Sentences with phrase «year over its opposition»

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There is widespread opposition across the euro zone against Jens Weidmann, the current head of the German Bundesbank, as the debate grows over who's going to replace ECB President Mario Draghi next year.

He said Republicans have spent more than seven years prioritizing opposition to Obama over facts or true conservative principles.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

More than 80 years later, a similar shroud of muted pessimism has fallen over Silicon Valley, as leaders stifle their vitriolic opposition to President Donald Trump.

5) Edmonton - Glenora Represented by both PC and Liberal MLAs over the past twenty years, this constituency could be a key battleground for five opposition parties in the next election.

Taking a quick look back at Alberta politics over the past twenty - five years, you will find opposition leaders that made positive contributions to Alberta politics, but could not withstand the meat - grinder of opposition politics in Alberta.

His focus now is on ensuring National provides a strong Opposition that holds the Government to account and ensures the gains made by hardworking New Zealanders over the past few years are not frittered away.

The Alberta Liberal Opposition has represented Albertans in the Legislature for over 100 years.

Buffalo has been represented by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr since 2008, and has been represented by both opposition and government MLAs over the past twenty years.

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

There is something literally death - defying about the contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy» life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to live, and not only when they lit up.

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.

This metric parses each team's efficiency and explosiveness and adjusts it for strength of opposition, and over the years, it's proved to be a very strong predictor against the Vegas spread.

That aside, over a 14 - year period — during which Arsenal were often handed kind group draws against moderate opposition due to a favourable seedings process — we have successfully negotiated their way through just three knockout rounds.

Although Algeria have already made history in this year's tournament by reaching the knockout stages for the first time, they are now desperate to get one over their big - name opposition after a controversial incident from the 1982 World Cup finals.

The 26 - year - old was outstanding in Arsenal's 2 - 0 win over Liverpool, most of his best moments coming from powerful runs from deep into the opposition half, and the performance drew comparisons between Diaby and Man City's Yaya Toure.

Whilst we like to beat up on OG his goals / game ratio in PL over the last 3 years is pretty similar to Benzeman — who plays in a team that creates far more chances against arguably weaker opposition week in week out.

He might not help to pass protect, but if he can kill teams in the middle of the field just like every TE did to us the past few years, it would be awesome... I love hybrid prospects (CB / FS, SS / LB, TE / WR, RB / WR), they bring something that the opposition might have trouble dealing with over and over again...

I don't think I've seen a Cal game on TV in the last 10 years that wasn't slobbering all over the opposition.

Instead of using games against weak opposition as a chance to help himself to a hat - full of goals, he's looking over his shoulder at the development of an 18 year old.

Bradford were extremely tough opposition and put up a great fight, however, our men's basketball came out on top in a closely fought 61 - 57 win, to secure their place in the final for the first time in over 10 years!

Quarterback Jimmy Harris, a «raw sophomore,» stepped into the breach last year when Gene Calame was injured, and drove the team to victory over unexpected tough opposition against TCU and Texas.

When you are 8 years old you learn that you can not pass through the opposing player — you have to pass or dribble around or over the opposition.

Real opposition from these teams never came to fruition over the entirety of the campaign, and in some instances last year, Force India's biggest problem on track was the competition between its own drivers.

Arsenal delayed the announcement of a new contract for Wenger in 2014 until after that season's FA Cup final and, while there was also considerable tension that year about the Frenchman staying on, opposition has grown over recent months.

A giant; a machine that just rolled over the opposition, so sadly taken away from us at just 21 years old in the tragedy of Munich, along with so many other fantastic players.

He does have a tendency to lose concentration at critical moments, especially when looking at his disciplinary record over the years, but Rooney mustn't be allowed to make his powerful runs into perilous territory unaccompanied and Cattermole will be essential in not only helping things flow from the back but also stepping in and breaking up any fruitful play from the opposition on the day.

The powerful Ivorian has terrorized the opposition defenders over the years with his physical presence.

It marks the first win at Anfield for six years and the first win over big four opposition this season.

He cited reasons including the minimum $ 67,000 per year lease cost required by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, which owns the harbor; a Park District consultant's report that showed more than $ 11.7 million in necessary upgrades over the next 15 years; and the outpouring of opposition from boat owners and Wilmette residents.

Those parameters, he said, are the minimum $ 67,000 per year annual lease cost required by the Water Reclamation District, which owns the harbor; a Park District consultant's report that showed more than $ 11.7 million in necessary repairs and improvements over the next 15 years; and the outpouring of opposition from boat owners and Wilmette residents.

Over the last 65 years, the AAP was clear on opposing youth tackle football, modified its opposition and then after a gap of 43 of no officially policy, completely flip - flopped its football to letting parents decide the risks.

Any statement issued by AAP over the last 65 years as held to opposition to youth boxing, while it's policy from hockey changed from opposed to a youth game to approving the sport with limiting checking for players 15 years of age and younger.

Mahamudu Bawumia's claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership is «cleverly exaggerated», policy think tank IMANI has said in its commentary on the opposition New Patriotic Party's vice presidential nominee's lecture he delivered on Thursday September 8 at the National Theatre.

'' There are several hardworking people who sacrificed their jobs, time and resources working for the party over the last eight years we were in opposition and someone joins just a month to elections and he has been rewarded....

Almost 30 % of life peers are now women and both the Leader of the House and the Opposition Leader are women, not to mention the arrival of women bishops and the first woman Black Rod in over 650 years.

Despite being nominally given the opportunity to choose, the way the Maduro government has set up the electoral process, committed fraud, repressed the opposition and systematically undermined the process of free and fair elections over the past years, all but guarantees authoritarian durability.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

The bill has faced fierce opposition in the notoriously progressive Codes Committee over the last few years.

But in truth it did not bode well for Labour that they were the first opposition party in over thirty years to lose seats in standalone council elections.

Russian hackers successfully infiltrated the Democratic National Committee's computer network over the past year and accessed the political committee's opposition research file on Donald Trump.

We are in an election year and as an opposition party ready for power, we can't afford to counter the ruling party over unnecessary issues... most especially when we want power.»

Opposition parties had hoped to tap into public anger over inflation that peaked at over 40 percent last year, as well as low growth and high unemployment.

Just a week after conceding defeat Adama Barrow, leader of a coalition of opposition parties in the December 1 elections, Jammeh who has ruled The Gambia for over 22 years has annulled the elections and called for a re-run.

An inconclusive election; a prime minister camped in Downing Street, refusing to accept that the game is over; an opposition leader thereafter getting the call to the palace, but deciding before very long that a second election is necessary — it seems decidedly possible that the political year 2010 might echo the political year 1974.

The bill is likely to draw strong opposition from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who vigorously fought, and ultimately lost, a struggle last year over similar wage requirements at a mall that was planned to be built inside the city - owned Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx.

Somehow during my opening remarks I lost a card and thus skipped over their leadership over the past year on the St Vincent's matter and the park and the new middle school at 75 Morton, the opposition to NYU2031, and so many other issues.

If Mayor Miner is unwilling to respectfully hold Senator Defrancisco accountable for his opposition, she should at the very least return the thousands in campaign contributions that anti-minimum wage interests have generously given to her campaigns over the years,» said Jason Ortiz, political director of HTC.