Sentences with phrase «hostile political climate»

Faced with a hostile political climate, how hard will the White House fight for new rules on pollution?

The drawings and paintings, exhibited together here for the first time, have clear origins in the hostile political climate of the 1970's and the artist's friendship to writer Philip Roth, who produced his own singular menagerie of Nixon commentary.

Apart from the expected revenge and vengeance motivations driving Raiden, the plot revolving around military factions amidst a hostile political climate vying for control is full of the standard twists and turns you'd expect from the mind of creator Hideo Kojima.

The solutions above can help charters grow to the next level of reach and impact in an increasingly hostile political climate.

SOL also represented a community response with sense of urgency to find reachable solutions to pressing issues facing the Latino community, including the hostile political climate, crisis of affordable housing, threats to immigrants rights, low graduation rates and lack of access to higher education, and lack of job opportunities.

Taking place just days after the United States presidential elections, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice seeks to explore how art practitioners can maintain sovereignty over their own voice as world citizens and commentators amidst the pervasively hostile political climates and marginalising forces of conservatism around the globe, in addition to contending with art world prescriptions, cultural impositions and shifting market demands.

Not exact matches

Considering the huge wave of repression happening in Turkey following the failed coup in summer 2016, and the restriction of civil liberties that goes along with a political climate hostile to democracy, I was expecting its democracy index to drop around ~ 2.0 or 3.0.

These same politicians helped create a political climate that was hostile to state interference in corporate affairs.

«In a national political climate that is hostile to public schools, we need a state budget that protects them,» Mulgrew said.

U.S. Reps. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside), Joseph Crowley (D - Jackson Heights), Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria), Gregory Meeks (D - Jamaica), and Anthony Weiner (D - Forest Hills) easily won their races in a political climate that has been hostile to other Democrats across the country.

In a political climate that seems more hostile than ever, Kate Mara and Ellen Page want to prove that even entrenched adversaries can find hope in one another.

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, called vouchers «a huge waste of energy» in an interview in late January, and the political climate is even more hostile for vouchers than it was in 2001.

A Dot Earth reader, J. Connors, reacted to my piece on the post-election prospect for hostile hearings on climate science by posting a spot - on comment about the real threat to such science in the new political climate:

Many EPA staff, he wrote to Administrator Pruitt, «are becoming increasing alarmed about the direction of EPA under your leadership,» citing Pruitt's blatant denial of established climate science, his frequent demonizing of the agency, his decision to bring in political appointees openly hostile to the EPA, his failure to grasp the role of EPA's 10 Regional Offices, and his recommended slashes to the budget that would eliminate important programs that protect major ecosystems and human health.

Other than that, faced with a hostile Congress, he spent no political capital on climate.

But these advancements were tempered by a political climate increasingly hostile to reproductive health care.