Sentences with phrase «proposal as a threat»

The Democratic governor is effectively using his proposal as a threat to compel the Republican - led Senate — which has voted down two measures in recent weeks giving the attorney general the ability to review instance where civilians die during police interaction — into passing his police monitor measure.

Senate education committee chair John Flanagan told Capital last week that the receivership plan would be a «lighting rod,» particularly because he expected pushback from other unions that would see the proposal as a threat to collective bargaining rights writ large.

But some prominent academics, especially in the social sciences, saw the proposal as a threat to the French language.

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Australia's largest organic certification agency, Australian Organic, has branded the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources» proposal for the mandatory fungicide spraying of some imported crop seeds as a threat to jobs, growth and investment.

Long Island immigrants facing the threat of deportation soon will have a new resource to aid their defense, as Hofstra University's law school is opening a clinic to help some make their cases before immigration authorities and to craft proposals that could influence the policy debate.

Dicker, the veteran state editor for the New York Post, has been a consistent booster of Cuomo and serves as a useful clearing house for Cuomo's proposals, personnel decisions and political threats, which often appear first in Dicker's column as lightly attributed offerings of sources close to the governor.

For example, when WROTB viewed a Seneca Nation proposal for a Rochester area casino as a competitive threat, Wojtaszek said Aronow's work helped thwart the effort.

«While the climate in Washington and the proposals of the Trump Administration present a grave threat to our success — and in fact the success of the entire city — we will continue to work with committed partners at every level of government, as well as our allies in the business community, to continue to bring positive growth and economic success to The Bronx.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued harsh language and a pointed threat Wednesday, as he fights a proposal to create an inspector general to oversee the New York City Police Department.

Skelos and Cuomo strongly opposed that proposal as sending the wrong message to employers and a threat to drive more wealthy New Yorkers out of the state.

He went on to say that while he was against proposals to extend air strikes to Syria, he could not «in good conscience» endorse the view of the Stop the War Coalition, who he described as «fundamentally wrong in their assessment and understanding of the threats the UK faces.»

The profound lack of knowledge about public education, as reflected in comments about public schools being «flush with cash» and badly underserving the nation's children, coupled with policy proposals based on these «alternative facts», pose a threat to a high - quality education for more than 50 million students.

Unions see the proposals as an attack on the performance of teachers in traditional schools as well as a threat to their workplace rights because the proposals could reduce union contract provisions.

First I asked him about the merits of the «sea ice refuge» proposal of Stephanie Pfirman and others as it relates to his new paper in the journal Nature on good prospects for polar bears if warming is slowed and other threats to the species are controlled:

Krakowski and Wilson go into a lot of details on proposals to make that as safe as possible and reduce the threat of terrorists or rogue states getting hold of the intermediate plutonium.

In the day's other threat to the commercial whaling moratorium, Japan introduced its small coastal whaling proposal, as it has done on numerous occasions since the 1980s.

The first proposal originates from the unique situation posed by Hurricane Sandy; it would give the NHC the option to continue issuing formal advisories on post-tropical cyclones as long as those systems pose a significant threat to life and property, and it would give the NWS the option to keep hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings in place for those systems.

But though John McCain actually had a cap - and - trade proposal in 2008, Republicans eventually turned on cap - and - trade — Sarah Palin's first post-election op - ed was dedicated to decrying «cap - and - tax» as «an enormous threat to our economy...»

Notably, in the face of the sustained, severe threat to marine life posed by ocean acidification, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), regards proposals to mitigate ocean acidification directly as a «threat» to biodiversity.

Winnowing down a list of possible culprits will be extremely difficult as tourism on the islands has flourished over the past few years; indeed, following calls for stricter controls by the UNESCO, Ecuador is now seriously weighing proposals to limit the amount of tourists flooding the Galapagos.UNESCO placed the Galapagos on its list of World Heritage sites, citing the threats posed by invasive species, tourism, immigration and illegal organ trafficking.

Experts from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) are able to speak to the need for a clean DREAM Act, without tradeoffs that further criminalize and marginalize immigrant communities, as well as proposals on the floor and the threats they pose to immigrant communities.

As a first step, she is writing a proposal for funding through the Real Estate Foundation of B.C. to develop an on - line training video for real estate agents and developers that will educate them to the potential threat of the weed.

NAR advocates for responsible tax reform that provides the best opportunities for economic growth and job creation, and views these proposals as significant threats to real estate.

This provision is under threat by the current spate of tax reform proposals — in their discussion drafts, Senator Baucus, former Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, proposed repealing it, as did Chairman Camp of the House Ways and Means Committee, and the President's proposal suggests capping it at $ 1 million.