Sentences with phrase «opponents of reforms»

By the same token, opponents of the reforms need to stop engaging in destructive activities (like encouraging students to boycott school, allowing vicious personal attacks, or distributing knowingly inaccurate copies of the collective - bargaining agreement to foment dissent).

There have been suggestions that the majority in favour of a wholly elected Lords was swollen by opponents of reforms who wanted to scupper the plans by ensuring an option unacceptable to the government and / or Lords was chosen.

Opponents of the reforms responded to the report with predictable outrage - and demands that the DWP review its approach to the issue.

Opponents of the reforms insist the changes would hurt Canadians at different income levels and from many different sectors, including doctors, farmers and small business owners.

But opponents of reform are also represented, one of whom defends the current standards by emphasizing that «after all, we're feeding millions of people.»

But my favorite Vilsack line came in response to committee chairman John Kline's (R - MN) characterization of school meals as too skimpy to feed hungry athletes, a common refrain from opponents of reform (which Woldow also recently debunked.)

To the extent that it allows the opponents of reform to paint the issue of currency appreciation as bowing to outside pressure, the answer is likely no.

Much of the stated opposition against publicly financed elections stems from the cost of such a program, which opponents of reform have falsely exaggerated.

Conservative opponents of reform will be able to make common cause with Labour to insert a call for a referendum in the bill, something the Liberal Democrats oppose.

Opponents of reform are hailing the tax projections as insignificant compared to previous promises; this cynical angle is simply no - win spin.

Tory opponents of reform opened up a new flankon Sunday by saying that a referendum on Lords reform would have to be accompanied by a vote on Britain's relationship with the EU.

This is one of the main demands of backbench Tory opponents of reform who have won the support of five cabinet ministers, including the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the defence secretary, Philip Hammond.

Opponents of reform are increasingly confident this will not be necessary because they believe the reforms will become bogged down in the Commons.

This excess of lords would be less of a problem if all these new members were the sort of expert that opponents of reform claim populate the lords.

But today I'm going to argue how I believe this Government can act in a way that will genuinely tackle the problem, avoiding the dangers that opponents of reform have put forward.

Washington (CNN)- Five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against Senate health care legislation, which puts opponents of reform just 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.

Democrats are hoping that the threat of being labeled an opponent of reform will scare enough Republicans into backing an override.

George is right to identify them as a serious opponent of the reforms that are necessary for improving education although David Cameron would be wise to avoid anything like the language used in this article.

Are proponents and opponents of reform having a spirited conversation, or are we not even listening to one another?

So I chose Jeanne Allen and Andy Smarick to represent «conservative education reformers» and Anthony Cody and Mike Klonsky to represent «progressive opponents of reform.»

Words like «controversial» and «handouts to for - profit corporations» are used as labels by opponents of the reform.

So, naturally, the naysayers and outright opponents of reform took him to task.

A vocal opponent of this reform, Dr. Mark Naison, history professor and chair of African - American Studies at Fordam University and co-founder of the Badass Teachers Association, railed against what he called the «Walmart - izaton of Education.»

But yesterday's Dropout Nation takedown of use of faulty data by Manhattan Institute pundit Max Eden and other opponents of reforming school discipline generated plenty of discussion both in social media and in e-mails.

Opponents of reform contend that poverty is the real problem, rather than what we do in our schools.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

But small business groups such as the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are vocal opponents, and have lobbied extensively to fight the passage of wage reform bills in Congress.

Rubio, a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight that authored the bill, has furiously tried to blunt the criticism this week, acknowledging concerns that the bill does not go far enough to ensure border security and prevent «amnesty,» an ambiguous but potent fear among opponents of immigration reform.

The group, which came together in recent months as a vocal opponent of the finance minister's tax - reform plan, is urging him to go further — beyond the adjustments he made to calm an uproar that dogged him for months.

The genuinely subsidiarity - minded Porchers should be the most extreme opponents of the Pelosi / Obama health care reforms, even if they voted Obamacon out of anti-Bush spite or misty cultural concerns.

What will those nasty, unscrupulous opponents of «social reform» think of next?

Marco Rubio ran as an opponent of «comprehensive immigration reform» in 2010, but he flip - flopped after the 2012 election.

Nevertheless, I believe it is inaccurate for Calvinists to attempt to appropriate the words «grace» and «reformed» for their own system of theology, especially when, in my opinion, many Calvinists know less of grace than their opponents, and numerous others have stopped seeking further theological reformation.

But Wisniewski, who has nonetheless been voted into the Pro Bowl five times by those opponents, seems to have reformed since incurring a total of $ 65,000 in fines during a five - week stretch in the fall of» 96.

I am worried that by asking people to vote in favour of an imperfect system, the reform proposals will be an easy target for their opponents, and therefore the forces of political conservatism will ultimately win the day.

The State Health Department has spoken with advocates and opponents of letting people who were adopted access their original birth certificates, and will issue a report that may push the state legislature to pass what is called a clean adoption reform bill.

This approach is going to undermine the politicking strategies of other opponents of Lords reform, who see defeating the programme motion as the only realistic way of forcing the government to back down.

A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.

The problem, as Peter Facey of Unlock Democracy has just told me, is that Tory opponents of Lords reform are going to see straight through this.

Klein does have a Republican opponent, Frank Vernuccio, who was among the first batch of candidates to sign on to former Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising PAC reform pledges.

Harry Wilson is out of the country, but he couldn't help weighing in on the pension reform debate raging back home in New York, where his 2010 opponent, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, is under fire for opposing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for creation of a sixth pension tier with a 401 (k)- style option for new state employees.

This was sort of a no - brainer, considering Schumer has just one long - shot primary opponent — comedian and drug law reform advocate Randy Credico — and no GOP challenger yet for the general election.

In lackluster unison, the opponents of Iain Duncan Smith's reforms mumble that it is unfair that families with severely disabled kids should have their welfare income limited to # 500 per week.

Campaign Finance Reform Can Help Crack Down on Corruption A 2011 report by the Center for Competitive Politics has been seized upon by opponents of Fair Elections to argue that the public financing system in New York City is characterized by consistent abuse of public funds and corruption.

How can we seriously see Reynoso as a reform candidate when he is the spiritual grandson of his opponent?

«It makes this page uneasy knowing that many of the opponents to real reform in Albany are contributors to Cuomo's campaign such as public employee and teachers unions.

«We look forward to comparing Comptroller DiNapoli's strong record of achievement and reform to our opponent's career that began at Goldman Sachs and continued in the unregulated hedge fund industry.»

Opponents of the Lords reform argue that it is a distraction at a time when the priority should be addressing the lack of growth in the economy.

Miliband conceded his opposition to a programme motion would be portrayed by some as an attempt to wreck the bill and allow opponents to suffocate it through deliberate delay so the reform never reaches the House of Lords.

Saladino faced four opponents: Democrat and former Syosset school board president Marc Herman, who questioned Saladino's commitment to reform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruptionreform, as did John Mangelli, who narrowly lost to Venditto in 2015 as a Democrat and ran on the Reform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End CorruptionReform line; Jonathan Clarke, an attorney running on the Progressive line; and Robert Ripp, a frequent critic of Saladino at town board meetings who ran on the End Corruption line.