Sentences with phrase «direct attack on»

In all of these characteristics the resolution of difficult problems requires a direct attack on each that is encountered.

NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall, says the pending tax reform legislation in both the House and Senate is a direct attack on homeowners and homeownership, with the result being a tax increase on millions of middle - class homeowners in both large and small communities throughout the U.S.

NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall, a sixth - generation Realtor ® from Columbia, Missouri and CEO of RE / MAX Boone Realty, says the pending tax reform legislation in both the House and Senate is a direct attack on homeowners and homeownership, with the result being a tax increase on millions of middle - class homeowners in both large and small communities throughout the U.S.

Direct attack on her is of no value.

It's full of hypocrisies, lies, insults, and bigotry — and, for the first time ever, a direct attack on the doctors and patients of Planned Parenthood health centers.

Some users believe the new fiat cryptocurrency to be a direct attack on the principles of bitcoin and an attempt on the part of central banks to control digital systems.

Ives, an anarchist, Bitcoin proponent, and self - proclaimed computer nerd, felt that this was a direct attack on Snowden's fund.

It's a direct attack on who big publishers feel threatened by: Internet platforms and web startups, as well as smaller, more innovative competitors.

That's a direct attack on Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant voice assistant technologies, which are being programmed into more smart devices.

This isn't a direct attack on the bitcoin network, but there's no doubt that the group is trying to introduce a host of new features that aren't in the protocol.

Interestingly, the process by which WPA is usually breached is not a direct attack on the WPA protocol (although such attacks have been successfully demonstrated), but by attacks on a supplementary system that was rolled out with WPA — Wi - Fi Protected Setup (WPS)-- which was designed to make it easy to link devices to modern access points.

The new application is a direct attack on the current popular educational authoring tool, Google Docs.

This misguided attempt to politicize our local judiciary is a direct attack on our Constitution, which protects the independence of the judiciary and separation of powers.

I suspect this is more a direct attack on copyright than it is a critique of (official) religions.

When one disputes the information written on the verdict form, one is in effect contending that the verdict is wrong, which amounts to a direct attack on the «validity» of the verdict.

Many people feel that the medical community's desire to crush the multivitamin and dietary supplement market is a direct attack on alternative medicine.

For more on why the Interior Department's budget is a massive giveaway to big polluters and a direct attack on renewables, see our recent blog: «Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewable funding.»

In 1991, Western Fuels, a $ 400 - million coal consortium, declared in its annual report it was launching a direct attack on mainstream science and enlisting several scientists who are skeptical about climate change — specifically Drs. Robert Balling, Pat Michaels and S. Fred Singer.

It is a direct attack on the economies of coal - producing states that rely on coal as an affordable, reliable energy source,» said Karen Kerrigan, President and CEO of the Small Business Survival Committee and co-chair of United for Jobs.

It took a direct attack on the United Sates in December 1941 at Pearl Harbour before America was compelled to intervene.

A direct attack on the inhumane choices and absurdities that define the balasero experience, which forces Cubans to leave and often never return, the painting speaks to the artist's own struggle to define himself and his work through the liminal condition of in - between states, spaces, and memories.

These anarchic early works made sense during the Vietnamese War, and his later work represented a direct attack on American normality, something that seemed to fit the emotional chaos of the AIDS era.

Acting Director Mick Mulvaney's decision to close the Office of Students and Young Consumers is a direct attack on every American who enrolls in higher education... The role of the Office of Students and Young Consumers is not limited to protecting student loan borrowers.

While there is not any indication that this is having a negative effect on iPad sales, there is also little to support the notion that Amazon had any intention of making a direct attack on Apple with this first tablet.

As a case in point, and as a direct attack on the great stuffy condescension of the traditional publishing industry, it's interesting to me that the quality of the average product shipped by the industry has become worse even as printing, publishing and binding technology has improved.

I consider the activity of locking technology such that the owner does not have the key (DRM on hardware / software) to be a direct attack on property rights (IE: a form of «theft», that should be made clearly illegal — not legalised or legally protected).

What Malloy and the legislature did was a direct attack on public education under the guise of raising standards.

Reclaiming the Teaching Profession gives educators and their allies a clear overview of the massive effort to dismantle public education in the United States, which includes a direct attack on teachers.

«It's a direct attack on public education,» said Diane Ravitch, a historian and former Bush administration official who has become one of the most voluble critics of vouchers and charter schools and a proponent of the term privatization.

The bill «has everything with laying the groundwork for the hostile, corporate takeover of public schools throughout Florida, a direct attack on public education,» Senate Democratic Leader Nan Rich of Weston said at a press conference this morning.

Pavlov said he fears what the MCEE is pitching is a «direct attack on tenure reform,» which he sees as a «transformational reform that is working across the state.»

Rather than attacking the obvious bigots, Peele's «I Am Not Your Negro» thriller goes after those who consider themselves liberal, launching a daring direct attack on so many cultural codes long enforced by Hollywood: the white male gaze, the mixed - race couple taboo, the hapless wide - eyed African - American stereotype and the myth that we are somehow living in a post-racial society.

The Howling is a powerful reminder that Chubbuck's death was a direct attack on what she perceived as the sensationalist deterioration of her beloved profession.

What many will not like about the film is the direct attack on Christianity.

Earlier drafts were widely reviled in the scientific community «as a direct attack on [the National Science Foundation's] vaunted system of peer review,» but the latest proposals are less radical.

The article is old, and a very direct attack on Mayor David, but also proposed a means of improving Downtown Binghamton via «outdoor yoga sessions, jazz events on Sunday, and interactive events during First Friday,» none of which existed then or since.

Well of course we all know the MP's who did vote in the free vote against the leader, so this is a direct attack on the leader.

Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has continuously railed against what he calls Washington's direct attack on New York's economy, praised Lowey and King for putting partisanship aside and New York first.

Conservative MP Rob Wilson has launched a direct attack on the Speaker, John Bercow.

«Washington has launched an all - out, direct attack on New York State's economic future,» Cuomo said at his «State of the State» address in Albany.

In a direct attack on the Labour leader's decision to impose a three - line whip ordering his MPs to vote with the Government, Mr Coyle added:

In her most direct attack on Labour leader to date, former challenger claims he has sat back silently amid intimidation complaints

Gallo has blasted the restrictions of fundraising and political activity by the mayor and department heads and limits on contributions by city contractors as a direct attack on his administration.

He said, «I think personally it was unnecessary and I was particularly saddened because former president John Mahama is not an ordinary opposition leader but someone who has occupied the high office of the land before, you can have some of us activist talking that way but when you have the former leader of the country to make such a comment then that was a direct attack on the personality of the sitting president».

«Washington has launched an all - out, direct attack on New York State's economic future,» Cuomo said.

«The horrific rampage in Nice is a direct attack on the universal values our two countries have long championed and upheld,» Cuomo said.

This intimidation and assault on members of this constitutional body is a direct attack on all the people of Kogi State, a criminal act that should not go unchallenged.»

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - New York, called Sessions» decision a «direct attack on patients,» and she's right.

«The Senate GOP are following their national colleagues and enacting Trump - style censorship and a direct attack on the free press,» said Democratic Senate spokesman Mike Murphy.

«The Senate G.O.P. are following their national colleagues and enacting Trump - style censorship and a direct attack on the free press,» said Mike Murphy, a Democratic spokesman.