Sentences with phrase «public fight for»

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.

The script, which is credited to Simon Beaufoy, compresses her biography even further: It places King's mock - rivalry with Riggs side - by - side with her public fight for pay equality in the early»70s and her private coming to terms with her sexuality in the late»60s.

Not exact matches

Holiday wants you to believe he is a crusader fighting for the public good, revealing the secrets he's learned because he's «tired of a world where blogs take indirect bribes, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it.»

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology.

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.»

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

«I am crying as I write you this letter,» Charney told employees in a public note, vowing to continue fighting for immigration reform.

The fight for Canadian Pacific Railway by its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, epitomizes a growing problem with public company governance.

«I have spent my adult life fighting for the public good, fighting to make life a little bit easier, a bit more fulfilling, better for people,» she told a cheering crowd of supporters Thursday night.

Today, the people of Ohio remember a devoted public servant who represented his fellow Buckeyes in the U.S. Senate for a quarter century and who fought to keep America a leader in science and technology,» the president said.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

As Adam Liptak has explained, these older media companies financed many of the major free speech fights of the 20th century; they saw paying for litigation as part of their business model, and as a public duty.

Recently, Nike made headlines for deploying AR to fight off bots that could buy out its inventory faster than the public.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

Both Reid and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican, renewed calls for lawmakers in the House and Senate to return to Washington to authorize funding to help public health officials fight the spread of Zika.

The federal government has increased pressure on the private sector to fight the war on drugs, just as public support for the effort has reached a low.

Puerto Rico is grappling with the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history, with both its government and the public utility having filed for bankruptcy protection amid fights with creditors.

The senior senator from Massachusetts has led the fight for tougher regulations on Wall Street, and she has an uncanny knack for marshaling public support for such an esoteric project.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

Our goal is to be a centrifuge in the fight for cleaner air for a vast majority of the general public through many avenues from industry and recreation to travel, medical and everyday life.

The editorial proclaims that Baltimore land is great for new development because «all of the potentially messy fights about public subsidies for infrastructure have already been resolved.»

Democracy depends on people of conviction fighting for what they believe in the public square — non-violently, respectfully and ethically, but also vigorously and without embarrassment.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a drug company's fight to keep a generic version of its biotech drug off the market for an additional six months that would mean billions more in sales and higher costs to the public.

The commonly prescribed arthritis drug Vioxx was withdrawn after it was linked with heart attacks and strokes, a drug trial which went horribly wrong left six men fighting for their lives in intensive care, hospitals were names and shamed for MRSA and Clostridium difficile deaths, and measles made a come back after public confidence in the MMR vaccine plummeted.

The Center for Union Facts, an anti-union organization that is part of lobbyist Rick Berman's family of front groups, received $ 1.55 million between 2007 and 2010 from the Bradley Foundation and spent heavily to support Walker and smear teachers unions with an anti-union website during the 2011 fight over public sector collective bargaining rights.

He was clear that wars (and by logical extension, public infrastructure and old - age pensions) always are paid for by the generation that fights the wars, builds the infrastructure or creates the output on which welfare - income transfer payments are spent.

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Grievances with a public company's board are typically fought in drawn - out proxy battles that can be costly and frustrating even for large shareholders.

We also fight for strong and accessible public services such as universal health care, education, worker training, elder / home care and child care and early learning.

Additionally, as a heart disease survivor and National Volunteer for the American Heart Association, Star uses her international public platform to positively impact the lives of all women by empowering them to take action, stand stronger and join the fight against heart disease.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

No big deal for me, but I do worry about my fellow Americans who I have fought wars for, done public service for, and «care» about — because I am a christian and an American.

By not parading UBL around as a trophy kill, we both limit the spectacle that many of our own gruesome or doubting public desire AND the propensity for backlash from the communities so very near the war we're fighting.

And many feel that their own leaders are not doing enough to fight Islamic extremism, according to the study, a joint project of the Pew Research Center for People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

For either of them to engage in a public argument about who would win a in a violent fight is reckless and irresponsible.

His mother began to fight for her son, first against a local public school system that takes a cookie - cutter approach to children, then against the county and state.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

For almost 80 years, Mercer County Public Schools have offered a Bible class to elementary school students and now, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fighting to remove them.

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but the point is that it shouldn't be paid for with public money unless you are going to be buying burkhas and yarmulkes and buddhas as well.

Concentrate on the fight the religious folks are pitting against public funding for abortions.

States have laws on the books that deny atheists the ability to be witnesses in trials, Herb Silverman had to fight for 3 years in South Carolina to be a Notary Public because he was an atheist.

Economistic thinkers typically support this opposition, but as long as the issues are fought out within the nation, public opinion can support policies that involve some short - term economic losses for the sake of long - term environmental gains.

Gay men have vigorously fought off the only public health measures that could significantly contain the spread of AIDS — contact tracing and testing of partners — methods long used for syphilis and other sexually transmitted afflictions.

The «fight» for Christmas belongs in the public discourse about those areas we share.

The coming battle is really several different battles: a struggle within the Church to combat ignorance, misunderstanding and dissent; a political fight to maintain the freedom of religion for Catholics; and a public policy battle to form the law of the land.

He also detected a lack of public concern for the men and women fighting overseas.

He writes, correctly I think, that «gay - marriage proponents succeeded so quickly because they showed the public that what they were fighting for was consonant with what most post-1960s Americans already believed about the meaning of sex and marriage.»

They are the same people who fight nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.

That should have been a warning: It meant that the administration was unprepared for, or was unwilling to fight, or feared that the public would not support, such a war.