Sentences with phrase «allied group in»

So how did the NEA hold on to a majority allied group in Congress even as Democrats lost their hold of both chambers?

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Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the war in Syria, also reported intense clashes between forces allied with the Syrian government and IS militants in an area between Homs and Deir el - Zour.

While the Sinaloa cartel is considered one of the most powerful criminal groups in the Western Hemisphere and the world, the cartel itself operates more like a federation of allied factions than like a traditional hierarchical cartel with a top - down leadership structure.

I also know that our workplace has a particularly awesome Ally group (as in, Ally and everyone actually in the LGBTQIAA - etc.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Lantern is a buyout firm founded by Andy Mitchell, the former head of Ally Financial's global special assets group.

The companies in the FTSE 350 with all - male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.

On this issue among others — like funding the government, raising the federal borrowing limit and financing highways — such business groups have found themselves at odds with traditional Republican allies who increasingly reflect a new populist strain of conservatism in the party that is often hostile toward big business.

But through a private Facebook group for methadone patients and allies, I've witnessed a crisis develop: the inability of people in addiction recovery to access methadone due to the storm.

The decision means a previously obscure grouping of senior officials - the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financial crisis.

The fringe right - wing website is more of an opposition group than a media organization and is seen to be closely allied with «alt - right» organizers in Canada and the United States.

The largest contributors to portfolio return in the quarter were Bank of America, TE Connectivity, UnitedHealth Group, Ally Financial and Dover.

«The Catholic bishops and their allies in the Republican Party are increasingly isolated,» James Salt, executive director of a liberal group called Catholics United, said in a statement over the weekend supporting the White House's contraception rule.

Support for Israel means that a person understands that Israel is an ally who has our best interest in mind, while Hamas is a terrorist group who should not be negotiated with just as Al - Qaeda shouldn't be negotiated with.

The illiberal Christian movement, a disparate and nascent group, can feel starved for allies in the institutional Church, and for that reason it may go looking in places it has no business being.

If we can not think past the conflicting goals of different groups to the world in which their diverse interests can be reconciled, too much energy will be spent on bickering among those who should be allies in a common struggle.

«On the sudden appearance of groups of Allied Species in the lowest known fossilferous strata: There is another and allied difficulty, which is much gAllied Species in the lowest known fossilferous strata: There is another and allied difficulty, which is much gallied difficulty, which is much graver.

Before he became friends with fellow writer C.S. Lewis and help create the Inklings writers» group, Tolkien fought in World War I and later assisted the Allies as a code - breaker during World War II.

Remember that the congregation is idiomatic; it constitutes itself by a very distinctive language whose indicative aspect identifies a world in some ways allied with metaphors widely employed in the culture but in other ways peculiar to that group alone.

The otters were in the Allied Atheist Alliance, and then there were two groups of humans known as the United Atheist Alliance and the United Atheist League, and of course the war is to determine which name is the best.

All the same it is necessary to see also the limits of this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it depended on the persons and groups that drafted it in the aftermath of World War II and the victory of Allied Nations.

Rev Iain May, 57, was the group head of planning and strategy at Allied Irish Banks in Dublin when he began questioning the lavish lifestyle he was living.

Child - care interest groups and their unthinking feminist allies use the rhetoric of «choice» and «quality» and their status as professional educators and guardians of young children to disguise as dispassionate advice what is in fact a political horse trade.

It's an allegation that Dannenfelser's group and allied organizations have raised in roughly a dozen races across the country.

Environmentalist groups and farmers are becoming allies in their concern for tainted and dwindling water supplies, chemical poisoning, urban encroachment and other issues.

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five a group of Allied soldiers is captured and herded into a defunct meatpacking plant near Dresden, a slaughterhouse in which they are to be incarcerateIn Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five a group of Allied soldiers is captured and herded into a defunct meatpacking plant near Dresden, a slaughterhouse in which they are to be incarceratein which they are to be incarcerated.

They've supported far - right groups in Europe (including France's Marine Le Pen) as well as more traditional far - left allies.

