Sentences with phrase «opponent of»

They are also among the most vocal opponents of school choice policies that have been considered by the state legislature in recent years.

Even opponents of school choice agree that tax credits are more viable than vouchers.

At the same time, she is an outspoken opponent of many of the Race to the Top reforms, including the Common Core.

So presumably vocal opponents of gay rights would be included.

Still, for opponents of violent games, it's a battle won in a lost war.

Analysts and reformers tend to focus on the shortcomings of the system, and in so doing they risk being characterized as opponents of children with disabilities.

Other opponents of a ban on partial - birth abortions claimed that it was used only when necessary to protect the mother's life.

Federal funding for such research was cut off in 1988 in response to political pressure from opponents of abortion.

You've argued in defense of teachers unions, who have been both partners in improving schools, but also opponents of reforms like accountability and choice.

Still, the episode has provided ammunition to his critics on the left, including opponents of charter schools and big money in politics.

He said the fight against corruption has been taken to a whole new level by his government and accused his political opponents of playing propaganda with the issue.

Now, supporters and opponents of same - sex marriage are both turning their attention to next year's elections.

That is what many opponents of abortion are trying to do.

He has been a strong opponent of Republican efforts to reduce taxes for high - income individuals before what he considers higher priorities.

Similar false accusations have been put forth by opponents of abortion services for decades.

Players are matched up with opponents of similar skill levels through a rankings - based matchmaking system.

As well as concerns about climate change, opponents of fracking point to a host of public health and environmental concerns.

While opponents of high speed traders won't like to hear it, I think the practice is here to stay.

He went on to refer to a paradox concerning morals that the champions of morality are on the whole the fierce opponents of new ideals.

You can earn coins with every win as you test and battle with your favorite decks against opponents of varying difficulty.

Some longtime opponents of regulatory approaches to climate run the numbers and show the scant impact of the bill in isolation.

It sounds good, but it is not what opponents of this initiative are doing.

Outside the gallery, opponents of such services criticized how they treat and pay drivers.

In a sign of increased coordination among opponents of government cuts, student leaders have written to trade union officials to ask for their support.

Their efforts to simultaneously exist as the champions and opponents of education reform are meeting resistance even internally.

The article provides a summary of recent state supreme court cases in which opponents of civil liability reform have challenged reform laws, mostly on constitutional grounds.

The giveaway is the strong tendency of conservative opponents of cap and trade to argue in bad faith.

Meanwhile, opponents of nuclear technologies are not convinced that small reactors are an improvement over traditional designs.

What you hear from conservative opponents of a climate - change policy, however, is that any attempt to limit emissions would be economically devastating.

Many of them were at one time opponents of the bureaucracy that now stands in the way of fundamental change, and fighters to empower the people.

Many opponents of embryonic stem cell research hail this news as an important step away from research methods that rely on destroying embryos.

The power to regulate is the power to destroy, and that's a power that opponents of educational choice greatly desire.

Now they have one, and it might, just might, be possible to put opponents of clean energy on the defensive.

Such a happy outcome would be helped along if opponents of school vouchers would refrain from scare tactics based on unfounded stereotypes about faith - based schooling.

Italian opponents of plans to build the country's first nuclear plants have been strengthened by the ongoing crisis.

But opponents of raising interest rates take a different look at the economic metrics.

This is important, because opponents of shared parenting have long claimed that shared parenting is bad for children and therefore can not be done when the parents have high conflict.

None of those characteristics describe congressional opponents of carbon taxes (or other consumption taxes).

As is so often the case, the most vocal opponents of federal school choice are right for the wrong reasons.

Even opponents of lawn parking, though, won't be entirely happy should they win: The law would allow home owners to pave over their yards to accommodate their cars.

The true opponents of progress are conservatives who fight tooth and nail against new ideas, only to end up declaring «of course, it was my idea all along».

An active effort to help technologies bridge the valley of death will inevitably require supporting individual firms and technologies, precisely the sort of behavior that opponents of government intervention often find most troubling.

The most robust opponents of assisted suicide — and the most effective in my view — are disability rights advocates.

This is definitely one of our hardest opponents of the season.

No doubt, this results from misinformation and confusion spread by opponents of natural gas development.