Sentences with phrase «campaign against our administration»

We severely underestimated the ability of the Chicago Teachers» Union to lead a massive grassroots campaign against our administration.

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That view was on display during the presidential campaign when Trump railed against globalization and what he described as unfair trade deals negotiated by previous administrations.

The former State Department diplomat who oversaw U.S. government sanctions policy said he was «extremely» frustrated when the Obama administration issued «weak» and «frankly inadequate» sanctions against Russia in December 2016 in response to that country's campaign to disrupt the U.S. presidential election.

For example, Uber has been hit by an unsubscription campaign because of its CEO's link to the Trump administration and the fact that its drivers didn't comply to a call to halt pick - ups at John F Kennedy International Airport in protestation against the ban.

Senate Democrats and state AGs are waging a campaign against a Trump administration decision not to require internet service providers treat content equally.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

Obama also narrowly won Catholics, even after the U.S. Catholic bishops waged a rigorous campaign against the Obama administration around the issue of religious liberty.

«The reports avidly peddled by the administration that the bill is dead are overstated,» says Hudson Institute's Michael Horowitz, a key figure in the campaign against religious persecution.

He is proud of being a football player and on the drill team and his story so shocked people (sarcasm) that he has been invited to speak to the National Security Administration and Boeing, 2 places not known for their «underlying ideological campaign against masculinity.»

Former Attorney General and avowed critique of the John Mahama administration Martin Alamisi Amidu has confessed that his anti- corruption campaign against John Dramani Mahama and his appointees were based on mere public perception.

A source said the more likely candidate is John Cahill, a longtime Pataki administration official who ran an unsuccessful campaign against Schneiderman in 2014.

Another socialist democrat who happened to work for one of the most corrupt administration in NYS history running another campaign of lies against one of the most honest and sincere men in the business.

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

He stated that the claims of those involved in the campaign of calumny against his administration of the council were frivolous and born out of bellyaching.

Topics in a post-announcement press Q&A included whether Cuomo will support Bronx Borough President, and Cuomo ally, Ruben Diaz Jr. in a 2017 mayoral run against Bill de Blasio, details on a state program to fund the green card application fees of 2,000 applicants, delays in the Cuomo administration response to the still unfolding Hoosick Falls drinking water catastrophe, whether Cuomo will work to turn control of the state senate to the Democrats, whether Cuomo will sign recently - passed AirBnB legislation, the State's response to increasingly severe occurrences of K2 / spice overdoses and whether he will support 2014 gubernatorial opponent Zephyr Teachout in her congressional campaign.

This seemingly concocted report is the latest in a series of orchestrated campaign of calumny against the Commission by shadowy forces that are obviously envious of the success of the EFCC, especially at a time, when the anti-graft agency enjoys the status of the shining light of the President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration's war against corruption.

Some of them openly expressed their disappointment in this administration and apologised to the former President for voting against him in the 2016 election because of lies told them about him and his government by the Npp, and failure on their part to critically evaluate promises the Npp made during the campaign.

The general consensus, as championed by renowned human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN, seems to be that the decision represents a significant setback for the effective and fair administration of justice in the country, and President Muhammadu Buhari administration's approach to the «campaign against corruption.»

The Trump administration is taking its campaign against illegal immigration to the workplace.

He identified corruption as the major problem bedeviling the nation and urged them to support the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration's campaign against corruption by eschewing all forms of corruption and vice and becoming vanguards of good morals.

Recalled that President Buhari has said his administration in the almost two years had worked hard to meet the expectations of Nigerians by improving security, especially in the North - East, sustaining the campaign against corruption and have taken steps torevitalize the economy.

For years, the Cuomo administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and their hysterical and retrograde antinuclear allies, including Riverkeeper, have waged a shameless campaign of fear and loathing against the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Spota said in his statement that Bellone has an «obvious personal vendetta against me for doing my job; investigating and / or prosecuting a senior administration official of his after he implored me not to, and more recently his boyhood friend, campaign chair and treasurer Robert Stricoff, again after he asked me not to, undermines the credibility of his slanderous attacks.»

It is public knowledge that Dasuki had served previous administration of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Ibrahim Babangida but was against dictatorial regime of General Sani Abacha, before he sought asylum outside the country where he teamed up with other Nigerians in the Diaspora to campaign against that military dictatorship and entrenchment of democracy.

Latimer also criticized Astorino for using ideology in the 2009 county executive campaign to rally his base against the Obama administration.

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has threatened to start a campaign against state officials including Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, to force them to reduce the number of cars in their convoys.

Ricardo Morales, the former head of the Department of Citywide Administration Services, is claiming he was fired from his job because he spoke out against both City Hall's approach to Rivington House and the granting of political favors to campaign donor Harendra Singh.

And that turned out to be something of a high - water mark, in terms of the administration's public campaign against Indian Point.

The letter, which was sent to the State Board of Elections, sought to rebuff the latest series of accusations against the administration: that Mr. de Blasio's team in City Hall had committed flagrant violations of campaign finance laws during the mayor's unsuccessful push in 2014 to win a Democratic majority in the State Senate.

The move — part of the administration's campaign against obesity — came after the state legislature rejected efforts to put a tax on the sugary beverage.

The endorsement will pit Mr. Pataki, by proxy, against former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has thrown his political capital behind the campaign of Joseph J. Lhota, a former deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration and a preferred pick of the city's conservative business class.

Mohammed clarified that the administration's fight against corruption was not selective, and that the government was not probing the 2015 elections campaign funds of the People's Democratic Party.

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.

President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to «restore scientific integrity to government decision - making» is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies of the Bush Administration.

To help bolster its campaign against an epidemic of opioid abuse that now kills about 90 people a day, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last year called for help from an independent advisory panel.

And in addition to the political, bureaucratic and legal obstacles the incoming administration will need to overcome, Trump is also up against strong market forces that are fueling the growth of natural gas and renewable energy, and devastating coal — which will likely make some of his campaign promises hard to accomplish.

On the campaign trail, Ellison spoke against public charter schools and private school vouchers, casting them both as a Bush administration plan to weaken public schools.

For instance, the administration's equity plans and the campaign against private fundraising for wealthier schools could move great teachers and programming from non-poor to poor schools.

This is particularly worrisome because the administration doesn't have any real ability to enforce these provisions or punish states for not fulfilling their promises; and a blow - up will be especially troublesome for President Barack Obama as he fights a tough re-election campaign against Republican nominee Mitt Romney (whose school reform agenda differs little from that of the current office - holder).

Whether the mayor would possibly enter into partnership with Moskowitz, after having campaigned against the way she was «tolerated, enabled [and] supported» by the previous administration, is quite another story.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today joined with local law enforcement officers, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the Governors Highway Safety Association to kick - off its holiday campaign to address drunk driving.

«Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989... was conceived as a pro-choice poster and widely used in a campaign against an effort (by the Bush administration) to roll back Roe vs. Wade -LSB-...] And everything, from the schematic composition to the imperious, inscrutable expression to the dated image, conspires to short - circuit any simple identification we might feel with this woman.»

In the polarised world of climate change, this cocktail has proved an irresistible temptation to organisations which campaign against President Bush's administration in support of enhanced action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen says that the Obama Administration is continuing, even revving up, its campaign against domestic energy production with new EPA regulations on the horizon that would shutter much of the nation's coal industry and do great harm to oil and gas production; he also promised to veto any legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

A campaign to get at least 2,000 lawyers and law students to sign onto a petition calling for Congress to investigate the Bush administration for «numerous offenses against the Constitution» is nearing its goal.