Sentences with phrase «many years fighting»

In a statement on Tuesday, Franken's office reiterated that he would not run, saying the senator would «spend the next several years fighting on behalf of Minnesota families.»

Instead of viewing regulations like those mandated by OSHA as a nuisance (NAM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for years fought against implementation of the original OSHA legislation and continue to lobby against efforts to expand the legislation), Keller came to see them as a blueprint for improvement.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called for a special session of the legislature to censure LePage, who earlier this year fought off an impeachment effort.

Banks have spent years fighting the so - called QM and ability - to - repay rules that essentially banned the most egregious types of loans that helped spark the mortgage meltdown.

Spending the next five, 10 years fighting over pipelines does not seem the best way to do that.

Mr. Kalanick has said that after the company entered China in 2013, Uber burned through about $ 2 billion in three years fighting a price war against the local ride - hailing incumbent, Didi Chuxing.

Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr's wife, spent her final years fighting FOR gay rights.

There were many others who resisted and for 100 years fought bitterly against integration.

I didn't grow up in the church and spent many years fighting against Christianity.

Mother, broken by life, had left the scene; Pearl had called father to a four - year fight.

Those were not fun days: Mother, broken by life, had left the scene; Pearl had called father to a four - year fight.

And I wish you could have known my friend Evangeline, who earned a master's degree in her 60s and was editing the next volume of a Bible commentary the day she died after a 20 - year fight with cancer.

Every year they fight for the right to put up their propaganda along side Christian displays.

So if you add up the appearances of the two teams that came closest to beating Miami, you get a Lakers team that will probably spend most of the year fighting to make the playoffs.

This is the first time in my 10 - year fight against the water project that I have seen a national magazine cover it with no holds barred, reporting the truth of what its ecological consequences already have been and will be.

But now, unless he can somehow get a top striker and top DM within # 50 million, I see yet another year fighting for fourth place

Player careers are short and they can not waste their best years fighting for a top 4 finish.

Year after year we fight hard to finish in the top four but show no desire to compete and the same failings consistently resurface.

As elementary as this seems to be, many anti-democratic elements, or, if you like, pseudo-democrats have embarked on the most repulsive, if not obnoxious, campaign to abrogate the right of Dr Kayode Fayemi to contest as a freeborn, in a country he spent his youthful years fighting for, when many of his current traducers were nowhere to be found in the trenches when it mattered.

You get the feeling that someone like Peres was never a natural leader of Israel — the Polish lilt to his accent, and his limits in terms of military experience, something still so valued in a country which has spent years fighting for its right to exist and still operates mandatory military service, are made much of.

In a landmark ruling that could force a sea - change in the way firms approach their uniform policy, the court found in favour of Nadia Eweida in her six - year fight over the rules.

«Louise fought for years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding, so it was only logical and necessary for Amtrak to rename the train station after Louise, a legend in her own right and a fierce advocate for her constituents,» Schumer said.

They spend billions a year fighting drugs, but now even the Home Office admits it has no idea if it's made any difference.

The Hotel Trades Council has spent years fighting to ensure that gaming jobs in New York State are good, middle class jobs.

«I have spent years fighting for small business owners, family farms, hardworking families and the neediest among us against the corrupt, rigged system that has allowed Albany politicians and their cronies to literally steal from Upstate New Yorkers while destroying our economy.»

Mario Cuomo spent years fighting New York state's minimum drinking age of 19 before being able to sign legislation on Dec. 1, 1985 to raise the legal drinking age to 21, according to the release.

They noted that Slaughter spent years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding for the station.

Today, even those who spent years fighting against Lopez - led County operation and its candidates today expressed a certain sadness at his passing.

If he wants to run for Congress, then let him run in two years and let him either win or lose based on the two - year fight for that seat.»

Mayfield resident Douglas Kampfer, who has spent the last two years fighting New York's SAFE Act — unsuccessfully — in court, acting as his own attorney and funding his effort by collecting bottles and cans, has already filed for a rehearing after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his case, accusing the court of bias against the AR - 15.

After a two - year fight between the small group of residents at a Brooklyn senior citizens residence and the developer who owns the building, a $ 3.35 million settlement was reached this week, paying each of the holdouts — whose ages range from 91 to 101 — more than $ 500,000 but forcing them to leave their apartments by the end of the summer.

Maybe not so soon though as before our 15 years they fought the Soviets for 21.

By Rockland County Executive Ed Day We have spent the last 4 years fighting our way back from the brink of bankruptcy.

Former New Suffolk School teacher Martha Kennelly, who has spent two years fighting with the district that refused to reinstate her when a special assignment ended, appears to have won her case that would force the district to reinstate her and pay back wages and benefits from June 30, 2015, according to the decision written by State Commissioner of Education Mary Ellen Elia.

Women and Equalities is something I have spent years fighting for and this appointment is a great honour.»

But for members of the gay - Irish group who marched in the St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue for the first time, it was a moment to cheer the end of a 25 - year fight to be included in one of the world's largest celebrations of Irish heritage.

he says he had spent 30 years fighting the Conservatives.

Last year we fought and won restorations to Title XX (a federal allocation to New York State) to keep senior centers in our neighborhoods open and I am committed to doing so again in this year's state budget.»

This past winter, Tim Jones had reached the end of his endurance in his 18 - year fight with the Adirondack Park Agency to be able to use the fishing cabin he built on the Raquette River in Tupper Lake.

We have spent the last 4 years fighting our way back from the brink of bankruptcy.

«Rebecca was raised in the labor movement and spent years fighting for Teamsters members,» said George Miranda, the president of Teamsters Joint Council 16.

He spent years fighting local and state incentives that helped expand Destiny USA.

All this years fighting and chasing him.

Oil companies for at least a year fought adding fuels to cap and trade, dubbing it the «gas tax.»

After 20 years of research and almost as many years fighting industry groups in court for control of their data, government scientists can finally publish two papers showing that underground miners exposed to diesel fumes have a threefold increased risk for contracting lung cancer.

Córdova launched that priority - setting exercise knowing NSF has spent the last 4 years fighting off attempts by another powerful legislator — Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), the chairman of the House science committee — to reshuffle the agency's portfolio.

After spending years fighting claims that cell phone use can cause brain tumors, industry reps may be getting some welcome news.

So would I if were 80 years old and had spent the past four years fighting a devastating infection.

have spent almost five years fighting allegations of research misconduct involving data falsification and fabrication in more than a dozen published papers.

Sylvia Asa, once the head of the largest hospital diagnostic laboratory in Canada, and her husband and collaborator Shereen Ezzat, have spent almost five years fighting allegations of research misconduct involving data falsification and fabrication in more than a dozen published papers.