Sentences with phrase «key backers»

Bannon has run afoul not only of Trump, but also of his key backers from the wealthy Mercer family.

Key backers of Common Core standards are aware of this problem and so the U.S. Department of Education funded the development of new tests that would be aligned with these national standards.

I'm actually more worried that key backers of school choice are starting to abandon private school choice and focus all of their energies on charters.

«Mitt Romney has shored up support among his key backers while cutting his loses among Tea Party voters,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

One of his key backers is Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy.

Brodsky, whose AG candidacy has the support of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is in a broad field of Democratic hopefuls, each with impressive credentials and key backers.

Niou, who works for Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim, has garnered several key backers, including influential labor unions 32BJ and the United Federation of Teachers.

Savino is one of the key backers of the medical marijuana bill known as the Compassionate Care Act, a bill that late last week was revealed to be the subject of three - way negotiations with Cuomo's office.

Industry insiders had previously told Re / code that the company — or at least some employees — would likely find a soft landing spot thanks to the connections of investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, one of its key backers.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

The idea of renting computing power from another company was almost unheard of, but Jassy had a key backer in Dalzell, who recalls arguing that «we're going to invest in this anyway,» since Amazon would always need data - center resources for itself.

Key backer Benchmark Capital sues Kalanick over allocation of board seats.

A plan by Freedom Communications insiders to buy the assets of the bankrupt newspaper company is in danger of losing a key backer, jeopardizing their effort to retain control of the Orange County Register.Santa Ana real estate developer Mike Harrah said...

The Real Estate Board of New York, a key backer of the Senate GOP, supports the tax abatement.

One key backer of the acting leader fumes: «It was a cheap shot and what makes it all so absurd is Rachel Reeves has been at the heart of this, and she'd be his Shadow Chancellor.»

, who was a key backer of the public insurance option during the health - care debate, said he thinks the P Street Project can help provide resources and political cover for other liberal lawmakers.

Mr McCluskey has been a key backer of Mr Corbyn in both Labour leadership contests won by the left - winger.

Collins was the first member of the House of Representatives to endorse President Donald Trump during the campaign, and he has been a key backer of the president.

Arron Banks, a key backer of the Leave campaign, appears to be not as rich as he claims — leaving questions about where all his Brexit campaign cash come from.

«The American dream is slipping away, and unless our leaders dramaticallyimprove our public schools, our standard of living, our economy, and our very democracy will be threatened,» says Eli Broad, founder of the Broad Foundation and a key backer of the campaign.

Quick read: Jack McGrory, San Diego city manager from 1991 until 1997, is now a key backer of San Diego State University's plan to convert the Qualcomm stadium site into a satellite campus.

Neil Record, a City currency manager and trustee of the free market Institute of Economic Affairs, was exposed by DeSmog UK last September as a key backer of Nigel Lawson's climate denial lobby group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

To be clear, the FF 91's failure on stage was brief: at first it did not drive when the company's key backer Jia Yueting pressed a «driverless valet» button on the door, but a few minutes later, the car did roll forward on its own after a technician got into the car and poked around in the driver's seat for a short period of time.

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Although you may successfully drive traffic to your campaign, what's key is to convert those viewers to backers.

Most notably, it's become a fierce backer of women's empowerment, which Sullivan sees as the key to development.

As freelance journalist Wendy Siegelman and Business Insider reported in March, two members of the Mercer family — major backers of conservative political causes whose money and management was key to Cambridge Analytica from the beginning — have joined the board of Emerdata.

The borough's Democratic Party endorsed Rice prior to the convention in Rye, but Schneiderman has made in - roads there and has a number of key Brooklyn backers, the most notable of which is Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson.

The legislation has gained a key Senate backer — Staten Island Sen. Diane Savino, who sponsored the 2014 law that legalized medical marijuana in New York.

Over the weekend, Dan Padernacht, the candidate who had refused to heed Samuels» call and pressure from a plethora of Rivera backers (WFP, 1199, NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, state Demoratic Party Executive Director Charlie King et al) to quit the race, finally decided to throw in the towel, saying King had played a key role in helping him get there.

Last week the incumbent snared a key endorsement from the AFSCME public employee union, which his backers label important because he is a Republican wading into normally Democratic waters.

Some of his allies, including the key union backer Len McCluskey, have suggested that disloyal MPs were «asking for it».

Because of that bind, some key Democrats have pushed quietly for President Barack Obama to ask Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy — a Vermont Democrat who is a major backer of the same - sex amendment in the bill — to wait to offer it until the entire measure goes to the floor, POLITICO reported recently.

The Cuomo plan to demolish the Javits Convention Center after hundreds of millions in renovations has long been supported by key Committee backers who want to develop the land it would open up.

Most prominently, he was alone in fighting to force the Committee to Save New York — a deep - pocketed business coalition that was a key Cuomo backer during his first two years in office — to disclose its donors.

An early backer of David Cameron, the Shadow Education Secretary is a key member of the party leader's inner circle and has been a strong advocate of the «rebalancing» of recent times.

John Graziano, the Albany County GOP chairman and one of the state party's ten vice-chairs - and a key early Steve Levy backer - was muted this morning on the topic of how his delegates will vote at the convention in Manhattan this week.

One of the first backers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he first ran for Governor in 2002, Pigeon became a key player in Western New York for Cuomo.

Some Moreland insiders insisted Cuomo's office was particularly deadset on stopping subpoenas to the Real Estate Board of New York, whose members are key Cuomo donors, but also major backers of Skelos and Senate Republicans.

(CNN)-- Sen. John McCain, whose endorsement of President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes against Syria provided the president a key Republican backer, faced vocal opponents of military action during a town hall in Arizona Thursday.

Today we reveal the close relationship between a key Cambridge Analytica backer and a senior pro-Brexit Northern Irish PR man — who has Russian friends in high places

The group, Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., expressed concern about «regulatory and ethical lapses,» but the trial's organizers and backers denied that accusation and defended it as necessary to answer a key question that hospitals face every day.

The game is available to backers through a Steam key and will become publicly available on Jan. 28.

In addition to losing quality if key choice backers were to support charters to the exclusion of private school choice, there are obvious political advantages to backing both types of choice.

Backers recently received Steam Early Access keys that includes a prologue (with a round of an optional tutorial) and a short campaign.

Per backers» request, the game will be released in a DRM free version as well available for all backers along with the Steam keys.

New Steam keys for early access should have appeared in all backers (who don't already have early access) Humble Store pages this afternoon.

Steam keys for backers should be going out today, but you can keep your eye on the Steam page for a way to get into it if you're not one of the game's funders.

Kickstarter backers who have chosen the PS Vita version can switch their key to PC, Mac, Linux, PS4 or XBox One.

We've heard your concerns about how some of you have since sold / traded in your Wii U's and we're looking into an upgrade program — either allowing users to directly change their Wii U backer key to a Switch one, or by offering a discount for the Switch version if the Wii U one is owned.

While a $ 7 pledge to their Kickstarter will get you the PC demo, it's worth mentioning that higher - tier backers will also receive the beta - version in December 2018, and access to Steam keys upon the game's final release.