Sentences with phrase «shoring up public»

It merely condones a type of triage that preserves resources for the most serious crimes, rather than shoring up the public defenders» program with more funding.

Both candidates want to make permanent the property tax cap, but Kaminsky sometimes seems more concerned about shoring up public union support than about taxpayers.

New York Democrats passed a bill to shore up public - sector dues collections, limit employees» ability to cut off the unions representing their workplaces, and «deter the federal government's attempts to dismantle unions.»

The teachers unions oppose reforms like Vergara, they oppose free speech lawsuits like Friedrichs vs. the CTA, they oppose charter schools, they fight any attempts to invoke the Parent Trigger Law, and they are continually agitating for more taxes «for the children,» when in reality virtually all new tax revenue for education is poured into the insatiable maw of Wall Street to shore up public sector pension funds.

The idea was put forward as a way to shore up public confidence in the wake of a hack that resulted in the theft $ 500 million worth of the NEM token from Coincheck, one of the Japanese exchanges that have yet to be fully approved by the FSA.

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The reasoning behind all of these actions — shoring up streaming rights, decreasing losses, etc. — point to Spotify potentially planning an initial public offering for sometime next year, as has been reported.

My goal would be to both ensure that those who depend on the program are protected, while also balancing the growing cost of Social Security with other pressing priorities — from programs for children, the vulnerable, public investments, and shoring up our education and worker retraining systems.

Public morality does not mean the shoring up of lax morals through legislation demanded by a culturally conservative voting bloc.

If you were to transport yourself to the El Paso of 1949 and take up a position as far south as possible — by the north shore of the Rio Grande, in a netherland not wholly of the U.S. but not of Mexico either — you'd be a cutoff throw from Bowie High School, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Americans.

The governor is seeking to quickly shore up support among his left - leaning Democratic base — a group with which he has not always seen eye - to - eye — particularly since Nixon, also a public education activist, announced she would challenge him in a primary in September.

He took the plunge into public affairs in 2014 and was last year recruited by FleishmanHillard Fishburn as the agency sought to shore up its wobbling public affairs operation.

The mayor, sniffling through his remarks, highlighted major investments in the city's public hospitals, whose finances, a city - commissioned report found, were teetering on the edge «of a financial cliff,» and in shoring up the city's bridges, as well as a one - time, $ 183 credit paid out on the water bills of more than half a million homeowners.

He is a strong advocate for counties» role in strengthening public safety, ensuring fiscal responsibility, shoring up core infrastructure and improving economic development.

McDonnell sought to shore up Labour's promises to reinvest heavily in the economy and public spending after Brexit.

If 2015 was the year that showed us the feral negativity and limited value of the public sphere, it was also the campaign that shored up the importance of data and the point where micro-campaigning, long a mainstay of US elections, finally found its feet in Europe, albeit in a very European (and less intrusive) way.

In the days since actor and progressive activist Cynthia Nixon indicated she might want to run against Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary for New York governor, Cuomo has made a number of public appearances and taken several steps to shore up his political base.

«Mitt Romney has shored up support among his key backers while cutting his loses among Tea Party voters,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Brazil's Petrobras — $ 70 billion richer after staging the largest - ever public share offering in September — is ramping up for commercial production from a vast cache of «pre-salt» oil lying farther (180 miles) from shore and buried deeper (4.5 miles below the Atlantic) than BP's Gulf holdings.

The U.N. declaration suggests countries should look to public - private partnerships to help shore up such efforts.

This is not something we can solve by shoring up our borders,» she said at a public event earlier this month at Georgetown University Medical Center.

The U.N. agency declared in August 2014 that the world's worst Ebola outbreak — which began in December 2013 — represented a «public health emergency of international concern'that forced all health officials to shore up defences.

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them.

With neither Gov. Bruce Rauner nor state lawmakers acting to bail out the nation's third - largest school system, teachers are taking to the streets for a day to pressure a deadlocked Springfield to help shore up Chicago Public Schools» precarious finances.

The teachers lined out the door Monday afternoon to attend a House Finance Committee hearing on Senate Bill 200, which would cut public employee retirement benefits to shore up the state retirement plan.

Teachers across the state plan to protest cuts to public schools on the first day of the legislature's special session to shore up the budget.

Rather than funneling tax money to private interests or to charter school operators that are not accountable to the public, our state must shore up neighborhood public schools where all students graduate from high school prepared for college or the world of work, no matter what the color of their skin, the language they speak, or where they happen to be born.

Beyond that, the Board seeks $ 960,000 in new ongoing funding to hold itself and the Utah State Office of Education more fiscally accountable and shore up data security in the state's public school system.

Even as vouchers have shored up many parochial schools, public schools have been squeezed: State education spending has not kept up with inflation, and still is not as high, in real dollars, as it was in 2011, according to Lawrence DeBoer, an economist at Purdue University.

The UMass proposal would set aside 25 seats in each class for students who would commit to serving in public - interest law for four years after graduation.That is a good start and maybe that aspect of the proposal could be shored up.

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'' [A] n attorney may not claim protection of the anti-SLAPP statute for publishing statements about an adversary at will, in hopes of shoring up his or her own position, attracting potential clients, or otherwise gaining a tactical advantage in an ongoing legal proceeding, even when that proceeding has, as here, attracted a good deal of public and governmental interest.

For the students, it was the latest in a blitz of public and media appearances on Monday to shore up last - minute momentum ahead of the March for Our Lives rally on Saturday in Washington, D.C.