Sentences with phrase «firm against that proposal»

It drew the ire of the Trump administration, which proposed canceling it entirely in the White House's FY 2019 budget; Congress and the space science community have so far stood firm against that proposal.

«We expect that Members of Congress who support public education, and whom we have supported, will stand firm against any proposal to extend the pilot program.

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The firm, created for the sole purpose of lobbying Taseko to replace two directors and give it a say in key company decisions, had no choice: by the meeting's cut - off date for advanced voting, with 50 % of the votes in, shareholders had voted a resounding 94 % against the dissident's proposals.

GM leadership opposed the plan, and shareholder advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis both recommended GM shareholders vote against Greenlight's proposal.

Some 1.7 million people signed a Downing Street petition in 2007 protesting against road pricing, despite no firm proposals being put forward.

A proposal to weaken protections against aquatic invaders in the Great Lakes has failed in the Senate as most Great Lakes senators stood firm against allowing the bill to even be considered.

The Conservative Party said as much in a press release, labelling the proposal a response to the «spread of militant divestment campaigns against UK defence and Israeli firms.»

In Bournemouth for the TUC Congress, the leaders of the three biggest unions affiliated to the Labour Party yesterday firmed up their position against Ed Miliband's proposals to «reform» the Labour Party trade union link.

An organization that represents engineering firms is joining an influential road builders group in coming out against a proposal meant to make local road projects cheaper by greatly decreasing their reliance on federal money.

«These proposals will be a real boost to law - abiding drivers in the continuing fight against rogue parking firms.

«They're now looking at how to create mixed - use developments that would include self - storage and manufacturing space,» said Michael Woloz, a lobbyist with the firm Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz who is working on behalf of a Bronx - based self - storage company to push back against the proposal.

The vote was another sign of discontent among shareholders of the controversial company K12 Inc., with governance advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. citing a «substantial disconnect between compensation and performance results» in its recommendation that shareholders vote against the pay proposal.

In the days leading up to the vote, the New York Times revealed that Andreas Schwab, the German conservative who initiated the Google break - up proposal, provides competition policy expertise to a German law firm whose parent company has done work for publishers that are involved in the antitrust case against the company.

A proposal to introduce real - time content monitoring drew controversy in late 2011, while its legal system has housed a number of cases against Internet firms like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter.