Sentences with phrase «undermines recent efforts»

But I do worry about the message her pledge to take almost no time off sends about the value of maternity leave, and how it undermines recent efforts by US companies to offer and normalize the idea of longer parental leaves, for both moms and dads.

The commission's Betsy Lynam says the measures undermine recent efforts to reign in union benefit costs.

Not exact matches

In recent years the Commission has made greater efforts to tackle the problem of budget fraud, recognising the negative impact it has on the confidence of member states in the EU and the potential it has to undermine the process of enlargement.

Yet as I've noted previously, SPLC has embraced an anti-charter strategy in recent years, particularly in New Orleans, where the local SPLC office launched an aggressive effort to undermine and discredit the city's charter - driven reforms.

According to a recent article in the Nation magazine entitled, 9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York's Public Schools — Here's Their Story, both the Chair and Vice Chair of the Families for Excellent Schools Board of Directors are among the super elite that are funding the extraordinary effort to undermine public education in the United States.

For anyone still puzzling over why I view the Tea Party to be an egregiously destructive force when it comes to the environment, look no further than this evidence: In the seven months since the Tea Party - led GOP has been in control of the House of Representatives, they have voted no fewer than 110 times to «block» or «undermine» efforts to protect the environment, according to a recent report..

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

Ignoring this distinction, the Court has in recent years drastically undermined efforts to redeem the Fourteenth Amendment's promise of equal citizenship for all.

We will fight hard against any efforts to undermine post-grant review of patents or recent Supreme Court decisions cutting back on abstract patents.

This is part of Facebook's transparency over the matter, it said in a recent release, explaining that «this is part of our ongoing effort to protect our platforms and the people who use them from bad actors who try to undermine our democracy.»