Sentences with phrase «by opponents of the reform»

There have been suggestions that the majority in favour of a wholly elected Lords was swollen by opponents of reforms who wanted to scupper the plans by ensuring an option unacceptable to the government and / or Lords was chosen.

Words like «controversial» and «handouts to for - profit corporations» are used as labels by opponents of the reform.

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But Wisniewski, who has nonetheless been voted into the Pro Bowl five times by those opponents, seems to have reformed since incurring a total of $ 65,000 in fines during a five - week stretch in the fall of» 96.

But opponents of reform are also represented, one of whom defends the current standards by emphasizing that «after all, we're feeding millions of people.»

I am worried that by asking people to vote in favour of an imperfect system, the reform proposals will be an easy target for their opponents, and therefore the forces of political conservatism will ultimately win the day.

A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.

Campaign Finance Reform Can Help Crack Down on Corruption A 2011 report by the Center for Competitive Politics has been seized upon by opponents of Fair Elections to argue that the public financing system in New York City is characterized by consistent abuse of public funds and corruption.

Miliband conceded his opposition to a programme motion would be portrayed by some as an attempt to wreck the bill and allow opponents to suffocate it through deliberate delay so the reform never reaches the House of Lords.

Coffey has made a point of calling for more stringent ethics reform than his primary opponents, saying the bill sponsored by Schneiderman, passed by both houses of the Legislature and vetoed by Gov. David Paterson doesn't go far enough in its disclosure requirements.

The Department of Health has made a series of further concessions in a bid to rescue its embattled NHS reforms, but opponents appear unimpressed by the changes.

Washington (CNN)- Backers of a bipartisan Senate immigration reform plan Thursday defeated an attempt by Republican opponents to alter the border security requirements in the bill, which could have significantly undermined support for the compromise legislation.

As ethics reform became a topic of debates, Walsh's relationship with major city real estate developers was scrutinized by opponents in one of the mayoral race's few points of contention.

The Lords voted by 306 to 178 against the reforms after a heated debate in which opponents on all sides of the House pointed out the new system could be used to stop any behaviour «capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person».

Tory opponents of reform opened up a new flankon Sunday by saying that a referendum on Lords reform would have to be accompanied by a vote on Britain's relationship with the EU.

De Blasio distinguished himself from his opponents in last year's Democratic mayoral primary by highlighting his support for police reform, and in particular for legislation that exposed police officers to state lawsuits for alleged bias - based stops, and created the office of NYPD inspector general.

The longtime president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association and frequent opponent of efforts to reform Rikers Island was arrested this morning on charges of wire fraud after an investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Ms. Cancel, who has praised Mr. Silver's work in the area, has sought to sow doubt about her opponent's commitment to reform by pointing out that Ms. Niou, too, sought the backing of Mr. Silver's associates before declaring the process corrupt when she was not chosen for the nomination.

Nick Clegg tried to isolate opponents of Lords reforms on Monday by claiming that protesters in Tahrir Square in Cairo would not understand how Britain in the 21st century still had an unelected legislature.

It can also have an indirect impact by legitimising the position of parties who want to reform the system (and undermining arguments made by its opponents).

Washington (CNN)-- Opponents of President Obama's approach to health care reform have outspent supporters by more than $ 7 million in the past 30 days in what has become the most expensive one year, single issue advocacy campaign on television in the nation's history.

News of that cash haul comes after Wilson directly asked in a Web video for campaign cash to fend off attacks from political opponents and said he's standing by his opposition to Democratic efforts at health care reform.

It is a travesty and an outrage that the few rotten apples in this study may be used by opponents of educational accountability, like the reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act, to charge that testing should be eliminated because the pressure it brings causes cheating.

Charter and merit - pay supporters outnumbered opponents by 2:1, but a near plurality of the public refused to take a position on either issue, revealing just how much further into the public consciousness reform ideas need to penetrate.

Kentucky Gov. Paul E. Patton's call for mandated pay raises for teachers threatens to do what months of scheming by opponents of the Kentucky education - reform law has not managed — hobble the state's open - ended testing and performance bonus programs.

On the list of top organizations sorted by Klout, for instance, about half of the finalists are truly neutral parties (media outlets mostly); about a quarter are reform - oriented (including Teach For America, Gates Education, and The Education Trust); and about a quarter are reform opponents (such as the NEA, AFT, and the Badass Teachers Association).

In the end, these findings indicate that the first wave of education reforms elicited many of the positive and negative consequences predicted by supporters and opponents.

These barriers have kept choice - based reforms from receiving the proper trials they deserve, which is significant on two counts: first, by ensuring that only half - baked versions have been adopted, opponents have made it easier to claim that the reforms were tried but they failed; second, profound changes in a system - the kind of changes that choice would bring to bear - can not arise overnight.

By the same token, opponents of the reforms need to stop engaging in destructive activities (like encouraging students to boycott school, allowing vicious personal attacks, or distributing knowingly inaccurate copies of the collective - bargaining agreement to foment dissent).

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

Once a George H.W. Bush education official and an advocate for greater testing - based accountability, Diane Ravitch has in recent years become the nation's highest - profile opponent of Michelle Rhee's style of charter - based education reform (one also espoused by Barack Obama).

The report is recommended by education historian and school privatization opponent Diane Ravitch, who notes that the report «also includes an analysis of flaws in existing oversight, recommendations for reform, and an appendix of instances of fraud and abuse from 1997 through 2017.»

Which is why shoddy polemicism by the likes of Eden and other opponents of school discipline reform deserve to be exposed and denigrated.

But yesterday's Dropout Nation takedown of use of faulty data by Manhattan Institute pundit Max Eden and other opponents of reforming school discipline generated plenty of discussion both in social media and in e-mails.

The fact that the states granted waivers haven't either put reforms into place, or rolling them out beyond a pilot stage — and thus, leaving them vulnerable to being scuttled by opposition from either NEA and AFT affiliates, or opponents of implementing Common Core reading and math standards — meant that the schemes were inherently unstable.

When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint charters in a racially - divisive light.

Poland is likely to do this, as standard bearer for the opponents of ambitious EU ETS reform, and because it has reduced voting power under the new rules... Sandbag would like the EU to cancel some suprlus allowances to «ramp up its climate offer»... If the reforms backed today by the European Parliament were implemented, they would be expected to increase prices to between roughly $ 17 and $ 35 by 2020, according to differing forecasts from market analysts Thomson Reuters Point Carbon and ICIS Tschach Solutions.

In the last five years, Congress has twice tried to fix the country's dysfunctional patent laws only to see those efforts founder at the hands of shrewd lobbying by reform opponents.