Sentences with phrase «in reining in»

In the late hours of the last day of New York's legislative session on June 24, lawmakers passed a 2 percent property tax cap, taking the first step forward in reining in the state's property tax burden.

These medical malpractice rate reductions also demonstrate, once again, the important role that Proposition 103, which authorizes the Insurance Commissioner to reject excessive rate hikes for property and casualty insurance including medical malpractice insurance, has played in reining in medical malpractice rates since its passage in 1988.

«President Obama's plan to reduce climate - disrupting methane pollution is an important step in reining in an out of control industry exempt from too many public health protections,» Deborah Nardone, campaign director of the Sierra Club's Keeping Dirty Fuels in the Ground campaign.

How do they stack up, and what impact will they have in reining in warming?

«No Logo is an attractive sprawl of a book describing a vast confederacy of activist groups with a common interest in reining in the power of lawyering, marketing, and advertising to manipulate our desires.»

That, and in reining in your cackling laughter as you bomb down the road.

Unfortunately I didn't have much time for formal yoga practice, but what I found the most effective in reining in my inner critic was... chanting.

Federal prosecutors plan to sue New York City over widespread civil rights violations in the handling of adolescent inmates at Rikers Island, making clear their dissatisfaction with the city's progress in reining in brutality by guards and improving conditions at the jail complex.

Nonetheless, there are persistent doubts, even among past Clinton supporters such as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, about whether Clinton will go very far in reining in tax policies and compensation practices that favor the rich.

The report assesses the poor record of voluntary restraint and shareholder activism in reining in CEO compensation.

It comes as he tries to coax China into taking a more active role in reining in North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

We have some difficult issues to work through about how we keep what's good about the global internet while trying in rein in some of its excesses.

Not exact matches

Since taking the reins in August, Cornell, 55, has moved quickly, seeking to speed up Target's metabolism.

Southern died in 2016, having already passed the reins at Atco Ltd. to his daughter Nancy, who became president and CEO in 2003.

This appears to justify a gradual reining in of the degree to which monetary policy is stimulating the economy.

Some executives within RIM have encouraged Balsillie to rein in his bombastic tendencies in the past.

Starbucks executives Howard Schultz and Kevin Johnson sat down with CNBC for their first TV interview since the coffee giant announced Schultz would be handing over the reins of the company to Johnson in April.

Alternatively, if the Department of Finance were to continue tightening mortgage credit, and to also withdraw some of the government's past measures boosting the housing sector, it may not be necessary for the Bank of Canada to rein in a housing boom with higher interest rates.

Efforts to rein in the proverbial snake oil salesmen of the advertising industry typically fail.

The Ontario Fair Housing Plan includes options to boost housing supply, prevent egregious rent increases and rein in excessive speculation.

On Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate change.

State to shed 500 public servants The WA government wants to axe 500 public service jobs in the next 15 months in a further bid to rein in rampant growth in the state's bureaucracy.

The startup phase is when your business is at its most fragile, so rein in costs wherever you can and focus on scaling up

Chinese regulators have been on the forefront of a global push to rein in the frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies amid concerns over excessive speculation, money laundering, tax evasion and fraud.

He may have been prompted by a report from news website Axios saying he was obsessed with Amazon and considering ways to rein in the company's power, possibly with federal antitrust or competition laws.

The question for Poloz is whether to follow suit, and risk reining growth in too much, or hang back, which could result in downward pressure on the loonie.

Since taking Coach's reins in 2014, the 50 - year - old executive has done what few retail CEOs have been able to do: tapped into his company's successful past to help it compete in a difficult present.

His plan was to step away, again, this summer, when he was scheduled to hand the CEO reins to longtime lieutenant Keith Creel and start a three - year tenure as a consultant (or, in his own words, a «hired hand») to the railway.

But these legitimate enterprises have done nothing to rein in illegal and unregulated prostitution in the urban centres of Las Vegas and Reno.

They've limited the number of homes Chinese can buy, restricted many state - run companies from buying up land, and ordered banks to rein in their lending, yet still prices continue to rise.

The stand - off also comes amid a growing campaign by politicians, regulators and courts across Europe to rein in Google's power over the Internet search market and the impact it has on deeply ingrained social norms around personal privacy.

Schindler took the reins of Canada's biggest tech company in October.

Later in the 1990s, when Jobs supported the Department of Justice's effort to rein in the Microsoft monopoly, Gates repeatedly threw Steve in with the vast set of «losers» who «whined» about what he saw as his company's deserved success.

Lawmakers have been under pressure for years to rein in executive compensation, which has grown faster than both the stock market and the wages of the top 1 % in the last 40 years.

Even last year, despite all the efforts by Beijing to rein in its stimulus efforts, investment in fixed assets was the fastest - growing segment of the economy.

As CEO of Warm Thoughts Communications, a $ 4 - million marketing - communications company in Secaucus, N.J., Goldberg sought a way to «rein them back in.»

It's a bodybuilder in a three - piece suit, a four - door sedan with a top speed of 204 mph and Rawlings is grinning at the prospect of letting loose the 707 barely reined - in horses under the hood.

Meanwhile, measures to rein in home prices are also taking effect in Hong Kong where house prices fell 0.6 percent on - year in June.

Mayer had her son in 2012, a mere three months after she took the reins at Yahoo.

There are already signs that Alphabet is reining in various projects, including reports that it is selling its Boston Dynamics robotics group, and the recent move to merge two separate drone efforts within the company.

He officially took over the reins in June 2014, an appointment that Adidas has touted as a display of its commitment to the North America marketplace.

Trump's election has led to a veritable surge in Obamacare signups as uncertainty reins over the health law's future.

Over the past five years, Ottawa has made tentative steps to rein in CMHC.

... It's our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn't run amok and doesn't cause the kind of inequities we're seeing.»

(Hanson died in 1996, after retiring and retaking the reins several times.)

A series of positive signs from the economy — from healthy retail sales to a housing recovery that seems to be gaining traction — and a surprisingly strong February jobs report didn't convince the Fed it was time to rein - in the monetary stimulus.

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000.

In 1999, when he was made CPW CEO, Powell assumed the reins to a global cereal company at 45.

«If you're way over half your budget and it's mid-month, you know you need to rein in spending.

Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting people run with their own ideas.