Sentences with phrase «year battle over»

Though Smallman loves the finished product, it would not have been possible without a tough three - year battle over planning regulations.

[19] In 2012, just days before he died, West signed paperwork authorising the formation of the Franz West Private Foundation which also operated the Franz West Werknutzungs GmbH; after a five - year battle over the artist's estate, however, the Regional Court for Civil Law of Vienna concluded in 2017 that the foundation was created without a proper contract.

Gov. Ann W. Richards of Texas signs a school - finance compromise bill, ending a seven - year battle over financing and freeing up state funds for public schools.

On a dramatic day that saw the rancorous, two - year battle over Scottish independence end with the preservation of the 307 - year - old Union:

Buffalo, NY — The Collins Administration and the United States Attorney's office are both claiming victory with an agreement filed Thursday that ends a four - year battle over conditions at the Erie County Holding Center and the Alden Correctional facility.

A Florida couple apparently didn't get that memo, and now the latest blow has been struck in a ridiculous two - year battle over a little boy's foreskin.

Last year, he won a five - year battle over his residency — becoming one of the few missionaries to bring such a legal challenge and win.

The atmosphere was extremely cordial and comfortable; bringing together many professionals whose firms have spent years battling over clientele, matters, and even some who have been on opposite sides during trial.

Not exact matches

The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle, of the so - called «black spider memos» sent by the Prince to ministers over several years.

Airlines have battled these companies for years over costs.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

The South West may be the scene of a political and environmental battle over bauxite mining not seen for 30 years.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission proposed a bigger new multi-year budget on Wednesday that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

BRUSSELS, May 2 - The European Commission met on Wednesday to agree proposals for a bigger new multi-year budget that will trigger battles among member states over how to fill the funding gap left by Britain's exit next year.

Amazon's $ 13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods Markets came together swiftly after the upscale grocer battled activist shareholders over its future earlier this year.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all - important commodity of attention.

Oracle has won the latest round of its eight - year battle against Google over the latter's Android platform.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

They knew they would likely face an acrimonious battle of the kind they had seen over the last two years in the neighboring state of Wisconsin between Republican Governor Scott Walker and unions.

With more than 250,000 drug - and alcohol - related deaths a year nationwide, our society's battle against substance abuse is far from over.

Groups like E-FLEX will likely face an uphill battle over the next year persuading lawmakers to boost that employee count beyond 50, but there are other changes may be easier.

Dauman and Shari Redstone, the daughter of controlling shareholder and former chairman Sumner Redstone, are currently embroiled in a high - stakes legal battle over control of the 93 - year - old media mogul's companies.

A new book on the Canadian workplace — Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles, edited by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker — provides an engaging and accessible account of various labour battles in the courts over the past 85 years involving human rights, employment fairness and union recognition.

So the battle between monetary and economic forces plays out over years, not months.

Kalanick's at times frat - like behavior over the company's eight - year history has come into focus in the past months, as Uber battles a public relations disaster that has led some customers to delete the app.

This will be a «never - ending battle» as Zuckerberg said, dragging out over many years.

«Over the past year, we have put the final pieces in place to ensure Agari is at the forefront of this battle for cybersecurity.

«As well, the failed attempt at a budget compromise by Congress and the President — the so - called Super Committee «Grand Bargain — was a $ 4 trillion battle plan over 10 years» worth $ 400 billion a year.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Over the past few years, India's largest online taxi services — homegrown Ola and its global peer Uber — have been battling it out in the country to gain market share supremacy.

It has experience — including tough legal battles over the years with Nokia, Broadcom and others.

By JEFFREY BELL AND RICH DANKER There is thought to be a pitched battle raging within the White House over President Obama's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term expires early next year.

The alleged NYC - area bomber and his family were engaged in a 7 - year long court battle with city officials over late - night hours and accusations of ethnic prejudice at the restaurant they ran in Elizabeth N.J., and the father of the family declared bankruptcy in 2005, my review of extensive federal court records has found.

In the last few months, exits have included VP of finance Gautam Gupta, president Jeff Jones — who was at the company for less than a year — and Anthony Levandowski, an exec at the center of Uber's battle with Google over stolen self - driving car technology.

It ranks as one of Australia's worst floats, with more than $ 500 million in shareholder value destroyed in less than three years, but there's a bitter battle raging over the future of online surf and skate wear retailer SurfStitch.

Wayne Smith quit Friday after losing a battle over Statistics Canada's involvement in a five - year - old — and controversial — central IT department, Shared Services Canada.

After seven years of fighting deflation, central bankers may have at least won a battle, with implications for asset prices over the next 6 to 12 months.

The Gannett battle over, Ferro faced two noisy dissident shareholders: Oaktree, dispatched today with high - priced hush money, and HG Vora, an activist shareholder that smelled profit last year as Tronc was in play and bought into the company speculatively.

The most interesting part is the back story of how a billionaire was upset over an inappropriate news story about him and plotted for years to get his revenge, and then secretly funded someone else's legal battle to get it.

(If that sounds familiar, it's because the same argument was made twenty - five years ago in the early stages of the battle over legalized abortion.)

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

For over one hundred years after the Reformation, the Catholics and Protestants had fought bloody battles in an attempt to crush each other.

A full 20 years later, after Judas and a successor brother, Jonathan, had died in battle, a third brother, Simon, took over, and through his diplomacy achieved Judean independence, establishing what would become a full century of Jewish sovereignty.

The battle for historical consciousness in theology has been waged for over 150 years.

Needless to say, the battle over the school has little to do with the «presenting problem,» that the eight - year - olds don't wear socks in the hot Israeli Septembers and that their mothers don't all cover their hair.

Over the years Wiebe has carried his battle to multiple fronts and warmed to the fight in many a disputatious page.

Its position around the corner from the Glasgow Orange Order - a Protestant fraternity who still march once a year to celebrate the victory of King William III over the Catholic King James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne - may be a mere coincidence, the allegiance of its regulars to Rangers is not.

What's happened, of course, is that over the past thirty years the central purpose of Catholic worship» the Eucharist» has been all but lost in a sea of concerns about community building, lay ministry, liturgical language, battles over music and statues, and yet more community building.