Sentences with phrase «leader in the backlash»

Abstract expressionism, a painting style powered by dramatization of the self, was still the rage in New York, and Johns, temperamentally out of sympathy with it, soon found himself a leader in the backlash against it.

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But nationalism against the backdrop of massive overcapacity, a depreciated Chinese currency, and widespread frustrations about environmental degradations (for example, heavy smog in a number of cities)-- to mention just the more salient issues — has the potential to lead to backlash against Chinese leaders.

The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has gotten backlash after telling school leaders not to... More

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

You have to be wary of a City backlash in this game but when the going gets tough who are their leaders out on the pitch?

The Ukip leader caused a furious backlash from his party members over the weekend after saying that David Cameron had a duty to take in Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has also faced a backlash after announcing that she is backing Smith in the leadership contest.

But Gordon should have done this knowing of the backlash, now it looks more and more like this poor quality leader has done a Uturn, does nobody in Downing street know about getting it in first.

The mayor is currently seeking a second four - year stint in office, and Mark - Viverito is term - limited after December, and so the next administration and a future Council leader will have to endure the arduous duty of siting the numerous smaller replacement jails in neighborhoods around the five boroughs and dealing with local backlash.

Peter Robinson, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister of Northern Ireland, has stated during a TV interview that it was the backlash against a rally held in memory to two IRA terrorists that led to his party withdrawing its support from plans to build a peace centre in what used to be HM Prison Maze, on the site of the former Long Kesh Detention Centre.

NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call as symbols of hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.

Sadiq Khan has provoked an angry backlash from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn after savaging the new Labour leader in a newspaper interview.

Some of Corbyn's close allies in the parliamentary party regard the ferocity of the backlash against Livingstone by prominent backbenchers, such as Wes Streeting, and former ministers, including Andy Burnham, as a «witch hunt», aimed at undermining the leader in the run up to the local elections.

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond was ousted, as was former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg — perhaps in a delayed backlash by young voters against tuition fees.

Labour leader faces backlash from his MPs for disregarding vote in favour of shadow cabinet elections

The ex-Cabinet Minister led a Tory backlash against party leader Mr Cameron's clear signal that he is unlikely to reverse Labour's proposal to raise the top rate of tax to 45p in the pound on earnings over # 150,000 a year.

The decision the NEA will make at its leadership meetings this week comes amid a backlash that its sister union, the smaller American Federation of Teachers, is still struggling with after its leaders endorsed Clinton early in the summer.

I'm under no delusion that the backlash from the real estate industry alone could make our elected and appointed leaders quake in their boots.

Sinquefield's historically inaccurate and inflammatory comments created a backlash from teachers, public school advocates, and African American leaders, who called it «a slap in the face of every educator who has worked tirelessly in a public school to improve the lives of Missouri's children.»

Seventy - three percent of those school leaders think the political debate has gotten in the way of successful implementation, and that «the political backlash mostly stems from misunderstanding and misinformation...».

Pasternak cited Nigerian - American arts leader Okwui Enwezor as a scholar who is disappointed in the backlash against Windmuller - Luna, his former student.