Sentences with phrase «win budget battles»

The one shared by the Albany old - timers — the lawmakers and lobbyists who've been around long enough to know that governors don't win budget battles but survive them — is that Paterson doesn't have one.

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This is really a big win for unions (and they need one, considering the battle they're facing with Cuomo in the next budget cycle) and also for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who stood right next to DiNapoli early this morning during victory speech.

Several central and northern New York legislators are praising the state's new budget as a win for the region's schools, but they say it was a hard - fought battle that is not over yet.

In the final days of his budget battle with the Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened lawmakers with the shutdown vs. extender bills option, saying he felt completely comfortable that he would win in the court of public opinion.

«How Conservative backbenchers won the battle on the Capital Gains Tax rate Main The budget gives a measure of protection to Michael Gove»

And the way Cuomo wins his battles — strong - arming and horse - trading; a mastery of talking past inconvenient questions and facts — tends to antagonize enemies and allies, as in the most recent round of budget wrangling, in which he managed to chafe both liberals and business fat cats.

«Defence Secretary Philip Hammond won a crucial battle as his budget was frozen at # 23.9 billion in the review — a cut of just 1.9 per cent in real terms.

Given the Republicans» determination to rein in a record federal deficit (see «Budget battle heats up»), it is not at all clear that the president will be afforded the opportunity to play the innovation game that he hopes to win.

Overlooked here by the Spirit Awards either because their budgets didn't meet qualification or otherwise: Searchlight's Battle of the Sexes and The Shape of Water (that Guillermo del Toro movie has a reported production cost north of $ 30M); Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, which won best director at Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Focus Features» slate of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Phantom Thread (which technically starts screening this weekend), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled which won her best director at Cannes, and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.

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With 15 million customers, PG&E has the budget and the lawyers to easily win a pitched battle with a struggling farming community.

It is not as if Motorola's budget warrior is a bad device — it is, in fact, a very good one and keeps running the much newer Honor 9 Lite close in many of the parameters, but at the end of the day, we really think the Honor 9 Lite wins this battle.

The battle for picture quality at a budget price has often been won by Vizio, but the local dimming - clad 2017 TV lineup from Chinese brand Hisense could mount a spirited fight.

A Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 chipset and 2 GB of RAM work in tandem to power the phone and overall, it's adequate for browsing the web, listening to music and watching video but it won't win many benchmark battles, unless you pit it against other popular budget phones like the Moto G5, which houses a Snapdragon 430.