Sentences with phrase «of city actions»

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For a whole day, with the exception of the non-stop action in Watertown, the city became a ghost town.

Seattle's City Council voted on Monday to levy a special tax on sodas and other sugary beverages sold to consumers, becoming the latest of several local government bodies across the country to take such action for the sake of public health.

Their heroic actions result in damaged cities and dozens of deaths that create vengeful villains.

The City of Cockburn has continued its attack on the interim report by the state government's Major Stadia Taskforce, flagging the possibility of legal action as part of its next move.

And of all Israeli cities, Tel Aviv is the most vibrant, with more startup action per density than any other city.

The new EEOC guidelines are intended to bring to bear the weight of anti-discrimination law to prevent such practices, even when the actions are based on benevolent reasons, such as assuming that a working mother wouldn't want to move to another city, even if it would mean a promotion.

Taking a page from laws creating sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, a group of lawmakers have submitted a bill that bans California law enforcement from working with federal authorities if they attempt to take action against marijuana grow facilities or dispensaries that operate legally under state law.

Faced with worsening smog in large East Coast cities, the Asian giant has ordered thousands of factories and manufacturers, especially those that burn coal, to shut down in accordance with the government's four - year climate action plan.

«We believe the city council's action should be guided by the over 65,000 Austinites who trust their voice of disapproval will be heard,» a Lyft spokeswoman told Fortune via email.

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Garden City, New York, and San Francisco, California, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of investors and achieved substantial corporate governance reforms in numerous cases nationwide, including federal securities fraud actions, shareholder class actions, and shareholder derivative actions.

A coalition of American states, cities, businesses and colleges have vowed to take action so the country — the world's second - largest emitter of greenhouse gases — meets its commitments to the Paris Agreement.

A group of cities from different parts of the world came together in 2005 to discuss climate action at the municipal level, later becoming a powerful network known as C40.

The ordinance seeks to establish regulation and a permitting process that would enable the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency or Department of Public Works to take action against scooters from companies that don't have an official permit from the city.

Because TRC's offer price is at a price below the current market price, Kraft Heinz recommends that stockholders not tender their shares (i.e., take no action) or, if they have already tendered shares, withdraw their shares by providing the written notice described in the TRC mini-tender offer documents prior to the expiration of the offer, currently scheduled for 12:01 a.m., New York City time, on Wednesday, December 14, 2016.

One might have thought that that would be the end of the matter, but instead Burnaby commenced this action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia seeking a declaration (at para 13) «that the National Energy Board does not have the constitutional jurisdiction to issue an order to the City of Burnaby that directs or limits the City of Burnaby in the enforcement of its bylaws.»

«If the Mayor did have advance knowledge of changes at the Madison location as he has suggested, the city's residents deserve an explanation as to why no action was taken,» Fitzgerald said in the statement.

With the passing of MMRSA in 2015 and the (now removed) deadline of March 1, 2016 for local cities and counties there has been a lot of action in

Kansas City Fed president Thomas Hoenig, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), dissented from the action, saying that the risks entailed in the purchases were greater than the potential benefits to the economy.

The B.C. Liberal government should act now — in partnership with the City of Surrey, the RCMP, and the Fraser Health Authority — to create an action plan to support mental health in Surrey.

In fall 2013, the City of Vancouver faced a mental health crisis and called for intervention from the provincial government — the result was a mental health action plan for Vancouver.

Melanie exemplifies her professional work by living a life of committed action: She is the Nominating Chair and a former board president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation New York City chapter, President of Morgan Stanley GIFT, and Co-Chair of Inwood Charities, among other roles.

Draghi has long insisted the bank would continue to take what it feels is appropriate action to get the eurozone economy on track, and he reinforced that message most recently in August at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - sponsored economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

In addition, recently a judge denied Elon Musk's request to dismiss a class - action suit stemming from TSLA's acquistion of Solar CIty (which is turning into a disaster) against Musk and TSLA's board

Survivors of last week's Florida high school massacre have announced a march on Washington and other major U.S. cities next month to demand tangible action so to prevent future school shootings.

Asa programme of the City of London Corporation, City Action has been connecting professionals with the charities most in need of their skills for over 15 years.

