Sentences with phrase «political decision against»

According to MEP Herbert Reul, chair of the parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: «This was not a political decision against ITER and I am convinced that the ITER project still has the support of a majority of members.

«Rather than staying out of politics and seeing political decisions against our will being made to us, we need to rise up and redefine politics.»

Not exact matches

Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Tory Newmyer and it looks at labor federation AFL - CIO's decision to lift a freeze on political contributions that it imposed in March in a move meant to pressure Democrats to vote against free trade measures.

In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

First, the cost of China's fragmented decision - making process, with ministries competing against one another and generating gridlock and large political factions engaged in constant struggle, has been mounting.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

A political decision, namely, against a state which as a totalitarian state can not recognize any task, proclamation and order other than its own, nor acknowledge any other God than itself, and which therefore in proportion to its development had of necessity to undertake the oppression of the Christian church and the suppression of all human right and freedom.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

CNN: Top Catholic defends Obama invite against conservative criticism Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's most prominent Catholic official, defended on Wednesday the decision to invite President Barack Obama to a major Catholic dinner in the face of criticism from conservatives, saying the event is an opportunity for «friendship, civility and patriotism» amid a heated political campaign.

They were, instead, making the complex decisions that any serious voter must, weighing their own moral commitments against a candidate's professed values, the policies they propose and how much is likely to be accomplished on a given issue given the political climate.

HOWEVER, I'm 100 % against Diddy being the one to bring him in because he's not doing it as a football decision, he's doing it as a political one.

«This incident reveals something that's a continuum in political or other life - we try and make rational decisions, but we do so against a background of recognising that human beings are not wholly rational.»

Russia has in the past used its economic leverage to strive and influence decisions in Chisinau, Moldova's capital, and periodically places undeclared trade embargoes against Moldovan goods, in an effort to influence Moldova's political decisions and force it to toe Moscow's line.

* State prosecutors pursing bribery and corruption charges against G. Steven Pigeon saw their case improve today when a judge reversed an earlier decision to suppress email evidence that they believe incriminates the once - powerful political operative

In addition, Recchia's decision to skip two key debates against Grimm in Brooklyn, the Bay Ridge Community Council debate in September and an October forum sponsored by the Dyker Heights Civic Association, was questioned by political observers in both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Miliband wants to redefine what is seen as being strong and weak, as our prevailing macho political culture always defines «strength» as taking «tough decisions» (usually against the most vulnerable people).

Reports made it appear like a political decision, but as I understand it now it's rather the executive which determined FARA applies for RT activities, a decision against which RT could but chose not to appeal in court?

Perez Williams said her decision — less than two weeks before the deadline to file petitions to get on the June 26 ballot — was influenced by a political mentor she would not identify and a belief that Balter failed to raise enough money and attention to compete against Katko.

Qualcomm Discloses Political Spending New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expePolitical Spending New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, manager and trustee of the state retirement fund, has dropped a lawsuit against wireless tech giant Qualcomm following the company's decision to disclose its political expepolitical expenditures.

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

How we mischievously play the masses against leaders who expose corruption in their governments, justifies President Kufour's assertion.I say so because of how the Npp made political gains from from President Mahama's decision to prosecute his officials found to have involved themselves in corrupt practice.

«When the law makes a decision and it goes against party executives or party officials, the very political parties who are calling for rules of order and law to be put in place so that they will have a fair playing field are the very ones who go and support these recalcitrant young persons as if what they did was right so it sets the tone that there is a conflict and it throws both parties at each other,» he added.

This is all part of the downstate Democrat's crusade against the US Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that removed the fetters on corporate political spending.

The fact that Pataki chose to go against Demos is far less surprising than his decision to buck Cole and Finkelstein, two people who played long - standing roles in his political career.

Thomas and Dunn are squaring off against former U.S. Attorney Ken Sukhia in a heated North Florida Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, who is leaving her 2nd Congressional District seat after a 2014 redistricting decision led to radical changes to its political composition.

My charge against Chris Grayling is not that he was being political or even that he was using a back door party political route to make his views heard, but that in taking the decision as a Minister he appears to be putting party politics above the interests of the travelling public.

