Sentences with phrase «as election pledges»

Mr Cameron cited fiscal responsibility, welfare and pension reform, corporation tax cuts and government provisions to help with the rising cost - of - living as election pledges that were being fulfilled.

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Construction stocks and autos were also higher as investors see President Donald Trump implementing his election pledges.

I'm convinced that Donald Trump, a Republican, won the presidential election because his pledge to reform the tax code and deregulate resonated with both white - collar and blue - collar Americans who felt as if the U.S. economy was no longer working for them.

Premier Rachel Notley and Alberta's new NDP government have pledged to ban corporate and union donations in provincial politics, and they now have what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to clean up election finance laws in Alberta's municipal elections as well.

Thuan Pham, Uber's CTO, who escaped Vietnam as a child in 1979, pledged to «help defeat» the «deplorable» Trump and his «destructive agenda» in an internal email after the election, according to Business Insider.

The best lesson for both British parties to draw from Mr. Obama is the one Brooks noted when Obama abandoned his pledge to take public election financing: that as well as being an inspiring speechmaker he's also «a tough - minded Chicago pol (person of Polish descent) who would throw you under the truck for votes».

The President in the run up to the 2012 elections as a key campaign pledge, promised to build 200 new community Day senior High schools in his first term as President.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Now, however, Democrats have been putting the brakes on, citing the prohibitive cost of a special election as the main reason for their reluctance to make good on the governor's pledge.

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou, who was mentioned as a potential candidate to fill former Sen. Daniel Squadron's seat, today announced she is throwing her support to her Assembly colleague, Brian Kavanagh, though she pledged to work to reform the special election process to give voters more of a choice in candidate selection.

Still, the WFP has pledged to not serve as a spoiler in the general election that could give Republicans a boost in November.

O'Flynn's blistering attack followed Farage's decision to renege on his pre-election pledge to stand down as Ukip leader if he failed to win South Thanet in last week's general election.

In fact, virtually all GOP Senators, as well as many Democrats, signed a pledge to Koch during the 2010 elections that they would draw non partisan lines this time.

The queen mother in charge of protocol at the Aflao Traditional Area also pledged that although it's taken a while, the 1 million Ghana cedis disbursed to the ministry to be given to creative art persons with a plan but in need of cash shall be disbursed before the 2016 elections as the application window closed in September.

The meeting discussed events leading up to Saturday's youth declaration of #iChooseJM and the pledge of support by the gathered youth who have chosen President John Mahama as their candidate for election 2016.

SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel obviously pledged to support Martin Schultz as Commission President in the forthcoming negotiations, but it is expected that his main priority will be preparing for the next general election.

I'm just saying that saying that the Lib Dems have gone against a lot of their manifesto is both a trivial and meaningless point to make: the Lib Dems didn't win the election, and in other very similar circumstances, the Lib Dems would be getting * absolutely none * of their campaign pledges enacted, as opposed to the limited quantity now.

[48] Shortly before the 2010 election, Osborne had pledged to be «tougher than Thatcher» on Britain's budget deficit, [49] and he duly set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015 — 16, total public debt would be falling as a proportion of GDP.

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

President John Mahama has pledged his support to the people of Guinea - Bissau as they prepare to participate in the second round of elections to choose their next President.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named the Labour Party's five key election pledges and said keeping the country on the «road to recovery» is central to his strategy, as Gary Gibbon reports.

The Daily Mail and Times (#) are among the newspapers to confirm last week's story that Downing Street has decided to revisit David Cameron's election time pledge to protect all pensioner benefits such as the Winter Fuel Allowance.

«David Cameron's official spokesman warned yesterday that pensioner benefits such as the winter fuel allowance are facing cuts — undermining the Prime Minister's election pledge to preserve the handouts.

Obama: U.S., Germany united in sanctioning Russia for Ukraine crisis... As growing Ukrainian violence turned deadly Friday, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to seek harsher sanctions against Russia if Ukraine doesn't stabilize in time for elections this month.

Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment, as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997.

It's a fairly standard election that the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle's editorial board describes as having «done little to inspire voters» — both major party candidates have focused on similar pledges to improve the economy and not raise taxes.

