Sentences with phrase «general attack on»

Described as an effort to «take back the legal system» from those who would clog the courts with what Rooke describes as «pseudo legal commercial arguments», this story has been pitched in many quarters as a general attack on self represented litigants, described as «vexatious litigants».

One does not have to favour deceit, or to fail to condemn those who take more than their share to recognize that the wrong doing of these few has become a thinly veiled excuse for a general attack on the Senate as an institution both by Stephen Harper and by Tom Mulcair.

Supporters of the police bureau organized a counter-protest, not because they were marching for racism but because they interpreted the anger over the Tompkins shooting as a general attack on law enforcement.

In this political climate only organizing a strong rank and file base with deep community ties will effectively combat corporate education reform and the general attack on the working class.

«It is also a general attack on scientific advances aiming to meet one of the world's biggest challenges - providing safe and nutritious food for a growing global population, whilst reducing the environmental impact of production.»

The Swiss vote was part of a general attack on corporate largesse in Europe, where government austerity has fed a desire to limit Wall Street - style excess in corporate boardrooms.

For example, you should be able to screen your personal information from others online both at the web site and from general attacks on your privacy.

Not exact matches

* China has been incensed by new U.S. law on ties with Taiwan (Adds comments by retired Chinese general on attack plans)

When the Russia investigation began picking up steam last summer, so did Trump's attacks on his hand - picked attorney general, whom he called «weak» and «beleaguered» in a string of tweets.

Two IDF soldiers were killed on January 28 in a retaliatory attack by Hezbollah, but Iranian leaders have hinted Tehran may still attack Israel over the general's death.

In Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal was focused on one thing: devising the best plan of attack.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

A spokeswoman for Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said on Thursday that it would investigate the latest attack.

The president last week attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter over his refusal to corroborate a conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement was undermining Trump.

Negative conditions in the general economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from financial and credit market fluctuations and terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe or elsewhere, could cause a decrease in corporate spending on enterprise software in general and slow down the rate of growth of our business.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May condemned the attack in a statement outside Downing Street early Sunday, and vowed that the country's general election would take place as scheduled on June 8, although both of the main political parties would suspend campaigning for the day.

Today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee and faced tough questions from both sides about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia's attack on our 2016 election.

(ii) Accredited crowdfunding platforms locked and loaded, ready to attack the startup market the day the ban on general solicitation and advertising is lifted: seedinvest, earlyshares, crowdfunder, wefunder, confidentcrowd, and myriads of others.

A spokesman for the UN Secretary - General Ban Ki Moon said: «The Secretary - General is alarmed by the preliminary findings of a fact finding investigation by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) into the attack on Hotel Terrain in Juba on 11 July, in which one person was killed and several civilians were raped and brutally beaten by men in uniform.

They are going too far with their attacks on people of faith and our society in general.

In 1963, General Ivan Agayants, the famous chief of the KGB's disinformation department, told us that «Seat - 12» [the code name for the campaign] had materialised into a powerful play attacking Pope Pius XII, entitled The Deputy, an oblique reference to the pope as Christ's representative on earth.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

On top of that, the same right - wing cons who praise capitalism as the reason that millions of people have, truthfully, found a way out of poverty, support politicians who keep wages stagnated, attack the very CONCEPT of a minimum wage despite the skyrocketing inflation and general cost of living, and support one war after another that makes a handful of people VERY rich while millions suffer, and thousands of troops come home with no legs (and thus, lose their jobs and often never recover).

They should have been ready: when the Times, for instance, ran a piece headlined «critics attack Pope for his «myopic» views on condoms», their reporters had to fall back on old general statements on condoms, rather than having a vigorous defence against the latest attacks, based oncurrent scientific literature, to quote.

It's a bigoted attack on other religions and the human condition in general.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Assuming that you mean the mall attack in Kenya, other than a general desire for a less violent world, what has that got to do with America's war on terrorism?

Samad Afridi Ashraf Ahmad Shabbir Ahmad (45 years old; Windows on the World; leaves wife and 3 children) Umar Ahmad Azam Ahsan Ahmed Ali Tariq Amanullah (40 years old; Fiduciary Trust Co.; ICNA website team member; leaves wife and 2 children) Touri Bolourchi (69 years old; United Airlines # 175; a retired nurse from Tehran) Salauddin Ahmad Chaudhury Abdul K. Chowdhury (30 years old; Cantor Fitzgerald) Mohammad S. Chowdhury (39 years old; Windows on the World; leaves wife and child born 2 days after the attack) Jamal Legesse Desantis Ramzi Attallah Douani (35 years old; Marsh & McLennan) SaleemUllah Farooqi Syed Fatha (54 years old; Pitney Bowes) Osman Gani Mohammad Hamdani (50 years old) Salman Hamdani (NYPD Cadet) Aisha Harris (21 years old; General Telecom) Shakila Hoque (Marsh & McLennan) Nabid Hossain Shahzad Hussain Talat Hussain Mohammad Shah Jahan (Marsh & McLennan) Yasmeen Jamal Mohammed Jawarta (MAS security) Arslan Khan Khakwani Asim Khan Ataullah Khan Ayub Khan Qasim Ali Khan Sarah Khan (32 years old; Cantor Fitzgerald) Taimour Khan (29 years old; Karr Futures) Yasmeen Khan Zahida Khan Badruddin Lakhani Omar Malick Nurul Hoque Miah (36 years old) Mubarak Mohammad (23 years old) Boyie Mohammed (Carr Futures) Raza Mujtaba Omar Namoos Mujeb Qazi Tarranum Rahim Ehtesham U. Raja (28 years old) Ameenia Rasool (33 years old) Naveed Rehman Yusuf Saad Rahma Salie & unborn child (28 years old; American Airlines # 11; wife of Michael Theodoridis; 7 months pregnant) Shoman Samad Asad Samir Khalid Shahid (25 years old; Cantor Fitzgerald; engaged to be married in November) Mohammed Shajahan (44 years old; Marsh & McLennan) Naseema Simjee (Franklin Resources Inc.'s Fiduciary Trust) Jamil Swaati Sanober Syed Robert Elias Talhami (40 years old; Cantor Fitzgerald) Michael Theodoridis (32 years old; American Airlines # 11; husband of Rahma Salie) W. Wahid

