Sentences with phrase «local fights with»

Moskowitz has shown uncharacteristic restraint in recent months about getting mired in decidedly local fights with City Hall about space sharing arrangements with district schools, and she speaks openly about spreading the gospel of Success outside New York City.

To many, the thought of people in a town of just over 82,000 — in a county of only 200,000 — taking on the fossil fuel industry in a local fight with global implications might sound a little, well, ambitious.

Not exact matches

One tribal elder, Juma Gul, told the Times that «the Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children... there was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.»

here is the week surrounding Sept. 21, when the city celebrates the start of the annual grape harvest with its San Mateo festival, featuring parades, local music and, of course, a bull fight.

An area judge had stripped college students of their right to vote in local elections, and Sanders signed on with the ACLU to fight the ruling.

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

The video had used an interview Hogg had done over the summer with a local news station in California about a fight between a lifeguard and a swimmer as «proof» that Hogg was a «crisis actor.»

In return for those payments, funded with foreign aid, Hanafi worked with local officials in Nangahar province to try to lure other militants away from the fight.

«The association between Wallace and the local area is quite well documented, with Wallace using guerilla tactics to fight the English from the Ettrick Forest, and the Scottish nobles made Wallace Guardian of Scotland in recognition of his military successes.

During their time in Santo Domingo, they were deeply impressed by IJM's work — namely, the organization's cooperation with local officials and churches to better engage in the fight against the nation's booming sex trafficking industry.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

Taking stands in the local community — and doing so in a Christian way that refuses to fight hate with hate — will be difficult and at times risky.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Thus, tragically, the very sense of local community over which (in part) the war was fought, with its attendant opportunities for friendship and communication between white people and Negroes, foundered and perished.

But goals are also needed defining the next step which needs to be taken in any given area of human activity, whether it be in the local schools, in dealing with poverty, in fighting pollution, in combating racial discrimination, in ending the war in Vietnam, and so on.

Two weeks ago, after a fight with his wife, he had gone to a local bar and begun drinking.

After heavy snow fall in the area, he's been clearing sidewalks around an elementary school, explaining to a local news station, «I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves... The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer.

For example, if there's not immediate fighting, we can do more training of local relief teams or more educational things with the kids.

I agree with not supporting horrible practices of animal agriculture, and you can actually help the fight against animal cruelty by spending your money on well sourced meat by local farmers who treat their animals right.

WRAP, the food waste experts that work with governments, businesses, local authorities and consumers to reduce waste, is calling for everyone to «unite in the food waste fight.»

The cooking school brings national as well as locally - acclaimed and beloved chefs to work directly with customers, and Southern Season's Share the Food non-profit foundation, a program that fights hunger and poverty, works with local charities to reach the hungry in the local store community.

After a huge fight last weekend with the resident chipmunk who likes to sample my heirlooms (little stinker), I couldn't resist these local beauties and grabbed some with the intent of making tomato jam.

Notoriety helps to win the primary and he has that due to his fight with Garcia and his local following.

With the spirit and mood around the camp generally low at this moment, it is imperative that the local talent grab the torch and keep the fight alive which is why Lingard will once again prove crucial to the Red Devils getting a result on Saturday.

If formations won you the game by virtue of merely lining up in them, you could afford to staff your team with the best talent from your local kindergarten and still be in with a fighting chance.

His young mind just thinks mommy / daddy is leaving... (IMO) After this fight we worked hard speaking with midwives and more experienced parents (FTM) to make this solution which works for us: 8:00 pm dinner 8:30 pm bathtime atleast 30 mins worth of play 9:00 pm dry off and last drink (milk with local honey (during teething we add chamomile per midwife's suggestions) 9:10 pm complete blackout besides one light in kitchen to be able to see bedtime storys and lullyby 9:30 pm he is out for the night.

Fighting this problem top - down, starting with the legislature (local and national) is NOT working — not alone, anyway.

If you have questions about your kids» fighting, talk with your doctor, who can help you determine whether your family might benefit from professional help and refer you to local behavioral health resources.

Support your local, small businesses by joining with us in this fight.

Slaughter said she is fighting to stop bad foreign trade deals, expand advanced manufacturing, and is working with local universities.

The fight to reclaim our state starts at the local level with the help of grassroots activists fighting on the frontlines,» Nixon said.

Coffey was on Long Island yesterday — ground zero for the property tax relief fight — where he met with veterans, small business owners and local Democratic leaders to discuss taxes and reform.

Corona has been singled out as having the highest rate of childhood obesity in the city, but City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) joined with local business owners and a new coalition last Thursday to say Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban is the wrong way to fight it.

In an open letter, signed by Clive Lewis and Jon Cruddas, they argued that cooperation with other progressive parties at last Thursday's local elections could have tipped the balance in close - fought councils, just as it could have delivered a Labour - led government in 2017.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

«We're going to fight for FitzPatrick's jobs, and we need Governor Cuomo with us,» said Gary Toth of Carpenters Local 277, an IDA board member.

The local fight over taxes on the rich is also a warm - up act for an intramural Democratic debate that Hillary Clinton will need to contend with next year.

It was fought on local issues and this message resonated with local people.

According to local officials and the US mission in Juba said on Sunday, Christopher Allen, a freelance reporter and photographer, was embedded with insurgent troops when fighting broke out in Kaya, near South Sudan's southern border with Uganda.

Mr. Romaine said although he's pleased with the court's recent decision, he believes the fight isn't over because the next step would be local municipalities and business owners getting reimbursed from paying the tax over the past few years.

Lives will be saved with $ 16 million in state funding for Western New York to fight the heroin and opioid crisis, officials predicted Thursday afternoon, hours after leaders of towns, villages and cities from across Erie County convened in Williamsville to talk about how to react to the crisis at the local level.

She now works as an activist to fight corruption and help the poor and disenfranchised with a variety of local community programs, including The Community Pantry, a food pantry in the town of Middletown that serves about 500 local families.

On the local level our goal is to keep them alive and connect them with resources — at the state level my goal would be to support that local initiative while working on long - term fixes including in - patient service funding, policy pertaining to the amount and flow of opioids while supporting law enforcement in their fight to keep it from trafficking and sales in our communities.»

«We are delighted to have a local candidate of Andy's calibre to fight and challenge Labour for Bolton South East and we all look forward to working with him to give the residents a real and credible alternative to the Labour Party candidate.»

With Westminster obsessions such as antisemitism within Labour never mentioned, according to Grant, the fight is largely being contested in one area: austerity, or more precisely, how national cuts are affecting local services.

«We think we have a very different set of circumstances here with the age of the building, the fight that went on for a long time, the amount of jobs that we'll be putting back into the marketplace downtown and our commitment that those jobs are local and to the city,» Riley said.

Steven has also led the fight to defeat a local option sales tax hike in Dorchestor County, which was defeated with over 67 percent of the vote.

The measure is a perennial political fight between trial lawyers and labor unions on one side, with business groups and local governments citing the law adding to New York's difficult business climate.

The fight against benefit fraud has contributed to this complexity and poor local administration, with the Verification Framework identified as particularly complicating.

Traditionally, they avoided picking fights with Republicans on the local level because they represent the counties, municipalities and non-faculty positions in the school districts.