Sentences with phrase «even as political leaders»

Even as political leaders in both red and blue states continue to back away from the standards — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the latest example — the hottest battles have shifted to the local level, where education officials are staging public revolts against state and federal mandates to administer Common Core exams.

There is new evidence that the country's opioid epidemic may be waning, even as political leaders from Trump to Gov. Andrew Cuomo warn of a worsening crisis.

Not exact matches

Our goal, even more than collecting data, was to make students think of administrators like political leaders — as figures who can be challenged and even given the heave - ho.

OR, maybe some, even just a few, will start to recognize that Progressives / Liberals are more in line w / the teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the Four Gospels & that their Religous / Political leaders are Modern Day Pharisees.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

Even former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, one of the most articulate Christian political leaders, seemed uncomfortable as he fielded questions from moderator Tim Russert that hinted there is something nefarious about religious groups receiving government funds for programs that serve the public.

Richard's political interests and abilities were called forth, while he was still a pastor in Williamsburg, during the 1960s, in his participation in the civil - rights movement and, even more so, as a leader in the antiwar movement.

As the news will support, even ostensibly responsible and media - conscious political leaders need some more guidance with appropriate versus inappropriate electronic media usage.

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

How could Party leaders be consistent with the values (fiscal restraint, social conservatism — e.g., high moral code) they have professed for 30 years and nominate someone with zero performance in reducing expenditures even on a local level, someone tainted by giving and receiving political favors as a Commissioner on the Port Authority, and someone linked for 20 years by business and marriage to mobster activities?

Following the example of other distinguished political scientists such as Azar Gat and Francis Fukuyama [2], Brown even extends the analysis of leadership back to pre-historic times analysing its emergence in earlier forms of social organization such as egalitarian hunter - gatherer societies noting that with increased community size came the rise of authoritarian chiefdoms, arguably the first true political leaders (pp. 40 - 2).

As Austrian political analyst Thomas Hofer stated: ¨ even if he [Kern] didn't know, it's a bad situation for him -LRB-...) this is damaging his credibility as a leader.&raquAs Austrian political analyst Thomas Hofer stated: ¨ even if he [Kern] didn't know, it's a bad situation for him -LRB-...) this is damaging his credibility as a leader.&raquas a leader.»

Even as they question whether the deal struck by their erstwhile power - sharing partner, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, with his former Democratic colleagues will stick, the Senate Republicans are seeking to turn Klein's abandonment to their political advantage.

James will even do one course on how to be a political leader, but he'll be as far away from Westminster as can be.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos has held onto power following corruption charges, even as some fellow Republicans have said he should step down as leader to avoid a political distraction.

Still, his uneasy history with gay leaders reflects some of the baggage that Mr. Cuomo carries from decades of political battle, even as he seeks to re-introduce himself to the electorate.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

Ed Miliband, who enjoyed some of his strongest moments as Labour leader when the phone - hacking on Milly Dowler story broke, seemed far more enthusiastic and even victorious as he gave a speech which poured praise on his own political opponents, including Cameron and Nick Clegg.

The remark referenced the former blue - ribbon panel that Cuomo created in 2013 under the state's Moreland Act — before abruptly pulling the plug as it was targeting political donors, even as it gathered incriminating evidence against then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Even people who don't want to use the phrase «global warming» or «climate crisis» are finding new ways to express what they feel with their own senses, and they're responding to political leaders who are using facts as a basis for new policies.

And it would help do both by giving state policymakers more ownership of (and therefore more pride in) the mundane work of everyday governance, even as it redirected the attention and the self - regard of national political leaders toward national questions.

Even if all the evidence suggested that a school wasn't succeeding, local residents and political leaders may prefer to preserve what they view as an important neighborhood institution.

Often used for explicitly political or even propagandistic purposes, such as the socialist realism used to prop up the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union, or Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous...

Admittedly, a sexy, expensive loss - leader on wheels, even in low production numbers, may be a great marketing idea, and valuable in the political sense as well, but gosh, didn't anyone care about content?