Sentences with phrase «beat back efforts»

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

Unions have experienced mixed results over the past year in trying to beat back efforts in dozens of states to restrict bargaining rights, pass right - to - work laws or limit how unions collect dues.

The most that environmentalists have been able to do since then is to beat back efforts to weaken such legislation as the clean air act, the requirement of environmental impact reports, and the endangered species act that were passed at that time.

Senate Republicans beat back an effort from Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that would have ousted Dean Skelos as the chamber's majority leader.

The ride - share app Uber formally launched an effort on Tuesday to bring its service outside of New York City, an expansion push that comes after the company successfully beat back an effort that some saw as limiting its growth in the five boroughs.

These included beating back an effort by Assembly Democrats and local governments to permit municipalities to regulate ride - hailing as they can with taxi services.

LITTLE ROCK All eyes were on Little Rock this week, where a coalition of community members, parents, teachers and school administrators beat back an effort by House Education Committee Member Bruce Cozart to privatize struggling school districts in the state.

Against claims that Rancho Seco was inherently flawed, the coalition beat back an effort by a Portland utility to buy it.

Women's health champions beat back this effort.

Not exact matches

But the deployment could stretch US resources thin, and complicate efforts by the Trump administration to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan in an attempt to beat back recent Taliban gains.

Kevin Sabet, co-founder of anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said his group would redouble efforts to build a broader coalition to beat back better - funded pro-cannabis groups ahead of 2016.

Having beaten back previous efforts to update the rules, Wall Street now has more at stake.

But the bankers» lobbyists beat back that modest effort at reform in the last days before the law passed.

We don't see enough efforts from Islamic groups to beat back extremism.

In all honesty Arsenal played well we had very good position with loads of chances and 13 corner kicks how come we are so crappy at scoring corners???? We need to start scoring the chances we get from corners we could have easily beat southhampton by 4 goals but forster was good he got the 3 points off us MR wenger should go back to the drawing board as he has some options one of witch could the calling of welington silva or a reshuffle bring iwobi in elneny or new methods in tactics as in picking players and rehearse attacks strategy As for the referee I to felt done by him there was on particular foul on sanches that was not giving at the end we need to register our efforts and be clinical

I don't have a problem with the team believing they can beat anyone as long as they put in the required determination and effort to back it up.

Wenger put ozil on the wing for his development one thing i do nt get is how the fans do nt see that Wenger done the same process with Wilshere, I remember when Monreal was caught out at the back post from a set piece and ozil did nt cover he just jogged abit n let monreal get beat, that would be video evidence for Ozil to learn and work on his duty to defend instead of giving him Candy like a baby n letting him be lazy in the middle not tracking back for the team its a learning process im 100 % Wenger knows ozils best position is in the centre he followed him since Shalke its obvious but Wenger develops players into world class after seeing Ozil in the world cup and coming back after the world cup i coud see he defended alot more helping out monreal on the flanks and putting in alot more effort only then once hes showed his duty in defending will he be given his free role in the middle.

Early last season we had some very good results when played with total efforts like when we beat Chelsea but we played 4 at the back in that game and others.

Everyone knows he lacks pace and for the most part makes up for it with brilliant reading of the game and timing of his challenges but when he IS beaten by a ball that goes over his head, he doesn't even put in the effort to sprint back, he just accepts defeat / relies on others to bail him out.

Meredith was so unlucky not to score early in the second half when a superb effort came back off the post with the goalkeeper beaten but then, surprisingly, Leeds equalised having won what looked to be a soft free kick on the edge of our area.

Arsenal FC went 1 - 0 up in the 24th minute after some nice work by English international Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain on the right flank, who first beat full - back Cesar Azpilicueta with some neat skills before hitting a well struck effort past a helpless Courtois.

The hosts had their chances to get back into the game when Loris Karius got a fingertip to Nolito's goalbound effort to turn the ball onto the post before Ben Yedder fired inches wide with just the German goalkeeper to beat.

Emre Can just manages to beat the keeper to a slow back pass, but his poked first time effort slowly rolls past the outside of the post and the game remains deadlocked after just over half an hour.

