Sentences with phrase «hand against the interests»

They're both working hand in hand against the interests of the employees / dues - paying union members.

Not exact matches

A Christian, he has been interested in the science and religion debate, arguing against the Intelligent Design school on the one hand and materialism on the other.

Given his ability and what he showed for Wales when handed a prominent role in a team, it's no surprise that Stoke and Swansea were interested, while it's also not a shock that he opted against merely being a squad player next season.

What is more problematic is that women's lack of assertiveness — whether it is socially constructed or natural — could also affect their capacity, on one hand, to express their needs and interests and, on the other, to fight against the disadvantages that directly touch them.

On the other hand, perhaps figures like John Reid were not being so foolish when they suggested Labour needed a stronger message on immigration and «aspiration» — that counter-intuitive code word for getting the poor to vote against their economic interests.

And when key decisions are at hand, we'll light up the Wall to let politicians who side with powerful interests against clean energy do so at their own peril.

Time and time again the Labour party has voted against the Welsh national interest, has failed to empower our National Assembly with additional powers and responsibilities, and has instead chosen to keep power in the hands of the Westminster elite.

The Governor got the Senate Democratic Conference and the Democratic Assembly Members to vote against their own community interests and against themselves, while on the other hand, the Governor created his own, private, HUGE Member Items — or should I say, Governor Items and Governor Capital Funds for his disposal, making everyone believe that he did away with the system — and in the process, using the Democrats as rubber stamps.

If the characters were dull, maybe this would be less of a problem, but those on hand are legitimately interesting and watchable, well cast, and well performed (including new additions Anthony Mackie, as war veteran Sam Wilson, Robert Redford, cannily cast - against - type as World Security Council head Alexander Pierce, and Emily VanCamp as S.H.I.E.L.D's Agent 13, though she's admittedly underused).

Whether my loan will be treated as started in the year 2013, since TECHNICALLY I was allotted a flat 2013 and its possession will be handed over in 2016, so technically the flat will be given to me in 3 years's period, that is there to get the interest rebated paid against the home loan.

By keeping honest with your cash on hand you won't be borrowing against your future to deal with high interest credit card debt.

Exactly how she'll handle it is an interesting question point; she's been showing signs of wanting to fight back against her own lack of agency, and facing such horror at the hands of a man she must now call husband could be the spark she needs, as we just discussed.

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

«Between, on the one hand, the public interest in encouraging frankness on the part of witnesses (particularly parents) in proceedings relating to children (a public interest buttressed by s 98 (2) itself) and, on the other, the public interest in ensuring the prosecution of those who commit serious offences against children — comes down firmly in favour of the public interest in encouraging frankness.»

Emily became interested in actions against the police work during her training in criminal defence, having seen first hand the issues that can arise for people treated improperly by those within the justice system.

On the other hand, Ontario's court system is plagued by delay (which has many causes) and it is against the public interest to allow litigants to take potshots against the province.

On the other hand, for the Wife to release her interest in the Property to the Husband in exchange for the monetary judgment she seeks against him may be problematic since she may never recover on the judgment against her Husband.

On the one hand, professional associations and trade unions are launching legal challenges against policies seen as threatening their members» interests.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.