Sentences with phrase «by opponents as»

The House passed amendments, drafted by industry, to the landmark Clean Water Act — ridiculed by opponents as the Dirty Water Act — and that was so unpalatable to Senate Republicans that it went nowhere.

The federal estate tax, also known as the inheritance tax, or by opponents as the death tax, has recently been dramatically altered by the Republican tax overhaul known as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

It's a controversial idea, deemed by opponents as unnecessary at best, poisonous at worst.

While Mohammed Rauf's Islamic Society of New York quickly became an epicenter of Islamic life on the Upper East Side when it opened in 1991, Rauf's son Feisal Abdul Rauf is drawing an equal amount of attention with his own proposed Islamic Community Center, the Park51 project, decried by opponents as the «Ground Zero mosque.»

MPs have voted in favour of banning the display of tobacco products in shops in Britain, a move condemned by opponents as «unnecessary and unjustified».

It is frequently used by opponents as a pejorative synonym for the more general «animal testing».

In addition, we have a President who has been easily portrayed by his opponents as a champion of Big Government, determined to trample on individual freedoms (as well as pedantic and elitist), while Michelle Obama is portrayed as harsh and militant.

In Mahrez case, he is definitely a wide attacking player, who goes by opponents as if they are not there, has good technical abilities, a wonderful left foot, and does score goals, probably would score more in a team like Arsenal.

President Barack Obama personally touted the new protections, and some firms were reluctant to participate in a case that could be spun by opponents as anti-investor.

Leading 2 - 0 in the first 45 minutes, Man U lowered their intensity, especially going forward making them being forced back by their opponent as Liverpool were looking to get back into the tie.

When Eric Pickles was described by an opponent as possessing the «charm of a charging rhinoceros», it was meant to be an insult.

Not exact matches

That strategy worked so well that Franken's 2014 Republican opponent tried to win votes by casting Franken as a guy who was «basically invisible» in Washington.

The challenge devised by die - hard opponents of the law, often derided by critics as «Obamacare,» relied on four words -; established by the state -; in the more than 900 - page law.

Opponents worry about unknown effects on future generations and the temptation by future parents to pay for genetic enhancements such as greater intelligence or athletic ability.

Fort Collins Mayor Wade Troxell characterized efforts by the measure's opponents as «misinformation.»

He would repeat the trick as a teenager, playing in a professional league against grown men; even when he made it to the NHL, his stature and physical tools were dwarfed by his opponents.

Trump may always be despised by his opponents, but that does not bother him as much as they may think.

Kalanick allies see that late flashpoint, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, as a late «power grab» by his opponents.

Trump previously told Reuters in an interview in April 2017 that the pact was «unacceptable,» calling it a «horrible deal» struck by his 2016 Democratic presidential election opponent, Hillary Clinton, who as secretary of state promoted the final version before it was approved by Congress in 2011.

Flynn was seen by some officials in Europe as one of the Trump administration's leading advocates of closer ties to Russia and a hardline opponent of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and western powers.

We were told to expect big changes, that many «household names» would be dropped from cabinet, but as they enter their new jobs, Premier Alison Redford «s cabinet looks like one that should have been made by her main leadership opponent Gary Mar..

You and your opponent would try to guess which character each other selected by confirming various features such as eye color, hair, hats, glasses, and more.

He first ran for the PC Party in 1993, first in an unsuccessfully bid for the party nomination in Edmonton - Glenora and then as the PC candidate in Edmonton - Highlands - Beverly (in the election he was defeated by his Liberal opponent, Alice Hanson).

The decision, though, wasn't wrinkle - free: The panel mandated an alternative route that was immediately targeted by the project's opponents as lacking adequate vetting.

So his strategy is to get the focus off himself, as LBJ did (and Nixon did in 1972) by demonizing his opponent as less than decent and real dangerous.

Also, he disrespects her as a wrestler and an opponent by choosing to forfeit» No, I don't think he was worried about losing to her.

