Sentences with phrase «against government policies in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Sun Herald reported on December 20 that the Australian Beverages Council had threatened to run attack advertising against the Baird Government during the March election if cabinet voted in favour of a container deposit policy.

In response to the Government's consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), the Chartered Institute of Building has called on the Government to provide greater clarity for Local Authorities to understand what «Green» credentials they are being measured against.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

Gordon Brown was forced into a 180 degree policy change yesterday following a weekend of widespread criticism over his refusal to offer government support to the families of victims of the IRA in their case for compensation against the Libyan government.

We do not believe the Government's robust policy against the teaching of pseudoscience is consistent with funding schools that have so much pseudoscience in their curriculum and their health policies.

The WFP has pledged to be a «bulwark» in New York against Trump's policies, placing pressure on Democratic state elected officials to provide an alternative policy choice to a Republican - led federal government.

The Prime Minister brought him back into the heart of government in 2011 as number two in the policy unit, where Mr Rock worked on issues which included internet filters to protect against child abuse images online.

«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.

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

Mr Huhne, who narrowly lost the leadership fight for the party against Mr Clegg, was a robust defender of Lib Dem policies in government, not least during the AV referendum, when he led the attack against Tory campaign tactics.

President Obama who represents the reasoned Pro Government forces in Washington, DC, has attempted to make reasonable and painful concessions to the «Anti Govs» who are being allowed to blackmail our President with this outrageous and obstructionist scorched earth policy in their war against Pro Gov. forces.

He also urged some persons in the political class in the State not to be antagonistic and hostile to government policies and destructive in their action against their perceived enemies in government.

Ms Burrow also warned against the dangers of austerity: «Given a choice of economic policies, two - thirds of people support government action to invest in job creation to allow economies to grow and pay off debts compared with less than one in four who want debts paid off now by cutting back on government spending.»

In a response published on all the electronic and print media entitled «I have nothing personal against the Government or the President» I answered each of the allegations, showing the role I played in John Mahama's nomination as Vice Presidential candidate and stated that: «Being my true self I disagree and I have disagreed with the NDC Government on matters of constitutional principles, beliefs, values and policy issues but never on personal matterIn a response published on all the electronic and print media entitled «I have nothing personal against the Government or the President» I answered each of the allegations, showing the role I played in John Mahama's nomination as Vice Presidential candidate and stated that: «Being my true self I disagree and I have disagreed with the NDC Government on matters of constitutional principles, beliefs, values and policy issues but never on personal matterin John Mahama's nomination as Vice Presidential candidate and stated that: «Being my true self I disagree and I have disagreed with the NDC Government on matters of constitutional principles, beliefs, values and policy issues but never on personal matters.

The Populist Party ran candidates in the United States from 1984 through 1994, on a platform that suggested that whites are discriminated against by many government policies.

«Amanda Spielman is absolutely right to come out against this divisive policy, and the Government should listen to both its Chief Inspector and the evidence in changing its mind on this.

Adeosun explained that the policy was expected to «Increase exposure of financial or financial related crimes; support the fight against financial crimes and corruption; improved level of public confidence in public entities; enhance transparency and accountability in the management of public funds; improve Nigeria's Open Government Ranking and Ease of Doing Business Indicators; and recover public funds that can be deployed to finance Nigeria's infrastructure deficit.»

It is the Government's policies that are hitting growth and costing jobs, not the actions our members may have to take to defend themselves against poverty in old age.

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.

«SERAP is also concerned that the proposed bill is coming at a time the members of the Senate and House of Representatives are proposing amnesty and immunity for themselves against prosecution for corruption and other economic crimes; and the government is proposing a social media policy to restrict and undermine citizens» access to the social media ahead of the general elections in 2019.»

While it affirms the stands of the government and people of the state of Libya against these inhuman actions, he said the Ministry has for many years advocated for effective policies in dealing with these phenomena by supporting institutional capacity - building and enterprise development in the country to eliminate illegal migration, smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings as stated in the Tripoli joint Declaration -LCB- Africa and European Union -RCB- in 2006.

The proposal is explicit:»... using pensions and procurement policies to pursue boycotts, divestment and sanctions against foreign nations and the UK defence industry are inappropriate, other than where formal legal sanctions, embargoes and restrictions have been put in place by the government.»

The first Muslim woman to serve in a British cabinet makes a powerful case against the government's anti-terrorism policy

The position of the Federal Government is that in view of the fact that Cameroon has been a major key player in the war against insurgency and the involvement of Cameroon in fighting for the stability of Nigeria, it will be out of the foreign policy context of Nigeria to abandon Cameroon and the acting president directed me — and I have communicated appropriately that if the only vote that will come to Hayatou will be from Nigeria, Nigeria should stand with Hayatou.»

He has been a long - time critic of the UK's policy on Afghanistan, and was the only Conservative to vote against his government when Afghanistan was first voted upon in 2010

Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal argued in the government motion that the justices should reject a request by the Log Cabin Republicans to reinstate a federal judge's injunction against the «don't ask, don't tell» policy.

Business News of Sunday, 20 May 2018 Source: dailyguideafrica.com play videoForest actors and government officials at the Tropical Africa Alliance Global Assembly 2018 Forest actors and government officials, who recently met in Accra during the Tropical Africa Alliance (TFA) Global Assembly 2018, have called on African governments to move beyond policy commitments and supply chain transparency and focus on implementation transparency in the fight against deforestation.

This is done against the general principle set out in the Ministerial Code that when Parliament is in Session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance, in Parliament, and taking into account the importance of the issue and the other business before the House.»

The proposal says local government administrators should be allowed to manage their own accounts as against the existing policy in which governors exert powers over allocations to local government areas.

For instance, if the ITLOS decision had gone against Ghana, the Ghanaian government's Free Senior High School policy, which took off early this month with an ambitious plan to educate some 400,000 qualified Junior High School leavers for free in its first year of implementation alone, would have suffocated.

«She also wishes to commend the whistle - blower policy introduced by the Federal Government in the fight against corruption which policy has resulted in large scale uncovering and recovery of monies and assets.

The amicus brief argues that the DOJ denying sanctuary cities the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, a prominent federal funding source for local enfacement agencies, is against federal law, seizes local control in public safety policy and «poses serious challenges for local governments.»

New York - September 24... New Yorkers for Growth, the political action committee dedicated to bringing responsible fiscal policies back to New York State government, today announced its endorsement of Bob Cohen against incumbent Senator Suzi Oppenheimer in the 37th District.

He named the challenges militating against cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.

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In 1976, the AAAS Board and Council jointly created a permanent Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to develop policies and procedures to protect scientists, engineers and health care professionals against infringements of scientific freedom and responsibility, to monitor policies and actions taken by governments that might affect their professional rights and duties, and to promote attention to scientific freedom and responsibility within AAAS, its affiliated societies, and the general public.