Sentences with phrase «by conservative groups»

Less a new assault inspired by the Republican - led backlash against green energy under way in Washington, D.C., it's the continuation of campaigns by conservative groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity and the Heartland Institute with ties to the fossil fuel billionaires, the Koch brothers.

Three of those states — North Carolina, Ohio, and Kansas — saw strong pushes by conservative groups to reverse clean energy regulations this year.

A news article in The Times by Coral Davenport and Laurie Goodstein describes various attempts at spin and counter-spin around the encyclical and the meeting, including events being staged in Rome by conservative groups opposed to restrictions on greenhouse gases.

The people who have left, whether categorized as refugee, immigrant or exile, have all faced the vitriol of xenophobic rhetoric propagated by conservative groups and mentalities.

Critics have suggested that problems faced by pension funds have been overstated, and that the picture is rosier than depicted by the conservative groups in particular that have raised alarms about public pensions.

A half - dozen states have dropped the PARCC tests in the last year, while others have hedged on the Common Core with much of the opposition driven by conservative groups opposed to a federal role in education.

While most states remain committed to the standards, opposition has been voiced both by conservative groups who fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions worried about the consequences for teacher evaluation.

While the standards remain in place in most states, they are opposed by conservative groups that fear expanded federal control and by teachers unions wary of their use in teacher evaluations.

Now it is living on borrowed time, after an anti-crony capitalism campaign driven by conservative groups.

Tenney had been endorsed by conservative groups and media personalities, including radio talk show host Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.

The effort by conservative groups and the GOP apparatus to smooth Judge Gorsuch's...

Tenney, who lost a 2014 primary challenge to Hanna, has been endorsed by conservative groups and media personalities, including radio talk show host Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.

The lawsuit is the culmination of a decades - long, coordinated campaign by conservative groups to debilitate unions, one of the few strong advocates for workers.

A tenured Syracuse University professor has been «blacklisted» by conservative groups after speaking out about the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.

If you missed the ad, put out by the conservative group Citizens Against Government Waste, no matter.

The Church of England has called a letter published by a conservative group as «significantly misleading»... More

The Day of Truth was started by the conservative group Alliance Defense Fund, Chambers said, but the group transferred primary responsibility for the event to Exodus this year.

The pledges from Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills are contained in court documents submitted by the State Department as a part of a public records lawsuit brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch.

RightOnline, sponsored by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, planned it this way.

But Steele's attendance had been an open question; he declined to participate last month in an RNC debate sponsored by the conservative group FreedomWorks, which was held before he formally announced that he is seeking a second term at the committee.

The lawsuit filed by a conservative group seeking to repeal the same - sex marriage law that took effect Sunday relies on a lot of assumptions, incendiary charges and the hope the judiciary will become involve with the rules of order in the state Senate.

Republican Sen. Greg Ball over the weekend released a statement dismissing the lawsuit filed by a conservative group against same - sex marriage, saying the measure was approved in a small - d democratic fashion.

Mayor de Blasio and other Democrat officials called for his resignation after Schulkin was caught on tape by the conservative group Project Veritas saying, «Certain neighborhoods in particular, they bus people around to vote.

Less than two months later, Nix met with hedge fund executive Robert Mercer, Neugebauer and Bannon in Palm Beach, Fla., on the sidelines of a conference hosted by the conservative group Club For Growth.

Schneiderman filed papers with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, two days after gay marriage became legal in New York State and a day after he was named among the defendants in a lawsuit by a conservative group seeking to overturn the state's gay marriage law.

(CNN)- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour offers a stark assessment of President Barack Obama's first term in a new web video produced by the conservative group American Crossroads.

It followed an investigation into a supposed plot by a conservative group of Muslims to take over schools.

Not exact matches

Trump's comments about Lee and Washington echo an email one of his senior legal advisors forwarded to government officials and conservative media claiming that the Black Lives Matter movement has been «infiltrated by terrorist groups.»

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

I had just that experience this morning in reading a delivery made by Douglas Shulman, commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service during the time when the targeting of selected conservative groups was launched.

Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

These two elections have shattered the myth cultivated by conservative politicians, newspaper columnists, think tanks and lobby groups for decades that promising to increase taxes is political kryptonite.

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

Mr. Kenney's supporters may have been connected to a recent attempt by a conservative lobby group to hijack the one - MLA Alberta Party.

Mr. Kenney is reportedly backed by a cadre of federal Conservative strategists and insiders, including former Reform Party and Wildrose Party campaign strategist Tom Flanagan, who told CBC that the group discussed whether «he could win the PC leadership then negotiate a merger [with Wildrose].»

Alberta Can't Wait, the grassroots group calling for unification of the Alberta conservative parties, will be speaking at the Monday September 17 membership meeting hosted by the Peace...

This movement of Tories to the Greens in Calgary - Centre seems to be supported by Donal O'Beirne, the former president of the Conservative association in Calgary - North East, who has endorsed Mr. Turner, and the launch of a new Facebook Group, «Progressive Conservatives 4 Turner ``, which sprung up this week.

In addition, 85 percent of Unum's insured lives are in group long - term care with a much younger client profile, funded mostly by employers and with smaller benefit levels with more conservative plan designs, he said.

The leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and our new Premier was elected by a group of members smaller than half of the football fans at Commonwealth Stadium.

YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have been accused by conservative and right - leaning groups of censoring their speech.

Another poll released on Friday, by the Elector Research Group, showed support for Merkel's conservative bloc steady at 37 percent.

An Australian church leader has published his reasons for participating in the controversial consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe by the conservative Anglican group, GAFCON.

Unfortunately, we are run over by the most radical group of conservatives — Tea Party - Evangelicals.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

In June, Perry secretly met a group of nearly 80 conservative Christian leaders at a gathering organized by evangelist James Robison.

The move led to discipline by the Anglican Communion and was the final straw for conservative Anglican group GAFCON who appointed a missionary bishop to oversee churches who felt they could no longer work within the SEC.

The authors judge, correctly I reckon, that however individualistic conservatives» political and theological ideology may be, their churches are apt to function more like authentic communities — close - knit groups, commitment to which is viewed by their members not as optional but as integral to individual identity.