Sentences with phrase «aggressive campaign against»

Following the Second World War, during which Japan mounted an aggressive campaign against China until American intervention forced Japan's unconditional surrender, the country's current democratic constitutional monarchy was established.

The change in public opinion over the past year is almost certainly due to the aggressive campaign against Common Core mounted by elements on both the left and the right.

A non-governmental organisation, Social Action, on Friday threatened that it would commence an aggressive campaign against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State over his failure to make the budget of the state public.

McMurray — who has repeatedly said he supports the Second Amendment right to bear arms as well gun control measures such as stronger background checks for gun purchases — vowed to wage an aggressive campaign against Collins.

But the mayor faced opposition from some City Council members, and shelved the idea after the ride - hailing company launched an aggressive campaign against the proposed regulations.

Some ISPs did not include pressure from Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo's aggressive campaign against child pornography as one of their reasons for dropping Usenet feeds as part of their services.

Uber's aggressive campaign against Mr. de Blasio included television ads and a special tab in its app showing projected wait times for cars if a cap was introduced.

After six years of aggressive campaigning against the introduction of natural gas fracking in the state, the campaign has gotten a new burst of support from contenders vying to replace Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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Now they are the ones being disrupted by the digital duopoly of Facebook and Google, as well as Airbnb, which days ago began its own aggressive ad campaign against online agencies — a direct invitation to hotels to partner with Airbnb.

In India, Hindu extremists have attacked Christian communities (as well as Muslims); in Burma and Sri Lanka, Buddhist nationalists have launched aggressive anti-Christian campaigns; and Communism's ruthless war against followers of Christ» in Cuba, Vietnam, China, and North Korea» is well - known.

The church also blamed «an aggressive campaign of some media outlets aimed against the Romanian Orthodox Church, often with the complicity of some errant priests».

Pressure is on our side to keep pace with the top of the table after a slow start to the campaign thus far, and Nicholas thinks we should be more aggressive in our approach at home against certain sides, and leaving Xhaka out the starting line - up would be his decision.

IBFAN continues to campaign against aggressive and misleading marketing of breastmilk substitutes by all companies in the developing and industrialised world and for the regulations introduced in Pakistan following the stand taken by Aamir to be fully implemented and enforced.

ALBANY — Sean Eldridge is a self - funder, a good Democrat on the issues, has the blessing of party bosses for his run for Congress against Chris Gibson, can talk about creating jobs with an investment fund and, again, as the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has more than enough money to self - fund an aggressive campaign.

[292] The Australian Green party called for a parliamentary inquiry into News Limited, but Hartigan directly denied allegations by both the Greens and the governing Labor party that News Limited has been running a campaign against them, describing his group's journalism as «aggressive but fair.»

The «day one» strategy hit major roadblocks as the public, led by an unusually aggressive Daily News campaign that included a 40,000 - signature petition, pushed back against the banning of a beloved tourist attraction that employs about 300 drivers — drivers who just happen to belong to the Teamsters Union.

The early ad campaigns signal that the two are running an aggressive race against each other in this southwestern Pennsylvania district.

If anything, Biden has only gotten more aggressive in his efforts to campaign for Democrats, and particularly against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after a recently - revealed 2005 video showed Trump making vulgar comments about women.

Johnson has already started an aggressive negative campaign against him, even though he's a 32 - year old kid and she's a 23 - year incumbent, which may suggest that she has poll numbers showing she's got trouble.

Former Rep. Larry LaRocco is running a very aggressive and relatively successful campaign against Lt. Gov. Jim Risch.

In recent days, the candidates have weighed in on the closure of Indian Point and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fracking ban, and advocates are now making an aggressive push to get the campaigns of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to come out against the proposed Constitution pipeline.

He ran an aggressive campaign as a candidate for County Executive in 2005 against Andrew Spano.

An anti-tax group has begun an aggressive media campaign against Ralph J. Marino, the Long Island legislator who is the Senate's Republican leader.

An advertising campaign built around aggressive violence and the reputation of a polarizing director, a late August release date and mixed early word coming out of Cannes were all factors working against «Inglourious Basterds» leading up to its release.

Warren's concerns are shared by national teachers unions, which the Washington Post reports Monday are «mounting an aggressive campaign» against DeVos before Wednesday's hearing.

Aggressive public relations campaign amplifies courtroom battle against teacher work rules Hechinger Report analysis by Louis Freedberg

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«President Klaus is principally against non-serious, aggressive and provocative billboard campaigns of the kind the Heartland Institute used recently....

America Rising Advanced Research has launched an aggressive social media campaign against leading figures in the US environmental movement, including creating the website Core News which features attacks on prominent climate policy advocates including Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer and Leonardo DiCaprio.

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat - trapping gases could lead to global warming.

Unfettered by its lawsuit against the Toronto Real Estate Board and CREA, which was resolved out of court in January, Realtysellers (Ontario) Limited has launched an aggressive expansion campaign.