Dele Alli nearly got in on the act himself by skilfully beating his marker before seeing his effort cannon back off the post.

The WFP was also active in several races outside the five boroughs, including the Albany mayor's race, where City Treasurer Kathy Sheehan is poised to become the city's first female leader after defeating her primary opponent, former Councilman Corey Ellis; and Nassau County, where Tom Suozzi is one step closer to his effort to take back his old county executive post from Republican Ed Mangano after beating Adam Haber on Tuesday.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

Senate Republicans were proclaiming early victories in efforts to beat back about $ 1 billion in tax hikes proposed by Cuomo.

Although the 2030 target seems improbable, if not impossible, proponents point to a few successful efforts — including the brief defeat of dog rabies in N'Djamena, the capital of dirt - poor Chad — to show that the disease can be beaten back even in Africa.

Make a concerted effort to be warm and smiley, and youll beat back bad moods.

In many states, previous overturn efforts have been beaten back, often narrowly.

But if we want to let it play out, we have to beat back the political efforts underway to push states to un-adopt the standards.

Just a week ago, Scott Walker survived a recall, beating back the rapacious efforts of the National Education Association and its state affiliate, the Wisconsin Education Association (WEAC) to recall the Wisconsin governor who had the moxie to work with the state legislature to eliminate collective bargaining for teachers.

Charter advocates were successful in beating back an eleventh - hour effort to advance the quotas, thankfully — but that doesn't mean they won't be back.

Education support professionals in Waterford, Michigan, recently beat back a school privatization effort that would have cut 200 jobs.

In expanding Race to the Top to include districts, the Obama administration has given reform - minded districts another tool for beating back opposition to more - stringent teacher evaluations and other efforts.

Certainly a few reformers, notably those of a civil rights orientation, have battled strongly against the waiver gambit; this includes Alliance for Excellent Education, which has rallied organizations, along with congressional leaders such as Rep. George Miller (who helped craft No Child) to beat back against the administration's efforts to allow states to game graduation rates.

The nation's two largest teachers unions are certainly doing their best to triangulate and beat back Parent Power movements and other school reform efforts.

This is because the federal government ultimately amplifies education policy decisions made at the state level, especially by those reform - minded governors and legislators (along with reformers) who also seek help from the federal level to beat back opposition to their efforts by entrenched traditionalist interests.

For reform - minded governors and school leaders, No Child's accountability measures gave them the tools they needed to beat back opposition to their efforts from traditionalists in their own states.

So far the U.S. mutual fund industry has beat back regulatory efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission chair to tighten regulations: for companies to put up more money in reserves or allow the unit price to float so investors understand what they're getting into.

Out of the field and back into the tunnel - Although Pokémon has been taking up most of my time, I've been making an effort to play Final Fantasy XIII too, since I quite enjoy a lot of the game, and if I beat it this week it might still be relevant to review it.

In an effort to counteract Microsoft's popular «Summer of Arcade» promotion, Sony began doing their own «Play» promotion featuring some high - profile downloadable titles to help beat back the summer heat.

Some of the items expose back - room brokering, like a letter sent in 1973 by installation artist Louise Nevelson to painter Adolph Gottlieb as part of an effort to woo Gottlieb to the gallery's roster: «Adolph, I'm too old to beat around the bush and know you too long for that,» she wrote.

Also, if you could weigh in on whether you think these things are collapsed pingos (which seems to be the WUWT position — reason enough to doubt it, imho) and why, it could be useful in my (mostly fruitless) efforts at beating back denialists on other blogs.

The climate beat has kind of exploded over the past two weeks, with the normally intense run - up to treaty talks, which begin in Copenhagen on Monday, compounded by the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages and documents suggesting a back story behind efforts to chart the planet's past temperatures.

Convene a cleanup of the local waterway, or a vine lop effort to beat back invasive plants taking over your town woods — a threat that has increased with climate change.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce worked with the American Petroleum Institute in a «Grassroots» efforts to beat back «misinformation» from opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Most efforts to change it have been beaten back.

As OneWorld UK highlights, the usual suspects suspicious of UN - and business - backed efforts to stop deforestation through carbon market - based programs such as REDD have not missed a beat in taking advantage of the moment.