Sentences with phrase «by factions in»

The chipping away at the open web is also being advanced by some factions in the ebook industry, who are pushing for a W3C standard to lock up formatted text, possibly leading to paywall sites, as Cory Doctorow suggests in this Guardian article.

The No Child Left Behind Act, which allowed states to set their own public school standards for «proficiency,» is opposed and considered a failure by all factions in the education world.

That glue is Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, whose plans to place a temporary ban on Muslim immigration from certain countries and build a wall along the U.S. - Mexico border are deeply opposed by both factions in the party.

The poisoned atmosphere is the tribalism practiced by a faction in the NPP that sees Asantes and Akyems as more important than anybody else to lead the party.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the rest of the Trump Administration have proven that they can not be counted on by any faction in the school reform movement.

Not exact matches

But the proffered legislation does something more remarkable: It incorporates provisions that outrage not only the so - called «moderate» Republicans in the Senate, but also infuriates a hard - line conservative faction led by Kentucky's Rand Paul.

Guzman's arrest in January 2016 and extradition to the US this January appear to have set off a fight for control of the organization by internal and external factions.

Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.

Many other cities in Syria are held by rebels or other factions in the civil war, and they are likely to come under further attack, said aid agencies.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

Air Canada was forced to cancel about 75 flights in April when a faction of pilots called in sick — a strike declared illegal by labour officials.

The initial call for the Pakistani actor ban came after attacks by a Pakistani faction of the Taliban on the military outpost of Uri, close to the Line of Control in Indian - administered Kashmir, on September 18th.

At the current time, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and remnants of the Cártel Arellano Félix are aligned in their fight against warring factions of the Sinaloa Cartel's Los Aquiles and «Los Uriarte,» as previously reported by Breitbart Texas.

Which is why are two factions of the board of Uber — which will meet tomorrow to try to pick a CEO by Labor Day — still incessantly leaking about and wrangling over the possibility of Whitman, with one side trying to thwart her unlikely return and the other hoping there is some scenario possible in which she would come back?

The potential withdrawal of Greece from the euro at the very least emboldens left wing / nationalist factions in Spain, Italy, and France, who see the results of the Greek referendum as legitimizing rebellion against the diet of austerity imposed by Brussels.

ISIS (or ISIL or the Islamic State) actually began as a faction of Sunni militants in Iraq who'd been disenfranchised by the Shia government.

«Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of others.

Howard and Streck present a picture of C — Pop splintered into factions yet fundamentally united by its roots in American evangelicalism and commercial popular music.

Disrupted by factions for some years, it split in 1974; a new denomination, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, was formed in 1976.

The «religion of the American West» will be Mormonism, and it will be matched by the «religion of the American South,» the fundamentalist faction in the Southern Baptist Convention.

In a world with a dozen major religions, split into hundreds (if not thousands) of factions, this author keeps things good and general by going right to Christianity.

And the centrality of the power significance of the communications technology is attested by the pivotal importance of which faction controls the radio - TV stations and the telephone systems whenever a coup or revolution takes place in an African, Asian or Latin American country.

Arthur is wrong because of the radically anti-majoritarian bias of his argument — a bias not shared by the Framers because the Framers in general, and Madison in particular, defined «factions» differently from the way in which Arthur defines the term.

They are in favor of more radical free market economic change than the other Republican factions, are relatively indifferent to social issues, and are turned off by displays of religiosity.

Isaiah envisioned Israel's mission as entailing in part the mediation of conflict among nations under impartial international law; a world court in Zion, judging by truth and justice under due process, would enable warring factions to «beat their swords into plowshares» that is, to give up conflict and concentrate on economic development.

In many cases it [impeachment] will connect itself with the pre-existing factions... and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilIn many cases it [impeachment] will connect itself with the pre-existing factions... and in such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilin such cases there will always be the greatest danger that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt.

