Sentences with word «rubberstamp»

New York's Republican conference remains solely in power thanks to terribly gerrymandered districts rubberstamped by Cuomo in 2012 and the IDC's gamesmanship.

I voted remain but it was for a better Europe — not an uncritical rubberstamp of what we have now Right up until Cameron's «negotiations» I would have voted REMAIN.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

I voted remain but it was for a better Europe — not an uncritical rubberstamp of what we have now

But the City Council rubberstamped a plan in 2013 to build housing units and an entertainment complex in the gritty neighborhood, relocating hundreds of auto body shop workers.

They think that since the IRS is going to be preparing your taxes, they might overtax people in order to collect more revenue; in this scenario, taxpayers are either a) too afraid of the IRS to dispute what they're reporting, or b) too lazy to check the numbers and will just rubberstamp whatever is sent to them.

theres much more good in the world to be done, so instead rubberstamping segregation or hate of any kind... I have «faith» that somewhere up on an imaginary cloud jesus is shaking his head and looking at his watch.

Will New York's Junior Senator take a stand for unity and civility in political discourse by condemning Harry Reid's remarks, or will she continue to be just another reliable rubberstamp that Reid can use to pass his ideological agenda?

His primary campaign gave us a better sense of the man, but his efforts to define Gibson as a Tea - Party rubberstamp sounded more like a Beltway one - slur - fits - all strategy than one tailored to the specific needs of this congressional district.

Congress should take a hard look at Obama's Ebolacare proposal, rather than rubberstamping something just because Obama calls it an «emergency.»

Rubberstamping recertification applications without reviewing qualifications would be unfair to the taxpayers of Erie County.

The legislature, which typically rubberstamps Board of Elections appointments of either party, is expected to act at its regular meeting on Aug. 15.

He discovered the abuse of surveillance over everyday citizens rubberstamped by a FISA court meant to provide oversight.

It's more than just the first tablet to arrive with a new version of Android - it's the device that Google rubberstamped, it's the device that they designed and refined Honeycomb with.

Thanks to a lawsuit filed by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently ruled that the USDA can no longer rubberstamp license renewals for facilities it knows are violating the AWA.

With the Richard Prince rubberstamp verso.

For now, we have prevented MDT from rubberstamping this project and allowing Imperial Oil to steamroll Montana.

EPA also channels vast sums to its «independent» Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, which likewise rubberstamps the agency's pollution claims and regulations: $ 180.8 million to 15 CASAC members since 2000.

A closed circle of EPA and IPCC reviewers — accompanied by a massive taxpayer - funded public relations and propaganda campaign — must no longer be allowed to rubberstamp junk science that is used to justify federal diktats.

The Slovenian government rubberstamped the permit, and Lafarge began incinerating over 100 tons of hazardous industrial waste on a daily basis.

«The Obama Administration has spent the last year in an embarrassing, blinkered rush to rubberstamp Shell's 2015 Arctic Ocean drilling efforts for 2015, ignoring Shell's disastrous 2012 drilling season and prioritizing corporate profits over the people and wildlife of America's Arctic,» said Audubon Alaska Policy Director Jim Adams.

In custody matters, the Japanese system merely rubberstamps the status quo, Morley says.

The move comes as A&O rubberstamps its package of far - reaching associate career track alternatives.

For Dallas Cowboys fans who see a vast conspiracy against them, those fears weren't allayed yesterday when the Second Circuit rubberstamped Judge Katherine Polk Failla's denial of Ezekiel Elliott's effort to enjoin his six - game suspension.

They automatically rubberstamp everything as «DENIED», make it impossible to reach anyone knowledgeable.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

Name ONE thing the dems will NOT rubberstamp, just one!

«But he has spoken out against the Council rubberstamping the mayor.

They are classified as an entertainment program due to a lawsuit they filed against the FCC on W's watch which was rubberstamped by Colin Powell's son, a Bush appointee.

Subsequently, there was no doubt that Alex Oxlade Chamberlain would find himself in Arsenal's starting XI against Hull City, as the Englishman would have wanted to harness the game time he gets and rubberstamp a place for him in the Gunners» first - choice XI, while the big names are out.

The Gunners are happy to take the Turkey international on - loan for the new season, but a deal is yet to be rubberstamped.

First, given the current political balance, the Turkish legislature is likely to become more of a rubberstamp than it already is under a single - party government, and this will be detrimental for opposition groups, which are already weak and unable to affect policy.

The Legislature will no longer be acting as a rubberstamp for County Executive Mark Poloncarz, but instead, collaborating to best serve all taxpayers.

«By rubberstamping an extreme, unprecedented 50 percent increase it becomes hard to believe New York is really «Open for Business.

A coalition of good - government groups on Monday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders to not stock a review commission charged with reporting on the workings of the ethics regulators with the «usual suspects» who will rubberstamp any findings.

Yet we are now talking about county employees being directed to «rubberstamp» Medicaid requests.

Having gained 47 per cent of the first round vote (on a turn - out of 26 per cent), Jarvis has a strong mandate to bring together the combined authority leaders and rubberstamp the city region's devolution deal to enact the manifesto he campaigned on, including making the case for a Yorkshire Mayor, which we would argue against making the first priority.

Vote Republican to send a message to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand that we're fed up with their rubberstamping of Harry Reid's wasteful spending measures.

«I don't think we rubberstamp,» Skelos said.

In the vein of increased independence from the administration and a refusal to rubberstamp the mayor's budget dictates, the Council speaker made clear he was establishing a new status quo.

Saying the dems will not rubberstamp all of Obama's policies is deceptive.

The City Council overwhelmingly approved a large housing development in Queens today, rubberstamping the first major land use project to be conceived and approved in the de Blasio era.

David Franczyk, the Council's elder with 27 years on the job, said the body isn't much more than a rubberstamp these days.