Sentences with phrase «against initiatives such»
May also criticised green groups who campaign against initiatives such as wind farms and the Severn tidal barrage scheme, while also proclaiming the need to tackle climate change.
http://www.climate-resistance.org/ Not exact matches
There has been strong pushback against the EFF initiative from the content industry in the US, and from others, such as IP blogger Neil Turkewitz.
They have created banners for specific matches or moments in the season — such as the «Believe» message that was unveiled when Arsenal were perceived underdogs last month against Tottenham — and want the club to support more initiatives.
The project has brought people together regardless of background and has supported D&RFC initiatives such as «Fans for the future» and «Red card against racism».
Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well as model legislation.
Initiatives such as this are crucial to making sure that athletes have the information they need to protect themselves against lasting harm, and that their guardians and trainers help keep them healthy and safe.
Of course, others, such as the National Audit Office and the Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor team also hold the government to account by scrutinizing reform initiatives against such data as is available.
Such bold initiative would also improve public confidence in the fight against corruption.»
For us, World AIDS Day is such an initiative, where uniting in the fight against HIV must begin with accepting scientific evidence for the basis and treatment of HIV / AIDS, and acknowledging human responsibility and endeavour as the way to reduce harm, to prevent unnecessary suffering and deaths, and to combat prejudice and discrimination.
Republicans are dead set against such a plan, which Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif on Tuesday said would «needlessly divert resources away from our schools, infrastructure and initiatives to provide tax relief for hardworking families.»
The President of the National House of Chiefs also commended government for other initiatives such as the industrialization policy and the fight against corruption and environmental degradation.
Clinton and Huckabee have collaborated on initiatives such as the fight against childhood obesity.
Still, Skylanders» initiative in kick - starting the genre has ensured its competitive standing against such an imposing opposition.
And even as they badmouth families, they also engage in intimidating families daring to speak out on the ground, and are working together with traditional districts to push back against Parent Power and choice initiatives in states such as Mississippi and Alabama.
One - to - one computing initiatives, such as the one described here, are juxtaposed against districts where mobile technology use among students is banned.
Her department has also taken action against various civil rights initiatives from the Obama administration such as guidance on the rights of transgender students, and her department announced it was scaling back civil rights investigations and would avoid looking into systemic issues.
Still, Skylanders» initiative in kick - starting the genre has ensured its competitive standing against such an imposing opposition.
From cultural interventions such as happenings and the Artists Against the Expressway movement, to legislative initiatives such as the AIR (Artists in Residence) re-zoning and historic district designation, the panel will consider how activism and community engagement impacted this neighborhood.
Today's funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are concentrated on giving art and artists opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?
During a roundtable discussion, several leaders of African countries that are a part of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership spoke with urgency about the need for the United States, which is also a member, to provide more money for the initiative, particularly because such forests not only provide a wildlife haven but also serve as a buffer against the buildup of greenhouse gases.
I watched Penny Wong on the 7:30 report defending the government's emissions trading scheme against the criticism, made here and elsewhere, that initiatives such as the government's home insulation scheme will have no effect except to reduce the price of permits and therefore the costs faced by large emitters.
For example, the authors state that, in addition to medical interventions, «public health initiatives against smoking, and promoting screening for breast and colon cancers, led to the initiation of U.S. cancer mortality reductions in 1990,» but of course such crucial public health activities are largely outside the domain of NIH.
The law in Alaska forbids a governor from officially lobbying for or against a ballot initiative such as Ballot Measure 4.
Oberg then demonstrates how such criteria could be applied to some actual examples of legislative initiatives — for instance, the Environmental Crimes Directive, the Market Abuse Crimes Directive, the (at the time of writing the book) proposed «PIF» Directive (i.e. on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by criminal law), which meanwhile has been adopted — and demonstrates how sometimes the legislative initiatives and proposals would have failed his proposed testing.
There are thing being done by independent organizations, such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and new laws and legal initiatives to produce positive change in stopping drunk driving.
They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.