Sentences with phrase «strike a blow against»

The most striking example is tax reform, which struck a blow against blue - state Americans who tend to pay high state and local taxes, or SALT.

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on marijuana to federal prosectors Thursday, reiterating their leeway to prosecute federal marijuana laws as they see fit, regardless of whether the plant is legal under state and local law, he likely spurred future infringements on liberty, struck a blow against federalism, and defied public opinion.

«We are taught to become heterosexual,» and to refuse to accept that teaching is to strike a blow against an authoritarian social order.

According to Sullivan's hyperventilating prose, Hendra's memoir strikes a blow against the «petty, ecclesiastically fixated pedants now so beloved by Rome.»

But this is not about striking a blow against our bloated, triumphant political class, as described by Peter Oborne.

Still if it strikes a blow against this silly meddleing by the party in local selections I guess the double - standard is a price worth paying...

The referendum has given many people, especially many working class voters, the chance to strike a blow against the system which is failing them and which is failing to listen to them.

If they really wanted to strike a blow against the surveillance state David Cameron wouldn't be switching off CCTV cameras.

In three of them, women strike a blow against toxic masculinity by serving men toxic mushrooms.

Mildred's act of bravery is her quiet decision to have her ordinariness weaponized in the Supreme Court case, Loving v Virginia, to strike a blow against institutional racism.

Striking a blow against «set aside» policies, the U.S. Supreme Court limits the ability of school districts and state and local governments to reserve percentages of their construction contracts for minority - owned firms.

A successful campaign in 2013 by a Pennsylvania local struck a blow against privatization that is having a lasting impact.

This poll is an opportunity to strike a blow against useless hyphens and for a style choice that puts the emphasis where it belongs — on B for Book, not E for Electronic.

Today, we see Piers 1 report worsening results amidst a generally improving economy, and continue to make dividend payments even as Amazon and the nascent e-commerce industry strikes blows against the core Piers 1 business model.

It strikes a blow against student loan debt at the same time.

Adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue is one of the surest ways to strike a blow against puppy mills.

Do you hope Hawaii strikes a blow against loot boxes, or is imposing legislation on video games going a step too far?

It seems to strike a blow against the alarmism but I haven't seen it picked up anywhere else yet.

It thus struck a blow against the firewall.

In a decision that strikes a blow against the federal government's controversial practice of excluding industry from consent decrees with environmental citizen groups, a practice known as «sue - and - settle,» the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's approval of a consent decree between a coalition of environmental groups and several federal agencies in Conservation Northwest v. Sherman, No. 11 - 35729 (9th Cir.

Sadly forgotten is that the number two worst terrorist act against the US on US soil, was the act of a «Freedom» fighter striking a blow against their «oppressive» Federal Government by blowing up some mostly office workers and some of their children in Oklahoma.

Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the authority to build it rests not with Congress but with the president, making this decision a unique opportunity for a world leader to strike a blow against global warming.

The granddaddy of doll parts art, German - born surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902 — 1975) used old mannequin segments to create his dolls whose provocative eroticism struck a blow against the tyranny and authority that was unfolding in Germany during the 1930s.

And decide to strike a blow against legalese and raise the flag for clarity in legal writing.

I was not aware of any other published style guide until, in mid-July, Robert Ambrogi, in a post entitled Striking a Blow Against Legalese: Adobe's Legal Department Open Sources Its Plain - English Style Guide, flagged to the wider community the publication of the Adobe Legal Department Style Guide.

strike a blow against the drug cartels, which are are estimated to get around 60 % of their money from illegal pot sales; and

The argument that recalling Persky will strike a blow against judicial independence is not compelling.

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Google struck a major pre-emptive blow against the iPad mini by pricing its small Nexus 7 tablet at just $ 209 and up.

Citing InSight Crime's coverage of the case, Olson pointed out that the Kingpin List designation had «struck a powerful blow» against the family's criminal network, but also that it had generated uncertainty among the clients and employees of the family's businesses.

Formally launched in December 2006 by former President Felipe Calderon and then continued under his successor, Enrique Pena Nieto, the drug war struck a series of high profile blows against Mexican cartels.

From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family.

Many aligned on the left will see both of these as «making history,» finally striking a prophetic blow against the tyrannies of heteronormativity, discrimination, and the abuse of mother earth.

While the Puritans were busily engaged in fighting off all open attacks on the holy experiment — by England, by Roger Williams, by Anne Hutchinson, by dissatisfied planters, by Presbyterians, and by Quakers and Baptists — a more subtle enemy was striking telling blows against it.

At the time we thought we were being cool rebellious guys, Striking hilarious blows against The Man and his discipline, His regimentation, his greedy demand for order and pattern, But now I think we were maybe meaner than we ever knew.

(This is hardly surprising when one realizes that Whitehead's essay was written in the same year that Einstein struck the first major blow against the classical Newtonian - Euclidian world view with his paper on special relativity.)

Al Qaeda had planned to strike a mighty blow against what they took to be the Great Satan.

It is generally recognized that many blows struck against the pulpit come not because of its peculiar faults but because it is a part of a traditional and entrenched institution, and all such institutions, religious, political, or otherwise, are being called into question.

But finally, the real blow she strikes against Hewlett is her allusion to the fact that Hewlett's book A Lesser Life «did not become a major seller.»

He will strike the blow, but will be on his guard against being vain or boastful or arrogant in consequence of it.

An equal measure of commitment was on show the following week against Tottenham until the hairs on Harry Kane's shoulder struck the killer blow and left them pointless once more.

The fledgling campaign will heat up in only its second week as Rudi Garcia and Roma look to strike an early blow against Juve, the club who have beaten them to the Scudetto in both 2014 and 2015.

Alvaro Morata struck that crucial blow against Manchester United and he is the 10/11 anytime goalscorer favourite.

Jose Mourinho could be about to strike an early blow against Man City.

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Campbell double act (Emirates Cup) Report: Sanogo upstages Sánchez in Arsenal romp (Emirates Cup)

Against all odds, it would be Schalke striking the first blow at the Bernabéu.

Medicaid is the tool under Obamacare that is being used to plan for covering 20 - 30 million of the uninsured.The Supremes will strike a major blow against universal health care coverage if the mandate and Medicaid expansion of struck down.In addition, a negative decision on Obamacare will affect the closing of the Medicare Part D donut hole; the ability of youth remaining on parents» policies until age 26; and the funding of hundreds of community health centers.That is a lot of power being given to 5 unelected, lifetime tenure, white men.

«Once again, a blow has been struck against the idea of government as a positive force, or public officials as public - spirited, ethical people,» says Doug Muzzio, a Baruch College political scientist.

Trying to reassure a nation on edge, President Obama said the Islamic State group «can not strike a mortal blow» against the U.S., and he warned that overreacting to the Paris attacks would play into extremists» hands.

The de Blasio administration struck its clearest blow yet against the city's charter schools last week when schools chancellor Carmen Fariña announced that a $ 210 million pot in the Department of Education's capital budget would be diverted away from charter school construction, likely towards the construction of pre-K seats under the mayor's plan.

The New York City Council has just struck a blow for fair wages and decent pay, and against illegal activity.