Sentences with phrase «significant public backing»

If the government is acting confidently, it is because it knows it has significant public backing for its welfare reforms plans.

However, the proposal has not received any significant public backing.

Even with significant public backing, the line has dropped two points, indicating that sharp money is favoring the double - digit underdog.

Not exact matches

Companies like Uber and Lyft are based in Silicon Valley and backed with significant amounts of venture capital, and for the most part there is little indication that they will go public anytime soon.

I audited many of the high fliers that crashed and burned, took companies public & was at the printers the day the bubble really burst which ultimately tabled that IPO... Amazon Web Services is growing by leaps and bounds and a significant amount of those $'s are coming from venture backed start - ups.

The reason it is so significant is that, as Haaretz notes, skeptics point to the fact that «no fortifications, public works or signs of statehood» in the region dating back to the time have ever been discovered.

But a better understanding of public commercial assets — defined as government property that generates profit, such as state - owned firms, real estate, and forests — could help yield significant amounts of wealth for economies struggling to get back on track.

A significant force in New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio and Public Advocate Letitia James have long enjoyed the party's support, the WFP maintained its ballot line in 2014 by backing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

In a significant departure from tradition, Cuomo not only did not deliver a public budget address, but — after much back - amd - forth — briefed members of the media at almost 8 p.m. at the executive mansion.

Robin: It's interesting to me because I was at bunch of sessions where scientists and sometimes journalists were trying to figure out why the general public and policy makers in the United States have yet to really take any significant action to mitigate and pull back climate change.

The first year of the trial, labelled by journalists as «the whiffy wheat» trial, caused significant public attention when Take the Flour Back was formed to campaign against the field trial and held a protest at the site.

A significant portion of respondents (71 percent) backs a voluntary national testing program that the federal government would administer to fourth - and eighth - grade students to measure the performance of U.S. public schools.

Baldassare said it is important to note that poll results going back years have shown that Californians and public school parents place a significant value on testing — and thus test results are important too.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

The $ 23 billion budget deal speeding through the N.C. General Assembly this week includes a platoon of significant public school initiatives, including much - touted teacher raises, a swift ballooning of the state's funding for a private school voucher program and dramatic cut - backs for North Carolina's central K - 12 bureaucracy.

Public school families are fighting over scarce resources, and the reality is that school districts like Freehold Borough have seen significant student population increases without corresponding dollars and schools like University Heights Charter School in Newark have had to cut back on needed mental health services and arts programming because they lack funding.

The ESSA is to reduce «the federal footprint and restore local control, while empowering parents and education leaders to hold schools accountable for effectively teaching students» within their states, and also «[reset] Washington's relationship with the nation's 100,000 public schools» and its nearly 50 million public school students and their 3.4 million public school teachers, while «sending significant power back to states and local districts while maintaining limited federal oversight of education.»

In this way, the students with the most significant needs are turned away and funneled back into our public school system.

Whiting has had a number of awe - inspiring solo exhibitions with Plus Gallery since the early start of his career back in 2004, and has gone on to become one of the more significant, focused and successful artists functioning both in the public and collector realms of contemporary art.

Among the most significant sources of public support for fossil fuel investments, ECAs provide government - backed guarantees, insurance, credits, and loans to support the export of goods and services abroad.

And I assume the Sierra Club would issue a public retraction if confronted with the facts that the data are precisely as I described that over the last 18 years there has been no significant warming and indeed that is why global warming alarmists invented the term «the pause» to explain what they called the pause in global warming because the data demonstrate what you just said, that the Earth is cooking and warming, is not back up by the data.

Students assigned to special education programs often encounter significant challenges in obtaining an education in the New York City public school system — some parents are sent back and forth between schools and enrollment centers without their problems being resolved; some students are kept out of school because they must wait for proper placements or special education services after the school year starts; and some students with disabilities do not receive the special transportation they need to get to school.

The company is coming off a significant quarter that's led the stock to skyrocket, paring back some of the significant losses it sustained through 2017 after it went public.

The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the incident which is said to have seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.