Sentences with phrase «girding for»

The news about the canceled legal appointments came as White House officials were girding themselves for an interview on Sunday evening on the CBS program «60 Minutes» with the porn star known as Stormy Daniels.

Rather then working towards a reasonable resolution the parties are now girding for battle.

With the Aug. 1 effective date for the Federal Trade Commission's «Red Flags Rule» on identity theft fast approaching, the ABA is girding for battle, reports the Blog of the Legal Times.

The radical right is girding for another assault on Medicare, social security, and the whole 20th century social contract.

But while one solar flashpoint has been somewhat resolved, another remains hot, with environmental advocates already girding for a showdown as the legislation needed to advance the CES gets ready to move through the three - month legislative session.

Original post In what has, until now, been a quiet winter in the Northeast, nearly 30 million residents are girding for a blizzard that may end up worthy of the National Weather Service list of historic Major Winter Storms.

It's no wonder that my friend Bill McKibben, while still pushing his vision of returning concentrations of carbon dioxide to their 1988 level, focused his new book, Eaarth, on girding for life in a turbulent world of disruptive climate change.

Last week, as cameras focused on Gulf coasts girding for an oil assault, 107 presidents of university and college student governments distribued a letter calling on lawmakers to get serious about energy education.

Fish present particular challenges, with the Great Lakes girding for the arrival of Asian carp and lionfish, escapees from the tropical fish trade that sport fans of toxin - tipped spines, spreading in the Caribbean and up the East Coast as far as Long Island.

What are the wise moves in such a situation, both in cutting drivers of downside odds and girding for worst while hoping for best?

While the stock market is experiencing a record setting «Trump bump,» the U.S. travel industry is girding for a big slowdown in visitors from other countries resulting in a «Trump slump.»

In between Roseanne and an upcoming episode of the CW's Supergirl — which she is guest - starring in so her youngest child can meet her idol Melissa Benoist — Metcalf is girding herself for what is sure to be a whirlwind of Oscar - season press and events to talk about Lady Bird.

Biomedical research advocates are now girding for what could be a struggle over NIH's budget for the 2018 fiscal year, which begins 1 October.

Girding myself for potentially indecipherable jokes, I'm here to see Lackner's potentially world - saving technology: a plastic resin that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

Meanwhile, biomedical lobbyists are girding themselves for what promises to be a bruising congressional debate this spring over legislation that would ban or restrict federal support for fetal tissue studies.

Although satisfied with the decision, environmental groups say they are girding for a long fight.

The Capitol is still girding for a half - dozen public corruption trials and a coming battle over closing a $ 4 billion budget gap.

People on both sides of the issue (quite a few residents also support the proposal) are girding for a battle before the full board tomorrow evening.

There were signs that Republicans were girding for a loss.

WOODBURY, N.Y. (AP)-- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer says New York communities girding for a jump in tick - borne diseases as the weather warms up need federal funding to combat the problem now rather than later.

Nevertheless, the Democrats are clearly concerned about this seat, and are girding for a general election battle.

A Larkin retirement could have a significant impact on the fight for control of the state Senate, where Republicans hold a thin majority and are girding for a heavy turnout of Democrats in a presidential election year.

The WFP had been girding for the possibility of a labor exodus since 2014, sources say.

Republican state lawmakers only are flirting with introducing so - called right - to - work legislation next year, but construction unions still are girding themselves for a fight.

NYC is girding itself for the president's first return to his hometown since he took relocated to the White House.

Doughy midsections and pachyderm posteriors — these guys could have been girding themselves for hibernation.

But they were getting ready to play a good game against a respected opponent, and the Vikings were girding themselves for Armageddon.

The two sides are girding for a long battle.

While some were still itching for a ballot box fight, others seemed resigned to absorbing unjust blows in the short term and girding for the difficult long - term task of rebuilding a societal structure that has at least partially collapsed.

Wiry and intense, with a shaved head and a Brooklyn accent, Aronofsky looks like a man who's just finished one fight and is girding for another.

As France heads into its presidential elections this weekend, European entrepreneurs are girding for a major upset.

Detroit's odyssey through Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy began on July 18, 2013, with major creditors girding for battle and has wound down in a flurry of settlements.

Air Canada and WestJet have been watching closely and girding for a battle — but not the one you'd expect.

Along with Garcia, dozens of Dreamers have started their own companies since coming to the U.S., and the uncertainty surrounding the DACA program has them girding for losses and, in the worst - case scenario, deportation.

To understand, gird yourself for a brief accounting lesson.

As we gird ourselves for the next seven months, I asked readers of The Broadsheet, Fortune's newsletter on the world's most powerful women, to weigh in.

So we now enter times where we have to gird ourselves for fighting more openly for the people's hearts and minds with respect to the Constitution, even at greater apparent risk to it.

We should gird ourselves for the coming wave of legalized assisted death and an organ procurement agenda.

To the south, Virginia girded itself for battle under the guidance of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the stinging words of Patrick Henry: «If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged... we must fight!

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The City of Kingston Republican Committee is seeking new leadership as they gird for what is expected to be a ferocious political fight for the 19th Congressional District next year.

David Calone and Anna Throne - Holst, the candidates in the Democratic primary in the 1st congressional district, girded for a paper ballot count, with only 29 votes separating them after Tuesday's vote.

Facing a revenue slowdown and a growing deficit, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is directing state agencies to gird for another round of spending cuts in his executive budget proposal next year.

Estimates suggest it could cost the state government $ 2.3 billion a year, even as the state girds for a loss of billions from the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and deep cuts to a variety of social service agencies outlined in the president's budget.

McClatchy: Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, and taxes, abortion, affordability and federal deficits emerged as key flashpoints.

When health officials realized in April 2009 that an unusual number of people in Mexico were being hospitalized and dying from a novel strain of the influenza virus, global health experts girded for the worst: the possibility of a devastating pandemic like the 1918 one that killed up to 100 million people.

Gird yourself for Christmas dinner with Uncle Jasper, the family climate - change denier, with this talk by UNLV physics professor Michael G. Pravica

One girds oneself for some serious hammer time when an opening fight scene of History's compelling and robust new drama series, Vikings, delivers all the expected gore and blood spatter.

But at this point, Fargeat upends the tropes audiences have girded themselves for, creating a space where horror and catharsis co-exist in (very bloody) harmony.