Sentences with phrase «as a bloc on»

One of the regions slated for casino development includes the Catskills, which has a growing Orthodox community that has voted as a bloc on major issues.

The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.

Not exact matches

On Monday, U.K. prime minister Theresa May won approval from Parliament to begin talks for the country's exit from the E.U. May plans to invoke what is known as Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which outlines how an E.U. member may leave the bloc — provided it gives two years» notice.

If Britain stays in a customs union it must agree to apply the same tariffs on imports from outside the EU and can not negotiate free trade deals with other nations, as the government currently hopes to do once the U.K. leaves the bloc.

At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs union.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

Among the pundits, the New York Times» Paul Krugman has come out behind Clinton, while Noah backs Obama, on the grounds that if all the plans are, as Noah maintains, gradually introducing socialized medicine, there's no point in antagonizing a large bloc of voters with a mandate.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard focused on the fact that as a bloc, the EU is delivering on its Kyoto commitment.

LONDON, April 30 - Government bond yields in the euro area nudged higher on Monday as focus turned to preliminary inflation data from Germany and Italy, two of the bloc's biggest economies.

The EU is on alert for Chinese attempts to drive a wedge through the bloc as more states on the periphery line up to join the European fold, diplomatic observers and sources said.

As the Financial Times reported on Friday, Brussels is set to propose the creation of a standing European border force that could take control of the bloc's external frontiers — even if a government objected:

As the official vote count continued on Monday morning, after the ballot on Sunday, it showed the Five Star Movement (M5S) would be the largest single party, but a center - right bloc — which features the anti-immigration Lega party — would gain the most seats.

May's government has worked hard on pushing the idea that the U.K. could sign a free trade agreement with the United States, but, as the Guardian reported, EU diplomats have said that «while no one can stop Britain from talking to future trade partners, any concrete attempt to negotiate free - trade agreements before Britain leaves the bloc could rapidly sour Brexit negotiations.»

But Merkel's chief of staff, Peter Altmaier, said that while accession talks could be halted, he had doubts as to whether the bloc should collectively decide on a rally ban.

But the wider aim is for the regulation to harmonize as much as possible data protection rules across all Member States to reduce the regulatory burden on digital businesses trading around the bloc.

Apo - The European Union on Thursday launched a plan for thousands of 18 - year - old Europeans to travel in the bloc for free this summer as part of efforts to promote the EU.

Factories in the euro zone raised their prices in July as energy costs swelled, pointing to further upward pressure on consumer prices in the currency bloc later this year.

And finally, Canada's minister of international trade is looking south — way south — as he sets his sight on entering into trade negotiations with South America's Mercosur trading bloc of nations this week.

During the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, much of the attention fell on the U.S., as it was by far the largest economy in the Pacific trading bloc.

Merkel, who enjoyed record high popularity ratings early last year, has grown increasingly isolated in recent months as members of her conservative bloc have pressed her to take a tougher line on asylum seekers and European allies have dragged their feet on the issue.

The representatives of the two largest divisions, both Latin American - dominated, emerged as the strongest bloc on the nominating committee.

The political game as played from 1956 on in Poland was looser than elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, and a world away from the USSR itself, but less repression made for more ambiguity.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Though Rosen's connection is tenuous to the Obama administration, Republicans used the line as a counter punch to the so - called «War on Women» as both parties vie for that voting bloc this year.

«Labour has called on the government to allow registration en bloc for certain institutions — such as schools, care homes and Universities — and to allow councils to use local data more extensively,» Twigg added.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and former Manhattan BP Ruth Messinger are the latest additions to Sen. Eric Schneiderman's growing list of endorsements for his bid to replace Andrew Cuomo as attorney general, targeting a key voting bloc on primary day: Liberal Jewish women (particularly those on the UWS).

The DisruptJ20 activist network is holding a series of events throughout Washington, D.C. on January 20, including the Queer Resistance on J20, a queer anti-inauguration party at a security checkpoint, at 6:30 a.m. at McPherson Square Park; the Movement for Black Lives #J20 Resistance at the Inauguration — a combined movement of Black Lives Matter DC, Baltimore BLOC and the Movement for Black Lives — at 7 a.m. at MPD Police Headquarters; the «Festival of Resistance: March Against Trump» at 12 p.m. at Columbus Circle to reject forms of hate and oppression such as racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia and ableism; and «Preparing for the Trump Era: What Anarchists Are» on January 21 at 5 p.m. at The Festival Center.

