Sentences with phrase «set against a cut»

«Set this against cuts to the school building programme and we have a perfect storm where more kids will be crammed into bulge classes in schools designed for far fewer pupils.

There was a strong African presence, most notably Otobong Nkanga's multimedia installation at Fabienne Leclerc, and stimulating juxtapositions that put both artists in a new context — a standout, at Lehmann Maupin, was Kader Attia's anthropomorphic swirl of 2,978 beer cans set against a cut - metal mural by Teresita Fernández.

Not exact matches

In the rapidly evolving world of sustainability, it's ok to be just starting out on your carbon - cutting journey as long as you state clearly where you are, set goals on what you want to achieve, and measure yourself against them.

(No hosenfeffer for you) Lev 17:10 Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood — I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

The Netherlands is keeping food waste on the agenda with the announcement of a new collective named «Together against food waste», set up to help the country cut its food waste in half by 2030 in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The fact they could pull this off against the Dodgers will only make it that much sweeter for Arizona: the D - Backs still have a long way to go to catch Los Angeles, but setting the record and winning Wednesday would cut the Dodgers» NL West lead to 10.5 games, half of what it was on Aug. 25.

Kaka's sending off at the weekend in the game against Osasuna was the last straw for the Spanish giants, and they look set to cut their losses and release the player who was once widely considered as amongst the best in the world.

The chancellor is facing a power cut in his Northern Powerhouse as MPs and councillors set themselves against his reforms.

Over a million public sector workers are set to take industrial action against the government in a series of rows over pay, pensions, jobs, conditions and spending cuts, according to union figures.

That was the approach Darling adopted in the budget today, as he did in the pre-budget report at the end of 2009, and which looks set to be part of a developing story of departmental cuts that will be announced from Whitehall this afternoon... As ever, one must guard against exaggeration and oversimplification, but the 2010 budget, which may be Labour's last for a long time, was a very Mandelsonian speech.

We need a strong message, on the lines of that which Ed Balls used in the leadership campaign, that sets out the narrative against cuts rather than meekly accepting them.

NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who chairs the Council Education Committee and is an original plaintiff in the CFE case, is going to lead a protest Saturday against record setting education aid cuts proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the rollback of the settlement payout.

Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused by unrest over the coalition government's austerity agenda.

In the week when Labour's Liam Byrne launched his «Welfare Reform», barely distinguishable from the Tories; when Twigg set about education in a similar vein, and when Diane Abbott's loose but innocuous tweet was met by Labour with cringing apologies instead of forthright anti-racist defence, Leanne could have made more of the opportunity to put Plaid firmly at the forefront of the growing numbers that want to see politicians stand up to all this Tory tosh, lead the fight for jobs and against the cuts.

- is virulently against private gun ownership - is a HUGE supporter of quotas and racial set asides (yet decries racism)- is pro DC voting rights / statehood - is very much pro-choice - is against the death penalty - favors raising taxes (and letting Bush's expire), not cutting spending - favors a nationalized health care plan

«We would like to thank Team Schneiderman for producing an ad with a courtroom setting, which only serves to highlight that D.A. Donovan has spent the better part of the last 15 years prosecuting cases in actual courtrooms while State Senator Schneiderman was busy voting to raise taxes, proposing legislation to line trial lawyers» pockets, voting against civil confinement for sex offenders and cutting deals to keep Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate in the majority fold in Albany,» Shapiro said.

Going in to attack Miliband, he pointed out that the Government inherited a wrecked set of public finances and we know which cuts Miliband is against but he has no suggestions of what he would cut.

Maybe adding this title in a bundle in addition to Nintendo Land near Christmas time might be a way to show off some of the GamePad functions and add a little value to the package while still avoiding the price cut they seem to be dead set against...

But with these two movies — one set against the backdrop of the movie biz, the other in the music scene — shooting last year back - to - back, we can only imagine the unbelievable stack of footage Malick's teams of editors are sorting through, as they cut half the cast out and help him find the movie and tone he wants.