The popular revival of interest in these so - called «Gnostic» writings was led by Dan Brown, whose 2003 religious thriller The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday) mixed fact and fiction together (and lo, «faction» was born).

This tendency was set back at the time of the colonial conquest of Libya in 1911, which the socialists bitterly and in some areas violently opposed, and there ensued the dominance for a time of a militantly revolutionary faction led by Benito Mussolini.

Italy was torn by domestic quarrels between the many states into which it was divided, and in the attempt to avoid domination by one or another faction the Papacy became a partisan.

I would like to expand her application of that notion — limited as it was by the 1974 social context — and apply it to the present moment and to the factions now arrayed in opposite camps.

Former president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, recognized by most international governments, has established the headquarters of the pro-Saudi faction in Aden, while the Houthi camp is led by his rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh, from the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.

Similar conclusions were drawn from fundamentalist movements in Iran and Lebanon, from Zionist factions in Israel, from heightened conflict between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland, and from the growing audiences being cultivated by «televangelists» in the United States.

bill deacon in his ignorance manages to peg reality for only the briefest moment — and quite by accident: «mankind will degenerate into tribes and factions striving for power and subjugating those whom they can for economic or other gains.»

Christians will not save their lives by joining one or another faction in a revolution.

Probably, neither would Saudi Arabia, although this is colored by the fact that Saudi Arabia and Iran are leaders of opposed geopolitical factions in the Middle East.

The two Senators» appearance at the National Assembly took the staff and visitors by surprise understanding that their sack was announced last weekend following the Supreme Court judgment owing to supremacy battle between the contending factions of the PDP in Anambra State.

The difference in Libya was that each political faction was backed by a militia willing to gain concessions at gunpoint.

Many of these career - minded politicians, determined to stick with their man as a way of rising through the ranks rapidly, have been frustrated by Miliband's disinterest in creating a powerful faction.

Since then the 56 - year - old has quietly risen through the Ukip ranks without appearing to create many enemies — no mean feat in a party riven by factions, rivalries and alcohol - fuelled negative briefings.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

Hajia Fati said she was told by her sponsored paymasters to attack the person of Mr. Afoko and others because to them they represented a big threat to their quest for controlling party funds in the run - up to the November 7th polls.Secondly, she said they were told of some agenda 2020 and were asked to undermine President Kuffour and anyone who was seen to be his loyalist in order to kill the Kufuor faction in NPP, leaving only the Akuffo Addo blog to project Dr. Mahamoudu Bawumiah after the flagbearer's tenure.

The two factions compromised on a semi-presidential system with a weak president in an effort to reassure secularists concerned about being excluded from power by Ennahda - led parliamentary coalitions.

The faction of the party led by former minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana has refused to renege in its plan to hold its own convention.

But Koppell is apparently siding with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party that feels the reunification of the warring Democratic factions in the Senate, which was engineered by the governor a few weeks ago as he started to significantly feel pressure from his own primary challenger, actress and activist Cynthia Nixon, is too little, too late.

Former President Kufuor in a statement signed by spokesperson Frank Agyekum, condemned the association of his name to the story, and said as President, he had no faction and did not need to have factions in his government, despite false claims by people.

Mohsin al - Ahmar's First Armoured Brigade played a leading role in the campaign against Houthi rebels in the north from 2004, but Saleh took the opportunity to trim the General's authority by arming the Houthi faction so as to make the task more difficult.

The WSJ notes that this year's budget deal was harder to come by than usual because legislative factions on the right and left dug in their heels, revealing a «growing polarization» in Albany that «poses a hurdle for a governor who has long positioned himself as a moderate mediator who prizes governmental order such as on - time budgets.»

The smallest faction in the divided state Senate, the Independent Democratic Conference, has been permitted by the ruling party Republicans to issue its own alternate spending plan.

«Cluster munitions were used by the Soviets in Afghanistan, by the British in the Falklands, by the Coalition in the Gulf War, and by the warring factions in Yugoslavia.