Sentences with phrase «be under assault»

Artist Statement «Wolves seem to be under assault in too many places, where entire families (packs), including the pups, are being killed.

A «free - market» place will always be under assault by the current regime whose ox is about to be gored.

When he was governor, he said he met with black clergy leaders to explain that their religious beliefs would not be under assault if gay marriage eventually became legal.

They will be under assault.

As long as men of such curiosity are attracted to it, the ship in the blue hole will be under assault, its secrets threatened.

This approach to monetary policy was under assault after the financial crisis, as experts noted the central banks had deluded themselves into thinking that their job had become as simple as keeping inflation at 2 %.

You can be forgiven for thinking your time is under assault.

«In a time when truth is under assault, Hector Macdonald is here to defend it,» says Grant.

«Nearly five decades later, the EPA — and science itself — are under assault,» wrote Denis Hayes, the original organizer for the first Earth Day in a message on the Earth Day Network website.

«Travel to and within the U.S. has lately been under assault from protectionist, anti-competitive forces, and the move against Open Skies is the latest example.»

You don't have to follow the news particularly closely to realize they're under assault right now.

«Organic reach for business pages on Facebook has been under assault for a long time now,» Andrews says.

The Fed's credibility is under assault from a lot of pretty smart people.

Third, while management were running around the UK drumming up interest in GetBusy, Reckon's Australian business has been under assault.

B2B Sales Leaders have been under assault these past five years as well.

Unions and working families are under assault.

«There are certain technology products that are under assault,» Mr. Lighthizer said.

And it says something very important about marriage, which is under assault throughout the world by the forces of moral confusion, misconstrued «tolerance,» and societal deconstruction.

Strachan pointed to this scene as an example of how «the basic foundations of the Protestant worldview are under assault.»

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

At other times, witnessing to Christ means challenging that culture, especially when the truth about the human person is under assault.»

Meanwhile, religious freedom is under assault both in the West and in the fast - growing global South.

«We are under assault by a federal government that is very good at doing bad things to the state of New York,» Cuomo said.

«Russia's own constitution is under assault as Putin cracks down on the rights of gays and lesbians, any NGO receiving non-Russian funding, and free speech rights for all Russians.»

She said that she has been meeting with educators across the country, including those in states where collective bargaining is under assault.

«We're one region, and quite frankly we're under assault right now from Washington, and we have to stand together and work together, not in a partisan way, on behalf of all Long Islanders,» Bellone said.

Conservatives will celebrate today's decision as a victory for the First Amendment but the reality is that the right to political speech is under assault from the torrent of money pouring into our elections.

While acknowledging that he faces an uphill struggle, Hawkins listed a number of things that will impact on his viability: one, that he be included in a series of debates (a critical factor for Ventura); second, that the public employee unions whose members have been under assault by Cuomo provide him with support; and third, that the media give him equal coverage and status in the narrative of the campaign.

And in a year in which the status quo at state Capitol is under assault from virtually every direction, Martland is calling on Breslin to return the insurance largesse, labeling it a fundamental conflict of interest that he accepts such a large portion of his campaign war chest from an industry he's supposed to be regulating.

You would think, based on public reaction, that the local winery, brewery and distillery industries are under assault because of the limited - time moratorium I recently suggested.

She will pour every ounce of her energy into keeping America safe, upholding the rule of law, and protecting and restoring voting rights that have been under assault for far too long.»

And the environmental pollution that is getting into the air, the water, the carpets in our houses, the household products that we're using... We are under an assault unlike anything the human species has ever before experienced.

The diversity of the world's life forms — from corals to carnivores — is under assault.

Allopathic medicine — the modern drugs, surgery, and high - tech regimen of most M.D.'s — is under assault by a bewildering variety of so - called alternative therapies.

Night - time is under assault from our 24 - hour world, but reclaiming the night could be easier than you think

At a time when programs that favor members of a particular race or gender are under assault (Science, 25 July 2003, p. 455), supporters worry that the lack of an adequate assessment could be a serious problem.

Even before the mystery illness, saigas (Saiga tatarica tatarica) had been under assault, their populations in steep decline from poachers who wanted their horns and meat.

«Today the world's great destinations are under assault as visitor numbers rise exponentially every year,» reports the non-profit National Geographic Society, publisher of National Geographic.

Earth's fragile shield of ozone is under assault by CFCs, substances once used widely as refrigerants, propellants, and foam - blowing agents.

The motivation of scientists in the pro AGW tribes appears to be less about politics and more about professional ego and scientific integrity as their research was under assault for nonscientific reasons (I'm sure there are individual exceptions, but this is my overall perception).

One area of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension pole, perhaps while teetering at the top of a rickety three - meter wooden ladder, the base of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.

Tim Noakes, bestselling author of The Real Meal Revolution, needs your help, because he's under assault for tweeting that babies can be weaned to a low carb high fat nutrient dense diet.

Come April, Jodie Foster stars in the Walden Media family fable «Nim's Island,» as an agoraphobic travel writer whose rugged alter ego is Abigail Breslin's only hope of saving the island paradise where she and her father are under assault from a pack of bad guys.

And while the battles wage on the screen, it soon feels like it is the audience's intelligence that is under assault in This Means War.

Throughout the advanced capitalist world, unions are under assault.

Of course, higher education has been under assault at the state level for decades.

Tom has been at the helm of the state's charter school efforts during a time when that program has been under assault.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said the unions» strategy on testing follows years in which they have been under assault, by conservative leaders and by the bipartisan education - reform movement that has painted unions as a central obstacle to improving schools.

It's no wonder that many teachers, students and parents feel that public education is under assault in Florida.

The battle comes at a time when other public - employee unions are under assault as governments face budget crunches.