Sentences with phrase «of controversial»

What's more, last week's agreement on a sweeping tax - reform measure that included retention of part of the controversial «millionaires tax» showed that Cuomo has a close working relationship with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, a Nassau County Republican.

Affordable New York was lumped in this budget season's «big ugly,» Albany parlance for legislation that's a land mine of controversial issues.

The AP reports that Hearst News Services has announced 89 - year - old White House press corps dean Helen Thomas will retire, «effective immediately,» in the wake of her controversial remarks on Israel at the May 27 White House Jewish Heritage Celebration.

«Today, the state Assembly is poised to debate and vote on legislation (A. 6777) that only gets half the job done when it comes to ensuring parents are informed of their rights and protected if they choose to opt their children in grades 3 - 8 out of the controversial Common Core standardized tests.»

Republican mayoral candidates plan to block construction of a controversial marine transfer station, and truck Manhattan's trash to New Jersey instead, they said at a debate Thursday night at the 92Y.

Ms. Quinn, who has emerged as a leading surrogate for Mr. Cuomo, promised to deliver the pledge — which asks lawmakers across the state to support the passage of all 10 points of the controversial Women's Equality Act, which has died in two consecutive sessions — to Mr. Astorino in Midtown, where he is fund - raising with retired business executive Carly Fiorina.

City Councilmember Rory Lancman of Queens fired off a letter to DOI Commissioner Mark Peters asking why DOI hasn't taken action against the Mayor's Office for blocking access to City Hall documents and computers during a recent probe of a controversial real - estate deal.

Nick Clegg sounded the death knell of the controversial snoopers» charter today, during a radio phone - in show which left listeners reeling.

A grandmother from Orange is among a group of activists headed to jail after getting arrested for protesting the construction of a controversial gas power plant in Waywayanda.

Though the WFP was not without its low points in 2011: the shuttering of its controversial for - profit arm Data and Field Services on Oct. 26 and the loss of WFP - endorsed candidate David Weprin in the NY - 9 special election.

His cronies, those toadying government backbenchers happy to help their leader with a planted question, had raised the question of the controversial benefit cap.

One of these controversial appointments is Ndegwa Muhoro as Director of the Criminal Investigations Department.

He then became something of a controversial figure, with GOP chairs and operatives grousing about his dictatorial management style and — at least once — calling for his ouster.

A measure that would hinder the carrying out of a controversial gun control law in New York on the federal level would be challenged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in court, he said on Tuesday.

Seventy - one percent of those polled said the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, AG Andrew Cuomo, should investigate the financing of the controversial project — even though fundraising has not yet begun in earnest.

Koku Anyidoho, in an interview on Accra - based Happy FM, indicated that President Akufo - Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.

Mr Anyidoho was arrested on Tuesday for comments he made in his criticism of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana...

Although Labour's official position is to support the renewal of the controversial Trident nuclear submarine programme, Corbyn's personal opposition will not be that popular in a constituency where the nuclear industry is a major employer.

Some Ghanaians had also staged a protest in front of the Parliament House to kick against the ratification of the controversial agreement, but...

Cuomo signed the executive order last July in the wake of a series of controversial and fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians in New York and across the nation.

An obscure board controlled by Cuomo and the legislative leaders, known as the Public Authority Control Board, put off a meeting where they would have considered approving nearly $ 500,000 as part of the controversial Buffalo Billion project.

And opponents of the controversial Atlantic Yards project, which includes the arena, regularly ridicule him for being its biggest booster.

Koku Anyidoho, in the interview, suggested that President Nana Akufo - Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.

Many of the controversial initiatives in the PPGG and ELFA bills were removed, either to be considered after the budget, or to be used as a negotiating chip during the last - minute deal - making.

He pressed Schneiderman on the findings of a recent report by Inspector General Joseph Fisch, which detailed a litany of abuse regarding the state senator's handling of a controversial deal to build a racino at the Aquaduct track.

As expected, a number of controversial Conservative manifesto policies were also scrapped from the speech delivered by Her Majesty.

According to reports, NYIA's agenda is the enactment of the controversial Education Tax Credit which benefits private and parochial schools, potentially at the expense of public schools.

Photographs of the controversial politician went viral with many commenters poking fun at him on social medid.

Since 1999, when President Olusegun Obasanjo roasted the National Assembly in the furnace of the controversial furniture allowance, the national legislature has never really recovered its image.

Brooklyn Reps. Yvette Clarke and Nydia Velázquez have penned a letter to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio asking that he reconsider the use of the controversial «broken windows» policing method and review current summons practices.

That being said, when drones are used, as it were, «outside» of war a host of controversial legal questions arises, some of which are genuinely unresolved.

Mr. Wilson buttressed his point with the example of how the late President Mills, supposedly ordered the non-payment of the controversial GHC51 million judgement debt to Alfred Woyome, yet the money was paid by the then Attorney General.

If that had happened, that would have replicated Ekiti, where the people, at least by the result of that controversial election, merrily re-embraced Ayodele Fayose, a past ruin come to plague the present, and poison the future.

Bender served as chief of staff to former Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. and is now executive vice president of Forest City Ratner, developer of the controversial Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn.

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

He led the charge for repeal of the controversial MTA payroll tax — a very hot subject on Long Island and main focus of his successful 2010 bid to oust Democrat Brian Foley.

The Saratoga Springs zoning board of appeals last night approved a plan for construction of a controversial permanent Code Blue shelter on Walworth Street.

In return, the government indefinitely suspended its levy of the controversial BD 10 (USD 27) monthly fee imposed on business owners for every foreign worker they employ.

For those who have been keeping up to date with the inner machinations of the controversial administration, it is concurrently unsurprising that Tillerson has met this fate, and surprising that it has taken this long.

Efrain Gonzalez in a primary), the two have been close allies, with Diaz Sr. emerging as the most outspoken defender of the controversial majority leader.

It's unclear if Gillibrand was asked if she or anyone connected to her might have been the «opponent» who alerted the Times about the existence of the controversial blog.

Kaminsky has in recent weeks been archly critical of the controversial Common Core standards and raised questions after Republicans successfully pushed for a boost in charter school aid the budget and then received campaign support from the pro-charter organization.

Western New York's two Republican members of Congress — Chris Collins and Tom Reed — offered staunch defenses of the controversial order, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.

Although Mrs. Jonathan has been having a running battle with the anti-graft agency, EFCC, over the ownership of a controversial $ 15 million, sources at the commission said the EFCC did not carry out the raid.

The get - together went as well as can be expected for a guy who has a very conservative position about immigration, sent out racist e-mails and made a number of controversial statements about various ethnic groups.

Since then, he has won a series of controversial elections that critics claim he rigged, including one in 2008 which he lost to now Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, sparking political violence that human rights groups say claimed over 200 lives.

The word «trigger» even appeared in the very first paragraph of the controversial government information leaflet — «Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the EU is the best decision for the UK».

Blair has been seen as a divisive figure across Europe because of his controversial foreign policy decisions in Downing Street — most notably over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

This won't be the first of such prophesies emerging from the camp of the prophet as he usually unleashes a flurry of controversial prophecies about major events to happen in every coming year.

Parliament recently gave backing for the implementation of the controversial levy to be imposed on vehicle owners.