Sentences with phrase «taken major issue»

Most problematic, McConnell took major issue with Earth Day, the nationwide protest on April 22, 1970 that galvanized a movement.

«It takes a major issue off the table.»

We take the major issues that are both external and internal and explain what has happened in the industry or elsewhere and then actually apply them to Bruce Power - type situations and say, «These are the sorts of things you should be aware of and this is what you should do in these sorts of situations.»

Not exact matches

Heading into January 2016 this issue became a major concern for investors, particularly as it became apparent these loans, taken together, are three times larger than the sub-prime loans that caused the 2008 financial crisis.

But even if the result is beneficial, prolonged periods during which major issues remain unresolved or circumstances change quickly make strategic planning and risk - taking difficult.

This is a company that has taken out a major short position in our company and then issued a report designed to make them money by the decline of our stock,» he said.

Reuters pointed out that this would be the first major penalty issued by CFPB since Mick Mulvaney, who also heads the Office of Management and Budget, took over.

It is the first time that major economies have taken joint action to address the tax avoidance issue amid growing globalization,» he said.

So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.»

Bonnie Lysyk's latest report again takes issue with major public sector pension plans being counted as government assets.

In May, Beijing took steps to tighten control of local affiliates of major accounting firms by issuing a requirement for Chinese citizens to head those offices.

To additionally safeguard their investments, VC firms take an active role in the businesses they invest in, typically supplying a board member and involving themselves in all important management decisions, including exercising veto rights over issues such as the sale of the company, additional financing, major business expenditures, etc..

T - Mobile and Sprint use magic words in seeking Trump approval: 5G and China 5G technology should boost cellular networks, and has turned into a major issue in U.S. relations with China and regulatory actions T - Mobile's CEO says the Sprint merger would help the combined company advance in 5G and take on Chinese competitors.

Rep. Robin Kelly, a Democrat from Illinois and a ranking member of Congress» IT oversight subcommittee, says she's pleased Facebook is taking steps to improve disclosure on candidate ads but says the company is missing a «major vulnerability» on social issue ads.

A large part of the problemvwhen discussing issues like this is that we utilize aristotalian language constructs that are dualistic and a major sign of this would be the use of the word «is,» when to be linguistically scientifically correct everything should be stated as «it appears so to me,» or some variation of this as it takes into account the many errors possible in how people perceive everything.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

I would suggest that the future of Holiness and Pentecostal churches will take shape as issues are fought out along four major axes.

From this autobiographical beginning point it becomes meaningful to take on the major technical issue of this chapter, asking whether pastoral counseling has a definable historic identity?

I believe that religion is a major factor in almost all wars, and you take issue with the atheist.

The United Nations Organization is already playing that crucial role, but it has not been very effective when major national powers or consortium of powers take the issues in their own hands over the wish and aspiration of others, especially those who disagree with them and their methods of settling disputes.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

But consider the circumstances: this was the first major issue on which important evangelical leaders had broken with the Republican right — something that took real courage.

One major issue is negotiated fees (take a look at your EOB and see what was charged and what was paid).

As a major international conference is taking shape, we consider how a global perspective can find ways to tackle issues around alcohol

Its quite unfortunate that Wenger is yet to find and still searching for a better player to add quality to the team at his disposal, my take is, the problem limiting Arsenal as a whole not claiming any major trophy is our high record with injuries and the coach inability to select the right player for the right spot, no genuine back up for some crucial positions, if and only if we can sort the injury issue out and Wenger selecting the right player at the right time and in the right game, then we're good to go.

But the fact that most of the reloaded pool is either sitting around with arm in sling, or has already been hammered out of the majors, makes me think there is a deeper issue than just needing to wait another year for the rebuild to take hold, again.

i am not a Morata fan, finishing is not one of his strong suit, his technical skill and running ability however is quite attractive to arsenal, its going take some time for him to get use to some of england robust defenders and there lies the major issue, its going to take couple months for him to get use to the league, which is always costly in points and for such a large sum he should be firing from he enters the stadium.

In the spring, there's baseball and lacrosse, both of which take up a lot of field space, and even though many schools have dedicated softball fields, some do not — so again, scheduling the fields is a major issue.

NASCAR's new requirement that all teams run with standard - issue shocks took away a major tool teams had used to tune their chassis and sent them scrambling in vain for new ways to keep car noses down.

If they can't make the FFP rules stick (Arsene Wenger and many others have raised serious doubts and there's the legal issue of kicking clubs out of major competitions), Arsenal's problems will unravel, and they will need to consider their whole structure in terms of the direction the club takes.

The majority of respondents had a negative view of car, bus and bike travel in town, and 73 percent took issue with traffic flow on major streets.

A few major issues women have when they begin working out are not feeling confident in themselves or feeling guilty for taking away time from their family to workout.

A major speech on the issue yesterday was preceded by heavy briefing that the Labour leader would be taking a more aggressive position in 2017 and that party apparatchiks would «let Corbyn be Corbyn».

If there is a major change in government, one political party taking over from another one, there must be issues.»

The Institution is taking particular interest in IT, communications, energy, manufacturing, education and research issues, and is seeking to play a major role in influencing government policy in these areas.

``... I think the major issue today is to get everyone to take a step back, to get everyone to embrace the spirituality of whatever culture they live in and remember that we're still residents of New York City and citizens of America and we can treat each other with a lot more better decorum than perhaps we have the last few days and perhaps turn the situation into a more positive discussion.»

«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has called on stakeholders in the administration of justice to take the issue of delay more seriously and shun all forms of delay tactics which he identified as a major challenge that must be jointly tackled by all.

He has been in the game longer than the vice president and if there are major issues that he (Osinbajo) needs to take decision on, he could call on him and say Sir, what do you think about this we are about to take decision on it?

In war and peacetime, it has generally been accepted that major foreign policy issues were taken secretly and that foreign policy was not open to much party - political conflict, but was national, and therefore above party - political debate («securitised»).

While a country like the UK generally has effective tax collection — give or take a major foreign corporation or two — significant non-tax payment of taxes can cause major issues, as we've seen recently in Greece.

The executives of ten major energy companies, worth a combined # 400 billion, are set to take part in the initiative, working together on issues such as environmentally sensitive oil exploration, electricity interconnection, and stable long - term oil and gas supplies.

While history always shows major action in the last few days of a session, it will take a miracle to have these major issues become law.

«It sounds like what we're headed towards is a glorified extender which keeps the government running, but takes all the major issues out of it,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who is the deputy leader in the chamber, in a Capital Tonight interview.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the chamber's majority Democrats take «major issue» with Cuomo's plan to withhold a boost in school funding until lawmakers agree to reforms to the state's education system.

«New York City is home to some of the most gridlocked streets in the nation and with this new advisory panel, we take a major step forward in coming up with a real solution to tackle the issue of congestion while helping to fund mass transit moving forward,» Cuomo said.

The issue of election of MMDCEs had in time past taken centre stage in major discussions in the country with some Ghanaians demanding for it.

This looks promising on paper: the district contains more Democrats than Repblicans, and polls taken last year in a race for district attorney showed the appearance of corruption was a major issue in voters» minds.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

The former Prime Minister said there was a «major issue» about the way Europe worked and said pro-Europeans had to take on board the message sent by voters.