Sentences with phrase «sharp criticism by»

Because of these suboptimal qualities of mortgage life insurance, the product has been subject to sharp criticism by financial experts and by the media across North America for over a decade.

L.A. Unified Board Will Back Classroom Breakfast Program A majority of L.A. Unified School Board members said they will vote to continue a classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by the teachers union.

It was one of several changes to the platform pertaining to standardized tests and charter schools that have created a flurry of recent discussion: sharp criticism by some and cheers of support by others.

Parents Rally to Save Classroom Breakfasts Union officials representing school cafeteria workers led a noisy rally of parents Tuesday to save a Los Angeles Unified classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by teachers.

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The AT&T - Time Warner deal has become a political flashpoint because Republican President Donald Trump vowed last year as a candidate to block it and because of his frequent sharp criticism of news network CNN, owned by Time Warner, including in a new tweet on Wednesday.

The editorial board noted Trump's history of sharp criticism of individuals followed by lack of action on firing them.

After white nationalists clashed with protesters in Charlottesville this weekend, Trump did not initially condemn white supremacists or racists by name, prompting sharp criticism from all sides.

The site is occupied by a 5,000 - year - old, walled Buddhist city, and China's determination to extract copper from the area has drawn sharp criticism from archaeologists and others.

T - Mobile's sharp criticism of Sprint didn't go unanswered by the Softbank subsidiary.

Much of the criticism, I expect, is generated by envy of the Legion's success, especially in attracting priestly vocations in a time when vocations to most other religious orders are in sharp decline.

The methods of form criticism help us to pick out aspects of the gospel accounts of Jesus» conduct and teaching which are in sharp contrast to the current practice and teaching of his day, and which it would not have been in the earliest church's interest to introduce into the material: for example, Jesus» attitude to women, his table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners», his refusal of the epithet «good», and Mark's comment — altered by Matthew — that in Nazareth «he could do no mighty work».

But he defiantly stated that, he would not be perturbed by the criticisms and insults coming from some of these «babies with sharp teeth,» notably in the ruling party.

The latest revelation is in sharp contrast to an earlier statement by the government of Ghana to the effect that the US Government was solely responsible for the maintenance cost of the two whose arrival has since triggered public outcry and criticism.

Buhari's decision to sign the proclamation was a fallout of the sharp criticism that followed the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organisation by the Nigerian Army at the weekend and the group's proscription by the South - east governors.

It was fueled by public broadsides — Mr. de Blasio, fed up, issued his sharpest criticism to date of the governor — and private resentments, including Mr. Cuomo's pique over the mayor's choice for a new press secretary.

Today, the worthlessness of the criticisms is brought into sharper focus by the national and international profile of the programme.

A proposal to improve safety by capping the number of hours that professional drivers can be on the road has drawn sharp criticism from NYC taxi - industry members.

And The Times found that large sections of the audit, including the recommendation for demotion and the sharpest criticism, were removed from the report by the previous commissioner, Dora B. Schriro.

The rezoning was touted by the de Blasio administration as an example of how to meet the interests of developers while expanding affordable housing, but it drew sharp criticism from activists in the neighborhood and some elected officials, who argued it didn't go far enough in ensuring that space would be reserved for the neighborhood's poorest residents.

Though Darwin's theory was logically sound and backed up by reams of evidence, his ideas faced sharp criticisms from adherents of creationism and the religious establishment around the world — just as he had feared.

A week after sharp criticism met the U.S. military's announcement that it planned to help Liberia combat its Ebola epidemic with a «deployable hospital» that has a mere 25 beds, U.S. President Barack Obama tomorrow plans to unveil dramatic new efforts to assist the West African countries besieged by the disease.

Released last week by the National Academy of Education, the report represents the sharpest criticism to date of some of the newer methods being used to measure or interpret NAEP results.

These new policy changes, however, were met by sharp criticism from opponents who felt that new state - level reforms would undermine local control.

2017 was a big year for education news in Los Angeles, drawing national attention to the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, the looming fiscal cliff exacerbated by declining enrollment, and a new state accountability system that has sparked sharp criticism from parent groups across the state and education advocates across the nation.

The complaint resulted in a DOJ investigation that provoked sharp, relentless criticism from Johnson, who argued that the long - running probe was motivated by the Obama administration's opposition to vouchers rather than by any evidence of civil rights violations.

Instead of sharply and aggressively critiquing SB24 which was what was needed to match the support put together by the corporate education reform industry and Malloy, the CEA hugged the line between collaboration and mild criticism effectively making their critiques weaker at a time when they needed to be stronger and sharper.

These glowing reviews stand in sharp contrast to past criticism of the FHA, which was previously bashed by lenders and borrowers alike as too cumbersome.

Artists, critics and curators would pay court, waiting to be cut down to size by her unhesitating and devilishly sharp criticism.

In 2014, in the wake of its sharp and well - substantiated criticism of the pressure caused by «turbo - capitalism» and gentrification on Berlin's independent art scene, the self - organised group Haben & Brauchen («to have and to need») opened a working group to define «art terms between autonomy and functionalization ``.

Then, it was in Warsaw when the Venezuelan government announced that they would host the preCOP, a Venezuelan government which bears as an insignia the communist legacy of Hugo Chavez, and is identified within the UNFCCC (Climate Change Conference of the UN) as a country with sharp criticism of the lack of ambition by many other nations in regard to dealing with climate change.

The journal has also drawn sharp criticism for their abuse of the peer - review process, including one from Michael Mann regarding a criticized study co-authored by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas.

The UK has come in for sharp criticism over its anti-bribery laws, in a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.