Sentences with phrase «public opposition over»

Many of the cyberbulling provisions are in fact similar to provisions in Bill C - 30 that was introduced in February 2012, but that was withdrawn due to the public opposition over the extent to which ISPs would have been required to hand over customer information.

«Alito may run up against more public opposition over his views on Roe v. Wade.

Not exact matches

While the agency routinely approves such transfers as matter of course, AT&T and Time Warner would likely face stiff opposition at a time of growing public concern over media consolation.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

«The controversy over fracking in the UK has deepened as Scotland imposed a ban on giving the green light to new schemes amid ongoing public opposition to the process.

When the state holds powerful control over the religious hierarchy and other public institutions, popular religion may become a nursery for political opposition.

Burnham tied himself in knots wrangling over the appropriate public / private divide, supporting private sources of funding in government but changing his mind in opposition.

In fact, Corbyn's strategy of endorsing the public vote and then trying to tie the government down over the details, to limit the extent of Britain's withdrawal and to exploit weaknesses and divisions within the Conservatives is exactly the right one and what any sensible opposition would be doing.

Opposition parties had hoped to tap into public anger over inflation that peaked at over 40 percent last year, as well as low growth and high unemployment.

There are hints that, despite the heavy Tory leafleting, the public mood may not be as won over by David Cameron's advances as the opposition would like.

A lively Milwaukee Common Council committee hearing over public financing for a new basketball arena revealed a higher price tag for the city's contribution to the project and new opposition from the community activist group Common Ground.

You have stigmatised and criminalised every single leading member of the opposition PDP, including our leader President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, over the last three years and you have sought to paint us as reprobates and evil souls that are not fit to hold public office and that have destroyed the very foundation of our country.

With public support in his hip pocket, you'd think the governor could afford to be more generous over hearing the opposition out.

Klein, a former head of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, said the public's mood over publicly financed campaigns needes to be gauged first, noting that some voters may be uneasy with allowing taxpayer dollars to fund political campaigns (the Senate GOP, which has equal governing weight in the coalition, has cited this reason for its opposition to public financing).

Grisanti held a news conference in his district over the weekend angrily denouncing the Public Campaign Action Fund and re-asserting his opposition to the measure.

The poll is anomalous in giving the Conservatives a lead over the opposition, but it is in line with other surveys which find the public still trusts the Conservatives with economic policy, despite George Osborne admitting he would exceed the borrowing levels proposed by Alastair Darling and be unable to eradicate the deficit by the next election.

The Suffolk Legislature's Public Safety Committee effectively killed a bill that would have given it oversight over money seized by county law enforcement agencies after opposition surfaced from Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and incoming District Attorney Timothy Sini.

Ed Balls went to a good public school, to Oxford, over to Harvard for a stint teaching, returning to write leaders for the FT, on to working for Gordon Brown in opposition and government, to MP and into the cabinet two years after entering parliament.

But former footballer, author, sports broadcaster and public speaker David Icke lent his support to Corbyn over his opposition to intervention.

«The challenge for me now, and all of the shadow cabinet and Jeremy Corbyn as leader, is to demonstrate we can be a strong opposition and a convincing alternative to the Tories and that we can win over and win back public opinion, particularly voters we've lost in recent years.»

Gordon Brown is eager that the public perceives changes before the next General Election and an early election doesn't allow him to do this, Labour though will delight in confusion in the Opposition over the timing of an election.

The first notice to stop selling Fire Cider was sent to an Etsy business after the Public Opposition was over.

Their Public Opposition was filed on April 2012 and was over on Dec. 2012.

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According to the latest Education Next poll, public support for merit pay gained significant ground over the past year and now outdistances opposition by a 2:1 margin.

In retrospect, however, the frequent appeals to science and social science over the past century were usually not much more than rhetorical gambits meant to persuade the public and to disable the opposition.

