Sentences with phrase «into public fights»

Getting into public fights with the board.

In a blog post about their return, Uber struck a conciliatory tone, writing «we're sorry, Austin — for leaving the way we did; for letting an honest disagreement about regulations and consumer choice turn into a public fight.»

This person hopes you do reply so he or she can drag you into a public fight.

One of the evening's speakers, Ira Sabin, a former chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, criticized Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who got into a public fight with David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who has become a prominent advocate for gun control.

Not exact matches

A simmering dispute between Dauman and Redstone, who has so far successfully fought off legal claims about his competency, broke into public view last week when he fired Dauman and Abrams from the trust and told Viacom executives he opposed the company's plan to sell a stake in the Paramount Pictures division.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

He still wants to fight the opioid crisis, but now, he's entering into the ministry, where he can help communities and young people spiritually — while also addressing the public health crisis.

My question was, why is anyone fighting to have a prayer in a meeting if it's really no big deal and is not intended to inject religion into government / public affairs?

Through personal action and public pronouncements, these agency people led the church into the forefront of the fight against social injustice.

Not only does it misinform the public and strip the dignity of victims, but it feeds into the very same objectifying and voyeuristic behaviours we're fighting against in the first place.

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

Today, a few corridors down from the Commons fight on «Amendment 7» — that «meaningful vote» motion — we will attempt to input the public's voice into the debate, by launching the findings of the Citizens» Assembly.

Why is the de Blasio administration, aided by his cats» paws in the Council and Public Advocate's office, putting so much political capital into this fight?

ALBANY — A new, well - financed partnership plying both fundamentals of democracy and modern high - stakes lobbying plans to bring Albany's fight over public school aid into New Yorkers» homes.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

It's how he's run his entire front - running campaign, though, reportedly, «[s] ome of Mr. Cuomo's aides believe that New Yorkers will want to see Mr. Cuomo show a fighting spirit and lay into Mr. Paladino over his remarks about sexual orientation, abortion and people who receive public assistance.»

TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The fight over stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin's public workers will move into the state Supreme Court, and possibly back into the Legislature, after a judge ruled...

As the Democratic NYC mayoral candidates fight to claim the «progressive» mantle heading into the September primary, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has received the seal of approval from a well - known national liberal: Former Vermont Governor / presidential contender Howard Dean.

The Daily News took a deep dive into the city's public schools in our five - part «Fight for Their Future» series — but now we turn the spotlight over to New York's political and educational leaders to learn what they believe is best for our kids.

Azzopardi greeted the proposals with a suggestion that lawmakers didn't really want to get into a fight over transparency with the administration, marking the second time in several days Cuomo officials have responded to reform proposals with a sort of public knuckle - cracking.

Cuomo has previously fought to include changes to the way public school teachers are evaluated into the budget, and on Sunday, said his budget would include language renewing the 421 - a subsidy for housing developers.

Melissa Mark - Viverito is the first member to announce she will not support Quinn for mayor following a bitter public fight over the new lines of her East Harlem district, which now stretches deep into The Bronx.

The city public advocate is taking his fight against the city's worst landlords, many of whom are in southeast Queens, to the World Wide Web in order to help tenants avoid the headaches of moving into poorly maintained apartments.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Politicians, MPs and prominent political figures crowded into Westminster Hall as the Pope delivered his key - note address, calling for public figures to promote religious freedom and do more to fight poverty.

The public perceptions of the two men who will most likely fight out the next generation already seem to be settling into contrasting images: Cameron as likeable and in touch vs Brown, solid, trustworthy and competent.

The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.

Most recently, we fought Labour's plans to axe one of the few insights the public have into the decisions made on their behalf.

Upper West Side public school parents, elected officials and Community Board 7 fought for months to keep Upper West Success Academy from moving into an existing public school building.

Groups like Citizen Action and the Alliance for Quality Education have long been fighting against tests used to determine if teachers and schools are effective and are fighting the push by members of the current school board for more charter schools and potentially conversion of some public schools into charters.

Gary Ayers, of Oswego, said he was offended that although he fought in Vietnam he could not bring a sign into a rally that was advertised as open to the public.

Its mission is to fight inequities in public education by introducing a diverse group of high achievers into districts with severe teacher shortages.

These easily accessible journals and repositories have struck fear into the hearts of traditional publishers, who have enlisted the «pit bull» of public relations to fight back, reports news@nature.

But with billions of dollars at stake, elite university combatants, and high - profile scientists fighting over inventorship, the CRISPR battle has turned into a drama - filled epic, and this hearing was the first time lawyers for the University of California (UC) public faced down their opponents representing the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Much additional research and development is needed to translate advances in DNA sequencing and genomics into reconnaissance tools for clinicians and public health officials on the frontline of the fight against infectious diseases.

Elle shares her personal journey of fighting with two severe bouts of hypothyroidism, with the Thinking Podcast, in which she was forced to take matters into her own hands after being failed by the public health care system.

Elle shares her personal journey of fighting with two severe bouts of hypothyroidism, in which she was forced to take matters into her own hands after being failed by the public health care system.

They may have sensory processing disorder — crowded spaces, loud noises, and bright lights of a shopping center or public event can constitute an assault to their system and cause their body to go into fight or flight mode.

That bravado would send The Post into an epic legal and existential battle just as Graham was preparing to take her family's media company public — a deal that could easily be scuttled by her potential imprisonment and a Supreme Court fight, not to mention the vindictive administration of president Richard M. Nixon.

But The Gifted supplies some additional reasons anyway, with customary vagueness about how it fits into a greater continuity: The X-Men as the public knows them have «disappeared,» and it's (intentionally) difficult to tell whether this is an early step in the process that leads to the mutant - light world of Logan, the mutant - annihilating alternate timeline of Days Of Future Past, or just a contemporary version of the periodic X-Men recessions that seem to plague the earlier incarnations of the team (Days Of Future Past and Apocalypse have both Xavier's school and his injustice - fighting squadron expanding and receding as needed — part of that infinite - origins deal the X-Men movies traffic in).

But once his lineage becomes public knowledge, it catapults him into an unlikely title fight against the undefeated British world champion (real - life boxer Tony Bellew).

Rotherham writes «this is political and not about substance and to the extent this turns into a big public fight about money it's one more reason that if you're a school administrator the Washington groundhogs are saying a few more years of NCLB.»

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gPublic Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots gpublic schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

Instead, the Compton parents were thrust into a prolonged fight with supporters of the status quo: the Compton Unified School District, the teachers» unions, Gov. Jerry Brown and Tom Torlakson, the newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The union's repeated threats to strike over pay and pension issues in recent weeks have evolved into a labor - led fight against Rauner's anti-union agenda, and a call for new revenue amid a state budget impasse that has jeopardized social service programs and public universities.

Similarly, four years ago, about $ 30 millions poured into the race for superintendent of public instruction when Torlakson faced Tuck, which became a proxy fight over charter schools.

Today, failing public schools are part of the process of tracking millions of young people into the same permanent underclass, a world of unemployment and underemployment, that the civil rights movement fought against.

«We believe in publicly funded public education and we believe that we can have a system in Chicago that is equal to or exceeds school districts in Finland or Japan,» she says of the colleagues with whom she has reshaped the Chicago Teachers Union into a leading force in the fight against school privatization, closures, cuts and the gimmickry that too often passes for education policy.

From their website — «How do we bring the fight to protect and transform public schools into our classrooms?

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.