Sentences with phrase «conciliatory union»

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Since Tsipras came to power in January, tempers have flared, insults have been hurled, a rift has appeared between a generally more conciliatory France and a less pliant Germany, and the idea that the European «union» is a solid entity in which solidarity between countries can be taken for granted has taken a serious hit.

Lipton kept up the conciliatory tone on Saturday, casting the union defectors not as turncoats, but victims of a pressure campaign by Cuomo and his allies.

He assured himself of President Bush's support by his commitment to united Germany remaining within NATO, remained conciliatory to Gorbachev and responded to his ever more urgent requests for credits, calmed Mitterrand's fears by remaining firm in his support for European integration including monetary union, stood up to Thatcher who was quickly isolated, and above all demonstrated that no - one had a viable alternative to unification.

She is supportive of the Common Core education standards, but at a news conference following her election as commissioner, Elia spoke in conciliatory terms when discussing teachers, whose statewide umbrella union has been especially restive over the changes.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took a conciliatory tone toward police officers Thursday in his ongoing efforts to mend fences with the NYPD, putting the vitriolic feud with several police union leaders behind him.

But as yet the government is trying to be conciliatory: Cabinet office minister Francis Maude said he wanted a genuine partnership with the unions and was not trying to provoke a «stand off».

Smarick's alternative suggests that the teachers unions become more conciliatory and flexible.

As more and more Democrats come to see that the teachers unions, with their rigid work rules and insistence on preserving the failing status quo, are the biggest impediment to education reform, the unions can either become more conciliatory or they can double down.

With the coronation of new National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen Garcìa, we see the unions take a conciliatory tone in an attempt to lure charter school teachers into the fold.

The education secretary was in a conciliatory mood as he addressed his first NAHT union conference today.