"pushback" means resistance or opposition to change or someone's ideas or actions.
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There will always be reasons not to take the risk in learning with students, and honestly, I expected a lot of
pushback from parents and admin that just never happened.
Meanwhile, environmental groups see carbon capture as an industry figleaf to shield the EPA from
pushback against its climate rules that will still allow the use of fossil fuels, albeit with lower emissions.
Because the new schools would be free from union contracts, Ferebee got a lot
of pushback from teachers» unions, Harris says.
It's when we tell this story that we don't get
pushback on the concept of firm regulation.
After
getting pushback from lawmakers and thousands of residents, state environmental officials are considering major changes to a management plan that called for the eradication of New York's wild mute swan population by 2025.
There's been plenty of
pushback in recent months from parents and teachers who say students already take too many tests, and some states have been reconsidering the requirements.
He is still likely to
face pushback on new homeless shelters, which he has vowed to bring to the island, and lots of questions on transportation.
Yet Klimenko - who once said that accepting bitcoin for payment constitutes a crime - is
receiving pushback against his claims, including from another Russian government official.
From Commonwealth central bankers to major credit card networks, digital currencies have been cited by many observers as a possible game - changer for the world of remittances,
despite pushback from industry incumbents.
More than merely a policy shift, this renewed advocacy for vouchers represents a growing threat to our nation's system of public education — a threat that will only gain momentum in the months and years ahead absent strong
pushback by public school advocates.
When faced
with pushback from colleagues, Chavez was direct in his response, according to colleague Adam Korn:
At COP 23 many / most of the meetings discussing article 6 are closed (Thanks Venezuela...) making it so there is less ability
for pushback on false solutions.
«I got a lot of
pushback about how many lights I needed to make it work.»
Once again, I received significant
pushback as evidenced by the comments included after the following graph.
A concerted effort by Republicans in Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act hit a surprising road block earlier this year:
strong pushback against cuts to Medicaid.
More than a dozen documents reveal for the first time that despite
political pushback against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, key interests in the state are searching for ways to comply in case legal challenges fail.
I've been noticing more and
more pushback in Amazon reviews complaining about serialization.
Senate education committee chair John Flanagan told Capital last week that the receivership plan would be a «lighting rod,» particularly because he
expected pushback from other unions that would see the proposal as a threat to collective bargaining rights writ large.
I am a harsh critic and I get a lot of
pushback when I make my case at various discussion boards and blogs.
-- the first major
pushback at a gay bar, which were frequently the target of police raids.
Students and parents have justification to generate major
pushback if teachers or schools do not reveal how test results will be used in advance.
UPDATE1: I'm getting some
serious pushback for suggestion de Blasio is the current fair - haired boy for the WFP in 2013.
What I find interesting is that the
biggest pushback against breastfeeding (at least in my experience) came from * other * women, almost always those who did not breastfeed.
This philosophy saw its most
public pushback when India rejected Facebook's «free basic internet» offering as «digital colonialism.»
Cuomo faced
pushback over proposals that would give him more power over the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and state procurement practices.
The tax agency's effort has run into headwinds, with
pushback coming from both the startup itself as well as some of its users.
Cuomo made the issue a focus of his State of the State Address in 2015 but faced
major pushback from Senate Republicans and dissension amongst Democratic legislators who had various ideas on what a special prosecutor bill should do.
No wonder, then, that the Whitney, undaunted by Stella's previous two retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) chose to give him a third, though not
without pushback from the artist, who had wanted to show only his later work until persuaded otherwise.
No doubt this will
cause pushback from more than a few financial professionals.
Carson: Well how much
pushback do you think there will be from the public?
Conservative Christians are right about one thing: public opinion has shifted on same - sex marriage (particularly within the Church), and this means they are more likely to
encounter pushback when they insist same - sex marriage ought to be illegal.
We find that while there are issues with
initial pushback — concerns about mess, etcetera — what we find is that after breakfast is put into place those fears are addressed.
Despite
recent pushback in some states, that mandate is likely to continue to gradually increase.
Apparently
anticipating pushback, Salguero points out how frequently football players will cite God, Jesus or their faith in sideline interviews, but almost never get asked to elaborate on or even defend their statements.
The White House offered Gov. Andrew Cuomo detailed updates on in - state refugee resettlement
amid pushback by other governors to the administration's goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees through September 2016.
Boundaries are like consequences — once you establish that there are rules, and consequences for not following those rules, there will gradually be less and
less pushback as kids learn to modify their behavior to what's expected of them.
Ed Cox has been under fire in his role as chairman,
drawing pushback over his son's campaign, as well as concerns about his own fundraising performance and decision to recruit the Democratic Suffolk County executive to run on the Republican line for governor.
Answer: Each investment debate on a stock comprises three members of the investment team: a lead analyst who champions the idea, a «devil's advocate» who
offers pushback and feedback, and a fresh analyst who can bring a different perspective to the topic at hand.
The six financial federal regulators [HUD, Fed, FDIC, FHFA, OCC, SEC] responsible for writing and implementing the Qualified Residential Mortgage rule, or «QRM», re-proposed the rule after receiving
considerable pushback from NAR, other housing industry groups, consumer groups, and lawmakers.
Speaking at separate events over a two - day span, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito acknowledged significant
community pushback against the mayor's rezoning proposals and said that those plans will be tweaked before the Council votes on them.