Sentences with phrase «criticized national groups»

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Instead, each national group was expected to be the foremost in criticizing the unjust and war - making tendencies of its own national government.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

Mayor Bloomberg's proposed plan to limit the sale of soda and other sugary drinks to containers that are 16 ounces or less has drawn national attention, been widely criticized by editorial boards and columnists, and has made him a target for attacks from several groups including the Center for Consumer Freedom which ran an full page ad in the New York Times.

Just last week, he won the endorsement of The New York Times as well as other left - of - center groups as they criticized Hochul's past opposition to state aid for illegal aliens and her 100 percent rating from the National Rifle Association, according to the New York Post.

Two conservative groups, Unshackle Upstate and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, suggested Miner and others should stop criticizing Cuomo if they don't have alternative proposals.

In the past, Tenney has criticized other national groups that have declined to give her an endorsement.

A national sex abuse victims group criticized Bishop William Murphy of the Diocese of Rockville Centre for refusing to suspend from ministry a priest who is accused of abusing two children in a parish where he worked.

Neumann, who announced his decision on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee, refrained from criticizing Thompson even though the former governor has been the target of attack ads being run statewide by the national conservative Republican group Club for Growth.

A national sex abuse victims group on Friday criticized Bishop William Murphy of the Diocese of Rockville Centre for refusing to suspend from ministry a priest who is accused of abusing two children in a parish where he worked.

Two business advocacy groups, Unshackle Upstate and the National Federation of Independent Business, also criticized Miner.

Freedomworks, another conservative group, and the National Republican Congressional Committee both took aim at Jack Davis in an effort to minimize his third - party threat; the NRSC also launched ads criticizing Hochul.

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel of researchers.

People for the American Way, a national civil - liberties advocacy group founded by the television producer Norman Lear, began working to have the procedures changed last year after it was denied the opportunity to testify in favor of textbooks criticized by Mel and Norma Gabler of Education Research Analysts, a nonprofit organization...

A replacement for the much criticized No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, the reauthorization gained support from groups as diverse as The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Education Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, The National School Boards Association, the National Governors Association and Fairtest, an organization that addresses issues related to fairness and accuracy in testing.

A national group of teachers claiming more than 50,000 members has criticized both of the main unions for supporting the Common Core and is pushing for the abandonment of all standardized tests.

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

It's often shallow, though, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality, an education research and advocacy group that has criticized American teacher training programs.

However, Oklahoma and national animal protection groups criticize the current way the livestock industries hold animals in intensive confinement and for the industrial practices such as sow crates and chicken debeaking.

The group won municipal elections in Belize City in the 1940s by addressing national issues and criticizing the colonial regime.

But Alley Cat Allies, a group billing itself as «the national feral cat resource,» criticized the Times Magazine article on its Web site, saying the cat threat to wild birds is oversold.

The operation is billed as scientific research but has been widely criticized by other countries, many environmental groups and marine biologists as a slaughter conducted for relatively unpopular meat and national pride.

«One thing that stands out in the book is the way in which McMaster criticized the poorly disciplined national security decision - making process in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and especially the way in which the Kennedy administration made national - security decisions by a small group of confidants without a robust process to serve the president.»