Sentences with phrase «back against president»

Maryland educators are pushing back against President Donald Trump's call for more armed adults in schools while saying they're open to new ideas about how to make school facilities more secure following last week's shooting in Florida that left 17 people...

Academy voters will back the movie that allows them to send a message about who they are and what they value, one that either forthrightly pushes back against the president, or one that defends the industry itself as an important artistic community and not just a cesspool of male privilege run amok.

ALBANY — Looking to fight back against President Trump's immigration policies, the state is set to dedicate $ 10 million in its emerging new budget for immigrant legal services, the Daily News has learned.

«If we want to fight back against President Trump, this is a smart, common - sense, policy - driven strategy that all New Yorkers can help to support.»

«Assembly Member Blake is exactly the progressive voice we need to help us rebuild our movement, unite Democrats, and forcefully push back against President Trump and obstructionist Republicans.»

MEXICO CITY, March 5 - Canada and Mexico on Monday pushed back against President Donald Trump's suggestion that steel and aluminum tariffs could be waived if they signed a new and «fair» NAFTA deal, setting the stage for a tense end to the latest talks to update the trade pact.

Not exact matches

The problem is, Paul Volcker is an influential figure in the U.S. (he chaired the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama, after all), and he has fought back hard against the criticism of his namesake bill.

The president isn't going to back down, the public is against them and we can't default.

This isn't the first time someone from the West Wing family has backed Clinton: Back in June, show creator and executive producer Aaron Sorkin spoke out against Donald Trump and said the fictional President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) would surely endorse Clinton.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- For years, President Donald Trump pushed back against the idea of election meddling, dismissing it as a hoax and an affront to the legitimacy of his victory.

A global sell - off in stocks came back around to North America in morning trading after the president doubled down against growing backlash, saying «trade wars are good.»

China was hitting back against U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to impose tariffs on $ 50 billion in Chinese...

Assad has said he saw promise in Trump's statements emphasising the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President Barack Obama had backed some of the rebels fighting Assad and shunned him as an illegitimate leader.

In the same hearing, Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers added their organizations to the list of many other American and international intelligence agencies over the past week that have said there's no evidence to back the president's wiretapping allegation against former President Barapresident's wiretapping allegation against former President BaraPresident Barack Obama.

But Simakovsky said Russia most likely believed it had more leeway to continue destabilizing US interests since the president «is working to pour cold water on initiatives that push back against Russia.»

U.S. President Donald Trump's clumsy approach to foreign policy and fractious relations with long - time allies leaves the West poorly equipped to push back against Russia or China.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

BERLIN — U.S. President Barack Obama was a subject of derision Saturday as hundreds of thousands of Germans across the country marched against a White House - backed trade deal.

WASHINGTON — Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an «assault on our country» by foreign competitors.

All linked back to either «The Real Raila», a virulent attack campaign against presidential hopeful Raila Odinga, or Uhuru for Us, a site showcasing President Uhuru Kenyatta's accomplishments.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

As soon as a solid majority of the country is ready to act against the courts, the President and the Congress can get together to appoint enough new Justices to put the courts back in their proper place.

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

It's a gentle version that Brinley gives, and once the New Englandy town of Mammoth Falls starts to believe Dinky Poore's fib about the monster in Strawberry Lake, The Mad Scientists» Club picks up another classic element of boys» books» for that's the moment when Henry Mulligan, the club's vice president and chief of research, leans his piano stool back against the wall of Jeff Crocker's father's barn and begins to think about how the boys could use their radio equipment, a wrap of canvas around a chicken - wire frame, and a quiet outboard fishing motor to make the monster come alive.

Skipper suffered a concussion against USF, so President was back for the finale... until he tore his ACL.

Marotta backed Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who called for VAR and accused UEFA of bias against Italian clubs.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

While I consider such behavior stooping to their level, I can appreciate why emotions have been stirred up so high and I only hope that somehow, some way, against all odds, this disaster hitting these ideologues personally forces them to reconsider their previously - expressed opinions, walk back their hateful rhetoric, and realize that like the President has repeatedly stated, we ARE all in this together and there IS a legitimate role for not only government, but collective effort on all fronts involving people helping people.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces took over Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in early 2014, the interim Ukrainian government was debating whether or not to fight back against the «little green men» Russia had deployed.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand pushed back against a tweet by President Donald Trump on Tuesday in which he suggested she would «do anything» for the political support of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The proposal was framed as an effort to push back against the «anti-worker» policies of President Donald Trump's administration, which comes as the IDC itself has been accused by liberal advocacy organizations and some fellow Democrats for enabling Senate Republicans in Albany.

On the question of how he would be dealing with allegations of corruption against members of his own government, President Akufo - Addo answered, «I have made it publicly known that anyone who has information about acts of corruption against any of my appointees should bring it forward and should be prepared to back it up with evidence.»

NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre decried the «shameful politicization» of the Florida shooting during a speech at CPAC and pushed back against alleged detractors at the FBI, the media and Democrats — including Cuomo.

The legislation, backed by good - government groups, was initially proposed in the wake of the corruption charges filed against former SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros, former close gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco and upstate developers.

He suggested that the motion against the President might not have been backed by all members of the Minority and that certain persons were pushing for the action,» Ahmed Ibrahim told Umaru Sanda.

After moving last month against former President Obama's efforts to limit fossil fuel exploration and combat climate change, Trump will complete his effort to overturn environmental policy this week, signing two executive orders to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands.

Cuomo couched the unity effort as part of his push back against the federal government, controlled by Republicans, and President Donald Trump's administration.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. today announced that he backs same - sex marriage rights as his father, state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., is in Washington to take part in protests against marriage rights for gay couples.

The 63 - year - old also has been a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, and had been part of several efforts to push back against some of his actions in the White House, like the rescinding of protection for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Cuomo, who backed Hillary Clinton for president against Sanders last year, said the Vermont socialist «spoke to this issue of college affordability and was ahead of his time in doing it, and really awoke the nation to this crisis.»

The left - wing actor, an avid supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders «unsuccessful bid for president and Fordham Professor Zephyr Teachout «s primary campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, then echoed de Blasio's favorite re-election pitch: that he is uniquely positioned to push back on Trump's proposed policies.

Senate Democrats in a news conference at the same time pushed back against the effort to expand charter schools, which included a fiery response from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.

In the absence of a campaign message, the NPP has resorted to making unfounded and spurious corruption allegations against President Mahama and his appointees a strategy many say would not yield them the desired result of coming back to power

This likely sends Republicans back to the drawing board for a candidate to run against Schneiderman, who has in the last year challenged policies backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

Philippe Reines, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, pushed back against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) after she said in an interview that former President Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

The torture debate continues to heat up in Washington; with President Obama and top Senate Democrats pushing back against the creation of an independent commission to investigate the Bush administration's approval of so - called enhanced interrogation techniques.

«We push back against the rhetoric of hate, of this no mandate president - to - be,» Mark - Viverito said.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that she would vote for a President Barack Obama - backed agreement to drop sanctions against Iran in an exchange for a pause in its nuclear program — even as she called the deal «imperfect.»

Akufo - Addom's comment comes on the back of a wave of bashing President John Mahama received for making some remarks deemed ethnocentric against the running mate of the NPP,...