could tear themselves apart over Europe once more, and Labour could continue to fight with each other about the future of their economic offering to the public.

What democracy has always been about is fighting over the public thing.

Erie County leaders expressed alarm and outrage over a report by National Public Radio on Friday that the Trump administration is thinking about gutting several federal programs aimed at fighting the opioid drug crisis.

And Cuomo, who still hasn't told the public about what he knew of Silver's and Skelos» illegal activities as he shuttered the doors on the corruption - fighting Moreland Commission, is clearly the runner - up as Loser of the Year — with talk increasing that he'll face a challenge in the Democratic primary should he seek re-election in 2018.

These are the arguments we need to be using; it has to be about cuts impacting on the delivery of key public services, services that people all too often take for granted and that they don't yet realise they're set to lose unless they're prepared to fight for them.

And they're not even bothered about picking a public fight over this.

«SERAP also believes the recommended approach would help to address the growing public suspicion and pessimism about your government's ability to fight high - level official corruption to a standstill, and to avoid any collateral consequences.

In 2014 there were public complaints by the military hierarchy to President Goodluck Jonathan about the inadequacy of funds to fight the anti-terror war in the North East.

«It's about a party that is as much the party of the private sector as the public sector, a party of south as well as north, a party determined to fight for the future of the United Kingdom, and a party rooted in every community of our land.»

«This is an exciting opportunity to work hard on behalf of people who are concerned about public safety, education, public transportation and fighting overdevelopment.»

@Martin - I don't disagree (about the degree to which they are using public resources and should be held to higher standards), but the main difference is there isn't a distinct private ownership involved who would possibly try to fight (or purchase politicians to fight) those standards.

Also, a Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, described the APC's short list of names of alleged looters as an «anticlimax» after about three years of talking about fighting corruption and looting of public funds.

At noon, as part of a statewide campaign to educate New Yorkers about fighting public corruption with small donor matching funds, the Fair Elections Campaign is holding «A Penny a Day Keeps Corruption Away» event, Capital Park, Albany.

He also said it is important in reforming health care to realize that «there is no free lunch,» called for higher mileage standards for cars, talked about the struggles of carmakers in Detroit («You can't fight the marketplace»), and said that while he wouldn't call for a nationwide ban on smoking in public places like the one he pushed through in New York, «it would be great if America did it.»

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

The mayor's poll numbers dropped last year amidst a bruising fight with Uber, a public feud with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and questions about his handling of the homelessness crisis.

We've mused a lot on CapTon in recent weeks about why fight between public employee unions and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't risen to the same level of outright war that we're seeing out in Wisconsin.

In New York, the fight had originally been fought at the grassroots level, with angry parents sounding off on social media and public forums about their children's struggles with the harder material.

It's how he's run his entire front - running campaign, though, reportedly, «[s] ome of Mr. Cuomo's aides believe that New Yorkers will want to see Mr. Cuomo show a fighting spirit and lay into Mr. Paladino over his remarks about sexual orientation, abortion and people who receive public assistance.»

While the annual spending document has long produced disagreements over taxes, school aid and hospital reimbursement rates, fights about other public policies — often with minimal fiscal impacts — have now become flash points and stumbling blocks.

The organization said that, «As a government presumably pursuing a change - agenda, Buhari should do things differently from the former Jonathan administration including by proactively engaging the Nigerian people in an honest conversation about the fight against Boko Haram and the use of the public funds so far invested to prosecute it.»

Even as the mayor played nice with Cuomo, the governor kept finding ways to tweak him — from neglecting to tell City Hall about plans to shut the subway system during a snowstorm to attempting to big - foot him during City Hall's public fight with police unions.

In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, photo, a billboard with a message about reporting public corruption, upper left, stands along Interstate 90 in Albany, N.Y. Authorities in New York's corruption - plagued capital city are using billboards to urge citizens to report crooked politicians, using a tactic more commonly employed to find missing people or fight drunk driving.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch list.

ALBANY — Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says there is «no question» that subpoenas issued to legislators by the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption will be upheld if challenged, but that the 25 - member panel should be strategic about whether it picks a fight with legislators.

Funding for Gotbaum's office will be cut by about 40 percent after the City Council reached a budget deal last week — a move that the public advocate called «political payback» for not supporting Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) during the fight to extend term limits last fall.

«When we talk about fighting terrorism, it's not everything you discuss in public and you don't tell your opponent the sought of weapons that you have... there's a military reason why that is done» he said.

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