Sentences with phrase «years railing against»

Both Holmquist and Jordan also spent more than two years railing against pay raises for Mahoney and the legislature.

After all, if big US corporations find it easier to invest in production in China, that would likely exacerbate the dynamic that Trump has spent years railing against.

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page has for years railed against these scientific findings on climate change, even as the global consensus has reached nearly 100 percent of the scientific community, including the reports commissioned by the skeptical Bush White House.

Not exact matches

«After seven years of railing against the ACA, GOP lawmakers can't just abandon the quest.»

The provocative 33 - year - old former editor of alt - right media website Breitbart News has turned railing against feminism, Islam, social justice and political correctness into a money - spinning show, sparking protests along the way.

One lobbyist, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proposal is still under discussion, said he believed that U.S. - sourced proposal would have to be at least 35 % to satisfy Trump, who railed against automakers for moving jobs to Mexico throughout his election campaign last year.

The corporate watchdog has begun civil penalty proceedings against Padbury Mining and two of its directors over statements made last year claiming the company had lined up $ 6 billion in equity to fund construction of a port and rail network at Oakajee north of Geraldton.

Trump administration officials have railed against what they call «catch - and - release» policies that allow people requesting asylum to be released from custody into the US while their claims make their way through the courts in a process that can last a year.

A few years back, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (now also a special adviser to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) railed against this accusation.

For years he has railed against the «single issue» politics of abortion.

jerry... take a look at the whole situation from step one... I just addressed it on today's cartoon site... David wrote a thank you to his commenters... Andrew comes in out of left field railing against David... that was the first comment... others tried to wish David happy new year etc. and Andrew comes back in with more junk.

That day 8 years ago I railed against God for allowing me to become one of «those people», who had messed it all up.

For years Evengelicals have railed against Mormonism as a cult.

Good government groups and editorial boards have been railing against the LLC loophole for years.

Standing before a crowd of unionized hotel workers several hundred strong, the governor of New York rails against Republicans for feeding workers like them a lie all these years.

He also slammed de Blasio for staying silent on the independent expenditure while railing against the flow of corporate money in elections for years in his role as public advocate.

Throughout the speech, the governor, who has said he'll seek re-election to a third term this year, railed against the politics of Republicans in Washington, saying they are «divisive» and threaten unions and gay and transgender rights.

Before joining the board Carl Paladino had been railing for years against what he termed a dysfunctional school board, which at the time had a board majority of black women he labeled «the sisterhood.»

Jacobs comes from the more moderate branch of the GOP, having worked briefly in the administration of former Gov. George Pataki, who launched a short - lived presidential bid this year and railed against Trump's brand of Republicanism.

Haigh, who was elected as MP for Sheffield Heeley in 2015 general election and was the youngest Labour member of that parliament, also railed against the «seven years of prolonged, deep cuts from this Conservative Government that have led to police officer numbers falling and crime rising».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is seeking a third term himself next year, has railed against the proposal that would limit deductions.

Yesterday, in the cathedral to mass transit known as Grand Central Terminal, four members of New York's congressional delegation joined labor leaders and M.T.A. chairman Joe Lhota to rail against a House transportation bill that would theoretically deprive the transit agency that runs city subways and buses of more than $ 1 billion a year in federal funding.

Republicans have railed for years against federal intrusion in state government — and especially public education.

According to critics, that means the Democratic governor is approving «pork» spending that skews to support powerful incumbents: Republicans in the state Senate and Democrats in the Assembly — even after railing against spending for «pet projects» earlier this year.

UPPER WEST SIDE — City Comptroller John Liu has rejected a five year contract for two controversial homeless shelters installed last summer on West 95th Street, to the relief of critics who have railed against them since their «emergency» opening and the consternation of city officials who blasted it as political grandstanding.

While he has publicly railed against earmarks, Cuomo has overseen a new earmarking program that in three years has expanded to $ 1.3 billion.

Faso, who spent decades as a minority member in the New York State Assembly, likewise railed against the funding issue during his campaign last year.

After years of railing against the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Congressional opponents and the President - elect are now poised to eliminate it.

The backroom process that elevated Kavanagh was ultimately empowered by Squadron, and represented the kind of unseemliness he railed against during his years in Albany.

Some advocates and legislators have railed against Silver's influence for years, decrying the concentration of power of the «three men in a room,» of which Silver was one until he was indicted and resigned his leadership post.

In this year's party conference speech, he railed against «big government» — even, absurdly, blaming it for the financial crisis — but, in fact, relies heavily on big government in his policies.

Returning to filmmaking after saying he was retiring in 2014, the 80 - year - old Loach rails against the system with his trademark style of stripped - down social realism.

* These are good questions to ask Republican senators, too, who will almost surely rail against the Common Core when the Elementary and Secondary Education act comes to the Senate floor later this year.

We'll start with AFT president Rhonda (please call me Randi) Weingarten who pulled in a cool $ 543,150 in total compensation over the last year, all the while railing against the rich because she claims they don't pay their fair share of taxes.

By the way, when your pesky dinner guests wants to rail against teachers, you can helpfully point out that unlike Mr. Packard, the average teacher in America makes a little under $ 37,000 a year.

The chief of research at Pfizer, then as now one of the more politically active pharmaceutical companies, had been railing against the efficacy rules for years, saying they got in the way of delivering good new drugs.

The 87 - year - old was leaning against a railing on Barney's ninth floor.

Now, in a presentation she calls 30 Years Later, O'Grady plans to bring Mlle Bourgeoise Noire back to life, transforming her into a figure who rails against the money - driven art world as a means of restoring the cultural purpose it once had.

Perhaps they also could not find anything as obviously outrageous or controversial in this year's Turner Prize show to rail against.

By 1975, the year Franco died, Spero had already produced an astonishing body of work that railed against the horrifying military actions of the US government in Vietnam and the brutality perpetrated toward women throughout time by oppressive regimes and self - proclaimed rulers.

Demonstrating Artists with Three Dark Rooms and Much Imagery to Absorb The Herald; September 30, 2014; review; 477 words... demonstrate against the Turner Prize this year.They say... controversial in this year's Turner Prize show to rail against.

And yet, 400 years later, here we are: watching a public official tasked with guiding the educational trajectories of his community's children rail against the accepted science on climate change — because its conclusions threaten to undermine the local political culture.

Miraculous, isn't it, that such an iconic figure a OBL, dead for 5 years from kidney failure, suddenly comes to life to rail against industrial civilization only a week after the Hansen - Farnish - Delingpole furore hits the blogs.

I've been railing against the GOP's party plank on climate change for years now, so none of this is surprising.

It's amazing that Joshua, who tries to pretend he is impartial, hasn't been railing against them and attacking them for years, instead of continually picking on trivial and irrelevant points by Judith in he posts and by rational skeptics in blog comments.

Andrew Duffin: I can't recall Feynman cherry - picking 15 years, that kind of stuff belongs to the cargo - cult people he railed against.

He has railed against it for years, devoting entire articles in the

Police believe the 53 - year - old victim fell 20 feet to the parking lot after a railing collapsed as he was leaning against it.

This case was thus two premises liability cases in one: first the case against the homeowner for allowing minors to use alcohol, and second the case against the regional rail line for still having an electrified third rail years after they had been removed from virtually every other system in the country.