Sentences with phrase «of competing agendas»

Ahead of a Wisconsin showdown the candidates crisscross the state in pursuit of competing agendas.

In today's society, a multitude of competing agendas and motivations obscure the fundamental, simple truths of healthy living.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

More often, those teams failed because of personality conflicts, ego clashes, or competing agendas.

Every Republican competing for national office, from Hawaii to New Hampshire, ran against the Obama agenda and made it the centerpiece of the campaign.

Jose Mourinho's declaration that # 300 million was «not enough» to spend in the market in order to compete with a Manchester City side who «buy full - backs for the price of strikers» placed transfer fees on the agenda this week, even before Liverpool's head - spinning outlay on Virgil van Dijk ensured it remained the talking point.

It isn't: it's a wide variety of competing commercial organizations, all with their own agendas.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an ABNY address, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an address to the Association for a Better New York on Thursday, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing, and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

An advocate for the measure accused Cuomo of «stalling,» and suggested he has not pushed for it in the way he has with competing agenda items like tax cuts.

Looking back fondly at his tenure on the science committee, Ehlers predicted that it would successfully move a reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act through the full House this year but that the chances of Senate passage depend on whether there is enough time on that body's already - full agenda.

But it's a lot more powerful, because here the characters» competing personal agendas are intertwined with the fate of a clearly defined setting, Wakanda, that means something to us emotionally — in Stark contrast to «Civil War,» where Buck and Cap's bond is rock solid but the wider threats facing the Avengers are more vaguely defined.

It are these differences, these competing agendas, that make up the crux of the story, not the climactic tennis match.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Education, of course, must compete with other items on Obama's ambitious agenda, as well as with erupting crises that will inevitably distract the White House.

In June, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick unveiled the Education Action Agenda — a new education plan designed to raise achievement of all students as measured against global benchmarks and to help prepare them to compete successfully in the global economy by 2020.

With new Common Core initiatives, impending new tests, controversies surrounding teacher evaluation, tightening financial realities, and a plethora of competing reform agendas devised without input from those who actually work in schools, we were not sure how educators would respond.

FOR YEARS, THE D.C. public schools have been known as factious battlegrounds for education reformers of all stripes; new plans and policies would be implemented every few years, only to have new leaders and competing agendas ushered in shortly afterward.

A troll probably often has an agenda — for example, to trash all of the books that compete with his favorite author's books, or to try to destroy the career of the dude who tripped him in the cafeteria in junior high.

Just another one of those pervasive myths generated by people with an agenda against spot FX markets, some of which are currency futures brokers competing for clientele and commissions generated.

Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the map, active research in technology and culture unlocks new potential, and competing leaders will pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits as you race for one of five ways to achieve victory in the game.

There were so many strong, competing agendas: the Pictures Generation and appropriation, the «Bad Boys» of expressionist painting, graffiti, a new generation of feminists.

Tehrani will meet with faculty, get to know students, and has high hopes to «make a Cooper Union that's an open environment for debate, for discourse and competing agendas,» and perhaps eventually, «we may be able to build some kind of bridge between its legacy and different paths that maybe it has not yet addressed.»

Next on the agenda, of course — plankton / krill harvesting, directly competing with the whales.

The NAM is the powerful voice of the manufacturing community and the leading advocate for a policy agenda that helps manufacturers compete in the global economy and create jobs across the United States.

The law societies that denied Trinity Western its accreditation, especially those that did it on the basis of referenda, put their members» political agenda ahead of the public interest in having reasonably - educated (as all concede Trinity Western's graduates will be) lawyers competing to provide legal services.

Most negotiation books, classes, and tactics assume a two - party agreement for the sake of simplicity, but in the real world most conflicts involve three or more competing agendas.

It will of course depend on how big a reform agenda Labor wants to develop and which of the competing vested interests it will need or want to take on to really address structural barriers — doctors, hospitals, states, the pharmaceutical industry, the private health sector — and whether it's up to a fight against the food and alcohol industries and «nanny state» critics on prevention.

Despite competing economic agendas, we must as a nation find the resources to maintain the momentum of existing efforts and build on the successes.