Sentences with phrase «shot at policy»

They need to offer plausible alternatives to have a shot at policy or political success.

But she took shots at policies that she said only benefit politicians and campaign contributors, like tax breaks worth hundreds of millions of dollars for Destiny USA.

While we may have seen the end of an era, staying in touch with a good independent agent will ensure that you get first shot at those policies that buck the new trend.

Not exact matches

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

Police are trying to nail down Nasim Aghdam's motives for shooting people at YouTube's headquarters yesterday, but it may well relate to the woman's antipathy toward the company's content moderation policies.

Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and several other institutions, soon shot back saying the stock market performed better under Obama than under Trump at the same point in their presidency.

Done right, diverse slate hiring policies — which require at least one woman or person of colour to be among the candidates considered for a job — remove the easy excuses that cheat the under - represented out of a shot at key roles.

Scientific, research - driven public policy might prevent shooting massacres like this week's at a Las Vegas country music festival, he said.

Trump, however, went on to fire several political shots toward his opponents, including his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, who previously turned down an invitation to speak at the Jamboree in protest of the Boy Scouts» policy of disallowing gay members and leaders from joining its ranks in 2013.

Senator Marco Rubio wrote to Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions linking the DOE guidance to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and asking if the policy is what allowed the suspect, Nikolas Cruz, to slip through the system.

The walkout, «Stand for the Second,» is a response to the March 14 National School Walkout that called for gun control policy measures while honoring the one - month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, governments and businesses have made changes to gun and safety policies in response.

The FHA percent share by dollar volume shot up in 2008 and 2009, according to the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development:

When Maclean's asked Kenney before the leadership vote about a carbon policy that these industry leaders may now view as something that must be replaced if it's repealed, he did something aspiring conservative premiers seldom do in Alberta: he took a shot at the corporate titans.

New Democrats feel their best shot at re-election cuts a straight path through Kenney's social values, policies and past comments against same - sex marriage and abortion, as well as his more recent comments that parents ought to be informed that their kids are in school gay - straight alliances.

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In the Senate, one new Democrat, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was elected by firing a shot at President Obama's cap and trade policy, and a large number of the 23 Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2012, especially those who come from redder states, have heard the footsteps.

(If you're flying on an airline with an open seating policy, early check - in means earlier boarding — and a better shot at sitting together.)

Then, there is social control as in who gets to call the shots in the situation, which would be the individual midwife at home (with no oversight) vs. doctors, nurses etc in the hospitals (with institutional policies in place and a lot of oversight).

YouTube said this week that it would tighten restrictions on some firearm videos, its latest policy announcement since coming under scrutiny following last month's mass shooting at a high school in Parkland.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum last night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

The oratorical flourish at the end of the debate on Syria was the most vivid example of defiance, but it was also Hilary who used a Today programme interview soon after Corbyn had been elected to politely insist that Labour policy was in favour of renewing trident and then to appear once again to express his support for the right of police to «shoot to kill», in both cases against the publicly declared position of his leader.

A Cuomo administration source insisted that nothing about the policy as outlined by Irvin has changed, and then took a shot (albeit anonymously) at the Spitzer folks for questioning that.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee Wednesday to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum Wednesday night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

The Police Department's current policy is to release some footage on a case - by - case basis at the commissioner's discretion, and it has done so in three police - involved shootings.

Three candidates seeking the Republican nomination to run against Governor Andrew Cuomo this fall appeared in Amherst Saturday morning, where they took turns taking shots at the incumbent and his policies, including the Buffalo Billion.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo took another shot at the State Board of Regents Thursday, blaming the education policy makers for «massive chaos» that he said has resulted from their implementation of the Common Core standards in New York.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that Mayor Bill de Blasio's resistance to closing the city's famous — and infamous — island incarceration complex is little more than political obstinacy and inertia, and took a shot at his rival Democrat «s education policies while he was at it.

At 3 p.m., NYC Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives Richard Buery and the Council of Peoples Organization host a community forum to reflect on the mass shooting in Orlando, 1081 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn.

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At the weekend's National Council in Perth, SNP activists supported a resolution calling for shooting estate licensing to be introduced in Scotland, making it certified party policy to support licensing for driven grouse estates.

Backing austerity is the policy equivalent of shooting at where the clay pigeon is, rather than where it will be.

Outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton took a parting shot Monday at critics of the NYPD's stop - and - frisk and broken - windows policies.

Public Service Professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity and Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy University at Albany SUNY, Rick Mathews joins us to discuss last night's mass shooting in Las Vegas.

«I'm not exactly certain if this is more of the congressman's way to take a shot at the governor than it is to talk about policy.»

Steube's announcement also broached veterans» issues and the national policy discussion following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 dead.

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The governor did not mention charter schools, but Cuomo took a shot at teachers and their unions, who he's been at odds with over school policy, saying the teacher's fight is not about education.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

He continued to deride Republican Donald Trump and also took shots at Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio over Republican immigration policies.

The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

Studies looking at seven of the investigated policies, including concealed carry laws and background checks, were inconclusive about whether those policies lowered the likelihood of a mass shooting.

Interventions that reduce gun violence in at - risk communities might be very different than, say, policies for reducing mass shootings.

A shooting rampage by two students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 that left 11 students and two staff members dead spurred administrators in the Branson, Missouri, school district to re-examine their security policy, and staff and student ID badges became part of the new plan.

Her plan is, to put it very mildly indeed, highly controversial — and the PM has already signaled that (a) the new policy will take steps to ensure that poor kids will have a fair shot at a grammar school education and (b) she doesn't intend to impose selective schooling on every community.

She knew it might be a long shot, but the work that was being done at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C., where she serves as CEO, was already in line with the goals of the initiative: creating educational opportunities for children in distressed communities by offering «cradle - to - college» services.

James Allen, head of policy at the Sport and Recreation Alliance, which represents sport governing bodies, said: «The funding is bound to be a shot in the arm for schools following the demise of School Sport Partnerships.

It's time to tune out the unions and implement policies that give all children a shot at academic success.

The memo outlined federal policies that could help close the achievement gap and ensure all students across the country had an equal and fair shot at a quality education.

So many commentators take verbal shots at her that you'd think she had the policy - making power of, say, President Obama, or Education Secretary Arne Duncan, or billionaire education philanthropist Bill Gates.