Sentences with phrase «given up seats in»

Reportedly, passengers were offered up to $ 800, in addition to overnight accommodations, as an incentive to give up their seats in the over-booked airplane.

After no passengers voluntarily gave up their seats in the overbooked flight for $ 1,000, the airline randomly selected customers who would be booted out of the plane.

well, I don't know a lot about Jesus, but what I DO know is that, no matter who I am or what I believe in, he'd give up his seat in heaven for me.

Martins gave up his seat in the state Senate last year to run for an open congressional district being vacated by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

The former Assemblyman gave up his seat in that chamber to run for a newly drawn senate district.

He gave up his seat in the to run for state comptroller in 2002 but lost Democrat Alan Hevesi.

Meanwhile, McLaughlin wouldn't rule out a spot on the Republican ticket as lieutenant governor, but indicated he wouldn't want to give up his seat in the Assembly for the post.

In July 2007, Brown announced that she would give up her seat in the Oregon Senate to be a candidate for Oregon Secretary of State in 2008.

Silver told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer that in the midst of the scandal he demanded that Lopez give up his seat in the Assembly.

Toward that end, he gave up his seat in the legislature only to be denied the Democratic nomination for supervisor, which went to Al Perry.

Maziarz was named to the board in 2014 by then Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Long Island Republican who gave up his seat in 2015 after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Just last week, Assemblyman William Scarborough, a Democrat, pleaded guilty to federal and state corruption charges and gave up his seat in Queens.

Mr. Sampson, who will have to give up his seat in Albany, was initially accused in 2013 of skimming money from foreclosed properties he oversaw as an attorney and using some of the embezzled cash to fund his failed 2005 bid to become Brooklyn district attorney.

Some cats are treat motivated, but many others will give up their seat in a sun puddle for a bag of «nip any day!

In a situation where a flight is overbooked, airlines may seek volunteers to give up their seats in exchange for a hotel room, travel vouchers, or some combination of the above.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

In an Oval Office interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump suggested that this kind of incident could be avoided in the future if carriers remove the upper limits on vouchers they offer passengers in return for giving up their seatIn an Oval Office interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump suggested that this kind of incident could be avoided in the future if carriers remove the upper limits on vouchers they offer passengers in return for giving up their seatin the future if carriers remove the upper limits on vouchers they offer passengers in return for giving up their seatin return for giving up their seats.

«The future is foreign markets, so the last thing you want to do if you are a coal company is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

It is often the simple fixes (and fixers) that make all the difference in the world: the genius who came up with giving out numbers to deli customers rather than having them mob the counter; assigned seating in movie theaters; E-ZPass.

In exchange for what is generally the lowest fares on board, passengers give up perks that used to be free, such as seat selection, flight - changes and in United and American's case, use of overhead binIn exchange for what is generally the lowest fares on board, passengers give up perks that used to be free, such as seat selection, flight - changes and in United and American's case, use of overhead binin United and American's case, use of overhead bins.

Pompeo won the state's 4th District seat in 2010, when Tiahrt gave it up to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate.

(Although Ott told Travel + Leisure that if somebody approaches him in the airport in 2018 and remembers the contest, he will still give up his seat.)

She said once they were all seated on the plane, they were told that four more people needed to give up their seats for stand - by United employees that needed to be in Louisville by Monday to catch a different flight.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Starting a new job comes with the side - effect of giving up a lot of control, as does the experience of being put back on training wheels, back in the beginners seat.

The United States hasn't given up its seat on the table, but it could certainly take a bigger role than it has in order to ensure that other countries, when they do implement regulations on tech and information, aren't going too far.

Her suit says that she led Kleiner's investment in a start - up called RPX, but that Kleiner gave its seat on the company's board to Mr. Komisar, not Ms. Pao, in retaliation for her harassment claims.

Benchmark partner Bill Gurley is in talks to give up his board seat, Recode has confirmed.

United Airlines became embroiled in a public relations crisis in April when security agents were seen brutally dragging a passenger from a plane because he would not give up his seat to a crew member.

The 24 original brokers gave way to owners of 1366 coveted seats, which sold for up to $ 4 million in 2005.

