Sentences with phrase «like power bills»

Not exact matches

As allegations continue to rain down on powerful media moguls (like the recently - convicted comedian Bill Cosby), as well as high - profile politicians, doctors, members of Congress and male journalists, the idea that power can be a dangerous tool of manipulation is shifting into the mainstream.

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has promised to do quite a few things that are beyond the powers of an American president, like billing Mexico for a border wall.

Devices like the Google Home are billed as AI - powered assistants that can help make your life easier, but that doesn't mean Google's intentions are entirely altruistic.

You can reduce your bills considerably by only using power hungry appliances like washing machines, irons and dishwashers on during the low - cost hours.

But the case around «elective dictatorship» set out by Lord Halisham in 1976 is rather different if one introduces measures like devolution, an entrenched bill of rights, a legitimate second chamber with revising powers, stronger and legitimate local government.

Gov. David Paterson kicks things off by reiterating that he is well within his power to be inserting large chunks of the budget in extender bills, but then adds: «Clearly this is not the process that we like, and the process we like really should be that we pass a budget — immediately....

Most of their day was spent debating a «big ugly» revenue language bill that dealt with dozens of Issues like authorizing ride - hailing services, subsidizing tuition at state schools, reviving the 421 - a tax credit and expanding Gov. Andrew Cuomo's power to make mid-year budget adjustments.

If Sen. Thompson were truly interested in making his community safe he would do everything in his power to stop letting thugs like this roam the streets freely instead of pushing a useless, feel - good bill.

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

NY needs job growth and policies that support that and so far Cuomo's done everything in his power to chase business out of NY, like last year's minimum wage bill.

His bill would restore audit powers that Cuomo took away from his office in 2011 and restrict the ability of public authorities to sign contracts through not - for - profits, like those used by former SUNY Polytechnic Institute Alain Kaloyeros before his arrest in the alleged bid - rigging scheme.

Of course, that wasn't in the budget, but Wall Street Rising, along with sponsors like Citigroup and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, did have enough to foot the bill for artists like Cat Power, Buddy Guy, Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams, Aimee Mann, and Ricki Lee Jones.

By taking to the streets in Howard Beach, bashing NYCHA's sluggishness in restoring power and heat in Red Hook, and pushing for lefty favorites like the paid - sick - leave bill, De Blasio is trying to draw a contrast with Quinn as out of touch with real working New Yorkers, beholden to big business, and too close to Bloomberg.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Obama's budget director told CNN's John King the spending bill before Congress right now is «uglier than we'd like,» but insisted the administration had little power to change it - and little choice but to support it, to preserve funding for key White House priorities.

He contended that nowhere in the judgment did the court say «that the National Assembly has the power to increase or insert new items, like constituency projects, into the budget estimates contained in any Appropriation Bill or Supplementary Bill prepared and submitted to it by the President.»

The latest version of the Investigatory Powers Bill has failed to clarify tricky issues like encryption and gives police and security services wide - ranging powers

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

Evolutionary psychologists say that no matter how often masters of our universe like Bill Gates beat their chests, the real secret to gaining power over others is — get this — being nice

The movie's most sublime sequence has Deadpool putting together a superhero team of his own, a quick - cut job - interview montage that allows Zazie Beetz's Domino, Terry Crews» Bedlam, Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist, and Lewis Tan's Shatterstar to cycle through in short order, along with Rob Delaney's Peter — a nonsuperpowered fellow who just liked the sound of the want ad — and the Vanisher, whose invisibility powers prevent him from needing to be played by anyone at all.

«I want, tonight, to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because, like my mother, they had bills to pay and dreams to pursue,» Winfrey said, telling the story of Recy Taylor, and declaring that «time is up» for those who use their positions of power to abuse others.

In a year where 80's retro electronics are all the rage when it comes to the sci - fi throwback realms of «Stranger Things,» leave it to Matthew Margeson to salute to the era's days of sports - ready synth glory with this run down the slope of power - pop electro artists like Harold Faltermeyer, Bill Conti and Vince Di Cola Margeson also layers on inspirational strings for his tribute to The Day's most unlikely Olympic ski champion of them all.

Second, when asked what content, skills, or knowledge are most important, teachers rank the guarantees of the Bill of Rights at the top, whereas concepts like federalism and the separation of powers and key periods like the American Founding fare less well.

And earlier bills gave the U.S. education secretary czar - like power to tell states how to run their education systems, so if it's gone that's obviously an improvement.

