Sentences with phrase «already weak state»

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Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

And one of the rare progressive tax proposals to outline an actual tax structure in Illinois would hike income taxes on residents earning as little as $ 17,300, inflicting serious damage on an already - weak state economy.

I just stated that we already did in the first game at home against a weaker side.

The Moreland Commission held several hearings, including an intense grilling of state Board of Elections officials for failure to enforce the state's already weak campaign finance rules.

NEW YORK CITY — The arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith, Queens City Councilman Daniel Halloran and two GOP bosses on bribery charges has thrown a cloud over an already - weak Republican Party and the GOP candidates vying to be mayor.

In between, Walker and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature killed the state's already weak system of public financing, touted as the best way to constrain spending and preserve competitive elections.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

Force feeding the state's already weak political establishment a steady diet of silver bullet pablum will likely result in nothing but higher spending and zero results.

Less than a year later, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) information blackout further weakened the already weak law.

Typical temperature reconstructions for the late Pliocene however [see one at the top of this story - 3.3 - 3.0 Ma] already show an Earth in which a warmer climatic state is indeed [through for instance ice albedo feedbacks] relatively strong around the poles, and (on average) weaker around the equator, exactly the pattern that is monitored under the current climate warming.

As noted above, about two thirds of the US is critical, if not hostile, to the stated objectives of those who promote Anthropogenic Climate Change; which, on the surface, seem designed mainly to hobble our already - weak economy with draconian emissions regulation, while looting it to pay for dubious pre-facto «restitution» to more impoverished regimes around the world.

Here's one more reason why the final US climate bill really ought to be significantly strengthened: Climate Progress has done a bit of number - crunching of the EIA's Short Term Energy Outlook and finds that as it stands now, by the end of 2009 the US will already be halfway towards the emission reductions stipulated in ACES: The EIA projections say that by the end of 2009, United States» emissions will fall 6 %, due to «weak economic conditions and declines in the consumption of most fossil fuels.»

Instead, the politicians in Tallahassee have pushed to allow open carry and to weaken penalties for those who violate the state's already weak laws.