Sentences with phrase «roll back decades»

«The call right now has to be to the next generation to recognize that we are at a moment in time when this administration wants to roll back decades and decades of progress,» remarked City Comptroller Scott Stringer of Trump's policies.

In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

That could allow them to strike down or roll back decades of work.

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take us through this history, it becomes clear that although the U.S. Federal government supported the notion of employee ownership throughout most of its history, recent decades have seen a gradual but undeniable roll back in federal policies supporting these forms of corporations.

Tucked within an Orwellian press release touting its efforts to «combat child obesity,» the Texas Department of Agriculture has made official its lifting of a decade - old ban on deep fat fryers in Texas schools, as well as rolling back other common sense school nutrition measures.

In addition to paying property taxes and living in this district for more than three decades, Faso has long advocated for a property tax cap, unlike Professor Zephyr Teachout who opposes such a cap and supports rolling it back.

«It rolls us back to the days before the Americans With Disabilities Act became federal law, two decades ago,» Edith Prentiss, chair of the Taxis for All Campaign said.

«Government job losses can largely be confined to rolling back the excessive growth in administration which has accompanied the spending binge of the last decade.»

Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates, said would expect forces to try and roll back environmental protections won over the decades.

Cuomo drew some praise later in the show from former governor George Pataki, who criticized de Blasio's charter decision, saying, «it's just terrible now to see the mayor looking to roll back the progress we've made over a decade.»

«Despite assertions to the contrary, the Government has rolled back the progress made over decades on equality and we see the adverse impact this is having on teachers and pupils in our schools.

Additionally, Resveratrol (contained in Red Wine Extract) has been clinically shown to roll back the relative age of arterial tissues by decades.

Think back to the early decades: the 40s had swing dancing and jazz, the 50s, 60s, and 70s brought all variations of rock and roll, the 80s gave rise to some iconic stars, the 90s gave us hip hop and teen angst, and the 2000s gave us,...

So you might wonder quite why Disney is now planning a ream of live - action fantasy reworkings of its animated back catalogue, set to roll out over the next decade after the success of 2010's Tim Burton remake Alice in Wonderland.

Kicked out of the group just before it rockets to superstardom, Fishman has to watch in frustration as his former bandmates have their dreams come true — until two decades later, when a twist of fate puts him back in sight of his rock & roll fantasies.

STANFORD — In a decade in which many school voucher programs have been limited or rolled back in Washington, DC, Utah, Arizona, and Florida, the Louisiana legislature in 2008 passed a new voucher program for New Orleans.

This stuff isn't easy, and if you haphazardly roll out a program with this many moving pieces, it's going to fall flat and set us back for decades.

Obama used the White House speech to announce that he and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan would roll back certain accountability requirements of NCLB, a decade - old bipartisan education law that has been up for re-authorization since 2007.

In the Every Student Succeeds Act, Congress for the first time in decades rolled back federal involvement in K - 12 education and specifically ruled out any incentives or punishments for adopting or getting out of Common Core.

Nissan's been on a decade - long roll when it comes to building niche cars, from the 350Z and GT - R to the Cube and Juke, and it can all be traced back directly to the Xterra.

Interestingly, while the truck is brand new, the story really goes back more than a decade as in the winter of 2003 I stood on the edge of the Nissan Proving Grounds test track in Arizona, watching the roll - out of an all new truck: the Titan.

Earlier this decade, the FHA rolled back most verification requirements for this program.

In an interview for the Rolling Stone magazine, the American artist explains that whether our life ends tomorrow or five decades from today, there will always be some things left undone, some unrealized ideas sitting in the back of the mind itching to be shown to the world; he never really feared facing it, as it never really mattered to him: he was doing what he wanted to do until his last day.

Rolling back efficiency efforts is also at odds with the findings of a September 2017 energy efficiency potential study completed for the Iowa Utilities Association, which determined that 17 % of electricity use and 15 % of gas use in the state could be saved cost - effectively through efficiency programs over the next decade.

While Trump's rolling back a policy that may have loomed over coal producers in coming decades, it's going to take more to overcome market forces and raise demand for the fossil fuel to a level that'll put miners back to work, coal executives and analysts say.

New York State's attorney general has subpoenaed company records about its research going back decades, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a Rolling Stone interview published Tuesday, said Exxon's actions would amount to «a betrayal» of humanity if it's found to have suppressed knowledge about climate risks.