Sentences with phrase «presided over cutting»

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He's presided over multiple layoffs, including cutting 18,000 staff in 2014 and thousands in the following years.

Clinton's husband presided over a bipartisan tax cut in 1997 that lowered the marginal rate for the middle class, and raised the capital gains tax.

He had no food industry experience before BK, but he has presided over the sale of BK's company - owned outlets and a significant cost - cutting program.

In those periods when clear - cut ideas of the ministry prevailed pastors and people were relatively agreed on the acceptable answer to the question: By what authority do you do these things, i.e., preach, care for souls, preside over the church and administer the sacraments?

Yeah, I know he has Washington experience, but he has spent the last four years cutting taxes, balancing the budget, and presiding over a state with a lower - than the - national - average unemployment rate.

Caltex is one of a long line of franchisors found to be presiding over rampant underpayment of workers and a flawed business model that has driven franchisees to cut corners including exploiting workers.

Major's former cabinet colleague Norman Fowler — now presiding over the upper chamber as Lord Speaker — recently warned in an interview with this magazine that the Lords could no longer justify its size, and must «stop faffing around» and significantly cut the number of peers.

In prisons, that either means cutting down on the prison population or facing the kind of crisis Chris Grayling has presided over.

He was a crook who curried favor by spreading other people's money around his backyard [literally in the case of his pool cover], presided over ribbon - cuttings that oft times included unveiling something with his name on it - all in the name of serving his constituency.

But the fundamental point is that «devo Manc» is not doing enough if it only offers bits of money and devolved authority to an elected mayor whose role will be to manage more cuts and preside over unsolved structural problems.

All have presided over program and staff cuts.

The fluffy community campaigners can not hide from the fact they form a government presiding over public sector cuts three times the scale of Thatcher's.

«Duncan Smith has presided over years of suffering, and surely ranks as the most hated Work and Pensions Secretary in living memory - epitomising Tory arrogance and indifference to the effect of brutal cuts.

He presided over a sod cutting ceremony for work to start on a ten thousand seater stadium at a cost of six million Ghana cedis.

Is this not the government presiding over a harsh regime of spending cuts designed to restore Britain's balance sheet?

The first New York Grammy Week in 15 years kicked off with a bang, as Mayor Bill de Blasio and Recording Academy chief Neil Portnow presided over a ribbon - cutting ceremony for the organization's new local headquarters: a $ 13.5 million, 1860 townhouse across East 37th Street from the J.P. Morgan Museum.

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion dollars in aid to schools.

In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»

Billy Easton, with the Alliance for Quality Education, says last year, Cuomo presided over a budget that cut $ 1.3 billion in aid to schools.

When in power as part of the Tory - led coalition from 2010 - 15, the Lib Dems voted through a raft of benefit cuts including the bedroom tax, cuts to council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits, as well as presiding over a disability benefit testing system that wrongly denied benefits to thousands of people, and a job centre sanctions system that saw benefits docked for hundreds of thousands of jobseekers.

The Tory - led government cut the rail investment plans they inherited by more than three - quarters of a billion pounds and have presided over two years of dither and delay over vital rail projects and train procurement.

Instead, May has actively introduced policies that cause harm to women's rights and access to equality - from cuts that leave women poorer and more vulnerable, to presiding over the decimation of the support system that keeps women safe from male violence.

All three have already presided over large cuts and without the police, the armed forces or local government erupting.

In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.

We don't know who will win the election but one thing we do know for certain though, is that whoever wins will preside over a real terms cut in education funding during the next parliament.

Instead of investing, he has presided over some of the deepest cuts in history.

The year had begun in chaos after the latest huge budget gap led Schools Superintendent William Hite to preside over another round of deep cuts.

Governor Malloy has already presided over the deepest cuts in state history to Connecticut's public institutions of higher education but now he — and both parties in the legislature — are seeking truly unprecedented cuts in state funding levels for the University of Connecticut, Connecticut State Universities and Connecticut's Community Colleges.

Mr. Ampon Kittiampon, THAI's Chairman of the Board of Directors presided over the ribbon cutting ceremony of the first departure flight TG750 from Savarnabhumi Airport's Boarding Gate D5 to Macau International Airport.

A ribbon cutting ceremony will be presided over by José Napoleón Duarte, Minister of Tourism of El Salvador, followed by photos, canapes and drinks.