In October 2003, over opposition from the Orleans Parish School Board, voters in the state approved a constitutional amendment, by a 60 to 40 percent margin, allowing the state to assume control of public schools that received an «academically unacceptable» rating four years in a row, applied retroactively so that failing New Orleans schools could be taken over sooner.

It's an unusual case of collateral damage, but the suppression of domestic political opposition, independent media, and open protest in Turkey by President Tayyip Erdoğan and his attacks on Fethullah Gülen, a onetime ally now living in political exile in a small Pennsylvania town 90 miles north of Philadelphia, has spilled over to a Texas - based public charter school.

Your report about the growing achievement gap between white and African - American students over 20 years of «reform» in the Chicago Public Schools reaffirms our organization's strong opposition to one of the most harmful of these initiatives, the practice of flunking students based on their scores on the annual state tests.

As Antonucci points out, «Categorical opposition to something on the fringe of education policy is practical, but as such things become more mainstream over time, this becomes less and less feasible and costs the union in public credibility.

Over the past three legislative sessions, the Texas public education accountability system, once rated by national organizations as the best in the country, has come under relentless attack by a firestorm of misguided opposition to standardized and so - called «high stakes» testing, so that by the end of the 2013 session, the system had essentially been gutted.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

NEA had not taken any formal steps to determine who its rank - and - file actually preferred for the Democratic nomination, but it's no secret that there were many in the union who favored Sanders over Clinton, citing the socialist's «opposition to charter schools, support for collective bargaining rights and free tuition at public higher education institutions.»

Save our Public Schools ended up raising just over $ 15 million ($ 15,406,897) in opposition to lifting the cap on charter schools.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

Public opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City's pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce public funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode IPublic opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City's pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce public funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Ipublic funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The hundreds of thunderous rallies, the flood of phone calls, and the deluge of millions of emails in opposition to the DeVos» nomination deny the Trump administration a mandate to take over our public schools.

Learn how the Washoe County School District in Reno, Nev., overcame significant barriers and opposition and was able to educate the public about its needs, such that a ballot measure for a tax increase to fund almost $ 800M in capital projects over 8 years passed with close to 57 % of the vote in 2016.

On the April 4 ballot will be two - term incumbent Tony Evers, a public school advocate backed mostly by liberals and teachers unions who has been at odds with Republicans for years over his adoption of the Common Core State Standards and his opposition to the expansion of private school vouchers in the state.

NSBA joined over 50 National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE) members in expressing their opposition to school vouchers and tuition tax credit programs in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives.

NSBA joined over 50 National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE) members in expressing strong opposition to school vouchers and tuition tax credit programs in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives.

TEHRAN: Amid the post-election turmoil and public protests that have roiled Iran over the last several weeks, one of the most poignant (and potent) symbols for the opposition has been Neda Agha - Soltan, the young woman shot by a government sniper in the midst of the Tehran crowds on June 20.

Over the past two years, more than 100 municipalities across the USA have overturned bans and other restrictions that target dogs in the pit bull family, and opposition to BSL comes from sources as diverse as the American Bar Association, animal rescue groups, the Center for Disease Control and even President Barack Obama, who said in August that the laws are largely ineffective while doing nothing to improve public safety, and are often a «waste of public resources».

There's a point - by - point breakdown over at CP which is worth reading, but the gist is basically that the Obama administration, the Senate, and (I'd add...) those of us in the green community, can hopefully learn from the opposition to health care reform and develop a new way of framing the climate bill so as to avoid getting bogged down in public shouting matches and disinformation campaigns.

Clinton delivered her opposition in person and Obama by letter as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held its first hearing on Yucca Mountain since Democrats took over Congress in January.

«Given the present hysteria in Canada, the U.S., and Europe over record - high gasoline prices,» the CCPA warns, «public opposition is potentially the largest impediment to the application of a carbon tax.»

The records, including a leaked email and an internal government memo from January 2016, provide a glimpse into public servants» deliberations over opposition to the multi-billion-dollar Kinder Morgan project as well as the power and influence of the oilpatch over Canadian government policies.