Sentences with phrase «detriment of»

The mayor has accused the governor of collaborating with the GOP to the detriment of the city.

I always thought it did matter to report the internecine battles within the government, not least because they often paralysed Whitehall or led to bad decision - making that was to the detriment of both the country and New Labour itself.

Though I would say that the re-orientation of the British state from supporting industrial capital (among others) to mainly supporting finance capital (at the detriment of the former) was a process which began pre-Thatcher.

Perkins cast himself as an Albany reformer, and said he was not absolutely opposed to charter schools, just not to the detriment of public schools.

Any undue interference with the operation of the contract will damage the commercial image of the government to the detriment of the public interest.

As the respected Supreme Court Justice, Atuguba admonished in the case cited supra,» Any undue interference with the operation of the contract will damage the commercial image of the government to the detriment of the public interest.»

«We accept that we have to take our fair share of cuts but not to the detriment of the service as a whole and for officers personally.

We are of the view that the Government is pandering to partisan pressures to the detriment of justice and to upholding the independence of the Judiciary.

The supposed settlement is also being alleged to have been reached to the detriment of Ghana because Attorneys in this Ministry claimed they were under instructions from the Castle to settle the case in court.

Nothing wrong with asset stripping to the detriment of generations to come?

He said, that created the room for members of the NPP to get access to the old currency deposited at the BOG and send them back to get the new currency as replacement to the detriment of Ghana at large.

Troy praised Commissioner Bill Bratton, but complained that cops are increasingly afraid of lawsuits from civilians and are «refraining from doing any proactive policing,» to the detriment of the communities they serve.

Add to this the understandable dejection and bitterness many Labour members and supporters would feel, if Smith were to win the Labour Right would be greatly strengthened, to the detriment of Labour offering a real alternative to the Tories (not to mention the fatal harm done to Labour's prospects of becoming a social movement).

«Director Cappuccilli's conduct clearly breached his fiduciary duty to the State Fair by favoring his personal event to the detriment of the fair,» the report reads.

More broadly, there was a feeling that policy decisions in all areas were being driven by an overriding focus on deficit reduction, perhaps to the detriment of the economy in general and other areas of national life.

Public support for the Conservatives has continued to rise to the detriment of Labour, a new poll shows.

Cost of Government Administration: It is often said that NPM reforms associated with Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and public services.

Arguably, a sort of global redistribution is benefiting «developing» countries to the detriment of the «developed» world.

He said stakeholders are lined up at these seminars, paid per diems, eat fried rice and drink other assorted drinks at the detriment of these children.

The Heathrow - Gatwick hub's main competitors - Amsterdam's Schipol, Paris» Charles de Gaulle, and Frankfurt Am Main - are all actively developing additional runway capacity, which could deprive London of its pre-eminent position in European aviation, to the massive detriment of the UK economy.

Such draconian constraints on liberty simply do not apply to crowd control - windows may get smashed but holding a crowd to the detriment of its individuals is not an appropriate response to such crimes.

It's what helped lead to a relentless focus on a company's next quarter, to the detriment of its next year or decade.

«Part of their power is they're so focused on themselves and willing to support elected officials, even if it's to the detriment of the rest of the labor movement.»

One was actively opposing the selling of the nursing home through his legislation and votes when his wife and sister - in - law worked there, and another had gone to work for the union after leaving county employment and had the ability to provide inside information to the detriment of county management and the taxpayers.

«The city of New York has chosen not to complete the job,» he added, to the detriment of uptown bike riders and pedestrians alike.

Likewise, Cameron and Clegg could, in theory, reform the education system to the relative detriment of the public schools without accusations of class hatred, because they went to public schools themselves.

Len McCluskey said: «What is happening with the consultation on the future of the AWB is anti-democratic; hundreds of thousands of rural workers and stakeholder organisations are being locked out of the consultation to the certain detriment of the people most impacted by any abolition.

She was correcting for political science's attention to bureaucracy, administration, and civic order and for philosophy's focus on the eternal and the universal, each to the detriment of the contingent and the fragile that are, for her, the stuff of politics.

Nigerians have seen how subsidy has benefitted a selected few to the detriment of mass of Nigerians.

«Imagine, an Army private's and corporals from the North could build business plaza of 3 storeys with several estate and other buildings including exotic cars to the detriment of the region?

The outburst of members of the group follows the NPP chairman's constant allegations and insinuations against the president claiming he is favoring some tribes to the detriment of others ever since he assumed office as the Commander and Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).

After all, they represent instances of a few profiting from the collective, or as the Spanish writer Cesar Molinas recently said of «extractive elites» sucking value from the system in detriment of everyone else.

Cuomo himself has been focused on working with Republicans in the state Senate (to the detriment of his relationship with Senate Democrats), saying that his post-partisan style of governing is what's needed in a state that has been crippled by dysfunction.

Gillibrand in the interview touted her push to reform how sexual harassment allegations are handled in Congress, which she called a «horrible, opaque process» that protects the accused and is at the detriment of the victims.

«There is, however, evidence that the Coalition Government's free schools programme could lead to social segregation which will be to the detriment of BME children and young people.

The Kosovan declaration of independence is to the detriment of Russia's ally, Serbia.

«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.

«The IDC should stand up and help Senate Democrats maximize our ability to achieve a real Raise The Age solution, and that means preventing Senate Republicans from advancing only parts of the budget to the detriment of outstanding issues.»

Astronomical sums are spent in political campaigns — often to the detriment of voters, who find taxpayer dollars being used to repay campaign donors.

Donations of infant formula and other powdered milk products are often made, whilst experience with past emergencies has shown that without proper assessment of needs, an excessive quantity of milk products for feeding infants and young children are often provided, to the detriment of their well - being.

It exposes infant feeding as one of the most important global public health issues of our time, and describes how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their babies to the detriment of all, rich or poor, in the West or in the developing world.

So there has been tons of pushback from parents at this school, and as a result, many teachers disregard the no homework policy and assign it anyway, much to the detriment of children and families.

So it's a conversation that's really absent I think in a lot of schools, to the detriment of a lot of students.»

Was it an effort to distance themselves from formula marketers infiltrating the maternity ward to the detriment of 3rd world infants?

Modern American obstetrical care prioritizes making labor as convenient as possible for doctors, sometimes to the detriment of mother and baby; here are two examples of this:

Not one study of the benefits of breastfeeding or the detriment of spanking foregoes the comment that we should stop making people feel guilty.

Clearly such foods are not offering the «highest level of nutrition» possible, but as long as they're sold in our lunch rooms, kids like the one above will make an entire meal out of them — to the detriment of their own health and their ability to learn effectively in the classroom.

I told DH that I didn't want the wish / hope for other children to be to the detriment of the child that we DO have right now.

The concept has been emphasized too much in many courts, and it is to the detriment of the child's other needs.

An overemphasis on breastfeeding, for example, can be to the detriment of the infant who authentically needs supplementation in order to prevent failure to thrive.