Sentences with phrase «by obstructionist»

That freedom that has been curtailed by obstructionist school districts, power - hungry unions and, at the state level, spineless lawmakers.

It has been tied up procedurally by obstructionist Republicans in the Senate.

Not exact matches

Which way you lean in this Presidential campaign depends a lot on whether you think government spending is capable of doing any good, or whether it is by its nature obstructionist.

The UN warrant and the extravagant «new world order» rhetoric, however, are diminished by the operational unilateralism of U.S. policy in the Gulf and by years of abuse of the United Nations as a delinquent, a dropout, and a downright obstructionist in most fields of international cooperation.

In a master stroke, they often try to discredit whistleblowers by labeling them obstructionists and nitpickers — viz., naysayers.

The ten «euro - outs» are disgruntled and obstructionist given their declining political clout while the euro 17 are riven by political rancour especially at Germany's agenda - setting.

And, the Democrat (Johnson, DINO) that won the seat from the Republican's Ditzy Maureen O'Connel has been a direct obstructionist on the Mainline 3rd Track issue which makes Skelos» fence straddling actually pretty progressive by comparison.

@Rick McDaniel, boy you're right because we've been getting plowed by your unpatriotic republican degenerates since Pres.Obamas been inaugerated and at midterms Rick I think we'll return the favor sending your obstructionists home... Don't worry Rick I'll think of a good send off for your moron buds as well!

While Democrats believe the Republicans will appear as obstructionists, Republicans think their argument is actually tapping into voters» frustration that Washington, controlled by Democrats, is out of control on spending.

The nomination of the executive of a company that profits by polluting the atmosphere escalated fears that Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, withdraw it entirely from U.N. climate negotiations or become an obstructionist during those talks.

The politician, played with table - pounding brio by Miranda Richardson, has a hilarious running gag, repeatedly making mincemeat of her sniveling, obstructionist male aides.

A few reports of obstructionist behavior by districts stand out and have been chronicled in these pages by Joe Williams («Games Charter Opponents Play,» features, Winter 2007) and Nelson Smith («Whose School Buildings Are They, Anyway?»

The four states of «Difficult Steering,» a 1947 engraving, show a shape, rather like a horse's tail, flanked by two structures that become increasingly bulky and obstructionist.

Though I disagree with the first commenter that environmentalists as somehow by nature obstructionists, advocates on all extremes of this debate will have to be ready to sacrifice their sacred cows.

This reminds me of the logic used by climate change obstructionists: Because we're not certain how the climate will change or what humanity's causal role is, we should postpone response until we know better.

They are afraid that Qatar would be overly influenced by their neighbours the Saudis, who have been constantly labelled as obstructionist since the start of this process.

Recently, Saudi Arabia blocked a call by vulnerable island states at climate talks for a study... A Fox News / AP article says that Saudi Arabia has a long history of playing an obstructionist role at climate conferences.

When they pulled the U.S. out of Kyoto, they went out of their way to assert — in sanctimonious tones that were believed by none — that the U.S. would refrain from obstructionist behavior.

[Sorry, McIntyre published a trivial paper that, by force of necessity, has been trumpeted by dishonest obstructionists like Watts as overturning all of climate science (i.e. «The Hockey Stick») when it did no such thing.

I just see this particular argument as obstructionist to say nothing of the fact that implying a primia facie dissonance between the ice core record and consensus of climate science as given by any reputable survey is tantamount to alledging either some sort of conspiracy or that climate researchers are uniquely dull.

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In an interview with the National Observer last week, Justin Trudeau raised more than a few eyebrows by comparing B.C. premier John Horgan to former Saskatchewan premier and climate policy obstructionist Brad Wall.

Such bans have been strongly criticized by scholars as obstructionist and self - interested.

Some solutions proposed are: rationing of judicial time for example by assigning a fixed number of motions to each proceeding; charging higher filing fees for additional motions; penalizing obstructionist conduct through multiples of indemnification costs; awarding priority dates to well - run litigation; more motions in writing; higher filing costs for longer hearings; more aggressive use by the Bench of rules that permit judges to control the court process such as time limits for evidence in chief and cross, and some outsourcing of judicative functions.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)

Most people I have come across are certainly soured by the recruiter / jobseeker relationship, united in their criticisms that search consultants are the impenetrable brick wall to job search success; the self - serving, commission - focused obstructionist front line preventing a love match between the candidate Read More