Sentences with phrase «turn the clock back decades»

General secretary Frances O'Grady said: «Brexit risks turning the clock back decades on these hard - won rights.»

Not exact matches

I am arguing neither that instituting academic discipline would be an easy corrective to the secularization of the University nor that we should attempt to turn the clock back several decades.

«Unfortunately, the Tea Party - controlled Republican Congress is making every effort to turn back the clock on decades of labor achievements in favor of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest one percent of Americans.

The Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will have a huge challenge in the coming two years as it fights to defend the American people from a barrage of legislation coming from the soon - to - be Republican House majority that seeks to turn back the clock in the country a decade or more.»

It comes after a report said leaving the EU would turn the clock back on women's rights by «decades», hitting equal pay and protection against pregnancy discrimination.

Looking at a decade's worth of stroke data, Finnish researchers found that the national incidence of stroke tended to rise slightly over the two days following daylight saving time transitions — whether the clocks were turned forward or back.

Turning the clocks back two decades to relive the fashions and sensibilities of teenagehood is a standard device, upheld in everything from «Happy Days» to Grease to Hot Tub Time Machine.

It's New Year's Eve and everyone's already counted down their top games of 2015 but I do things differently, so why not turn back the clock a couple of decades?

It was as if the company had turned back the clock a couple decades, as it stood in third place behind GM and Ford.

Turn back the clock a couple of decades and revisit our first drive of the legendary McLaren F1.