Sentences with phrase «general opposition»

The confidence comes from the fact that they are already in place despite general opposition to them.

A spokesman for the Labor Department, Cullen Burnell, said the department's recollection was that the meetings with the taxi workers group centered on general opposition to the ride - hailing industry rather than on the commission issue.

Take Indiana, for example, where uproar over the move to replace its highly - lauded standards with those of Common Core (along with general opposition from movement conservatives at the vanguard of fighting Common Core) led to the state's move in April to halt official roll - out of the standards.

General Opposition Letters to the Beacon Journal's editor seem to fall almost exclusively in the opposition camp (though, to be fair, I did not do a rigorous comparison).

Whatever be the case, the bottomline is that Musk is unwavered as of now, regarding the general opposition he may be facing due to his political affiliations.

First, it called for a general opposition to unilateral sanctions, an alternative wording to refer to US - led sanctions against Iran.

Nevertheless, the Bloomberg administration's decision to push Empire Stores developer Don Capoccia to use all union labor on the project's construction struck many observers as unusual, given Bloomberg's general opposition to imposing those sorts of requirements on unwilling developers, his unwillingness in the past several years to subsidize retail projects, and Capoccia's longstanding preference for running an open shop.

Given Trump's general opposition to criminal justice reform, the antipathy among Republicans and many conservative reformers to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has championed Obama's efforts), and the skepticism among so - called conservative reformers (most - notably Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and his amen corner at Education Next) on school discipline reform, expect nothing more after January.

Considering the general opposition to the plan from civil rights - based reformers and teachers» union affiliates alike, as well as the lack of incentive on the part of their puppets, California Gov. Jerry Brown and Supt. Tom Torlakson, to defend their plan, the CORE districts can find their efforts stymied before the new school year is over.

Indeed, a recent report found that opt out was largely driven by a general opposition to standardized testing and its use in evaluating teachers and schools, which is undoubtedly exacerbated by these testing troubles.

The basis for Arte Povera was furnished by the political protest movements of the late 60s — student revolts and civil rights efforts, and a general opposition to consumerism and the increasing commercialisation of the art world.

One explanation, they found, may have more to do with conservatives» general opposition to the most popular solution — increasing government regulation — than with any difference in fear of the climate change problem itself, as some have proposed.

I challenge all who, like me, have doubts about one or another aspect of the conventional consensus regarding catastrophic unprecedented anthropogenic global climate change to see our mission as changing Mr Connolley's mind on that topic; not destroying his general opposition.

This lack of initiative is due in part to a general opposition to conducing justice and dispute resolution processes through technology.