Sentences with phrase «leading voices against»

The nation's largest and most powerful industry groups — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers — are now leading voices against climate action.

The President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe is among the leading voices against the award of the new contract with KelniGVG.

They premised their opinion on how the governor led the voice against the National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, when he attempted to impose his stooge, Dr. Segun Abraham on APC before the party governorship election primary in September 3, 2016.

Democratic New York Senator Ruben Diaz, perhaps the NY Senate's leading voice against same - sex marriage, has responded to the announced launch of a campaign to pass marriage equality in the state with a statement attacking Governor Cuomo for having the gall to launch it during Holy Week.

State Senator Tony Avella, a Queens Democrat who has been a leading voice against fracking, entreated Cuomo to think of his own political future if he allows fracking.

She was a leading voice against the exhibition in 1979 at Artists Space in New York of Donald Newman's The Nigger Drawings, and also advocated for women's equal representation in galleries.

Not exact matches

Telus may be the smallest of Canada's Big Three telcos, but CEO Darren Entwistle has been the collective's biggest voice, leading the charge in a PR blitz against Verizon's proposed move north via acquisitions of Wind and Mobilicity.

The recent stance of senior party members against the third mandate has led to the exclusion of most dissident voices and the Nkurunziza camp establishing its dominance over the party apparatus.

While Democrats in other states have mentioned potential legal action, New York would be the first state to take such aggressive action, potentially elevating Cuomo's statute as a leading progressive voice against Trump.

«He has also been a leading voice for banning standardized tests for our youngest students, supported a three - year moratorium against the use of Common Core testing for student promotion and placement, and has backed giving the city and state Comptrollers the power to audit charters, particularly charter practices that limit the enrollment and retention of high - needs students.»

Stec, who has positioned himself as the state legislature's leading voice on stripping corrupted officials of their pensions, theorized something happened when three men went into a room on March 31, and hours later, the assembly opted against voting on their pension forfeiture bill.

Campaigning group Next Generation Labour (NGL) has established itself as a leading voice within the Labour party against George Osborne's austerity package, to which the party leadership has made dangerous concessions.

Party officials said that Ms. Garner was a leading voice in the struggle against police brutality since her father, Eric Garner, died at the hands of NYC police in 2014.

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

An underdog group of cavemen, led by the plucky Dug (who's voiced by Eddie Redmayne) face - off against the powerhouse Real Bronzio team.

Alongside the two leads, the supporting performances are also very fine, Grainger imbuing Louise with a wit and forthrightness that portrays her not only as the «good» woman in contrast to Rachel, but also as a voice of common sense against Philip's melodramatic swooning.

Set in a prehistoric world populated by woolly mammoths and all manner of other strange creatures, Early Man follows Dug (voiced by Eddie Redmayne), a caveman who leads his tribe against the mighty Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston).

Not only is Diane Ravitch heroic for all of the reasons that you stated above (and probably some more that we do not know about), but she has been a leading voice for celebrating the heroism of so many others against the «education industrial complex.»

Zack Kopplin is a 19 - year - old student at Rice University, and one of the leading American voices against the teaching of creationism in schools.

Scarice has been a leading Connecticut voice against «high - stakes test - based school reform.»

Peter Cullen leads the show returning as Optimus Prime, facing off against Frank Welker again playing Megatron, as well as voicing Soundwave.

But then again Kojima was given a budget limit, which he used to create the Fox Engine (probably spend millions of dollars) and MGSV, Kiefer (contract probably cost too much that previous MGS voice actor couldn't be cast since they were offer little money), surpass the limit and led Konami and Kojima to go against each other so you can't blame Konami completely since Kojima waisted too much money that the game couldn't even finish the last chapter.

An anti-conceptual art group that call itself the Stuckists has been a leading opposing voice against the prize since 2000, deeming this year's edition unforgivably dull.

Prominent voices in Brazil... have weighed in against the new Forest Code, including the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, two of the country's leading scientific groups.

The #YouthvGovNC hearing on February 7, 2018 was a quintessential example of the power of the youth voice in leading the fight against climate change.

A former CHC member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that the group's mission while led by Ebell was to be a a «Johnny - on - the - spot for climate denialism» and to simulate a «cacophony of voices» against climate - change science.

Gunnoe continues to be a leading voice in the fight against MTR and will be speaking about her experience with the coal industry tonight at a public event, «The Goldman Prize at 25» at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a leading voice in the fight against the FCC's net neutrality rules repeal, has stepped forward with one of the first legal challenges to the commission»

Many users of Facebook voiced opinions against the changes to the Facebook Terms of Use, leading to an Internet - wide debate over the ownership of content.

Two of the prominent voices in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student - led #NeverAgain movement and two relatives of students slain at the school rallied against gun violence with hundreds of others Thursday evening at the University of North Carolina at...

Two of the prominent voices in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas student - led #NeverAgain movement and two relatives of students slain at the school rallied against gun violence with hundreds of others Thursday evening at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, WRAL - TV is reporting.