Sentences with phrase «resisting moves towards»

And resisting moves towards slightly reducing the huge electoral bias (5 + %) towards Labour in the current boundaries isn't gerrymandering.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

Not exact matches

This absolute of physics has thus far not only resisted all attempts at «relativization», but, if I am not mistaken, it tends to find its counterpart in a current moving in the opposite sense, positive and constructive, which is revealed by the study of the earth's biological past: the ascent of the Universe towards zones of increasing improbability and personality.

It is important to note that while opposition to high - stakes testing and value - added analysis often seems self - serving — it is easy to see why ineffective teachers might resist accountability — moving towards embedded software - based assessment actually raises the level of transparency, by allowing us to monitor not just what happens on the day of a high - stakes test, but rather to see how students learn over time.

If he can't resist your hand no matter how far away it is, hold a treat over his head in your right hand and move your left hand towards him while he is focusing on the treat.

While these works retain a certain luminosity, they are predominately dark, almost resisting colour, and indicate a steady move towards increasingly simplified pictorial elements and a progressively reduced colour palette.

When the Australian Government and some other states were moving towards Indigenous land rights in the 1970s and 1980s, the Queensland Government resisted.