Sentences with phrase «against their leaders just»

- One in three new MPs rebelled against their leader just a couple of months into the parliament, lending credibility to the theory that Ed Miliband moved the party to the left.

Wes Streeting, Angela Eagle and Hilary Benn among those speaking out against leader just a day after his re-election

«When other tribes protect their own, it is becoming historically common among the Yoruba to allow themselves to be used against their leaders just for momentary political gains at the expense of the collective interests of the Yoruba nation.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans did just that in 2009, when 23 of them — including Mitch McConnell, Lamar Alexander, and John Cornyn, all GOP leaders who count themselves stalwart drug industry allies — backed an importation amendment in an attempt to turn the sector against the entire package and thereby sink it.

US launches strike against senior Shabaab leader just 2 days after terror group's intelligence chief «surrendered to authorities.»

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

Stephen Harper, Kenney and party repeated the trick with «just visiting» ads against Michael Ignatieff in 2009, defining the subsequent Liberal leader before he could define himself, and in so doing they pummeled their way to a majority.

Harper and his party couldn't be happier — campaigning just after introducing a budget with goodies for many, enjoying 43 per cent support against a Liberal Party at just 24 per cent and the NDP at 16 per cent, according to an Ipsos - Reid poll and facing beleaguered Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in his first national campaign.

Just as Western countries impose sanctions on rogue states like North Korea, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has announced her intention to make ordinary British Columbians feel economic pain, so they turn against their leader.

But nationalism against the backdrop of massive overcapacity, a depreciated Chinese currency, and widespread frustrations about environmental degradations (for example, heavy smog in a number of cities)-- to mention just the more salient issues — has the potential to lead to backlash against Chinese leaders.

«You can not just run against Donald Trump,» Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned his co-partisans in a February speech in Kentucky.

Reagan said yes, and conservative leaders like Arthur Brooks («One of the things, in my view, that we get wrong in the free enterprise movement is this war against the social safety net, which is just insane.

George Bush, on the other hand, was the democratically elected leader of a free nation conducting what was, most would argue, a just war against Saddam's undoubted aggression.

Uh, I doubt members of any Organization would vote for someone who is against the values / mission of the Organization as thier leader, just saying.

His only judgments came against the religious leaders who were judged not for their sins but, because they lived in continual judgment of any who did not act just like they did and because they failed to extend grace and love to those who needed it the most.

I have nothing against these leaders (most of them), I just don't agree with them on a handful of things.

Even though huge numbers of us are exhausted and isolated as our mothers never were, feminists, corporate leaders, and the child - care lobby are effectively forcing us to remain in the workforce against our deepest wishes, our lives made just bearable by scant leave and scanter subsidy.

Smithsonian, this is where you are wrong, the book of remembrance, the so called OT, is not a religion, YHWH is not of religion, or Daniel's vision would not have prophesied just what is going on in this time of false religions, and false governments, and those like yourself are suppose to mislead the people this is what this whole spiritual war, of His enemies in Pslams 83, and in Exodus 17:14 - 17, from generation, to generation, it is about the lies of the leaders against YHWH, who has been told, and warned by YHWH, that your knowledge has deceived you, in Isaiah 47, O, daughter of Babylon.

Oh yes, I completely agree, if only Muslim leaders protested against the building of an Islamic Community Center 2 blocks from Ground Zero (6 blocks from where the Towers actually stood), then the entire divide between Christianity and Islam would just fade away and we could all dance around a camp fire singing the coca - cola song!

This time last year, just weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, evangelical leaders spoke out in an unprecedented way against his temporary refugee ban with hundreds signing on to an open letter published in TheWashington Post.

The Gunners are now withing touching distance of Man City and just one result could see us overtake them at the top, which is why Wenger and his comments on the Arsenal website sounded thankful to our local rivals for giving Arsenal the chance to close that gap to the leaders and why he feels the late goal against Burnley was so vital.

Just about everyone associated with the entire SKC organisation will be understanding of the scenario, with Zusi a crucial player ahead of Saturday's huge Eastern Conference match against the New York Red Bulls, who trail conference leaders SKC by only one point.

The victory snaps a season - long five - game home court losing streak for the Cougars and is just the third victory in eight games all - time against Jacksonville State, which entered the contest tied with Tennessee Tech and Austin Peay, a game back of second - place Murray State and two games behind conference leader Belmont.

Under - the - radar matchup to watch: Penn State's 21st - ranked punt coverage team (just 73 return yards allowed all year) against Dante Pettis, the all - time leader with nine career punt return TDs, including four this season.

