Sentences with phrase «back against the leadership»

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

Not exact matches

The leadership contestants intend this sabre - thrusting to hearken back to Alberta's pre-NDP glory days, when former premier Peter Lougheed declared unholy war against a different Trudeau's National Energy Program, and throttled oil shipments to eastern Canada; and when Ralph Klein routinely clashed with Ottawa and other provinces, including on same - sex marriage and limits to private health care.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

The orderly unfolding of church process was repudiated in several ways: the group acted behind the backs of the administrative board and against Methodist conference regulations; and the group was aware that opposition to its scheme might well subvert the continuing leadership of Sid Carlson in guiding the church.

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Even with Holding in the back line (and Rob did well considering what he was up against) Per would have provided more leadership.

In addition having Hagglund in the back will do a lot to shut down the aerial presence of Gignac, the combination of Moor's leadership, Mavinga's athleticism and Hagglund aerial presence will be important against a strong attacking side like Tigres.

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.

Krueger's comment came in response to my question about whether Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson will retain his leadership role in light of the fact that he backed a number of incumbents — notably Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. — against whom rank - and - file members like Krueger campaigned.

In other words, only 92 backbench Tory MPs voted for the leadership - backed plan, while 118 voted against.

It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the Board's $ 450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli, for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

Trade unions in Scotland have called for Jim Murphy to step down as leader of Scottish Labour as Neil Findlay who stood against Murphy for the leadership last year with the backing of the Left and almost all trade unions announced his resignation from the shadow cabinet at Holyrood where he held the fair work, skills and training brief.

Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC put $ 6 million in ads behind Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey for his leadership on gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and punished New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for voting against it with $ 8.5 million in ads backing her opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan — while Bloomberg donated another $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood Votes to further boost Hassan.

«It is important that we keep him in Congress where his leadership and seniority are critical to the Democratic Party's success in fighting back against the radical Republican agenda.»

«It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.

Earlier in the day, Gov. Cuomo said he strongly supports the reunification plan that threatens to have the state party back primaries against the Independent Democratic Conference if they don't accept the terms or call for a change in leadership in the mainline Democratic conference if they don't go for it.

Contested Chairman Phil Ragusa won re-election with 417 votes to 174 against former Rep. Bob Turner, who was backed by Bart Haggerty and the Southern faction, and will maintain his leadership post within the Queens Republican Party, according to unofficial reports.

As further evidence of his outspoken nature, he also was a vocal critic of the election of Long Island Republican John Flanagan as Senate majority leader in 2015, so much so that earlier this year he said he was seeking GOPers to run against Sen. Michael Nozzolio, R - Seneca County, who backed Flanagan during the 2015 leadership battle.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

They were eager to see the leadership post in the Senate go to a conservative upstater, and are now vowing to get their revenge by backing primary challengers against some of the more pragmatic GOP members in 2016.

Under Theresa May's leadership, the Conservative party has turned its back on urban and suburban areas by pursuing policies and public spending decisions that discriminate against our cities and towns.

Rep. Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Republicans express doubts that Ryan can stay on as Speaker McCarthy says early leadership election to replace Ryan unlikely MORE (R - Texas), the former chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told The Hill on Wednesday that he would back a bump - stock ban.

@ Joe Roberts I sympathise with some of the concerns (though, they are not from the right of the Conservative leadership seeing as I remember Rob Marchant backing rent controls on LabourList), and I would warn against Atul Hatwal pretending that the party is in a very bad state when in fact we are doing quite well, but having an alternative does not mean lurching to the left which is what you are seeming to suggest.

The board of directors of the state's largest teachers union is backing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.The leadership of the Connecticut Education Association, which has more than 43,000 members, is endorsing the Democratic incumbent against Republican challenger...

But Mr Corbyn has made it clear he will fight any move against him by MPs and rely on the backing of grass root party members if it comes to a leadership challenge.

Eleanor Laing warned David Cameron against alienating more traditionalist supporters: «Loyalty is a two - way thing and the leadership of the Conservative Party asks for loyalty from our supporters but those supporters don't feel that they're getting loyalty back.»

Over in the other chamber, Labour's Chuka Umunna and Tristram Hunt have reportedly formed a group dubbed «the resistance», to fight back against an anticipated victory for Corbyn in the leadership contest.

If — and it's a big if — there does turn out to be a contested leadership battle and if — and it's another big if — John Reid has permanently improved his public image and it doesn't drop straight back down against once the news agenda moves on, then he appears to gone a long way towards positioning himself as the best alternative to Brown.

While a handful of Brexit - supporting Labour MPs would back the government, if the party leadership signalled to MPs to vote against it because Labour was now more sympathetic to a customs union as an end point, then Theresa May would be in danger of losing.

During one of a series of interviews and public appearances Wednesday, the governor even said two de Blasio rivals — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn and Scott Stringer, the city's comptroller — «showed real leadership» as they backed Uber against City Hall.

The NEC elections don't represent leadership, look at the Centre right on the NEC Nominations, Akehurst, reeves Wheeler, they backed Ed miliband, was publicly against Iraq, in 2010 ′ the Lefts NEC man Ken Livingstone, voted for Ed balls for leader, who was pro Iraq

Mr. Skelos said on Monday that he was innocent of the charges against him, and Senate Republicans on Monday night backed his decision to remain in his leadership position.

Boris had a wobble over a terrible, failed leadership campaign that saw his best mate Michael Gove stab him in the back and run against him at the last moment, forcing him to dramatically pull out himself.

De Blasio and his aides have continued to push back against some of the criticisms of their management of the homelessness crisis while the city also undergoes a shakeup in leadership and a reassessment of all aspects of its approach to the issue.

Under Brody's gruff, pompous leadership, they figure out what's happening and begin the arduous process of defending themselves, striking back against their hunters, and being killed one at a time.

Every administration has a different philosophy that governs the work of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).28 Education Secretary DeVos» actions show a clear deprioritization of the office: Under her leadership, the Education Department announced that the OCR will not actively investigate patterns of discriminatory practices, 29 rolled back guidance to prevent discrimination against transgender students, 30 and refused to commit to continue the Civil Rights Data Collection.31

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

There is no doubt that CEA leadership feels that it has done an effective job pushing back against the onslaught brought on by the politically - driven Common Core State Standards initiative, the unproven and rushed change in standardized testing requirements, the systematic yet false narrative of failing schools and ineffective teachers, and the questionable storing and sharing of private, personal, and confidential information on students and their families.

Please join Milwaukee Public Schools leadership and PPS - MKE to learn more about the contents of the MPS Takeover proposal and what we can all be doing to inform our community at large and how we can continue to build momentum to push back against this egregious action.

And recently, a light of optimism appeared: CSCU's lawsuit against the board was settled, after the school signed a consent decree As applications fell in response to the tuition decision and institutional morale licked its wounds, accepting a leadership position at Cooper was not an easy decision.promising to forge a path back to its tuition - free model, among other reforms.

As the Trump administration releases a National Security Strategy that argues U.S. leadership is «indispensable» in pushing back against an «anti-growth» and borderline immoral climate agenda, Atwood's dystopian imaginings have never felt more prescient.

The leadership fight in the Flint water contamination cases has escalated, with co-lead counsel firing back against «false and misleading accusations» and at least one defendant in the case raising concerns about the communications that all the lead plaintiffs lawyers have had with prospective class members.