Sentences with phrase «state over mass»
After a week of squabbling between the city and the state over mass - transit funding, MTA chairman Joe Lhota traveled to the State Capitol to defend the governor's proposed budget that would force the city to pay more.
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That's a phrase we've heard often over recent hours, as Americans reacted to the latest mass shooting in the United States — one that stole the lives of at least 17 people, many of them teenagers.
Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state.
Canadians have maintained a slight lead over efforts in the United States, partly because several of the early gurus of mass media, including Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan, taught in Canada, and partly because Canada has a long tradition of media responsiveness to public interest, including the Canadian Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting System.
The debate over resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States was made more complex and distressing by the mass sexual assault of German women by what appears to have been North African and Middle Eastern asylum seekers in Cologne, Germany on New Years Eve.
Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, was rocked with a mass protest on Friday by interest groups which took over the streets to condemn the non-payment of workers» and alleged looting of the state treasury by Governor Ayo FaState capital, was rocked with a mass protest on Friday by interest groups which took over the streets to condemn the non-payment of workers» and alleged looting of the state treasury by Governor Ayo Fastate treasury by Governor Ayo Fayose.
In recent years, connections between climate and security were bolstered when President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on the potential for conflict over climate - related resource scarcity and mass migration.
The state Democratic Party — controlled by Cuomo — has launched an online campaign targeting upstate GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney over her recent comments that «so many» mass murderers «end up being Democrats.»
Jude Sabio, a Filipino lawyer, has presented a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) stating that the president has «repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously» committed extra-judicial executions or mass murders over three decades, amounting to crimes against humanity.»
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on the state government — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo — take responsibility for the ailing subway system, escalating a contentious debate over blame for the crumbling of mass transit.
«Specifically, we identify with the appeal to the government of Kaduna state that is planning the mass sack of over twenty one thousand teachers to tread a more cautious path in this trying time as it takes its monumental decisions.
The two pols also weighed in on yet another round of fighting over funding mass transit between Cuomo and de Blasio: new MTA Chairman Joe Lhota asking the state and city to split the costs for funding his $ 836 million short - term subway rescue plan.
Asked for comment, de Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick sent over the following statement: «The people of New York City are doing their fair share to support mass transit — we already fund three - quarters of the State MTA's operations, have made historic contributions, and have paid double the State in capital.
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, (NUT) Kaduna Wing has called off its indefinite strike action over mass sack of its members in the state.
The state Board of Elections quietly voted this week to turn over some data on New York's voters to a Trump administration panel looking at whether there was mass voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.
He warned the governor to refrain from deceiving Abia masses with cosmetic projects, and expressed regret over the inability of the state government to revive ailed state infrastructures that could have boosted the Abia revenue and also engage the youths to be self reliant.
It doesn't necessarily make sense, said Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, that a massive star could undergo a supernova — a process which entails blowing off much of its outer layers — and still have enough mass left over to form a massive black hole on the scale of those that LIGO detected.
As glaciologist Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University notes: «The ice sheet is losing mass, this loss has increased over time, [and] it is not the dominant term in sea - level rise — but it matters.»
But questions persist over how much clandestine stock of this weapon of mass destruction (WMD) remains in the hands of rogue states and non-state groups.
Yet the film didn't draw a mass audience in the States, or win over Oscar nominators, who've given it a crack at Best Cinematography and Best Achievement in Sound Editing only.
The reason they're fighting is a good one: Citing the mass destruction of New York City, Washington D.C., Sokovia (the fictional city ruined in the end of «Avengers: Age of Ultron»), and at the start of this film, Lagos, Nigeria, Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) informs the Avengers that the governments of the world want supervision over the superheroes.
The controversy over the film, which was mandated by a state law, reflects the continuing debate between Armenian and Turkish Americans, and scholars, over the extent and responsibility for the mass deaths of Armenians during and after World War I.
A 2007 Ohio State University study measured the body mass index of several thousand kindergarteners and first - graders at different points over a two - year period.
Over the next two decades, Libya increasingly distanced itself from the West and was accused of committing mass acts of state sponsored terrorism, such as the Berlin discotheque terrorist bombing that killed two American servicemen, in response to which the US launched an aerial bombing attack of selected targets in 1986.
In fact, although a total of five states, Oklahoma, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, produce over 65 % of the nation's mass produced puppies, 26 states actually govern the care and selling of producing dogs.
