Sentences with phrase «state after years of trying»

Last month, North Carolina's State Board of Education green lighted K12, Inc. to set up shop in the Tar Heel state after years of trying to open a virtual charter school in the state.

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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— but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

Four years on, the F1 boss appears to be frustrated again as he tries to keep one of the most glamorous races on the calendar after the contract expires in 2017, at a time when the city - state is weighing whether the event makes economic sense anymore.

Now, after nearly 20 years of trying to sell the United States on tolls, he is finally sensing a shift in public acceptance.

Su Bin, a 51 - year - old Chinese businessman, was charged with a prison term of 46 months after pleading guilty to trying to illegally acquire secrets from the United States military.

After years of tough restrictions on American companies trying to operate in China, including coercing the transfer of proprietary technology, the White House is looking to subject China to similar investment hurdles in the United States.

In 1979 Mrs. Thatcher and her government began the return to true capitalism, but even after a decade of common sense reforms and rapid improvements in productivity, we calculate it will still take us another ten years or so to catch up with Germany and France, while the United States and Japan are still further beyond our reach.That is the price of trying to make capitalism do something which is not in its nature to do — promote equality.

Four years after the fatal hazing of a Baruch College freshman, the fraternity he was trying to join was banned by a state judge from operating in Pennsylvania for 10 years.

Three years after Senate Democrats nearly went broke futilely trying to retain control of the state Senate, more than half their members are still personally on the hook for the campaign's red ink.

Still, Spitzer, whose on - a-whim campaign comes five years after he resigned the New York State governor's office when it was revealed he had hired prostitutes and tried to conceal the amounts of money he was transferring by wire, was clearly delighted with his haul.

After twenty years of trying we passed the state's first property tax cap.

«For eight years, we tried to work with Andrew Cuomo to make New York a truly progressive state,» Bill Lipton, WFP director said, after members aired a lengthy list of grievances against the incumbent that included propping up Republican control of the state Senate.

They pointed to the impending glut of corruption cases that former New York officials will appear in during the next six months — two of Cuomo's former top aides will be tried, former legislative leaders Dean Skelos and Sheldon Silver will each reappear in a courthouse after their prior convictions were overturned on technicalities, and former state Sen. George Maziarz stands accused of hiding the destination of his campaign funds several years ago.

After all of these years I'm still trying to figure out what, if any, good things Sheldon Silver has done for the state of NY and its people besides lining his own pocket.

After the recent withdrawal of another candidate, Islamorada Democrat Stephen Richard Friedman has opened a campaign account to try to unseat Rep. Holly Raschein, a Key Largo Republican, this year, according to the state Division of Elections website.

A man in a vegetative state for 15 years has been able to open his eyes, move his head, and even try to smile, after electrical stimulation of his vagus nerve

On the morning of August 12, 2013, nearly eight months after 20 - year - old Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and killed 26 people, Michael Mudry, an investigator with the Connecticut State Police, drove to nearby Danbury to try to solve a little mystery.

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Roy Romer, the former Colorado governor who retired last year after six years as superintendent of L.A. Unified, tried in vain before leaving his job to convince the mayor, state legislators, and the governor that the district was not failing.

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After grappling for many years at the state, district and school levels to try to impact fundamental positive change in the realm of education, a number of AARO members expressed frustration that, while education outcomes have been incrementally improving for almost all groups of students, we continue to fall behind other nations in a 21st century global economy.

The company was in the news last year as well, after Samantha Burke of Clarenville, Newfoundland, tried to claim a $ 100 Tim Hortons gift card in the coffee chain's Roll up the Rim to Win contest, but was denied because she was not aware of new contest rules that state that winners of gift cards must also send in the part of the cup rim that contains the prize's PIN number.

Try telling India to leave its coal in the ground after examining the latest data on per capita emissions of carbon dioxide from the Global Carbon Project, released yesterday — with India's billion - plus citizens at 1.9 tons of CO2 emitted per person per year, the European Union and China tied (for the moment) at around 7 tons and the United States at 16.4 tons:

AUGUSTA — After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state's rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities.

Naomi Schalit — Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting — July 2, 2015 AUGUSTA — After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state's rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Stephenson practiced as a prosecutor here in Pensacola for the Office of State Attorney, 1st Judicial Circuit, where he tried approximately fifteen jury trials and five judge trials in one year.

Apparently the folks who tried to get the Clipper Chip and other backdoors and trap doors built into Internet protocols in the mid-1990s are back in the saddle in the US government, after several years in which the private interest in secure communications was allowed to predominate over the interests of the state — or at least some of the interests of the state.

After a year and a half of court proceedings (in which I had ZERO contact with my daughter) two psychological evaluations supporting alienation and being cleared of all of the false allegations... I am left in a situation where I am trying to rebuild something... because of what my daughter said about me however, the clinicians for the state still recommended therapeutic supervised visitation until she becomes comfortable again with me..