Sentences with phrase «affronts to american»
Western New York's two Republican members of Congress — Chris Collins and Tom Reed — offered staunch defenses of the controversial order, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.
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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer deemed Trump's DACA decision a «heartless» affront to Americans motivated by partisan politics.
I say it is disrespectful to the thousands who died on 9 - 11 and their families, insulting to the thousands of troops who've been killed or injured in the ensuing wars and an affront to American people.
Buffalo builder and megamillionaire Carl Paladino, a Tea Party activist expected to challenge Lazio in the GOP primary, said, «I am dead set against the mosque at Ground Zero because it's an affront to Americans everywhere.
Western New York's two Republican members of Congress Monday offered staunch defenses of President Donald J. Trump's controversial executive order on immigration, which New York Democrats lambasted as an affront to American values.
He said on the radio — and in another interview with NY1 — that the mosque is an «affront to the American people» and claimed «it's about the Islamists wanting to illustrate that they have conquered America by taking down the World Trade Center.»
As one 1968 brochure from the national association noted, «Requiring a property owner to enter into a contract with one not of his choice is an affront to the American tradition of freedom of contract.»
Not exact matches
Schwarzman: Bigotry, hatred and extremism are an affront to core American values and have no place in this country.
While the American people clash on issues ranging from guns to taxes, what Comey sees as Trump's lapses in character and integrity are an affront members of all political parties, he said.
It takes little imagination to grasp why stationing American troops in Saudi Arabia, the Muslim holy land, or attacking Iraq (and hence Baghdad), the seat of the ancient caliphate, is an affront to Muslims.
«Increasing middle class taxes to subsidize corporate tax cuts is an affront to struggling Americans.
«In an affront to every sensible Monroe County voter, Louise compared her campaign to the plight of former slave Dred Scott and the millions of African - Americans who suffered under the scourge of slavery,» said Noah Lebowitz.
Or does he agree with the vast majority of Americans that the construction of this project at its current site it a direct affront to the memories of those who perished on 9/11?»
Joining a rally with de Blasio and other NYC leaders, Timothy Cardinal Dolan called Trump's move to strip protections from young immigrants Tuesday as an affront to Christian and American values.
«It is for this reason, Mr. President, that a higher obligation is imposed on you to engage Ghanaians and take steps to renegotiate with the Americans those articles in the Agreement that the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians are affronted by, and compromises their sacred sovereignty,» Mr Ablakwa said in his letter.
«The Arizona immigration bill is an affront to the civil rights of all Americans and an attempt to legalize racial profiling,» he said in a statement.
«President Trump's action today is an affront to who we are as Americans,» she said.
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), represented by Lisa B. Nelson, was among 22 groups represented in a «Coalition» open letter pushing back against what the Heartland Institute describes as an «affront to free speech.»
«This disregard for the climate is at odds with science and sound policy and it is an affront to generations of Americans who deserve a clean energy future,» said Bill Corcoran, Western Region Director for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
Forcing the CEI to hand over private information to government officials is an affront to the First Amendment rights of all Americans,» the letter states.
KeystoneXLNow.com takes aim at President Obama for failing to approve the Keystone XL project (even though the White House just announced approval of the southern leg today), calling it «an affront to millions of Americans out of work and an outrage to millions more who are paying higher energy costs as a result of this administration's policies.»
Such a brazen attempt to discredit and silence the EPA, the citizens of Pavillion and documentary filmmaking will ultimately fail and it is an affront to the health and integrity of Americans.
An increasing number of American employers are recognizing that blanket policies excluding those with criminal records isn't just an affront to the notion of effective rehabilitation; it's downright bad for business.