Sentences with phrase «years fighting over»

Spending the next five, 10 years fighting over pipelines does not seem the best way to do that.

In a landmark ruling that could force a sea - change in the way firms approach their uniform policy, the court found in favour of Nadia Eweida in her six - year fight over the rules.

I quickly realised that I had made a massive mistake and tried to go back but other people told me he no longer needed me so I didn't bother and we spent a year fighting over our youngest as the older child wants nothing to do with him.

Not exact matches

Uber earmarked more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam, over the last year.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

Before the 2015 rules were enacted, Netflix (nflx) fought with cable providers for years over intentional streaming slowdowns and extra fees for connecting with its customers.

This year, Airbnb expects $ 850 million in revenue and an operating loss of about $ 150 million as it pushes to expand its services to new parts of the world and fights regulators over taxes and lodging laws.

China sent troops to fight on North Korea's side in the 1950 - 53 Korean War, but relations have suffered in recent years over the North's reluctance to implement Chinese - style economic reforms and Kim's continued pursuit of nuclear bombs and the missiles to deliver them.

Trump, McConnell, and Ryan are set to meet at Camp David over the weekend to hash out the strategy for year two of the Trump presidency — both in the immediate fights over funding and in the longer - term push.

He's also a fighting champion, putting his undefeated record on the line four times in the past two years, most notably in two absolutely brutal victories over Sergey Kovalev to become the unified light heavyweight champion of the world.

And there's a bruising fight with Congress over spending and the federal deficit on the horizon, just days after Obama and Congress averted the fiscal cliff with a last - minute deal over the New Year's holiday.

Hanging over the start of the year is a renewed fight over raising the nation's borrowing limit, which the Treasury says must be resolved by late February or early March to avert an unprecedented U.S. default.

«Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf compared the dispute with Apple over potentially billions of dollars in royalties on mobile chipsets to earlier fights Qualcomm has had over the years with other tech companies that were settled out of court.

And over the years, it has gone to considerable lengths to protect the rights of its users to say pretty much whatever they wish, including fighting a French court case that was designed to identify users who posted anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks.

Expect that fight to begin trickling over the border this year.

THE URGENCY OF NOW: VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER — A KEYNOTE CONVERSATION Under Vice President Biden's leadership, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force catalyzed novel, innovative and impactful collaborations among twenty government agencies, departments and White House offices and over seventy private sector entities designed to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan have pledged to invest more than $ 3 billion over the next ten years to develop research technology that can fight and cure diseases globally.

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

Up until a couple of years ago, the grocery price war had largely been fought over mainstream products like soda, soup and cereal, leaving higher - end organics to compete on quality.

A fight over trade this year ruptured the usual alliance between the Democratic president and the organized labor movement.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Puerto Rico's most - recent audited financial statements are almost four years old, casting doubt over just how broke the bankrupt island is as creditors fight over its cash and residents protest proposed austerity measures in the streets.

«Over the last four years we built a network in Uganda of over 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing woOver the last four years we built a network in Uganda of over 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing woover 1,000 sales agents and are on our way to establishing a self - funded system for fighting disease and poverty in the developing world.

For over 60 years, Heart & Stroke has been dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, preserving life's moments, funding breakthroughs and saving lives.

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

Hi fought them over years until he had finally his big pay off.

Detailed definitions could be fought over for years, he says.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

Over the last year and a half, Uber has taken aim at the Asia Pacific region, earmarking more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.

Meanwhile, despite threats from Trump that he would shut down the government if his U.S. - Mexico border wall is not paid for, lawmakers and aides say the White House has eased off that threat and any fight over the border wall will be delayed until later in the year.

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.

Ever since King Camp Gillette invented the world's first double blade safety razor at the start of the 20th century, razor manufacturers have been fighting against one another to dominate what has grown to be well over a $ 15 billion a year business — all while seemingly paying no mind to the wishes of their customers, let alone the science behind getting a close shave.

Oscar took the stage and spoke about his gratitude for the men and women that fought for his independence for over 36 years (1981 - 2017).

Foreign demand for Treasury debt is expected to stay strong this year, helped by a congressional agreement to avoid a fight over the U.S. debt ceiling until March 2015.

Stupid humans fight and kill over their imaginary friend for 1000's of years and goes back even further to the polytheistic civilizations before that.

Over the past 50 years, Christianity and pop music have blended, clashed and fought with secular ideas.

In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem - cell research]-- which did slow down this [adult stem - cell] research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»

grats The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years, between 1095 and 1291.

History repeats it self... See examples such as the separation of India in to India and Pakistan but left them Kashmir to fight over and remain alert against each other all those years, then another example is the Koreas South and North, then the case of Cyprus for Turkey and Greece, planting of Israel among the Arabs to control, exhaust them, consume their wealth and drain their resources?

You are idiots for calling him on the carpet, instead you should be getting the federal government out of the poverty fighting business, The war on poverty is over 44 years old and for all intents and purposes all it did was create an out of control bureaucracy that needs to be taken apart and labeled a bad idea for future generations.

In recent years, certain religious Jewish and Christian communities have proclaimed that exclusive Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land is a theological fight and necessity, a condition for the unfolding of the messianic era.

But not even Winston Churchill could have kept his people inspired for a siege lasting over forty years, or kept them from fighting among themselves.

Car seat, infant and diaper bag in one hand, writhing, shoeless four - year - old in the other, four and five year old trailing behind and ultimately fighting over which seat in the van was most awesome that night.

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

And our work has changed over the years as the war has turned into a relative time of peace which then turned into the massive rise of ISIS and the displacement of millions of people, and then an extremely difficult fight against ISIS.

Fighting over the Koran, that was written years after the death of Islam's beloved leader is senseless.

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