Sentences with phrase «but obstructionists»

Trump, tweeting a week ago that Democrats «are taking forever» to confirm his nominees, including ambassadors: «They are nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS!

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Eventually the design pros went to the CEO Tim Miller, complaining about the obstructionist from R&D, but Miller explained that for Stolt and his team there was method to the madness.

«But you know, unfortunately we are living with a very obstructionist group.

«Now the obstructionist Democrats would like us not to do it, but believe me, if we have to close down our government, we're building that wall.»

They exist, but they certainly are not the major obstructionists since there are so few of them.

Of course, the republicans will continue their obstructionist ways, and the evangelicals will continue their fight to destroy Consti.tutional freedom, but at least there a glimmer of hope for this country.

«And I'm not trying to be an obstructionist, but my feeling is that all this negotiating has... is maybe even part of the problem.

But the mayor said he has no regrets about criticizing Cuomo as a vengeful politician and an obstructionist to the city's agenda in Albany last week and Cuomo once again implied de Blasio doesn't understand government as the long - running feud between the two men continued.

Yet at the same time, it is his Health Department that was conspicuously unhelpful, even obstructionist, when residents all but begged for help during the early going of the crisis.

Some educators worry about the fallout from these measures, such as the proliferating plague of standardized testing, but don't know how to oppose them without casting themselves as obstructionists clinging to a failed status quo.

China has expressed interest in this, as have people in Washington (the state), Oregon, California and Baja — but everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere is being obstructionist, not putting the welfare of the nation and the planet first — you know how that is.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

And part of what I'm hoping everybody here comes away from is hope that we can actually do something about it, but also a sense of urgency that this is not going to be something that we can just kind of mosey along about and put up with climate denial or obstructionist politics for very long if, in fact, we want to leave for the next generation beautiful days like today.

Climate activists are prone to see lukewarmism as a slightly more sophisticated but still fundamentally obstructionist form of denialism, and not without reason.

But it is neither fair nor true to demonise the LN / P as greenhouse delusionalists or obstructionists.

Many managing partners have told me that they agonized for years over what to do with «the 800 pound gorilla,» who was a productive, economic contributor but a total non-team player and an obstructionist.

29 The claimant's negative and obstructionist attitude toward Court Orders and court proceedings generally forced the respondent to incur significant unnecessary litigation expenses, which not only damaged his financial well - being, but his emotional well - being as well.

And as Ellis makes clear, such a result is not a function of the political stripe of the current federal government, but is endemic to the system itself: 20 years earlier, Jean Chrétien's Liberal government viewed Mulroney - government appointees to the board as too obstructionist with refugee claims, and simply replaced them with its own set of patronage appointments more inclined to deliver politically simpatico approvals of refugee claims.