Sentences with phrase «challenges powerful interests»

But climate policy will be subject to uncertainty for the foreseeable future anyway, because it challenges powerful interests, so the best way to design the RET is to send the strongest signal possible to incentivize investment in renewable energy.

As this article has inferred, mutualism has been somewhat underplayed in relation to private sector institutions, not least because it challenges powerful interests and appears to contravene the establish norms of neo-liberalism, which despite the crisis remain deeply embedded in the global economic order.

In an interview last April with The New York Times, Mr. Spitzer raised questions about whether Mr. Cuomo, who also succeeded him as attorney general, had the will to challenge powerful interests and faulted him for failing to aggressively pursue abuses by Wall Street.

«From battling the flood of corporate money and corrupt insiders deals that infect our politics to challenging the powerful interests that block common - sense gun violence prevention, Bill has always been a voice for everyday New Yorkers.»

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They had good reason: They sought to challenge the growing numbers of powerful newspapers that were concocting fake stories to either sell papers or advance the interests of their corporate benefactors.

In some parts of the party, I do think this has led to a profound reconciliation to these powerful interests so that there is no longer even a desire to challenge them.

Education is a powerful means to challenge elites, so it is in their interest to foster educational inequalities to sustain their positions.

«They're challenging a powerful bureaucracy and special interests — some of the most powerful unions in the state.»

In the update of her best - selling, classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how teachers can divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

It takes money to challenge the most powerful special interest blocking education reform — teachers unions — who command auspicious war chests.

These single - player missions rewarded the player with certain cards for completing a series of boss battles, providing an interesting challenge to earn powerful cards.

This powerful, evocative piece extends her interest in the co existence of extreme opposites, exploring themes of conflict and resolution, both domestic and political, which challenge our belief systems and our sense of the natural order of things.

In addition to the chapters devoted to overarching regional breakdowns, there are also chapters devoted to other culturally or geographically regionally similar areas, such as, coastal areas, rural communities, and «urban systems» — all equally powerful ways of situating people in shared communities of interest facing similar challenges..

Stoddard points out that, while local communities such as his are taking the lead on distributed solar in Florida, they are routinely up against powerful interests with deep pockets and «evil genius» that makes doing so a challenge.

plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.

This retreat builds on the powerful energy, self - challenge, and camaraderie that can occur when women gather together in shared interest of personal growth.