It is also arguable that as a member of a large trade bloc (the EU) that UK would have benefited on the whole far more than they will being on their own.

This past weekend, 20 members of the Progressive Caucus decided they would vote as a unified bloc on a choice for the next Council speaker, according to a New York Times report.

As outgoing Party Treasurer and a former Deputy General Secretary of Unite the Union, he helped deliver the TU bloc vote on the NEC to oust Rahman as the official Labour candidatAs outgoing Party Treasurer and a former Deputy General Secretary of Unite the Union, he helped deliver the TU bloc vote on the NEC to oust Rahman as the official Labour candidatas the official Labour candidate.

For the Republican Conference, a conservative bloc hailing mostly from the suburbs and upstate, the IDC is a lifeline: As long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statAs long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statas it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue state.

His election as majority leader keeps power concerted in the Senate on Long Island, where the nine - member delegation have formed a powerful bloc of votes.

Last week, 16 Senate Republicans signed on to a statement backing Skelos's tenure as majority leader, including the bloc of the conference known as the «Long Island 9.»

The austerity measures in the eurozone's third - largest economy come as France seeks to capitalise on the redrawing of European power - relations with a new intra-EU bloc that would effectively create a two - tier union.

Another factor was that DeFrancisco and the Republican leadership thought it was crucial for the Republicans to stick together, to vote as a bloc, on this issue.

They were once known as the Long Island Nine — a solid all - Republican bloc of state senators from Nassau and Suffolk that held tremendous clout for decades on issues from school aid to road construction.

The House Republican anti-terrorism bill that includes Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin's gun measure yesterday remained on hold, with no timeline for passage, as House Speaker Paul Ryan worked to overcome opposition from his party's conservative bloc.

We probably could never agree to act as a single bloc on anything short of defending the freedom of the press; there will always be the outliers who can't resist the temptation of scoring «a scoop» based on anonymous source (s).»

The Coalition is taking on all sorts of interest groups as part of its radical zeal but it has made the strategic decision that it will do nothing to upset pensioners, the most active voting bloc.

All the productive sectors are referred to as economic sector, and they will be a major bloc as a subcommittee of parliament, and they coordinate the activities of the economic sectors of his cabinet, as it may be, and he wanted me to bring my experience as a [former] minister of finance, as somebody who has done a similar job in Uganda, as somebody who has done a similar job in Liberia, to bear on his government; so I'm playing a coordinated role for the economic sector as it were.»

Noting that a minimum wage hike would especially impact women (a large voting bloc in Democratic presidential primaries), Mr. Biden said he was on hand today to put the proposed hike in «context,» emphasizing his final goal as vice president is to help lift stagnant wages.

Frank also dismissed insinuations that there was a crack in the nPDP bloc as a result of a counter-letter written by Senator Abdullahi Adamu on Monday.

But the proposed measure could be a useful tool for gay marriage opponents to use on potential fence - sitters in the Senate Republican conference, which so far has voted as a bloc against expanding the state definition of marriage.

«Scientific partnerships, spearheaded by Norway, with Eastern Europe's Communist bloc in the 1970s served as a foundation for international cooperation on environmental pollution despite ongoing Cold War frictions,» says Rothschild, an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

As an indirect consequence of the vote, held on 9 February, the European Union has postponed negotiations to include Switzerland as an associated country to Horizon 2020, the bloc's research and innovation program, and to the higher education program Erasmus +, which both run from 2014 through 202As an indirect consequence of the vote, held on 9 February, the European Union has postponed negotiations to include Switzerland as an associated country to Horizon 2020, the bloc's research and innovation program, and to the higher education program Erasmus +, which both run from 2014 through 202as an associated country to Horizon 2020, the bloc's research and innovation program, and to the higher education program Erasmus +, which both run from 2014 through 2020.

Still, Madden's film, which is based on the 2007 Israeli drama «Ha - Hov,» is an overwhelmingly icy one, built as it is on deep, dark shadows, cold stone buildings and a layer of Eastern bloc grime.

And as I discussed in «Let My People Go,» the liberal bloc seemed uncomfortable defending Abood on constitutional grounds, indicating that they think there is some merit to the plaintiffs» free speech claims.

In their first year, The Racial Imaginary Institute has focused on whiteness as a starting point, stating, «Whiteness as a source of unquestioned power, and as a «bloc,» feels itself to be endangered even as it retains its hold on power.»

The four countries were not negotiating on behalf of the larger bloc of developing countries, as they might have in the past, she adds.