Sentences with phrase «fierce public battle»

In 2011, after a fierce public battle, Gov. Scott Walker and the state Legislature passed Act 10, which stripped public employee unions of most of their collective bargaining rights.

Not exact matches

So, this is not entirely a shock, although I'm told the competition for HTC's nod was fierce, with both Assembylman Richard Brodsky (who fought for a labor nod in the public authorities reform bill) and Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice battling extremely hard for the endorsement.

The statement signed by Col Onyeama Nwachukwu, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations continued, «Troops dislodged the insurgents from their hideout after a fierce battle, killing 11 insurgents in Gomaran village of Southern Lake Chad Basin.

And while reading has been the subject of fierce pedagogical battles, «the ideological divisions are not as great on the math side as they are on the literacy side,» said Linda Chen, deputy chief academic officer in the Boston Public Schools.

«This is a battle that has been raging with the Democratic Party for about 20 years but it has today become quite fierce,» said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles.

If this were just an arcane dispute among scientists (such as superstring theory, an area of my own interest where the battles are just as fierce, but largely invisible to the general public), the WSJ would have had no reason to publish Koonin's column.