Sentences with phrase «public push for»

Paladino's inflammatory comments from December about former president Barack Obama and his wife started this public push for his ouster.

Although the outcome obviously wasn't good once he was in office, there was a strong public push for Spitzer - who also didn't face much of a competitive race against John Faso.

His inflammatory comments from December about former President Barack Obama and his wife started this public push for his ouster.

The concurrent timing of Cuomo's public push for oversight and private push for endorsements raises questions about the motivations provoking those endorsements of Excelsior.

But political observers have noted that the governor has never made a concerted public push for reform, as he had on several other issues, such as marriage equality.

Not exact matches

Moreover, activist investors are pushing public companies to improve operations, eviscerating the rationale for buyouts.

«Those pushing for net neutrality think the world would work better if the Internet was somehow magically transformed into a public utility, like a water or electricity company, with the FCC and state regulators setting rates, overseeing investment, and micromanaging relationships between providers and customers,» Downes says, adding the result would be devastating to the smooth functioning of ISP networks.

Business leaders have a responsibility to push for the right public policy.

For Apple, it might mean forcing the company to allow other companies to build devices using iOS or macOS, either by licensing them to competitors or by eliminating the copyright protection on older versions of those operating systems to push them into the public domain.

All told, the direction he wanted to go in is the likely eventual outcome — he just may have pushed it before the public was ready for it.

Got to think that Hortonworks is intentionally pushing out into the public markets before Cloudera, in part so that it can try to define the market for Wall Street before Cloudera tells a story in which Hortonworks is an afterthought.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

As things stand in 2014, the prospects for 2039 for the building and what happens inside it hinge on three things: Just how far the trading community pushes automation, how hard regulators push back and how well the 80 or so locations now where stocks are traded can maintain their trust and credibility with the investing public.

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

After buying a Tesla, someone may be more willing to push for electric public transportation.

Thanks to a public - relations push and a video of Sterling making an earnest plea for why Goldie is needed, the campaign received national press.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

What Brussels and the troika want today is for the «yes» (vote) to win so they could humiliate the Greeks,» in response to them pushing for Greece to accept the terms and conditions of the bailout, which was put to a public vote.

They fear stronger resistance to their push for civil - rights protections, including broader access to public restrooms, and wonder if their newly won right to serve openly in the military is in jeopardy.

For its part, VMware, also a huge proponent of hybrid cloud, is pushing the use of its NSX, vRealize, and Airwatch mobile device management across all the major public clouds, including IBM's which is part of Monday's news.

Democrats pushing for gun curbs after the latest mass shooting in the United States are co-opting a Republican mantra to build public support and defang opposition: It's time to get tough on national security.

«Why should I be pushed onto public transit so that there will be more room on the road for Mercedes and Lexus drivers?

While it was Kathleen's husband Arthur who first came up with the idea for Tezos, refining it and pushing it out to the public quickly became a team effort.

Barack Obama's administration pushed for the Trans - Pacific Partnership, again over the objections of labor unions, this time joined by many public health groups.

Once again, it's curious that Trump's former lawyer would disclose this — but it creates an opportunity for Trump's current team to push back in the court of public opinion, trying to either force Mueller to agree to a limited interview, or else to wage a political war by trying to refuse.

«I think there's always a need for accountability in the public market and I think that's why originally this push came to the commission as opposed to some legislation,» says David Salmon, senior vice president with Laurel Hill Advisory Group in Vancouver.

That story suggests that Stamos created friction within Facebook by pushing for an aggressive approach to exploring and disclosing to the public the platform's role in disseminating Russian state - sponsored disinformation to users.

The company's subsequent teeing up of a monetization strategy for WhatsApp, via the forthcoming launch of business accounts, likely explains its push to link users of the end - to - end encrypted messaging platform with Facebook users, where the same people have likely engaged in far more public digital activity — such as liking pages, searching for content, and making posts and comments that Facebook is able to read.

