Sentence examples for against transit from inspiring English sources

Not long ago, in arguing against transit radio, we posed what we thought at the time was an absurd parallel; we said that if anyone….

While no one has been harmed in Mr. McCollum's many escapades, the imagination doesn't need much stretching to think of the lawsuits that would pile up — against transit officials, against the district attorney, against judges — should something go horribly wrong the next time he is freed.

Not long ago, in arguing against transit radio, we posed what we thought at the time was an absurd parallel; we said that if anyone should introduce radio into a reading room of a public library, the howls of complaint would be loud.

By T. E. Dutelle and E. B. White The New Yorker, May 2 , 1953P. 21 Not long ago, in arguing against transit radio, we posed what we thought at the time was an absurd parallel; we said that if anyone should introduce radio into a reading room of a public library, the howls of complaint would be loud..

Let the record reflect that Yaroslavsky and Waxman were against transit before they were for it.

Transit Police officers patrol the Metro system and Metrobuses, and they have jurisdiction and arrest powers throughout the 1500 square miles Metro service area for crimes that occur on or against transit authority facilities, or within 150 feet of a Metrobus stop.

Some of the high-profile demonstrations included marches against the fairness of Sargsyan's re-election in 2012; against transit-fare and electric-rate increases and the weakening of pensions; and against the government initially agreeing in 2015 to let a Russian soldier charged with killing an Armenian family be tried in a Russian military court.

A strike against the transit authority in 2005 lasted seven days, while a 1998 transit strike lasted 40 days.

The vote against the transit center, he said, looks like "cutting off your nose to spite your face".

The program was not in response to a specific threat against the transit system here, he said, but to the general threat of terrorism.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city was dropping its lawsuit against the transit workers' union for the $5 million that he said the city spent preparing for a transit strike.