Running after someone to hand them back something they dropped was the most common «good deed» cited in the survey, followed by giving up a seat on a train or bus for a less able or pregnant passenger.

Men are actually embarrassed to give up a seat on the subway to an old woman; they mumble «I was getting off anyway,» instead of making the gesture in a straightforward and gracious way.

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a city bus, the new pastor, King, was drafted to lead the African - American community in a boycott of public transportation.

Although the young Graham refused to countenance segregated seating in his crusades (often at the price of sullen resistance from white supporters), he seems to have expended equal energy urging civil rights protesters to go slow — giving credence to Reinhold Niebuhr's charge that he expected Christians to give up peccadillos like smoking and cussing overnight, but overcoming racism might understandably take a while.

Now, I started reflecting on this because my kids were in the back seat of the car singing that song about Peter and John and the lame man — «Silver and Gold have I none / but such as I have give I thee / in the name of Je - e-sus Chri - i - ist / of Nazareth rise up and walk!

On Sunday in Chicago, the airline asked passengers who had already boarded to give up their seats on an overbooked flight so that United employees could have them.

I'd give anything to pack up the car and hurtle down I - 95 once more, in search of that purple - and - pink sign from the back seat.

I still go with same six mates I went with in the late fifties when it was two bob to get in and would lose touch if I didn't go anymore, great seats, behind the TV camera, a meal before the game, a drink after the game, so as you can see it's very difficult to give up plus if I give it up with the waiting list for a S / T I'll never get it back and the thought of not going to Arsenal every week I couldn't contemplate.

-- Price includes: Jerseys, Refs, Stats for each game, Prizes (in past years for All Sports Series we have given a trolley or bleacher seats to Cubs and Sox and gym passes), Live Tweets, Video Wrap - Ups and more.

Fact is people won't pay over # 1k plus and not go in and they won't give up their season tickets in the hope of change because there is nearly 100k of fans waiting on the list to jump in their seats.

I was in my seat in the old East stand with a mate and he's young son when my mate gave me nudge and said «you seen who's behind us» as I turned round it was Joe and without any hesitation said «seen anything of him» and in he's broad Scottish accent, although Joe was English, born in Liverpool to a Seaman father, he grew up in Scotland, «who's that» he said, I said Ron Yeats, with that we all burst out laughing, I then lifted my mates young son, turned him round and said «see this man, he's the greatest centre forward ever to play for Arsenal» I got a massive smile from Joe and could see that it made he's day, made mine as well

Only gentlemen seem to give up their seats to chicks who set picks, and at least one of them has taken his old - fashioned values overseas: Army Sgt. Reggie Franklin, who is stationed in Vicenza, Italy.

No point in fans moaning, give up your seats, short term loss long term gain.

But yet again we have a horrendous streak of giving up point to everyone like an open bar while we are in front row seat looking at the season going away... And that is not because we bought / didn't bought players.

He made his way to the CART circuit in 1995, winning rookie of the year honors for Hall Racing, and when Penske had a seat open up for the 2000 season, he gave it to de Ferran, largely because he was impressed with the driver's attention to detail.

I still think NY was in the drivers seat with Melo I don't think this was necessarily Melo picking OKC over PDX I think NY management saw our offer of ex-scrap heap players and felt the OKC offer was better Maybe Noah injury played a role I think NO would not offer up what NYC deemed to be better then the OKC trade I do think Kantor and McDermott are better then Meyers, Harkless, Noah, etc... So without one of our draftees from this year or a high draft pick NY took the best offer I trust that NO is a good judge of talent and felt giving up anything more then what he offered was not worth an aging but talented Melo

This 50p per seat increase your talking of is peanuts when you consider that every year the seat price goes up on average of about # 2.50 added to the players we sell and all the other revenue that comes in, given that players are an investment in winning trophies and therefor increasing revenue and pushing the brand globally wich again is a huge source of revenue, # 500» 000 is peanuts and the real financial world is not the real football world the two operate in in somewhat different ways regarding this issue and this is why we will never compete with the big boys and win anything of note again.

I saw this coming 5 years ago and gave up both my Club seats (# 6,000 in total) and would welcome the day that I can re-new them.

While Wenger remained in his seat, Benitez was up giving very precise instructions as to where he wanted his players positioned.