Whether you are talking about 10 - store single - state operations, 20 - store regional retailers or 1,000 - plus - store national big - box behemoths, it can not be overestimated what these chains have meant to the world of pet specialty retailing, particularly as the channel has faced increasing competition from mass retailers over the past several years.
Jon and Destiny debated for over two hours, mostly about race and immigration, and Jon made several unpopular comments, including the claim that mass Mexican migration to the United States was a form of «reconquista,» a retaking of American cultural values.
Celebrating art as activism, artwork in the show tackled controversial subjects such as immigration rights, reproductive rights, climate change, transgender rights, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.
These romanticized placeholders may honor the victims of mass trespass and genocide that took place in the colonization of the Great Plains, but more certainly, they were meant to invoke the romance of Manifest Destiny — an imperialist notion which had won out over the Whig's belief that the mission of the United States was perfecting the democratic enterprise.
In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.
In a follow up to the gallery's critically acclaimed group show «Uprise / Angry Women,» which opened during the week of the 2017 presidential inauguration, exhibition One Year Of Resistance features artwork across all mediums addressing the issues our society has faced since the election such as immigration rights, women's rights, transgender rights, health care, climate change, white supremacy, gender equality, gun control, sexual harassment, as well as countless other issues which have given rise to mass protest throughout the United States and abroad over the past year.
Whereas Allard's tactile, seductive shredded paper masses titillate the senses, implying states of change and natural evolution, Lee's conceptual geometry engages mind over matter, asking us to envision the purity of a non-material concept, the unchanging form of the universe and our place within it.
The 51 «stars» are presented as black and white targets burned with holes representing the number of deaths in mass murders over the past 25 years for each individual state and the District of Columbia.
«While the one - time computation of the momentum and mass balance equations is readily justified for a snapshot in time, the use of a steady state energy equation may be inaccurate, because thermomechanical transients induced by CHW persist over time scales of the order of one to three decades [Phillips et al. 2010].
An isentropic state is the state of maximum entropy and will not separate into a state with a different potential temperature profile because that would have a lower entropy, given that total potential temperature has to be conserved when integrated over the mass in adiabatic processes.
WHEREAS, the federal government exerts control over more than 50 percent of the U.S. land mass in the 12 continental states from Colorado westward including: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming compared to an average federal control of only four percent in...
THE «extreme» cold has seen Iguanas frozen solid in Florida, alligators in a state of cryogenic freeze, sharks washed up in Cape Cod «stranded due to cold shock», the coldest Super Bowl on record, Niagara Falls frozen over, a thermometer in the world's coldest village breaking as temperatures plunge to -62 C, the lowest temperature ever recorded in Bangladesh, frozen crops creating a food crisis in Europe, even a mass die - off of sea creatures as UK ocean temps plunged 1 - 3 degrees centigrade, cold temperatures smashed across Saskatchewan's central and south regions in the spring of April, and the list of non-heat «extremes» goes on.
Conventional wisdom here in the states is that proposing anything that would lead to higher utility bills would be impossible; the masses would revolt over «energy taxes.»
(See below) Recent study states it has slightly gained mass over the past decade.
«This appeal presents the novel question whether the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act), which prohibits an employer from ordering a mass layoff without giving 60 days» notice, applies to a mass layoff of employees who worked for a private employer as airport security screeners until the United States government federalized airport security services and took over operations at their airport.»
The Second Circuit held — in the context of asbestos mass tort litigation — that a company with «continuous and systematic» business in a state (Connecticut) can't be sued by out - of - state litigation tourist plaintiffs over out - of - state asbestos exposure.
(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.
War, hostilities or warlike operations (whether war be declared or not), Invasion, Act of an enemy foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person or the country in, or over, which the act occurs, Civil war, Riot, Rebellion, Insurrection, Revolution, Overthrow of the legally constituted government, Civil commotion assuming the proportions of, or amounting to, an uprising, Military or usurped power, Explosions of war weapons, Utilization of Nuclear, Chemical or Biological weapons of mass destruction howsoever these may be distributed or combined, Murder or Assault subsequently proved beyond reasonable doubt to have been the act of agents of a state foreign to the nationality of the Insured Person whether war be declared with that state or not.
Saying that gold ETF holdings are at their highest level for over four years, Currie stated there is «no evidence of a mass exodus from gold.»