Sentences with phrase «assails as»

But any doctrine which does not implicitly presuppose this point of view is assailed as unintelligible.7

First, beginning in the period after the 1964 Goldwater campaign, they assailed as liberal every media institution that was not conservative.

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.

Via Times Union 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 -LSB-...]

A number of the so - called special interests that Cuomo and CSNY have assailed as the root of the problem in Albany, including AQE's Billy Easton and HANYS» Dan Sisto, have denegrated the committee has a bunch of self - interested fat cats who simply want to protect their respective bottom lines — namely by preventing the extension of the so - called millionaire's tax.

The agreement is a variation of an election - year tax reduction the Republican incumbent governor first put forward last month that Democrats assailed as a gimmick to help Walker's re-election bid.

And as her campaign tried to stress her record as Council Speaker — a notoriously difficult perch — her opponents assailed her as too close to Mr. Bloomberg, repeatedly raising her decision to extend term limits, paving the way for his unpopular third term.

That cut, which the Association of American Universities had assailed as «inconceivable,» triggered a campaign by university lobbyists to convince legislators of the value of basic research to national security.

In each case, the state's appointed superintendents have pressed for expanded charter schools to provide more opportunities for students, while Cerf has been a lightning rod for what community opponents assail as «privatization» of their districts.

Quite often, amongst the usually entitled (and overwhelmingly white) anti-charter, anti-high standards, and anti-progress groups, education reform is assailed as one of the problems with the American education system.

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.»

Although initially assailed as a savings plan for the rich, Richard Stanger — the principal author of the legislation — commented, «We were confident that assets would flow into the system in a reasonable way, not just from the highly compensated, but from the entire workforce.»

While I predict the ensuing comment stream will assail me as a shill for the pet food industry (I'll accept the charge, but add that I truly believe in the concept of complete and balanced and of commercial diets), and comments will support your position, you'll never get Americans to give up the quality and convenience (emphasis on convenience) of high end commercial diets.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

By its heyday in the 1940s and»50s, the company employed tens of thousands of salesmen, and Fuller's status as a legendary pioneer of direct sales could not be assailed.

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.

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 helplessness that assails the grief - stricken often leads them to envisage the role of the religious leader in a symbolic aspect as the representative of God.

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.

He assails the notion that (as he wrote in an essay in The Relevant Church) «if only we can (re) discover x (fill - in - the - blank: prayer, fasting, worship, community, drama, service) and implement it, then the Church will have y (fill - in - the - blank: impact, relevance, meaning, validity, profile, etc.).»

If sloth is understood as moral indifference rather than lack of action, it is these which to the present day most persistently assail the soul.

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.»

In Uppsala a Lutheran seminary put out a booklet assailing Graham's ministry as «spiritual rape.»

In the future, as in the past, the human project will be threatened, assailed, and brutally battered, but the human project can not fail.

Though there are many moments of scepticism as matters arise, and the dark nights of the soul that seem to assail almost everyone visit me too, I have never had anything remotely resembling a lapse, nor a sense of forsakenness, even when I was unjustly indicted, convicted, and imprisoned, in a country I formerly much admired.

As Eberstadt said at her book launch, «their movement has repeatedly assailed religious people as self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless, all the while remaining self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless itself to a quite remarkable degree.&raquAs Eberstadt said at her book launch, «their movement has repeatedly assailed religious people as self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless, all the while remaining self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless itself to a quite remarkable degree.&raquas self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless, all the while remaining self - righteous, ignorant of history, and humorless itself to a quite remarkable degree.»

And though I do believe deeply, as one does when faith is verified by experience, I am an existentialist Christian when assailed by doubt.

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.

As a consequence, they were assailed from many quarters and could not defend their position by better means than ruthless suppression and naked force.

They assail the righteous as well as those of evil intent.

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College majors like Exercise Science and General Education have long been assailed by critics as crip - course degrees, but shadow boosters see them as a vital way to perpetuate the cycle.

Actress Cynthia Nixon, whose name has been floated as a potential primary challenger to Cuomo in 2018, assailed his education funding record during a speech in New York City.

In the days before the September 13 primary, mailers and hand - outs created by NYIA assailed Harris, as well as suggesting that Cucco — and not Harris — was supported by popular City Councilmember Mark Treyger, whose district overlaps with the 46th Assembly District, now represented by Harris.

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.

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.

Unlike many of his fellow Democratic elected officials, New York's governor will assail the president's policies, but not the man himself — a strategy some see as a nod to state interests and re-election prospects.

Everyone is entitled to their theory as to what went wrong: mine is that from last week's Question Time debate in Leeds, where Ed Miliband was assailed about Labour's alleged overspending, the die was cast.

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.»

Continuing to treat a victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders as a fait accompli, Hillary Clinton today questioned Donald Trump's business record and assailed his ideas, warning that the coming weeks represented a critical period in which, if left unchallenged, Trump could «normalize himself» as he seeks to broaden his support.

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.

In turn, Gillibrand spokesperson assailed Malpass for his role as the chief economist at Bear Stearns when the investment bank collapsed.

It's hard, presumably, to assail a negotiation directly that you helped oversee and hailed as a «transcendent moment.»