Sentences with phrase «much opposition along»

Not exact matches

@FrankCedeno / jamesqf I mean that judiciary has not removed anyone from office so far as I know, so they would need to make it up as they went along, which worked for reviewing laws, and probably wouldn't meet too much opposition disposing Kang, but you never know.

He lived through 12 years as the loyal opposition to GOP Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, foiled a coup attempt by former Assemblyman Mike Bragman in 2000, weathered Gov. Eliot «the steamroller» Spitzer and now has managed to get along with hard - charging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, largely by giving him pretty much everything he wants from a policy perspective (even things the Dems were never expected to go along with, like Tier VI and the property tax cap).

While there was much opposition to the proposal, the mayor failed to persuade the one who arguably mattered most — Silver, who sat on the state's Public Authorities Control Board, along with Gov. George Pataki and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

As Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas has argued, even more than broad public support, choice policies need the support of concentrated constituencies along with that of the general public to counter-balance the opposition of concentrated constituencies that want to curb or eliminate educational choice programs: «As much as reformers may be motivated to promote equity, a basic lesson about political reality is that more advantaged people tend to have more political power.»