Sentences with phrase «under assault»

Our schools are under assault by corporate reform efforts, standardized testing, and a governor who is eager to fire teachers and close schools.
The system is not just under assault in that sense though.
I am not an atheist, thus I am not bringing any example of me personally coming under assault for my atheist belief to the table.
The pages are beginning to crumble under the assault of snow and time and everything that comes out of the sky.
It existed as a default in earlier times, but has been under assault for a long time now, probably about 15 years.
As a result you may feel as if you're constantly under assault.
You don't have to follow the news particularly closely to realize they're under assault right now.
Native American culture has certainly suffered under this assault, but it has not been destroyed.
When he was governor, he said he met with black clergy leaders to explain that their religious beliefs would not be under assault if gay marriage eventually became legal.
Of course, higher education has been under assault at the state level for decades.
Your FICO ® credit score, credit report, and credit rating are under assault daily.
When fleas and ticks have your home and dog under assault, you need an effective solution that will simply work.
The dairy industry rolled out an expensive media campaign this week in praise of chocolate milk, a classic school lunch beverage whose sugar content is under assault in some districts.
The liver is certainly under assault on a daily basis, and its capacity to detoxify is limited by the availability of the amino acid glycine.
The mass bleaching and mortality from the 2005 warming further disturbed Caribbean ecosystems that were already under assault [12], [33].
The battle comes at a time when other public - employee unions are under assault as governments face budget crunches.
I don't want to burden this post with all of the psychology behind that statement, but you should find a way to get used to that because claims of faith are always under assault of reality.
He said it: «Free trade is now under assault,» Stanley Druckenmiller writes in a WSJ op - ed that says the Trump administration is similar to its predecessor when it comes to economic policy.
Public education is also under assault by people whose brand of «reform» consists of austerity, polarization, privatization and deprofessionalization — and who then argue that public education is failing.
Cities are tumbling under their assault, people are dying in droves... and only two people in the universe can save us.
Other companies define themselves in relationship to the online behemoth, whether they're trying to fend it off (see: Walmart's efforts in e-commerce), joining forces with it (see: Kohl's offering floor space and handling returns for Amazon), or crumbling under its assault (see: Toys «R» Us).
With these accusations brought to the table, we can confidently surmise that the rumination process along with the ruminant are certainly under assault, and we must be prepared to defend these animals and our right to consume their products with the same valiant effort with which we have defended raw milk.
This approach to monetary policy was under assault after the financial crisis, as experts noted the central banks had deluded themselves into thinking that their job had become as simple as keeping inflation at 2 %.
«The year - old program has been constantly under assault since the election of President Donald Trump,» is the summation of one article on the issue Feld sites.
As industries consolidate and product cycles shrink, even the best ideas — with patents as their pedigrees — come under assault practically on arrival.
We have an all - star cast of scientists and physicians to discuss why, contrary to reason, both science and medicine are under assault today — and what that could mean for all of us.
And it says something very important about marriage, which is under assault throughout the world by the forces of moral confusion, misconstrued «tolerance,» and societal deconstruction.
The old certitudes seem less certain; the old privileges are under powerful challenge; the old dominations are increasingly ineffective and fragile; the established governmental, educational, judicial and medical institutions seem less and less able to deliver what we need and have come to expect; the old social fabrics are fraying under the assault of selfishness, fear, anger and greed.
Cardinal George Pell is a big man in every sense of the word and his stamina under assault is entirely admirable.
But what has happened in the 20th century, when the religious imagination — in its individual and corporate dimensions — has become fragmented under the assault of modern materialism?
Imagine a community of Middle East Christians under assault from a ferocious, well - armed band of terrorists.
We have examined how, one by one, elements of the Augustinian superstructure have crumbled away under the assault of competing ideas.
It can hardly be doubted that the defense of this thesis led not only to the overcoming of the eighteenth century crisis but also to the silencing of many questions concerning the validity of the Christian religion, which, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were continually revived under the assault of the transformed world - view fostered by the development of science, technics and industry.
This angers and frightens conservatives because the good of government and the good of other traditional institutions are crumbling before their very eyes under an assault by a corrupt and rootless governmental system.
All those sensible notions vanished under an assault wave that made it look as if the Bears were playing 15 men against 11.
1995 — 1996 FRAC provides key leadership in the successful struggle to preserve the entitlement status of federal nutrition programs under assault in Congress.
Charter schools under assault by Mayor de Blasio have found a political champion: state Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos.
The Remington Plant makes several types of weapons that now fall under that assault weapons ban.
You would think, based on public reaction, that the local winery, brewery and distillery industries are under assault because of the limited - time moratorium I recently suggested.
And the environmental pollution that is getting into the air, the water, the carpets in our houses, the household products that we're using... We are under an assault unlike anything the human species has ever before experienced.
When oil stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the ecosystems under assault started on a long road to recovery.
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Set in post-Islamic revolution Tehran, Iran, the film follows a young mother (barred from resuming her studies at the university for her «leftist» political views) who finds her apartment under assault by a merciless djinn.
Trying to juggle four characters (Rocket, Gamora, Drax and Old West Captain America) while under assault from a never - ending horde of enemies is a pain.
That film was about a fractured family unit under assault by demonic forces, and in a way, so is Killer Joe, although its contents are less supernatural than they are Southern Gothic: This time out Friedkin sprays engine grease and sweat in lieu of pea soup.
Teacher Tenure Under Assault Time, 6/11/14» «Those cases were basically saying you need to have equal resources in order to have equal educational opportunity,» said Jim Ryan, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Admission to what was until recently «America's best high school» (as named by U.S. News & World Report) is again under assault from multiple directions.
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