Sentences with phrase «political defeat»

In recent years, voucher supporters have suffered political defeat at least as often as they have enjoyed success.

How Legislator Sparaco will vote after having suffered one of the worst political defeats in Rockland County's history last week is anyone's guess.

And it may have become more appealing as Moskowitz handed de Blasio a series of political defeats.

In his new warts - and - all biography, «All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life,» Cuomo covers a crushing political defeat followed by an ugly headline - grabbing tabloid divorce within a two - year span.

And Success suffered an embarrassing political defeat recently when state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia ruled that the charter network had to sign a mandatory city contract in order to get public funds for its pre-kindergarten programs, after Moskowitz tried to defeat de Blasio on his signature education issue by effectively appealing to his higher - ups in Albany.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo covers a crushing political defeat followed by an ugly headline - grabbing tabloid divorce within a two - year span in his new warts - and - all biography, «All Things Possible.»

They both suffered political defeat.

Her second term started in even worse fashion: in the first four months of 2015, she suffered four major political defeats in the Congress (but also passed three key bills).

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was a monumental achievement in 2001 — and the union's greatest political defeat in the modern era — but in subsequent years it was NCLB that found itself being transformed, and ultimately eviscerated, by powerful political blowback from unions and the intransigence of the districts.

It was an easy fight for her to win: de Blasio fumbled when he decided to reverse the co-locations of three of her charters, and was forced to find alternate space for the schools after sustaining an embarrassing political defeat just months into his tenure as mayor.

Until ed reformers temper this antipathy towards more advantaged families, abandon guilt - driven political appeals, and embrace the political realities of self - interest they should expect to continue suffering a series of political defeats.

In Hero of the Empire, bestselling author Candice Millard (The River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic) offers a revealing portrait of a young Winston Churchill, smarting from his first political defeat and hungry for the fame he had yet to achieve.

Last year, when de Blasio was at his most vulnerable, Cuomo chose to play a decisive role in the mayor's most embarrassing political defeat to date by siding with charter school executive Eva Moskowitz in a high - profile fight over city charters.

While Mr. Liepert may not prove to be a huge improvement from Mr. Anders, he and his team have certainly done Canadians a service by delivering Mr. Anders the political defeat he deserved.

Losing the war made the South the South; Southern literature, for example, is all about the experiences of displaced aristocrats and a kind of very otherworldly Christianity that was the product of political defeat.

Thus he was the anticlerical designer of Mexico's postrevolutionary educational system — but following a political defeat in 1925 the «temptation... really to give up for good and enter a monastery, to pray, making up for the years in which I had not prayed, returned in intense and urgent form.»

This change seems one - sided to me; if most Americans accept this change of terms as fair, the pro-life movement faces certain moral and political defeat.

The story tends to group its varied events and components around four central events — the Exodus from Egypt, the establishment of the monarchy under David at Jerusalem, the purification of Israel by the Word of God in the political defeat at the hands of Assyria, and the fulfillment of Israel's existence that has never quite come and will yet be seen in the blessing of the families of the earth and the healing of the world's estrangement.

In July, Mr. Cuomo offered high praise to ride - sharing apps even as Mr. de Blasio, a fellow Democrat, was being dealt a political defeat.

And it may have become more appealing as Moskowitz handed de Blasio a series of political defeats.

Two beloved dogs — Franklin Roosevelt's Fala and Richard Nixon's Checkers — inspired speeches that brought their owners back from the brink of political defeat.

Conservatives and industry were stung by these political defeats.