Sentences with phrase «as weakening states»

Rep. Steve King, R Iowa, has once again shown his true colors — and his servitude to corporate agriculture interests — by introducing the Protect Interstate Commerce Act, H.R. 4879, which is set to dismantle state and local agricultural laws and will threaten public health and safety, as well as weakening states» abilities to govern.

Both Kline and the committee's ranking Democrat George Miller (CA) highlighted the pressing need to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and expressed their displeasure with the Obama administration's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver process; Kline described it as «executive fiat» and Miller lamented what he views as a weakened state focus on providing equitable learning opportunities to all students.

Same for reformers in New York, who have been dismayed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's willingness to render stillborn implementation of Common Core reading and math standards as well as weaken the state's teacher evaluation system.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

If Andrew Mackenzie and Sam Walsh are right, then Western Australia's commodity dependent economy could be at the start of a recovery; and not before time, given the weakening state of the property market as measured by mortgage defaults.

Weakening currencies in the post-Soviet states threaten to raise default rates on foreign - currency mortgages as collapse of the Baltic real estate bubble drags down Swedish banks, while the Hungarian property plunge threatens Austrian banks.

Sharing a geopolitical worldview of multipolarity, they both have firm desires to contain Western power and seek to accelerate what they see as the weakening of the United States.

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

China's yuan is forecast to weaken just 2 percent this year as the central bank lowers its midpoint fixings and the dollar rises in anticipation of higher interest rates in the United States.

The New York Times — As Bad as It May Be in the U.S., It's Worse in Europe THE pace of job growth fell sharply in the United States this spring, according to the Labor Department, and consumer spending weakeneAs Bad as It May Be in the U.S., It's Worse in Europe THE pace of job growth fell sharply in the United States this spring, according to the Labor Department, and consumer spending weakeneas It May Be in the U.S., It's Worse in Europe THE pace of job growth fell sharply in the United States this spring, according to the Labor Department, and consumer spending weakened.

And he's added quite thoughtfully and provocatively to what I wrote: As the family, the church, and the social state weaken, colleges....

The neo-monetarist credo imposed by the United States since 1971, the complete adhesion to «market forces» (which George Soros defined as «market integration») and the consequent ripples, throughout the world, of liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation measures - have devastated politics, weakened the representative democratic institutions and colonised the state.

Even the nation states, as modern political units, democratic or not, have been substantially weakened, if not being dismantled.

In the United States, as government control has been relaxed and labor unions have been weakened, wages have fallen.

Should someone explain that the fear of God, in the sense of that felt in this world of time, should belong to childhood and therefore disappear with the years as does childhood itself, or should be like a happy state of mind that can not be maintained, but only remembered; should someone explain that penitence comes like the weakness of old age, with the wasting away of strength, when the senses are blunted, when sleep no longer strengthens but weakens; then this would be Impiety and folly.

Disillusionment with the welfare state, combined with the weakening of the languages of biblical religion and civic republicanism that traditionally moderated Lockean individualism, led many to take the market maximizer as the paradigm of the human person.

The people as participating agents in the political process succumb to the syndrome of apathy, hopelessness, and de-capacitation, and the national democratic states are weakened.

If he wins the next general election we may as well give the United States to Russia and China because he will weaken the economy to the point we will be useless internationally.He is trying every shady deal he can to try and cover his stimulus failures.

As this will weaken the faith of Islam and have the Muslim state compromise on its principals.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Because cancer cells in general are metabolically inflexible, we are able to take advantage of ketone metabolism as a way of placing cancer cells in a weakened state.

However, most ignore this as a matter of policy, stating they follow national implementation, and then work to weaken national measures.

They refuse to recognise that health programmes such as CDD strengthen children who would survive diarrhoea episodes without treatment, but would be left in a weakened state.

It could be trying to weaken member states» allegience to the alliance as a way to weaken NATO's relevance.

If AHCA passes as written, it would put pressure on the state Department of Financial Services to weaken the abortion mandate — or render the tax credits difficult, if not impossible, for New Yorkers to claim.

The mainline state Senate Democrats recently sent a letter to the board expressing the same concerns as their Assembly counterparts that the proposed changes would weaken protections for workers injured on the job.

The comptroller's office defines BDS as «actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with the State of Israel; this includes deliberate efforts to weaken the economy of Israel.»

