Sentences with phrase «of ideological attacks»

The pick has fueled concerns that the incoming administration will pursue the same kind of ideological attacks on clean energy that have impacted Ohio.

Not exact matches

And the NDP tried to move a motion to get Bill C - 27 withdrawn, because they sailed a conspiracy theory that somehow there was a conflict of interest with a bill that they opposed for ideological reasons, in order to come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.

The most recent attack on on Arendt, linking her directly not only to a romantic but an ideological affiliation with Martin Heidegger and Nazism is contained in Ron Rosenbaum, «The Evil of Banality: Troubling New Revelations about Arendt and Heidegger.»

A new wave of particularists» many of them Christian» has renewed the attack on ideological universalisms.

Calling someone names and making direct ad hominem attacks (and YES... the TROLL started ALL of that FIRST) is not an ideological argument.

Afghanistan, where all the planning for the attack on September 11 allegedly was undertaken, was a clear case of a victim in the geo - political and ideological struggles of the contemporary world.

Dinges's book is not an ideological attack on Pinochet but a fair, balanced, painstakingly researched piece of historical journalism.

Another methodology, TACCP (Threat Assessment Critical Control point) is also being employed to consider the threat of deliberate attack or sabotage, often for ideological reasons, within the supply base but also during manufacture.

«An ideological experiment out of control»: Tristram Hunt uses Islamic free school in opening attack on Michael Gove

Tristram Hunt has used the ongoing row over standards at the Al - Madinah Muslim free school to launch his first major attack against Michael Gove, with a letter saying a «dangerous ideological experiment has been allowed to run completely out of control».

If you recall, Trump attacked Barack Obama over the same topic, who happens to NOT be a Mayor of London; so this is all about Trump's ideological views and has absolutely nothing to do with some imputed non-existing «intention» to raise the tension between US and UK.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

After months of attack ads, ideological contrasts, an outpouring of outside money and intense campaigning by the two former candidates for governor, retiring Congressman Chris Gibson's seat will end up being occupied by his friend, neighbor and fellow - Republican John Faso.

Dave Moxham of the Scottish Trades Union Congress told the committee that the bill was an «ideological attack on the trade union movement».

For the stances he has taken, Duesberg has faced such ferocious personal and professional attacks that in 1996 Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet and himself a critic of Duesberg, broke ranks and wrote in The New York Review of Books: «Duesberg deserves to be heard, and the ideological assassination that he has undergone will remain an embarrassing testament to the reactionary tendencies of modern science.

The rest of the COMPETES bill would severely lower authorized funding levels for the social and behavioral sciences, geosciences, and international activities at NSF — cuts that are in line with the committee's ideological stance that they play small roles in fostering innovation, bolstering the U.S. economy, and defending the nation against attack.

You attack the content of the movie from an ideological standpoint rather than looking at it as a film critic.

The irony is that although Cheney has little use for the progressives, her own rather conventional ideological critique is dwarfed by the power, originality, and range of Egan's attack.

«We're not ideological about attacking the problem,» says Tom Vander Ark, who is in charge of the Gates Foundation's education work.

A lot of parents have had kids in charter schools by now, and the global attack on the principle comes across as simply ill - informed and ideological.

Most definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear or «terror», are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians.

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

Or they are places where strangers deliver vitriol and ad - hominem attack between frustratingly small bits of honest political, cultural, or ideological conversation.

Misinterpreting every fact they find inconvenient as an ideological attack, because to them - everything - is ideology first, and facts are twisted in service of their ideology.

Havers» slurs («poor reading comprehension» «ideological baloney» — this last a juvenile twist at my name) and mischaracterization of my comments are clearly abusive ad hominem attacks.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

Somebody who views science as something to attack if it doesn't comport with his ideological views, or the views of the special interests that fund his campaigns,» Mann added.

And when Lennart Bengtsson decides to join a right wing group of political and ideological hacks whose purpose is to spread disinformation and lies about climate science, something that directly affects climate scientists and their research, and when the response to this public political decision and statement is massive criticisms and political decisions by other climate scientists, Judith Curry is complaining about these «attacks» and labels this «Climate McCarthyism».

Lindzen (1990); Kerr (1989b); «stuck with a role,» quoted Grossman (2001); Lindzen has been accused of obfuscation, taking extreme ideological positions, and unjust ad hominem attacks, see e.g., Gelbspan (1997), pp. 49 - 54, but the accusation that Lindzen has been in the pay of industry is based only on lecture fees that Lindzen received.

In this political climate, all of science is vulnerable to ideological attack when reality disagrees with political beliefs.

APPG on Legal Aid meets to discuss the reforms to judicial review: An «ideological» attack on the rights of ordinary people

Social conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

These ideological attacks on women do not save taxpayers money, and will instead undermine the positive impact of U.S. programs overseas.