Sentences with phrase «into city control»

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While the Germans made little advancement into the city, mainly controlling the outskirts, they were effective in starving the city to near death.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

• 10100 has invested $ 150 million into real estate startup City Storage Systems (f.k.a. Cloud Kitchens) for a controlling stake.

In a world with a population surpassing 7.5 billion people, with approximately 200,000 people moving into the world's cities every day, building remote teams that work from anywhere is more important than ever in order to sidestep the pollution of dysfunctional daily travel that has spun out of control in virtually every city across America.

Protagonist Aiden Pearce is a vigilante who can hack into the central operating system that runs near - future Chicago, and in doing so can control much of the city itself and access information on its inhabitants.

During two weeks of jury selection, Judge Samuel Feng repeatedly told prospective jurors that immigration, sanctuary cities, gun control and their political views should not enter into their deliberations.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

To answer such questions means going back into the same volatile villages surrounding Kandahar city where Canada's men and women fought and died — Panjwai and Zhari and the lush Arghandab valley — places that have continually see - sawed between Taliban and NATO control and where some of the most gruesome incidents have taken place, including the axe attack on Capt. Trevor Greene in March 2006.

«When you look at how much money somebody could make by turning a rental unit — particularly something that's rent - controlled, where the city is trying to keep rent low — into what is essentially a hotel room, you see there's a powerful incentive there,» said Ed Lazere, executive director of the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, which helped oversee the report.

Apollo Power (formerly SolarPaint) became active on the stock exchange just over two months ago, after completing the merger of its solar energy activity (which has yet to generate revenue) into stock market shell company Or City Holdings, formerly controlled by Inbal Or.

And Jerusalem should be made into an international city under the control and protection of the UN.

So what if I would rather collect my well fare check, head down to the Piggly Wiggly and buy me a box of slim jims to snap into, then ride a city bus back to my rent controlled apartment so I can use someone elses wireless connection to get on the internet so I can complain about Obama giving those other people, you know, them dark skinned ones, lot's of stuff they don't deserve.

Proverbs 25:28 warns, «A man without self - control is like a city broken into and left without walls.»

To manipulate their own security, they will build themselves a tower to reach into heaven and so guarantee control over that sphere; they will build the imperishable city; and they will establish for themselves the indestructible name.

So by tripping up just when we were set to take control of the title race, have Arsenal handed the initiative back to Man City and to a lesser extent given United a way back into the race?

The jack that ran into players when he scored the goal of the season last season or is it the jack that controlled the mid against man city at wembley that you are referring to?

Yesterday we controlled and dominated the MF largely due to City playing 2 up front, also City never really sprang into pacey action within their MF.

Every impressive result we have had in the last 12 months was when we played as a team and IMO most importantly when we pressed as a team not giving Chelsea, City etc a real chance to control the game, never letting them settle into to a comfortable rhythm.

Even though Aguero is frequently being offered the chance to perform in different clubs with distinct teams, neither Manchester City nor Aguero himself appear to be interested in ending their relationship which is good news for the Premier League club as they have in their control, one of the most talented players in the world and it's even better for Aguero as he is climbing his way into the history - books of a club that can not only compete to win the Premier League but also the Champions League.

Amid an ongoing investigating into his fundraising activities, Mayor Bill de Blasio will face his staunchest institutional critics next week in person as Senate Republicans hold a hearing on the future of mayoral control of New York City schools.

Mayoral control of New York City schools is set to expire, threatening to plunge the school system into chaos, unless the state legislature passes a law extending the program.

For instance, particularly egregious property tax rates in some particular city may lead to a «revolt» in which anti-tax advocates sweep into control of local government and ratchet the taxes back.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie flatly said Wednesday night he would not bring his chamber back into session to vote on another extension of mayoral control of New York City schools.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and election laws.

The 6,000 police officers on the streets of London were stretched so thin on Monday night that whole parts of the city effectively fell into rioters» control.

But he set the agenda for the «mini ugly,» the bill that shoehorned in a disparate smattering of unfinished business into one package, including renewing mayoral control of New York City schools, reauthorizing local sales taxes and allocating funds to transform Frontier Town into a sparkling regional tourism hub.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif hammered the message into POLITICO New York, saying his party will grow its Senate majority this year as «the last thing anyone wants is our entire state government controlled by Mayor de Blasio and the New York City Democrats.»

