Sentences with phrase «reticent state»

The date happens to coincide with the new mayor's planned descent upon Albany to convince reticent state lawmakers to support his plan to raise taxes on the city's wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs.

Not exact matches

When one contrasts outcomes in the United States with those in Europe, one is tempted to conclude that the «godless» Constitution and the reticent constitutionalists helped make possible a «godly» people.

Justice Department officials have so far been reticent to discuss whether the change will lead to a return to prosecutions for cannabis offences in states with legal markets.

Considering that it's a state issue, our contingent of state legislators has been remarkably reticent on the hot - button subject of

And while Cuomo has been publicly reticent so far on the State Senate races, Senate Republicans seem to be returning the favor.

And flag states are reticent about accepting liability.

Most of us are a bit reticent to state exactly what we want as we think we may come across negatively.

You can argue whether or not the State has the right to restrict people's lifestyle choices but, at least in Australia, the government is not reticent about interceding in other ways to improve public safety.

He's a somewhat reticent quantitative scientist who leveraged his undergraduate training in physics and applied math toward a Yale doctorate in geology and geophysics en route to co-directing the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.

Businesses and individuals are reticent about policies such as carbon pricing that could increase energy costs for consumers, particularly in states that currently have low costs, even if implementing a carbon pricing program would be more cost effective in the long term, the regulators observed.

Generally defined, temperament is the biological basis of personality.4 Research on the topic of temperamentally - based socially wary, reticent and inhibited behavior has reported differences in prevalence of this construct between East Asian (e.g., China, South Korea) and Western children and youth (e.g., Western Europe, Canada and the United States); the former group has demonstrated a higher prevalence of wary, inhibited behavior than the latter.5, 6,7,8,9 In Western cultures, which value independence and assertiveness, socially - inhibited and reticent behavior is viewed as reflecting shyness, fearfulness and social incompetence; in East Asian cultures, which are dominated historically by Confucian and Taoist philosophies, socially wary and inhibited behavior is viewed as reflecting compliance, obedience, being well - mannered, and thus, social maturity and accomplishment.10