Sentences with phrase «sparring about»

He also provided specifics for a few things he's been talking about for a while, like education — he wants to increase school aid by about a billion dollars — but especially homelessness, an issue he's been sparring about with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

America's Battle of the Books: Dueling Readers Spar About Literature Students choosing to read meaningful literature and avid readers from different schools working together as teams: does it sound too good to be true?

Left - and right - leaning advocates sparred about the hypothetical impact of $ 9.2 billion in cuts to the U.S. Department of Education proposed by Trump last week, and whether the Republican - controlled Congress is interested in the president's pitch for a $ 1.4 billion school choice initiative.

While they spar about the war, they bond over commonalities.

En route they schmooze and spar about how badly they treat each other, track down «star homes» like Julia Roberts's ranch, join a bunch of guys in a hot tub and take a skiing lesson.

For those of you who are die - hard puzzle solvers here to spar about cutting edge research: good news, here's where we begin the long awaited update to Dr David Evans» climate research.

Landsea, now a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center, and Emanuel have sparred about whether the bias correction should be employed in current theories without verification.

At one point — as the two sparred about funding sources for climate skeptics and scientists — Emanuel stopped in midsentence.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the industry has sparred with the DEA for much of the past decade about the role it should play in monitoring the delivery of drugs.

The conversation was charged as panelists sparred on 421a, with Pinsky — the former head of the city's Economic Development Corporation — raising questions about the cost of lengthy tax abatements.

It is about raw power, a struggle over which of the two sparring hegemons will dominate technology and run the world in the 21st century.

To me the exchanges on this blog (and others of its kind) are not (or should not be) about endless philosophical sparring.

They have been talking about it for hours, rehearsing the possibilities, arguing about the details, sparring with one another about the theological nuances of an empty tomb.

The first time she's alone with Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), the two spar like Beatrice and Benedict about how the lovely night they're enjoying is wasted because they're obviously not into each other.

David talks openly about tough stuff... are you honestly interested in hearing his heart or, as it sometimes seems, just wanting to engage in a quasi-spiritual sparring match?

His teacher, Sensei John, was a very wise person, and as David was about to spar, Sensei John warned David, «Remember to breathe.»

In this latest installment, viewers ride full throttle alongside The Most Interesting Man and discover more about his legend, as he races airboats down sand dunes and spars in Samurai armor.

I guess I can't say Cody lied about much more than how his and TJ sparring went.

Frazer Clarke reflects on his Commonwealth gold medal and dismisses the sparring rumours about Joshua and Dubois.

C'm on guys — take a lesson from talk radio, whose hosts have sparred with guests for decades (talk about social media!).

And as he talks about the pressure that was on him from Trump, he pointedly dropped a reference to another person he once sparred with over an investigation: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

COLLEGE POINT — A two - hour meeting Tuesday between Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and leaders of the five police unions, which have been sparring with City Hall about the administration's treatment of police officers, ended without a resolution, according to Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch.

One candidate would asked a question about a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills football team, which would then lead to Cuomo and Astorino sparring over a complex housing settlement with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed Mr. Lhota the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority about a month ago, Mr. Lhota has sparred with Mr. de Blasio and backed up Mr. Cuomo as the governor feuds with the mayor.

The two Democrats verbally sparred over the weekend about the state's legislative session, especially the mayor's affordable housing plan.

Movement on MTA Funding: The de Blasio administration appears to be moving toward meeting more of the funding requests made by the MTA, a state agency, even as the Cuomo and de Blasio administrations continue to spar publicly about responsibility, funding levels, and other aspects of the issue.

About 95,000 students are enrolled at 207 charter schools in the Big Apple, but de Blasio has frequently sparred with operators of the schools, which mostly run without the teachers union.

The mayor also responded to several questions from people concerned about arrests for low - level crimes and sparred with a constituent over where an indoor pool he promised the borough at his last Staten Island town hall should be located.

March 28th — Latitude 24 degrees 20 minutes, longitude 80 degrees 02 minutes, passed a broken spar projecting about 3 feet out of water, apparently attached to sunken wreckage.

knife & weapon attacks)- Striking & Sparring - Thai boxing style We have an energetic group to train with, keeping it fun & intense Frequency about 2 posts per month.

Naruto Dating Sim - In this online Naruto game you gather your intelligence, charm, chakra, and strength and spar against Naruto, Sasuke and Learn about different types of radiometric dating, such as carbon dating.