Alexander unveiled a Republican draft of what he'd like to see in the law and was holding meetings with moderate Democrats, including former governors who might throw their support behind a bill that gives power over education back to the states, to discuss NCLB.

The filthy rich like Eli Broad and Bill Gates got onboard and it is their money and power which has created momentum and given credence to the sense of urgency.

The back story goes something like this: Malloy came to power; he made it his business to do the bidding of his money masters; to this end, he passed an «education reform bill,» including the Trojan horse blandly known as «the Commissioner's Network.»

According to published reports, in addition to raising money for Education Reform Now, the education reform industry group sponsoring the poker tournament also provides a variety of prizes for tournament participants including seats at the World Series of Poker Main Event, vacations, golf outings, and «power lunches» with hedge fund managers like David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital), billionaire Seth Klarman, Leon Cooperman (Omega Advisors) and Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management.)

Despite formidable opponents like the current President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten, and the current Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, not to mention legions of anti-reformers who prowl the fact - free corners of the internet, Moskowitz has succeeded through her shrewd use of the media, her high - powered network, and unrelenting drive inherited from her Holocaust - surviving ancestors.

My local utility (BGE) has a subsidiary that will add a fee to your monthly power bill and cover things like routine inspections, etc..

You might be too focused on the bigger things like your car loan or mortgage that you don't see how missing your power bill could impact your credit score.

Your other bills like internet and power can fall behind.

The mobile banking app is top - rated for customer satisfaction and includes key features like mobile check deposit, online bill pay and person - to - person payments powered by Zelle.

These works often address exis - tential issues, such as the concept of personal identity in the art of Roni Horn, the power of an emotional outburst in the work of Sam Taylor - Johnson, the expression of psychological states by Bas Jan Ader or Arnulf Rainer, or the confrontation with death and transience by the likes of Christian Boltanski or Bill Viola.

We find sexualized, emaciated women sampled from porn sites intermingled with emblems of power and capitalism: the First National Bank in Philadelphia, doctors who diagnosed women with hysteria, the alt - right, and a cluster of men (Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson) arranged like cherubs.

BILL POWERS — Almost like pre-string theory?

BILL POWERS — It's almost like a blending of morphology and technology.

And for the first time, 20 governments and a passel of billionaires led by Bill Gates announced plans to ramp up long - lagging investments in basic research and development on clean energy — like advancing cheap, extensive battery storage to maximize the potential of solar power, safer nuclear plant designs and even technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In Utah, two major bills incentivizing renewable energy development and purchase passed — politicians there say alternative energy like wind power could be a huge boon for rural areas hit hard by the recession.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

Founder Bill Gross says the company can produce power from solar thermal plants cheaper than competitors like BrightSource Energy, although BrightSource and others use very similar mirrors and towers.

Solar in North Carolina takes about 8 years to pay for itself, while that may seem like a while your power bill will only continue to rise.

While many of the speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday advocated regulation that already has some sort of legs in Congress, like putting a price on carbon and a national renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in the U.S..

Purchasing a share in a community solar project is like making an investment in a rooftop solar system: You are making a payment now in order to save money on power bills in the future.

Like rollover minutes on a cell phone, net - energy metering allows customers to offset their electricity bills with clean energy — such as solar or wind power, for example — and to receive bill credits for extra energy sent back to the utility.

Net metering allows customers to count «behind - the - meter» power production (like rooftop solar panels) against their utility bill, effectively rolling their meter backward.

You quite nicely put paid to some of the pipedream scenarios put out by the EU and people like Bill McKibben that peddle the illusion of total power generation by renewables at reasonable prices.

You see, it works like this, because of an unreliability of grid power, because it saves money on electricity bills, or because there is no electricity grid, people purchase point of use solar.

Earth scientist Bill Chameides, dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a former chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, urges the administration to use its Clean Air Act authority to promulgate carbon regulations for existing power plants like it has for new ones: «Doing that will force fuel switching from coal to natural gas.»

One Bill, Serious Carbon Emission Savings In a nutshell, utility - based green power programs work like this: Rather than have your utility itself generate the electricity you use (most likely from mostly fossil fuel sources), you sign up with a third party electricity producer who uses renewable energy.

Bills, notes, shopping lists, receipts; the list goes on, and though paperless options for bank statements and the like are becoming more prevalent (and you can get wind - powered