Sentences with phrase «say dramatic action»
Those who support a convention say dramatic action is required to address corruption charges that have forced more than 30 officials out of office in a decade as well as issues such as New York's high taxes, unequal funding of schools, and the influence of big - money donors in campaigns.
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Earlier this month, Scaramucci said he would take «dramatic action» to stop leaks to the press from within the administration.
The Vatican can bridge some of the distance with Latino Catholics with one dramatic action, some scholars say.
Those interested in understanding one of the most dramatic lives of the century (and one of the most important pontificates of the second millennium) have to be prepared to take Karol Jozef Wojtyla as what he says he is: a radically committed Christian believer for whom a central, defining conviction - «Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life»» is the source of both his thought and his action.
«Obviously, these are desperate times, and we need to take dramatic action,» Weprin said.
(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)
«If we had higher performing and safer schools, I wouldn't be calling for such dramatic action as mayoral responsibility of the schools,» Lavine said.
The Tobacco Action Coalition of Onondaga County says this would have a dramatic effect in reducing the number of teens and young adults that get addicted to nicotine.
After his talks with the public - employees union to reduce workforce costs didn't produce savings, the governor is specifically looking for «one day of furlough in each appropriation that we make from here on until we pass this budget,» he said, adding for dramatic effect: «The crisis is worsening and we must take action.»
«It was a very dramatic action by the state,» he said, «and I think we all agree it was exactly what was called for.»
«When someone so low key and behind the scenes as Assemblywoman Lupardo takes such dramatic action, I really think that sends an unmistakable message to Governor Cuomo,» Hang said.
California's action to cut water deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businesses.
In that regard, Modern Combat 5: Blackout [Free] is an excellent sequel that makes some dramatic improvements to said mechanics while keeping the actual FPS action mostly unchanged.
All of that being said, there is still some fun to be had here, as the performances from Aaron Taylor - Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and (especially) Jim Carrey are all extremely fun to watch, the action scenes are exciting and bad - ass, some of the humor really works, and a good amount of the dramatic material is effective.
«Good tests that are comparable across geographic boundaries are prerequisites to the actions needed to make dramatic improvements in our schools,» John A. Krol said in a Sept. 4 statement.
Green says, «certainly the unions could compromise and agree to allowing Malloy and Pryor a dozen or 18 schools where the state could take dramatic action — longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»
«Im somewhat skeptical, given the history of some of the companies involved in this, that it represents a dramatic change in their resistance to aggressive federal and state policy action on the issue,» said Alden M. Meyer, director of government relations for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
«The Calabrians are prone to taking dramatic action and have indicated a willingness, a desire I should say, to remove the instigator.»
Per Bloomberg, while at Beijing's China Development Forum on Saturday, Cook said he believed the situation was «dire» and dramatic action needed to be taken: