Sentences with phrase «other advocates hold»

At 2 p.m., leaders from Agudath Israel of America and other advocates hold a news conference to discuss the Education Investment Tax Credit, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, outside Senate lobby near the LCA Room, Albany.

The legislation's chief Albany sponsors, VOCAL - NY, and other advocates held a press conference on June 4 to signal their intention to keep fighting until the end of session, but out gay State Senator Brad Hoylman, a West Side Democrat, told Gay City News, «Mayor Bloomberg's opposition makes Senate passage this session very challenging given his strong ties to GOP leadership.

Not exact matches

Michelle Obama will be ceding the title of first lady to Melania Trump next month, but she may hold for some time the other distinction she earned during her time in the White House: America's best known advocate for healthy food.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

What is somewhat discomfiting about Percy as dialectician» and the dialectical is the principal aspect of his fiction, as well as central to his other work, including his interviews» is his seeming inconstancy in holding the advocates of tenderness to account in their various causes, even those separate from euthanasia and abortion, those other causes to which he himself is committed.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

I love free speech but, those in positions of authority who advocate hate, bigotry and acts of violence against others should be held criminally accountable for what they say.

The anti-freedom-of-choice advocates hold to one of them, pro-freedom-of-choice advocates to the other.

Among other well - told strategies for enjoying the results of frugal cooking, Fisher advocates preparing and roasting a large variety of dishes at once, filling the oven with as many pans as it will hold to conserve energy and money.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: «Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estates which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be granted, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.»

But liberal advocates and other Democrats say more could have been done had the party held an outright majority.

Also at noon, advocates from across the state hold a press conference to call on Cuomo and the Legislature to address the overwhelming need for additional resources to promote and support recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions in New York, Western staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

Also at 9 a.m., NYC - based taxi drivers and base owners will join community leaders and advocates to hold a morning vigil that will raise awareness about the Taxi and Limousine Commission's «excessive fees, entrapment, abusive enforcement and other unfair practices that are wreaking havoc to the NYC taxi industry,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., the New York Immigration Coalition and other immigration advocates hold a press conference about the DACA phaseout, outside Trump Tower, 725 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

At a hearing held by the New York State Assembly on expanded voting, advocates argued that New York needs to join more than half of the other states who offer some kind of extended voting.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, along with other officials, held a press conference at the site Thursday night to press the city to halt its plan for mandatory cleaning.

On Oct. 27, the Bronx lawmaker and leader of the five - member Independent Democratic Conference held a press conference With New York City Public Advocate Tish James announcing the results of an investigation into Herbalife, which Klein and others contend is a pyramid scheme.

Cuomo arrived Wednesday evening and held a dinner meeting with Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla and other elected officials, including New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, and Letitia James, the city's Public Advocate.

Also at 6 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Leticia James, Manhattan Deputy Borough President Aldrin Bonilla and others hold town hall meeting on the epidemic of mold infestations in New York City, Taino Towers Gym, 240 E. 123 St., Manhattan.

At 9 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, NYC Public Advocate Tish James and others hold a press conference calling for universal free lunch to be included in the final city budget, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., NYC Coalition Against Hunger Executive Director Joel Berg, NYC Public Advocate Tish James, City Councilman Stephen Levin and other officials hold a news conference to criticize changes in participation of city schools in school breakfast programs; steps, City Hall, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, RWDSU and others hold a press conference and rally to announce the results of a union vote at SJS Car Wash, 1650 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn.

Also at 10 a.m., the Asian American Federation will partner with the Biking Public Project, Transportation Alternatives, and other advocates to hold the E-Bike Rally to Protect Immigrant Food Delivery Workers to protest de Blasio and the NYPD's planned enforcement of electric bicycle regulations starting in January, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

All the while, elected officials, advocates, service providers, and others will be lobbying, holding press conferences and rallies, writing op - eds, and seeking to influence the budget process to their desired outcomes.

The speaker even held a press conference with the mayor of San Juan and other advocates on the steps of City Hall on May 28 calling for Lopez Rivera's release, and then marched in a Harlem parade in his honor two days later.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

Last month's Senate hearing «was the first time there's been a Senate hearing on paid family leave in eight years,» she said, noting that she and other advocates have held talks with representatives from the Cuomo administration over the course of several months.