Thank you to Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, Communities and Coal, Ecojustice, and the Cities of Surrey and New Westminster for fighting for what's right.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

Last year, when several cities were taking actions to remove Confederate monuments, Pres. Trump tweeted, «Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.»

Similarly, the action occurs in a fixed place, the Los Angeles Coliseum, but the larger issues of city politics are irrelevant.

The Church of England in its report Faith in the City and in other reports has shown considerable awareness of social problems and some Christians have taken effective and imaginative action to help those in need in Britain and abroad, through bodies such as Shelter, Crisis or Christian Aid.

«The City Council's action today is not the final word,» said Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville and chairman of a group called Stand4MarriageDC.

They are what Jacques Ellul calls «active pessimists» (The Meaning of the City [Eerdmans, 1970]-RRB- They are active because God through Jesus Christ has made the city into a «neutral world» where we are free and where we can find «possibilities for action.&raCity [Eerdmans, 1970]-RRB- They are active because God through Jesus Christ has made the city into a «neutral world» where we are free and where we can find «possibilities for action.&racity into a «neutral world» where we are free and where we can find «possibilities for action.»

Higgins, who is the director of worship and outreach at South City Church in St. Louis, issued a call to action, and at the very least, she sparked a much - needed discussion among evangelicals.

For Billy Graham in 1957 to invite participation at his New York City evangelistic campaign from representatives of all willing churches — thereby, opening up a wide array of ecumenical possibilities for former fundamentalists, new - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important action.

In his modern city hall office we listened as Khalaf alternately boasted of the future West Bank state and deplored Israeli actions that appear to go counter to that future.

I am not surprised by Billy Graham taking defensive action; but I highly applaud the Mayor of Boston and Mayor of Chicago for refusing to allow a Chick - Fil - A in their cities.

Next morning he was back in the city, prepared to carry out an action designed to be the central point of his challenge to priests and people.

It is a grassroots campaign of education, action, and community building observed each year between 30 January and 4 April in a growing number of cities worldwide.

Councillor Toby Neal at Nottingham City Council was quoted by the Nottingham Post as saying: «Whilst respecting the court's decision, I feel the judge has missed the point of us bringing this action, which was to protect people from feeling bullied and intimidated while accessing hospital services - something we don't welcome in our city.&raCity Council was quoted by the Nottingham Post as saying: «Whilst respecting the court's decision, I feel the judge has missed the point of us bringing this action, which was to protect people from feeling bullied and intimidated while accessing hospital services - something we don't welcome in our city.&racity.»

The Gospel of John describes several visits in the capital city, but it has chosen the scenes of action more for their symbolical significance than for their chronological sequence.

The skillful mind and fingers of the surgeon who relieves human suffering, the plodding work of the politician who wades through the mud of political compromise to hold a city or a world together, the honest workmanship of the manual laborer or the creative artist — all of these are more indispensable to the Kingdom than the purest religious intention which will not stain itself with worldly action.

8 Some sense of this may be gleaned from the dedication of The Principles of Natural Knowledge to Eric's memory: «Killed in action over the Forêt de Gobain giving himself that the city of his vision may not perish.

«We Will be a City Upon a Hill,» Ronald Reagan, Speech of January 25, 1974, to the First Annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

The entire account pretty clearly seems to lay the direct action of the destruction of the cities in the hands of God.

To dramatize their commitment to the destitute of a troubled Northeastern city, an action group of a blue - collar United Church of Christ congregation arranged a march from their church building to an ecumenically supported food center.

Several months ago a New Yorker article described the sensation among ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem caused by a Mississippi cattle breeder who noted an unblemished red heifer in his herd, read Numbers 19 and declared that the animal was a sign that the temple must be rebuilt in preparation for the millennial reign of Jesus — regardless of the escalation of mayhem such exegesis in action would heap upon Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy City.

Not only our action but our thought belongs with the world of the city, which in our time means power, culture, art, sex, money, the Jew, the Negro, beauty, ugliness, poverty and indifference.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

At the close of the Aeschylean trilogy, Athena sets Orestes free, and Apollo and Orestes leave the center of the action, and the city, the polis, dominates our attention at the end.

It will look at the «actions, policies and approach» of the former City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority, and the current Prudential Regulation Authority.