Sentences with phrase «into national headlines»

Still, it's only a matter of time before a disgruntled client tapes a conversation with an attorney trying to pressure him into an unfair settlement or plea arragnement — and that news makes it into the national headlines.

I lost three months of sleep over this with my first novel (The Almost True Story Of Ryan Fisher) because in the middle of writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlines.

Not exact matches

In 1987, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, and 200 others in a single evangelical congregation made national headlines when they were chrismated (or confirmed) into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

His goal against Preston North End in September 1999 made national headlines as, having received the ball in his own half following kick - off, his 62 - yard shot sailed over the head of the Preston keeper and into the net.

Last week, McDonald's made national headlines when it announced it had allegedly found a work - around to a San Francisco law designed to curb the predatory practice of using toys to lure kids into a lifetime of fast food.

Hanna also made national headlines in October when he suggested a GOP House committee had political motivations against Hillary Clinton in its investigation into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

ALBANY — In a bow to reactive governing, topics that were major local and national news items in communities around the state over the past year were ripped from the headlines and inserted in some way or another into the new $ 168.3 billion spending plan.

«We woke up one morning in this country and we had newspaper headlines screaming that mercenaries had been brought into our country and that their presence here was of a national security concern to the extent that the state owned daily graphic displayed the photographs of these people on their front page.

Most recently, the school district of York, Pennsylvania, made national headlines when the state announced the city's schools would be turned into an «all charter» district.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

This was brought into particularly strong relief in 1975 when New York City was on the brink of bankruptcy and an infamous headline on the cover of the Daily News paraphrased the then - president Gerald Ford's expression of national sentiment: «Ford to City: Drop Dead».

Then 35 years ago, the site's buried and largely forgotten history made national headlines as contaminants seeped into some nearby homes and residents complained of illness, miscarriages and other effects.

Even as national leaders make the headlines on climate, more and more, cities are the places turning big - picture objectives into practical steps forward to a sustainable future.

From the National Science Foundation, another bit of Speculative Science ™ note the caveat in bold, which is all they need for a headline that screams certainty: This sudden release of gases into the atmosphere may have created intense global warming, and acidification of the oceans, which ultimately killed off thousands of plant and animal species.

It seems that there's a reluctance to challenge statements issued by organisations such as the National Trust, and an inclination to turn them into dramatic headlines.

Returning to this morning's decision, in Canadian National Railway Co. v. McKercher LLP, which we gave the headline for in an earlier post, I thought it would be helpful to boil down the judgment, into twelve paragraphs, largely using the court's own words:

Last week the National Post spun a headline into the obscenely wrong by claiming that 68 % of Canadians want tougher copyright law, when the CRIA poll was only able to coax 32 % to say that, with 91 % wanting artists work to be protected onilne.

The UK rail services have not had the best welcome into 2017, with high profile strikes continuing to make national headlines.

In a relatively short period of time, the debate over patent reform has transformed an arcane, low - salience issue into one that sparks fierce controversy and national headlines.

Despite Venezuela's dramatic slip into dependency on fiat alternatives eclipsing India in the headlines, the southern Asian nation is still driving up Bitcoin prices in its national markets — this week, beyond $ 10,000.