Sentences with phrase «powerful political force in»

Not only are the ranchers a powerful political force in the state, but local governments also fear that urban sprawl will invade the pristine natural beauty of their open spaces.

The palm oil industry is a powerful political force in the country.

In the U.S., ranchers are a powerful political force in many sparely populated states that are over-represented in the Senate and Electoral College.

Dentists are fixing more than teeth — they've also become a powerful political force in Albany.

He's the most powerful political force in the state.»

While they make up only a fraction of the 74 million Turks, they are considered one of the most powerful political forces in Turkey.

Not exact matches

Commitment and consistency are a very powerful forces that kick in with particularly strong force when people do things like making a public statement about something like a stock price or a political issue.

While agreeing with the Latin American bishops that the new churches were supported by «powerful ideological forces as well as economic and political interests [in the United States],» the document admitted that the evangelicals were fulfilling «needs and aspirations which are seemingly not being met in the mainline churches.

A decade after 9 / 11 - even the most intellectually challenged American should have understood that in the part of the world where there is instability and power vacuum - the slightest excuse can be used to rally people for a cause - and the Prophet is a powerful «cause» - that can be misused by political forces... So, any American who irresponsibly puts the lives of his fellow citizens in danger by using such provocation is a traitor to his country.

Ex-president Nkrumah of Ghana had inscribed on his monument in the capital city: «Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall follow.18 Every historical order elicits and organizes group loyalties which are among the most powerful forces in human life.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

His attack on political correctness is presented as a liberating, emancipatory force — a powerful moral critique in the hands of the downtrodden.

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.

In a city where unions are powerful political forces to begin with, Seabrook derived unusual clout from his position at the intersection of multiple lines of influence.

The two members of CCT panel deserve commendations and not knock for their bold and courageous adjudication on this matter in spite of the intense pressures and distractions from powerful political forces.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Former state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and Adam Skelos today were found guilty by a federal jury in Manhattan on eight counts charging the once - powerful lawmaker used his political influence to force businesses to hire the son.

Push to hold industry accountable The oil and gas industry, one of the state's most powerful political forces, has acknowledged some role in the damages, but so far has defeated efforts to force companies to pay for it.

Becoming king also bestows upon the king the powers of the Black Panther, though his threats aren't physical so much as political, having to deal with not only external forces who want to use Wakanda's stash of the worlds hardest and most powerful metal, vibranium, to their advantage, but also within Wakanda, among those who feel that they have a responsibility to share their advancement with the world to help those who desperately need its harnessed powers to heal, or, more extreme, to use their secretive wealth in resources and weapons technology to right centuries of wrongs for people of African descent around the world through a revolution.

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.

Over the last quarter century, the teachers unions have clearly been the most powerful force in American education, and they have clearly been using their extraordinary power — in collective bargaining at the local level, in the political process at the state and national levels — to undermine major reform and to burden the schools (via seniority provisions, the protection of bad teachers, and all the rest) with ineffective forms of organization.

The goal was to overcome what Klipsch referred to as «the problem» — the Indiana State Teachers Association, which his presentation calls «the most powerful political force at the Statehouse and at the ballot box» and «the biggest spender by far» in Indiana politics.

Thus, broken lives and spaces in this town are the product not only of national political processes and a sexist culture, but also of global powerful forces.

Perhaps not; and perhaps political efforts to generate commitments to ambitious if remote targets can be worthwhile as powerful forces for change, as with human rights in eastern Europe.

But now, thee are powerful financial and political forces that would * strongly prefer * to maintain the alarmist case for putting (respectively) money / votes in their pockets.

His goal in this book is «to prompt you not to lament our governments» failures to introduce the measures required to tackle climate change, but to force them to reverse their policies, by joining what must become the world's most powerful political movement».

Would be customers in America can register their interest as part of the Get Me a TH!NK campaign - hopefully sending a powerful message to TH!NK, and to the political forces that can help make this happen.

we need a powerful and active movement not to force the administration and the Democrats in Congress to do something they don't want to, but to give them the political space they need to act on their convictions.

, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has now admitted that those lawyers dominate state politics and he is powerless to push through a popular reform bill that actually could boost redevelopment efforts... → Read More: Cowardly NY Governor Admits Political Impotence, Calls Trial Lawyers «Most Powerful» Force in State

A much anticipated update to the court's Case Management Order proved to be a great disappointment for defendants, as the plaintiff - favoring judge who wrote it was predictably rewarded with an appellate court appointment by a governor who acknowledges that trial lawyers are «the single most powerful political force» in the state.

«RPAC is stronger than ever and has been crucial in making NAR one of the most powerful political forces at the federal level.