Sentences with phrase «taking dramatic action»

«The Calabrians are prone to taking dramatic action and have indicated a willingness, a desire I should say, to remove the instigator.»

But you'll be in much better shape than you would be without taking dramatic action.

Governor Cuomo is taking dramatic action to fight the federal tax assault on New York caused by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

At Tuesday's trade meeting, almost all of the Republican members of Congress in attendance urged Trump against taking dramatic action.

On Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate change.

«Obviously, these are desperate times, and we need to take dramatic action,» Weprin said.

We took dramatic action six years ago.

Data alone was not sufficient to prompt schools to take dramatic action to improve their results.

The union blocked the expansion of pilot schools for two years — a move that Payzant complained about but did not take dramatic action to undo.

With minimal oversight and regulation, the charter school scandals will grow until elected and appointed policymakers take dramatic action to overhaul the country's charter school system and demand greater accountability from those involved.

We must take dramatic action to improve our lowest - performing schools.»

All told, these cost create a sharp and steep fiscal cliff for the city, forcing it to take dramatic action, including school closings.

Green says, «certainly the unions could compromise and agree to allowing Malloy and Pryor a dozen or 18 schools where the state could take dramatic action — longer days, year - round school, more social services, better pay for sought - after science and math teachers — without the constraints of restrictive labor contracts.»

And while trying to inappropriately take credit for something he did not do, Malloy and his supporters conveniently overlook the fact that, as governor, Malloy has taken dramatic actions that have actually jeopardized the financial stability of the fund that helps pay for health insurance premiums for retired teachers.

Stay calm and don't take dramatic action.

People will not take dramatic action on climate change until it bites them on their ass (e., g., a catastrophic, 9 - sigma event).

Mr. / Mrs. Candidate: The Presidential Climate Action Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it must be.

It stated that, «In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization.

We believe the government will have to take dramatic action if it is serious about getting electricity bills down.

Typically, people only take dramatic action when their livelihood is in immediate danger.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, Scaramucci said he would take «dramatic action» to stop leaks to the press from within the administration.

Roberts and his family took dramatic personal action to combat the ill effects of his life as a modern knowledge worker.

It all suggests that the dramatic day and a half of legal proceedings are but a prelude to even more courtroom theatrics and combat in what has become a sordid, long - standing matter (for the full saga, read the Disturbing Decline of Sumner Redstone) that reflects poorly on countless participants, not least the boards of CBS and Viacom, which took no action to remove Redstone as their executive chairman until Herzer's case forced their hand.

Those interested in understanding one of the most dramatic lives of the century (and one of the most important pontificates of the second millennium) have to be prepared to take Karol Jozef Wojtyla as what he says he is: a radically committed Christian believer for whom a central, defining conviction - «Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life»» is the source of both his thought and his action.

Many abuse victims applauded Penn State for firing top officials and criticized the Roman Catholic Church for not taking similarly dramatic action.

Equally dramatic was action Paterson took in overhauling the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws that for 35 years had deprived judges of sentencing discretion and doomed tens of thousands of low - level drug offenders to long prison sentences.

After his talks with the public - employees union to reduce workforce costs didn't produce savings, the governor is specifically looking for «one day of furlough in each appropriation that we make from here on until we pass this budget,» he said, adding for dramatic effect: «The crisis is worsening and we must take action.»

«When someone so low key and behind the scenes as Assemblywoman Lupardo takes such dramatic action, I really think that sends an unmistakable message to Governor Cuomo,» Hang said.

So to see [that] this powerful action [occurred] as result of the interaction took [of just] a few cells was quite dramatic and I just loved it.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

2 years ago I wasn't happy with my body and decided to take responsibility for my actions and change my habits (it changed my life) I have only lost a total of 9kgs but the dramatic difference in my body appearance is amazing.

This ground breaking action - packed documentary takes you back to the winter of 1975 in Hawaii - a dramatic moment in his...

The supposed action blockbuster doesn't even belong in the same class as the likes of «Spider - Man» and «X-Men,» because even though Ang Lee's psycho - dramatic portrayal of the big green machine is certainly a unique direction to take, it's ultimately not what the fanboys were expecting.

It is part an indictment of the ludicrous mandatory sentence drug laws, and part dramatic thriller, while only delivering on one big action scene late in the film involving Matthews trying to drive a semi containing a shipment of cash through the border to Mexico, while trying to avoid men with machine guns driving cars trying to take him down.

This ground breaking action - packed documentary takes you back to the winter of 1975 in Hawaii — a dramatic moment in hist...

Haneke employs long takes for maximal dramatic consequence, not unlike action filmmakers use elaborate set pieces to stage impressive visual effects.

Personally, the methodical, dramatic action pieces the Coen boys take on always seem to lull this reviewer to sleep in random places.

Perhaps part of the problem is that the film's blu - ray cover promises air battles and action, and every moment of the film actually takes place on the ground after the battles are over, all in overly dramatic fashion.

Organized into three action areas, this framework - when taken in total and well executed - should create dramatic improvements in a principal's instructional leadership practice.

It set clear baselines for what counted as persistently low - performing, set guidelines for family engagement around notification and then articulated a set of policy solutions to ensure dramatic action was taken.

For their sake I hope some dramatic remedial action is taken.

Beautifully written, this tour de force tells a story whose dramatic action takes place in only one minute and seven seconds.

The actions you take at this stage of the game can have a dramatic impact on your credit and your mortgage.

In late 2008 assurance were given by Management to us that dramatic actions would be taken within a matter of two months, but this has not occurred.

The graphics are once again all 3D, and the game uses this to its advantage, zooming and panning around the ship for dramatic effect, while the action still takes place entirely on a 2D plane.

However, students and faculty are likely to take more dramatic action if the board of trustees moves forward with a tuition policy.

I think it's a case of taking a wild hypothesis, building a highly speculative model from it, generating some scary and dramatic predictions for the media, with the * specific * aim of raising public alarm and getting some political action.

Though the EPA is correct, thought the details I am unsure, It is very likely that if in the future that is Emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise unabated, and climate changes effects more dramatic, I would not put it past a nation like America taking unilatreal action and even sucombing to using geo - engineering projects.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

And considering the long lag between actions that commit the planet to the long - term impacts of climatic change, assessments also need to pay more attention to the potentially dramatic consequences of actions taken (or postponed) today.