When I got on the council four years ago, I joined Denis Kelly in starting a moderate reform movement. Because we Democrats had a 5-0 council majority, we did not feel we needed to always agree 5-0, which is a sense the three of us Democratic candidates share now. The promise of the GOP coalition was to open it up, to invite the two holdovers to work with them, to continue our progress. That came to a grinding halt. There was no conversation or bipartisan involvement, to the point where Denis and I, two elected officials, were shut out of the running of the government. ... They made a lot of promises, and there was a lot of bait-and-switch.
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They're the heart and soul of this team. They play the majority of the minutes. They've been there before and they've set a good example for the underclassmen. ... These seniors really leave it all on the floor, and that's all I can ask of them.
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
We're just excited being tied going into singles. The last three we've been so far down. We've got to win the majority of singles matches, but that's better than having to win eight of 12.
Often, perhaps even in the majority of cases, it is the friends and associates of the person sought in a Missed Connection that actually see the posting, recognize who is being sought and bring it to their attention.
There are a few horror stories here and there. The majority of the players have been very down to earth, especially the Aussies. Everything with them is a please and a thank you.
What you have now is a majority in favor of another wave of modest reform,
Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.
some very serious questions about the perception, the attitude of some on the other side when it comes to minorities. There is very little sensitivity.
Security of places of minority worship across Pakistan has been intensified and extra police deployed to protect them,
This is the first election in New York City history where the majority is minority.
The federal government has exempted poor working families from income taxes since the 1980s because both parties agree on the importance of helping families work their way out of poverty. Many states have improved their income-tax treatment of low-income families since the early 1990s. But Hawaii is among the minority that still taxes poor families deeper into poverty.
We will broach the board a week from (today) and hopefully we'll get the go ahead with a proposal. Until we get through that, it's hard to anticipate, ... I'm going to try to get a sense of the board, but this could be tabled if a majority is opposed to it.
I am one of seven board members. I am in the minority on the voting block and have been for 10 years, and I'm used to that. But in the past I have not had go through so many hoops and jump so many hurdles.
There is a significant shortage of minority graduate business school students choosing hospital and health care management as a career. At HCA, we face this issue every day as we recruit young talent into our executive development program. Recognizing this growing problem, Barbara and I wanted to make a personal commitment to increasing minority leadership in health care. Given that Fuqua has the premier MBA Health Sector Management program in the country, a scholarship program aimed at minority students seemed to us the best way to fulfill this commitment.
When you get out of Washington and listen to seniors, you learn that seniors are saving and that the vast majority are not experiencing problems.
there must be a party in the center which reflects the views of the majority of Israelis.
The idea that the governor can't set a policy for state employees that the majority of legislators themselves have embraced makes no sense.
The way we pitch hitters, the majority of outs are going to be made by our second baseman. But Shelly played an outstanding game. Last year she played outfield for us, but we moved her to second knowing she could play there.
All of the thought process that's going into that is involving trying to keep the best players I have in the game for the majority of what I feel like is workable for that player.
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
I won't beat around the bush about that, I think it's a negative for teams. This year is going to be challenging, NHL teams are trying to run with fewer players and I think the more veterans the better but I'm for sure in the minority, and I can accept that. If it was my choice, there would be two more veterans and an exempt player. But that's not the way it is. There are people that have been in this league a lot longer than me that see it a different way and I'm respectful of that.
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
In the last few days, Oracle executives have had the opportunity to speak with the holders of a majority of PeopleSoft shares, ... Many of those shareholders indicated the prices at which they would tender their shares.
The pressure to find a woman or a minority if anything will be even greater this time around, I have a sneaking suspicion it would be either a woman or Gonzales.
I will not lay down and put this narrow, stubborn agenda ahead of our families, ahead of our Constitution, and ahead of our values. We are a proud nation that respects the rights of the minority, values the separation of church and state, and believes in honesty and personal responsibility.
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
We don't see many families or situations, where an individual qualified for Medicaid and still has a family support system. The majority ends up in long-term care.
This calls into question the massive levels of investment some companies have directed into this aspect of onboard connectivity. There is no doubt that airline passengers want access to the Internet and messaging, especially on longer flights, but the use of phones is in direct conflict with the majority of customers' enjoyment and comfort.
Yes, there is some dissent and clearly we understand the feelings but we feel it is a minority,
That would appear to be a conflict of interest to me, ... The majority of time you hire outside consultants, they give you the outcome you want because they want to be hired again.
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
We have to come up with a person to fill the unexpired term, which will end on June 1. We are pressed to get a majority party member and need to have a special meeting.
One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it's not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,
The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.
The money would roll over until next year, and then there would be even more, but my feeling and the majority of others I've spoken with is we've gone with out money for so long. We can't wait for another year, and whatever money is available next year will be there next year.
We don't have a whole bunch of kids, ... Really, we have two kids as (position) players. Most of our kids are pitchers. We're going to play them. They're going to get ... I can't say the majority of playing time ... (but) they're going to play.
Their shooting percentage has a lot to do with offensive rebounds. When you're getting second shots, the vast majority are going to go in. Those are the hardest ones to defend.
Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.
We call them the silent majority.
We didn't have anything to go on, ... It was our first film and you know there was sort of a betting pool around here as to how well it would do, and I would say the majority of folks thought it would be less successful than it was. I think we were stunned.
The South is the only part of the country where the majority of the people say they don't know someone who is gay or lesbian,
It's just a few thousand bags of food, hopefully, most of which we are getting back in the recall. The Oct. 11 production day was the hot load that is responsible for the majority of deaths in my opinion.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
Dynamic optimization gives us an entirely new way of managing network traffic. Traditionally, communications networks are designed around a static scenario based on peak usage patterns. But of course traffic patterns are always changing. In the evenings the majority of mobile device use is at the home, during the day it is in the office area, and during rush hours along the major traffic arteries. By creating a network that can optimize itself dynamically to adjust to the changing network needs throughout the day we can enable service providers to improve quality of service related to the delivery of mobile voice and data services.
The governor is pleased a majority of Connecticut residents already are in favor of it. We are confident as more people learn about it and how it will benefit them, support will continue to grow.
We may be the only conference I'm sure we are the only conference in the country where the majority of institutions are being penalized by the NCAA.
We are going to support Germany's candidacy on condition that a reform plan be put forward that will be supported by a majority of UN members,
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.