Sentences with phrase «assailed on»

In addition to the drastic drop in its market value, Valeant is being assailed on the regulatory front.

All of these bad decisions are made easier when all of the actually sensible people, or people who know anything about the subject at all, are being assailed on all sides, and aren't necessarily keen to find the time to explain, once again, that yes, the world is warming.

The long and short of it is that traditional publishers are assailed on all sides.

Harding, assailed on all sides for being white trash; for being the wrong vision of feminine physicality; for being an overblown tabloid tale, Gillespie still shows us, and underscores that Harding was a dedicated, talented athlete ---- her execution of the triple axel amidst competition is rightly the stuff of legend and is shown here with the right kind of Silver Screen esprit.

From the introductory hype promising an exhilarating experience, I expected to be assailed on each page by advanced and controversial ideas in science and technology.

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Trump supporters recently also have taken to assailing critics of the billionaire — including some conservative journalists — on Twitter as «cuckservatives,» a term that has white nationalist implications.

Musk is betting on Mars — where no human has ever travelled — as a safe haven in the case that a catastrophic event assails the Earth.

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.

Meanwhile you assail the church and insist on tainting our children with the lie of homosexuality, being taught in our schools upon your insistence.

The New York Times: China Assails U.S. «Arrogance» in Report on Religious Freedom The United States has issued its annual report on religious freedom around the world, taking particular aim at repression and crackdowns in China, North Korea and Myanmar.

In the post-September 11 American debate, critics have assailed the term «war on terrorism» as wrongly emphasizing military force and deemphasizing reliance on law - enforcement methods.

It comes to us in this world of sin, where lust and passion are on every hand, where fierce temptations assail us and try to turn us aside from the God - given standard of marriage.

Here it is assailed by the King of Kings, not with soldiers and siege engines, but riding humbly on a donkey.

On the other hand, the religious bigotry and superstition that Hume assailed so mercilessly have persisted long after his critiques of them.

Faith, on the other hand, is a transcendent «knowing» that can not be assailed and needn't be defended.

The pagan temptation,» as the philosopher Thomas Molnar described it, is hardly new — the Church has been fighting paganism since the time of Christ — but what is new is its aggressive resurgence, its seduction of so many Christians, and the warnings Pope Francis has issued against it.The Pope's scorching words against paganism have not been well - received by many, but Francis has gone right on assailing it, particularly in areas that pagans care about most: the environment and sex.Francis has been a bold and eloquent defender of the environment, and understands that protecting the environment is not a recent fad, but a long - standing Catholic principle, highlighted by many of Francis's predecessors.

The method was immediately assailed by campaign finance expert Prof. Michael Malbin, who called it «little more than back of the envelope arithmetic based on incredible assumptions.»

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.

She assailed Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and county patronage practices while on the campaign trail.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — the most powerful Democrat in Washington — unleashed a tweetstorm assailing President Donald Trump «s revised ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries.

Republicans assailed the Justice Department's decision to redact the Orlando shooter's declaration of allegiance to the Islamic State in transcripts of 911 calls from the June 12 shooting as another example «of not focusing on the evil here,» as Florida Gov. Rick Scott said.

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.

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.&raquOn 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.&raquon assailing Cuomo for being too close to the «1 percent.»

Writing in the Guardian, he delivered a scathing attack on Labour, assailing the nanny state and listing Labour's perceived failures: the government's treatment of the sick and disabled, its tremulous retreat on freedom of information, its centralising instincts and the cosy corruption of old Labour rotten boroughs.

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

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.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler tore into President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile assault on a Syrian airbase yesterday evening in retaliation for dictator Bashar al - Assad's use of nerve gas against a rebel - held town — and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

ALBANY — As Gov. Andrew Cuomo assails gender imbalance on corporate boards, one state legislator is attempting to address a similar problem much closer to home.

A quick analysis of assertions made at the wild debate suggests de Blasio found comfort in relying on the facts of his record, while his opponents assailed it.

Cuomo assailed Trump's positions on immigration, women and what he calls trickle down tax cuts for the rich.

Cuomo assailed Trump's positions on immigration, women and what he calls trickle - down tax cuts for the rich.

On the campaign trail and in a recent blitz of direct mail and TV ads, Eldridge has assailed what he calls a gap between Gibson's stated positions and his voting record.

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The mayor has continued to press for police reform and has spoken out aggressively on issues of economic inequality, often assailing the behavior of Wall Street firms that Mr. Bloomberg vigorously defended.

Refugee advocates joined the New York Immigration Coalition to assail President Donald Trump's second executive order barring entry to people from a smattering of Middle Eastern and East African countries, insisting that it is a «backdoor Muslim ban 2.0 ″ — a reference to the commander - in - chief's primary campaign promise of a «total and complete shutdown» on Islamic immigration to the United States.

Each year, the doors to the UN climate negotiations, which kick off again in Durban, South Africa, on 28 November, are assailed by demonstrators brandishing pro-vegetarian placards.

Almost immediately, groups ranging from the President's Council on Bioethics to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assailed Hwang's work, either because cloned embryos were destroyed in the process or because his research could lead to cloning humans.

Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening ice.

It assails mainstream perceptions of the war on drugs and reevaluates them from ambiguous perspectives.

Although they found themselves assailed with racial slurs like «slut» and «savage» while out on dates, the hostility only served to intensify their feelings for one another.

There, he begins to feel even more assailed by creepiness than he'd expected — teeth - grindingly overwhelmed, as if every time these people try not to make him uncomfortable they sprinkle sour, powdery candy on his molars.

No sooner has he set foot back on Manx soil, alas, than Thorncroft finds himself assailed by fresh humiliations, not to mention a former co-star slash girlfriend (Essie Davis) who's now married to his erstwhile stunt double (Farnaby, shporting a densh Dutch akshent).

Orlando Bloom's iconic Legolas is somewhat disappointing in this latest installment, as is Ian McKellen's brief involvement as Gandalf, but this is to be expected with the script focusing so much more on assailing us with erratic action scenes than portraying the complexity of these characters.

Mike Lester assails the president's logic on «income inequality,» while Mike Smith predicts a grim future if Obama doesn't succeed.

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But Deal repeatedly postponed that pledge after he was elected, and entering his final year in office, he made official what many lawmakers long figured was inevitable: There would be no rewrite of a formula he once assailed as a disservice to students, a drain on taxpayers and not suitable to «meet the needs of a 21st century classroom.»