Sentences with phrase «public fight with»

One of the evening's speakers, Ira Sabin, a former chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party, criticized Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who got into a public fight with David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who has become a prominent advocate for gun control.

This is why you never, ever see a car company start a public fight with a contractor like Faraday Future did earlier today on Twitter.

In other words, this last - ditch effort to repeal Obamacare is at least partially about saving face with (or sticking it to) Donald Trump, who picked a very public fight with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and his cohorts after the last Republican bill died a loud death.

«I can see that if you're involved in a major legal matter, whether it's a litigation, a merger, or an acquisition, the last thing you want to have happening is a very public fight with your legal counsel over fees.»

The program comes as Rinehart is engaged in a very public fight with the board of Fairfax, the media company which owns the nation's most respected newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

From a pessimistic perspective, however, the company took a $ 170 million hit on its Fire Phone, and was embroiled in an ugly, public fight with book publisher Hachette.

First, just a few days before the Q1 presentation, Volkswagen's Ferdinand Piech lost his seat as chairman of the advisory board in a very public fight with CEO Martin Winterkorn.

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

Cuomo lost the most support among New York City voters, who also side against the governor in his public fight with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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.

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.

Wenger picked a public fight with Sanchez by benching him.

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....

Getting into public fights with the board.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

He's working with clients in public health and politics to put his experiments to work, whether that means fighting disinformation about vaccinations or selling a candidate.

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

«Public - private cooperation is essential when it comes to effectively fighting digital cross border crimes like the one that we are seeing here with the Carbanak gang,» said EBF chief Wim Mijs.

One of the best weapons in fighting reputational damage from a crisis is arming people with the facts and the web gives you an unfiltered way to provide the facts to the public.

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.

Before Jana went public in 2012 with its fight against Agrium, the Canadian fertilizer company, it met with other shareholders and sought their support.

Giuliani is joining Trump's team just as the president escalates a very bitter, and very public, fight with former FBI Director James Comey, whose new book, A Higher Loyalty, paints Trump as a liar who runs his administration like a mob boss

At the same time, in an update on parallel measures it's taking to fight election interference, Facebook says it will launch a public archive in the summer showing «all ads that ran with a political label».

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.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Companies proved from recent fights with the National Rifle Association and legislation targeting bathroom use by transgender people that they can be more finely tuned to public opinion than politicians.

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.

Republican House leaders were facing a losing public relations fight with the White House over the debt ceiling that would have gotten far worse if the government had begun to default on some if its obligations.

And yet they can not seem to eclipse, in the public mind, a morally ambivalent war that ended seventy - three years ago, which was fought with the utmost ruthlessness, and one of whose victors was an appalling despotism of lies and murder.

The government doesn't need to recognize marriage (I don't give a hang if they don't recognize my relationship with my wife); the government doesn't need to run public schools (and get into the fight about whether evolution truly explains the origin of species and the origin of life).

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

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.

This causes further tensions in relations with the Canadian public and the perception of Sikhs, what we see as taking a stand and fighting what is wrong, many see as causing uneeded violence, it's a huge culture clash.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

Because with your thinking we should let the muslim's put their star and crescent symbol of their religion all up and down the roads... then you christians and muslims can fight to see who can just infest public land with «your» symbols.

It's stupifying to see them make billions of dollars in tax - free earnings every year, and fighting - words to hear them lobby our public servants with those very funds.

Members of one church in Florida not only led the fight to exclude three hemophiliac boys with AIDS from public school but also decided not to admit persons carrying the AIDS virus into Sunday school, worship or other church activities (Florida Baptist Witness, September 17, 1987).

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.»

Unless the general public — not just the highly educated leaders of church and society, but the general public — knows about these problem with all their pros and cons, and are able to weigh and consider alternatives and solutions from every standpoint — left, right and center — unless that happens, our nation will never be able to fight its way back toward solutions that will build us up, strengthen our resolve, and re-create the nation I used to love and I now would love to reform.

Similarly, attempts to fight the new Gnosticism with the weapons of logic deployed in service to moral truth are almost certainly doomed to be frustrated, because public life is not, in the final analysis, an exercise in logic alone.

Though I completely disagree with Mr. Worley and can't imagine the anger he must have that dwells within him, he has every right to state his opinion, in public or private, and i would fight for him to be able to continue to do so because it is one of the cornerstones of our nation.

With so much media fighting for the public's ear, Schraad believes that the best place to reach the consumer is in the store.

Feeding America seeks to feed Americans who struggle with hunger through a nationwide network of member food banks and to engage the public in the fight to end hunger.

Wall isn't getting much buzz this year because of his injury and his public in - fighting with teammates.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

With broad public support, a states right precedent set in Colorado and Washington, and money to be had, the fight to legalize sports betting continues.

A source with knowledge of the talks said that MGM proposed on Tuesday to be allowed to start selling the closed circuit tickets and any public tickets to fight immediately, with everything else frozen as talks proceed.