In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Democrats Say «Bye» to Populist Option In a dress rehearsal for this November's mid-term election, Democrats and Republicans vied last week for who could denounce the banks and blame the other party the most for the giveaways to Wall Street that have swollen the public debt since September 2008, pushing the federal budget into deficit and the economy into a slump.

Marilyn Mohrman - Gillis, executive director of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards» Center for Financial Planning and head of public policy, noted on a panel discussion moderated by Borzi that DOL's fiduciary rule will «hopefully [be] the tip of the iceberg to push other rules and regulations to protect investors.»

Under Finance Minister Nicolas Marceau's plan, the PQ seeks to create jobs, avoid tax hikes, further exploit Quebec's natural resources and rein in government spending, such as pushing for «fair» agreements with physicians and public - sector workers during upcoming contract negotiations.

At a public hearing last fall, Bell said such changes would drive down its revenue and push prices up for many customers.

Uber's new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, has been pushing to clean up the company's financials in preparations for an initial public offering next year.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are challenging the B.C. Liberals to restore independent oversight and to push for expanded public hearings into the proposed Site C dam.

He stepped off the board of eBay in March 2014 after public battles with Carl Icahn, an activist investor who pushed for the company to split with PayPal, its payments unit.

The Liberals have been pushing their right - wing agenda for the past twelve years: privatizing and contracting out, slashing corporate taxes so they're now the lowest in Canada, dismantling the social safety net and environmental standards regulations in BC, and attacking public sector workers.

Nonetheless, Republicans have been pushing for its release, arguing that there really is a scandal this big and the public deserves to know about it.

There's no real motivation for informing the public; in fact, they want to do the opposite by keeping us stupid and docile and away from any real information that could lead us to actually push for decision - making abilities.

They are profoundly oriented to public life, and they push for the kind of Christian faith that would help end massive suffering.

Another cause for concern is the way the christian agenda is pushed right here: christian religious beliefs to be taught as science, christian religious texts on public buildings, christian prayers at public meetings, christian beliefs as law, etc..

While creationism is not limited to Christianity, you are correct, there are not many Muslims pushing for creationism to be taught in public schools.

While granting that there's a lot of church - pushing going around that's creepy, goofy, and just downright wrong, what is it you think the author of Hebrews is doing when he makes a case for continuing in public worship and association with God's people?

Spelled out in a lengthy lead editorial entitled «Evangelicals in the Social Struggle,» as well as in books such as Aspects of Christian Social Ethics, Henry's understanding of Christian social responsibility stressed (a) society's need for the spiritual regeneration of all men and women, (b) an interim social program of humanitarian care, ethical proclamation, and personal, structural application, and (c) a theory of limited government centering on certain «freedom rights,» e. g., the rights to public property, free speech, and so on.18 Though the shape of this social ethic thus closely parallels that of the present editorial position of Moody Monthly, it must be distinguished from its counterpart by the time period involved (it pushed others like Moody Monthly into a more active involvement in the social arena), by the intensity of its commitment to social responsibility, by the sophistication of its insight into political theory and practice, and by its willingness to offer structural critique on the American political system.

Although there has been some push back on the new sex ed curriculum for public schools, which would see teaching about family diversity that includes LBGT families, anti-homophobia instruction including that being gay is normal, and — at long last!

This country certainly does not cater to religious beliefs, given that you can't even say the word «pray» in a public school anymore, and we have a president who is pushing for everyone to pay for contraceptives.

Living in justice in this world as a good steward of God's bounty, maintaining privacy and yet caring for every legitimate public need, removing every vestige of exploitation, protecting the environment for today's and tomorrow's generations, and being honest in every individual transaction, all of these are covered when we push the Commandment «You shall not steal» into the very depths of our complicated and complex lives.

The government is pushing the consumption of a specific product which is monopolized by the state and whose only public virtue is that it generates some revenue for state government.

At the synod, the bishops who pushed for détente with the sexual revolution pursued the old, pre-Leonine mode of Catholic engagement with the public square.

The biggest push for sugar reduction is coming from public health bodies, 62 % consumers believe that it's manufacturers» responsibility to reduce sugar content in their cakes, which puts a significant pressure on the cake industry.