Sentences with phrase «as opponents of all reforms»

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At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister's tax - reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

Marco Rubio ran as an opponent of «comprehensive immigration reform» in 2010, but he flip - flopped after the 2012 election.

But my favorite Vilsack line came in response to committee chairman John Kline's (R - MN) characterization of school meals as too skimpy to feed hungry athletes, a common refrain from opponents of reform (which Woldow also recently debunked.)

This approach is going to undermine the politicking strategies of other opponents of Lords reform, who see defeating the programme motion as the only realistic way of forcing the government to back down.

To the extent that it allows the opponents of reform to paint the issue of currency appreciation as bowing to outside pressure, the answer is likely no.

The problem, as Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy has just told me, is that Tory opponents of Lords reform are going to see straight through this.

How can we seriously see Reynoso as a reform candidate when he is the spiritual grandson of his opponent?

«It makes this page uneasy knowing that many of the opponents to real reform in Albany are contributors to Cuomo's campaign such as public employee and teachers unions.

Miliband conceded his opposition to a programme motion would be portrayed by some as an attempt to wreck the bill and allow opponents to suffocate it through deliberate delay so the reform never reaches the House of Lords.

Saladino faced four opponents: Democrat and former Syosset school board president Marc Herman, who questioned Saladino's commitment to reform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruptionreform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End CorruptionReform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruption line.

As ethics reform became a topic of debates, Walsh's relationship with major city real estate developers was scrutinized by opponents in one of the mayoral race's few points of contention.

Opponents of reform are hailing the tax projections as insignificant compared to previous promises; this cynical angle is simply no - win spin.

Opponents claimed to support the principle of reform but rejected measures such as widespread elections for new lords, which they said would threaten the primacy of the elected House of Commons.

Kennedy, as did his opponent in 2014, signed a contract promising to limit campaign spending to a grant of about $ 95,000 in taxpayer money he received under the Citizen Election Program (CEP), the landmark Connecticut campaign finance reform that its supporters claim is a model for keeping special interest money out of elections.

In New York Congressional races, Friends of Democracy was involved in the contest between Sean Patrick Maloney and Nan Hayworth in the lower Hudson Valley's 18th district, as well as the race between Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Beurkle in Syracuse's 24th district, targeting reform opponents Hayworth and Beurkle.

If implemented, the half - hearted effort at reform, would have allowed opponents to point to the poorly crafted model as an example of the failure of public financing.

George is right to identify them as a serious opponent of the reforms that are necessary for improving education although David Cameron would be wise to avoid anything like the language used in this article.

On the list of top organizations sorted by Klout, for instance, about half of the finalists are truly neutral parties (media outlets mostly); about a quarter are reform - oriented (including Teach For America, Gates Education, and The Education Trust); and about a quarter are reform opponents (such as the NEA, AFT, and the Badass Teachers Association).

Further, as occurred last year in Wisconsin, when opponents of school reform control the executive and legislative branches, initiatives such as Milwaukee's voucher program encounter the double - whammy of less funding and a public school regulatory model.

Their efforts to simultaneously exist as the champions and opponents of education reform are meeting resistance even internally.

Words like «controversial» and «handouts to for - profit corporations» are used as labels by opponents of the reform.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.

Yet Common Core opponents fail to realize that the importance of consistent standards as an element in reform.

Ng pointed to the CTA, the main opponent of the bill, when she wrote, «Yet again, the outsized influence of Sacramento's special - interest groups have blocked reforms that would help improve our schools — and California's students are the ones who will suffer as a result.»

As might be expected, opponents of Louisiana's education reforms have seized upon the results as evidence that those policies have failed, and in particular have sought to pin the blame for the NAEP score drop on State Superintendent John WhitAs might be expected, opponents of Louisiana's education reforms have seized upon the results as evidence that those policies have failed, and in particular have sought to pin the blame for the NAEP score drop on State Superintendent John Whitas evidence that those policies have failed, and in particular have sought to pin the blame for the NAEP score drop on State Superintendent John White.

Discipline reform is not impeding academic achievement, as some opponents have suggested, but the real experiences and concerns of educators should not be ignored.

Poland is likely to do this, as standard bearer for the opponents of ambitious EU ETS reform, and because it has reduced voting power under the new rules... Sandbag would like the EU to cancel some suprlus allowances to «ramp up its climate offer»... If the reforms backed today by the European Parliament were implemented, they would be expected to increase prices to between roughly $ 17 and $ 35 by 2020, according to differing forecasts from market analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon and ICIS Tschach Solutions.

Trick's Dirtiness: 7/10 While paying a company to organize groups of people to appear as though they're merely riled - up opponents of clean energy reform isn't a crime, it's certainly something of a dirty trick.

The bill, which was openly written with the help of lobbyists, has now gotten bipartisan support from one of the chief opponents of clean energy reform from the Democratic side of the aisle — any guesses on who it is?It's our friend, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D - AR)-- she has cosponsored the amendment, popularly known as the Dirty Air Act, and seeks to protect the interests of heavily polluting industries.

WSJ Notes ILR Opposition to Third Party Litigation Funding: In an article spotlighting the growth of larger investors, such as pension funds, in third party litigation funding, the Wall Street Journal notes that, litigation funders have faced a few consistent opponents, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform, which argues that it prompts unnecessary litigation.

On previous occasions, opponents have been able to portray patent reform as a pet project of Silicon Valley, and suggest reformers were no more than slick tech villains looking to ride roughshod over inventors.