UFT members from Districts 13, 14 and 17 as well as high schools from those areas heard UFT President Michael Mulgrew speak about the proposed federal education budget cuts, the attack on unions by far - right privatization advocates, the dangers to hard - won benefits if a state constitutional convention is held in 2018 and other pressing issues.

Joined by parents, advocates and other stakeholders, James will hold a press conference about the costs and accessibility of child care in New York City, releasing a report and outlining five policies to help increase accessibility, capacity, and affordability.

He has held leadership positions with the Muscular Dystrophy Association since the 1980s, in which roles he advocated for research and improved care of people with muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases.

To be sure, these accountability measures, which are as much the product of Bush - NCLB as Obama - RTTT, left much to be desired and C3S often argued, at times to the displeasure of other charter advocates, that the accountability to which we were being held was overly narrow and poorly aligned with the needs of a 21st century democracy drowning in real - world problems.

The state Assembly's education committee yesterday held a hearing on the new Common Core State Standards and the related testing — and heard repeated concerns expressed by representatives of school organizations, education advocates and others about the pace of the changes being pressed on schools by the state.

That more than 80 percent of those closures are for reasons other than academic performance raises concerns — among charter advocates and opponents alike — that authorizers are not holding poorly performing charters accountable for student learning; however, Consoletti argues that financial and operational problems often appear before academic data can be gathered.

The Tennessee Educational Equity Coalition holds a unique position to advocate for such students since it represents a diverse group of community members, parents, educators, and other education advocates across the state.

A recent «Houston Chronicle» article stated that the USDE directive was issued after disability advocates had lobbied the federal government to eliminate the modified tests, saying they enabled teachers to avoid holding students with disabilities to the same standards as others.

If these results hold up under scrutiny by other economists (the paper will soon be peer - reviewed), they could prove problematic for school - choice advocates such as U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

In addition they hold others such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in high regard as advocates of justice and belief in one god.

If they believe wrongly (and the behavior of Bogle and many other lead Buy - and - Hold advocates certainly evidences at a minimum a lack of confidence in this model at this time even among its strongest advocates), they need to find this out.

Though, as a group, consumer advocates have not held back their support for Encore Capital's radical move, to date the credit bureaus, lenders, credit score developers and other credit industry players have been more or less silent.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Federal Court of Appeal agreed to hear an appeal by air passenger rights advocate Gabor Lukacs over whether the CTA has the jurisdiction to permit NewLeaf to operate without a licence, arguing that other companies that have operated under similar business models have been required to hold licences.

So we are still strongly advocating portfolios that hold a significant percentage of assets denominated in other currencies.

Chapter Two of Bill Bernstein's book The Four Pillars of Investing offers the best short explanation of why Valuation - Informed Indexing is superior that I have read (the other chapters of the book advocate Buy - and - Hold strategies).

In addition to TNR, there are many other ways people can help feral cats, such as advocating for policies that promote the practice of TNR, providing a holding space pre - and post-surgery for feral cats, fostering and socializing feral kittens, building feral cat shelters, volunteering for an organization that helps feral cats (there are lots of opportunities that don't involve hands - on work), writing articles and letters to the editors for local newspaper and magazine articles about feral cats and TNR, and donating to an organization that helps feral cats.

In other words, the people holding the purse strings have the power, so use the budget process to advocate for better policies!

The pairing of Philip Pearlstein and Al Held at Betty Cuningham Gallery, organized by none other than Irving Sandler — an advocate of their work, among others, since the beginning of their respective careers — spans five decades, from 1954 to 2009.

Do you advocate the sacking of academics who research and hold theories other than the status quo?

Yet I meet others who do hold a fairly naive view of a utopian coexistence between humans and those cute little piggies — and I can't help but feel that this naivety is fueled by some of the rhetoric coming from veggie advocates.

Munby J reviewed the case law and clarifi ed that the requirement for the circumstances to be exceptional was, in his view, appropriate at one end of the McKenzie friend spectrum where one party was assisted by a «professional McKenzie friend», holding himself out as an advocate, but not at the other end (though this could change depending on the circumstances), such as in Clarkson v Gilbert (Rights of Audience)[2000] 2FLR 839, [2001] All ER (D) 317 (Feb) where a husband seeks to assist his unwell wife.

Several presently hold or have held leadership positions within the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and several of our attorneys are admitted to practice law in other states.