Spinola and his fellow union - busters knows this, but instead of questioning the business practices of the owner of those cranes, they decided to use these accidents as subterfuge to push for the weakening of the requirements to obtain a NYC Department of Buildings Hoist Machine Operator license, which will greatly weaken the crane operator's union by causing an influx of inexperienced non-union crane operators from out of state.

The group is also concerned over proposals to weaken the state's property tax cap, and wants it to stay as it is, and be made permanent.

Katz and his allies — including elected officials such as then - State Senator Paterson — hung tough against Republican efforts to weaken the bill by excluding gay men and lesbians from protection.

Trump targeted Clinton in his remarks to the Detroit Economic Club, characterizing the former secretary of state as» «the candidate of the past» whose economic policies would «weaken America.»

«While acknowledging the potential negatives of such a convention — e.g., the risk of amendments being approved that would weaken the home rule authority of local governments — the Executive Committee viewed the opportunity to strengthen the position of municipalities in New York's governmental structure as more important and voted to approve NYCOM's support of a «Yes» vote on the constitutional convention question facing New York voters this November, with the additional stipulation that municipal officials would need to run for and be elected as delegates to the convention if our intended outcomes are to be achieved,» the guide states

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

• Short - term savings from cutting the middle class out of state benefits as Nick Clegg suggests on child benefit (Britain needs «savage» cuts, says Clegg, 19 September) would weaken public support for the social safety net on which the poorest depend and ultimately endanger the future of the welfare state itself.

Well, here we are two months later and it's worse than we thought in December, as the governor is clearly trying to weaken all the other independently electeds around him, the state comptroller notably, but also the attorney general, and even the Legislature.

As a result of accommodating to neoliberal capitalist policies throughout the Blair years — deregulation of finance, privatisation, shrinking the State in favour of unfettered markets, weakened trade union rights, and ballooning inequality — Labour lost 5 million votes since 1997.

If Trump's Paris exit is perceived by other countries as a symptom of a broader U.S. decline vis - à - vis China, that will weaken the United States» position in Asia - Pacific politics, she said.

The storm weakened before making its second and third landfalls as a Category 3 storm on the morning of August 29 in southeast Louisiana and at the Louisiana / Mississippi state line, respectively.

At least 12 million trees in the state have been killed as bark beetles take advantage of their weakened state.

Conversely, foreign postdocs often see the highly competitive U.S. marketplace as providing far more opportunities for advancement than those of their home countries, causing many of the most talented and ambitious to stay in the United States, thus weakening research efforts in both developed and developing nations.

Another issue changing the landscape is that the demographics of Asian Americans have shifted as more are born and raised in the United States, weakening the acculturation argument.

As Dr. Joanna Moncrieff has stated, antidepressants create imbalances.3 One that the body then adapts to, and one that specifically recruits the stress response system, one possible explanation for how and why withdrawal from these medications set off alarm bells that reveal every weakened link in your physiology.

Like all super foods, when eaten in cooked or refined states, as in the case of Cocoa, the super foods» effects on our bodies may be slightly weakened.

If you are in a weakened state, build up slowly, but increase your activity level as much as you can every day.

It is useful in a variety of conditions such as sinus infections, colds, influenza, infection, and weakened immune states.

Research reported by Columbia University Medical Center has stated that those without a formal celiac diagnosis can still experience a whole body immune response to wheat consumption related to a weakening of the intestinal barrier, as well as wheat causing intestinal cell damage.

Some of the jokes are fantastic, such as a cancer - stricken, imprisoned Wade Wilson telling Russell even in his weakened state, give him a boy and arrow and he's «Basically Hawkeye.»

...» But this was more or less what Ali Mazrui wrote 15 years ago in the report of a commission on multiculturalism in New York State schools, and it provoked the same counterattack from those who saw this as weakening a necessary common loyalty to the existing sState schools, and it provoked the same counterattack from those who saw this as weakening a necessary common loyalty to the existing statestate.

Just as importantly, the administration weakened a tool that reform - minded governors and legislators used successfully to initiate reforms in spite of opposition from education traditionalists on the state level.

They accuse reformers of spending big to demonize teachers and weaken unions instead of tackling other forces that affect academic achievement, such as poverty, crime and inadequate state funding.