Sentences with phrase «public expense just»

«The Attorney General is going to extraordinary lengths at public expense just to stop two people who love each other from getting legally married in accordance with their beliefs.

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«This tax plan is just the latest example; it's shaping up to be a wasteful giveaway to the rich at the expense of everyone else, and no amount of White House spin will fool the public.»

With just days to go before the April 1 deadline to finalize the state budget, he said Senate Republicans were pressing for the elimination of the charter cap and more money for charters at the expense of public schools.

Cuomo is proposing a five - point plan, including public financing of campaigns, full and complete disclosure of lawmakers» outside income, and reform of the legislative per diem system where the governor says lawmakers come to Albany just to make money through the daily expense payments.

These were just some of the public responses to the great MPs» expenses scandal, but strangely, changing the electoral system to bring in the alternative vote was not high up the list.

In their campaign to sway state lawmakers, DraftKings and FanDuel and their related trade associations spent just under $ 800,000 on lobbying expenses since last autumn, according to records filed with the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The MPs» expenses scandal ended for our generation the argument that we could just trust the checks on spending within the public sector.

And now, just as the nation was beginning to tire of the great 2009 expenses scandal, we have servants» quarters paid for out of the public purse.

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

School & recreation: An education in spending Let us just first mention that the StatsCan survey on which this number is based assumes that kids attend public school — not private — although that should be obvious from the total yearly expenses for recreation and school of $ 1,060.

While buying a resort day pass might seem like a bit of an extravagant expense when you can just go to the public beaches, by the time you add up taxi fare, public beach admission, chair rentals, etc., you are more than halfway there with none of the resort perks.

For years we have made a pay phone available to the public (the only one in town) but last year the phone took in just $ 3.35 in revenue while costing us $ 1,450 in upkeep and other expenses.

A company selling insurance directly to the public has not eliminated the expense of that salesperson — they've just moved it in - house.

Just as public liability does not pay for your own bodily injury expenses, property damage does not pay for any injuries sustained to your own car.

But Capcom's continuing focus on that feature at the expense of online support was, I believe, a big reason why the series never took off in the US — people just don't play handheld consoles in public as much as they do in Japan.

Becoming a professional Realtor is not for just anybody with a pulse or for any big company with deep pockets to give «er a try at whatever spin - job one might dream up with a hoped - for big, quick pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in their dreams... all at the public expense of course.

(Readers from the public sphere, this is just one of many manipulative tactics that purely sales - oriented Realtors routinely use (against you) in order to feather their own nests at your expense.

Finally, the public will realize what it takes to be a Realtor and how much expense goes into just maintaining your license.

Are those who are voting in October voting for the good of the public interest, for the good of their own private interests, for the good of our industry, as they see it, at the expense of, or, in support of, the public interest etc., etc., or, are they voting just to get the Comp.