Sentences with phrase «increasingly restive»

This is the challenge Commissioner Elia faces as she considers how to mount a defense of New York state policy to an increasingly restive population.

As they prepare to compete along with a Republican candidate in the June primary, however, Tuck and Torlakson's backgrounds and perspectives on a handful of hot - button issues are making the nonpartisan race a referendum on whether change is coming quickly enough in a state where the traditional might of labor unions is being challenged by increasingly restive education reformers.

The consequence is that other spending ministers such as Theresa May and Vince Cable, who have already been getting increasingly restive, will now be required to absorb even more pain.

While roughly three dozen people rallied in support of Silver after federal corruption charges against him were announced on Thursday, the less senior members who have been stifled under the current system have grown increasingly restive.

COLONIE — Increasingly restive progressives on the New York Democratic State Committee have successfully pushed through a resolution calling for the reunification of the party's divided delegation in the State Senate.

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The field belongs increasingly to those who have experienced the richness and depths of the tradition and who are restive with the something - new - every - week folks who, in Luther's words, have «no more than an itch to produce something novel so that they might shine before men as leading lights.»

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Where once the Democrat - dominated New York City Council was once a reliable ally of the Democratic mayor, the two branches have increasingly been split as the Council speaker, Corey Johnson, leads an emboldened and restive body itching to take on de Blasio and his administration.

Oil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans» perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countries.

Whatever the problem is, consumers who own an iPhone 7 and an Android Wear smartwatch are increasingly becoming restive because this means that the problem has been going on since the iPhone's release more than two weeks ago.