Sentences with phrase «strong stance against»

Thousands of EFF supporters spoke out to oppose the bill, and many others joined us in a campaign to pressure Obama again to take a strong stance against encryption backdoors.

The country is seen to be maintaining its strong stance against Bitcoin and had clamped down on token - based fundraising rounds in the past few months.

In fact, Wright found the two lawyers had taken a strong stance against one of the executives, Jack Boultbee, in regards to a plan to offset debt among the companies that the law society alleged could have resulted in Hollinger International having to pay it twice.

Massachusetts takes a strong stance against reckless driving, defining it as the operation of a vehicle on a public roadway in a reckless manner.

At Breslin & Breslin, P.A., our legal team takes a strong stance against inexcusable medical errors.

Pawlick went on to create a Massachusetts news Web site, no longer operating, that was controversial for its strong stance against gay marriage and against the Supreme Judicial Court justices who voted in favor of it.

The Canadian Football League (CFL) has just taken a seemingly strong stance against violence towards women, an issue that has been a hot topic over the past year, with several high profile incidents making the news.

Even the UN Environment Program has taken a strong stance against plastic pollution, and started a global campaign to reduce marine debris from microplastics and single use plastics by 2022.

Third, Obama certainly did not campaign against coal and I can't see the media taking a strong stance against it either.

If cosmetics companies won't self - regulate, then it's up to countries to take a strong stance against these nasty miniature pollutants.

I'm not sure what will be the best avenue for me to take, but I just want to have a strong stance against this horrific matter.

The French financial regulator AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) has always maintained a strong stance against financial fraud of any kind.

Responding to President Donald Trump's recent proposal to provide firearms training to school personnel, the Baltimore Teachers Union called on Maryland's government to take a strong stance against the idea.

In this article, I took a fairly strong stance against detoxing, as our organs and immune system handle detoxification on their own already.

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) position paper takes a strong stance against the use of GMOs for a number of reasons.

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) protesters against the Savelugu / Nantong Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Hajia Ayishetu Seidu, have finally backed down on their strong stance against her.

Gordon Brown has taken a strong stance against Mr Mugabe's leadership since becoming prime minister last year.

His strong stance against News International has seen him improve his position among voters.

Government has adopted a strong stance against illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, and has taken a decision to place a ban all of forms on small scale mining in the country.

Then Tough took a strong stance against public education and our system citing some radical policy changes.

The club, which has informed the relevant authorities, believe accepting sponsorship from betting companies is incompatible with taking a strong stance against match fixing and gambling addiction.

As this story in Canada's The Globe and Mail notes, moose law is often unclear in many parts of the country, but British Columbia is taking a strong stance against moose riding.

You see it in those Christians who argue that if you don't hold a strong stance against homosexuality, you no longer have any grounds for arguing against pedophilia or other things that actually do victimize and harm others.

We didn't want to visit a bunch of churches if we knew up front they would have a very strong stance against «us».

As expected, most evangelicals take a strong stance against making businesses provide wedding services to same - sex couples or allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.

«Minister Freeland at this point should be taking a strong stance against the TPP, and not because the U.S. is, because Donald Trump is coming out and saying the deal will die, but because it's not good for Canada.»

Froman largely viewed the TPP as a strong stance against Chinese trade dominance in Asia.

«Clearly, the C.F.T.C. has taken a strong stance against Wall Street after the financial crisis, but in a broader context we do worry that the revolving door can make enforcement officials more sympathetic to the companies they oversee,» said Michael Smallberg, an investigator at Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group.

Aside from Trump's strong stances against immigration, these individuals say they are also living in fear of how they may be treated by those who supported the Republican candidate.

Management Foreign Direct Investment FDI volumes are declining globally, as some national governments take a stronger stance against foreign ownership of their companies and land.

FDI volumes are declining globally, as some national governments take a stronger stance against foreign ownership of their companies and land.

Wow, Ironic that the church takes a stronger stance against feminism than raping little boys.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that the U.S. should take a stronger stance against Iran — or risk appeasing what he called an «insane» regime.

Rhinebeck and other municipalities previously took strong stances against the Coast Guard's anchorage plan, which included three sites on the river between Ulster and Dutchess counties.

I urge Scientific American to take a much stronger stance against science deniers.

There is stronger stance against the latter in countries such as New Zealand, France and Israel.

Heartland has also denied pollution's role in causing acid rain and the depletion of the ozone layer, and taken strong stances against the Endangered Species Act and president Obama's healthcare reform.

Not exact matches

This was viewed by the market as a further softening in the «strong dollar» stance of the US, as well as being directed at the Asian countries, particularly China and Japan, which had been intervening heavily to prevent their currencies rising against the US dollar.

So they coalesced around the Republican party and around Ronald Reagan, who in 1976 came out against abortion and in the 1980 election vocalized a strong pro-life stance.

Log Cabin Republicans and other LGBT conservative groups were dismayed last week after the strong anti-gay stance against same sex...

Clinton's campaign, in a statement, said Pence is the «most extreme» vice presidential pick in a generation, citing his strong anti-abortion stance and a 2015 religious liberty bill he signed that allows businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Log Cabin Republicans and other LGBT conservative groups were dismayed last week after the strong anti-gay stance against same sex marriage during the republican national convention this week.

Gregory Ball has taken a strong, public stance against medical marijuana since bills regarding the topic have come before the NYS senate after passing through the Assembly.

«His strong stance [is] against illegal immigration,» former New York Gov. George Pataki said.

Brooks is also terrific, and Alec Baldwin is quite strong as Omalu's partner in this fight, former Steelers team doctor Julian Bailes (who, as I write this, has now taken a public position against Omalu's stance that kids shouldn't be allowed to play football until they're no longer kids: 18 - years - old).

Take a strong, but caring, stance against the code of silence.

Now I know that some who read this will complain that I took a strong and active stance against Agency Pricing.

Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, and Olaf Nicolai — the artists exhibited in the Venice Biennale's German pavilion this year — have taken a strong stance in protest against the German government's decision to impose austerity measures on Greece, according to Artnet's Brian Boucher.

The campaign wrote to the new UN Secretary - General António Guterres, who began his term on 1 January 2017, urging him to take a strong and unequivocal stance against lethal autonomous weapons systems by endorsing the call for a ban.

She has been popular in Malawi because of her tough stance against government corruption and her strong campaigns for grassroots development and gender parity.