Sentences with phrase «for lack of an agreement»

If approved by all government agencies involved, the contract would mark a breakthrough for the fair, which has been stalled for lack of an agreement with park officials over use of the Burnham Harbor - Soldier Field area.

Lofgren, in turn, blames House Speaker John Boehner (R - OH) for the lack of an agreement on comprehensive reform, saying that he has refused to engage in serious negotiations.

Parliamentary consideration of the issue resulted in a report from The Standing Committee On Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety And Emergency Preparedness, remarkable for its lack of agreement between the members of the various political partiesThe Conservative members of the Committee (including Vic Toews) made four recommendations: RECOMMENDATION 1: There must be substantive input from all the provinces and territories into the compilation of a list of suitable Supreme Court of Canada nominees.

Not exact matches

This was demonstrated clearly in the summer of 2005 when the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) was stalled in Congress for lack of support.

«Our view is that General Electric's key challenge is in North America and it relates to the lack of robust demand for new gas - fired power capacity coupled with an installed fleet that is coming off Long Term Service Agreements that were put in place as far back as 2000,» Obin explained.

Because of this, we have an agreement that she gets an «allowance» (for lack of a better word) from me.

I think that (and this is where I would like input from a greek scholar) Romans 1:5 and Romans 10:16 link belief as a agreement of the report, and then also links belief in the Gospel report as obedience, which would then be for lack of a better term - the lowest common denominator of faith.

This lack of agreement, even along the most general lines, is a characteristic feature of the situation today and accounts in a large measure for the low educational status of the ministry The work of the lawyer, the physician, the teacher, the artist, the writer and the engineer, is clear - cut and rather sharply defined (at least in the mind of the average man), so that when a young man chooses one of these professions he has some idea of what he is getting into.

If, as Donald Davidson has taught us, hermeneutical charity is the effort to maximize the sense of views we oppose and to search for all possible areas of agreement whenever we engage a view whose truthfulness and coherence we doubt, then I feel bound to conclude — alas — that Wolterstorff's lecture lacks such charity almost entirely.

Nor does it appear to be a time for manicuring a model of broad consensus, for a general theological agreement is precisely what we lack.

It has become notorious, especially in the Ecumenical Movement, that an understanding between such divergent manifestations of Christianity is difficult and, indeed, often bound to fail.1 Ecumenical hermeneutics is an attempt to unveil the reasons for the apparent lack of agreement through the analysis of the divergent ways of understanding Scripture and its tradition, as well as for the difficulty of mutual understanding between Christians.

For decades, 3.2 beer made up the vast majority of beer sales in Oklahoma because of laws and a lack of supplier agreements with wholesalers and assigned territorial distribution rights for stronger beer products, Green explaiFor decades, 3.2 beer made up the vast majority of beer sales in Oklahoma because of laws and a lack of supplier agreements with wholesalers and assigned territorial distribution rights for stronger beer products, Green explaifor stronger beer products, Green explains.

A: I was surprised that the effects of lack of joint planning on relationship dissolution were apparent even when we accounted for various relationship quality indicators, the partners» agreement on various issues, overall goal planning, and all sorts of other things.

-- There would be lack of city control over improvements in and around Soldier Field, which the agreement treats more «as profit centers for the park district rather than enhanced park and recreational facilities.

Democratic Sen. Michael Gianaris in a statement Wednesday blasted the lack of any agreement in the extraordinary session in Albany for bolstering New York City's ailing subway system.

Cuomo over the last several months has had a rocky relationship with both chambers of the Legislature following the lack of an agreement for a special session that could have led to a legislative pay increase, the first in nearly 20 years.

Many of those backing eurosceptic John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech regretting the lack of an EU referendum bill believe the UK will not be able to secure any agreement from European leaders on a fresh set of terms for British membership - making Cameron's strategy of attempting to seek agreement unrealistic.

I thought for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a minority government with no formal agreement.

Cameron clearly lacked enthusiasm for the policy — «the Coalition Agreement mentions this issue of anonymity» — and there is every indication they are both surprised at the reaction and not much up for a fight with women's groups about it.

Support for the main line project came just as Majority Leader John Flanagan was being pushed by a campaign launched by the business - backed Long Island Association and labor groups criticizing the lack of an agreement on the project.

The business - backed Long Island Association and labor unions are planning what sources described as a «sizeable» ad purchase to criticize Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan over the lack of an agreement for a $ 1.9 billion project to upgrade the Long Island Railroad.

Mr. Grimm — facing a tough re-election fight for his Staten Island and southern Brooklyn district — alluded to several embarrassing incidents where Mr. Recchia demonstrated a lack of knowledge of key free trade agreements, and where the Democrat claimed that his international vacations proved he had «great knowledge of foreign affairs.»