In the case of the new science - fiction thriller The Thing, that principle applies heavily to the Antarctic setting, where inclement weather cuts off a tiny science station from potential rescuers, darkness and bitter cold make even closely huddled buildings seem forbiddingly far apart, and circumstances set everyone in the area against each other.

It's a neat, dynamic sequence that's unfortunately and fatally undermined by Lin's decision to set it against an incredibly dark backdrop of London streets and make so many rapid cuts that it's doubly incomprehensible most of the time.

The 16x9 main menu is a somewhat odd, choppy montage of clips from the movie, cut out and set against an artsy, animated background as the memorable theme plays.

The film places an emphasis on blood over flesh when it comes to Jennifer (and Needy as well, in a childhood flashback of the girls featuring either a kissing - a-cut-to-make-it-better or forming - a-blood-bond-via-quick-blood-sucking you'll - have - to - decide move by Needy on Jennifer's cut palm which may or may not form a psychic connection between the girls, you'll have to decide on that, too), which in turn draws one away from demonic connections towards vampiric ones, which sets Cody against Whedon; a battle Cody can't really hope to win.

Pick your reason to not partake: The total lack of research behind this assessment so there is no reliability or validity to it what so ever, they are using our kids to norm reference their assessment, for free, the subjectively set cut scores done by vote, not science, that have been set to intentionally fail 60 - 70 % of our students and their teachers which in turn allows for a whole other set of things to happen to schools and communities, the pending lawsuit against SBAC in Missouri where a judge issued a restraining order against the state from making payments, that we now also have to pay to them (where is that MOU?)

But it has always been extremely politically sensitive - with the expectation that there will be losers as well as winners - and the prospect of individual schools facing big funding cuts is going to be difficult to set against promises to protect school spending.

Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)

The expansion is set in the icy wasteland known as «The Cut», where the bravest hunters of the Banuk tribe test themselves against the elements and the machines, but only few live to tell the tale.

Set against a maroon background, Ballengée's prints cut the swooping birds out of John James Audobon's lithographs, creating silhouettes that are both beautiful and sad.

They appear to speak against a set made from large - scale ink - jet prints of the house and grounds glued to cardboard, their backs to the camera or their faces out of focus or cut out of the frame.

Although still offering a fuller programme for paid members and relying on members» support to fulfil its charitable mission, the Contemporary Art Society's move to become more public - facing is set against a backdrop of recent cuts to arts funding in the UK and intends to provide greater advocacy and support for the visual arts nationally, especially at a regional level.

In the gallery, the sculptures create imperfect angles as they play against the corners of the room; cut - out circles are set against a large glass window; steel tubes seem to mirror pre-existing light fittings.

So voracious is the presence of the twelve works in this focused retrospective of Al Loving's work, set as they are against the inert framing of the white cube, that they might be better described by the activities that resulted in their making: stack, weave, layer, tear, cut, drip.

Viewers cut into Roxanne D. Crocker's CAKE, set against the backdrop of Lisi Raskin's Flat Screen (Pink Wall) at the opening of the group show you know it when you feel it as part of Recuperative Tactics, Art in General, April 19, 2014.

«Set up the parameters, adjust the structure,» recites Jimmy Robert (° 1975, Guadaloupe) in his video Paramètres (2011) while holding cut - out geometric drawings against the contours of his face.

Robert's reference to Mrs Thatcher as a politician who opposed these tendencies is contradicted by her splashing out a billion pounds setting up the Hadley Centre, against her natural budget - cutting instincts.

The UK's Climate Change Act 2008 sets a legally - binding goal for an 80 % emissions cut in 2050, against a 1990 baseline.

The Bar has rallied in support of its criminal law colleagues, as more sets join the action against fee cuts imposed by changes to the advocates» graduated fee scheme (AGFS).

If legal aid lawyers want to demonstrate against the cuts, rallies have been set up from 4 pm onwards in central london http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/?p=756