Sentences with phrase «new political boost»

¦ We have to give a new political boost to completing the internal energy market.»

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The new plant — in a state Trump won by 28 points in 2016 — could be a political boost to the Republican president, who has urged automakers to build plants in the United States and add jobs.

This constitutes a major challenge for the EU, but has the potential to set off a new phase of prosperity in Europe, boosted by larger market efficiencies, higher economic and political stability and stronger economic growth.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

After de Blasio did just that, crafting a plan backed by the Real Estate Board of New York, Cuomo dismissed it, complaining that it came too late and didn't boost wages for enough laborers, and that de Blasio didn't understand the political dynamics of Albany.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo's plan to boost voter registration in New York is meeting resistance from city lawmakers who fear it will reduce the Big Apple's political clout, the Daily News has learned.

Cuomo's plan to boost voter registration in New York is meeting resistance from city lawmakers who fear it will reduce the Big Apple's political clout.

These are the kind of initiatives that political consultants think of as doubly gilded for the governor: They're helpful for reelection in deep - blue New York, and they also boost important constituencies for any potential primary.

NARAL Pro-Choice New York on Thursday released a TV ad airing in the Albany market aimed at boosting the 10 - point women's agenda, a package of measures Gov. Andrew Cuomo revived talk of at a political rally earlier this month.

Much of that spending went toward consultants and public relations firms, which were attempting to boost the mayor's efforts to secure funding for a universal pre-kindergarten program in Albany in 2014, and toward the mayor's effort to set up a new nonprofit geared toward advancing his national political platform.

Within a span of just five days, Teachout's long - shot Democratic campaign won round one of a legal battle with Cuomo over her residency, though the governor is appealing the Brooklyn judge's ruling; got a much - needed infusion of some $ 50,000, thanks to a boost from the political action committee of Harvard law professor and leading campaign finance reform advocate Lawrence Lessig; and announced an endorsement from the Public Employees Federation, New York's second - largest public union.

Proponents of the Martin Act have noted the high rate at which financial crimes are prosecuted in New York; opponents have argued that the law has been used by attorneys general to score political points and boost political profiles, and that it's been used improperly due to the broadness of the statute.

A publicly - financed Fair Elections system would reduce the impact of large campaign contributions in New York's political system and boost voters» voices in elections by allowing candidates to run for office with small, in - district donations.

Combine those issues with rising pressures to boost school funding, reform the criminal justice system, address the minimum wage rate and pay for a new Tappan Zee Bridge - well, it's a recipe made for behind - the - scenes deal - making in a Capitol where trading political chits has become an art.

That surprise reversal can be attributed to at least four factors: a wave of new research on teacher quality, philanthropic interest in boosting teacher effectiveness, efforts by advocacy groups and policymakers to revamp state laws on evaluation, and political pressure to dismiss poorly performing teachers.

-- A new law to boost charter schools in Texas followed a surge of political contributions from employees and board members of charter school operators.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

Newspapers were filled with concerns over stock market valuations, debt levels, a coming boost in fiscal stimulus driving up inflation, and political risks from a new presidential administration.

The alternate path — decentralized and entrepreneurial — attempts to boost the political economy that Dayo Olopade writes about in her new book, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.

Chinese negotiators at Copenhagen may resist political commitments, but the government is already subsidizing new technologies to boost the economy and be sustainable.

, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has now admitted that those lawyers dominate state politics and he is powerless to push through a popular reform bill that actually could boost redevelopment efforts... → Read More: Cowardly NY Governor Admits Political Impotence, Calls Trial Lawyers «Most Powerful» Force in State