Sentences with phrase «of budget battles»

One of the casualties of the latest round of budget battles in Washington may be the U.S Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has from time to time done invaluable work in highlighting threats to this basic human right.

The mayor and the governor spent much of the budget battle at odds over a host of issues — most prominently how to pay for universal pre-K.

The mayor raised the specter of the budget battle dragging out until the end of June, saying he gets indications of where the three sides are headed «every day,» but «next day, there are new indications.»

In the final days of his budget battle with the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened lawmakers with the shutdown vs. extender bills option, saying he felt completely comfortable that he would win in the court of public opinion.

Against the backdrop of a budget battle that's resulted in millions of dollars in cuts to education programs and the closing of state parks, Savage is facing one of the most entrenched incumbents in the Senate.

Someone suggested on TV today that politicians need to get out of the budget battle and allow the «allocaters» to do their jobs.

«It's an issue that could be very contentious towards the end of the budget battle,» DeFrancisco said.

Not exact matches

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

The vote followed a long day of drama and discord on Capitol Hill that highlighted fraying Democratic unity and featured an uneasy alliance between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, enemies in past budget battles but on the same side this time in pushing for passage.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Under McCall's charge, the budget airline beat its earnings target yet again in 2014, with profits of $ 957 million, up 28 %, and the stock price up 11 % even as competitors battled losses in a tough business environment.

The target on the backs of government and political organizations coupled with limited security budgets poses an uphill battle to agency security teams.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

But German deputy foreign minister Michael Link hinted Paris could be fighting a losing battle this time, saying Berlin would continue to press for deeper overall cuts as part of a «modern budget» that prioritises economic growth and competitiveness.

You need to laser focus your efforts on getting the right message in front of the right people at exactly the right time — an uphill battle on the best of days, to say nothing of how tricky things can become if you're on a budget.

It was part of a series of fierce battles punctuated by allegations of voting irregularities that have raised the spectre of a concerted attempt to seize control of Toronto condo boards and their multimillion dollar budgets.

In last week's down - to - the - wire budget battle between the White House and Republican leaders, for example, it was a GOP effort to defund Planned Parenthood — a longtime enemy of Christian conservatives — that emerged as a final stumbling block.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

In spite of this startling statistic and the 40,000 children currently battling cancer nationwide, less than 4 % of the National Cancer Institute's $ 4.6 billion federal budget goes to pediatric cancer research.

California Citrus Mutual is praising the addition of $ 2.5 million to the state's budget to battle Asian citrus psyllids and the huanglongbing disease they can spread.

Dortmund have brilliantly battled with the Bayern machine on a fraction of the budget.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

Roger Kennedy, who battled growing budget pressures and withstood congressional attempts to dismantle parts of the national park system, announced his resignation Monday as director of the National Park Service.

We're unlikely to see him poring over dense regulations, struggling to meet an underfunded budget, lamenting the lack of a real school kitchen in which to cook and store food, dealing with a cafeteria too small to accommodate his students, competing with fast food outlets because of an open school campus, or, most importantly, battling an unyielding Congress for more school food funding.

«But progress is difficult because this is a case of shoestring - budget NGOs battling large, deep - pocket commercial interests and their unfettered merchandising.»

That's because Cuomo has tasked the Medicaid Relief Redesign Team with proposing cuts of its own by March 1 — one month before the April 1 budget deadline (and remember, Cuomo is reportedly willing to risk a government shutdown rather than let the budget battle drag on indefinitely).

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

The last time I recall a concerted push on this topic was 2007 when newly - minted Gov. Eliot Spitzer called out GNYHA and 1199 at the start of that year's budget battle over Medicaid.

AG Andrew Cuomo told reporters today that he is talking «on an ongoing basis» to «many of the parties» involved in the budget battle, giving «advice» and answering legal questions and generally «talking to everyone at every level.»

But Schneiderman also acknowledges he was hamstrung by the never - ending budget battle, which required him to be in Albany while all but one of his rivals worked donors and hit the campaign trail (Assemblyman Richard Brodsky was in the same boat).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has said he favors a three - year extension of New York City's mayoral control law, while the Assembly Democrats pushed during the budget battle for seven years.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has never been one for mincing words, particularly when it comes to women's issues, likened Republican efforts to limit access to abortion in the budget battle to «an old German Nazi move,» and accused her colleagues across the aisle of wanting to «kill women.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is under pressure from the left to call the election ASAP, but he has suggested the race won't be held until after the April 1 budget deadline, leaving the GOP in charge of the chamber for what is shaping up to be a difficult budget battle.

They were engaged in the unavoidable battles of politics, internal and external scheming, framing arguments to ensure wider support for a policy, preparing budgets that facilitated the urgently needed investment.

Lawmakers returning to Washington this coming week will find a familiar quagmire on health care legislation and a budget deadline dramatized by the prospect of a protracted battle between the president and Democrats over his border wall.

The government is facing a tough battle to pass many of its budget measures, with Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers attacking plans to impose a $ 7 GP co-payment, cut health and education spending, and change the indexation of pensions.

«Mr. Bloomberg's hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don't impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer's failed battle of Little Bighorn.»

Cuomo has also made it clear organized labor — particularly the public employee unions, but also the health care sector — will be in the crosshairs during the budget battle, so WFP isn't going to have the easiest time of it next year.

(The battle over New York's budget went into high gear Wednesday as a protest against cuts and the end of a «millionaires» tax» blockaded an entrance to the Capitol for almost an hour.

For the first time yesterday, Cuomo talked at length about the new paradigm created by the creative use of extender bills by his predecessor, David Paterson, during last year's budget battle.

Yes, the party did get Andrew Cuomo to accept its line and moved up from Row E to Row D as a result of his performance in the 2010 election, but there were a lot of strings attached to that agreement — not the least of which was the labor - backed party's silence in the budget battle over the millionaire's tax last year, which is something the WFP would normally be all over.

But if Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver loses his 108 - vote veto - proof majority, the Republican conference will take on a whole new level of importance — particularly during a tough budget battle in which likely Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made clear that everything — including education aid — will be on the cutting table.

Now one of her challenges as governor will be grappling with a state budget deficit that, by her calculation, will be much larger if the courts overturn those reforms after a long legal battle...

The use of the extenders themselves, which Gov. David Paterson successfully used during the 2010 - 11 budget battle, are in a legal «gray area.»

«The Senate continues to be at the forefront of efforts to battle the state's heroin crisis and was instrumental in securing $ 214 million in this year's budget for measures to prevent and treat heroin and opioid abuse,» said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

Another day, another battle brewing at the Capitol — this time over the revenue portion of the two - way budget deal struck by the Legislature, part of which Gov. David Paterson began vetoing last night.

Just because the budget battle appears to have ended doesn't mean legislative leaders will spend the remainder of the 2011 session twiddling their thumbs.

But he's staying out of some of the other high profile budget battles this year.

The other executives — all of them engaged in unresolved budget battles — are under 50 percent.