Sentences with phrase «argued against the measure»

Morneau sat silently near the end of hour - long session as person after person approached the microphones in the room to argue against the measures.

Still, some Republicans had argued against the measure because they said it would depreciate property values.

AQR's Andrea Frazzini, a principal on the firm's Capital Management Global Stock Selection team, argued against the measure in his presentation «Deactivating Active Share.»

Not exact matches

The academic nullifiers and insurrectionists with whom Wills seems to have the least patience are, to be sure, arguing against strictly expert, elite and wholly delegative government, but they have done so on behalf of a full measure of amateur, popular and participatory government.

Arguing against the motion is Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

Arguing against the motion was Charles Benbrook, a research professor at the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University and program leader of Measure to Manage: Farm and Food Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health, and Margaret Mellon, a science policy consultant in the areas of antibiotics, genetic engineering and sustainable agriculture.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

From this post, it wasn't obvious (to me at least) that you were arguing against all «harsh, punitive disciplinary measures» as ineffective in the long - term rather than just spanking.

Supporters of overturning the ban filed suit to challenge the measure, arguing its outdated and against the spirit of the First Amendment.

Liberty argues new measures should be introduced to make it easier for police and prosecutors to collect sufficient evidence to bring criminal prosecutions against terror suspects.

But civic groups fought against the measure, arguing instead for a long - term permit that might nudge negotiations over relocating the arena so that Penn Station might be rebuilt and expanded.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and collective bargaining.

Legislator Jay Hood was the sole legislator who voted against the measure, arguing that the issue has been drawn out long enough.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention, arguing that it's just too risky to tinker with the state's governing document and threaten existing protections for worker's compensation, unemployment benefits and...

But Assembly Democrats wanted to act on the measure outside the budget so opponents could argue and vote against it.

Bear biologists had come out against the measure, arguing that baiting was an important tool for managing problem bears and research.

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

The judge argued that the state law, «when measured against Supreme Court precedent... falls woefully short of constitutional requirements» in the restrictions it placed on access to abortion for pregnant girls under age 18.

Rather than detaching from or merely arguing against state accountability policies, Superintendent Wauters met with state leaders to talk about the importance of having state assessments and accountability measures aligned with the new state focus.

Instead of arguing against testing completely, we should be helping to outline more comprehensive measures of performance that begin with testing but include additional indicators that are not currently considered.

The BoC's decision has been the subject of much debate — recent low interest rates were intended as an economic stimulus coming out of last year's recession, and some economists have been arguing that rates should stay low for the time being as a measure of protection against global market turmoil.

We'd argue against such drastic measures.

The Toronto Real Estate Board is already pushing back against the possibility of this measure, arguing foreign buyers are a positive force in the local housing market.

This does not necessarily argue against active management; it only suggests that active managers should be measured against the correct benchmark, which, in the case of a value investor, is a passive index of value stocks.

But the Big 3's entreaties for action from the Obama administration have been opposed by smaller U.S. carriers, which say that the legacy carriers have themselves been beneficiaries of government largesse and argue that measures against the Gulf carriers would reduce competition and thereby harm consumers.

In 1940 Clement Greenberg adapted the concept for his own essay entitled Towards a Newer Laocoön in which he argued that abstract art now provided an ideal for artists to measure their work against.

It's just that the expense of formal V&V measured against the results of other kinds of Q / A is deemed not worth it, not to mention that there are those who argue that V&V doesn't bring nearly as much value to the table as V&V proponents claim.

But, writing in a local publication, Naam has argued forcefully against the this particular measure given some of its provisions, including one that would require the label for genetically modified contents to be on the front of the package:

Even for the Senate, where members are well - known to prefer talking to listening, the amount of unilateral jabbering on the climate change bill has been remarkable, with lawmakers both for and against the measure arguing repeatedly over how much time was allotted for them to speak.

Science, if anything, has the defence that objective measure can be used to argue against subversion, as it never can be in religion, politics or morality.

You may argue against any of those papers but you can not legitimately set rules for what is «measured data».

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

KR: A valid argument against the adjustment time as measured by the bomb spike experiment would be to argue that, while the atmospheric / sink CO2 system is linear at the ppb level, it is non-linear at the ppm level.

Critics argue, for example, that a wind turbine farm can only operate at a «capacity factor» (a ratio that measures the potential output of an energy source against its actual output) of 30 to 35 percent, while a nuclear reactor operates at around 90 percent.

Then, against the urging of many in the environmental community, Bauman and Ryan ran an op - ed in the Seattle Times in January 2015, arguing for a tax swap and vowing to run a ballot measure in 2016.

Teacher's unions argued against them because they were a measure of the teacher's ability.

This analytical report argues that the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has reduced the effectiveness of the resources spent on carbon reduction and attempts to measure the cost of the ineffectiveness analysing the projects registered under the CDM by measuring their cost of abatement against the price paid for doing the abatement.

That is likely to fuel attacks by critics in the oil industry and elsewhere who argue against investing in measures like clean energy until more is known about climate change.

(It is noteworthy that today there are those arguing against the reality of this phenomenon from first principles of physics — without acknowledging that it has repeatedly been measured.)

Powerful liberal groups have been calling for more ambitious limits to emissions, while more conservative interests argue against the drastic measures already required in the Kyoto Protocol.

However, Mr. Kraft, the plaintiff in the underlying action, argued that the allegations of liability against Mr. Kelley fell within the policy's scope of coverage because the word «use» in the motorized vehicle exclusion should be construed as meaning «some measure of operational control over» a motorized vehicle, in this case the ATV.

The UN Convention Against Torture, which Congress and President Clinton made law in 1994, says it is a crime to «effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture...» Apologists for extraordinary rendition — that is, apologists for torture by proxy — argue that our extraordinary enemy justifies extraordinary measures.

At 44, she argues that it is not clear to what extent that injunction might be contrary to basic principles of Latvian substantive law or procedural law, especially since, as the referring court acknowledges, the Latvian legal order does permit judgments as provisional measures without a prior hearing of the party against whom enforcement is sought.

From the outset we argued against excessive measures and for a fair balance reflecting the realities of the recruitment industry.