Sentences with phrase «by weakening the state»

You are attempting to discredit «evolutionists» by suggesting that they are driven by a weakened state of mind.

Despite all this, Cuomo is the $ 31 million man who is heavily favored to win re-election, aided by a weakened state of New York's GOP despite having one its own, President Trump, in the White House.

Not exact matches

«By codifying existing sanctions and requiring congressional review of any decision to weaken or lift them, we are ensuring that the United States continues to punish President (Vladimir) Putin for his reckless and destabilizing actions,» said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., the top Senate Democrat.

If Andrew Mackenzie and Sam Walsh are right, then Western Australia's commodity dependent economy could be at the start of a recovery; and not before time, given the weakening state of the property market as measured by mortgage defaults.

Opponents said it would weaken New York's current gaming operations, including the horse racing industry which has been propped up by state government, by giving gamblers more options.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Tater Tots - maker Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday reported lower first - quarter sales, weighed down by weakening demand for processed foods in the United States.

More details: Salmonella can cause serious and potentially fatal infections in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems.The pistachios, distributed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, can be identified by a 13 - digit lot code number on the lower back or bottom panel of the package.

CHICAGO, May 2 Tater Tots - maker Kraft Heinz Co on Wednesday reported lower first - quarter sales, weighed down by weakening demand for processed foods in the United States.

Moody's confirmed the states triple A debt rating but noted a «modest weakening of the state's financial position... primarily driven by higher levels of operating and capital expenditure».

Data from the Institute for Supply Management, along with other statistics, suggest the US economy continues to be driven by the services sector, whereas growth in manufacturing (outside the buoyant auto sector) showed signs of slowing in August, possibly due to dollar strength and weakening economic prospects outside the United States.

* Finances: Moody's notes a «modest weakening of the state's financial position... primarily driven by higher levels of operating and capital expenditure».

The neo-monetarist credo imposed by the United States since 1971, the complete adhesion to «market forces» (which George Soros defined as «market integration») and the consequent ripples, throughout the world, of liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation measures - have devastated politics, weakened the representative democratic institutions and colonised the state.

The programme of dismantling the state, reducing its functions, pilfering its resources and launching sweeping privatizations leads to a demoralized public sector, weakened systems of education and health and the eventual usurping of the state by private economic interests.

The European colonial powers had been so weakened by the war that they could not resist the insistence of the United States that their colonies and former colonies be freed to trade across imperial boundaries.

It was the accident of history, the destruction of the monarchy and the state, and then later the unhappy events, whatever their detail may have been, which weakened the prestige and power of the Jewish governor in the days of Darius I that by consequence elevated the priests into de facto leadership and rule of the Palestinian community.

The increased differentiation of institutions and their autonomy from religion, the expansion of the power of the state, the higher rates of participation by both men and women in the wage economy, the increased delegation of family functions like education, leisure and food preparation to the market and the state — all these trends weaken family functions.

The United Nations is a more promising institution in terms of its nature and purposes, but the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, has been systematically weakened by the United States with regard to economic matters.

However, you weaken your statement by showing that you are only measuring «history» by the span of the United States.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomBy the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomby Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomby the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Yet in response to my post regarding the weakening of Criterion 2.8 for coffee farms, a Rainforest Alliance representative stated: «The current criterion 2.8 has not been implemented fully by farms and hence has not been effective in terms of delivering the objective of providing an agroforestry framework that balances both ecosystem services of trees with profitable production scenarios.»

There are fears that the RAF would become «the airwing of Islamic State» by strategically weakening the Assad regime, allowing the group and other jihadi groups to operate with impunity.

The undifferentiated approach to sovereignty displayed by most Europeanists has consolidated this perspective: if sovereignty always comes with all the dimensions historically embodied by the nation state — a national identity that always contains the seeds of exclusive nationalism and potential power abuse — then it made sense to weaken it in all these dimensions.

Elia's selection comes at a crucial time for education policy in New York: State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of teState lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved a new teacher evaluation measure in the 2015 - 16 state budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of testate budget last month, a move that was deeply opposed by the state's teachers unions for its weakening of testate's teachers unions for its weakening of tenure.

-- Includes language to pre-emptively respond to a looming Supreme Court decision that most observers expect will weaken public employee unions by letting state workers decline to pay dues even if they benefit from the union's efforts.

