Sentences with phrase «running the council without»

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Grassley «is not just asking them to come in and talk, he is asking them for everything,» Kenneth Behr, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, told The Tampa Tribune, which in May ran a lengthy investigative report on the Whites» Without Walls church and its finances.

In England and Wales the system is also still used to elect local councillors and here «no overall control» situations frequently occur, where either a coalition of parties runs the council, or the largest party assumes control without a majority.

If Yoni Hikind does not run, Kalman Yeger will have lucked into a Council seat without a competitive election.

«Council Speaker Christine Quinn is edging up toward that magic 40 percent that would make her the Democratic nominee without a primary run - off,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

In a discussion of the Albany political scene, the question is raised: Will Sheehan's latest mayoral stint run without a hitch seeing as the major challengers in Albany's Common Council have been pushed out?

De Blasio and supporters of his approach, including Council Speaker Mark - Viverito, believe that without this type of government intervention, the forces of the market will run wild over East Harlem as they have in Central Harlem, several Brooklyn neighborhoods, and elsewhere over the past two decades.

On the Common Council, meanwhile, Republicans maintained their two - member minority after newcomer Nate Horowitz knocked off a veteran incumbent in Ward 3 and registered Republican Deborah Brown, running without a major party line, bested the Democratic candidate in her second run for the Ward 9 seat.

Without a Republican running against Mayor Stephanie Miner, and with Democrats having with a stranglehold in most common council and school board races, Green Party candidates are emerging as alternatives for voters in a handful of races.

She also has taken heat for helping Bloomberg get the council to agree to extend term limits so he could run for a third time in 2008, without asking the voters who had approved a two - term limit twice in the 1990s.

Reform Party leader Curtis Sliwa has proposed filling the job via a citywide public vote, but that makes little sense: A speaker without support from a majority of the members can't run the council.

Judge Michael Mackey's decision paved the way for Harder and Morin, who are running without the Democratic Committee's blessing, to be on the ballot in November for town council and highway superintendent respectively, although the committee plans to appeal.

He consulted with acquaintances about whether she should run for borough president, the Council or another position, even though many officials sensed that he did so without her knowledge.

JACKSON HEIGHTS — A two - term Queens district leader is running again without the support of her party — after she said she was shunned for bucking the Democratic party's pick last year for City Council speaker.

Do they wish to reprioritize or bring added emphasis to some of the mayors programs... I can't imagine a congressman or senator in the state or nation running without mention of the executives programs... but here we are, people running for Common Council without reference to the programs and policies underway by the existing, and very active, executive... What a very strange body the Common Council is...

«Council Speaker Christine Quinn is edging up toward that magic 40 percent that would make her the Democratic nominee without a primary run - off,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

Passions ran high: Immunologist Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, director - general of the Indian Council of Medical Research here, warned of «chaos and confusion leading to anarchy» if the rules were implemented without amendments.

The ATL motion approved today calls on the union's leadership to lobby the government to restore and fund local authority supply lists — platforms run by councils that allow supply teachers to find vacancies without using a costly agency.

About a month ago, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation, the international body running the European Patent Office, expressed «concern at an incident unique in the history of [the] EPO» without saying clearly whether this related to the controversial decision by EPO president Battistelli to «suspend» a member of a board of appeal (a judge in all but name) for disciplinary reasons or whatever the suspended judge might have done.

The statistics from the Judicial Council, the folks who run the courts of this state, show that 65 % of people doing divorces in this state are doing so without lawyers — and that by the end of their case, 80 % are without lawyers.