De Blasio's decision to host a fundraiser for Bryce, a candidate in a district far from New York, comes as de Blasio seeks to fulfill a pledge he made after Donald Trump was elected president last year to involve himself in this year's midterm elections.

He said the former Governor who was the Kano State flag bearer of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC) in 2011 elections pledged to return the balance of N60m as soon as possible.

Other incumbents may be ousted in the November General Elections as voters express their displeasure with wrongdoing and legislators who go back on key election pledges.

But labels are not that important to his Vermont supporters.He has recently issued a report on the right - wing billionaires who are trying to buy this election through super-Pac donations.Sheldon Adelson leads the list as he has pledged to donate up to $ 100 million to defeat Obama and the Democrats.He is the Vagas billionaire who was in Israel with Mitt over the weekend.There are strings attached to the $ 100 million, and we will not know all of the details until, and if, Mitt gets to the Oval Office.Romney's strong support for a possible Israeli military strike against Iran's nuke facilities was approved, and likely discussed, with Adelson.Romney's postion vis a vis Israel, the Palistinians, and Iran will likely produce war, not any peaceful resolutions.Sanders» list of the billionaires begins with: «1).

And the third, of course, is that David Cameron bitterly regrets his rather rash pledge to the BBC's James Landale in his Oxfordshire kitchen during the election campaign to quit as PM in a few years» time.

Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their manifestos; so groundwork has been made.

What Wintour did not say was that Bell is now best - known in Labour circles as the architect of the famous «Ed Stone» - the 8ft tombstone engraved with Miliband's top six pledges for the 2015 general election.

It's not entirely clear what has led to the lowered revenue, though one possibility could be taxpayers shifting their income out of 2016 after Donald Trump's election as president in order to benefit from the potential tax cuts he had pledged during the campaign.

Less than a week ager his election as majority leader of the state Senate, Republican John Flanagan on Sunday laid out an end - of - session to - do list with the pledge to pass «common sense» changes to the SAFE Act.

Though he had appeared to pledge before the elections to return to the Democratic fold — an effort Gov. Andrew Cuomo professed to support, in exchange for the Working Families Party endorsement — Klein decided against re-joining a minority conference, and he struck a deal with Skelos in which the IDC continued to exist as a separate conference, albeit with considerably less power than before.

The April 19 special election to replace the former legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate has the specter of corruption hanging over the candidates as they pledge to restore voter confidence.

There was astonishment aplenty as the Labour leader unveiled a giant stone inscription bearing Labour's six election pledges, to be installed in the Downing Street garden if he becomes prime minister.

But he is now best - known in Labour circles as the architect of the EdStone - the 8ft tombstone engraved with six pledges for the 2015 general election.

Kaminsky announced Monday he would back a pledge that vowed to back closing the loophole in state election law that allows limited liability companies to give unlimited donations as well as limit outside income for state lawmakers and curtail the use of discretionary spending in the budget.

He was speaking after the sacking of Dominic Grieve as attorney general heightened speculation that Cameron will make a threat to withdraw from the ECHR an election pledge.

Some of the mayor's smallest donations appeared to come in the weeks after the Nov. 8 presidential election, when the mayor asked supporters to send small amounts to help him as he pledged to stand up to President - elect Donald Trump.

As the fall out from last week's tuition fee vote continued, Tim Farron, the Lib Dem president and possible future leadership challenger, raised eyebrows by claiming a pledge to abolish the fees in some form could still feature in his party's next election manifesto.

However, the NPP, during its 2016 election campaign, insisted that the country still needed more teachers and nurses and pledged to introduce the allowances, since they served as motivation for many to attend nursing colleges and colleges of education.

He said: «Every political party went into the election with a pledge to reform the House of Lords so I do not personally see a referendum as having much to recommend it.»

«As such, a reasonable solution is the following: Both sides will pledge to come together to win [two special elections coming next year].

They said that after hearing each side out many times over the past several years, they see a «reasonable solution» as both sides pledging to unite to win the special elections and subsequently reconvening as co-leaders.