Sentences with phrase «resisting public pressure»

Although many of these bail decisions are not publicly available, they do suggest that some judges are capable of resisting public pressure for pretrial detention.

I want you to know that we all admire you and the strength you've shown at resisting the public pressure to back down.

It was a stunning fall from grace for Law and a rare step for the church, which deeply resists public pressure but could no longer do so given the scope of the crisis.

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Comey said he resisted pressure from Trump to make that fact public because the investigation might expand to include the president.

'' [Public companies] can continue to resist pressures to focus on the short term at the expense of long - term strategy, growth and sustainable performance.

This installment finds him resisting pressure from the government, the press and the public to share the secrets to his state - of - the - art armor with the U.S. military out of fear that the technology might fall into the wrong hands.

Blacksburg, Va — Called together to comment upon what one speaker called «the current fervor to enhance the moral influence of the public school,» experts in the study of values suggested here this month that schools should resist external pressures to «narrow their focus» to the teaching of specific religious or moral doctrines.

Since 2015, the National Education Policy Center Schools of Opportunity project has identified and celebrated public high schools that have resisted the test - focused craze of the No Child Left Behind era and — rather than buckling under the pressure to focus solely on student outcomes — have made it a priority also to create strong and equitable opportunities for all students to learn.

In gross contrast to America's public schools where coordinated efforts teach students how to resist peer pressure and think for themselves, the documentary offered no scientific discussion.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

The DFC fails to criticize the core goal... which is to give more power to publishers, and its central decision, to reject the Constitution and place the publishers above the users...... Resisting the pressure for additional power for publishers depends on widespread awareness that the reading and listening public are paramount; that copyright exists for users and not vice versa.

The first meeting in San Francisco, from that, an effort called the Never Again Tech Pledge was created, and so it was spearheaded by a handful of people starting off at that first meeting, and what that was about was resisting, or applying pressure from the bottom of these tech companies, so employees telling their management and telling the public that they would not work on a Muslim registry, or any kind of registry that was based on race, religion, national origin.

Although the Serious Organised Crime Agency resisted investigating possible criminal wrong - doing by these companies (on the basis of damage to the economy) public pressure forced the government to announce plans to introduce a licencing system and new regulations.