Sentences with phrase «holdout on»

The liberal Democratic mayor has lavishly praised Heastie, the holdout on the charter school issue.

Cotton is perhaps the leading conservative holdout on the prisons bill, for which Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R - Texas) is leading the push in the upper chamber.

Sen. William T. Stachowski of Buffalo had been a holdout on passing a budget because he wanted the University at Buffalo to become a flagship campus for the state.

Of course, Sen. Ruben Diaz, D - Bronx, remains a holdout on both gay marriage and abortion.

What happened when the bulldozers appeared and the old lady who was the last holdout on land that would be a future baseball park refused to budge?

Given the time and resources swallowed up by healthcare (not to mention pushback on the Russia investigation), the Republican party is desperate for a win, so pressuring holdouts on tax reform could come easier.

Some Senate Republicans are holdouts on Raise the Age.

Stefanik, R - Willsboro, who represents a sprawling 12 - county district in New York's North Country, was among the last holdouts on the first version of the Obamacare repeal bill.

Not everyone agrees, including a few holdouts on the Voyager team.

Toyota's next - generation Avalon flagship sedan features more aggressive bodywork, an updated platform to improve driving dynamics and the company's first implementation of Apple CarPlay after years of remaining one of the few holdouts on smartphone integration.

Animal Services manager Dil Luther said he was one of the last holdouts on the recent changes, but early results have not shown an uptick in dogs being returned to the shelter because of breed confusion or residency checks.

Fans who pre-order Star Wars Battlefront will be among the first players to experience the Battle of Jakku, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet on the Outer Rim.

Pre-order Star Wars Battlefront and on December 1st, 2015, be among the first players to experience the Battle of Jakku *, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet in the Outer Rim.

Starting on December 1, 2015, fans that pre-ordered Star Wars Battlefront will be among the first players to experience the Battle of Jakku, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet.

Not exact matches

To deal with the few obstinate holdouts, Brookings Institution fellow Robert Pozen has suggested making the second year's «say on pay» vote after a shareholder's revolt into a binding resolution.

In the short - term, some people will hang on to the notion of driving on their own of course, much as some holdouts who insist on typing on typewriters, or putting two spaces after a period.

However late Friday Martin Schulz, the head of the European Parliament, appeared to announce on Twitter that he would meet on Saturday morning with Freeland and Paul Magnette, the president of holdout Belgian region Wallonia, to try to revive the talks.

They said they still hope the holdout provinces will come on board, but even if they don't, the initiative will go ahead.

The fundamental contradiction is that the law sees already - reduced claims, the Exchange Bonds, as on equal footing with never - reduced claims, the «Holdout Bonds.»

In Trump: The Art of the Comeback, a book with two chapters on his prenuptial agreements and one on his collapse, he chalks up his survival to the timing of his debt negotiation, playing hardball with his lenders, and teaching one holdout banker a better golf grip.

Two companies that guaranteed payments on Detroit bonds and were the last major holdout creditors in the case, Syncora Guarantee Inc [SYCRFS.UL] and Financial Guaranty Insurance Co [FGIC.UL], received options to develop parcels of land.

While a U.S. judge awarded the holdouts $ 1.7 billion in a ruling, Argentina decided to default on its debt again in 2014 rather than pay them.

Macri moved quickly to resolve Argentina's outstanding debt to creditors, reaching a US$ 4.65 billion settlement which would see the largest remaining holdout creditors get 75 % of the outstanding amount on their full judgments.

Since a near - majority already agreed on the goals, there was a solid basis for negotiating details with holdouts.

But this was in effect the swan song of the Q community, as it was absorbed into the gentile - Christian church, except for holdouts who returned to the baptist movement or to emergent normative Judaism, or became small Christian sects that we, on the winning side, call heresies: the Ebionites, meaning the «Poor,» or the Nazarenes, claiming Jesus of Nazara.

Mark the River would like this as here we have Saul bearing down on the last holdout of Christian leaders in hiding.

There will always be holdouts that need some mystical authority to excuse their horrible behavior, but Atheism is on the rise.

The final document of this week's CSW session will almost certainly sing endlessly the praises of CEDAW, and likely will call on the holdouts like the United States to ratify it.

Marshawn's holdout in 2014, Kam's holdout in 2015, Bennett whining about his contract despite only being a year into it, Marshawn refusing to go into the locker room at halftime of the KC game, Marshawn refusing to get on the plane to Minnesota at the last minute and on and on and on.

There's very little value placed on things like injuries or holdouts.

Not until the season starts and game checks are on the line will the holdout end... and by then, who knows where it will be.

Believe me, Walter O'Malley and I have talked the problem over many times, and no double holdout will ever work again on the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Under the circumstances, it is easy for me to understand how the chapter on the double holdout could wind up as just about the most jumbled history of any financial dealing I have ever read, full of wrong data, wrong amounts, wrong conclusions, wrong interpretations.

In fact, the stories that came out about his holdout with Drysdale and, later on, his retirement from baseball — well, most of them were 90 % fiction.

The double holdout started on February 26, 1966, when spring training opened and Sandy and Donald didn't show.

My holdout wouldn't even try a sip and to that I say, carry on.

«It seemed to me that the baby didn't have much of a chance either way,» said Mike Leitza, 29, one of two holdouts who forced a Lake County judge to declare a mistrial Monday in Waukegan on an involuntary - manslaughter charge against Yvonne Cryns, 50.

Both Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb have criticized Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver as being the only holdout in moving the budget process forward with committee hearings, which can not begin until both majority leaders sign on.

Wyoming, the only other holdout below the 48th parallel, last weekend legalized the app's operation following the governor's signature on a bill authorizing it there.

In a little more than a year, Schneiderman, the lone holdout, had been transformed from a lowly state senator to a nationally prominent progressive standard - bearer, broadly seen as pushing Obama and the Democrats to take on Wall Street.

The United States Climate Alliance today announced the launch of a new website to inform Americans on state actions to address climate change after the U.S. was the lone holdout in affirming the Paris Agreement at the G20 Summit.

Stachowski, the majority — subverting holdout, essentially forced the Senate to go home without passing another budget bill — the one that reinstated taxes on clothing sales — and still won't declare public support for the last piece of the budget until something is done with the SUNY tuition.

New York state — the remaining holdout in the fight to legalize mixed martial arts — finally voted to legalize the sport on Tuesday.

The decision to delay the vote marks an acute embarrassment for the President, who had gambled big by presenting holdout House conservatives with a take - it - or - leave it ultimatum Thursday night and put his own credibility on the line.

A day before Republicans are expected to begin voting on their $ 1.5 trillion tax cut, the big question was not whether it would pass but why the lone Republican Senate holdout, Bob Corker of Tennessee, suddenly flipped his position to support a bill he once said was fiscally irresponsible.

The lone holdout would be Senator Simcha Felder, a registered Democrat from Brooklyn who ran on both major party lines and has conferenced with the GOP since he joined the Senate.

With the defense concerned the juror might be a holdout for Silver who should be kept on the panel, the judge decided to put off an answer.

i must be confused... it almost sounds like Andrew was the lone holdout yet it was Paladino who was the last to agree to the debate... If Paladino is so much in support of giving these third party candidates an opportunity to speak, why did nt he sign on before Cuomo?

The plan was to have Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, and Nassau County executive Tom Suozzi ratchet up the pressure on the remaining holdouts.

The Nebraska Democrat sounded a positive note Thursday after emerging from a meeting with Reid and other moderate Democratic holdouts in the Senate Majority Leader's office, although he told CNN then he was withholding his final decision on the motion to proceed until he had a chance to «study (the bill) or at least review it to begin with.»