Sentences with phrase «public battle earlier»

In a highly public battle earlier this year between the Koch brothers and libertarians at the Cato Institute, some Cato employees didn't want their work to become what David Koch calls «intellectual ammunition» for other Koch fronts like Americans for Prosperity.

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The new tool is based on an earlier one that the company tested out in fall 2011 during the battle in Ohio over public sector unions, said Stuart Trevelyan, NGP VAN's CEO.

But early on as governor he was at odds with public - sector labor groups, including public employee unions he battled over contract renewals as well as a new, less generous pension tier during his first term.

But now his campaign is striking back at Alexi Giannoulias, the Democrat who earlier this year waged a public relations battle of his own following the failure of a bank owned by his family.

The machine has purred over the last 72 hours as it sought to win the early and vital battle to define Ed Miliband in the public mind.

Saddled with delays, reshoots, a crew member's drowning, a very public battle over its budget and content, and the failure of «John Carter» earlier this year means the movie is under immense pressure to perform for the Mouse House.

Beatriz Otero, a veteran of the early battles for dual - language education in D.C., and founder of DC Bilingual Public Charter School, said she's pleased that dual language is catching on, but worries that Latino students could get left behind.

From where those additional funds could come is unclear, especially at a time when lawmakers are still embroiled in a budget battle over how much to pay public school teachers — well past the hoped for end - of - session date of late June or early July.

Tracy's rich experiences throughout the early years of her career were hands - on at many levels, including teaching and learning for the hearing impaired, 6th grade classroom, and serving as a speech pathologist for Battle Creek Public Schools from 1984 to 1994.

Earlier this year, teachers joined the battle over Wisconsin public workers» collective bargaining rights.

This includes the new teacher evaluation pilot program that is part of the revised version of Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform package contained in what is now Public Law 116, which will only involve eight - to - 10 districts; the fact that NEA and AFT affiliates are still opposed to this plan and are also battling reformers over another evaluation framework that uses student test score data that the unions had supported just several months earlier also raises questions as to whether Connecticut can actually earn the flexibility from federal accountability that has been gained through the waiver.

The Battle Royale will be rolled out to early access players on September 26, although the players can get into the Battle Royale public test right now by simply selecting the mode at the opening menu.

A self - taught artist, he sketched and painted for pleasure from an early time, but it wasn't until the 1940s when a long battle with tuberculosis disrupted his life and job as a bank official, that he began painting seriously, and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work in public.

Skirmishes over funding for renewable energy research are just the latest battle in a saga that stretches back to the early 1980s — years before the public became widely aware of the climate threat.

And earlier this month, Mr Justice Mostyn had said he did not agree with Mr Justice Holman's practice of hearing divorce money battles in public.