Sentences with phrase «power over any proposals»

Mr Leonard agreed with the Scottish government's position that the parliament should have a veto power over any proposals to keep issues at a UK level.

While the city's request has been winding its way through the regulatory pipeline for a number of years, the governor's office has given no indication regarding his intentions in terms of whether or not, as one of eight Great Lake states governors with veto power over the proposal, he will vote to approve the unprecedented water diversion.

Conversation has so far centered on how the need for a supermajority consensus in network decision - making means that any mining pool with enough hashing power holds effective veto power over any proposal, a fact many believe is responsible for delays in SegWit adoption.

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Apparently God inspired his prophets to offer proposals for a new sexual ethic, and correct the waywardness of repressive Christianity, only from the age of rubber goods and great technological power over the bodily functions of man — which was very convenient.

It's part of Labour's proposal to devolve power to metro mayors with control over combined authorities, which already exist in other core cities (Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and could be a key part of the answer in Bristol.

Cuomo has insisted that proposal is aimed at the Legislature trying to assert more power over economic development spending, which he opposes.

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

MPs are today debating Conservative proposals to give councils far more power over how their local communities are run.

At the same time, they are also trying to beat back a property tax cap for the city — supported by Republicans in the State Senate — and to thwart a proposal that would give the state veto power over housing projects in the city that use tax - exempt federal bonds.

That's how the press - critic - in - chief sees the spat as it's been covered between his office and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli over the budgetary powers and pension overhaul the governor is pushing in his $ 132.5 billion budget proposal.

Senate Republicans granted at least one of the de Blasio administration's wishes: it joined with Assembly Democrats in rejecting a Cuomo proposal to subject bonds for housing to approval by the state's Public Authorities Control Board, a maneuver that would have given Albany veto power over a significant slice of the city's housing program.

A source told Capital Tonight that one of the proposals being floated in the negotiations over Senate leadership would be to allow IDC Leader Jeff Klein to retain the power of co-president of the chamber, along with veto authority and a seat at the budget negotiation table.

Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.

Cuomo faced pushback over proposals that would give him more power over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices.

While the administration appears to have backed off part of the Port Authority proposal — saying bill language that would have enhanced the governor's powers over appointees reflected earlier thinking on the subject — the idea of an inspector general for the authority is still alive, much to AG Eric Schneiderman's dismay.

This gives the Legislature a check over the absolute power Paterson was seeking in his FMAP contingency proposal.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

The proposal comes as the mayor and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats, continued to squabble over responsibility for paying for repairs to the nation's largest transit system that has seen growing delays, mechanical failures, power outages and even derailments.

Brown's detailed proposals add to expectations that Lamont will announce next week that Labour will give Holyrood far greater control over income tax rates, cede control over some welfare policies to Holyrood, and devolve more financial powers to local councils.

To the relief of New York City officials, the budget did not include Mr. Cuomo's proposal to give a state agency veto power over individual affordable housing projects paid for with federal tax - exempt bonds the state gives to municipalities.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced pushback Thursday over proposals that would give him more power over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices.

Heastie did not offer details on his negotiations with Cuomo over the controversial education proposals, including a plan to overhaul teacher evaluations and one to provide the state with the power to take over failing schools and districts.

Plans backed by Gordon Brown to increase the Scottish parliament's remit — including giving it greater control over income tax, borrowing powers and criminal justice — are now in great doubt after the Queen's speech made only a fleeting reference to the proposals.

The Land Use Committee is a key panel that approves development projects and has veto power over the Department of City Planning's rezoning proposals.

The proposal says local government administrators should be allowed to manage their own accounts as against the existing policy in which governors exert powers over allocations to local government areas.

Lawmakers balked at the proposal, arguing that it would give the governor too much power over the state's finances.

Mr. Raskin criticized the governor's proposal, arguing that Mr. Cuomo already had power over the agency's spending priorities and its funding in the state budget.

The 2013 - 2014 Executive Budget also includes proposals on two economic policy issues which have been a major focus of FPI's work over the years: restoring the purchasing power of the minimum wage and modernizing the Unemployment Insurance system.

But rather than admitting that the proposals were unpopular, appeared to resile on Tory campaign pledges in 2015, and that the legislative means for securing them was ill - planned, the government responded with a review into the powers of the Lords over secondary legislation.

«This proposal was made with all sincerity and would have allowed us to advance the issue of further powers over Welsh language legislation.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has tapped Brooklyn councilman David Greenfield to be the new chairman of the city's Land Use Committee, a key panel that approves development projects and has veto power over the Department of City Planning's rezoning proposals.

That began with implementing the Smith Commission proposals for full control over income tax, housing benefit and other modest powers — measures the SNP has repeatedly rejected as insufficient and inadequate but will take several years to come into force.

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

Teachers need not endorse any particular viewpoint or policy proposal in the current debate over the availability of firearms to help students explore the power of young people to galvanize public opinion and political support behind issues they care about.

Part of that proposal suggested if Holtz dropped out he would be put in charge of a handful of large school districts and given powers to break apart districts and take over school boards — abilities that do not exist in state law.

One of the most contentious aspects of Governor Malloy's «education reform» proposal was the section granting Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, the power to take over a local district school, ban collective bargaining, fire the staff and hand the school over to a third party who would then be exempt from having to follow Connecticut's laws about competitive bidding and the law limiting the use of consultants.

After he won a second term, though, the Republican instead unveiled a proposal to create a statewide district with the power to take over Georgia's most distressed schools.

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post the link separately since posting a link delays the post

Another education - «reform» - related race: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Michelle Rhee's husband, had a «strong mayor» proposal on the ballot there that would have given him a lot more power over city government — Sacramento contacts tell me that Rhee campaigned hard for it (despite not being registered to vote in Calif but in Tennessee, where her ex lives) and that a charter school run by Johnson was a big issue — I'll post... Read More

Primary schools in England would get more freedom from council control and power over curriculum, budget and hours under new Conservative proposals.

«Publishers would become profitable in short order if entrenched agents and editors weren't allowed to have veto power over innovative proposals, running their jaded, cynical eyes over every hint of freshness, trained in being subservient lapdogs to master strategists holding the keys to the riches,» Shavani argued in the post, pointing out what indie presses and self - published authors alike have experienced: the gatekeeper mentality.

Consolidated Edison's 1962 proposal for a pumped - storage power facility in Storm King Mountain was abandoned in 1979 over scenic and environmental concerns.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

... The media went gaga over France's and the UK's proposal to eliminate the use of internal combustion engines in automobiles by replacing them with battery - powered vehicles (BEVs).

A proposal by Australia's Origin Energy and PNG's Energy Developments envisages building a 1,800 MW hydro plant in PNG and exporting power down to Queensland over an 1,800 - kilometer High Voltage Direct Current power line.

An approach to providing such an independent assessment was proposed half a century ago by Arthur Kantrowitz when experts were disagreeing publicly over the potential safety of nuclear power — «Proposal for an Institution for Scientific Judgment», Science, 156 (1967) 763 - 4.

The DOE directed FERC, which has the final say over power market regulation, to act on its proposal within 60 days.

Fortunately, there is an election coming up this fall where voters can express their views on the Obama Administration's proposal to take effective control over the electric power industry despite their less than sterling performance on health care and veterans» medical needs.

The Alabama Public Service Commission unanimously approved today a proposal by Alabama Power to secure up to 500 megawatts of renewable generation over the next six years.

But those two proposals had one other thing in common, and that was giving some degree of power over the software transition to the miners that secure the blockchain.