Sentences with phrase «against government policies»

It also comes against a background of widespread protests against government policies which have reportedly marginalized the country's English - speaking population.

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industries use front groups disguised as «patients rights» advocates to market their products and to lobby against government policies that might affect their profits.

Have you ever participated in a protest against government policies?

In the last week we have seen a UK uprising from disabled people against the government policies of cuts, called by Disabled People against Cuts (DPAC) and UKUncut.

Firebrand critics and pro-democracy activist, Abiodun Aremu, is a leader of the Joint Action Front noted to have championed protests against government policies in the past.

Another Thessaloniki Fair tradition, protest against government policies, was followed Saturday, but on a relatively modest scale.

While not technically part of the government, a PPS is still bound to Collective Ministerial Responsibility and therefore must resign if speaking against government policy.

Prominent Cabinet members have been accused of «rank hypocrisy» after apparently campaigning against government policy to shore up support in their own constituencies.

However, now that he has said that Lib Dem Ministers will vote against Government policy, I wonder what his definition of collective responsibility is within a coalition Government.»

Mr Clegg's appointment comes days after Tory leader David Cameron reached out to the liberal party to form a «progressive alliance» against government policy.

«He was asked to go because he can not be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.»

He was asked to go because he can not be both a government adviser and a campaigner against government policy.

The result was a total climbdown by the NZ government — it is the sort of victory against government policy that teachers in England have only dreamed about.

I'm ex-civil service and it is absolutely against Government policy to use Government equipment for anything other than Government functions.

He said he did not know the details of Dr Pearman's case, but if a scientist were to join a group that argued against government policy as the Australian Climate Group did on carbon trading he or she would contravene CSIRO's media policy.

They protested against this government policy in a fight for their lives.

(Public Submission 7) «The outcomes must be our own and we can not feel like our funding will be cut if we stand up and speak out against a government policy or program.»

Not exact matches

She is also openly left - wing and has publicly criticized the current Israeli government, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for its policies against Arabs and other minorities.

Some would be directly affected by the policy, which the government can't enforce because of federal appeals court rulings against it.

Arguing against will be Patrice Lee, and director of outreach at Generation Opportunity, a limited - government activist and policy network for millennials, and Matt Welch, editor - in - chief of the libertarian magazine Reason.

Drone supporters railed against a new government policy unveiled on Monday that requires people who own drones to pay a $ 5 registration fee.

The government also has pumped vast sums of money into these banks by letting them speculate against the central bank's futile attempts to defend the ruble's exchange rate, a policy whose main effect has been to subsidize capital flight.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

«The Chinese government is set to announce a revision of its currency policy in the coming days that will allow greater variation in the value of its currency, combined with a small but immediate jump in its value against the dollar, people with knowledge of the consensus emerging in Beijing said Thursday.»

Both the New York Times and the Financial Times, citing confidential sources, reported today that the Chinese government may announce a significant shift in its currency policy in the coming days, a move that could cause the Chinese yuan to rise in value against the dollar.

The former State Department diplomat who oversaw U.S. government sanctions policy said he was «extremely» frustrated when the Obama administration issued «weak» and «frankly inadequate» sanctions against Russia in December 2016 in response to that country's campaign to disrupt the U.S. presidential election.

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

One of the many arguments against this policy made by Canadian government -LSB-...]

It's a rare opportunity to meet like - minded folks and work towards building a common front against the Harper government, its policies and its deeply damaging actions.

Though it never drew a direct link, the Liberal government's review of its arts funding policies - launched last January - came on the heels of allegations of sexual misconduct that were levelled against Albert Schultz, the founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre.

The US government says it's taking action against China over policies that have enabled Chinese firms to unfairly get their hands on sensitive technology from American companies.

«The Chinese are deeply concerned and we hear now from reliable sources in Beijing who suggest the Chinese government, the Communist Party, are developing lists of U.S. interests against which they could retaliate, commercial interests, and obviously one merely has to look at top U.S. exports to China to get a quick sense of whose heads may be on the chopping block,» said one China trade policy expert who interacts closely with U.S. business.

While no specific policies against crypto, digital, or virtual currencies were offered in the statement, the position taken by Fan and the PBoC is indicative of the currently strict policy of the Chinese government on decentralized forms of payment.

Government social policies, according to Nathan Glazer, are «making no steady headway against a sea of misery.»

Per experiences two decades ago, the underground churches in China are not necessarily got harassed by the Chinese government as long as you don't say things against its policy, not get the foreign influences in your underground, then you're as peaceful as anywhere else in the free world.

Some of the post-partition policies of the Indian government have antagonized a large section of those Muslims who supported the Indian national movement against Pakistan.

One of the reasons that atheists comment here is that religious beliefs unfortunately impact laws and government policy and our laws.The idiocy of religion unfortunately permeates much of our society, so the more we can fight back and speak out against religious idiocy, and the more visibly, the better.

Today around the world, the Church is alive and flourishing in places like North Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, China and more — despite restrictive and even oppressive violent government policies and practices against Christians.

Fundamentalists have been a genuine annoyance to many of their host governments because they can mobilize their followers against particular leaders and policies.

They can implement what policies they want; the First Amendment only protects us against government abridgement of free speech.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

While it is true that many denominational bodies and leaders protested vigorously against our government's Indochina policy, it is all too evident that by and large the local churches failed to confront the theological and moral issues of the war.

To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

Nance, why is it you guys on the Left always think that having an insurance policy against government tyranny is a stupid idea, when the majority of peoples throughout the world are THIS VERY DAY being oppressed by their governments, and have absolutely no way to defend themselves against false imprisonment, torture, and overall tyranny.

Honest question # 2 — If many Christians will applaud a fellow Christian who stands up against or speaks out against what they view as the harmful actions and / or bad policies of their government or the company they work for...... why will they not also applaud their former fellow Christian who leaves Christianity and speaks out against what they view as the harmful actions and / or bad policies of the God they once worshiped?

To use force against governments that support terrorists surely lies within the proper scope of American policy as well as the definition of just war.

The challenges for the pouch in this industry are manifold, primarily encompassing consumer quality expectations and etiquette in wine, technical compatibility with product content (for example in beer) and even in some cases government policy being against economy products and packaging in an effort to reduce alcohol consumption, such as in Turkey.

U.S. Levels Complaint Against B.C. Wine Sales The United States government has officially lodged its concerns with Canada over British Columbia's policy of restricting wine sales on grocery store shelves to B.C. wines exclusively...

The debate is shaping as a NSW election issue and the Australian Beverages Council has threatened to run attack advertising against the government if it supports a container deposit policy.