Sentences with phrase «of public hostility»

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative shadow home secretary highlights one popular criticism: «The Act has attracted a huge amount of public hostility and helped to create a rights culture which has been seen by many people as forcing the state to make concessions to the undeserving... public bodies routinely hide behind the Act to hide their own incompetence.»

He confirmed that his division had acted secretly because of the public hostility to the avant - garde: «It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad.

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The U.S. hasn't taken any public steps to prepare for hostilities such as evacuating Americans from Seoul, which is within range of North Korean artillery, or moving ships, aircraft or troops into position for an imminent response.

Those close to the process said that Thiel — who is on the Facebook board with Sandberg — and others helping Trump reach out to the tech community had a hard time convincing them to attend, largely due to his persistent public hostility to one of the U.S. economy's few bright and innovative arenas.

The current impasse between the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Government is the result of a clash between the Government's business model, based on a lack of transparency, and accountability; non-evidenced based decision - making; and hostility to public debate and discussion; and, a Parliamentary Budget Officer business model with the exact opposite principles.

The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

Most governments don't publicly declare their hostility toward religion; they use laws like zoning or employment to push it out of the public square.

The hostility of the authorities no doubt made a certain amount of secrecy advisable, in spite of Jesus» bold activity in public during the daytime, or perhaps because of it.

There is a sense, then, in which this book constitutes a belated, public exorcism of the demon of Barr's fundamentalist past, a fact that explains both the book's intensity (and often hostility) and its depth of perception.

Hostility against pro-lifers seems now to have spilled over into a distrust of any group of citizens seeking to connect public policy with a transcendent moral order.

Unfortunately, even by the end of Elizabeth's reign the dynamics of London theatrical economics and increasing Puritan hostility were undermining theater's unique public role, unprecedented since the days of Periclean Athens.

«There is still a little bit of hostility in the public square as it relates to Muslim Americans and their place in society,» Younis said.

The attitude of public and nonpublic school personnel to each other has become one of cooperation rather than hostility.

While we can see firsthand some of the trajectories mentioned in these essays» for example, an increase in liturgical sobriety within Christian churches and an increased hostility toward religion outside them» the endpoints of those trajectories form the world in which we begin our engagement with public life.

While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.

The public's hostility to the benefits bill is, in large part, due to the commonly - held view (articulated by Field) that it encourages scroungers: in the same poll, more than one in four respondents said they thought at least half of all welfare claimants were «scroungers who lie about their circumstances to obtain higher welfare benefits».

They bleed into each other, prop each other up and together create a firestorm of anger and resentment at the UK's ruling elites: those in charge of our politics, our financial system and our media were all battered by public hostility in 2012.

«But, the conservative majority did express hostility to, and skepticism about the constitutionality of, public sector Fair Share fees, and all but invited further legal challenges [sic throughout].»

Likewise, Assemblymen Michael Miller and Michele Titus continue to mistreat me, their former and present constituent like raw sewage, and misbehaving on public payrolls with an arrogance, hostility and dereliction of public duty that is unwavering and unprecedented.

The lack of a pay raise at the end of the year led to hostilities between Cuomo and lawmakers — long below the surface — boiling over in public during the start of the year.

The hostilities between the mayor and the governor have only escalated in the last year over a variety of concerns, including mayoral control of New York City schools and proposed cuts in funding to the City University of New York, tumbling into public view with a rare intensity, even for two jobs that are often in conlfict.

There is always going to be public hostility on this sort of occasion - governments are never popular and this one is making an art of the practice.

New York City will become the nation's first major metropolis to close its public schools in observance of the two most sacred Muslim holy days, de Blasio announced — a watershed moment for a group that has endured suspicion and hostility since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The University of California became the first public university system in the country to adopt a statement that condemns hostility toward Jewish students amid growing opposition on campuses to Israeli policies.

That much has been demonstrated by research showing that while the public has little knowledge of the British party funding system, its ignorance is no barrier to hostility towards the system.

Cameron's steadfast support of Miller just wasn't enough in the face of hostility from Conservative MPs, contempt from party members and revulsion from the general public.

I think the mood is graded, that public hostility is directed at all MPs, the Government and the Prime Minister in reverse order of intensity.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

In a series of interviews remarkable for their hostility toward Cuomo, several top Democrats well known to the public told The Post that should Clinton be forced to abandon her quest for the presidency by the scandal over her private State Department email accounts, there is no clear alternative for New Yorkers.

Elizabeth Loftus of the University of California, Irvine, a current member of the AAAS Board of Directors and a psychologist specializing in human memory, has received the 2016 John Maddox Prize, recognizing «sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.»

Yecke, Minnesota's embattled education commissioner, targets two trends: the «middle - school movement» and public education's growing hostility toward the needs of gifted youngsters.

Introduced at a time of widespread Protestant hostility toward the Catholic Church, the amendment's thinly veiled purpose was to bar public money from supporting Catholic schools.

And, although we've been somewhat insulated to date, we have not been altogether immune from the wave of national hostility toward teachers and other public employees.

The hostility, aggression and contempt they routinely demonstrate for public school stakeholders, and the anti-democratic basis of it all, should put that to rest.

The DeVos vision of education is a combination of two forces: an extreme instantiation of individual aims for becoming educated and a complete hostility to the idea that anything in the public realm has much value.

Perhaps it was the sheer hostility of the rhetoric and that the article appeared in a reputable public print medium.

They're in a tough spot and I think, while this precise move might not be that significant, it shows a general increasing awareness that their public positions of hostility to a lot of the current reform ideas are hurting them more than helping them.»

There is no question that, in an atmosphere of increasing irrational public hostility toward our breed, the presence of our dogs in performance venues is a strongly positive example of their stable and hard working temperaments.

But knowing the composition of the state legislature, and the hostility of the Republican leadership in both chambers to Prop B, we knew that we'd have to entertain compromise on some elements of the agreement (at no point, ever, publically, has Pacelle or anyone from HSUS mentioned any thought of compromise — and likely, this is why they didn't have a seat at the table when it came to this new law), in order to protect the measure for the long term and to obviate the need for a second public vote on the issue.

-- when, in the catalogue statement for his private exhibition of 1867, he assures us that it is merely the «sincerity» of his works that gives them their «character of protest,» or when he pretends to be shocked at the hostility with which the public has greeted them.

While Whiteread has never become a public figure in the manner of contemporaries such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, her projects have become the subject of fierce public debate, both in Vienna and in London: House won her the Turner prize in 1993, but was the subject of some local hostility; some found her fourth plinth commission repetitious.

The tone of confrontation and hostility, with public and personal attacks on individuals doing their jobs, might inhibit public discourse just as much as misleading content would.

It's not as much Bush's hostility to «science» that Watts worries about, but the failure of his critics to use «science» to influence public policy.

Writing reports upon their outcome and claiming its «the truth» isn't science and seems to be at the root of the hostility the public have?

(2) technological and cultural aspects of the blogosphere, including norms of rapid correction, third - party substantiation, and hostility to legal threats in the form of public exposure and criticism.

In Australia, out of the courts but in the public sphere, this has led to an unhealthy obsession with our Prime Minister Julia Gillard's attire, and «femininity», characterized by outright hostility and calls to violence against her.

In recent decades, however, the cosy and lucrative monopoly has attracted the hostility of politicians, some of whom see the legal profession as a conspiracy against the public.

At the risk of oversimplification, this third piece in a series of four on HRA 1998 seeks to identify the different strands of hostility that coalesce to the effect that the British public has yet to take human rights to its heart.

All of the aforementioned problems have created a culture of public apathy, indifference, or even hostility towards the justice system.