While the popularity of the Early Excellence approach has undermined plans for a national boycott proposed by some teaching unions, the DfE is concerned that it and teacher-led KS1 assessments may not be robust enough to measure progress.
The city officials also publicly invited the F.B.I. to investigate the department -- an invitation that Daniel J. French, then the United States attorney for the Northern District, later said undermined plans for an undercover investigation.
Bullied and undermined, planning authorities have been left castrated and toothless, stripped of the skills and power they need to regulate, and sapped of the spatial imagination to actually plan places.
Such hearings would certainly have focused on the war in Iraq.Related items Democrats seek advantageSep 27th 2006 National security: The uses of scare-talkSep 21st 2006 The mid-term elections: The House that Rove builtSep 7th 2006According to Mr Woodward internal rivalries also undermined planning for the war in Iraq in 2003.
First, the political contestation between the ruling and opposition party has severely undermined planning and its contribution towards coordinated development in cities.
Prices tend to increase when the economic outlook is brighter — potentially creating headaches for consumers and undermining plans by businesses for expansion.
But Mr. Greenspan has also signaled he is worried that a fiscal stimulus package could become an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline, undermining plans to pay down most of the $3.3 trillion national debt over the next decade.
Although the group has not reached consensus on how to come up with more housing subsidies, one thing is clear: With the recession, budget cuts and downturns in local construction and real estate industries, there may be so many interests competing for pieces of a potential housing trust fund that they could undermine plans to pass a ballot measure to pay for it.
Environmentalists and the gas-and-oil industry do not agree on much, but in New York they see eye-to-eye on one thing: both believe that cuts to the state environmental agency's staff will undermine plans for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a controversial but potentially huge source of new revenue for the cash-strapped state.
Ms. Fuller featured a photograph of the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on the June cover without the cooperation of Ms. Zeta-Jones' public relations managers, thereby undermining plans by Vogue's editor in chief, Ms. Wintour, for that magazine's July cover, also featuring Ms. Zeta-Jones.
This is a kind of economic co-operation agreement originally proposed by Mr Chavez in a bid to undermine plans for a hemispheric Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
