Sentences with phrase «public resistance»

This show is about the «corporate» war on public education and the rising public resistance movement to the war.

Nowadays, there seems to be growing public resistance to what was once our industry's traditional fee structure, in the form of a trend toward lower fees.

Financial support faced strong public resistance and it took a considerable amount of time before public funds were actually injected into financial institutions.

But to succeed in breaking through this metal door of public resistance required not a diplomat, but a battering ram.

In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean and Cheap,» which argues that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the world.

For instance, campaigns directed against companies or farms known for their «humane» production policies may encounter public resistance because they seem to be going after wrong or innocent targets, especially to people who (like most consumers) are not aware of the actual regulations behind labels such as «humanely raised» or «natural».

«Public resistance against the levy was enough to dissuade the government», Minister of Roads and Transport, Hon. Kwaku Ofori Agyemang in a letter issued Sunday stated.

Aware of the potential for public resistance, she made sure her staff was fully informed and able to explain the goals behind the changes.

There was a wave of public resistance from those who feared American - style retailing on this scale would pulverize smaller players, and politicians in Vancouver also lobbied to keep the retailer outside of city borders, citing environmental concerns.

It's worth noting that significant public resistance to the Keystone Pipeline paved the way for the Obama administration to squash it, and, yes, this battle may very well be fought again.

But Democrats on the committee predicted that the Trump administration would meet with substantial public resistance if it tries to withdraw from the deal.

But as well as public resistance, the dumps are meeting scientific opposition because of their potential to cause massive, long - term damage to underground water reserves.

Grika (1986) indicated a widespread misunderstanding of giftedness which can mean public resistance to funding for gifted education.

(Calif.) Education officials in California are breathing a sigh of relief after the unveiling of the state's new school accountability dashboard was met with little public resistance last week.

The Center on Reinventing Public Education, a corporate education reform organization, provides a playbook for avoiding public resistance to implementing unified enrollment.

ESSA is not as punitive as NCLB, but its worn - out test - centrism will accomplish little as it prompts states to seek creative ways to retain Title I money in the face of an increasing public resistance to the very testing on which corporate reform depends.

Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr. invites guests from all over who join the rising public resistance movement against the corporate greed taking on our public school system.

I think this is especially a problem for arenas of inquiry, like climate science and evolution, that encounter public resistance since this enlarges the temptation.

This green - green bloc generally manages to heighten public resistance to genetically modified crops and food and thereby to exert strong influence on national policy makers.

This may not have been proposed because of expected public resistance or because the undersea cable would have to be longer and more expensive.

If CCS is proposed in populated areas, one can expect there to be widespread public resistance to CCS projects in the same way that there are objections today to fracking and nuclear waste disposal.

«Endangered species, prescribed fires, and public Resistance in a Florida scrub community.»

Scientists there plan to develop vaccines for a range of pathogens — from bioterror threats to sexually transmitted diseases - and ponder policy issues, such as the growing public resistance to vaccination.

However, these exceptions may prove less frequent than expected — many shelters that have implemented scheduled intake have been pleasantly surprised at the relative lack of public resistance, especially after people have had a few weeks to get used to the new policy.

In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean, and Cheap,» which argued that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the world.

One of the best checks on this degradation, experts say, is public resistance.

At first there was public resistance to their use, but she said that during the last ten years there has been a change of attitude regarding Aboriginals and their foods.

Moreover, passage in December of a federal tax bill reducing deductions for state and local taxes has many experts warning of a probable rise in public resistance to higher school taxes.

Public resistance was fierce at the time, he recalls: «The term transgenic was basically used synonymously with toxic.»

«There has been little, if any, public resistance or pressure applied to Congress to reject the treaty, except by those «inside the Beltway» with vested interests.»

HOUSTON, Oct 27 (Reuters)- A private power line built in Texas by a unit of FPL Group (FPL.N) has other transmission developers worried about higher costs and public resistance to new lines needed to move emission - free wind power from sparsely populated areas to big cities, like Dallas and San Antonio.

Public resistance to coal also is on the upswing, as negative impacts from mining and electricity generation are becoming clearer over time.

public resistance to these plans,» says Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD).