Sentences with phrase «against increasing government»

He meant vigilance against increasing government encroachments on our freedoms.

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With everything going against them — government inaction, uncertainty over health care, payroll tax increases, sluggish demand — they've found a way to persevere.

The increasing prevalence of encrypted products continues to pit technologists and privacy - conscious consumers against governments.

The government said it had decided to increase resources in the wake of the growing number of plots against Britain and recent militant attacks, including those in Paris and Tunisia.

-LRB-...) One reading of this extraordinary outcome is that it was a protest against the painful spending cuts, tax increases, and economic reforms that Monti's government implemented as a precondition (albeit an unstated one) for European Central Bank support.

The European Union's competition authorities announced a major tax ruling against Apple's tax dealings with the Irish government on Tuesday, a decision that will likely increase trans - Atlantic tension over how some of the world's largest companies pay taxes on their global operations.

The ArcSight review took place last year, at a time when Washington was accusing Moscow of an increasing number of cyber attacks against American companies, U.S. politicians and government agencies, including the Pentagon.

Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.

As antigovernment anger spreads, however, there will be an increasing focus on the most outspoken proponents of government action against the militias.

Anyone who considers themselves a conservative SHOULD be for legalizing marijuana since the prohibition of marijuana and prosecution of marijuana users involves everything conservatives are against: intrusion into private lives of citizens, over arching government control, increased government spending and waste and it goes completely against the idea that every person has «the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.»

This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.

Danny is passionate about ensuring that South Australian growers have a strong, effective voice with government to guard against red tape and increasing compliance costs for industry.

The government must review pensions and benefits each year against increases in prices and uprate them by at least the same percentage.

Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has warned the government against increasing anti-terrorism laws at the expense of civil liberties.

It also organised a protest in the city of Port Harcourt against the federal government's inability to address the burning perennial fuel scarcity, zero megawatts and total lack of electricity amidst increased tariff and economic hardship unleashed on Nigerians by the Buhari administration.

The minimum wage is increased from today, as the government pledges a crackdown against those companies who are not paying their employees enough.

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

Faso, during the meeting, spoke against a Democratic - backed amendment that would have prevented the replacement bill, known as the American Health Care Act, from taking effect until the federal government in the form of the Health and Human Services secretary certifies the number of uninsured people and out - of - pocket expenses would not increase and overall benefits would not declined.

The battle is heating up over a statewide electric rate increase to subsidize upstate nuclear power plants that pits Governor Andrew Cuomo against a coalition of «good - government groups.»

Talking of reduction or complete removal of taxes, as Akufo - Addo is promising Ghanaians, I remember how when in 1995 Jerry Rawlings wanted to introduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) on goods and services into our taxation system to increase the tax net and by that the tax revenue, Nana Akufo - Addo led massive «KUM PR3KOO» demonstrations against government in which some unfortunate demonstrators died, compelling government to withdraw the VAT, barely four months after its introduction.

But the last government dropped the plans to increase duty on cider by ten per cent after a public backlash against the move.

A group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), PDP Youth Frontier yesterday kicked against federal government's plan to increase electricity tariff stressing that the move is anti-people and illogical.

In November 2009, the NUS persuaded 400 Liberal Democrat candidates, including Clegg, to sign a pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative.

Azrack said the cases were different for three reasons: The de Blasio case involved only «campaign contributions» and not personal gifts, a fact that would increase the government's burden of proof for bribery; the defendants failed to demonstrate they are «similarly situated» to de Blasio; and, critically, the de Blasio matter was already reviewed by a different set of federal prosecutors, who declined to move forward with a case against him.

«The choice for Republicans is clear: they can keep Richard Hanna, who votes to raise taxes, to extend U.S. debt to economically dangerous levels by voting with Obama, Reid and Pelosi to raise the debt ceiling while bankrupting our nation, or they can choose a commonsense Republican like me who has a proven record of voting to reduce taxes, voting against the implementation of Obamacare in New York, votes against funding an illegal database (including ammunition database) against legal gun owners, voting against increasing our debt ceiling in New York and supports countless initiatives to reduce the burdens of government red tape on individuals and small businesses, including family farms,» Tenney said.