Gregory and I spar a bit on what we think the Oscar chances for Joy and The Hateful Eight will be and Gregory pulls out a couple of potential «surprise» movies that no one is talking about in the race that could hit big with Oscar.

Needless to say, parental concerns here are all about violence, with lots of fist - to - fist and feet - to - face sparring that results in a few bloody moments and fatalities.

We don't really know what he's after with Caleb, which grants a nice charge to their early moments together, especially their tentative sparring matches about their respective desires.

There's a clever bit of character building that occurs in the verbal sparring matches between M and C, too — we see M's sense of honor and order and C's inability to care about people either as individuals or collectively.

It's a tremendous intellectual sparring match between the two, all about religion and philosophy, yet it starts innocently enough with an enquiry about Marcus's social life.

Crude humor in this film contains frequent references to male anatomy, sexual sparring and mild innuendo between the animals that includes comments about breeding, cross dressing and interspecies relationships.

The source material's missing humor represents the most neutered aspect of this adaptation, as if Wells had balked at the idea of having to balance outrageously nasty sparring with black - hearted laughs, fearing it would be impolite for the audience to snicker at the deeply incisive judgments the characters bandy about.

We see a documentary about the professional rivalry and growing friendship between Ebert and his late sparring partner Gene Siskel, whose nationally syndicated television show brought film criticism into many homes and inspired a few generations of film lovers — myself included — to watch movies with a critical but appreciating eye.

Jennifer Lawrence (JL): «Red Sparrow» is about a dancer named Dominika Egorova at the Bolshoi Ballet, trained under the sparring of the codename «Sparrow» to come involuntarily Lure the staff of the Russian National Security Agency.

Nicholas Hoult As a gawky 12 year - old, Hoult may have impressed in «About a Boy,» sparring opposite Hugh Grant with admirable lack of cuteness, but it was hard to see what kind of career lay ahead for a child actor with such a tart register and ungainly presence.

But whether Dern is acting in «Star Wars» for director Rian Johnson or sparring with Kristen Wiig on «The Last Man on Earth,» she's driven by a desire to use her creative outlook to speak about life's bigger questions.

Merryl Tisch, the chancellor of the State Board of Regents, frequently sparred with Mr. Klein — though largely privately — about his style of forcing change in the city.

The latest round came in October after Time came out with a story onVergara v. California and the sparring between reformers and the Big Two unions over teacher quality reform that featured the headline Rotten Apples and included a cover photo of an apple about to be smashed by a judge's gavel.

After months of debate about the $ 56 million Park City School District bond, residents this week at last got to see representatives from the two sides of the issue spar in a true back - and - forth discussion.

The eccentric Coddington — who wears all black, has wild red hair and doesn't mind sparring with Wintour to advocate for a spread she's passionate about — completely stole the movie.

When Ally is kidnapped by a handsome highwayman on the way to a party, she spars with him long enough to make him laugh, and then he lets her go on to the party, where Ally unbeknownst to her is about to learn the identity of her fiancÅ.

Wonder Women Debora L. Spar talked about her forthcoming book, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection.

This game is fun as hell, the exhibition mode is fun (with friends), classic fights are a good way to get someone who wasn't into MMA interested in it (e.g. me) Career mode is fun but the problem is that you don't age is kinda dumb to be honest, you're «CRED» has no real purpose other than to get you new equipment, sponsors, sparring partners and opportunities to increase your «CRED» the controls are confusing to someone who's never played a game like this A.K.A me but I'll give it credit for innovation, you can go to training camps which upgrade you're striking and grappling which gives you new moves, their is a few exploits in the game No. 1 if you manage to get all the sponsors you can use them in create a fighter (which by the way has a decent enough amount of options) you can put all of the sponors that give the most cred and get everything easily and I mean everything No. 2 when you go to a training camp all you have to do is watch two demonstrations by the camp fighter and you have full stamina No. 3 any fighter you can beat within a minute of the first round you can beat a few times and shoot up the ranks, the music is good but you'll soon get sick of it and turn it off cause it repeats itself soo often, they didn't add intro walks, music and cage entries which would've made you feel more like an actual UFC fighter, but overall its a fun game but there's a few missed opportunities and not many fighting styles to choose from but rent it if you are curious about the game.

Moreover, it's important to have a circle of friends that you can spar with: «Art is about communication.