Sentences with phrase «policy battle between»

Last year's education policy battle between the Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was a bruising one, and in April an estimated 20 percent of students opted out of the round of English and math tests.

Not exact matches

The culture feeds a mentality that crowds out a necessary give and take — the very concept of good - faith disagreement — turning every policy difference into a pitched battle between good (us) and evil (them).»

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

As the smoke rises from the battle over plain - pack cigarettes, a dark contest between healthy policy and healthy profits burns on.

Neither Goldsmith nor Khan are household names and in a more low - key battle, the public's party and policy preferences may end up having more of an effect than they did during the celebrity contests between Boris and Ken.

An infrastructure battle is bubbling between Canadian province of Ontario and the state of New York that could set the stage for future commerce tension between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north as «America First» policies become the new normal under Trump.

It will be seen as the green light to an intense battle between the parties as politicians fight over economic policy for the next six months.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, in a meeting with the press to mark his first year in office, explained that due to sound economic management policies his government has introduced, the battle between the labour unions and government is over.

A battle over housing policy is quietly rekindling the feud between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders exposed policy fault lines within the party on issues ranging from the minimum wage, to free trade and hydrofracking.

Battle lines between the leadership hopefuls will be drawn in Cardiff on Thursday, when the pair will be grilled on their policy stances.

Today's House action is the latest battle in a protracted war over immigration policy between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

The move marks the latest battle between states and the Obama administration over what has been perceived to be heavy - handed federal education policy that will continue for the next few years.

Unfortunately, there are people who are so entrenched in the old battles between policy makers and labor that they fail to see that we have moved beyond past skirmishes and are working together for our city's kids.

Amazon's Kindle book prices may be a bit cheaper, but that's often because Amazon is selling the books at a loss — there's currently a bit of a battle between Amazon and publishers over the company's pricing policies.

But given the un-diametric mutual opposition between Davey and Flint's parties on the climate issue, this hardly counts as a battle of ideas, and barely even a disagreement about policy beyond the superficialities of inter-party politics.

That issue in Canada has come up mostly in the context of the policy aspects of the battle between first to patent and first to invent.»