Sentences with phrase «got wide agreement»

«We should be working on things like tenure reform, where we got wide agreement from all the interested parties,» Greenwald said, «not on expanding on some ideological ground charter schools in areas that aren't served by them.»

There are a few things that I think would get wide agreement from many parties, aside from those entrenched in DC.

Not exact matches

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

The bill has been modified to try to quell concerns in the Assembly Democratic conference that prevented the measure from passing last year despite efforts by a former WNY Democratic senator, Bill Stachowski, to hold up a budget deal in hopes of getting an agreement on what morphed into a SUNY - wide proposal.

Which makes us hopeful that we can get an agreement that takes an important first step toward kicking the fossil - fuel habit on a planet - wide scale.

What I mean by that is that in a criminal case that ends in a conviction, or even in a plea agreement, the prosecutor and a whole host of others get to say what a terrible person or what terrible things the defendant did; and people do line up from far and wide to do that.