Sentences with phrase «contested by advocates»

It was hotly contested by advocates for manufacturer responsibility, and even government officials from other states were asking manufacturers to drop the suit.

Not exact matches

Similarly she advocates Labour and Green supporters both vote Liberal Democrat in contests dominated by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

Inside the Democratic Party, economic policy is often seen as a contest between President Obama's track record and the anti-Wall Street approach advocated by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Last week, we reported on a contest being held by actor and conservation advocate Edward Norton, in which a lucky Radiohead fan could win a chance to hang out with him at one of the band's concerts, trading awkward small talk and catching occasional whiffs of his powerful Norton musk.

For reasons that escape me, ESSA's required federal filings, which have been assembled by hordes of well - meaning state officials and consultants, have been treated not as largely meaningless paper exercises but as something deserving of breathless notice from education advocates and press (including American Idol - style contests and foundation - funded independent review boards).

Whether the National Education Association can accomplish those goals while simultaneously advocating improvements to the teaching profession — a role publicly supported by its leaders, but contested among rank and file — remains an open question.

To celebrate Petfinder's Adopt the Internet Day, the Rabbit Advocate (a blog run by an HRS educator) hosted a contest for the best rabbit adoption story.

If PAS is introduced by the father, his attorney, his court - appointed and self - selected therapists, so - called child advocates, and the court - appointed guardian ad litem during a contested child custody hearing, the mother is guaranteed to lose custody of her children unless Gardner's «Sex Abuse Legitimacy Scale» is shown to be what University of Washington Professor John Conte has described as» [p] robably the most unscientific piece of garbage I've seen in the field in all my time.»