Sentences with phrase «marshal support»

Under the program, NAR provides issue advocacy ads and technical assistance, including on - the - ground field workers, to help local practitioners marshal support for a candidate.

Local communities have been doing great work in assisting them and a growing number of religious leaders are using their influence to marshal support, making the case that we should welcome them rather than turn them away.

His campaign has flooded the airwaves with ads asking female voters to cast their ballots in support of the Women's Equality Party, the new party line he created to marshal support for the Act.

He noted that the members of the IDC all support the act, leaving it just two votes from passage, even with an incoming Republican majority opposed to the measure — and he pointed to Mr. Cuomo's ability to marshal support for same - sex marriage as a model for overcoming that hurdle.

In the letter, Jolie Milstein, president and CEO of the association, raised questions about whether union leader Gary Labarbera can marshal support for the plan among member unions, and whether the council is also willing to accept concessions on benefits, according to the newspaper.

(Long was joined last night by the Republican operative Lynn Krogh, who helped marshal support for Rick Lazio at the convention in 2010.)

Ken Mehlman, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush's re-election in part by campaigning on a constitutional ban on gay marriage — and then came out as a gay man himself — helped marshal support among recalcitrant factions in Albany.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

The Albany Times - Union revealed that Percoco was trying to marshal support for the administration while it was under federal investigation for prematurely shutting down the Moreland Commission, and was encouraging people contacted «to communicate with him through private email messages rather than through their government email accounts.»

The de Blasio administration is scrambling to enlist influential elected officials — like Brooklyn BP Eric Adams — to marshal support for the mayor's plan to open 90 homeless shelters across New York City.

Posing as a victim of an anti-communist witch - hunt (and invoking his wife's fragile health), he marshals support to save his job but reveals his squalid character.

Knowing that the state Constitution empowered the Legislature to fill the slot, Silver strung Spitzer along but eventually chose one of his own assemblymen, Tom DiNapoli, and marshalled the support for his appointment.

At the same time, Cuomo is marshaling the support of women's groups and organizations to not just promote the agenda that has stalled in Albany, but drive turn out among women voters.

In 1974 he succeeded Britain's Sir Stanley Rous to be elected Fifa president, marshalling support among those unhappy at the perceived European domination of the world governing body.

NEW DELHI — India served notice on Sunday that it remains opposed to legally binding targets to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, digging in its heels against the United States as the Obama administration begins marshaling support for a new global agreement on climate change.

Not exact matches

It begins as a hysterical screed — with Lusk name - checking the Gestapo, Hitler, Mao and Stalin — and ends up a nuanced critique marshalling convincing evidence that many totems of the foodie world are propped up with shaky supports.

The senior senator from Massachusetts has led the fight for tougher regulations on Wall Street, and she has an uncanny knack for marshaling public support for such an esoteric project.

Same thing if you attempt to debunk the facts that the other person has marshaled to support that belief.

This nationalist discourse — Bob White declaring that he would «wrap the fucking flag» around himself to fight for union jobs — contrasted with an American localism that was ineffective in marshalling political support to stem the tide of rust.

Despite a poor start he eventually went on to marshal the whole country's support behind the federal relief and reconstruction effort.

Mather wrote a huge commentary on the Bible, Biblia Americana, in which he marshaled such patristic writers as Origen, Basil, and Augustine in support of a «spiritual» as well as «literal» interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis.

The American Principles Project (APP) released an important new report yesterday that marshals data showing a majority of Americans support policies held by social conservatives.

Miller marshaled an impressive array of biblical citations to support his claim and could apparently argue his point persuasively.

The several reasons are marshaled systematically in support of the conclusion that «memory is the clearer case, and should be studied first» (CSPM 75).

It might seem that Darwin's arguments for human sociability and the moral conscience could be marshaled to support a conservative moral position.

The Christian faith in the transfiguration of the world in Christ may thus be marshaled in support of a global and ecological consciousness.

The evidence Phillips marshals in support of his thesis is convincing and disturbing.

As far as they go, the «story» of the resurrection and the formal evidence marshaled to support it tend to sustain this view.

The entire account of the Fall of the angels points to that conclusion: that the decision for or against God starts with an interpretation of God and then all the evidence of the outside world is marshaled to support that conclusion.

As well as being a member of the club and enjoying cycling Paul gives back to the cycling community through volunteering at events, supporting club activities in his role as chairman and as a CSAS marshal.

Wendland has a longstanding interest in the entanglements of evidence and ethics in obstetrics: how people marshal evidence selectively to support ethical claims and «common - sense» conclusions about appropriate and inappropriate practices.

One lesson from this is that, with the prospect of a sufficiently powerful external threat, public support can often be marshalled for what was hitherto considered wholly unthinkable.

Although Lindberg marshalled a large dataset to support his conclusions, his findings have remained controversial.

Opponents of gay marriage in Scotland are being marshalled to vote out politicians who supported the measure, in a coordinated election strategy which could unseat up to ten MSPs

For years, the Working Families Party has played an instrumental role in helping rally liberal support for candidates including James, executing get - out - the - vote operations and marshaling volunteers.

President Donald Trump, after a halting start, is now marshaling the full power of his office — and the salesman tactics he sharpened over several decades in New York real estate — to win over holdout conservatives and waffling senators to support the House Republicans» replacement for the Affordable Care Act.

But Nixon would likely try to marshal the advocates who never supported or have been skeptical of Cuomo over the last two terms.

After marshaling statements of support from the Legislature's Republican majority leader, Melissa Bonacic, two Republican town supervisors and DeStefano himself, he issued a press release lamenting that Turnbull had «gone negative» and claiming Turbull «has put forth no original ideas during his tenure as a Legislator that have helped the taxpayers of Orange County.»

Debunking (L.) Brent Bozell (I did see his name on one Media Matters item) or his Uncle William F. Buckley, Jr. (maybe on a basic premise; but hardly on the facts marshalled in support of a Buckley premise) would be another matter.

In 2000, Kevin again marshaled broad community support for his Canal Conversation, a two - day public forum on the Erie Canal, waterfront development, and cultural tourism.

Miller said that while NARAL NY continues to support the other nine agenda items, her organization needs to marshal its energies for the coming battle.

«Charlie fully intends to run and serve out his term, and those rumors are nonsense,» said Bill Lynch, who has been marshaling laborunion support for Rangel.

Scriba, N.Y. — Central New York lawmakers are trying to marshal public support to save the struggling FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Oswego County, which owner Entergy Corp. has said it might close.

The apparent success of a strategy to marshal congressional support for the deal, linked to a carefully orchestrated rollout of endorsements (although Democratic Senate Whip Dick Durbin and other officials disputed the suggestion of coordination [445]-RRB- was attributed to lessons learned by the White House and congressional Democrats during struggles in previous summers with Republicans, in particular, over Obama's health care legislation.

Castro said he is used to being out of the good graces of the Bronx County Democrats and expects not to have any union support, often key to marshalling votes in Democratic primaries.

In any case, the question is not whether Wolfe dismisses Darwin and Chomsky unfairly, but rather whether he marshals sufficient factual evidence to support his central claim.

The writer Elaine Morgan championed it in her book The Aquatic Ape, and developed the hypothesis further, marshalling a seemingly impressive range of characteristics to support it, including breath control and diet.

Rather than seek to marshal public sentiment, or even quite build public support, all sides have wanted to claim a preexisting bedrock of widely shared attitudes backing their favored policy outcome.

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Tommy Lee Jones, who seems to now be typecast after The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals as the guy to hire to track down criminals, ir sorely wasted in a supporting role as the down - and - out parole officer.