Sentences with phrase «undermine public support for»

The ads were targeted at key ridings in the battleground province of Ontario and were designed to undermine public support for the then Liberal government's climate change policies, according to various Friends of Science statements.

Although this would be a perfect opportunity for him to declare his own allegiance to both the environment and personal liberty, he instead implies that the only people who worry about «threats to civil liberty» are militant conservatives who want to «undermine public support for serious action to address America's oil dependency» yadda, yadda.

These local governments argue fossil fuel companies, including Exxon and Chevron, knew greenhouse gases from its products would cause the world to warm but «concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive campaigns» to promote their products.

We know that austerity, incessant testing regimes to rate and rank schools and state takeovers of schools and districts are intentional strategies to undermine public support for public schools, to facilitate the transfer of tax dollars to privatized schools, and to disenfranchise parents, educators and communities.

Such inequities will undermine public support for the next round of education reform and must be addressed in the next legislative session.

Test scores do not rocket, but neither do charter schools cream off the most advantaged students or dramatically undermine public support for public schools.

The case has prompted concern among scientists that the activities of unregulated operators could undermine public support for genuine stem cell research.

In spite of all the attention paid to fraud throughout the EU's existence, there is still an impression of malpractice that undermines public support for the EU.

Despite much anti-fraud work within the EU, successive scandals have surfaced that have led to an impression among the public that there is an unwillingness or inability to take action against malpractice, which undermines public support for the EU.

Second, in moving Labour on to the centre ground, the New Labour project has seemingly undermined public support for traditional Labour values — such as a more equal society.

Now that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are no longer around to run the Executive Branch as a wholly - owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Chevron, et al, and the Obama administration and the Congress are moving to take action — however inadequate — to reduce emissions, the fossil fuel industry's campaign of denial and deceit will kick into overdrive, with the goal of undermining public support for the necessary action.

Communities feel increasingly powerless in the face of speculative applications from big, well - funded developers, and this risks undermining public support for the measures needed to tackle climate change.»

This undermines public support for the First Amendment and makes it easier both for police, legislators, and the courts to ignore or work around it when adhering to it would be less palatable.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

I think tuition fees are one of those stealth charges which most undermine support for universal public services.

You still have the problem that funding higher education through flat rate contributions rather than proportionately through the tax system undermines some of our wider goals around public support for universal provision of public services.

Whilst Jonathan Harmsworth — who lives in a «modest» # 40million Mock - Georgian home — publishes articles that talk of «socialism» being the key word for the next Labour government, perhaps ground is indeed now being prepared, to undermine any public support a next Labour government might have.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

CCER's political agenda includes more taxpayer funds for charter schools and support for the incredibly unfair «teacher evaluation» system that is designed to denigrate and undermine Connecticut's public school teachers and the teaching profession.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

Betsy DeVos» confirmation has stoked fears about undermining public schools, in large part because of the Secretary of Education's full - throated support for school vouchers.

Even the NAACP was divided in 1997 about whether supporting charter schools undermined their long - held demand for a better and fairer public education for all children.

We have the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educPublic School Superintendents (CAPSS) supporting proposals that not only undermine local school boards but destroy some of the most important tenets of public education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educpublic education — this from the people who are supposed to be the head cheerleaders for teachers, public schools and public educpublic schools and public educpublic education.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

They act as if there were no underlying cause for the often - unsound educational practices, or frequently uneven teaching capacity that exist within our schools They confuse these symptoms of the problem with the problem itself, which is that our public schools have been persistently under - resourced, under - supported, and undermined for decades, including by many of the same people that now purport to «fix» them.»

On the other hand, recognizing that their membership is getting angrier and angrier and that the Malloy / Wyman agenda is undermining public education, public services and is translating into public employee layoffs, some of these same unions have taken to running television advertisements urging citizens to stand up for the public servants who educate our children, provide critically important support for those in need and ensure that government programs are available to the people of Connecticut.

«His support for the Common Core and its absurd, unfair and costly Common Core testing program is undermining our public education system and wasting scarce public dollars,»

Vouchers undermine the protections and rights students with disabilities attending public schools are entitled to under IDEA, enacted by Congress in 1975 to provide funding and other support for students with special needs.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

The Edelman strategy documents and work proposals outline a «grassroots advocacy» campaign plan to build support for TransCanada's Energy East pipeline as well as to undermine public opposition to oil and pipelines generally.

Which coincidentally is the same PR technique that Friends of Science is using to delay action on climate change; creating the public perception of a scientific debate in order to undermine support for the Kyoto accord or for any real public policy action.

More specifically, we posit perceived scientific agreement as a «gateway belief» that either supports or undermines other key beliefs about climate change, which in turn, influence support for public action.

The study cites Spencer and Bast along with other «manufacturers of doubt,» whose work to undermine the public understanding of this consensus has been stunningly successful — only 12 percent of Americans, their previous work found, know that more than 90 percent of scientists agree on this — and has resulted in «cascading effects on public understanding that climate change is happening, human caused, a serious threat, and in turn, support for climate change mitigation and adaptation policies.»

In a landmark decision, an Ontario judge has ruled that Legal Aid's ongoing support of Kathleen Anne Worrod was an «abuse of process» that undermined the public interest and wasted precious judicial resources meant for low - income Ontarians.

Legal Aid's ongoing support of Worrod, he ruled, amounted to an abuse of process that undermined the public interest and wasted judicial resources meant for low - income Ontarians.

Cartoons which mock the injured worker as «faking it» perpetuate a false stereotype that is personally offensive — and undermines public understanding and support for a fair workers» compensation system.

Similarly, Charles Dunlap, Jr. has warned that over — involvement of the military in cyber security matters that should rightly be the job of law enforcement or civilian regulatory bodies risks exacerbating an already — growing, «generalized distrust of government» that could «undermine the public support» for the military.

For 30 years, nearly all public discussion about the importance of marriage, and the role that government policy played in either supporting or undermining it, was muffled.