Sentences with phrase «guard action»

Traditional book publishers were caught off guard by the explosion in ebooks and have been fighting a rear guard action for several years now.

Special interest groups are fighting rear guard actions, often based on misrepresentation of government policy.

As the 1990s progressed and the rear - guard action against restrictions on smoking faded, The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition started receiving funds from Exxon (among other oil companies) and its «junk science» website began to carry material attacking climate change science.

The reason: much of the past 10 years has been squandered fighting rear guard actions by fossil fuel interests denigrating scientific reality, Now that two of America's biggest coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, things may change.

If Arsenal qualify top 4 in the league it will be hailed as a brilliant rear guard action motivated by the greatest Arsenal manager ever.

For one thing I expect Chelsea to play a rear guard action while trying to break away and hit us on the counter attack.

Traditional publishers still serve a number of important purposes, including discovery and professional content curation (or editing, as we like to call it)-- but I think they are also fighting a rear - guard action aimed at protecting their control over the distribution channels through which writers reach an audience, and it's not clear to me that this is ultimately a good thing for anyone but the publishers themselves.

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Meanwhile, the Solar Energy Industries Association will fight a rear - guard action in Washington, D.C. to preserve the most precious TLAs (three - letter acronyms): ITC, DOE and EPA.

It's not that stratigraphers want to fight a rear - guard action against the realities of human influence on the planet, added Whitney Autin, a geologist at the State University of New York, Brockport, who has criticized the Anthropocene's stratigraphic credentials.

It's getting to the point now that, far from feeling like I am on the front lines battling dogma and superst.ition, I feel like I am mopping up the remaining pockets of resistance to logic and reason in a boring rear guard action.

The S.E.C. is engaged in a rear - guard action to minimize the harm from provisions in the act that it opposed, like crowdsourcing.

Catholicism, for them, is not a reactionary, rear - guard action.

Despite that, the more fervent Remainers continue to fight a deluded rear - guard action.

What was referred to as the «pro-Golden-Hill» faction fought a rear - guard action to keep the county in the Ulster nursing - home business, but fell short of a majority by three votes last week.

The leader of this rear - guard action is Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who was an assistant secretary of education in the administration of George H.W. Bush.

A challenge from Richie Stanaway in the # 99 entry forced Gavin to play a rear - guard action and the chase continued for laps on end, with James Calado joining the fray and creating an gripping three - way, sprint race - style dogfight that captivated the television cameras.

These intransigent leaders at the Climate Change Conference evidently became so isolated from the family of humanity at the end of the last day of meetings that their unilateral, morally offensive «rear - guard action» in defense of selfish, irresponsible national aims crumbled, as is common with such unsavory efforts.

The old companies of that system are fighting a strong rear - guard action to prevent change from happening.

It seems that the alarmism issued by the likes of Adam, Stern, and the conference organisers» six statements represent a bizarre rear - guard action, not against prevailing forces of inaction, but their own blindness, and their own redundancy.