Sentences with phrase «even less authority»

The 32 local school boards were replaced by «Community Education Councils» consisting of parents elected by Parent Associations of elementary and middle schools in the community districts and given even less authority on school matters within those districts than the 1996 law.

Not exact matches

A lesser - skilled leader may have seen the London transportation authority's decision as unfair, insulting, maybe even a direct attack on innovation itself.

Federal laws now grant the IRS the authority to agree to settle your debt for less than the actual amount you owe, even if it's a significant amount.

Less cynically, it seems likely that even strict separationist government officials seek the legitimation and acknowledgment of their authority by organized religion.

Sometimes one even has the impression that Protestant authorities will, indeed, ask what Catholics are prepared to do, but are less inclined to say how far they themselves will meet the Catholic side.

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he extracts a tithe of fear.

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

He doesn't pursue dark magic; he isn't contemptuous of authority figures, even if he feels misunderstood by or is impatient with them; he is not consumed with the lust for power, far less with the ultimate goal of that path — rendering oneself immortal without reference to God.

Federalism would also weaken the Libyan central authorities making them even less able to militarily protect vulnerable groups and develop the local connections needed to successfully administer Libya.

When marijuana is legal but heroin is not, and authorities are honest about the relative risks, marijuana consumers are less likely to wish to attempt heroin, and even if they do, it will be more difficult to get by (because marijuana sellers won't be stocking heroin).

«Further we believe that even if the [School Construction Authority] were to adhere to its stated construction schedule and the verbally proposed September 1 move - in dates — less than a week before schools open — it would preclude the schools from setting up operations in time for the 2015 - 2016 school year,» CEC 3's letter stated.

Despite these rather unconvincing findings, authorities continue to suggest that we're consuming too much salt, with the US Food as Drug Administration (FDA) suggesting that we consume less than 2.3 grams per day, and the American Heart Association (AHA) going even further by recommending that we consume no more than 1.5 grams.

Even smaller, less remarkable roles are capably handled by familiar faces: William Daniels («Boy Meets World») strikes authority as the punitive commissioner, Rob Corddry («The Daily Show») is Chazz's smarmy children's ice theatre boss, Luke Wilson plays a counselor at the Colorado Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting, longtime Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter shows up late as a Mountie.

The chief adjudicator maintained that the local authority admissions arrangements for community schools were «almost always clear and uncomplicated», but that those for academies and faith schools were «frequently less clear and more, or even very, complicated».

For one, Malloy is squabbling with fellow Democrats who control the state's legislature; some aren't exactly too pleased with some of Malloy's plans, including the consolidation of the state's community colleges into one system akin to those in Indiana, and are even less pleased with Malloy's success in gaining more authority to cut the state's budget.

When you become an authority in your industry, price even becomes less of a deciding factor.

Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self - made crisis to the next.

complied with the commutation authority by commuting the income stream as much as possible — even if this is less that the amount in the commutation authority, or

There's not much action and even less talk, but the tension between the youths and various authorities plays out in a series of small, riveting gestures.

Our tendency to question authority, even our own teachers, is a stength for American scientists — we are less reticent than Japanese or Germans, for example, to go against the consensus or are academic mentors.

Evidence from the Coal Authority to a 2001 House of Lords Select committee suggested that the UK had even less coal.

Where I'm less certain is about how things could play out regarding ex post redaction / anonymization and a court's capacity to exert authority over the publishable content of a decision even years after the fact.

However, the House of Lords went further and held that even if the reason for the local authority's treatment of the tenant had related to his disability, he had not been treated less favourably than others to whom the reason did not apply.