Sentences with phrase «with competing agenda»

An advocate for the measure accused Cuomo of «stalling,» and suggested he has not pushed for it in the way he has with competing agenda items like tax cuts.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

Not exact matches

If love is to be placed «above all,» then there simply can't be any other command or doctrine or agenda that competes with it for the top position.

Jose Mourinho's declaration that # 300 million was «not enough» to spend in the market in order to compete with a Manchester City side who «buy full - backs for the price of strikers» placed transfer fees on the agenda this week, even before Liverpool's head - spinning outlay on Virgil van Dijk ensured it remained the talking point.

He and I have discussed privately in emails how hard it can be for any school food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agendas.

Strapped for cash and competing with other programs and agendas that carry more weight with administrators, nutrition is a haphazard affair.

It isn't: it's a wide variety of competing commercial organizations, all with their own agendas.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

While this agenda item must compete with those of various other agencies and advocacy organizations jockeying for program funding at the end of the budget season, the potential risks of shuttering nonprofits could be particularly devastating across the city, as has been demonstrated recently.

With several small parties competing for this identical agenda that UKIP has belatedly adopted, UKIP is facing being vote - split itself, which seems like karma to me.

But it's a lot more powerful, because here the characters» competing personal agendas are intertwined with the fate of a clearly defined setting, Wakanda, that means something to us emotionally — in Stark contrast to «Civil War,» where Buck and Cap's bond is rock solid but the wider threats facing the Avengers are more vaguely defined.

Education, of course, must compete with other items on Obama's ambitious agenda, as well as with erupting crises that will inevitably distract the White House.

Science is rarely given top priority on a primary school agenda, but as a nation, if we are to compete on an international level, we must engage more people with science, writes Danielle Spencer.

With new Common Core initiatives, impending new tests, controversies surrounding teacher evaluation, tightening financial realities, and a plethora of competing reform agendas devised without input from those who actually work in schools, we were not sure how educators would respond.

A troll probably often has an agenda — for example, to trash all of the books that compete with his favorite author's books, or to try to destroy the career of the dude who tripped him in the cafeteria in junior high.

Just another one of those pervasive myths generated by people with an agenda against spot FX markets, some of which are currency futures brokers competing for clientele and commissions generated.

The fact is that our industry is never short on complex dynamics and competing agendas — with raw foods being just one example among hundreds.

Civilization VI offers new ways to engage with your world: cities now physically expand across the map, active research in technology and culture unlocks new potential, and competing leaders will pursue their own agendas based on their historical traits as you race for one of five ways to achieve victory in the game.

If you want to get together with friends or family and compete to try to solve a murder / mystery, you can't go wrong with Hidden Agenda.

With all these competing and sometimes contradictory agendas, a museum has to set priorities.

Tehrani will meet with faculty, get to know students, and has high hopes to «make a Cooper Union that's an open environment for debate, for discourse and competing agendas,» and perhaps eventually, «we may be able to build some kind of bridge between its legacy and different paths that maybe it has not yet addressed.»

Next on the agenda, of course — plankton / krill harvesting, directly competing with the whales.

If we want to create jobs and compete economically with China, India, and other developing economies, this agenda must be stopped.