Spinola and his fellow union - busters knows this, but instead of questioning the business practices of the owner of those cranes, they decided to use these accidents as subterfuge to push for the weakening of the requirements to obtain a NYC Department of Buildings Hoist Machine Operator license, which will greatly weaken the crane operator's union by causing an influx of inexperienced non-union crane operators from out of state.

The deep education spending cuts states have enacted will weaken that future workforce by diminishing the quality of elementary and high schools.

Katz and his allies — including elected officials such as then - State Senator Paterson — hung tough against Republican efforts to weaken the bill by excluding gay men and lesbians from protection.

The weakening of the public system was predicated on the strategic reduction and subversion of the institutional means by which the state exerted control, and reduced the plural autarchies that have now increasingly assumed the power of the state: the oligarchs who now own everything that once belonged to the state and the commonwealth through «privatization.»

The bill by state Sen. Brian Benjamin (speaking), a Democrat, would weaken mayoral control over the schools.

If Trump's Paris exit is perceived by other countries as a symptom of a broader U.S. decline vis - à - vis China, that will weaken the United States» position in Asia - Pacific politics, she said.

If Trump stays in, he might choose to weaken the United States» commitment on emissions, which is currently a reduction of 26 to 28 percent by 2025.

The body may also, in its weakened state, be poisoned mildly (or in extreme cases, not so mildly) by impurities — congenors in alcohol - research parlance — in alcoholic beverages and the mixers that accompany them.

While the incidence of highly drug - resistant tuberculosis in the United States is still negligible, the disease is gaining ground in countries where large numbers of people have immune systems weakened by HIV.

A much bigger sticking point was concern, voiced by many liberal Democrats and environmental groups, that the legislation would weaken states» ability to issue their own chemical regulations.

Research reported by Columbia University Medical Center has stated that those without a formal celiac diagnosis can still experience a whole body immune response to wheat consumption related to a weakening of the intestinal barrier, as well as wheat causing intestinal cell damage.

New research by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Paul E. Peterson and Matthew Ackerman finds that 20 states strengthened their student proficiency standards between 2011 and 2013 while just eight states weakened them.

In 2012, the legislature seemingly weakened its oversight of the charter sector by eliminating a requirement that the state education agency report on charter school quality each year.

Studies by the Fordham Institute and by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan both found that states with high performance standards tended to weaken them in response to NCLB's goal of moving all children to a single standard.

Second, while vouchers are a means favored by the Christian Right to weaken the separation of church and state, they are also a means to advance particular visions of a «multicultural America.»

By creating a set of common expectations across states, the designers of the Common Core sought to protect the initiative from the inevitable political pressures that might lead policymakers to weaken the standards or the aligned assessments.

AB 575, sponsored by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins and Education Committee Chair Patrick O'Donnell, would have weakened the Stull Act, the state's law requiring teacher evaluations that are critical to ensuring that every child has a quality teacher.

SB 499, sponsored by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Education Committee Chair Carol Liu, would weaken the Stull Act, the state's law requiring teacher evaluations that are critical to ensuring that every child has a quality teacher.

A decision by the New Jersey Department of Education to drop its requirement that candidates for bilingual - teacher certification demonstrate proficiency in the language they will teach in has seriously weakened the state's ability to ensure the quality of instruction, according to bilingual - education advocates.

By painting a false picture of student achievement, they compromise public confidence in the nation's schools, in the process undermining education and weakening the United States.

Here's Slatery's record: For using state resources to separate families and weaken our economy by suing to end DACA, against using state resources to protect Tennessee students who take out loans to attend for - profit colleges.

Despite successful efforts, mostly by teachers» unions, to weaken and restrict charter laws, there are now nearly 3,000 charter schools in the United States, and enough kids on their waiting lists to fill 900 more...

Lobbyists convinced Federal policy leaders to weaken FERPA by making «research» so open - ended that it grants states the right to decide whether or not to protect the privacy of children.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

Stated purposes may obscure far less lofty aims, such as weakening entrenched and distrusted local school boards, creating the illusion of reform without investing more resources, putting a positive spin on central office downsizing by calling it decentralization, or simply trying to shift the blame for failure to the school itself.

The version of the state budget approved by the House on March 20 includes major cuts likely to weaken Kentucky's efforts to develop the talents of all children and undo achievement gaps between groups of students.