Sentences with phrase «eroding support»

Washington state lawmakers failed their responsibility to the state's students by eroding support for education, writes Seattle teacher Jesse Hagopian.

But the Majority's willingness to walk away from bipartisanship in order to appease their own most ideologically driven Members, risks eroding support for NASA in general.

► «Even as the practice of science becomes ever more advanced, the observations more precise, and the applications more prevalent, there are signs of public misapprehension, distrust, and eroding support,» wrote Rush Holt, the new chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, in this week's editorial.

But a conference in which your actions, in spite of your good intentions, simultaneously succeeded in fuelling the Blairite determination to get rid of you and in further eroding your support in the party whilst failing to reassure the public about your leadership capabilities.

In a sign of eroding support for Skelos, half his Republican colleagues did not sign a letter of support issued by his office late Wednesday.

Via response data, activists can find the right messages for each audience and put them in front of the right eyeballs day after day, hopefully eroding his support and firing up his opposition over many months.

Osborne's cuts are eroding the support for disabled people, which is completely out of kilter with public opinion.

This is another sign of the eroding support for prospective mothers and their babies.

President Cristina Fernandez's Peronist party is facing a tough battle to elect her successor as 30 percent inflation, a restriction on dollar purchases and a stubborn refusal to settle with creditors from its 2001 default erode support.

The threat of a rising budget deficit could erode support for the plan among lawmakers in Trump's own Republican Party.

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Republican frontrunner has 43 % support in New York's 21st Congressional District; challenger strategy is to erode support more

Republican frontrunner has 43 % support in New York's 21st Congressional District; challenger strategy is to erode support

Union members» growing distrust of the school board and administration, which began over a separate issue, further eroded support for the plan, according to Taylor.

That's not surprising, since California has not experienced the backlash against the math and reading standards that has eroded support elsewhere.

Likewise, although funding disparities among school districts may be unjust, removing local fiscal incentives may alienate suburban taxpayers and erode their support for public education.

It's eroded support from virtually all aspects of the political spectrum.»

Historically, this uncertainty has eroded support for implementing climate - change policies, but that may soon change — and dramatically so.

Not exact matches

Bain study co-author Julie Coffman found that scarce female role models in senior positions and limited support from supervisors eroded aspirations among mid-level women.

Mexico's Ambassador in Washington Geronimo Gutierrez has said a termination clause would erode business confidence in the region, while his Canadian counterpart has said the Trump administration probably wouldn't find much domestic support for the proposal.

In his last major TV appearance before the German election, Social Democrats leader Martin Schulz has warned that Merkel's conservatives could erode social support systems.

Weak profitability could erode banks» buffers over time and undermine their ability to support growth.

Once you start taking away SS from people who have paid a lifetime in taxes, support for the program as a whole will erode.

Financial markets have not reacted to the latest fall in Abe's support as many investors think he can survive, as he did last year when the cronyism scandals eroded his ratings.

Ellis told the Assembly that his party «unequivocally support GSAs» but he believed the bill «deliberately or unwittingly erodes parental rights.»

Although the broad market still has several key support levels just below (as of yesterday's close), overall technical market conditions continue to erode.

(CNN)- Republicans jumped on the Democrats» Tuesday loss of the congressional seat given up by disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner as a sign of eroding Jewish support for President Barack Obama and his party.

It is true that when we enter into society we give up the right to retributive justice at the personal level, but if the state ignores the retributive aspect of justice in its application in society, support for that society will erode, as will respect for it laws.

The overall objective of U.S - sponsored terrorism in Nicaragua was to erode popular support from a revolution whose commitment to improving the living standards of the poor was unacceptable to the empire.

Hence, they tend to advocate policies that support the behavior they call «rational» even though it erodes or destroys human community.

Without concrete data to substantiate the value of a «presence», judicatory support eroded.

The crucial ecology of institutions — community, public school, home and church — which once unconsciously supported the church school and made it viable has eroded.

Shayne Lee, a sociology professor at Tulane University in Louisiana and an authority on televangelists, said Long's out of court settlement may erode some of his support.

If the welfare state needs individual citizens who can sustain a sense of obligation to strangers; if individuals, in order to develop a capacity for empathy and cooperation, need families; if families, in order to function effectively, need supporting communities of various sorts; and if communities are being eroded under present conditions, we may need to break out of the standard liberal and conservative frameworks.

Assuming that disabled people will always be among us, that the proliferation of genetic testing will strengthen the perception that the prevention of disability is a matter of responsible reproductive behavior, and that society is therefore entitled to hold people personally responsible for having a disabled child, it is not unlikely that political support for the provision of their special needs will erode.

What dissenters in the Church often fail to understand is that, while secular intellectuals may use them to help erode popular support for Christianity, they do not respect them at all.

In the process, the institutional supports for Catholic intellectual life have themselves been eroded; colleges have been closing their doors, and most of those that survive face an uncertain future.

Despite this, today a majority of the Irish public supports Kenny's bill, swayed by the Savita case» not to mention other factors chipping away at the pro-life position for years, like the eroding influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

To call for an evangelical countermovement that might penetrate ecumenical ranks would have eroded ecumenical support for the crusades.

I suspect there are many, like myself, whose spiritual support networks have eroded as they've left them, been excluded from them, etc. who would find the fee worthwhile if convinced there's something meaningful happening in the big tent that we can't see and join in on for free in the parking lot.

«Now this action further erodes historical support for rules - based trade policies, even though China will likely bring a case against the tariffs within the WTO dispute settlement process.

He's afraid, as are many, many U.K. NFL fans, that supporting an eight - game schedule featuring the same possibly bad home team would erode ticket sales and ultimately fail.

The normalization of exclusive pumping could have major societal implications: It may erode societal support for breastfeeding, for example.

As a Council, we are appalled at some individuals within the ruling party, including a sitting Member of Parliament, whose tacit support and actions seems to be providing oxygen for these criminal elements to carry out these acts of impunity, having the potential of not only casting a slur on their own party leadership and government but undermining the authority of the Presidency, thus eroding the confidence and goodwill that Ghanaians have reposed in the new administration.

Romney has been ahead in the polls there lately, but his support is eroding and as recently as December, Gingrich had a solid lead.

If they didn't need to do that, they might find that without constant effort, their bipartisan political support might erode.

Truth is many on the left, both professionally in the party and socially via the vote, supported section 28, believe homosexual practice to be wrong, thinks the EU erodes their freedom not enhances it, and finds state - funded baby - killing to be a poor indicator of a supposedly «civilised» society: whatever the middle - class metropolitan «progressives» might sneeringly say.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco hasn't had the greatest week, watching support for his bid to challenge Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the Republican line slowly erode as GOP leaders line up behind on a potential rival who hasn't even announced his candidacy yet, Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

A week that U.S. Senate Republicans had hoped would mobilize conservatives and shore up support for their measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act instead ended with eroding enthusiasm, as usually reliable Republican senators from red states blanched at its impact on rural communities.

There's the plan, nice and neat: Simply refuse to allow the movement to grow, dampening pressure from parents who want their own kids to be a part of it — while counting on funding disparities to erode the charters» ability to compete in the market for good teachers and support staff.