Sentences with phrase «rally calling for»

Erin Tuttle, left, and Heather Crossin speak at a statehouse rally calling for Indiana's withdrawal from the Common Core State Standards.

David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks at a rally calling for more gun control.

It's the third rally calling for more stringent gun laws since the Valentine's Day shooting at a South Florida high school when 17 people were killed, triggering a wave of student activism.

The Democratic governor and mayor — self - described «friends» who have been openly sniping at each other for months — traded barbs on Tuesday after Cuomo faulted de Blasio for appearing alongside Astorino, the Westchester County executive who ran on the Republican line against Cuomo, during a rally calling for transportation funding.

Politicians in Puerto Rico: Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio marched together at a rally calling for improved healthcare funding for Puerto Rico in San Juan on Thursday.

Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, right, speaks during a rally calling for farm workers rights on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union archive)

At 3:30 p.m., Families for Excellent Schools holds a rally calling for the charter school sector to grow to 200,000 students by 2020, Foley Square, Manhattan.

Also at 4 p.m., Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, state Sen. Joseph Addabbo and the parents of Karina Vetrano, who was murdered last August, hold rally calling for the New York state Commission on Forensic Science to adopt guidelines permitting use of familial DNA matching, 164th Avenue and 83rd Street, Queens.

At noon, NYC Councilman Costa Constantinides and advocates and supporters hold rally calling for the Council to vote on INT.

At 12:15 p.m., elected officials and community leaders hold a rally calling for the addition of the Lunar New Year as a school holiday, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The Naples Republican held a similar rally calling for Lopez's release in May, after news reports suggested Lopez's health was failing.

Members of the «Stand With Us» group hold a rally calling for the rejection of the proposed Iran nuclear deal outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles (Photo: Mark Ralston for AFP / Getty Images)

Stringer made the comment at a Harlem rally calling for fractured state Senate Democrats to unify and make Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins majority leader of a house where the Dems come November are expected to again have the majority but not control the chamber because nine breakaway Dems are aligned with the Republicans in a leadership coalition.

News 12 Brooklyn story on BP Adams leading City University of New York (CUNY) students in a rally calling for greater affordability and investment in public higher education by the State.

Also at 10 a.m., Rochester - area leaders participate in a rally calling for the governor and Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to — and that was agreed to in the state budget passed in April — by 2020, Heritage Christian Services» Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way, Rochester.

In Lille, a city in the north of France, anti-Islam protests broke out at a rally calling for unity.

When Mahatma Gandhi challenged Indians with the statement, «If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,» it was a rallying call for the country to inspire change across the globe by looking first introspectively at...

While this isn't intended as a rallying call for the masses to embrace Jesus, it's actually fantastic theology it speaks of the sort of living faith that perhaps Brand doesn't realise is perfectly possible within the Christian tradition.

At 9:15 a.m., the Riders Alliance rally calls for «fair fares» for low - income public transportation users, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Mayor Byron Brown is scheduled to deliver his 12th State of the City address Thursday afternoon, in what he says will be another rallying call for «revitalization and opportunity» in Buffalo.

I think the rallying call for disaffected, sensible LibDems is long overdue.

Groups such as VOCAL New York, SIF (Safe Injection Facilities) NYC and End Overdose New York — which have held many rallies calling for the sites to be implemented — have been leading the fight to bring the sites to the city.

Joined by supportive politicians, the rally called for 200,000 charter - school seats in the five boroughs by 2020.

Organized by Housing Here and Now, a coalition of non profit affordable housing providers, tenant groups, and community organizers, the rally called for the New York State Assembly and Senate to pass legislation to end this loophole.

Her take on the matter is a rallying call for all artists in all fields, including filmmaking: True artists, she says, just want the opportunity to do their best work.

The rallying call for school choice created a kind of education party, which Democratic reformers are loyal to and in which DeVos has found refuge.

However, without encouraging the engagement of students as meaningful actors in school change efforts, Listening misses the glaring potential of being a rallying call for meaningful student involvement.

It must become a rallying call for every school district to galvanize action across sector, race and circumstance to lead to transformation so that all students are successful.

Her message was a rallying call for unity between the RCSD, RCSD School Board, and the community of Rochester because at the end of the day, it's the students of the Rochester City School District that matter most.

«No juries, no prizes» sounded the rallying call for what was then to be an annual exhibition.

But of course the Ozone Hole over Kennebunkport remains a rallying call for the ideologues who still point to the protection of ozone as politicized science.

«Berta's bravery in the face of overwhelming repression will be a rallying call for environmental activism in Honduras,» said David Gordon, Executive Director of the Goldman Prize.

So is the story of the hockey stick — just as quickly as it was used as a rallying call for warmists, it also inadvertently gave birth to a camp of skeptics.

These sweeping changes qualify, and could serve as a rallying call for Facebook's team.

On the same day, March 24, similar rallies calling for school safety and gun limits will be held in hundreds of cities around the country, including Parkland.

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Rivals have pointed out that Trump's clothing is manufactured in China and Mexico, for example, which seemingly goes against his pro-American rally call.

Bouroudjian credited those words for Wednesday's turnaround, calling it the «Larry Kudlow rally.»

He subsequently lamented the fact that there was still anger surrounding his failure to release his tax returns, called for inquiries into the payments behind the rallies, and reiterated his electoral college victory.

In a CNET report yesterday, a beta startup called Breakr, which says it helps rouse and rally online fandoms, confoundingly claimed responsibility for Alex's ascent — including his now roughly 50,000 Twitter followers and a recent appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

This study should serve as a wake - up call and a rallying cry for customer service teams and call centers who are on the front lines of most companies.

Austria's chancellor, Christian Kern, called on Monday for an EU - wide ban on Turkish rallies, saying it would take pressure off individual countries.

As I shared with you last month, the recipe calls for a broad commodities rally this year, and I would hate for investors to miss out.

Rail unions notably called for a rally in Paris» city center to «put pressure on the government» before a key meeting with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe next week.

Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley & Co.'s chief U.S. equity strategist, is overweight industrials as he calls for a late - cycle, pro-cyclical rally.

In the background, a campy»90s pop tune called «Meeting on Manezh,» the location for the rally, blared on repeat.

EDMONTON — Alberta's government house leader says a rally that called for Premier Rachel Notley to be jailed is a disturbing sign of Trump - style politics coming to Canada.

She used the time she had between classes to send emails and make phone calls to hammer out logistics for the rally.

Ms. Knoop applied for a permit to hold a rally on the steps of the gold - topped, Greek Revival State House in Montpelier and said a group called the Peace & Justice Center handled the liability insurance.

In an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Association.

The Florida teens call for action arising from their tragedy on February 14 inspired us to rally in solidarity through our Amnesty International Columbus Alternative High School chapter.