Sentences with phrase «assailed for»

Likewise, Wal - Mart (Research), long assailed for its contribution to urban sprawl, is building new stores that use solar energy to reduce costs and boost its image at the same time.

Just last week, Mayor Vincent Gray was assailed for the «untenably» high teacher turnover rates.

Clearing land for farms and developments has long been assailed for destroying amphibian habitats, but the main culprit in their deaths, according to the report, is chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease caused by a waterborne fungus.

What of Jeremy Corbyn, assailed for not making his voice heard more loudly?

WFP leaders and their allies have denounced the WEP as a «fake party» and a «sham,» and female elected officials like Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Upper East Side State Senator Liz Krueger have assailed it for doing little to advance women's issues.

He also was assailed for agreeing to legislation like ending the New York City commuter tax and weakening affordable housing regulations to keep suburban Democrats happy.

Ken Livingstone, the mayor at the time, was assailed for heaping misery on thousands of commuters.

Her book is also about an entertainment icon that has been attacked by fundamentalists, Buffy has been assailed for championing occult figures like vampires and slayers and for its openness about adolescent sexuality.

He assailed it for taking jobs from U.S. workers, but during a Republican debate last March said he was «softening» his position «because we have to have talented people in this country.»

One (unnamed) commentor assails me for a a lack of «objectivity» because I critique this affirmance of an above - guideline sentence but often praise affirmances of below - guidelines sentences.

Not exact matches

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, the most prominent openly gay executive, assailed a new Indiana law that critics say could make it legal for businesses there to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Last year, Donald Trump regularly assailed Hillary Clinton for her financial industry ties, projecting himself as the candidate who would stand up for regular people.

On the previous page, it assails Peltz's push for venturesome acquisitions, stating «Serial M&A is not our strategy as it would impact cash available for dividends.»

The Senate Banking Committee assailed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for pushing employees to create as many as 2 million bogus bank and credit card accounts without customer consent — making customers pay overdraft and late fees on accounts they never knew they had.

Earlier this month, two former senior officials in the finance department assailed the Conservative government for eroding the «integrity and credibility» of federal budgets through what they argued is a system of secrecy that keeps parliamentarians and Canadians in the dark about how federal dollars are spent.

The Senate Banking Committee assailed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for pushing employees to create as many as 2 million bogus bank and credit card accounts without customer consent — ...

The administration assailed China for «undermining true market competition» with state subsidies that encouraged excess production that depressed the price of key goods, including steel.

The height of absurdity came when Hitchens assailed Mother Teresa for allegedly giving her heart to greater Albania, «a cause that was once smiled upon by Pope Pius IX and his friend Benito Mussolini.»

When punished, they rejoice as if quickened into life; they are assailed by the Jews as foreigners, and are persecuted by the Greeks; yet those who hate them are unable to assign any reason for their hatred.»

One of the most striking features of Benedict's time in office is how frequently he has been assailed and disparaged by certain members of the «Catholic left» (for want of a better term)» often harshly and bitterly.

In an article for Foreign Policy magazine, Harvard University's Stephen Walt assails «the myth of American exeptionalism,» pointing out that America's sins at home and abroad undercut this «self - congratulatory portrait» of a country superior to others and consistently beneficial.

Profoundly established in the centre of its own nothingness, it can be assailed by naught that comes from below; and since it no longer desires anything, what comes from above can not depress it; for its desires alone are the causes of its woes.»

For example: «Temptations from without still assail me, but there is nothing within to respond to them.»

They were for the most part lone figures assailing the popular mores, and hence misunderstood.

Bernard of Clairvaux, a mystic and not a theologian, the opposite of Abélard in temperament, assailed the latter for views which he held weakened the faith of good Christians.

Local activist Kamillah Hanks is running against her, assailing the incumbent for not doing enough or being responsive to the district's needs.

State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D - Howard Beach) has assailed the Social Security Administration's decision to cut cost - of - living allowances as a hardship for seniors.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

She assailed Cuomo on issues such as campaign finance reform, tax cuts for corporations and the possibility of natural gas hydrofracking, which Cuomo later banned.

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Around the same time, former Boston Mayoral candidate, Michael Flaherty was assailed by the Boston Herald for having followed «@BostonEscorts» and «@BostonSexClub.»

The dispute over funding to pay for cleanup costs and infrastructure repairs saw Christie and Rep. Peter King of Long Island, Republicans both, openly questioning and assailing the GOP leadership in the House of Representatives.

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HANYS President Dan Sisto assailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed budget during a CapTon interview last night, taking the governor and his business community allies to task for being unwilling to extend the so - called millionaire's tax while advocating deep spending reductions in health care and education.

In a statement, he assailed «Mr. DiNapoli and his surrogates (for trying) to score political points by making irresponsible and erroneous accusations about my future investment strategies for the state pension fund.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in a speech to New York's delegates, assailed Hillary Clinton for her husband's extramarital affairs when he was President in the 1990s, saying Hillary tried to shut the women up.

He blamed Trump political strategist Stephen Bannon for the action, but also highlighted that the president assailed undocumented immigrants at his campaign kickoff in June 2015 — more than a year before Bannon, the former head of the website Breitbart, joined the Trump campaign.

Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Democrat representing East New York, heckled the governor for more than a minute as other lawmakers looked on uncomfortably, assailing Cuomo for inequities in school funding.

Cuomo has pointedly refused to refund the money, even as he has repeatedly assailed the Republican candidate's calls for a wall on the Mexican border.

No wonder they assail the Party for «standing for nothing», not realizing that they do in fact stand for their candidates and standby their autonomy, a foreign concept to many establishment types.

Speaking over the phone for an unrelated story, Carl Paladino — the 2010 GOP candidate for governor of New York — abruptly changed subjects and assailed the sitting president and his policies.

On the same day that the holdings of Glenwood — whose principal owner Leonard Litwin was identified by Forbes in 2007 as the world's 891st richest individual — made the donations, Occupy Wall Street protesters focused on assailing Cuomo for being too close to the «1 percent.»

In a speech to a group of New York lawyers, a federal judge from Brooklyn assailed the criminal justice system in which he has worked for more than 40 years, saying that the country had to «jettison the madness of mass incarceration» and find an alternative to overly punitive sentencing to address the problem of crime.

Giuliani also commended the police for their work while assailing de Blasio for his treatment of law enforcement.

Opponents say those claims are not 100 percent substantiated, and have assailed the Cuomo administration for manipulating the ballot language to put this proposal in the best possible light.

In London, Labour is in the grip of the far left and further from power than for a generation, while across the rest of Europe the centre - left is in tatters, assailed by populist anti-immigrant politics on the right or under assault from leftists who channel popular anger but offer little by way of concrete solutions.

The WEP was formed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was promoting a package of legislation aimed at impacting, but has been assailed by liberals for potentially competing for votes with the Working Families Party, a liberal, labor - backed organization.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi also assailed the governor for not doing enough to address this issue.

Education advocates in recent days have assailed job protections for New York teachers as antiquated, unwarranted and unconstitutional.

When the Republican refused to give the PBA the raises they sought, union leaders assailed Mr. Giuliani as a cheapskate — the Republican mayor was the brunt of a «zeros for heroes» campaign, and knew that when he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsement.