Sentences with phrase «passed reins»

The GOP House passed REINS several times during the Obama years, only to see it stripped out or blocked in the Senate.

When Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell announced his resignation and returned to Utah earlier this month, he passed the reins of the Education Department over to Undersecretary of Education Gary L. Jones.

Konami, eager not to give up what is arguably one of their biggest franchises, they decided to move on with the series and passed the reins on to Yota Tsutsumizaki.

Southern died in 2016, having already passed the reins at Atco Ltd. to his daughter Nancy, who became president and CEO in 2003.

While the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, does not often speak about business explicitly, choosing instead to focus on teachings about compassion and peace, he sounded a lot like an aging CEO preparing to pass the reins.

Rachel is passing the reins over to her longtime right hand Jill Hazelbaker, our newly minted Senior Vice President of Global Policy and Communications.

I would prefer to see Enrique manage AFC for a few years and then pass the reins onto TH14, let TH14 be assistant manager.

In a one - page letter to committee members, Miner did not give a reason for her departure, but explained that she wanted to pass the reins before the party convention, where Cuomo will be nominated for a second term, next month.

The business owners were concerned about exit strategies to monetize their years of sweat equity, which could include outright sale or passing the reins to younger family members.

The time has come to pass the reins to a younger, more dynamic leader with a vision for the future.»

Not exact matches

Or perhaps you're approaching retirement age and are ready to pass on your company's reins to the next generation.

1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient - Centered Care 2) Stop the Tax Hikes 3) Reverse Obama's Spending Increases 4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax 5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment 6) Reject Cap and Trade 7) Rein in the EPA 8) Unleash America's Vast Energy Potential 9) Eliminate the Department of Education 10) Reduce the Bloated Federal Workforce 11) Curtail Excessive Federal Regulation 12) Audit the Fed

President Chris Reed's family began wholesale beverage distribution in 1952 and the reins of Great Western Distributing have been passed down from generation to generation.

After Altshuler passed away in 1971, his daughter and company namesake, Annabelle Altshuler Block, took the reins.

Mr Chaney, who will pass the chairman's reins to Richard Goyder at the end of the meeting, told shareholders that the stand - off over corporate tax in Canberra is «symptomatic of a polarisation of political debate that jeopardises common sense outcomes».

For whatever reason, Dallas would intentionally rein in the pass and work to just kill the clock, and so Romo had virtually no high - attempt blowout wins to his record.

That's when O'Brien quickly turned to Savage to lead the way, and didn't pull back on the reins at all — allowing Savage to throw 36 passes in the remainder of the game.

«The governor is prepared to help them with that, but he wants to see them rehabilitate themselves by reining in spending and taxes, by passing an ethics law, by seriously addressing our economic problems.»

Mr. Cuomo declined to criticize Mr. Schneiderman's ideas, but noted that the legislature often takes considerable time to pass bills, given that the Assembly is in the hands of the Democrats while the Republicans hold the reins of the State Senate.

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorsement.

«By all measures, Governor Cuomo's tax cap has successfully reined in property tax increases and — with the reforms passed in this year's budget — the tax cap has been turned into a tax cut.

They use molecules on the bacteria's surfaces as reins, to ride towards host cells, or backstage passes to sneak past the immune system.

Gripping stage bound psychological thriller that grows in intensity with each passing minute and conveys all the agony, anxiety, fear and thirst for revenge of a martyr who's now having her turn on the reins.

Steven Spielberg has passed the directing reins to newcomer Colin Trevorrow for this big - budget sequel, which promises smart velociraptors, genetically engineered mega-saurs and plenty of toothy tourist - munching action.

Steven Spielberg has passed the directing reins to newcomer Colin Trevorrow for this big - budget sequel, which promises smart velociraptors, genetically engineered megasaurs and plenty of tourist - munching action.

Taking over the action man reins from Matt Damon's amnesiac protagonist is Avengers star Jeremy Renner, whose profile continues to rise with each passing film.

Good, then, that the reins have passed from «Hunger Games» helmer Gary Ross to Francis Lawrence — a director with a firm grasp of large - canvas filmmaking, equally skilled at tense, white - knuckle sci - fi («I Am Legend») and bald, unapologetic romance (as evidenced by his excellent yet underseen circus swooner, «Water for Elephants»).

The statehouse was even more eager to see the state take the reins in New Orleans, handily passing an alternative plan (that didn't become law) to take over all schools in the district.

Tennessee's legislature had just passed a law allowing the state's education agency to take the reins of the state's worst - performing schools and either run them directly or hand them over to a charter operator, a move that stood to drain potentially millions of state - aid dollars from the already financially struggling district.

But now the House has passed, and the Senate is preparing to pass, a bill that will rein in the federal government's overweening control of education policy and return much control to states and school districts.

The S5 Sportback is the spicier half of the A5 / S5 duo, but it keeps its horses reined in when it doesn't need to sprint along what passes for the autobahn near Seattle, which is where I came to drive the S5.

The newly - formed Lincoln Motor Company was run at first by Jim Farley, now Ford President of Global Markets, before the reins were passed to Kumar Galhotra in September, 2014.

In order to address widespread abuses in the debt collection industry, Congress passed the FDCPA in order to rein in the tactics of debt collectors.

Or perhaps you're approaching retirement age and are ready to pass on your company's reins to the next generation.

If pass - through tax treatment turns out to be too good to be true, you can expect lawmakers to try to rein in on the benefits.

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (or the Credit CARD Act) was passed in 2009 to rein in deceptive and abusive practices by credit card companies and give consumers a better understanding of the rates and fees they were paying every month.

Supreme Court gives debt buyers a pass from collection law — In a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Monday, debt buyers can collect accounts they own without obeying the federal law that reins in professional debt collectors... (See FDCPA)

These rules were reined in by the early»90s, but by then, the Master System's opportunity to gain a foothold had long since passed.

Unfortunately, when it comes to policies marketed as reining in global warming, protecting the environment, or creating «green jobs,» we have a tendency to make hasty decisions that don't pass the test.

The REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act, which GOP officials have been pushing in Congress since Obama's first term, passed as state law in Wisconsin in 2017.

** Update: Though it has yet to pass in the House, Koch - funded front group FreedomWorks already has a URL in place celebrating the passage of REINS, which popped up via Google Alerts.

But I get too exuberant on the climb up a pass on Interstate 70 and have to rein it in a bit.

Instead, Locke was trying to say U.S. companies must not be put at a trade disadvantage as the United States moves to pass legislation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions that come primarily from burning fossil fuels, the spokesman said.

But since 2013, 14 states have passed legislation to rein it in, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

That is why it is so important that Congress not abandon efforts to pass comprehensive patent reform legislation that will protect productive businesses and rein in the patent trolls.

Today, the Senate passed a bill to rein in «litigation tourism» (HB 4013), where out - of - state plaintiffs file lawsuits in West Virginia courts for alleged harms that happened elsewhere.

However, just like how Satya Nadella took over the reins from Steve Ballmer, even Stephen Elop had to pass on the reins to Rajeev Suri during the sale of Nokia's handset division.

For the past two years, EFF has been pushing Congress to pass legislation to rein in patent trolls.

Next month I pass the presidential reins of IREM to Christopher Mellen, CPM, ARM, of Simon Cos., in Braintree, Mass., as he prepares to become our 2016 president.

Now with bills passed in both the House and the Senate, e-commerce backers are shuffling between the states and Washington trying to rein in record - keeping burdens.