With the debate over welfare savings likely to form one of the central political battlegrounds of 2013, the deputy prime minister, speaking at a joint press conference with David Cameron at Downing Street, said: «I don't think it helps at all to try and portray that decision as one that divides one set of people against another, the deserving and the undeserving poor, people in work and out of work.»

Cuomo calls the bill an historic stand against dark money, the influence of Super PACs, and the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that opened up the floodgates for major, secretive political donations.

In a clear warning against making «political trade - offs», he said: «It's very important that a decision is taken on airports.

Speaker Paul D. Ryan's abrupt decision to dismiss the House chaplain triggered an uproar on Friday over religion, pitting Republican against Republican and offering Democrats a political opportunity in a year already moving their way.

Espaillat's decision to run against Rangel sets up a contest that many of New York's black and Latino leaders have said they hoped to avoid, and seems to represent at least a temporary step backward in the construction of a long - dreamed - of, elusive alliance between New York City's black and Latino political establishments.

Vance has repeatedly made recent headlines because of allegations that political contributions influenced his actions, including a decision not to bring sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein.

De Blasio, who has railed against the political spending allowed under the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision since he was public advocate, said Monday the donations made to the Campaign for One New York, which its operators voluntarily disclose, are relatively small donations made for the public good.

The FBI yesterday recommended there be no criminal charges against Clinton, a decision that has led to much political debate.

The decision to remove those politicians and their operatives working against our vital public interests, must first come from voters awakened out of their apathy toward the political affairs and governance of their treasury, and empower candidates who possess the will to do what is good and right.

In his lecture Peter will warn against the rise of direct democracy and the use of referendums to take major political decisions.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Although this decision might make the film more accessible to a wider audience, as it is easier to understand what Amin does when it seems to be a direct result of information that cuts to his very core, it does weaken the larger political story overall by making the focus more about crimes of passion than it is about crimes against humanity.

Strike back against any attempt to silence the voices of change coming from the streets — to the contrary, do everything that it is in your power to ensure a democratic environment that allow a wide public participation in the political decisions of Brazil.

They may participate in sexist practices and maintain unjust gender relations by perpetrating violence against women, controlling women's reproductive and familial decision making, limiting women's access to community resources and political power, or espousing patriarchal beliefs and norms that allow other men to engage in such actions.

By contrast, government - run schools turn the curriculum, what books are read, and what values are taught into political decisions, which can pit factions against each other and create winners and losers.

Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his political successor, but when Taft compromised many of Roosevelt's most cherished beliefs, Roosevelt ran against him for the presidency — a decision with consequences that still echo in our own time.

Political art often aims to help people understand relevant political and social issue such as human rights, equality or freedom, but political art is also used as a form of rebellion against injustice and bad political dPolitical art often aims to help people understand relevant political and social issue such as human rights, equality or freedom, but political art is also used as a form of rebellion against injustice and bad political dpolitical and social issue such as human rights, equality or freedom, but political art is also used as a form of rebellion against injustice and bad political dpolitical art is also used as a form of rebellion against injustice and bad political dpolitical decisions.

In the New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham speaks to the artist Stanford Biggers, while on ArtNet, Tim Schneider looks at the arguments against the Met's decision to introduce a mandatory entrance fee and argues that we should «focus less on political gestures made inside galleries than on organizing for social causes outside of them».

It's a timely decision, carried out against the backdrop of conflict, migrations and political upheavals all over the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, as well as on a global scale.

Significant extraction expansion decisions are being made at precisely the time when the political and economic environment is shifting against these carbon intensive fuels.

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Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy posts about this New York Times story reporting on infighting between DOJ career attorneys and political appointees regarding the DOJ's decision to seek $ 10 billion in penalties against the tobacco companies in its racketeering case rather than the $ 130 billion originally sought.

Set against this clear line of authority, however, is the 2015 decision of Senior District Judge (SDJ) Riddle in Russian Federation v Kononko [2015], in which a narrower reading of the phrase «political opinion» was first proposed i.e. to the effect that the requested person must establish that they have personally expressed relevant political opinions.