Sentences with phrase «sway over state»

... it makes us uneasy that someone with sway over state climate change policy, an important and politically charged arena, would be paid by a group with such a defined agenda.

This is less consequential in terms of its potential to push forward Trump's agenda; governors have sway over state bills, not federal legislation.

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While no Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered in Sacramento, California's capital holds a lot of sway over economic policy in the largest state in the US.

Vander Plaats is the president and CEO of The Family Leader in Iowa, a Christian organization that holds sway over many Iowa social conservatives — a crucial voting bloc in the state's January 3 caucus.

The party doesn't hold much sway in Democrat - dominated NYC, and hasn't managed to elect anyone to a city or state post for decades, but it is nevertheless prominent in Republican circles, since the city is a must - stop for candidates from all over the nation who are trying to raise campaign cash.

According to West, the former is the result of heavy - handed state policy which gives undue sway to particular groups in society over individuals, while the latter, at its worst, represents a form of «political straightjacketing».

Well - established Democratic incumbents, however, still held sway over voters in many states, especially in Deep South.

The state Legislature has sway over key real estate laws affecting Glenwood, including the 421 - a tax abatement program and rent regulation in New York City.

On Tuesday, prosecutors focused on the enormous sway he had over state government.

Prosecutors argue Percoco had more sway over the Cuomo adminisatration than anyone else, even after he temporarily left his state job.

Skelos was convicted of using his Senate leadership post — holding sway over important state budget and legislative matters — to leverage lucrative arrangements for his son with three companies with business before the Senate and state.

Skelos further tried to insert legislation into the state budget to position AbTech to win future contracts and held sway over the developer by controlling rent control and other legislation important to the industry, investigators said.

It's sad, that big cities have sway over their whole state.

A special election in Westchester County is attracting an unusual amount of attention because the vote to fill a vacant state Senate seat holds significant sway over the power dynamic in Albany.

With it comes the chance for greater sway over policy for states that have long chafed at what they viewed as an overly expansive federal role in K - 12 education.

A state opt - in mechanism — because of the sway teachers unions have over the Democratic Party — may exclude twenty - five states (six states totally controlled by Democrats and nineteen others partially controlled by Democrats).

But because the new Every Student Succeeds Act shifts significant responsibility over accountability and other matters to states and districts, there's renewed hope that parent, community, civil rights, and other groups will have more sway over what has been, in many cases, a narrower decisionmaking process.

And as Somin notes, we must keep in mind that the federal government itself helped perpetuate slavery and segregation thanks in part to senators and congressmen from southern states who held sway over Congress.

As one of the leaders in curricular publishing, too, Scholastic's release of Wilhelm and Smith's title will hopefully hold some level of sway over administrative decision making at the local and state government school boards, allowing more time during the school day to be spent on individualized reading for pleasure rather than simply reading for the sake of the curriculum.

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Positing an international perspective, «Americans 2017» echoes the Internet's original universalist promise of alternatives to jus soli and jus sanguinis citizenship, all the while examining the enduring sway of the United States over the World Wide Web at a time when its government is veering toward discrimination and isolationism.

For example, in child custody hearings, the forensic evaluator, a state - employed investigator who often meets with the child, parents and acquaintances and even goes to the family domicile to observe the natural interactions between parent and child, can hold tremendous sway over the outcome of the case.

Whether this will prove to be a decent combat to the increasingly centralized nature of the current state of Bitcoin mining remains to be seen, as large corporate controlled operations rather than a collective of truly decentralized users, hold a vast, potential unfair sway over the Bitcoin network.