With the NATO bombing of Serbia in its fourth week and facing the prospect of failure, General William Odom, former director of the U.S. National Security Agency, published an essay in the Wall Street Journal urging the ground invasion of Serbia via Hungary: a high «speed armored ground assault charging down through open country in Hungary to attack Serbia from the north while on its southern flank the country is fighting assorted anti «Serbian forces and pockets of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

If this suffices to show the general plausibility of Hartshorne's position, as I interpret it, let us consider next some recent attacks on that position.

In the United States, expenditures on the poor along with pro-labor policies in general have been under attack.

Maybe the most obvious warning sign was the attack on General Eric Shinseki, who had suggested that an Iraq invasion would require a force of several hundred thousand American troops over a period of several years.

Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U.S., died at age ninety, and Victor Navasky, editor of The Nation, memorializes him on the op - ed page of the New York Times by attacking J. Edgar Hoover, who believed that Hall was an agent of the Soviet Union, which he was.

No; the prudent general knows not only when to be on the defensive, but also when to attack, and does not delay the moment of doing so.

In 2007 the Committee used the same justification to attack Honduras» restrictive abortion laws, recommending «that the State party consider reviewing the law relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which abortion could be permitted, such as therapeutic abortions and abortions in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, and removing punitive provisions imposed on women who undergo abortion, in line with the Committee's general recommendation 24...»

Ending a three - day visit to the country on Sunday, the UN's Under - Secretary - General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, criticised «the breakdown in law and order and the attacks against Muslims and their property», in a statement.

Merson Wright Robson or anyone who has an axe to grind with Arsenal is at it I don't give a shit what they think I support th club and team in general if they play shit we have had more success then most teams Thy seem to Laud spuds but the fukers win nothing they won 2 trophies in 30 yeas but I don't see the media others pulling them up on it like we had when we didn't win anything for 10 years There is definitely an agenda in the media against Arsenal and its sadly spearheaded by ex Arsenal players So I say when they ubfairly attack the club and our existing players they are fair game for retribution from the real fans who lives be the club and will support it through thick and thin.

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

Still, on this basis, with so many quality attacking players all ticking together so fluently, that never looked like happening in this game and may be less of a problem in general from now on.

Xhaka is neither an attacking nor defensive midfielder... Ramsey on the other hand is no midfield general... their replacements on the other hand El Neny and Coquelin are simply hopeless and not top 4 quality leave alone title winning quality so... I don't know but we need a clear out.

After seeing England outwitted time and time again by more accomplished nations on the international stage (see: the 2010 World Cup where a maths student helped plot England's 4 - 1 defeat to the Germans), a dogged midfield general with the tactical nous to snuff out opposition attacks before they've even happened is something the English national team so badly need.

The fight to implement the IRR took a huge blow on December 6 when Assistant Solicitor General Nestor J. Ballocillo, the government attorney who was defending the regulations from PHAP attacks, was murdered along with his son Benedict on the way to work.

This deal is a general plus for both Cuomo and Dean, regardless of what the imbecilic troglodytes at the Post think, and no one cares about hypocrasy on tax issues unless you disagree with the results — for example, if you promise to do something unpopular and instead do something popular, no one attacks you for the hypocrasy of said action, because the result is popular.

Ibrahim Mahama has been on the receiving end of vicious attacks and intense criticism especially from members of the New Patriotic Party and the general public.

He asserted that, Mr. Anyidoho simply flew off the handle and run amok, launching blistering verbal attacks on anyone he perceived to be anti-government, and so wondered why he's suddenly gone on hibernation from the public view just a week after the general polls.

Mr Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito was, in a telephone interview on the show, explaining a press statement he had released calling on the President, Nana Akufo - Addo to disband the NPP's vigilante group, Invincible Forces which has been accused of perpetrating some attacks on NDC members after the change of government.

ISIS is quite happy with the status quo of Israel attacking, or at least putting pressure on, their main tactical enemies (Shia block in general, in the personification of Hezbollah).

Consequent on the Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris NPM, mni, deployment of high - powered Police Investigation Team, Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), Three (3) units of Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Anti-Robbery equipment to Kwara State to carryout discreet investigation into the banks robbery, prevent further attacks and bring perpetrators to justice; the high - powered Police Investigation Team deployed in synergy with the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department have arrested the Nine (9) above mentioned Armed Robbers directly involved in the Banks Robbery and attack on a Police Station in Offa, Kwara State.

Addressing the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union annual conference in Bridlington, Ronnie Draper — General Secretary of the BFAWU told delegates that attacks on the NHS from the Tory led government were born out of resentment for achievements under the 1945 post war Labour administration.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB, replied: «Can I express complete support for the call for opposition to the disgraceful and immoral attacks on access to education which these latest fee rates represent?