Sentences with phrase «broader assault on»

The bills represent what is certain to be a concerted effort by the new House majority to address what they consider to be burdensome environmental rules, part of a broader assault on what Republicans characterize as job - killing regulations from the executive branch.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

«If we are attentive to the broader assault on public education by the forces of neoliberalism,» said Madeloni, «we have to critique Darling - Hammond at the very least for naïveté about these forces when she allows herself and her work to be taken up by them, when she allows the discourses they use to bash teacher education to become part of her rationales.»

Climate change regulations may look like a good deal for the nuclear industry, but they mask the Obama administration's broader assault on all conventional sources of energy, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman James Inhofe said today.

This is all part of the broader assault on the No Child Left Behind law and on the Obama administration's mandate tying teacher evaluations to achievement tests.

Critics argue that the ruling is a broad assault on protections Internet companies have long enjoyed under the Communications Decency Act and could threaten the free exchange of ideas online.

The N.C. Association of Educators and N.C. Justice Center are sponsoring the lawsuit, arguing that the vouchers are a broad assault on the state's public schools as it funnels taxpayer money to private schools.

In the 2000 model year, Ford Division plans to launch a compact sport - utility smaller than the Explorer as part of a broad assault on the truck market.

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Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front» when asked about a broader ban on assault weapons on Feb. 20.

The White House is weighing a far broader approach than just reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high - capacity magazines, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

Asked about a broader ban on assault weapons, Ms. Sanders said the White House has not «closed the door on any front.»

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.

Earlier, Ms Thornberry condemned Turkey for its «disgraceful assault on Afrin», later adding: «The truth is that the Turkish assault is part of a broader pattern where too many foreign parties engaged in the Syrian civil war are now acting just like the Assad regime itself without any regard for international law.»

Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, said she is not surprised that pistol permits spiked after the SAFE Act, which included a broader ban on assault weapons and requires pistol - permit holders to re-certify every five years.

And he pointed to broader issues facing women when it comes to assault on college campuses and harassment in the workplace.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered a comprehensive review of sexual assault on college campuses in New York, signaling plans to launch a broad crackdown on the issue.

A Siena College poll recently found New York voters, by a 2 - to - 1 margin, support the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, which included a broader ban on assault weapons and lower limits on the capacity of magazines.

Broad's collateral assault on the downtown school bureaucracy includes growing new charter schools and attracting strong principals who gain unfettered authority to hire and fire their own teachers.

«The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.»

The bottom line is that Ardennes Assault finally brings the feeling of grand strategy and broader tactical thinking to bear on a game that has been renowned for tactical gameplay on a smaller, more individual scale.

As the medium increasingly permeates every avenue of daily life, from mobile devices to our very language, the Museum of Arts and Design presents An Assault of Reality, an investigative survey into the effect of cinema - in the broadest sense of the term - on the formation of perception, truth and existence.

In a lecture at Oxford University on Nov. 2, Roger Payne — arguably the scientist most responsible for elevating the whale (and particularly the humpback) to a special position in the Western imagination — warned that the expanding Japanese killings were only one part of a broader assault that could finally silence the seas:

In light of the broad definition of assault above, penalties for an assault conviction can vary depending on the specific circumstances of the offence, the offender, and the complainant, or the presence of «aggravating» or «mitigating» factors, which result in greater and lesser penalties, respectively.

Under the guise of relationship building and becoming familiar faces in the community, TAVIS officers have aggressively assaulted and drawn guns on young people on the streets of their neighbourhoods, performed strip searches in broad daylight, and arbitrarily stopped hundreds of racialized people without cause in public areas to question them and gather intelligence — a practice known as carding, which has been targeted primarily at Toronto's Black community.

Statements on the alleged sexual assault of a two - year - old Aboriginal child in Tennant Creek and broader issues on child protection from the Healing Foundation, SNAIC, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar.