Sentences with phrase «used against the reform»

This is a big deal for the Reform Party, and he mentioned the techniques used against the Reform Party, and our candidate Roque De La Fuente.

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They have already used those resources to highlight that Baldwin voted against the tax reform bill, spending $ 3 million on ads and holding town halls and knocking on doors to explain why she should support the legislation.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who aspires to using his business for a «higher purpose» than just raking in cash (though he's doing that, too), took a public stand against President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, describing them as akin to «fascism.»

The Wahhabi movement in Arabia was a reaction against the worship of saints, but it made use of force rather than arguments, and failed to establish a general reform.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

The prime minister has said MPs will be given a free vote against the specific use of hybrid embryos, so - called «saviour siblings» and IVF reform when the bill first enters the Commons.

Senator Ted Cruz proposed an amendment to the recent tax reform bill to allow funds from 529 plans to be used for homeschooling1, but the Democrats voted against it and it did not make it into the final bill.

We need to reform the public sector borrowing requirement to free councils to borrow money against their assets to build council houses (i.e use the EU definition of Public Sector Net Debt).

Johnson used his weekly Daily Telegraph column to rail against measures set out in the House of Lords reform bill, due to be unveiled on Wednesday, which will set out the future of parliament's second chamber.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi, in an email, said of NYPIRG's criticism: «No governor has fought harder to reform New York's campaign finance system than Governor Cuomo, who included public campaign financing in his budget and is using the funds that NYPIRG is railing against for commercials urging the public to support it.»

A federal judge on Wednesday approved landmark reforms at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex that will resolve claims that guards regularly used unnecessary force against inmates.

Pataki is using the cash he raises through Revere America to travel the country and call for the repeal of «Obamacare» and also run TV ads against select Democratic House candidates in New York and New Hampshire (ahem, 2012) who voted «yes» on the health care reform law.

The Lords voted by 306 to 178 against the reforms after a heated debate in which opponents on all sides of the House pointed out the new system could be used to stop any behaviour «capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person».

A senior Liberal Democrat warned Cameron against backtracking on a personal commitment to Clegg that he would support the reforms — if necessary by using the Parliament Act to overcome Lords opposition.

on avoiding working with Republicans on ethics reform, instead hoping to use it as an issue against them.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

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Using the MESMA platform, which enables key elements of the self - assessment and improvement planning process to be allocated to authorised people to boost quality assurance, Reform enables the user to assess how well prepared they are for the apprenticeship reforms against a diagnostic framework.

In October, a Department for Education research report into teacher - performance pay reforms found that, in 98 per cent of schools, all pay progression is related to performance and that 69 per cent of schools use pupils» test attainment to measure a teacher's performance against «the expected national level».

His statistical gymnastics are used most often in the service of defending current school practices against most reform proposals, usually by denying the need for reform in the first place.

In arguing against regulation, Jay writes: «But real education reform requires using the power of choice and competition to provide incentives to create more good and to reduce bad.»

Weingarten said she does not want to use the word «strike,» but wants to use the strategy of recent teacher walkouts in Oklahoma and West Virginia as a model to fight against school - choice reforms.

Our goal is to link reform at the local and state level so that states can put the powers they do have to their highest and best use, and local leaders with ideas and initiative will not constantly fight against state law and administrative actions.

All of these reforms are often used interchangeably to make arguments both for and against school autonomy.

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.&Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.&reform, and the «dismantling of public education.»

BAT is the acronym for Badass Teachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instructors.

A multiracial fightback against the testing industrial complex — one that is explicitly ant - racist and takes up issues of class inequality — has the potential to change the terms of the education reform debate and envision a world where authentic assessments are used to support students as they engage in classroom inquiry about how to achieve social justice.

The authors evaluated the studies against the criteria set forth in ESSA for determining which interventions may be considered «evidence - based» and found that there is sufficient evidence to support the broad use of community schools as an «evidence - based» reform strategy.

Constantly changing tests (or using tests as a convenient scapegoat when political blowback against Common Core gets too strong) is a policy response that undermines the goals of standards - based reform in all the ways I have identified above.

Obama's rollback comes in the form of a waiver package: States that seek relief from NCLB's provisions — including the 100 percent proficiency requirement in reading and math by 2014, increasingly harsh sanctions against schools deemed as «failing» or the strictly dictated use of federal education money — will have to adapt certain administration - mandated reforms.

It must implement energy price reforms, make dramatic improvements in corporate transparency and energy efficiency while ensuring proper safeguards against the adverse environmental effects of increased energy production and use.

«The effects of policy reforms are thus judged against the assumed starting point of an efficient economy... Such shortcomings have been examined, regarding the use of UK Treasury's CGE model to assess the short - run cost of UK climate policies.»

Cooperation between countries to recover lost taxes should also be improved, the reports say, and countries should make better use of new data that is being collected as part of the major reforms on information exchange — an accomplishment which should give the fight against tax avoidance a major boost in the EU.

Among the reforms in the Obama version was a clear bar against the use of evidence obtained through cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

Thus the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have essentially eliminated important public interest projects such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project, which uses inter and ex parte reexamination proceedings to challenge and defend against patents that potentially infringe on the public domain.45 In this way, the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have failed to replace the current reexamination processes with an adequate form of post grant review.