Sentences with phrase «against striking for»

The PSESA included similar prohibitions against striking for those employees working for «essential services,» as defined in the legislation.

Not exact matches

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

Italian taxi drivers have been militant in their agitation against Uber, engaging in coordinated national strikes, advocating for new regulations, and on occasion refusing even to meet with Uber representatives to work towards compromise.

Follow - on versions will be configured as first - strike weapons against heavily defended targets for a «first day of war» scenario.

Bolton, who is regarded as a foreign policy super-hawk, had previously argued for preemptive strikes against North Korea.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targetting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

Older U.S. Air Force jets — including the A-10 Thunderbolt II, eyed in recent years for retirement, and the F - 15E Strike Eagle — are leading the air war against the Islamic State, statistics show.

A coalition of adverse forces seemed allied against Foster's determination and high hopes: (1) there was potential for a strike, should Foster balk at union demands; (2) 1983 might have proved not even close to the bottom of the recession for heavy machinery; (3) who knew what EPA standards the former owner had let slide, that the new one might be called on to correct?

In the aforementioned op - ed for The Wall Street Journal, published one month before Trump's on - the - spot acceptance to meet with Kim Jong Un, Bolton made a case for taking pre-emptive strikes against the North.

In the past, Bolton has recommended scrapping the Iran nuclear deal and justified the need for U.S. strikes against North Korea.

With so much of the CRTC's criteria for mandatory carriage focusing on making an «exceptional» contribution to the promotion of Canadian values, the event would appear to be a strike against the network.

In fact, the Swiss franc rose 1 percent against the dollar on Wednesday morning, as investors looked for safe options after North Korea said it was «carefully examining» a plan to strike Guam, where a U.S. military base is located.

India is also ramping up its nuclear and conventional deterrence against China by testing long - range missiles, raising a mountain strike corps for the border with China, enhancing submarine capabilities and basing its first squadron of French - made Rafale fighter jets near that border.

Throughout 2017, AFRICOM reported a number of «self - defense strikes» against Shabaab in Somalia, a euphemism for close air support for offensive operations.

This makes Hamas responsible for accidental strikes against civilians in Gaza.

After the Supreme Court in 1911 struck down the form of resale price maintenance enabled by fair trade laws, 59 Congress in 1937 carved out an exception for state fair trade laws through the Miller - Tydings Act.60 When the Supreme Court in 1951 ruled that producers could enforce minimum prices only against those retailers that had signed contracts agreeing to do so, 61 Congress responded with a law making minimum prices enforceable against nonsigners too.62

The Daily Telegraph in London reported Wednesday that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered British submarines to move within missile range of Syria, in preparation for strikes against the Assad regime that could begin as early as Thursday night.

12 Naturally, disclosure requirements for market - makers will have to strike a balance between improving market transparency and mitigating the risk that market participants can trade against market - makers based on the disclosed information (eg by disseminating sufficiently aggregate data and at suitable reporting lags).

The U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

Customers wielded the hashtag against the company for trying to profit during a protest against Trump's Muslim ban that included a strike by New York City's taxi union.

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

The first salvos in the budding U.S. - China trade conflict struck old - school sectors like steel and agriculture, but Beijing is now bracing for moves against its strategic ambitions in hi - tech.

«For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.»

Unions fought fiercely against the lay - off last year, the strike went on for three months and the workers were violently repressed by the police.

At the time we thought we were being cool rebellious guys, Striking hilarious blows against The Man and his discipline, His regimentation, his greedy demand for order and pattern, But now I think we were maybe meaner than we ever knew.

This is a striking picture of God's design for the local church - His own spiritual house in which disciples are born and raised and trained to fight against the enemy for His purpose in the earth.

As a preemptive strike against them (and their possible allies in a Bush Administration) Ivey presented «An American Bill of Rights for Culture.»

Was the bombing of Dresden in World War II, for example, just collateral damage, or an intentional strike against civilians?

Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate, if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him.

Is there not reason for Man, become aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to rebel at last; to go on strike against a blind course of evolution which may not, in any event, betoken any real progress?

Sketching the conflict as a battle of good against evil, he calls for a preemptive strike against the foe.

The struggles include fighting for the rights of the child (International Convention of 1989) and in particular the right to organise and educate the growing number of children in work, for the freedom of trade unions, the right to strike, against company closures due to the search for greater profitability.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

In other words, the single striking instance in which it sets itself against prevailing mores and wishes is in the case of sexual liberty — a case which is perhaps dubious if it is true that a substantial proportion of the generations which have grown up in the sexual revolution may harbor a secret desire for that «No.»

11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Don't forget as well the potential epidemic of nuclear proliferation as other nations attempt to adjust to and defend themselves against Bush's preventive wars, while our own already staggering nuclear arsenal expands toward first - strike primacy and we expend unimaginable billions on futuristic ideas for warfare in outer space.

And doubtless we are in a qualified way so to read Judean history, for the striking difference of its politics as over against Israel's was the stability of the dynasty.

It struck me most forcefully when I saw one well - known polemic pastor bear false witness against some friends of mine, be confronted on it, admit he was wrong, and then not publicly address, retract, or apologize for what he said.

The Bible speaks to numerous generations because it points out things that strike us at the core; you can rant against it as much as you want, it will not go away just for that reason.

Well I think that anyone that has to support an establishment that is STRIKING OUT against another group of people for no reason is a little hateful.

In addition as usual your blas - «pheming against God... isn't good as well... need to get on those knees and ask God not to strike you down for such words.

Religious proponents of international law could draw on the prophets for biblical support: Amos, Hosea, Micah and others discerned Yahweh's law as both impartial and international, striking against the arrogant pretensions of all people and nations who violate human rights in the belief that God is on their side.

Mat 4:5 Then the devil * took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, Mat 4:6 and * said to Him, «If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, «HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU»; and «ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.»»

Say, Psalms 91:11 - 13 — «For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.»

further proof that Elohim is «spirit» in a general sense can be found in the Book of Exodus Chapter 12 Verse 12 where it reads: «For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.»

But I tell you, Do not defend yourselves against injury; whoever strikes you on the right cheek, offer him the other; whoever goes to law with you about your cloak, give him your coat also; whoever forces you for a mile, go two with him.»

God has had many accusations leveled against Him in the bible, He did nt strike people dead for doing so.

It is a great pity that the casual Bible reader almost inevitably reads the Old Testament against the background of a sophisticated modern world, for then the first things to strike him are characteristics which are strange to him just because they reflect the ancient period.

Your respect for the authentic voice of Jesus that is still to be found in and under the multiple layers of the synoptics strikes the right note against those whose view is characterized by PAUL LARGE and everything else, a pale footnote.

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..