Sentences with phrase «officials balked at»

California architect Eugene Tsui first conceived of his 2,000 - foot - tall tower for Oakland, but after officials balked at the idea — it would have dwarfed everything around it — he decided to bring it to Shenzhen, a booming port city in southern China.

He said company officials balked at an agenda that gave them 30 minutes to speak and 30 minutes each to the environmental groups Riverkeeper and Catskill Mountainkeeper.

The political tensions between the village and park district reached a peak this month when village officials balked at a portion of the plan that called for future land donations by developers to the park district.

Not exact matches

But Mr. Sessions has sought to enforce immigration laws as they exist now, and has balked at Mr. Obama's executive actions in internal debates, administration officials said.

Shows like The Crown and The Coronation reintroduce this style of leadership to our egalitarian imaginations, hardwired to balk at any distant or impersonal tendencies in our officials.

In an era when taxpayers are demanding more and more services but balk at higher taxes, park districts are looking for innovative answers, officials say.

Of course, Christie is hardly the only elected official who balked at Stringer's call for the tax on people who work in NYC but live elsewhere.

Trump administration officials and conservative Republicans are also upset that Frelinghuysen voted against the tax cut bill — Trump's biggest legislative achievement — and initially balked at repealing Obamacare.

Helsmoortel said that even after the town agreed to strike a 10 - minute address by Sue Rosenberg, a member of the the Saugerties chapter of the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeliner, company officials still balked at the format.

He balked at the idea of an official portrait — an honor his son gave him in 2014 with a portrait unveiling in the Hall of Governors on the Capitol's second floor.

But Supervisor Frank Petrone and board members Mark Cuthbertson and Susan Berland balked at the proposed amendments, citing their preference that all elected officials be included in the proposed law.

Because this is the first object of its type to be found, there are as yet no official rules for naming it, and its discoverers have balked at suggesting anything besides «Interstellar.»

At first, the hospital officials balked, but Colizzi finally obtained spreadsheets of the clinical records and discovered amazing exculpatory information.

Had states not been given the option to set any standard they wanted, many state and local officials would have balked at excessive federal control.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

That Australian coal mine may have official approval, but almost every big bank in the world has balked at providing it the billions it would require.

Otherwise, it seems entirely possible that the more senior official that you say is responsible for the budget just balked at the bill.