Sentences with phrase «undermined by these structures»

The principles of equal representation for the electorate and of opposition representation are undermined by these structures.

The New York City School - Wide Performance Bonus Program mentioned above may also have been undermined by its structure.

Not exact matches

However, unlike many of those who support these ideas, I am pessimistic that QE3 will fix the economy, and I worry that too much celebration by market monetarists over the structure of easing will only serve to undermine what remains good in market monetarism if and when the economy fails to recover quickly.

It did, however, «raise a concern that the weak governance structure at the company undermined the credibility of the claim by Tesla that the acquisition of SolarCity made sense,» he said.

They say that the Islamic state would be a theocratic state dominated by the Mullahs — the conservative religious leaders — and that the shari`a can not be enforced under modern conditions because the very attempt to enforce it would undermine the economic structure of the state based on modern finance and banking.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.

The goal of a genuine objectivity is thus in actual practice undermined by a will to power structured in the very semantics of language and expressed through a mastery of the object through technique.

Moreover, new power structures and established institutions invariably come to replace the old ones, and any initial glow of inchoate democracy can easily be undermined by the rising centers of symbolic power.

Politically the American and French revolutions were an introduction to movements towards democracy which undermined the inherited monarchical structures and substituted for them legislative and administrative institutions chosen by popular suffrage.

By processes already recounted, Christianity had become intertwined, seemingly inextricably, with that structure of Western European civilization which the new stage in the revolution undermined.

By participating in an evangelical world that mirrors the inequitable power structures of mainstream America, we undermine our Christian witness.

Vanderhoef, however, instructed Director of Purchasing Paul Brennan to cancel the Brega contract, a move which has been described by Sparaco as a procedurally - improper second veto, which undermines the legal structure of county government.

Emmerson said: «Moving to a universal benefit structure is undermined somewhat by allowing councils to design their own council tax benefit.»

«That this House opposes the Government's plans to impose a polyclinic, or GP - led health centre, in every primary care trust; regrets that this could result in the closure of up to 1,700 GP surgeries; is concerned that the imposition of polyclinics against the will of patients and GPs could be detrimental to standards of care, particularly for the elderly and vulnerable, by breaking the vital GP / patient link; further regrets that these plans are being imposed without consultation; is alarmed at the prospective loss of patient access to local GP services at a time when care closer to home should be strengthened; believes that the Government's plans would jeopardise the independence and commissioning capability of general practice in the future; supports the strengthening of access to diagnostic and therapeutic services without undermining the structure of GP services; and calls on the Government to reconsider its plans for polyclinics.

The right - wing groups behind this case seek to debilitate public employee unions and take away their power to advocate for their members by undermining their funding structure.

Any health program, structured diet, or effort to maintain or recover optimum health can be completely undermined by a poorly functioning GI tract.

Playing on a Game Boy Advance did not change the structure or the gameplay of either title, mind you, and I doubt that Nintendo would want to undermine the last chance to sell GameCubes by making the Twilight experience somehow less impressive on the little black (or indigo, or what have you) box.

Their position is driven by Culture War animosity towards greens, scientists, do - gooders and so on, or by ideological commitment to a conservative / libertarian position that would be undermined by the recognition of a global problem that can only be fixed by changes to existing structures of property rights.

A city on a fast - sinking river delta (and fast - sinking deltas, undermined by the pumping of groundwater and starved of sediment by dams upstream, are common Anthropocene environments) could spend millions of years buried and still, when eventually uncovered, reveal through its crushed structures and weird mixtures of materials that it is unlike anything else in the geological record.

Attacks on the judiciary by politicians unhappy with a decision have the capacity to undermine the system of justice, and the distribution of legal powers, particularly when the attack is of a personal nature, but the more substantive issue is undermining the structure of justice, and an attack on the substance and principles of justice and the structures essential to its coherent function.

This notion is fortified by the remarks made by the Court, seemingly as an afterthought, in paragraphs 48 and 49 of the judgment in the case of X and X, where the Court notes that a decision to allow third - country nationals to lodging applications for visas on the basis of the Visa Code in order to apply for international protection in the Member State to which they will travel would undermine the general structure of the Dublin system.

These benefits may nonetheless come at a cost to the open court's normative functions, since multiple, non-linear courtroom narratives created by digital media can undermine the publication of clear, determinate norms around which people can structure their lives.

Moreover, there is a principled reason to treat similar offenders who commit simi - lar misconduct in similar manners, and thus the principle of equality under which retribu - tive punishment serves would likely be undermined by a progressively increasing punish - ment structure because the variability of marginal utility rates would be idiosyncratic across persons (or entities).

Simply put, the tax authorities continuously seek to limit losses in tax revenue for obvious reasons, and where a system or structure used by taxpayers undermines this objective, it is inevitable that the tax authorities will seek ways to either limit or eliminate such systems / structures.

• We encourage the Agencies not to undermine the structure of investment grade credit facilities and bank loan syndications by imposing a collateralized HVADC requirement on these unsecured lines.