Sentences with phrase «very public fight»

In other words, this last - ditch effort to repeal Obamacare is at least partially about saving face with (or sticking it to) Donald Trump, who picked a very public fight with Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and his cohorts after the last Republican bill died a loud death.

«I can see that if you're involved in a major legal matter, whether it's a litigation, a merger, or an acquisition, the last thing you want to have happening is a very public fight with your legal counsel over fees.»

After a long and very public fight in the legislature and the press, in 2013 Dominion and the solar industry negotiated a compromise that specifically allows customers in Dominion territory to use third - party PPAs to install solar or wind projects under a pilot program capped at 50 MW.

The program comes as Rinehart is engaged in a very public fight with the board of Fairfax, the media company which owns the nation's most respected newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

First, just a few days before the Q1 presentation, Volkswagen's Ferdinand Piech lost his seat as chairman of the advisory board in a very public fight with CEO Martin Winterkorn.

As a prospective presidential contender, the very public fight over the DOJ suit is sure to raise Jindal's national profile.

I just had a dramatic, very public fight with my girlfriend at the time.

De Blasio was soundly defeated by Success CEO Eva Moskowitz in a very public fight over school space, despite largely unsuccessful efforts to de-escalate the battle with a conciliatory speech at Riverside Church and other overtures.

When Calipari lost to UNC in 2015, he attacked the refs for causing the best players on his team to dwell on the bench with foul trouble.When Calipari had a very public fight with John Chaney, the legendary Temple coach, it was about threatening the refs with losing their jobs when he was at UMass.Two of the schools he coached were hit with NCAA sanctions but of course Calipari's hands are always clean.He is the Teflon basketball coach.Calipari is not an X's and O's type of coach and makes poor adjustments during games.Frankly I don't understand why so many people think this arrogant bloviating fool is a good coach.You will say, well he went to 4 final fours and one Championship.One.....

Along the way, the denomination conducted a very public fight over the theological direction of the convention.

Not exact matches

Bono has become the very public face of the fight against AIDS.

Giuliani is joining Trump's team just as the president escalates a very bitter, and very public, fight with former FBI Director James Comey, whose new book, A Higher Loyalty, paints Trump as a liar who runs his administration like a mob boss

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

By not parading UBL around as a trophy kill, we both limit the spectacle that many of our own gruesome or doubting public desire AND the propensity for backlash from the communities so very near the war we're fighting.

No, David Silverman is waging a public fight against a very public symbol.

Not only does it misinform the public and strip the dignity of victims, but it feeds into the very same objectifying and voyeuristic behaviours we're fighting against in the first place.

It's stupifying to see them make billions of dollars in tax - free earnings every year, and fighting - words to hear them lobby our public servants with those very funds.

Fight Back New York can play a unique role in this race by showing in a very public and powerful way that Ruben is not just bad for LGBT people, he's bad for New York.»

We tried and it was a beautiful experiment that I thought was very important but those in power managed to sabotage its reputation by just constantly hammering that a new constitution should never be ratified in dispute which was complete bollocks (for more on the dispute manufactured by the Independence Party see the «An Unexpected Hiccup» section of From the people to the people, a new constitution) because those in power will always fight against anything that brings more liberation and more rights to the public and thwarts their unconditional power.

Not only is Galloway coming to the fight with the confidence of a man who secured a 36.6 % swing in his last campaign, he knows where Labour's weaknesses lie in the wake of this very public saga.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

However, the NDC, which had alienated almost all their experienced and founding strategic and tactical thinking members just could not think very deeply of the consequences of their three appointees fighting each other in public at the Commission.

Buhari noted that throughout his journey in national service and since 2015, he had made a very conscious decision to pursue a vigorous fight against corruption in public life.

The public employees unions are fighting Paterson's furlough plan in court and reacted very negatively to his call for a wage freeze.

It's worth noting that significant public resistance to the Keystone Pipeline paved the way for the Obama administration to squash it, and, yes, this battle may very well be fought again.

In Arizona that fight became very public in 2013, as APS took on such residential solar power in a television ad campaign and mailings.

