Sentences with phrase «spending years fighting»

Advocates for the voucher program said they were relieved after spending years fighting for its survival under President Barack Obama, who opposed vouchers.

After spending years fighting claims that cell phone use can cause brain tumors, industry reps may be getting some welcome news.

Banks have spent years fighting the so - called QM and ability - to - repay rules that essentially banned the most egregious types of loans that helped spark the mortgage meltdown.

You get the feeling that someone like Peres was never a natural leader of Israel — the Polish lilt to his accent, and his limits in terms of military experience, something still so valued in a country which has spent years fighting for its right to exist and still operates mandatory military service, are made much of.

The Hotel Trades Council has spent years fighting to ensure that gaming jobs in New York State are good, middle class jobs.

«I have spent years fighting for small business owners, family farms, hardworking families and the neediest among us against the corrupt, rigged system that has allowed Albany politicians and their cronies to literally steal from Upstate New Yorkers while destroying our economy.»

Mario Cuomo spent years fighting New York state's minimum drinking age of 19 before being able to sign legislation on Dec. 1, 1985 to raise the legal drinking age to 21, according to the release.

They noted that Slaughter spent years fighting to secure over $ 15 million in federal funding for the station.

Today, even those who spent years fighting against Lopez - led County operation and its candidates today expressed a certain sadness at his passing.

Women and Equalities is something I have spent years fighting for and this appointment is a great honour.»

«Rebecca was raised in the labor movement and spent years fighting for Teamsters members,» said George Miranda, the president of Teamsters Joint Council 16.

He spent years fighting local and state incentives that helped expand Destiny USA.

I spent years fighting my body when I was struggling with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism and working hard to treat symptoms like brain fog, muscle stiffness, fatigue, and weight gain.

I spent years fighting and struggling with dis - ease before I realized there had to be a better way.

I spent years fighting against white but I am now embracing it.

I spent years fighting my natural hair texture, which resulted in a long phase of awkward hair.

Insurgent soldier Akasuki Svenson has spent years fighting GALCOM oppression across the galaxy, waiting for an opportunity to get revenge on the GALCOM commander that destroyed her home.

Big Coal and its allies in the Bush administration had spent years fighting a rule that required mining companies to obtain permits before dumping waste into rivers.

Horner, who had spent years fighting for the release of information from the EPA, would now be on the inside of the same agency he had been fighting.

Duke Energy customers in North Carolina pay millions of dollars each year to fund industry groups that have spent years fighting against strong coal ash regulations, and have engaged in a host other efforts that do not benefit consumers.

West Virginian Maria Gunnoe has spent years fighting the coal - mining industry in her hometown of Bob White; her property has been flooded seven times since the mountaintop - remove mine began in 2000.

Yet environmental officials and groups that spent years fighting General Electric's efforts to challenge the need to remove the mud were more critical.

Our Miami personal injury law firm has spent years fighting for victims and their families nationwide, including several newsworthy high - profile cases.

In an op - ed today in Women's Health, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, celebrates Estelle Griswold, who «as the executive director of Planned Parenthood of Connecticut in the fifties and sixties, spent years fighting an 1879 state law that made it illegal to use or prescribe contraception.

I quickly realised that I had made a massive mistake and tried to go back but other people told me he no longer needed me so I didn't bother and we spent a year fighting over our youngest as the older child wants nothing to do with him.

Bizarre that Rogers would hire the worst full service broker around, Lawrence spent years fighting for discount model, his listings and service sucked and his business failed but Rogers want him to lead the way?

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In a statement on Tuesday, Franken's office reiterated that he would not run, saying the senator would «spend the next several years fighting on behalf of Minnesota families.»

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

During one particularly unstable year, he spent 220 days in the U.S., fighting fires in the company's branch offices.

We refused to pay off this company for the ideas our employees spent years innovating and unfortunately we have been left with no choice but to take this fight up through the court system.

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

Doctors and hospitals spend more than $ 90 million each year on cancer - fighting drugs.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

A: «I've spent the past 12 years of my life fight or flight.

The company reportedly spent upwards of $ 8 million fighting the proposition, which would have kept hosts from renting their homes for more than 75 days a year.

Launched three years ago to fight off the threat of deflation, the ECB's 2.55 trillion euro ($ 3.14 trillion) bond purchase programme has kept borrowing costs low to induce spending and investment, all with the ultimate aim of generating inflation.

Spending the next five, 10 years fighting over pipelines does not seem the best way to do that.

Bill Gates» private foundation announced that it will spend $ 158 million to fight systemic poverty in the U.S.. On Thursday, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that it will spend the money on initiatives such as funding for community activists during the next four years.

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Two years ago, former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris launched Time Well Spent to help people fight social media addiction.

The above Black pastors should be ashmaed of themselves, after all the years spent fighting for African american equality alll we are looking for is a bit of equality ourselves.

Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr's wife, spent her final years fighting FOR gay rights.

I spent 2 years in Viet Nam believing I was fighting for freedom... 70 % of people my age either protested or went north to canada... FEEDOM HAS A TASTE THAT THE PROTECTED WILL NEVER KNOW.

As a young man fighting in the Polish resistance, Wiernicki was captured by the Germans and spent almost two years in Auschwitz.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Reports are saying the script will take place years in the future after the superhero has spent a lifetime trying to fight pollution.

If Jordan wants to fight for a worthy cause, how about fighting for the 1st Responders that still have not been compensated for their losses eleven years after this tragedy occurred, that would be time well spent, who agrees?

I didn't grow up in the church and spent many years fighting against Christianity.

Finally, I spent 16 years in the army...... I didn't fight for God, Queen and country minus the homos......... and no soldier does.