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

Norman Lamb said the Liberal Democrats had learned an «extremely painful lesson» from raising tuition fees to # 9,000 while in coalition government with the Conservatives, despite ex-leader Nick Clegg's pledge to vote against any increase.

Stewart Jackson, who resigned as a ministerial aide to the Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson last October after rebelling against the government on whether to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, said: «An increasing number of people are very frustrated at the compromises that are necessary with coalition.»

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.»

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

The Business Council's Ken Girardin argues against project labor agreements, which he says increase construction costs for taxpayers and unfairly shut out nonunion workers from competition for government contracts.

The Coalition government's proposed reforms to tuition fees announced in November 2010 provoked huge controversy, not least because many Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell, had signed the NUS «Vote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative».

I've focused during my time in the legislature to deliver mandate relief for local governments that should help local property taxpayers, voting against budgets that contained tax and fee increases, and I still believe there is more to do to get our state back on the right track for ourselves and future generations.»

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

Anyone who is even thinking about supporting the New York City Democrats would be well served to remember what they did the last time time they controlled our entire state government ---- enacting 124 different tax and fee increases totaling $ 14 billion, overshooting the budget by billions of dollars and pitting one region of the state against another.

He said increasing the legislative terms goes against the principle of good government.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Doug understands the federal government needs to quit spending so much, will vote against tax increases, and protect key values like the right to vote in private in union elections.»

«If you believe in a two - party system of government like I do, then I need to win this election,» said McGrath, who pledged to fight for increased school aid and against Common Core standards.

The accusations of bias against the fight against corruption are increasing by the day and critics easily find ready examples to argue that the fight is only cosmetic and showy and government is only making do with a few symbolic gestures as proof that it is serious.

The police repression directed towards senator Sani increased when he as the chairman of the senate committee on local and foreign debts, successfully spoke against permitting the World Bank to grant multimillion dollars loan to the Kaduna state government.

But the Tory MP Robert Halfon, who has led the campaign against increasing fuel duty, said he would not vote against the government until he saw whether the chancellor, George Osborne, responded to the mounting concerns in his autumn statement, due on 5 December.

None of this is necessarily fatal to the government's plans — people about the Lib Dem leadership are talking about these votes being advisory, rather than binding — but, at the very least, they increase the headwinds that Mr Clegg, and the Coalition, are operating against.

Many good government groups had the expectation that the workgroup's proposals would help empower individual members while decreasing the speaker's ability to control all legislation, something they saw as playing into the charges against Silver, who had long resisted calls for basic technological changes to increase transparency.

The Conservatives supported the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry into crimes against humanity before the Labour government, pushed for stronger targeted sanctions and called for increased humanitarian aid, including cross-border assistance to the ethnic peoples.

G7 governments will aim to increase by up to 400 million the number of people in the most vulnerable developing countries who have access to direct or indirect insurance coverage against climate - related hazards by 2020, and support early warning systems in the most vulnerable countries, the statement said.

Abstract: More than twenty years of statelessness and related insecurity, including the proliferation of armed groups, the fragmentation of politics along clan - based lines, economic disruption and large scale population displacement, have had dire consequences on the rights and protection of women and young girls in Somalia; resulting in an increase in gendered patterns of violence as disillusioned and armed young men have been turning against women and girls with impunity.Implicated are Africa Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers, government soldiers and some men within Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu, with allegations that tantamount to protector turning to perpetrator and exploiter.

Meanwhile, Cambodia has recently witnessed a geopolitical realignment of sorts, as even though it still maintains decent, if not robust relations with neighboring Vietnam and the United States, Hun Sen has dramatically increased ties with China, not only economically but diplomatically as well.For example, at the 2012 ASEAN summit held in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian government blocked the drafting of a joint communiqué that condemned Chinese actions against Vietnam in disputed areas of the South China Sea.

«It can be a partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes?»

A government report said issues within the construction industry had led to «delays against our internal delivery programmes, expenditure slipping backwards and an increase in the overall cost to deliver the [PSPB] programme».