Sentences with phrase «fighting against the alternative»

We are fighting against the Alternative Vote hard; we have excellent candidates in the local elections, a superb mayoral candidate in popular local councillor Ross Grant, and a brilliant parliamentary candidate shortlist.

Not exact matches

But the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler offers an alternative — and in our view, more credible — explanation for why the administration edited down the talking points, suggesting that the emails reveal a «bureaucratic knife fight» that pitted the State Department against the CIA.

Marlboro - maker Philip Morris International (PMI), which is trying to kick the cigarette habit in favor of «smoke - free» alternatives, has pledged almost $ 1 billion to the fight against traditional burn - based smoking.

Puritanism, then, did more than offer an alternative articulation of social values for seventeenth - century England even as it did more than provide parallel support to common lawyers in their fight against traditionalism.

Anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam in favor of another religion shall be «put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off alternative sides» (Sura 5:34).

Those who fight against Pentecostalism, whether they are politicians or clergy, do so because they fear competition for influence in civil society or because they realize that Pentecostalism represents an alternative to the present political order.

The Nigeria Labour Congress National Executive Council is also meeting tomorrow and we have invitation to also attend the meeting and that is why today we have taken our position and there is no doubt that we are also going to fight for that reversal and we are not stopping on just reversal to N86.50 k, we are also going to further our struggle against the deregulation policy, against the privatization policy and the need for a political alternative and that is where we are going.

«When you see people choosing not to fight and choosing to go toward the alternative, it removes a large part of the ability to fight against disease because there are fewer people going into clinical trials,» he said.

Hawkins was polling 9 % statewide even before a widely - praised debate performance, and has earned endorsements from a spectrum of people and organizations, including Ralph Nader, Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, education analyst Diane Ravitch, and former Mobil Oil VP - turned - renewable energy activist Lou Allstadt; as well as Albany weekly paper Metroland, 6 teachers» unions, 6 Democratic Party clubs, Socialist Alternative, and a number of groups leading the fight against school privatization, such as United Opt Out and the New York Badass Teacher Association.

Feldman, chief of breast surgery at Columbia University Medical Center, who works with Keyes and operated on Ballas, says that after watching his sister use alternative therapies like nutrition and meditation during her fight against breast cancer, he became more open to having a Reiki master on his surgical team.

Dr. Mary Newport writes about ketone bodies, an alternative fuel for your brain which your body makes when digesting coconut oil, and how coconut oil may offer profound benefits in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.

So perhaps, if politicians were so concerned about the opioid epidemic as they seem to be, they might want to investigate marijuana as a safer alternative, rather than continuing to fight a losing battle against it.

The Winston Society — or «Winsoc,» in Orwell's newspeak — played on these associations in constructing the wiki as a space for classroom teachers to join the likes of Winston Smith and «fight big brother» — that is, work against NCLB and its test - based accountability measures — and cultivate alternative visions for education that involved more progressive politics and pedagogies.

With these cards, you put together a deck of sorts and fight online either against other players or CPU versions of other players in a single - player alternative.

DoA has always sold because there were no alternatives, it arrives before any better fighting games come out but now it's up against one of the most respected fighting games out there.

Low fossil fuel prices tend to hurt the economic viability of low - carbon energy alternatives, and thus are generally regarded as a negative development in the fight against climate change.

Decarbonizing our energy systems by encouraging greater usage of alternative energy — a frequent topic of this column — is one of the common themes in the fight against rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative in the fight against drug trafficking, migratory agriculture, and poverty.

But at the same time as we ramp up alternatives, we need to step up the fight against the forces actively making the climate crisis worse.

Between 1968 and 1973 the association fought a string of battles against censorship in Vancouver, including attempts by the city licensing inspector to shut down various local theatre productions, and attacks on the Georgia Straight (a popular alternative paper founded in 1967) for obscenity.

Last week, we posted about how there are lots of foreclosure alternatives out there for Florida home owners fighting against losing their homes — and how alternatives to foreclosure aren't all the same for everyone and how there are many ways to deal with a foreclosure.