Sentences with phrase «in opposing the move»

But when moderate Senate Democrats, led by Evan Bayh, D - Ind., whose state is over 92 percent dependent on coal for electricity, joined Republicans in opposing the move, the White House quickly backed off.

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While some investors opposed the move, Xiaomi's decision, four years after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (baba) chose New York, signals a new phase for the city in its ambitions to rival the U.S. market.

The push for extended retail trading hours in Perth is doomed to fail after the Labor opposition decided to oppose the move, joining the Nationals who also oppose change.

Danone had previously sought to raise its stake in Yakult, which makes probiotic and fermented milk drinks, though the Japanese company opposed such a move.

The viciousness of the move was so profound that even the opposing fans stood in appreciation.

China is reportedly moving to avert a trade war, by speeding up the finalization of new rules that would let foreign financial groups take majority stakes in Chinese securities companies, and by offering to buy more semiconductors from the U.S. as opposed to South Korea and Taiwan.

The new policy, in which Unilever is moving to a «fixed pay» structure, was approved by 64.2 percent of the UK group's shareholders, with nearly 35.8 percent opposing it.

He announced an aggressive stock buyback a few months after opposing such a move, provided more details on the 40/20/10 plan first mentioned in June, and recentralized innovation efforts under one executive.

While the potential for an explosive move upwards in those stocks remains a clear possibility because of the political and economic risks in the global economy today, we can not predict — obviously — that such an event is likely to occur «now» as opposed to next week or next year.

As people move up in an organization, they tend to become more focused on management, as opposed to showing leadership in their particular organizational function.

A coalition of conservative states historically opposed to the Affordable Care Act is suing the Trump administration in a move to end the nearly - decade old health law following last year's repeal of Obamacare's individual insurance mandate.

Pretty much everyone took the move as meaning just that, but Xi has now claimed he is «personally opposed» to life - long rule, and the term - limit removal was more about aligning the post of presidency with that of top posts in the Communist Party, which Xi also holds, and which don't come with term limits.

A recent Elon University poll of residents in the finalist cities found that while relatively few residents outright oppose Amazon moving to their city, only 43 percent strongly supported such a move.

SOUTH West communities strongly opposing anti-logging moves, have launched a fight - back campaign to secure their future in the forestry industry.

So, when it got really rough a few times this year at our Kabul office, we could leave everything in Kabul and move those 125 staffers north and have them functioning and operational instantly, as opposed to a week or two.

Allergan Plc's chief executive on Monday said he was opposed to fundamental changes to the drug company's business strategy, even as its board considers drastic moves like splitting the company, selling off assets or doing deals to turn around a steep drop in its share price.

But it is Google that had been caught off guard in the patent battle, being historically and philosophically opposed to gathering them as a defensive or offensive move.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

In recent days, groups like the libertarian think - tank Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Washington - based nonprofit Coin Center have moved to oppose the effort in subsequent filingIn recent days, groups like the libertarian think - tank Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Washington - based nonprofit Coin Center have moved to oppose the effort in subsequent filingin subsequent filings.

In an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle AssociatioIn an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Associatioin Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Association.

He also wants to impose a minimum tax on foreign earnings, a move opposed by multinational corporations and perhaps the most contentious provision in the president's plan.

Opposing moves by the world's major central banks resulted in sharp exchange rate movements.

It is possible the process will highlight pre-existing tensions among the remaining EU members — between those states that believe in moving toward a more deeply integrated, federalist structure, and those largely opposed to further transfers of power from national to regional bodies, preferring to maintain the status quo — and in doing so hasten the move to a so - called «two - speed» EU.

But Republican leaders in Tallahassee continue to oppose such a move, all but ensuring that it will remain an issue for this year's midterm elections.

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.

In both occasions, 34 percent of Americans opposed the move.

Low correlations mean individual securities are moving on their own fundamentals, as opposed to macroeconomic conditions leading all stocks to move in similar ways, as had been the case for years in the post-financial-crisis recovery.

The move placated some but not all the groups who opposed the mandate, and the stigma against the Obama administration in some religious circles remains.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

I remember that in the first term Obama was the one who opposed to gay marriage, and now (that the country has definitely moved towards more «tolerance» to sin), he actively promotes it.

This is just the next step in the US in moving toward equality, and these are just the latest people opposing equality and doing it hiding behind their Bible and Jesus.

In the light of Bible teaching that nobody can be called a murderer or a killer without proof and how God prescribes a fine if a man causes a miscarriage as opposed to anything more severe it is clear that if a woman has an abortion it is not murder for if there is a soul there God moves it elsewhere.

