Sentences with phrase «raise in a dozen years»

Lawmakers have not received a pay raise in a dozen years, and they are eager to approve one after this fall's election, giving Mr. Cuomo another «point of mutuality.»

Not exact matches

In the last two years, Sears has sold off dozens of its best stores, among other assets, to raise money while its business deteriorated.

But in the years since, the SEC has also been overwhelmed by the task of implementing dozens of rules called for under the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial reform law and the 2012 JOBS Act, which aims to make it easier for small businesses to raise money.

Signs of inflation have prompted at least two dozen central banks, including in China and Europe, to raise interest rates this year.

Brown's $ 513.6 million spending plan raises commercial and residential property taxes for the first time in a dozen years.

She has served in the City Council for a dozen years and has raised «around 20» foster children with her husband.

While New York City Democrats would likely be the most frustrated if there's no agreement in 2016, there are dozens of lawmakers throughout the state who had to grapple with the issue on the campaign trail this year, and thus suffered a political headache for voting in favor of a budget bill that included a provision which didn't actually wind up raising their salary.

We'll stick to statewide general elections for Senate and governor, even though there are plenty of eyebrow - raising results in party primaries (Sen. Dick Lugar's loss in 2012), off - season special elections (Scott Brown's triumph in early 2010) and U.S. House races (a good half - dozen of them every election year).

A half - dozen biotech startups have raised more than $ 125 million in recent years to produce spider silk fibers, hoping to make high - strength, flexible textiles that are tough enough to stop bullets, yet flexible and breathable enough to be comfortable.

Not because any individual path, do I rate it say greater than 50 percent, but when you have about a dozen paths, all which at least to mea appear to have better than 20 percent chance independently, that if you get the R&D up, if you do things on the demand side that include great things we've done, like production tax credit, investment tax credit, Renewable Portfolio Standard, many, many tens of billions of money just in the U.S. alone, so we push the demand side, and now with the commitment to raise R&D and 2016 being the first year that actually did get appropriated, then you're very much tilting the odds to have a very positive surprise.

In the past few years, more than a dozen states have passed or proposed new laws to raise awareness about dyslexia through increased screening, intervention programs, and teacher training.

When Gov. Mitch Daniels asked a class of 20 seventh graders at Our Lady of Hungary Catholic school how many of the students were in their first year at the school, a half - dozen raised their hands.

If someone told me a year ago I'd fall head over paws in love with a dog that would literally devour the trim on my car, my aging fence, puppy chew toys ad naseum, our socks and shoes, buried coaxial TV cable, my remote control, every bed we bought for him, half a dozen pillows, Grannie's quilt, stuffed animals, a big orange Home Depot bucket, a BBQ grill cover, patio furniture, saplings, two big flower beds, scores of recyclables, garage stuff galore, plus half a cord of firewood, I would have raised one eyebrow and said, «Yeah sure, what have you been smoking?»

Over the past 15 years, Orvis has raised more than $ 10 million for a variety of conservation programs, from Kodiak Island, AK, to the Florida Everglades; from the Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda to the great Coral Triangle of the South Pacific; and in dozens of vital fisheries through America and the world.

For the last half - dozen years, O'Toole, also born and raised in Los Angeles, has been organizing Hernandez's first - ever museum retrospective, which opens at SFMOMA this weekend.

In 2017, a successful $ 75 million fund - raising campaign, an ambitious Merce Cunningham exhibit and the reopening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with over a dozen new works indicated a banner year in the makinIn 2017, a successful $ 75 million fund - raising campaign, an ambitious Merce Cunningham exhibit and the reopening of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden with over a dozen new works indicated a banner year in the makinin the making.

Chris Andrews, a partner at John Fowlers Solicitors, which raised # 14,260 last year, said his firm was introduced to «dozens of new clients, many of which have continued to work with us,» through participating in the campaign.

And there are dozens of immigration cases every year in which petitioners are not in a position to raise CAT claims in a petition for review, and therefore run into REAL ID's bar on pursuing CAT relief in habeas petitions.

Auris was founded half a dozen years ago, in which time the company has managed to raise a jaw - dropping $ 500 million, courtesy of Mithril Capital Management, Lux Capital, Coatue Management and Highland Capital.

With more than $ 3 billion raised in «initial coin offerings» (ICOs) this year so far, dozens of regulators around the world have responded with some form of regulations or guidelines.