Sentences with phrase «worked against this project»

«There are many who have worked against this project, citing environmental objections, most of which are pure bunk.»

Working against the project is the potential disruption of Disney, which recently purchased Fox's film and TV assets for a whopping $ 52.4 billion in December.

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«I don't want a lot of people from another country coming to work here,» says Iris Monn, a young adult who works for the valley administration and voted against the mining project.

Wing is part of X, formerly known as Google X, which is the company's R&D unit working on far - out «moonshot» projects, racing against Amazon and drone makers like DJI to usher in what may one day be a massive new market, delivering everything from food to medicine straight to people's doorsteps.

But if you're working with a client who may have cash flow issues, paying the credit card fee may be a good investment in protection against receiving a seriously late project payment.

We have some suggestions: Home improvement.Though remodeling and repairs can be costly, borrowing against your equity can be an easy way to make projects happen — especially if your home's value has gone up since you purchased it, giving you more equity to work with.

That was a major competitive advantage against debt - ridden rivals that are struggling to make past initiatives work, and First Solar's reputation for doing large projects should serve it well.

U.S - sponsored and - managed terrorism is not limited to counterinsurgency projects directed against the poor who are working to change U.S. backed governments.

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

Or it may be the social project or the struggle against the powers that is the real work of Christ, and so the death draws its meaning as the last measure of devotion to that struggle.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

As a gentle parent, working with, instead of against, our children will help to make eating healthy a fun family project instead of a food fight.

Commissioner Tim Satkowski, who voted against the project, said that while he also believed District 54 should help pay for the playground, more importantly, the Park District could save $ 11,000 in labor costs if it waited until next spring to start the work.

«Since it is best to have all that we need to finish the job, combined with the fact that these sites must be weighed against other cleanup projects that post greater risks, we have suspended work until we can return in 2018,» Region 2 Press Officer Tayler Covington said.

Some of the standard Brexiter attacks have already been used against the leak - that no - one listens to experts anymore, that the future is impossible to predict, that Project Fear doesn't work, blah blah blah.

O'Keefe claimed Project Veritas» work was in the tradition of the undercover journalism of Upton Sinclair and Jack London, and defended his videos — which have been slammed by critics for selective editing — against the charge that they seemed «unbelievable.»

Gov. Paterson has concluded that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a «double agent» working for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and against his own efforts to cut the state's projected $ 9.5 billion budget gap, The Post has learned.

The move comes shortly after another powerful organization, the Lenox Hill Democratic Club, shifted course and decided against endorsing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor because of her advocacy for the polarizing public works project.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to sanction the Republic of South Africa for Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians residing and working there.

At a news conference on the steps of Lancaster Town Hall, the East Aurora resident says he has worked on projects across the district and says he is running against both Collins and his close partner, President Trump.

Paterson said that, while he had «no objection» to the project as planned, he was «very sensitive to the desire of those who are adamant against it to see something else worked out.»

He urged the residents to carefully monitor the progress of work of the project and report anything untoward, inconsistencies, and lapses militating against the construction of the project which has only nine months to be completed.

Mount Vernon Councilman André Wallace dropped by the People Before Politics Radio Show, Sunday to discuss the graduation of the latest class in his construction training program and to address his lawsuit against the city as well as the allegations from Mayor Richard Thomas and a recent article in the Yonkers Tribune, which accuse him of not paying working prevailing wages and not finishing the project he is requesting to be paid for.

That project was in the works for years, and in early talks with elected officials in 2014, the developers pushed back against requests to include a school on the site.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

The real estate board fought hard against a proposal to require a prevailing wage for construction work, something it said would threaten the viability of many projects.

But that obviously did not work against Hanna Tetteh who is known to have spearheaded massive development projects in the constituency.

«She is the prophet of growth,» said Bruce Babbitt, the former governor of Arizona and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, who has worked both with and against Mulroy on various projects.

But Hillis, who has been known to drive a fire engine to work, also cautions against regarding the Clock of the Long Now too gravely: «This project has a lovely kind of lightness to it.»

We therefore wanted to know whether dodder can transmit insect feeding - induced signals among different hosts and whether these signals can even activate defenses against insects,» explains Jianqiang Wu, who worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology as a PhD student and later a project leader, and who is now heading a Max Planck Partner Group in China.

Dr. Baldwin has been at IDRI for over six years and currently works on projects related to development of next - generation vaccines against infectious diseases.

The big thing with this project was trying to find a way to reduce the side effects of drugs that we know work against glioblastoma, and at the same time take advantage of surgery.

Take a closer look at how every curveball, tough project, or race against the clock can be an opportunity to flex your strengths and work on your skills.

He played a low - budget filmmaker who was working against ever - mounting odds to get his dream project made.

These actually work against the innovation image that Tron Legacy is attempting to project — to patent.

Ritchie's unique filmmaking style is constantly pushing back against the more traditional elements of a summer tentpole movie, and while that may have worked to good effect in the aforementioned projects, there's a more noticeable divide here that prevents the film from having a clear identity.

Watching these characters work through their estrangement, rediscover one another, and ultimately come to respect each other — all set against the recklessly ruthless backdrop of Southern dirt track racing — spoke to me and made this project exciting.

Signed up for one of two «competing» Gloria Steinem projects in the works (the other being Julie Taymor's My Life on the Road), this March she'll work begin filming on An Uncivil War (Carey Mulligan will topline the pic around a feminist activist and journalist Steinem, lawyer and activist Florynce Kennedy, and others to ratify the ERA, while conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly advocates against it.

Nicieza's next big project is Black Panther: Soul of a Machine, in which he and co-writers Geoffrey Thorne and Chuck Brown are working with artists Scott «Rahzzah» Wilson and Szymon Kudranski pitting T'Challa against Machinesmith.

Before Charlton Heston faced off against enemy Stephen Boyd in this film's vast Circus Maximus set built at Rome's Cinecittà, Hollywood action sequences involved the second unit covering the stunt work, then the editor dropping in back - projected inserts of the star.

Picture your strongest lessons, activities, and projects juxtaposed against ones that just didn't work, and that's how it's been so far with our Digital Shop capstone projects.

89, and her colleagues at the Challenge Success project at Stanford University, spell out something that seems especially important these days: Our fast - paced, high - pressure culture is working against kids being able to develop in a healthy, happy way.

Works from Peggy McIntosh, such as «White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack (PDF 18KB), and Project Implicit underline the need to work against some of our deeply - held beliefs.

These schools engaged more than 300 students in action projects focused on student - driven anti-discrimination work focused on stopping bias against race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and other issues in school.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

The cost of the project allied to potential low sales, and concerns about the weight of batteries, all worked against it.

Another case brought about by the Authors Guild against several of the scanning groups working on Google's project has already been determined by a different judge to be well within the bounds of fair use.

While it is important that another well - known figure is working with Amazon instead of against it, the really interesting thing about this new project is both the length of the format and the process by which the books will be released.

This latest entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, which reinterprets the Bard's works across multiple genres, hews closely to the story in most respects, but Nesbø adds one element that brilliantly accentuates the malevolence of the landscape: rain — «The rain drifted to the southeast, across streets of smashed street lamps where jackals on the lookout huddled against the walls.»

However a homeowner decides to procure the funds necessary for a home remodeling project, he should balance the costs of interest and closing costs against the benefits that will come from the work.