The group was also instrumental in bringing down Ahok, who is a close friend and political ally of President Joko Widodo.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

Those who hold very strongly to the abstinence position often forget that there is another group who are as opposed to excess as they are and who might be allies in developing sanctions against drunkenness.

As Cohn points out, Zoroaster's view that «the time would come when, in a prodigious final battle, the supreme god and his supernatural allies would defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them once and for all» deeply influenced certain Jewish groups which, in turn, «influenced the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences».7

Isabelle quickly becomes involved in underground groups to subvert the Nazis, working her way from someone who passes out anti-Nazi propaganda, to a woman who leads Allied forces to safety, crossing the Pyrenees mountains to do so.

He continues to enjoy sound backing from Microsoft's leadership and has a strong ally in Compass Group, the software giant's contract foodservice partner that provides the dining operations.

«Allied Beverage Group is proud to support Women of the Vine & Spirits and their commitment to empowering women in the Beverage Alcohol Industry.

Created in 1975 by the merger of Ricard and Pernod, the Group has undergone sustained development, based on both organic growth and acquisitions: Seagram (2001), Allied Domecq (2005) and Vin & Sprit (2008).

Allied Domecq, the British drinks giant locked in a bidding war for Australia's Peter Lehmann Wines, announced today that it is pulling its offer, paving the way for the Switzerland - based Hess Group to make the acquisition.

A win in the final group game in Italy would have seen them qualify automatically, and they led until the last 17 minutes, but goals from Alessandro Florenzi and Graziano Pelle, allied with a Croatian win in Valletta, consigned the Scandinavians to the play - off berth.

We played and proved to be a crucial ally in building the case for Gay marriage (a just and right fight) «after all black marriages fail at such a high rate» etc and «marriage isn't about raising kids» its funny cause like every other minority group that uses Us to get their rights they bounce to the Suburbs and live «traditional» American lives gender roles included, I love it when the gender warriors turn around and heep praise on Ellen and her wonderful wife or other Gays who have traditional gender roles.

While you do not want to share your grief with your child, you might lean on your peer groups, a trusted therapist or ally, or the other adults in your family system.

The phenomenon of using mass protest, holding lanterns in the streets, wearing of red bands to creatively challenge and engage the government on what Ghanaians want and how they want their future, is now considered a 13th century approach by the occupyGhana group and their allies.

The signers — a diverse group that ranges from the Rev. Calvin Butts (a longtime ally and suopporter of charter champion Mayor Bloomberg) to Sister Paulette LoMonaco to Phillip Banks, Jr. — are seeking reforms that actually surpass what was in the controversial bill passed Monday by the Senate, including:

Some decisions over the past twelve months like quitting international agreements, banning immigrants from specific religious - national groups and employing harsh rhetoric against allies are rightly regarded as diplomatic blows to the American image in the world.

The DRC is a group that has been allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the past, having endorsed his failed bid for governor in 2002 and remains part of a key constituency of upstate Democratic elected officials and activists for him.

Paid canvassing is even worse — Democrats and allied groups tried it in 2004, and it was a bust.

In the face of a round of critical statements issued by organized labor groups allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo following her oblique comments regarding the connection between union contracts and the high cost of digging NYC subway tunnels, Cynthia Nixon received some support from an unlikely source.

A central irony of the debate is that the charter groups, which despise de Blasio, are strong supporters of mayoral control, while de Blasio's usual allies in the UFT have been notably absent from the mayor's push for a multi-year extension.

Two groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Allied Progress, have launched TV ads in the senators» home states that aim to tie the two GOP senators to President - elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress US ends aid for northwest Syria: report FBI informant met with three Trump campaign advisers: report MORE's Cabinet and White House staff picks.

The talks were described as still in the preliminary phase, one person said, and come as an array of Democratic officials and allied groups — including de Blasio himself — has threatened to back primary challengers to the five I.D.C. senators unless they agree to some sort of rapprochement.

Britain should join air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and should not «sub-contract» its security to allies, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday in a written statement to MPs.

The regular Senate Democrats and their traditional progressive allies (women's rights and LGBTQ rights groups, in particular) would no doubt very much like to see someone more moderate in Diaz's seat.