Sentences with phrase «sweeping power as»

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It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Pai's proposal marks a victory for big internet service providers such as AT&T Inc, Comcast Corp and Verizon Communications Inc that opposed the rules and gives them sweeping powers to decide what web content consumers can get.

But what struck me as I saw the Orange Crush sweep across Quebec was that the balance of power in the country has changed.

The failure of regulated power prices to keep pace with soaring world coal prices lies at the heart of the China's power crisis (as well as in similar power crisis sweeping neighbouring India and Pakistan.).

Alberta has granted sweeping new powers to its energy minister as the province ups the ante in its trade war with British Columbia

The roundup was described as a sweeping corruption investigation but widely seen as an effort to consolidate power by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a son and the top adviser of King Salman, who succeeded his half brother and became king of Saudi Arabia in January 2015.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

Hence right - wing conspiratorialism is enfolded in a more sweeping religious vision of armed struggle in the end - time, when the aware and the saved battle with the mysterious hidden «they» who manipulate power — in guises as varied as the FBI, the Federal Reserve, the Trilateral Commission and the Anti-Defamation League.

In the great crises of life, such as the anguish and dangers of war, separation from loved ones by death, illness that sweeps away all one's normal powers, it is sometimes easier to trust in God than during the ordinary tensions and strains of living.

Well, beyond Brodeur's demonstrated powers as a clairvoyant, there are other factors that support the basis, if not the full sweep, of his contentions.

Another day, another big shift in the Jose Mourinho to Manchester United story... Last night, a series of sensational tweets exploded out of Manchester as the highly regarded United forum Red Issue, made some sweeping statements about the twisted power struggle currently going on behind the scenes at Old Trafford.

It was a source of concern for the opposition party and certain segments of the population from the very start, and after the end of the Bush administration, when Obama had those sweeping powers, the questioning of those broad powers gained more momentum as previous supporters suddenly found it to be troubling.

The way the government has appealed, resisted and postponed the application of the rulings against its sweeping surveillance powers, as well as the implementation of privacy protection measures, has led advocacy leaders to denounce an intentional governmental delaying strategy.

In most cases, such political crimes are swept under the carpet, as the culprits are often protected by the party in power.

As socialists, our alternative to the division, disempowerment and rampant exploitation of Tory Britain is an open society based on solidarity, in which bigotries and divisions are swept aside, and wealth and power are taken back from the hoarders to be shared out among working people.

Day's political ascent continued then with a consolidation of power within the Rockland County GOP, sweeping away the resistance of party rivals such as Chairman Vincent Reda and former Legislator Frank Sparaco, who had been butting heads with him.

As a quid pro quo to the Power Authority taking care of George's friends and family club members, George, his oversight committee, looked the other way and abrogated his responsibility to not only the taxpayers of his district but to all Western New Yorkers by letting the Cuomo / Silver progressive establishment cartel, in two successive budget bills in 2011 and 2012, sweep $ 600,000,000 from the bank account of the Power Authority to the General Fund of the State of New York — monies that should have been used for the economic benefit of Western New Yorkers.

The emerging consensus came to light after Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, and Sir Menzies Campbell, former UK leader of the Lib Dems, issued separate papers calling for the Scottish parliament to be given sweeping new powers as an alternative to independence.

AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters» worst fears.

But for industry and policymakers who make sweeping decisions that affect the environment — such as whether to drill for oil on protected lands or build new nuclear power plants — the financial stakes, potential consequences, and complexity of the choices defy a simple weighing of pros and cons.

Presidential campaigning is being swept into a new era by the Internet, which is emerging as a political power tool.

Of course, all that could change quickly — as happened at the turn of the 20th century, when the quiet, reliable electric car, powered by primitive lead - acid batteries, seemed destined to sweep the market.

Philosophy: In light of a new conscious wave that has swept over our lands recently, we believe in the natural power of the planet and its people, as well as personalised and holistic health.

That it was a remake (of Lina Wertmüller's squirm - inducing Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) was strike one; that it starred Madonna, a lousy film actress considered box - office poison, strike two; that Ritchie is married to Madonna, marking Swept Away as the kind of vanity project that power couples make to spend more time together than their private life allows, strike three.

We cut to a shot sweeping across water toward the Pym Technologies building, as we hear Hank Pym say in voiceover «If you give godlike powers to everyone, there's gonna be chaos.»

«Mudbound» What Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks, and Mary J. Blige do in «Mudbound» is ensemble acting at its finest; each performance can be viewed from an individual or national perspective in this sweeping epic that tackles issues — war and its traumatic effects, race relations in the American South, the indivisible power of family — that resonate as much today as they did after World War II.

