Sentences with phrase «forced city leaders»

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He served in Viet Nam as a patrol leader with the First Force Reconnaissance Company and was the Commanding Officer of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, Fifth Marines in Hue City during the Tet Offensive.

While the spontaneous street celebrations that broke out in American cities like New York and Washington over the news of bin Laden's killing by U.S. Special Forces have not been repeated in the Muslim world, there has been praise for his death from some Muslim political leaders.

Modric and Gareth Bale, who Harry Redknapp says only the richest clubs in the world can afford, have been the driving forces in taking Spurs to just seven points behind league leaders Manchester City.

«Now, more than ever, working people need bold leaders in New York City who will stand up against the forces of inequality and division,» the group said in a statement.

The US leader had «two or three» brief conversations with Putin on the margins of the APEC summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang, Trump told reporters on Air Force One on the way to a state visit in Hanoi.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neaCity Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neacity's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

In his own state of the city address Tuesday evening, Common Council Majority Leader Rennie Scott - Childress (D - Ward 3) offered up a ringing defense of Mayor Steve Noble's progressive «One Kingston» agenda and called on Kingstonians to embrace local government as a force for positive change and economic growth.

More than 200 public school parents joined with StudentsFirstNY and prominent clergy leaders today to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio rethink his decision to force unwanted teachers into New York City schools.

Scott Rechler, another member of the task force, urged Assembly leaders in particular to join the governor in backing congestion pricing since many of the members, including the speaker, Carl E. Heastie, represent city residents who would directly benefit.

Kathryn Wylde, a member of the task force who is president and chief executive officer of the Partnership for New York City, a group of the city's top business leaders, concurred that «the governor has been actively pushing negotiations to move forward the Fix NYC recommendations.&raCity, a group of the city's top business leaders, concurred that «the governor has been actively pushing negotiations to move forward the Fix NYC recommendations.&racity's top business leaders, concurred that «the governor has been actively pushing negotiations to move forward the Fix NYC recommendations.»

As one of the leaders of the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, or Armed Forces for National Liberation), Rivera is suspected of participation in the 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern here in the city, among other violent acts.

Tom Ognibene, the former City Council Minority Leader who held his Queens seat until term limits forced him out, was tapped by Buffalo developer Carl Paladino to be his running mate, a move that was revealed yesterday.

A few Seattle labor leaders have supported Socialist Alternative campaigns, and even those who still support Democratic incumbents speak favorably of the contributions this leftist electoral force has made in pushing the city's political conversation in a more progressive direction.

During her speech, she praised Kelly for making the city safer and also touted the Youth SHIELD program under which community leaders would coordinate with the task force on gun control to fix up areas which invite crime.

Kathryn Wylde, a member of the task force and president and chief executive of the Partnership for New York City, a business group, said she was told by leaders of both houses as early as February that their members were not ready to pass a congestion zone this year.

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That requirement would have forced a restaurant like McDonald's to pay its workers more if they rented space in a development that had received city help — a crucial provision, union leaders had said.

Welsh Conservative leader and South Wales Central AM, Andrew RT Davies, has labelled Cardiff council leaders «incompetent» as the industrial action forced the closure of the city's Butetown Tunnel.

That's why parents and community members should fight to prevent NYCDOE from implementing its forced placement plan and call on city leaders to solve the district's ATR problem by demanding a phase - out in contract negotiations with UFT next year.

And interviews with state and city officials as well as education leaders make it clear that far from being a mere cheerleader, the governor was a potent force at every turn, seizing on missteps by the mayor, a fellow Democrat, and driving legislation from start to finish.

More than 200 public school parents joined with StudentsFirstNY and prominent clergy leaders today to demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio rethink his decision to force unwanted teachers into New York City schools.

The overall reluctance of New York's education reform leaders to take a public stand on DeVos reveals a third rail that local charter advocates — and their counterparts in other charter - heavy cities, like New Orleans, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles — are now forced to maneuver.

One year after the events of the Destiny: Rise of Iron expansion, Destiny 2 sees the Red Legion faction, the Cabal, attack The Last City, and their leader, commander Dominus Ghaul, managing to strip the Guardians of their powers — forcing them to flee The Tower.

Whilst you shape the branching narrative as Connor, an Android Cop employed by the human police force to seek out deviant Android such as Markus, a leader of the android group seeking freedom for his people, you will be making choices that will not only determine your own fate, but that of the entire city and possibly beyond.

By convening a national task force of artists, cultural leaders, and city officials, led by Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson, the OACCE will begin a yearlong discovery process to investigate how city government can engage a broad spectrum of communities in civic dialogue through large - scale temporary public art.

Maria Balshaw, the hugely respected leader of Manchester's galleries and a driving force in the city's cultural renaissance, is expected to replace Sir Nicholas Serota as director of Tate.

These days, armed forces increasingly find themselves hauling survivors from the wreckage of collapsed cities or providing aid to tsunami victims, even as they remain poised to do leaders» bidding on battlefields.

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