Sentences with phrase «political hit he took»

Cuomo pushed through the measure in January 2013 and has since touted the political hit he took in the wake of the law's approval.

Not exact matches

Superman — who doesn't have to worry about hitting his head on a glass ceiling when he takes that single bound — carries no such political freight.

But the company was hit by regulatory and political scrutiny in the past year over its drug pricing and its relationship to a mail - order pharmacy, and its stock took a beating.

«When we took [highly political former Rage Against the Machine guitarist] Tom Morello through and he gave it a thumbs - up, we knew we hit something.

Jude Law's political, edgy take on the holy father of the Roman Catholic Church — HBO's miniseries The Young Pope — was a critical hit.

And did they ever, releasing a statement slamming Donovan's hit as «the empty rhetoric of a Republican political machine hack who cavorted with convicted felon Bernie Kerik and took money from groups tied up in the mob.»

(there is a strong chance it will never happen, but we are taking a big political hit on it).

But Cuomo said he had taken a political hit of his own in rural areas after passing the SAFE Act, a controversial gun control law.

The fact is I have seen it but not all yet though, I enjoyed the late Prez Mills as my best political friend who thought me how to stand and fight and defend my principles, from all indications there's nothing more for me to yearn seeing, I will hit my 39th birthday this 28th August and I think is time for me to take a rest with my political struggle, I am not bowing out though.

It is true that the Prime Minister is re-inventing the political knighthood, and that the collapse of Lords reform opens up the prospect of more peerages, but patronage has taken a hit, and Downing Street has come late to using what it has.

Following a series of storms that wreaked havoc and caused long - lasting blackouts, political officials assured the public that extra precautions were being taken in case the worst - case scenario hit Rockland and the region again.

His profile took a hit recently when a federal judge castigated him for his ubiquitous media presence and sweeping statements about the «culture of corruption» in Albany, but no one in political circles is more feared.

«It's a shame County Executive Dinolfo took over a month to apologize to her fellow citizens that were treated as collateral damage in a botched political hit job.

In other words, when the Assembly is blasted for a late budget or political gridlock, and Silver willingly takes the hits from the public, he's in a sense sacrificing his own public image and protecting his members, who escape such attacks.

Former city Comptroller John Liu's political aspirations took a big hit last week after he accepted defeat at the hands of state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside).

Mondello acknowledged that the image of Nassau Republicans has taken a hit because of a series of political indictments, that include former Oyster Bay Commissioner of Planning and Development Frederick Ippolito, who pleaded guilty last year to federal tax evasion and was sent to prison, and Hempstead Town Councilman Edward Ambrosino, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month to federal tax evasion and wire fraud charges.

He hit up Carolina Fest, a large political street festival which took place on Monday.

Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz, was even more skeptical that politicians would take a hit.

People often comment that Brexit and the US presidential election have proved so divisive that it feels as if smart and civil political debate has taken a hit.

The political motivations of the three surviving members of the Abrasax family (whose name is a Santana album title, with two letters interchanged) are never properly explained, while Eddie Redmayne's Oscar campaign for his brilliant work in «The Theory of Everything» takes a huge hit thanks to his god - awful performance here as the conniving Balem.

If PISA and TIMSS confirm the stagnant trend in U.S. achievement, expect CCSS to take another political hit.

Hopefully it will be warmly embraced by young and old, rich and poor, male and female, black, white, brown, yellow, or of whatever orientation — religious, political or any other differentiating metric you like — and will be a mega hit, enabling me to infuriate my critics as well as the angry throng of clowns that continues to congregate on my front lawn once I've had a few pops to take the edge off (and don't tell me we haven't all been there).

So maybe TEN starts up on time without a hitch, maybe production hits 100 K bopd net next year, maybe the oil price doubles, maybe Tullow can slowly dig itself out of this hole... But who knows, the oil price may take another sub - $ 30 dive, TEN may suddenly hit a disastrous production (or political) issue, the lenders may finally lose patience and / or force a horrifically dilutive equity raise on Tullow, short - sellers become more aggressive, whatever... Time will tell, but my price target stands right now.

«4 Depicting the explosion of United Airlines Flight 175 as it hit the South Tower, Storr's essay describes how Richter's painting raises and encapsulates many of the complex geo - political issues that the attacks provoked, as well as the horrendous realities of those whose lives were taken away or affected by them.

Media will take a harder hit, because they have given no time to the so called «Denialists» who have only been seeking to restore balance to a debate so over compensated by political forces and media forces with an agenda.

While the public health system has clearly taken some heavy hits in this Budget, Medicare has previously proved more resilient than many have predicted, outlasting much longer acrimonious political environments including eleven years under John Howard's Prime Ministership.