Sentences with phrase «public fight»

I just had a dramatic, very public fight with my girlfriend at the time.

Along the way, the denomination conducted a very public fight over the theological direction of the convention.

In what was an unprecedented, public fight for your mortgage, the BIG SIX Banks pulled down their pants and showed how low they can really go with their rates.

At the same time, his administration was engaged in a series of public fights with one of those union leaders, Pat Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Teachers unions that had been excluded from the negotiating table began waging an increasingly public fight against the law.

After a week of public fighting between two of Louisiana's top elected officials, Attorney General Jeff Landry has decided to join with Gov. John Bel Edwards in seeking the dismissal of the state's Common Core lawsuit against the federal government.

Getting into public fights with the board.

Picking public fights with the judiciary and blaming judges for doing their jobs interpreting the Charter and upholding the law.

Rotherham writes «this is political and not about substance and to the extent this turns into a big public fight about money it's one more reason that if you're a school administrator the Washington groundhogs are saying a few more years of NCLB.»

The museum's last commissioned installation of the season, Project Gallery: Shana Lutker, will be the third in a series of sculptural installations about public fights among members of the Surrealist movement (yes, you read that right).

De Blasio was soundly defeated by Success CEO Eva Moskowitz in a very public fight over school space, despite largely unsuccessful efforts to de-escalate the battle with a conciliatory speech at Riverside Church and other overtures.

After two years of avoiding public fights, the mayor and the Council may finally be forced to confront each other in 2016.

The governor's appearance on the upstate radio show comes amid a highly public fight between Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over who should be blamed for the region's recent transit problems.

The group's position supports that of Councilwoman Erin King Sweeney, a Wantagh Republican who has been in an unusual public fight with Santino for months over ethics reform and other issues.

In waging a nasty public fight over CRISPR, they have already attracted the scrutiny of the mainstream press (The Washington Post and the Boston Globe Media's STAT, to name two avid voyeurs), the scientific press and, oh boy, the Internet.

The climax leans heavily on an absurd public fight, the kind of spectacle that undermines the adult New York realism the movie otherwise maintains.

They were also, as revealed by Lutker's research, prone to physical, public fights incited by intellectual arguments and personal slights.

«The infighting shows that tremendous disagreements remain over how tough green activists should be in their dealings with business,» write Rebecca Smith and Jim Carlton, «The TXU deal comes at a time when more businesses are choosing to work with environmentalists to avoid costly and embarrassing public fights on issues ranging from global warming to rampant logging.

He avoided engaging in public fights, insisting he was playing a long game by staying out of the would - be feuds and pushing for his agenda.

(We haven't heard a peep from the NSA, but picking public fights is not in their M.O.)

After a long and very public fight in the legislature and the press, in 2013 Dominion and the solar industry negotiated a compromise that specifically allows customers in Dominion territory to use third - party PPAs to install solar or wind projects under a pilot program capped at 50 MW.

It would sometimes be a big public fight, and we would mobilize our customers.

As a prospective presidential contender, the very public fight over the DOJ suit is sure to raise Jindal's national profile.

The family of yet another great Western Australian entrepreneur appears set for a public fight over an inheritance, with the descendants of the late Len Buckeridge going to court over his $ 2.5 billion estate.

Tesla has also been engaged in a public fight this month with the National Transportation Safety Board over its investigation of a fatal Model X crash near San Francisco.

In a blog post about their return, Uber struck a conciliatory tone, writing «we're sorry, Austin — for leaving the way we did; for letting an honest disagreement about regulations and consumer choice turn into a public fight.»

This person hopes you do reply so he or she can drag you into a public fight.

Boards, meanwhile, are learning to head off public fights.

Cook must tread carefully with Icahn if he wants to avoid another bruising, public fight that becomes a big distraction.

It had a very public fight with the California Department of Motor Vehicles over whether it needed permits to drive its test vehicles.

A public fight would be dangerous, especially with the potential of damning new emails coming out.

Only once did we have a public fight, at a small meeting of faculty members in the corporation room across the hall from his office.

Today, women like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Beyoncé and Ivanka Trump have become faces for feminism because of their public fights for advancement of women.

Wenger picked a public fight with Sanchez by benching him.

Much like on the field, Rooney has proven the same temper in real life, with numerous scandals and public fights over the years.

Despite being our rights, sometimes the public fights back by «mom shaming.»

And they're not even bothered about picking a public fight over this.

13onze15 held consultations, supported research and led a public fight for the end of the state of emergency.

Instead, the DNC made it a public fight — one that left the entire Democratic Party the loser.

«I don't think they want to have a public fight with 1199 like Spitzer did,» a prominent Democrat told me.

She embarrassed the administration during a public fight over charter school space in the spring of 2014 by enlisting the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and she undermined the mayor on his frustrating bid to extend mayoral control over city schools in the latest legislative session.

Even as the mayor played nice with Cuomo, the governor kept finding ways to tweak him — from neglecting to tell City Hall about plans to shut the subway system during a snowstorm to attempting to big - foot him during City Hall's public fight with police unions.