Sentences with phrase «last sweeping effort»

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Economic development spending has come under renewed scrutiny after the governor's former top aide was arrested last year and charged in a sweeping bid - rigging case that included prominent upstate developers who have received contracts under the state's job spending efforts.

US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand still believes she can convince the last several senators who voted against her sweeping and controversial effort to change the way the military prosecutes sexual assault.

While Stefanik failed to sweep the endorsements of local media — she took just two, the Watertown Daily Times and the Leader Herald — she continued rallying voters, engaging in GOTV efforts and pressing the flesh up until the last minutes of the race.

The last report in the series, which looks over the sweep of the initiative, concludes that the districts were able to carry out the kinds of policies and practices called for by the effort «to a striking extent.»

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

Energy Committee leaders are planning extensive educational sessions for members in an effort to avoid what they and others see as the lack of understanding that allowed the Green Bank and energy efficiency sweeps to go through last session.