In asserting that «we are moving toward a completely religionless time» and that religion is opposed to being Christian, he declares that we must live as persons who manage our lives in a kind of Christian worldliness, a Christianity without religion, but certainly not Christianity without GoIn asserting that «we are moving toward a completely religionless time» and that religion is opposed to being Christian, he declares that we must live as persons who manage our lives in a kind of Christian worldliness, a Christianity without religion, but certainly not Christianity without Goin a kind of Christian worldliness, a Christianity without religion, but certainly not Christianity without God.

Although this move was opposed strenuously by Karl Barth, who looked upon Bonhoeffer's role in the church struggle as vital, the period served to strengthen his ties with the ecumenical movement, particularly with George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.

In contradistinction to the above approaches I propose a christological hermeneutic by which we seek to move beyond historical criticism to the christological, as opposed to the existential, significance of the text.

A study published in 2000 by the ELCA revealed that of the cohort of newly minted pastors, 71 percent placed constraints upon where they could move due to the needs or desires of a spouse; 58 percent restricted their first call to a location in or near a large city; 36 percent were opposed to serving in a small congregation; and 32 percent were opposed to serving in a rural setting.

I hold that Odessey and Oracle ultimately opposes that move — the touching pictures it gives us of couple - love likely working out, albeit amid struggles, as in «This Will Be our Year,» or even in «Care of Cell 44,» are what it wants us to strive for.

I'm not opposed to shows depicting sexual violence, but rape - as - prop is always distressing, particularly in a show like this, where that disregard echoes the kinds of ideas that foster rape culture in the first place: that women's feelings don't matter, that sexual agency isn't a big deal, that rape is something that just kind of happens and that healthy people simply move on.

It is natural that, by reason of the exceptional contacts which have enabled me, a Jesuit (reared, that is to say, in the bosom of the Church) to penetrate and move freely in active spheres of thought and free research, I should have been very forcibly struck by things scarcely apparent to those who have lived only in one or other of the two opposed worlds, so that I feel compelled to cry them aloud.

However tenuously, they have moved upward into the middle class, and the new aggregate demand for goods and services they exert is everywhere visible in the quantity of economic activity in the world today, as opposed to twenty - five years ago.

However, if God really has no existence independent of what our faith apprehends him to be and if the evolution of faith is a consequence of the evolutionary movement of God himself, it would seem more logical to conclude that at the present time God is moving in many different and opposed directions.

The skill involved in throwing and moving the bladder is secondary to teh gladiatorital aspect of the opposing team's violent attempts to halt the movement of the bladder carrier.

In the first public «opinion poll taken of the Hungarian population, some 40 percent are opposed to the NATO air strikes against Serbia, and one can imagine the opposition to a ground invasion moving through Hungary itself.

A survey of the attempts following this way reveals an appreciable difficulty in being able to disentangle the philosophical from the scientific issues and to move further than merely formulating the contemporary scientific developments in rather general, as opposed to specifically scientific, terminology.

When the «depressed classes «awaken to their rights and begin the struggle for social and economic equality, and when the members of the «aboriginal «tribes, who have been peacefully secluded for centuries from the main stream of Indian nationalism, join with others in demanding their rights, fundamentalist groups and the monied classes oppose such moves.

He appeared as one who steadfastly opposed Nazi inhumanity and who offered a possibility of moving in the direction of Christian humanism inspired by the vision of Jesus as «the man for others» (D.H. Hopper, A Dissent on Bonhoeffer, Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1975, p. 17.)

But Gu's most visible move occurred in 2014 when he publicly opposed a government - sponsored cross-demolition project, which has removed thousands of crosses in an area of Zhejiang province known as «China's Jerusalem.»

I have been moved to wonder several times lately if much of what calls itself the church today (at least here in America) isn't more representative of the very religious and exclusive institution that Jesus opposed in the gospels.

He steadfastly opposed Nazi inhumanity and moved in the direction of Christian humanism inspired by the vision of Jesus as «the man for others.»

In a major boost for the Reds though, The Mirror claim that Salah could pen a new # 200,000 - a-week contract to extend his stay at Liverpool as opposed to move to Real Madrid, who are specifically mentioned as being interested in prising the Egyptian international away from AnfielIn a major boost for the Reds though, The Mirror claim that Salah could pen a new # 200,000 - a-week contract to extend his stay at Liverpool as opposed to move to Real Madrid, who are specifically mentioned as being interested in prising the Egyptian international away from Anfielin prising the Egyptian international away from Anfield.