Sentences with phrase «powerful new forces for»

Now, with economic crisis, there are powerful new forces for change.

In counterweight to these forces of inertia, the past two decades have also seen the development of powerful new forces for reform that should strengthen America's ability to improve its schools as we head into the future.

Not exact matches

America's housing crisis generated nearly 4 million foreclosures and devastated residential equity for more than six years, but it also created a powerful new positive force in the nation's residential real estate economy.

Within five years of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, however, the postwar internationalist consensus disintegrated, and isolationism reemerged as a powerful force in American public life: not an isolationism fearful of America becoming contaminated by the world but the isolationism of the New Left, convinced that America itself was poison in and for the world.

Reardon, a high school teacher with limited resources and minimal political juice, says he never could have dispatched such a powerful incumbent were it not for the help of a relatively new political force in Oregon: the Working Families Party.

«No New Yorker should be subjected to live in a hazardous home, yet bad landlords in our city are forcing too many tenants to live in dangerous and indecent conditions,» said James, who called the list a «powerful tool for putting unscrupulous landlords on notice.»

ALBANY — Three powerful teachers» unions joined forces Friday to lobby for legislation that would create a moratorium on attaching «high stakes» to student scores on new state exams.

Eleven forms of fentanyl, a powerful and deadly opioid, should be added to New York's controlled substance list to boost enforcement, and insurance companies should be forced to reimburse first responders for higher doses of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, Cuomo proposed.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business worNew York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business wornew mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

Eleven forms of fentanyl, a powerful and deadly opioid, should be added to New York State's controlled substance list to boost enforcement, and insurance companies should be forced to reimburse first responders for higher doses of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed Thursday on Long Island.

Forming a new «league» with sorceress Zatanna, otherworldly Deadman, and Jason Blood and his powerful alter ego Etrigan the Demon, this team of Dark Arts specialists must unravel the mystery of Earth's supernatural plague and contend with the rising, powerful villainous forces behind the siege — before it's too late for all of mankind.

Rising up to become the most powerful defense force to ever walk the earth, they set course for a spectacular all - new adventure on a towering scale.

The OECD's education director Andreas Schleicher explains why there is such a need for new rankings to show young people's competence in a world where globalisation is a powerful economic, political and cultural force.

Achieve3000 ® has joined forces with NWEA to develop a powerful new integration that will allow educators to create MAP Informed Learning Paths linked to skills and concepts outlined in the MAP Assessments and required for College and Career Readiness.

Data - driven decision - making is a powerful force for improvement among teachers and administrators alike, but it can take time for these stakeholders to adapt to this new way of thinking, especially at the beginning.

Two V8 engines were introduced once again in 1996, with the new BMW M5 entering the market in 1998 with the most powerful production engine built by BMW up to that time: this 294 kW / 400 hp power unit came, among other highlights, with features such as oil supply controlled for centrifugal forces and electronically controlled individual throttle butterflies.

Just like the fast saloons that AMG has been making so well for decades, the new E 63 has a forced - induction V8 engine powerful enough to be worthy of a contemporary supercar.

I think agents can become a powerful, impresarial force for talented authors, but they're going to have to work in some new ways — to wit, the idea I'm positing here of finding and partnering with promising people earlier, rather than forcing the writers to bear the entire brunt of «proof of performance» before ever getting to the starting gate.

Media coverage for your book — via local news channels, blogs, radio stations, and newspapers — can be a powerful force for reaching new readers and boosting sales.

In addition to single player Arcade, Training and Mission modes, a visually stunning and immersive cinematic Story Mode will put players at the center of both universes as they battle for supremacy against powerful forces and a new villain.

«An exquisitely produced new book reveals the playful experimentation of original Bauhaus member Anni Albers, cementing her reputation as a powerful force in the graphic arts amidst a flurry of major solo shows,» Felix Bazalgette writes in a review of the publication for Elephant.

Minimalism and pop art, too, had by the end of the 1950s become powerful forces in the United States and would further strengthen New York's impregnable position as the world's art capital — a position it would not willingly relinquish and one which, at the time, and for the next couple of decades, it was easily able to defend.

Does the publication of The Silurian Hypothesis open up a new opportunity for powerful forces to further undermine the credibility of climate science and climate scientists?

Sp in this new genre of cli - fi (climate fiction), «Exteme Whether» — not» weather» but» whether» please note — is a fierce expose of politically motivated censorship and a look at the courage it takes to keep up the fight for truth against immensely powerful forces.

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

Another frequently mentioned option is for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of New York to invoke the state's powerful stock - fraud statute, the Martin Act, as the state has done in recent years to force other fossil fuel companies to disclose more about the financial risks they face from climate change.

Now that the Moto GamePad can be added to the more powerful new Moto Z2 Force, there's an opportunity for this combination brings more serious mobile gaming to the Android platform.

The MacBook and entry - level MacBook Pro offer a Force Touch trackpad with support for Force Click and gestures, allowing for more subtle and powerful interactions; they also sport a built - in full - size keyboard with new butterfly switch - style keys.

The new Lead Capture App offers real estate professionals a wealth of powerful lead - generating and collaboration features including: - The ability to force registration when visitors search for properties.