Sentences with phrase «if public opposition»

If public opposition to Northern Gateway and Keystone are any indication, getting multiple new lines built could turn out to be little more than a pipedream for the energy industry.

Not exact matches

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

If Wallis's opposition is truly principled (or «prophetic») then we can expect Wallis and the Sojourners crowd to offer up a reasoned and articulate public argument for the moral wrongness of including this particular «health care procedure.»

Identification of opposition to the measure with Catholicism might have been avoided if other religious groups had been perceived in the public's mind as early and strong opponents.

If the grant comes through and there is no public opposition, the best - case scenario has the park district breaking ground in the spring of 1999, Mach said.

If he can persuade the public that he is on their side, and that it's the medical establishment standing in the way of improved healthcare (for whatever reason, misguided or malign), and face down the unions then not only will the strikes falter in the face of rising public opposition but his will be a star in the ascendency.

Cuomo continues to push for accountability and choice in public education — even if, in the face of union opposition, he doesn't get all that he wants.

Senate Co-leader Dean Skelos has voiced his opposition to the reform because it would allow candidates to qualify for public matching funds if they meet certain qualifying criteria.

Ms. Reiter said the governor's appointees would support a meaningful raise only if the Legislature — which is not due back in the capital until early January — held a special session before the end of this year to pass legislation that would «address the public's concern and opposition by making the position effectively full - time and limiting outside income.»

A further unrealistic attitude which both political leaders and the public encourage with equal enthusiasm is an exaggerated notion of what any government can achieve so that nothing unfortunate happens for which the public will not blame the government and for which politicians are not prepared to assume responsibility or at least, if in opposition, to blame the government.

But several advocates I spoke with today said the true test of whether Cuomo is serious about creating a public campaign finance system is if he puts funding for said system in his 2014 - 15 executive budget proposal (assuming, that is, no deal is reached prior to the start of the 2014 session, which, given the Senate GOP's opposition to the idea, seems highly unlikely at this point).

If the Leader of the Opposition is being reinvented in the New Year, appearing in public might be a good start.

Chief policy adviser to David Cameron Oliver Letwin - once referred to as the Gandalf of the leader's circle - is known to believe that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way.

Oliver Letwin may well believe «that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way».

If the opposition opposes the bill then, of course, ministers would attempt to say they alone have a plan to get public spending under control.

While Gordon Brown's actual decision on whether or not to call an election will obviously be based on practicialities like cost and whether he can win it or not, not whether the polls say the public want one, the figures suggest that if Brown does call an early election the public will not see it as unecessary and punish him for it, and if he doesn't and the opposition parties call for one they will have public support on their side.

Receiving information on state rankings has a similar, if less pronounced, effect on public opinion: support slips to 38 percent, while opposition increases slightly to 47 percent.

The article also says that «opinion with respect to the Common Core has yet to coalesce,» and then kindly suggests to Core supporters that they «probably need to clarify their intentions to the public if they are to keep their support from slipping,» as if the opposition is based on a particular set of misunderstandings.

Ms Tulloch said that if the advice had been paid for with public money «it should be available to the opposition».

And if the initiative does make the ballot, it will face formidable opposition from cities and counties, which already are complaining that Brown and the Legislature have cut social services severely and unloaded public safety responsibilities on them.

If our goal is to help them rather than simply to add another grade level onto our public schools, then let's stop demonizing opposition to pre-K, attacking the bearers of bad news and making pre-K just another tool of partisan orthodoxy.

It was impossible to predict if efforts to advance school choice would be buried in a massive dust storm brought on by the opposition and public education unions, or if we would get thwarted by a microburst of unpredictable legislators.

In the media, Aspire Public Schools have been mentioned, surprisingly, in opposition to budget cuts of district schools, even if more funding is directed towards charter schools like their own (Toll et.al, USA Today).

So, if your cointegration approach does prove successful (which is something that I consider unlikely), what magic ingredient do you employ to make it irrefutable in the face of reluctant public & political opinion and in the face of aggressive contrarian opposition?

«It could be the greatest miscalculation of his presidency if, in fact, cooler minds in the opposition can mount a sensible campaign to educate the public as to why he is wrong and how the economic impacts will be absolutely disastrous in the immediate future.

If the opposition keep making public speeches like this then that statement is massively pre-mature.

If you live in a place where all decision makers stand in opposition to your effort, another option could be to first put aside the goal of an official resolution / ban and work to educate and survey the public to declare your area Fossil Free and then to work with local government to make that official (more on that survey and declaration strategy here).

Talking of which, we are flattered that Bob Ward — Policy and Communications Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, erstwhile Director of Public Policy at risk insurance giants RMS and before that, Senior Manager for Policy Communication at the Royal Society — has dropped by to give his thoughts on our observation that, if you're going to go around accusing the opposition of corruption, you'd better be whiter than white yourself.

Conclusions When placed in remote areas, «wind farms» may face little, if any, public opposition, despite the higher costs of electricity from wind energy, the environmental disadvantages, and the adverse operational impacts on other electricity generating units and transmission systems.

This is illustrated by the following examples: * On October 14, 1999, in a letter to certain landowners that explained FPL Energyís decision to withdraw its first conditional use permit application, an FPL Energy representative stated: «If the situation [public opposition] does not improve, then we will have one last get together and thank you for your efforts and move to another area in Wisconsin that will take the turbines.»

And, there would likely be considerable public opposition to, and possibly government intervention into law society prosecutions if the commercial producers had developed a market that serviced many thousands of customers, as has happened in the U.S.