Sentences with phrase «stalled effort»

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers headed to the polls for a chance to select Mayor Michael Bloomberg's successor and cast ballots in a host of other elections — even as broken voting machines across the city stalled their efforts.

That stemmed from a 2015 incident in which they allegedly stalled efforts to uncover thousands of dollars of improper purchases with a union bank card by Deborah J. Lee, who had been the leader of a PEF council in Rockland County.

As New York debates whether to join these cities after decades of stalled efforts, their experiences could provide a road map.

Cuomo defended closing the Commission, explaining that subpoenas issued by the investigative panel inadvertently stalled all efforts to unearth wrongdoing.

After several stalled efforts, they abandoned human Argonaute in favor of an archaebacteria form, despite skepticism from colleagues.

Obsessing over what I look like now as compared to what I looked like before stalls my efforts at maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

The next COP President, Poland, must show leadership now and stop stalling efforts in the EU on this issue.

Plaintiffs lawyers and insurance companies have waited more than three years for the state Supreme Court to take up the case of Yanting Zhang, a homeowner who sued her insurance company for false advertising after it repeatedly stalled her efforts to get recovery after an apartment fire.

Even if you have a targeted job - search strategy, a generic resume and cover letter can quickly stall your efforts.

North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has invited President Trump to meet and Trump has agreed, a senior South Korean official said at the White House Thursday, signaling a potential diplomatic breakthrough in long - stalled efforts to end the nuclear impasse on...

But he said the decision may spur Congress to finally address the stalled effort to reform America's corporate tax structure.

But he said the decision may spur Congress to finally address the stalled effort to reform America's...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday in Albany during a reception at the executive mansion pledged to push for a long - stalled effort to increase the age of criminal responsibility in New York as well as his own proposal to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer, highlighted what have become familiar benchmarks in the long - stalled effort to win statewide civil rights protections for transgender and other gender - nonconforming New Yorkers.

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., today, BAS Executive Director Kennette Benedict said accelerating climate change and stalled efforts to reduce nuclear weapons stockpiles had «equal weight» in pushing BAS's Science and Security Board to reset the clock at 11:57 p.m.

The House of Representatives passed a climate bill in June, but a stalled effort on health care has delayed the Senate from examining the issue.

This has made facts crystal clear even to a layman like me & answered the unanswered questions that were stalling my efforts to explain things.

A New York judge has appointed three eminent lawyers to oversee the state's stalled effort to comply with a court order to increase spending for the New York City schools.

In fact, that long - stalled effort is continuing.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is set to revive a stalled effort to intervene in the Los Angeles school system after two candidates that he backed for the school board won in a runoff last week.

Alternatively, incrementalism, or the adoption of one or two PL principles without setting an upfront vision of whole - school scaling of all the principles, can lead to stalled efforts and lackluster, disappointing outcomes.

State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.

Years of disagreement have stalled efforts to grade teachers and dismiss those who are ineffective.

This includes the stalled efforts to reconciliation (hopefully reignited by the recently offered National Apology to the Stolen Generations), and the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the issues of land, control of resources, cultural security, the rights of self - determination and sovereignty.

The latest statistics from the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) reveal that the UK has stalled its efforts to cut food waste, with 7.3 million tonnes of food ending up in landfill in 2015.