Sentences with phrase «many failed efforts»

And while he told The Wall Street Journal in December 2013 that the Obama administration was likely to oppose Comcast's failed effort to acquire Time Warner Cable — he was right — he added that a Republican administration would be more likely to approve it.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Not every bid works out, as the failed effort to buy Botox - maker Allergan last year proves.

In papers being filed with the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the restaurant group likened the rule to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's failed effort to curb sales of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces (473 milliliters).

It all started with a tweet to Musk, who had initially posted a video montage of SpaceX's previous failed efforts entitled «How Not to Land a Orbital Rocket Booster.»

Since its failed effort to go upmarket under ex-CEO Johnson in 2012 and 2013, Penney has been fixing its business by bringing back popular in - house brands like St. John's Bay that offer higher profit margins, fixing its e-commerce business, and tweaking its homes goods selection.

He led Comcast's failed effort to buy Disney for $ 54 billion in 2004.

The process behind crafting tax reform was quite different than the failed efforts to repeal Obamacare, Ryan tells CNBC.

Sarasota Herald - Tribune: Environmentalists Say The Changes «Were Tailor Made For Polluters Like Georgia Pacific, Just As Were Earlier And Failed Efforts To Reduce Water Quality Standards On The Lower St. Johns.»

They say the weakening changes were tailor made for polluters like Georgia Pacific, just as were earlier and failed efforts to reduce water quality standards on the Lower St. Johns.»

A closer look, however, yields a much more complex narrative implicating key board members in a purportedly failed effort to identify and manage dubiously disclosed conflicts of interest critically tied to Cypress» executive chairman.

This is after a failed effort to sell its e-commerce business.

Especially since that lie of a name was applied by the Romans after 135 CE, after the Second Jewish Revolt in their failed effort to ethnically cleanse Jews from their homeland.

When have these «many failed efforts prior» occurred?

Home certainly hasn't been where the heart is for Blackpool, who are now aiming to seal their first Premier League victory on home soil at their fourth attempt following failed efforts against Fulham (2 - 2), Blackburn Rovers (1 - 2) and Manchester City (2 - 3).

The failed effort to offer the kinds of foods beloved by adult health nuts — fish, leafy greens and legumes — proved unpopular with the district's 5,100 students over the last year and half.

After decades of failed efforts to improve the lives of poor students, Mr Tough has written a fine and provocative book about the kind of work that seems to be making a difference.

When a compliant young person wonders why his compliance doesn't bring the relationship he desires, point him to the One who'll love him regardless of his failed efforts at goodness.

Meanwhile, Cox has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down — even when anger with his leadership peaked following his failed effort to get Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy onto the gubernatorial ballot at last summer's state GOP convention.

Cox's tenure has been marred by missteps — from his anemic fundraising to his failed efforts to get Rick Lazio out of the governor's race and party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy in — the chairman has not won accolades among rank - and - file Republicans.

In a failed effort to ring fence Ms. Olatoye from losing her post as a result of this lead crisis and other failures of leadership, the de Blasio administration forced Brian Clarke, a senior vice president for operations, and Jay Krantz, a director of technical services, to resign.

Jodi McDade said she saw the allegations as part and parcel with the failed efforts by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies to help Sen. Luther Strange in the primary against Moore.

Also on hand were state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, both of whom backed Turner, a businessman who garnered about 40 percent of the vote in his failed effort to unseat Weiner.

Also, recall that the RNC isn't going to be giving federal Victory funds for the statewide GOTV effort to the state party due to a lack of confidence in Cox, stemming in part from his failed effort to woo party - switching Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy into the governor's race and get him on the ballot.

The Graham - Cassidy bill is an obvious attempt to contain the political damage done by July's failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it should be rejected along with planned cuts to services provided by hospitals for low - income and uninsured patients.»

But his message for national Democrats was undercut by questions about his outspoken support for Governor Andrew Cuomo, an avowedly centrist Democrat, and the mayor's failed effort to help win the State Senate, despite the demographic advantages in New York State.

But in 2015, the Campaign for One New York decided not to register as a lobbyist because the group was mainly focused on launching The Progressive Agenda, de Blasio's somewhat failed effort to make income inequality a central issue in the 2016 presidential elections.

Instead, Paladino was a firm booster of failed effort to draft real - estate mogul Donald Trump to run against incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Rosen was also heavily involved in the failed effort for New York to secure the Democratic National Convention.

In 2001, Nicoletti briefly switched his party enrollment to Republican in a failed effort to win that party's endorsement for mayor.

The committee spent about $ 2 million in a failed effort to unseat Katko in the 2016 election.

Part of that decision might have been the $ 3.6 million the two entities had dumped just six months prior into a failed effort to elect another Democratic councilman from Brooklyn, Domenic Recchia, to the seat.

Catsimatidis also said de Blasio solicited him to donate $ 50,000 to an upstate county Democratic committee that wound up going to candidates the mayor was trying to help win election as part of a failed effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

The measure is a counter proposal to one advocated by New York Rep. Chris Collins (R - Clarence) and Rep. John Faso (R - Kinderhook) as part of the failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

A failed effort to to track shell casings in the interest of solving crimes appears to be heading to legislative repeal.

Cuomo's decision to name senior Blackstone Group official William Mulrow as his «secretary,» or top aide, for his second term is being seen by influential Democrats as a likely - to - fail effort to tone down the confrontational image the governor and his former secretary, Larry Schwartz, earned in his first term.

Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't need to see the Assembly and Senate one - house budgets to know where he stands with each chamber - Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is a close ally of the mayor, his fellow New York City Democrat, while Senate Republicans hold a major grudge against de Blasio for leading a failed effort to boot them from the majority two years ago.

Kink and the May 12 Coalition are calling for the city to «make millionaires pay their fair share» — a push that echoes the failed effort to extend the three - year PIT increase scheduled to sunset at the end of the year.

Murphy's win marked the second straight defeat for former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who spent $ 50 million of her own wealth in a failed effort against Sen. Richard Blumenthal in 2010 and more than $ 42 million this election cycle.

Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.

After several failed efforts to secure official recognition for rapper Christopher Wallace, who also went by Biggie Smalls, New York City's parks department has renamed the basketball courts at Crispus Attucks Playground, roughly on the border between Clinton Hill and Bedford - Stuyvesant, in his honor.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio make enemies in the GOP conference, thanks to his failed effort to help the Senate Democrats take the majority in the 2014 elections.

De Blasio was asked whether it was a mistake for him to campaign on behalf of, and raise money for, the Senate Democrats in their failed effort to re-take the majority, given the fact that it angered the Republicans and made them predisposed against his Albany agenda.

He was one of a handful of Republicans who broke ranks with his caucus rather than risk a government shutdown in a failed effort to defund Obamacare.

It was Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat facing re-election in November, who almost single - handedly revived congestion pricing last summer after decades of failed efforts.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

Gov. Cuomo, almost alone among Albany leaders, has voiced his support, in echo of his father's failed effort to get a convention called the last time New York had a shot, in 1997.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz's failed effort to qualify to seek the post in 2010 should cause the legislature to clarify the standards.

In addition, Rechnitz kicked in the maximum $ 102,300 toward a failed effort, spearheaded by the mayor, to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.

Trump's selection of a secretary of health and human services to replace Tom Price could be a turning point in a health care debate that has polarized Washington, as he faces a choice of working with Democrats to fix the current system or continuing his so - far failed efforts to dismantle his predecessor's program.