Sentences with phrase «of opposing»

Everyone was told to prepare to convince their meeting partner to come around to their side; half of the subjects, however, were told to prepare to make their case to a member of the opposing political party, and half were told to make their case to a member of their own party.

Although honesty was positively valued by all respondents, the researchers found that lying that served a shared moralized goal was more accepted and advocacy in support of the opposing view, or nonpreferred end, was more condemned, regardless of whether the statement was true or false.

Temporary shifting of the electrons in the molecules of the spatulae and of opposing rocks, walls, or ceilings creates adhesive van der Waals forces, according to a study in the Aug. 27 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly 15 years of opposing unionization for teaching assistants, the University of California (UC) administration agreed earlier this month that it will recognize and bargain with a union of TAs at UCLA.

Using a series of computational text analysis tools to measure the use of hedging or emotional words, Srdan Medimorec and Gordon Pennycook, both PhD candidates in the Department of Psychology at Waterloo, examined two recent reports of opposing groups.

William Waldegrave has reversed Britain's traditional policy of opposing increases in the budget of the European Commission's Framework programme for research.

Shouting combined with extreme close - ups tends to make viewers less tolerant of opposing political viewpoints, according to Diana Mutz, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.

But some parents sought inclusion of opposing theories, such as other causes and doubts that climate change is occurring.

The policy goal of opposing discrimination is slowly climbing the agenda, but up to now, the chief policy aim has been to incorporate immigrant - minorities into the society via access to training and employment while encouraging them to use the local language and to participate more in the local society.

Despite concerns over Scott Pruitt's record of opposing ethanol, experts say the renewable - fuel program is on safe ground

Americans have always recognized the value of science to foreign policy — even during the Revolutionary War when commanders of the opposing forces allowed U.S. and British scientists to move back and forth across battle lines.

In a written statement, former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn issued a stinging rebuke of her one - time colleague, writing, «Fernando Cabrera's record of opposing LGBT and reproductive rights in the City Council is as long as it is appalling — but this endorsement of a Ugandan government that sees our community as sub-human is a new low I could have never imagined him stooping to.»

(Trackers keep tabs on the public appearances of the opposing candidate and look to capture gaffes on camera.)

Coalition MPs are under a three - line whip to attend the opposition day debate on a Labour - authored motion that falls short of opposing higher fees, but calls for the white paper on the future of universities to properly explain the plans before the Commons votes on the fee cap.

«No democracy accepts coercion, intimidation, cowing of opposing views as the minority should be allowed to have their say with fears while the majority have their way», the CNPP stated.

He said the award shows he's able to work with others, including members of opposing parties.

«On free schools, I am saying that we need to apply a set of tests, that we are not going to take an absolute policy of opposing them.

Rep. Daniel Donovan, a Staten Island Republican, expressed concern about the tax plan but stopped short of opposing it.

But the volume of the opposing criticism was evident.

The exchange helped demonstrate the public relations challenges of opposing the bill, and especially of using bar and restaurant owners as the face of that opposition.

2014: Sitting side by side on CNN's «State of the Union» - a rarity these days on political shows, where members of opposing parties often appear during different segments to talk about the same topics - Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, addressed the challenges they both face in the upcoming midterm elections.

Labour is ready to make a big deal of opposing arming the rebels, with the keen sense that most of the Commons and the public agrees with them.

«I do so with respect for our difference, with admiration for the passion and principle of an opposing view strongly held, and with the recognition that the joy of the majority be tempered by the disappointment of the minority.

«We need to be respectful of opposing views on difficult issues if we ever want to become the majority party.

Essentially, when neither side will come to the table, you only get real legislation if one side or the other has enough of a majority to basically cram it down the throat of the opposing party.

Jeremy Corbyn has been unable to force through an official Labour party policy of opposing air strikes in Syria.

According to the New Statesman, the only MPs still pushing for a policy of opposing air strikes at the end of the meeting were Diane Abbott and Jon Trickett.

Many Labour MPs believe that their leader has turned to Livingstone to do the job of opposing Trident on his behalf.

Morahan was popular with members on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans alike remembered him fondly as someone who embodied the old spirit of bipartisanship in Albany, where lawmakers of opposing views and political affiliations fought hard on the Senate floor and on the campaign trial, but then laid aside their differences and went out for drinks at the end of the day.

«After five years of opposing a referendum to watch them all trooping through was the biggest mass conversion since that Chinese general baptised his troops with a hosepipe.»

The list of those opposing the amendment includes the state Conservative Party, religious groups like the Catholic Church and people worried about problem gambling.

It has finally become exactly what he predicted, albeit with him neutralising his position on it in advance of opposing it.

The evidence in this case demonstrates that under California's blanket primary system, the prospect of having a party's nominee determined by adherents of an opposing party is far from remote - indeed, it is a clear and present danger.

The Spectator is an excellent magazine which has maintained an admirable collection of opposing views on the issue, but the article served to show how little original thinking was taking place among even the highest intellectual levels of the Leave camp.

While it would certainly be unconstitutional to threaten to prosecute someone on the grounds of opposing you politically, it's perfectly constitutional to prosecute someone for crimes they've committed.

The speaker took heat for his position from local leaders and housing advocates who accused him of opposing affordable housing to preserve his voter base in the largely Jewish neighborhood by keeping out other groups.

First, it was a curious spectacle for Clegg, the leader of a party in government and the deputy prime minister, to take on the leader of an opposing party with no MPs.

Newsday obtained a copy of the opposing letter dated Dec. 12, 2011, in which Spota seeks to rebut, point by point, the allegations against Burke contained in the anonymous letter.

Labour have a good lead in the polls and my expectation is that it will get bigger in the coming months, Ed Miliband has the strategic choice of whether to gamble on the coalition remaining unpopular and just hammering away at the cuts and reaping the rewards of opposing them, or using the luxury of a poll lead to reposition Labour to a more opportune position should the economy improve and the cuts not be a disaster.

Forgoing his slicker, better - known brother David, it apparently bought into the younger Miliband's soft - left strategy of opposing the coalition's austerity policies, on the assumption it would fail and become wildly unpopular among voters.

As it turned out, many of these opposing candidates sank under the tidal waves of the votes, while Obiano sailed home on top of the waves.

Some agents of their opposing parties will object to the challenge that the other party was putting in.

Even if we accept the narrower and more restrictive interpretation of the opposing contention by limiting the argument to only real FDI while ignoring portfolio investments, these data show categorically that all categories of foreign investment suffered from the conditions in 2015 and 2016.

I also think many of the opposing arguments are escapist - a gradual removal (that is what we have been doing since 1986!

Carr, Garner's mother, said she wanted New Yorkers to vote «smart» in the upcoming elections, but stopped short of opposing de Blasio.

«Sheriff Falco is well regarded in the county for his actions in support of the 2nd Amendment, from opposing the Journal News» decision to publish an interactive map of pistol license holder's home addresses to support ing the Rockland Legislature's position of opposing so - called SAFE Act.

It was in fact Chamberlain's arrogance and intense dislike of opposing views, not his weakness as a political leader, that led him towards one of the greatest blunders in the history of British foreign affairs; namely appeasing Hitler (pp. 312 - 9).

That irritated Zemsky, who accused Walter of opposing key economic development projects.

In the past, campaigns have been blindsided by the impact of opposing candidates» use of digital marketing and social media itself.

But he accuses his rival of opposing all the major, long - term decisions needed to ensure Britain swims, not sinks, in the global race.