Sentences with phrase «political opponents»

The state has provided extensive training for teachers, but it's also facing a backlash from political opponents to the new standards.

The reporter asked about how the company could help dig dirt on political opponents.

But there isn't a single credible political opponent in sight.

It also will test his ability to compromise with newly empowered political opponents who have been resisting his legislative agenda since he was first elected in 2008.

The senior management of the firm also claimed to have partnerships with former intelligence officers to gather information about political opponents of their clients.

It is up to her main political opponents to get their act together.

All in an effort to find anything they could to smear political opponents.

Educators and political opponents questioned their commitment to public schools.

Labour may not be willing to engage in the drug debate, but you can see that it no longer considers it a club it can beat political opponents with.

On the other hand we had more than a few shows where the host and various political opponents sat there screaming at us the whole time yet the orders rolled right on in.

They are hoping it is a chance to smear their peaceful and democratic political opponents.

Much of this work was done without many Conservatives, let alone political opponents or journalists being aware.

He called on party supporters to be moderate in their celebration and respect the rights of other individuals in the country especially political opponents.

The longer failing schools are allowed to operate, the easier it is for our influential political opponents to push policies making it harder for all charters to thrive.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

The most worrying development is the harassment of political opponents of the President of state governors.

As with his tendency to use mental - health related insults (He has previously described political opponents as «bonkers», «demented», «depressed» and in one case «care in the community») Johnson's use of the Hitler comparison is deliberately designed to avoid the need to actually win debates on the force of argument alone.

In April, I went to St. Petersburg to learn more about the agency and its brand of information warfare, which it has aggressively deployed against political opponents at home, Russia's perceived enemies abroad and, more recently, me.

Facing political opponents at home and the German Army on the shores of France, newly selected Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is desperate to rally his nation and change the course of the war, and the future.

But in a few months of not particularly difficult campaigning, confrontations with political opponents made him appear aggressive, even vindictive, in trying to squeeze every ounce of political advantage from each situation, said the politicians and consultants.

And de Blasio's political opponents said he is just suggesting the tax because he is trying to get reelected.

Paterson, who accused political opponents of smearing him, absolved Cuomo of any role in spreading rumors about his personal life.

If the Tories» political opponents do not think that obligation is heavy enough, let them secure office and increase it.

The prosecutorial discretion power is so strong that it has actually become much more effective in forcing leadership change than a general election where political opponents seek to unseat them at the ballot box.

Add to this the accusations of forging the elections, and extending them to occupied territories, which by itself voids the result (see other answers), murdering political opponents (Boris Nemtsov), and we have Putin's legitimacy severely compromised.

He accuses Ahearn and other political opponents of dredging up an investigation to damage his party and McNally a month before the general election.

Stephen Harper's political opponents make hay over report that Canada is in midst of technical recession

Many individuals and institutions have spoken vociferously against the unwarranted attacks on perceived political opponents hours after Akufo - Addo was declared winner of the December 7 polls.

And he hears what his former political opponents now make of the Tories after they have shared power for a few months.

The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents

would help mend fences between the two political opponents after Democrats» tough losses in the midterm elections.

Miliband's later battle with the Mail is also understood to have won him widespread public sympathy, with even political opponents coming to his defence.

On Tuesday, the company's board announced that it was suspending its chief executive, Alexander Nix, after British television released secret recordings that appeared to show him talking about entrapping political opponents.

His success in winning over political opponents like Jesse Helms is inspired by the work of Martin Luther King.

The group alleged that the state - owned security outfit which the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, is planning to inaugurate, was designed to act as a tool to intimidate political opponents.

Upon being declared wanted however, Omisore said it has become clear that the EFCC had turned into a tool that was being used to harass political opponents of the government in power.

Turnbull related how the company «has relationships and partnerships with specialist organisations» who do «intelligence gathering» on political opponents using «people who used to work for MI5, MI6».

«Corruption is not a Nigerian invention but we must distinguish between fighting corruption and fighting political opponents,» he said.

We don't want to look like... look, we are dealing with political opponents so we should not use perception to criminalize people.

So while the Putin regime is not averse to brutality when it can get away with it (e.g., murdering domestic political opponents like Alexander Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, and Boris Nemtsov), its international tactics in this new, cooler Cold War are more discreet.

Transportation activists and political opponents called for City Hall to yank state Sen. Marty Golden's parking placard after a cyclist reported Golden waved his placard and claimed to be a cop in an effort to clear the bike lane, but de Blasio has remained silent.

Fowler made the remark in reaction to a question over insinuations that VAIDS may have been introduced to target political opponents, the same way anti corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is being perceived of late.

The spate of unwarranted witch hunt, bully and harassment of political opponents under the guise of the fight against corruption by the Akufo - Addo administration, using state investigative agencies is dangerous to our democracy.

This makes it increasingly easy for public servants to run afoul of something, giving political opponents, self - serving opportunists, and crusading journalists the chance to score points by taking people out.

«Mr. Fidler has also accepted public money to crush political opponents.

Theresa May's political opponents believe it is.

While political opponents continue attacks on the rights of working men and women in some states, elsewhere the story is one of success for agreement - based approaches to advance education reform and budget savings.

We also asked them if the Prime Minister was aware of the invitation when he described Mr Gani as an «ISIS supporter», and condemned political opponents who had spoken at events to which he had been invited.

A day after news came out about McCain's brain cancer diagnosis, his one - time political opponent urged the ailing senator to think about his political future sooner rather than later — and expressed interest in the possibility of her taking over his Senate seat.