Sentences with phrase «restive over»

The party has not ruled out giving its line to another candidate as its members remain restive over Cuomo's fiscal policies.

Dadey has acknowledged previously that he is considering a challenge to Manhattan's Cox as upstate Republicans remain restive over GOP leadership in the last several years.

But the governor is not supported among the more activist side of the WFP, which includes chairs like Karen Scharff of Citizen Action who remain restive over his stances on taxes, charter schools and other middle - of - the - road priorities.

Indeed, the party, which has never run a candidate of its own, has not ruled out endorsing someone else this election year as its rank - and - file remain restive over Cuomo's fiscal agenda over the last three years.

Advocates remain restive over a March agreement with the Legislature that created public financing for only the state comptroller's race, which Republican comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci is participating in.

She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Not exact matches

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

Republicans and Democrats alike are grappling with a restive nation upset over stagnate wages and an elusive American Dream — that's according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who diagnosed and dissected the wave of economic populism that's sweeping the nation.

However, that support eroded over the last seven days as Senate Democrats raised the issue of Skelos's leadership in a heated public session of the chamber and as upstate Republicans grew restive with him remaining in charge.

On Wednesday, a military commander said Nigerian troops had rescued 1,880 civilians from a Boko Haram redoubt in the restive northeast over the past week and arrested hundreds of insurgents.

The restive mood over testing — and the associated threat to reform — is not limited to teachers.

Oil sands advocates have seen an opening, however, in Americans» perpetual nervousness over its reliance on oil imports from unfriendly and autocratic regimes, as well as a newly restive Middle East, and have increasingly argued for Canadian petroleum as an alternative to «conflict oil» tanked in from dodgier countries.