Sentences with phrase «tepid support»

Immediately after the primary, Miner offered only tepid support for Democrat Juanita Perez Williams.

They're receiving only tepid support from publishers, none from authors, and none from Amazon.

The White House on Monday offered tepid support for a two - week continuing resolution (CR) winding its way through Capitol Hill that would prevent a government shutdown.

When you have an expensive console with tepid support from retail, it's easier to justify going with the new guy that has a cheaper console with bigger buzz.

While some expressed tepid support after the speech, Senate Deputy Republican Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, a longtime Finance Committee chair, was unmoved by what he heard.

Most key subgroups of Americans express fairly tepid support for this type of reform proposal.

Now, legislators seem in favor of providing renovations to the pool amidst tepid support for a bond act introduced by Astorino's administration that would have seen its complete removal.

WASHINGTON — Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave tepid support during hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court to the most crucial precedent that governs cases involving religion and the public schools.

The interest in the Common Core has turned to tepid support at best.

He transformed the AIGN into a powerful industry vehicle beholden to the resource and aluminium sectors and used it to change the Howard Government's then tepid support for Kyoto into absolute rejection.

No burning platform + Lack of clear ROI or benefits = Tepid support.

So far, the Democrat - turned - Republican ex-local elected official is offering only tepid support — at best — for the new president.

The Department of Correction offered tepid support for the measure, saying City Hall was open to making calls as inexpensive for inmates as possible.

In getting back to the moon, NASA space planners face overwhelming challenges: The shuttle is scheduled for retirement in 2010, the Ares rocket will not be ready until at least four years later, there is tepid support from all sides in the looming presidential election, and current estimates put the cost of getting humans back to the moon at $ 100 billion.

The split in the Democratic Party, as well as Cuomo's tepid support for past Democratic Senate candidates from Long Island, has raised the ire of some local activists and skepticism about how hard he will work for local candidates.

Moreover the tepid support of parts of the Labour party for these changes may also reflect wider problems of Labour's support base.

As a result of the coalition, Klein and his conference are able to take credit for helping pass a second increase in the state's minimum wage and paid family leave, items that have only tepid support, at best, among Republicans.

The national Democratic Party was criticized for its tepid support of Quist in what he believed was a winnable race.

Cole also questioned China's ability to embrace «the nature of academic freedom,» adding that tepid support for that principle «will slow them down.»

Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the AFT stand resolutely opposed to vouchers, and their attitudes toward charter schools have ranged from tepid support to outright hostility.

The Washington - based Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and several other groups involved with the effort, offered tepid support for the proposal this week.

ExxonMobil should also be strongly urged to go beyond its tepid support for a carbon tax and use its political muscle to push for policies that will result in significant emissions reductions and safer levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.