Sentences with phrase «ideological attacks on»

These ideological attacks on women do not save taxpayers money, and will instead undermine the positive impact of U.S. programs overseas.

The pick has fueled concerns that the incoming administration will pursue the same kind of ideological attacks on clean energy that have impacted Ohio.

Dinges's book is not an ideological attack on Pinochet but a fair, balanced, painstakingly researched piece of historical journalism.

Dave Moxham of the Scottish Trades Union Congress told the committee that the bill was an «ideological attack on the trade union movement».

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And the NDP tried to move a motion to get Bill C - 27 withdrawn, because they sailed a conspiracy theory that somehow there was a conflict of interest with a bill that they opposed for ideological reasons, in order to come at a different angle of attack on it.

The most recent attack on on Arendt, linking her directly not only to a romantic but an ideological affiliation with Martin Heidegger and Nazism is contained in Ron Rosenbaum, «The Evil of Banality: Troubling New Revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.»

A new wave of particularists» many of them Christian» has renewed the attack on ideological universalisms.

Afghanistan, where all the planning for the attack on September 11 allegedly was undertaken, was a clear case of a victim in the geo - political and ideological struggles of the contemporary world.

Then on the other hand I see more vociferous ideological attacks against women.

«An ideological experiment out of control»: Tristram Hunt uses Islamic free school in opening attack on Michael Gove

Its response to the coalition's consultation on proposals to allow same - sex couples to marry in the same way as heterosexual couples attacks ministers for pursuing the reform «for essentially ideological reasons» and concludes doing so would be «deeply unwise».

Low - income kids and their families are the biggest losers in the attacks on public schools, but there are winners in the ideological assault: new for - profit companies that run charter schools, private and religious academies that now receive taxpayer funding and sketchy online institutions that are raking in state dollars.

A lot of parents have had kids in charter schools by now, and the global attack on the principle comes across as simply ill - informed and ideological.

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

Lindzen (1990); Kerr (1989b); «stuck with a role,» quoted Grossman (2001); Lindzen has been accused of obfuscation, taking extreme ideological positions, and unjust ad hominem attacks, see e.g., Gelbspan (1997), pp. 49 - 54, but the accusation that Lindzen has been in the pay of industry is based only on lecture fees that Lindzen received.

APPG on Legal Aid meets to discuss the reforms to judicial review: An «ideological» attack on the rights of ordinary people

Social conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Instead, they are putting their efforts on an ideological attack designed to score political points.