One saw Percoco allegedly take a $ 35,000 bribe to get ESD to pay a company for the construction of a parking lot in Syracuse, despite the fact that the project lacked the necessary labor agreements.

Division of Budget spokesman Morris Peters released the following statement last week addressing the lack of school aid runs: «There's no need to have school aid runs until we have agreement on getting the reforms that the governor has asked for.»

The lack of an agreement comes after Assembly Democrats sought a number of measures designed to change criminal justice procedures, including a special prosecutor to handle certain cases as well as new requirements for grand jury transparency when an indictment is not issued.

A Cuomo spokesman Wednesday knocked by name Assemblyman James Skoufis, a sponsor of a free SUNY tuition bill in the chamber, for questioning the governor's tuition plan, and suggesting the lawmaker was motivated by the lack of a pay raise agreement last month.

The conclusion was notable for its lack of punch, with one lawmaker calling it the «little Big Ugly» and deriding the ethics agreement.

«Sometimes the supporters of the parties outside the agreement decry it as «undemocratic»» - what about the electorate who may feel cheated that they were not able to vote for their preferred candidate / party due to the artificial lack of choice in candidates?

Whilst the Palestinian people are understandably frustrated with the lack of political progress towards statehood, the Palestinian leadership - from Oslo to Camp David, Taba and Annapolis - must take its share of culpability for failing to reach agreement.

While most attendees, like Rye resident Dina Goren, decried the agreement's lack of benefit to the county and taxpayers, others like Rye resident Ken Ball showed support for the deal.

MPs will vote on the government's interim proposals for reforming their expenses next week, despite a lack of agreement in last night's meeting of party leaders.

The most important problems facing the town are (a) the lack of a total transparency that will not jeopardize legal, personnel and several other matters, (b) the need for five Town Board members who are willing to work for consensual agreement, and (c) the need to coordinate various town departments to work more efficiently for the taxpayers.

Gates, president of the Senecas, was asked Thursday if the reason for the lack of payment language going forward was a matter of someone forgetting to put a line in an agreement or resulted from some sort of semantic interpretation.

When asked if the reason for the lack of payment language going forward was a matter of someone forgetting to put a line in an agreement or resulting from some sort of semantic interpretation, Gates said: «Not on our part.»

In a March 5 letter addressed to Julio Batista, then president of WHLDC, Stringer wrote that the nonprofit's «lack of action on a number of essential tasks for properly establishing the WHLDC threatens to undermine the implementation of the Community Benefits Agreement.»

Lack of Lib Dem MPs and the difficulty for unionist parties in finding coalition agreement with the SNP may make minority government the only option.

Considering all of the political posturing and seeming lack of coordination between city and state officials, the fact that eyes and efforts are being trained on substandard shelter conditions for tens of thousands of New Yorkers who lack stable housing, this source of agreement may lead to positive results.

Each side blamed the other for the lack of a final budget deal, which has remained elusive even though a so called conceptual agreement was announced by Cuomo and legislative leaders last Wednesday.

However, a lack of agreement between conservation biologists and space agencies on a definitive set of variables to track, as well as how to translate such information into useful data for conservation, has meant that so far this game - changing resource has remained untapped.

The Paris agreement is far from perfect: and one of its problems, as we are seeing now, is the lack of any real penalty for pulling out.

This lack of clarity casts a huge question mark over how «free» the agreement really is and has huge implications for the accessibility, availability and affordability of golden rice to farmers around the world.

For some observers of the field, the relative leniency of states in reviewing their teacher - preparation programs is symptomatic of a general lack of agreement on what candidates should learn, and how they should learn it.

There appears to be widespread agreement on the state board's philosophy for school improvement but also criticism of the details — or the lack of them.

In a few places, it has managed to leverage the court orders or federal agreements to fight inequities that otherwise would be hard to remedy — though plenty would fault the Obama White House for not doing enough to fight resegregation and the lack of opportunity afforded to many students.

Familiar excuses for tepid leadership include restrictive collective bargaining agreements, the heavy hand of state and federal regulations, and lack of money.

The long drive did change one of my opinions about the Golf R, bringing me in agreement with associate editor Jonathon Klein regarding the lack of the optional - for - 2016 adjustable suspension.

Most of the time the selection for ebooks severely lacks with major companies, due to publisher agreements and geo - restrictions.

While 25 % is a typical royalty rate for traditionally published e-books in the U.S., UK authors are struggling to get there — and sometimes this prevents any e-book editions from being released (due to lack of agreement between author and publisher).

But I think you and I are essentially in agreement; lack of «ownership» and presence of DRM lowers the value of ebooks (for us, at least).

The new app, as promised in the following video clip will provide all HBO shows and a large collection of movies (although not the entire HBO portfolio, for the lack of proper streaming agreements)