At the time, the idea of setting public expectations for what schools ought to accomplish rather than regulating the practices of schools and teachers seemed a goal worth fighting for, but not one that was likely to be achieved very quickly.

For the past decade and a half, the fight to improve America's schools has been fought largely on two fronts: academic standards as one battleground, and accountability the other, with the issue of mandatory testing adding heat to a very public — and increasingly...

Public education advocates have fought so very hard to be heard, all the while being treated with gross disrespect by politicians and bureaucrats.

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14 — months since House Majority Leader Paul Stam told an audience never to use the term school vouchers because «vouchers don't poll very well» (The fight for the survival of public schools, N.C. Policy Watch, February 1, 2011)

«I really feel very strongly that public education is ground zero right now in our fight for democracy,» said Karen Gifford, whose child attends Pueblo Elementary.

Many shared the experience of attending schools with very few, if any, public school teachers of color — and many said they've been fighting for decades to bring this issue to public attention.

And we aren't going to quit — this is a fight for the soul of public education, the very precondition of a functional democracy.

Compounding their dereliction of duty is the fact that these two groups are part of the CCJEF coalition yet their scheme harms the very children, parents, public and schools and poorer towns and cities that CCJEF has been fighting so hard and so long to help.

While charity and compassion are important, they do not take precedence over the fight for our rights and the very future of public education.

I expect them to fight hard for public education, fight hard for my grandkids who are in public school, and fight hard for my pension, which I am very worried about, and you should be as well.

The animal rights group, which is well known for staging publicity stunts to draw public attention to what the group views as «unethical» commercial activities is now bringing its fight to corporate boardrooms by buying a stake in the very companies with which it is clashing.

Irresponsible ownership primarily is: Irresponsible breeding Leaving your dog outside chained up with no human contact (or very little) Training your dog to fight Not giving your dog proper socialization with all kinds of people varying in age colour and sex Walking your dog off leash in public Not Spaying and neutering Not keeping your pet's shots up to date Not having your dog licensed by the city Not keeping your dog on a proper diet Not having a properly fenced yard Not having your dog obedience trained (These are in no particular order)

Unfortunately, that's not to say the online mode is perfect: during my time with the game I found it very easy to join public matches against random players, but ranked matches were almost nonexistent — a crying shame for any good fighting game.

Postscript: Randy Olson has posted an interesting piece on his Web site today proposing that the community seeking public trust and engagement on climate change would do well to study the practices of two organizations fighting for science - based behavior in very different arenas: the federal Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Science Education (on evolution in the classroom).

Greg Wetstone, senior director of governmental and public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement, «We salute Members of Congress in both parties who fought under difficult conditions to keep the renewable energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.»

The thing is that to fight established burocrats very risky bussines and no businessman wants to invest taking into account public opinion.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

It is the «now» that is lurking under the surface of all of the current environmental issues and solutions that are being fought in very public ways currently.

Although the book is based on papers that were presented in 2014 and predates some important developments, such as the previously mentioned Council Regulation on the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the recent Directive on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law, the book is not at all outdated, the issues and challenges identified remain relevant to this very day.

That would further weaken the law societies» position as a prosecutor of the commercial producers for UPL — a very biased, self - interested prosecutor fighting off a commercial threat, rather than prosecuting unlicensed individuals for that offence's intended purpose of protecting the public from incompetently provided legal services.

He was the man who fought the Toronto mayor's very public conflict of interest charges all the way to the Court of Appeal and was instrumental in helping Ford keep his job as leader of Canada's largest city.

I say ABS is a pig - in - a-poke because experts where it has been in place (1) can not see any benefits to the public other than the odd example which, upon easy inspection, is easily shown to be achievable without ABS, and (2) do see ABS as chiefly a means for funding consolidations — the very anti-public-interest evolution that you should be very keen to fight.

At the very least, the public must be made aware that it is slowly but surely losing a precious right that our Founding Fathers fought to embrace and preserve — the right to a jury trial or any trial at all.