Sentences with phrase «tacit support from»

He suggested the Quinn, who is hoping to run for mayor in 2013 with at least tacit support from Michael Bloomberg, saw the bill through to win favor with the adminisration.

Sadr's backers in the Iranian security and clerical establishment operate independently of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, presumably with at least tacit support from Khamenei.

How is it that groups so widely condemned as heretical by Islamic authorities receive so much tacit support from the mainstream Muslim world?

Not exact matches

Since, as Gutiérrez points out, neutrality is impossible, those who seek to remain aloof from the struggle (as many Christians do) are actually giving tacit support to those possessing unjust power, often maintained through guns and torture.

Funding from opium trade, the weakness and corruption of the Afghan government, the tacit support of many in Pakistan, who have no faith in the West's staying power, and the steady trickle of casualties highlight the need for a political solution.

Having, until now, benefited from the tacit (if unenthusiastic) support of the existing political elite, the pro-European lobby has had less incentive to create a formal political movement.

However, despite the order from the EPA and complaints from the residents, the factory has reopened and is operating again, with the tacit support of the Ga West Municipal Assembly led by the District Chief Executive, Clement Wilkinson.

The incumbent Republican has received some early support from business groups and tacit cover from Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The statement signed by its Ranking Member on Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, further said «The loud silence of Ghana's Foreign Minister, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and the Government led by President Akufo - Addo especially in the face of some reprehensible support from sections of the NPP led by its Acting Chairman Freddie Blay, is most troubling as it has the tendency to convey a tacit approval of the egregious sins of their chief diplomat in South Africa.»

Thus far, the loud silence of Ghana's Foreign Minister, Hon.. Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey and the Government led by President Akufo - Addo especially in the face of some reprehensible support from sections of the NPP led by its Acting Chairman Freddie Blay is most troubling as it has the tendency to convey a tacit approval of the egregious sins of their chief diplomat in South Africa.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).