Sentences with phrase «reversed course»

On October 28, as the restraining order expired, the dissenting board members reversed course and OPSB unanimously approved 20 charter school applications, including 13 on the West Bank to be overseen by the Algiers Charter School Association (ACSA).

The administration that took office in 2003 reversed course.

A couple of weeks after the report was released, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who has resisted expanding charter schools in favor of proposed «readiness schools,» reversed course and proposed raising the cap on how much a school district could spend on charter schools, from 9 to 12 percent.

Following a series of hearings, however, the legislature reversed course later that year and allowed spending to go forward.

After including two Netflix titles — Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories and Bong Joon - ho's Okja — among those contending for the Palme d'Or this year, Cannes reversed course with a new rule announced last week.

The producers also claim that she agreed to doing the sex scenes but «reversed course, apparently under perceived or actual pressure from Depp (who, according to Heard, was extremely jealous).

But while some are doubling down on the approach, others have reversed course, abandoning the strategy and returning to the traditional approach.

Writing in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the team reports that more than half of mouse epiblast stem cells treated with the drug reversed course within three days, and regained an embryonic «be anything» state, also called pluripotency.

We asked Savenije why the EGU had reversed course:

In 2015 the agency reversed course without adequate justification or explanation, finding that the bird «did not warrant» federal protection, so early the next year the Center and allies sued again for Endangered Species Act protections for Mono Basin sage grouse.

Erosion and other processes taking place at Earth's surface help explain why large portions of the Amazon River (watershed depicted in lighter colors) reversed course.

Millions of years ago, rivers flowing westward across what is now northern Brazil reversed their course to flow toward the Atlantic, and the mighty Amazon was born.

And when fisheries switched to catch shares, fish populations stopped declining and, according to some analyses, may have reversed course.

However, Mason notes, as soon as Congress struck a 2 - year deal with the president to boost domestic and defense spending by some $ 300 billion, the White House reversed course and proposed holding the Office of Science budget flat.

«It appears any decline that may have been detected by looking at different snapshots in time or different data sets has reversed course.

In a twist, after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) notified journalists of an upcoming press conference on the matter, Myriad reversed course and supplied the patients with the information they had requested in February.

A few days later, however, the NSF program officer reversed course.

In Putnam County, a voter asking to see the digital ballot images from last year was similarly rebuffed at first, but the county reversed course March 6 after reviewing Mr. Freeman's opinion.

Then last month, he reversed course on the health - care bill, voting against it along with 33 of his Democratic colleagues after supporting it for months.

Just months after downplaying the city's need for additional cops, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton suddenly reversed course Monday — saying he could use at least 1,000 more.

His press office, which previously released his rents upon request, has reversed course.

Cuomo has recently reversed course, having previously regarded $ 15 as too high a minimum.

As a result, the Partnership for New York City, a prominent business group that had pledged to support the bill, reversed course within minutes.

The independent commission studying Rikers Island officially released its recommendations for closing the troubled jail complex on Sunday, more than a year after the panel was convened and two days after Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York reversed course to back the plan.

The mayor and governor have also so far avoided a clash on tax policy: Cuomo reversed course and decided to renew the state's expiring millionaires» tax, saying the $ 3.7 billion in annual revenue it generates is critical to maintaining state services.

Mayor de Blasio — terrified of possibly angering his crucial Brooklyn power base in any way — reversed course and vowed Tuesday to continue the J'Ouvert festival despite two deaths...

By 10 p.m., Marchione had reversed course, removing her changes and putting the bill in play once again during the waning hours of session.

Hackett's Senate bid has struggled since Rep. Sherrod Brown (D) reversed course and decided to enter the race after initially demurring.

Gov. David Paterson reversed course today on pay raises of between $ 5,000 and $ 10,000 a year authorized in recent days for five aides on his executive office staff.

Cuomo reversed course and said he supports a Democratic takeover of the state Senate in this fall's elections, despite his often close relationship with the Senate's longtime Republican majority.

The state Board of Regents at the last minute reversed course and decided not to hold a final vote on some changes to weaken implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

Sampson may have reversed course now to avoid a fresh burst of public fury were the state to again lose such a bonanza in education moneys.

On Saturday, Lessig reversed course on a pledge he had made to resign immediately after passing campaign finance reform if he were elected.

Neuhaus, who initially voiced no problem with the proposed plant, reversed course once bribery charges surfaced.

Mayor de Blasio — terrified of possibly angering his crucial Brooklyn power base in any way — reversed course and vowed Tuesday to continue the J'Ouvert festival despite two deaths and a slew of other violence this year.

While the state's political winds seem to be behind Donald Trump, former Governor George Pataki reversed course with his endorsement of Ohio's John Kasich.

After a fierce public backlash, plus disapproval from the president - elect, the House GOP reversed course and withdrew the rules change that would have gutted the Office of Congressional Ethics, according to members who were present at the emergency GOP meeting today.

The result: fare increases from Uber and Lyft, though they reversed course after being accused of profiteering off a terror attack.

In a victory for de Blasio, the group most vocally opposed to his housing plan reversed course yesterday, saying it will back his proposal after it was revised to serve more low - income residents.

Around noon on Tuesday, he told POLITICO he was rejecting a «political deal» that promised co-leadership for himself and state Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, but reversed course a few hours later.

Insurance executives said they were shocked last week when state health officials reversed course and discussed requiring insurers to offer out - of - network coverage for all exchange plans.

The New York State Board of Regents at the last minute reversed course and decided not to hold a final vote on some changes to weaken implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

''... In the last eight years, we've reversed course, we've stuck our head in the stand and said «don't worry, we're not going to raise your taxes» and that is the totality of our policy.

He made an eleventh - hour decision last summer to seek re-election, dropping an earlier bid for the Senate after GOP Sen. Marco Rubio reversed course and announced he'd run again.

Even when Cuomo reversed course and urged the Assembly to pass the individual bills, Silver stood behind a newly emboldened women's conference when it marched to Cuomo's office and told him it would not budge.

After the strong protest vote in the Democratic Party, Governor Cuomo reversed course yesterday and said he was open to debates in the general election.

On Thursday, amid criticism, Cuomo reversed course and announced plans to donate all of the money.

That the administration swiftly reversed course in the face of incredulous indignation from DMV offices across the state was to its credit, however messy.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reversed course on payday lending since industry ally Mick Mulvaney became acting director in November.

On Thursday, the agency reversed course, saying it would work with the sex toy company to find a way to permit it to advertise without violating the M.T.A.'s rules.»