Despite having that crucial clash against the Premier League leaders in just a few days time, Mourinho has pulled no punches with his team selection.

Arsene Wenger spoke in the week about the big gap between Arsenal and the current Premier League leaders might just allow the Gunners to play with some of the old fluency and verve that saw us topping the table at the turn of the year and even though the Gunners were knocked out of the Champions League in midweek, there were enough positives from our performance against Barcelona to give us some belief back.

Arsenal ended the year in the Top Three as usual, but they are now very far behind the current leaders Chelsea and are unlikely to get much closer before the end of the season, and the reason for this is clear — The Gunners just can not win big games against the other five teams in the top end of the table.

With Arsenal facing a trip to the in form Premier League leaders on Sunday, you would expect the manager to be planning to rest all of his key players this week for the Europa League game against Red Star Belgrade and then select as strong a side as possible at the weekend, and Arsene Wenger may still do just that.

More recently we've witnessed relegated Wigan Athletic beating mega-wealthy Manchester City against all the odds in the 2013 final, League One outfit Bradford City recovering from a 2 - 0 deficit to defeat Premier League leaders Chelsea 4 - 2 at Stamford Bridge in 2015 and just last February Lincoln City shocking Premier League Burnley to become the first non-league club since 1914 to reach the cup quarter - finals.

Tottenham just got the first test of loss of the season of 2016 - 17 against league leader Chelsea in the very last match.

Liverpool endured a torrid January, exiting both the EFL and FA Cup in just four days while seeing their challenge against Premier League leaders Chelsea lose momentum.

Jim Curtin's men have a 1 -0-1 record after holding the early Eastern Conference leaders Columbus Crew SC to a 0 - 0 draw just two weeks after recording a 2 - 0 win in their Season Opener against New England.

The prospect of two games against the league leaders just before the trip to Manchester was thought to be too much for them, but it has worked out exactly the opposite.

Daws went walkabout, Gallas got back goalside just to admire the view, Dembele made a valiant scramble but failed to get it safe, and only Kyle had the nous to actually * defend *) he made some huge contributions and looked a real leader at the back (likewise against the Hammers)... And just a few weeks ago he looked like he'd lost his mojo.

League leaders Wolves had a wobble last weekend as they slipped to a 2 - 0 loss against Nottingham Forest and that means that have failed to win in two consecutive matches for just the second time this season.

Spurs currently sitting 5th in the table with 24 points and a win against Chelsea will take them just 1 point off the leaders and that is big enough motivation for players to put up good game.

A YouGov survey (from November but probably still relevant) found that 83 % of the population «trusted» family doctors, against just 20 % for leading Conservative politicians and 26 % for trade union leaders.

AG Andrew Cuomo just announced he has filed suit against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and 19 former and current executives of his Bronx nonprofit, Soundview, accusing them of «looting» the organization's charitable assets and using the money for the senator's personal and political gain.

On Monday October 6th, just days after Chris Grayling published Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, a foreign leader was already using them to defend himself against charges of crimes against humanity.

Anthony Bonomo, described by one insider as «just one of those guys everyone in state government knows,» is believed by many to be cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's case against former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam.

Just as Gov. Andrew Cuomo was wrapping up his Q - and - A with reporters by railing against New York Republicans, calling out state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos for failing to join Rep. Pete King in decrying the House leadership's failure to bring the Sandy disaster aid bill to the floor, the following statement from Skelos arrived in my in - box:

«Global financial leaders don't hate the poor or have a vendetta against them,» Pogge said, «they just don't pay any mind to the effects of their policies.»

And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.

AG Andrew Cuomo just announced he has filed a second lawsuit against Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., this time accusing the Bronx Democrat of violating labor laws by creating a sham job training program that cheated workers and shortchanged state coffers.

West Virginia Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is intensifying his offensive against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, calling him «Cocaine Mitch» in a new TV ad released just more than a week until the Republican primary.

«Brand Miliband» has had a rough few weeks and is looking pretty sad, at a time when the opposition leader should be riding high in the polls against a relatively unpopular prime minister who has just suffered a string of ordinarily catastrophic defeats over Europe and is reeling (well, he certainly ought to be) over his formerly close association with a convicted criminal.

While the court system is just starting to work through the corruption charges filed against Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, calls for his resignation are already emerging.

Appearing on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, the liberal Democratic prosecutor noted that he was the only state official involved in the suite of fraud suits against the Trump University program, which wrung a $ 25 million settlement from the Republican leader just days after his election to the highest office in the land.

The Liberal Democrat leader's comments in a major speech at the Guildhall come just a week before he and Treasury spokesman begin a charm offensive against the City.