The sweeping anti-busing legislation — approved by the Senate as part of a bill providing funds for the Justice Department this year — not only forbids the Justice Department from bringing desegregation suits that could result in busing and limits the power of federal courts to order busing for such purposes, but allows Justice Department officials to support the removal of court - ordered busing plans already in operation.

Technology Counts 2018 offers a definitive look at what principals and other school leaders think of the power of digital technology as it sweeps through the classroom.

As Republican leaders complain of being falsely accused of neglecting education funding, it's worth looking back at their first two years of legislative control after sweeping Democrats from power in 2010.

Voters won't know they will be granting sweeping new powers to take away schools from local control and place them under state jurisdiction as the ballot language is vague, only asking if the state should intervene in failing schools.

What other car could sweep us off our collective feet with its power, comfort, and elegance, then malfunction repeatedly, and yet remain so beguiling as to make us feel sorry when it leaves?

Power stays consistent and strong as you sweep up towards redline and the ZF eight - speed automatic gearbox completes quick and crisp gear changes.

Oh, and it has right - now throttle response and likes to rev with power continuously building as you sweep up towards redline.

ft. of torque is up in the 3,500 to 5,000 rpm range, too, so power builds as the tach sweeps its way up to the 7,000 rpm redline.

We expect customers to start checking - in a little earlier than usual to take advantage of our new lounge, which has 40 per cent more floor - space than its predecessor, sweeping views of the runway, amazing complimentary food and drink, a kidzone area and tonnes of practical features such as power sockets with UK, EU sockets and USB ports, upgraded lounge Wi - Fi and shower suites.

Darkness sweeps the troubled land as, mana's power fades... People await a hero who will wield the sword... Excaliber, Herald, Gigas..

Power through massive scale combat across sweeping open environments and fight up close and personal along side new characters and creatures as you unravel mysteries buried deep in the «Halo» universe.

How a dorm room Minecraft scam brought down the Internet (Garrett M. Graff / Wired - ARTICLE) «The most dramatic cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer savants pleaded guilty to masterminding an unprecedented botnet — powered by unsecured internet - of - things devices like security cameras and wireless routers — that unleashed sweeping attacks on key internet services around the globe last fall.»

GR2 looks absolutely stunning in motion — once again we get glimpses of sweeping cityscapes and bright blue skies as heroine Kat utilizes her gravity manipulation powers to fly through the skies.

Lucas Reiner will have images of trees altered by power lines and Los Angeles traffic, Derek Buckner will have birds - eye views of dense Brooklyn life, Katia Santibanez will show abstractions based on observation of plant forms, Zoe Pettijohn will show textural conflations of pattern and figure, and Louise Belcourt her sweeping views of the North Atlantic as seen through a coastline of sculptural hedges.

Enveloping the Museum's Watershed model gallery will be Riley's That's What She Said, 2016, a sweeping drawing inspired by Water and Power, essayist Heather Smith's contribution to the Atlas chronicling the development of Manhattan as a history of exploitation of the city's surrounding natural resources — chief among them, water.

Had the diesel generators not been swept away as they were during the ensuing tsunami, there would had been emergency power long enough to have allowed a smooth shut down of the reactor and sufficient cooling.

Dr. Hansen, like many who commented on Dot Earth after I wrote about his statements, insists that the parallels hold between the denial and passivity that allowed a human cataclysm to sweep Europe in plain sight and the denial and inaction now as the world prepares to build hundreds of conventional coal - burning power plants.

But communicating this by calling for wide - sweeping emergency powers has important implications for how we as a people organise ourselves, and how we make decisions.

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

A sweeping energy policy endorsed by Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull earlier this week could position hydropower as a key asset in the federal government's plan to overhaul the country's power sector.

But it could also sweep up tax credits such as the renewable - energy Production Tax Credit for wind power, and the Investment Tax Credit for solar projects.

The putative magnitude of the looming climate crisis made it possible to sweep aside the differences that had troubled the relationship between institutional science and ecologism in the past such as GM technology and nuclear power.

Many of the city's poor and elderly residents had no air conditioning; many of those who did lost power as blackouts swept the city.

Within 20 days of receiving site access in early October, Bechtel had installed 16 miles of fence around unit one, the common area for the three units and the power block for unit two and working with BrightSource's biologists had swept every square foot of the 1,329 acre area of the 3,600 acre site as part of the rare plant and animal conservation and relocation effort.