In addition state environmental officials have ordered the city to institute new flow control procedures to prevent sewage discharge into the Rondout Creek.

Despite the Port Authority operating major elements of New York City's transportation infrastructure, including the three Hudson River crossings into New York City and the City's two major airports, the mayor has no control of the agency.

(CNN)- Diverging from the generally non-political college sendoff, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a gun - control advocate, Saturday tore into members of Congress for failing to pass background check legislation.

The Financial Control Board reviews the city's four - year financial plan quarterly to decide whether the city is complying with fiscal guidelines passed into state law in 1975.

Ken Lovett: «The fate of mayoral control over New York City schools could come down to a political game of chicken, with the Assembly Democrats in the position to force the Senate GOP into a take it - or - leave it three - year extension of the expiring law, insiders say.»

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

Of course nobody wants to pay more council tax — nobody wants to pay more of any kind of tax — but it is surely better to be paying more for local services, over which we have closer control and scrutiny, than into a central pot increasingly steered towards penalising disadvantaged Northern cities.

Outside groups are pouring millions of dollars into the fight for the state Senate, and it's estimated so far they have spent $ 14 million as lawmakers next week will consider a range of contentious issues from expiring rent regulations to mayoral control of New York City schools.

De Blasio's prospects of getting the Legislature to renew his control of New York City's schools were thrown into doubt yesterday, when the leader of the State Senate, John Flanagan, issued a statement harshly criticizing the mayor's performance at a hearing on the issue.

The Senate majority leader explains the intent behind a provision that the Senate inserted into the mayoral control bill is to give charter schools freedom from some state and city requirements.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has suggested that if the Legislature leaves Albany on Wednesday without renewing mayoral control of schools, which is set to lapse on July 1, the city's education system will immediately descend into chaos.

DiNapoli says reports like this are helpful by going in depth into the problems that cause fiscal stress, and to provide an early identification of cities in trouble before they're forced to turn to a control board or go bankrupt.

Mayoral control turned controversial primarily due to the political enmity between the Senate GOP and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose efforts to end the chamber's Republican majority have angered that conference and led to multiple investigations into his past practice of directing large sums of money into the campaign coffers of Democratic Senate candidates.

«Some of the changes needed would benefit cities all over the country... I would borrow from Mayor Bloomberg's efforts on gun control... but I have a more economic frame... I'm concerned about getting the federal government back into the mass transit and affordable housing business where it was for a half - century and should be and can be again.»

The bill, ostensibly drafted to extend mayoral control of the New York City schools, morphed into a catch - all of unfinished business that lawmakers had to vote up or down in its entirety.

«The MTA leadership has signaled to us a willingness to enter into direct discussions to explore the process of transferring the site from MTA to city control and we would greatly appreciate if EDC would begin this process,» the elected officials said in the July 23 letter to the EDC.

Lee also said the Newburgh city sewage - treatment system should control water pollution before it is discharged into local waterways.

Syracuse's budget director said the city could be put into a fiscal control situation if its fund balance goes down to between $ 10 million to $ 15 million.

a bill, A40001 was introduced into the New York State Assembly, which was an essential comprehensive bill, permitting, among other things, the vital extension of all local sales taxes and the Mayoral Control of the New York City Schools.

Updated at 5:32 p.m. ET on 7/25 (CNN)-- The woman who exchanged the sexually explicit messages that have thrown Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign into damage control mode said Thursday the former congressman deceived her when he contacted her online.

We saw when we went into the minority for two years, when everything was controlled by the Democrats from New York City, $ 14 billion in new taxes, $ 14 billion in spending, and that's why we have the deficit this year that we're dealing with.»

While the current New York City congressional delegation consists of 11 Democrats and one Republican, a makeup that is unlikely to change this year, results from key primaries in three swing districts outside the city have set the stage for races that could factor into which party controls the House after November's electiCity congressional delegation consists of 11 Democrats and one Republican, a makeup that is unlikely to change this year, results from key primaries in three swing districts outside the city have set the stage for races that could factor into which party controls the House after November's electicity have set the stage for races that could factor into which party controls the House after November's elections.