Also, he disrespects her as a wrestler and an opponent by choosing to forfeit.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

«An enemy is as good as a Buddha» the Zen folks say, and we all benefit by a worthy opponent.

«The opponents of enforcing immigration law and supporters of amnesty for illegal immigrants are using this as an emotional issue, raising this phony idea that a nun ladling out soup to an illegal alien is going to be wrestled to the ground by a SWAT team,» he said.

The discourse on human rights should not allow itself to be misappropriated by ventriloquists of the Establishment who are opponents of progressive forces branding them as terrorists when they demand statehood and power to the dalits, the women, the indigenous tribals.

Materialism regards itself as scientific, and indeed is often called «scientific materialism,» even by its opponents, but it has no legitimate claim to be part of science.

Now, after the Council, the so - called progressives have no right at all to treat their «conservative» brothers und sisters in the same way as they themselves, rightly or wrongly, thought they had been treated by their so - called opponents before the Council.

The moderates, called «liberals» by their opponents, see the conservative resurgence as an ecclesiastical coup d'état, a great power grab engineered by ruthless church politicians who neither understood nor cared about the great watchword of the Baptist tradition: freedom.

It is notable that this sentiment was expressed by Trump rather than by one of his opponents who marketed themselves as humane, civil, thoughtful, compassionate alternatives to the brutal Trump.

Boxing and MMA can both be differentiated from other dangerous sports, such as ice hockey, motor racing, American football and rugby (which all have, on average, higher death rates) by the fact that, within the rules, inflicting physical violence on your opponent is the primary goal.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

So a vote for or against Trump — and all the associated aspersions we cast on our opponents for their vote — becomes the test by which we decide whether to fellowship together as evangelicals.

As Sanchez's study indicates, Eugenio Pacelli publicly and privately warned of the dangers of Nazism both before and after he became pope; he denounced the deportations and persecution of Europe's Jews and was almost universally recognized, including by the Nazis themselves, as an unrelenting opponent of the National Socialist regimAs Sanchez's study indicates, Eugenio Pacelli publicly and privately warned of the dangers of Nazism both before and after he became pope; he denounced the deportations and persecution of Europe's Jews and was almost universally recognized, including by the Nazis themselves, as an unrelenting opponent of the National Socialist regimas an unrelenting opponent of the National Socialist regime.

Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, born in 1906 and martyred by the Nazis in April of 1945, has been depicted as an apostle of «religionless Christianity» and a radical opponent of tradition.

To speak of something called «Christian America,» as both the advocates and the opponents of this idea are nowadays at high levels of passion wont to do, is by itself evidence of how un-Christian the country has become.

Hence, even in this most difficult case, often taken as paradigmatic by opponents of correspondence theory, Whitehead discerns the possibility of some correspondence.

It was a panel of unscrupulous church «fathers» who destroyed other books that were equally inspired by God but didn't agree with their favorites; who were inspired by God to stifle dissent by persecuting and even murdering those who disagreed with them, just as God in his wisdom inspired the infanticide and genocide described in the Old Testament; just as God inspired the Crusades and the Inquisition, just as God now inspires those currently working to establish a global Islamic state to eliminate their opponents.

** Since this point is often made as a justifying boast by the Nationalist regime, it is often either ignored or denied by opponents of apartheid, especially if they are white and safe.

But the opponents of natural determinism lump Wilson, Dawkins, and Herrnstein and Murray together as the enemies of equality and the commitment to make the world a much better place by the achievement of social justice.

«pro-choice» while referring to their opponents as «anti-abortion» rather than by their preferred term «pro-life.»

Few moral and theological positions are as deeply cherished by their adherents, yet so quickly dismissed by their opponents, as pacifism.

The beauty of individual performance is multiplied by the choreography of team play: «Players survey the entire scene as they perform in concert with others, attending to where their teammates are heading and how their opponents are defending.

On the other hand there seem to have been Christians at this period, nicknamed «Alogi» (= anti-» Word» men, also — anti-Reason men) by their opponents, who rejected the Johannine authorship of the gospel and the Apocalypse, but were not generally regarded as heretics.