Sentences with phrase «attempts by the all progressives»

Fayose alleged that the futile attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the Bayelsa State governorship election was a clear invitation to anarchy, even as he said Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari was fast becoming a shame.

Bayelsa Polls: Buhari Ignores Sylva, set to May Probe security Failures A spirited attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari was rebuffed on Thursday in Abuja.

The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State has urged Nigerians to resist attempts by the All Progressives Congress - led Federal Government to scuttle the nation's democracy.

According to the report, the government sources claim the audio was an attempt by the All Progressives Congress and its supporters to shift attention from the «gravity of electoral crimes committed by agents of the Federal Government caught on video across Rivers State».

Not exact matches

The average uneducated dolt stands up on its hind legs and spews venom at «socialists», labeling progressive attempts to limit pollution as top down intellectual dominance of their tiny minds, and by golly nobody is going to tell them how to behave or think!

The Wildrose is attempting to tie the new government to economic conditions caused by the decline of the international price of oil, but the Alberta NDP was elected on a moderate progressive platform and have moved swiftly to implement it.

a progressive one that, in effect, held faith without works to be dead and was typified by Woodrow Wilson's attempt to remodel the world in accord with American (or his own) morality;

But the defensiveness springs from the attempt by believers to defend their belief against a «progressive» philosophy that is already rejected intellectually by nearly all cultural commentators, and, I suspect, despised intuitively by nearly all young people in America.

I'm not sure An Evangelical Manifesto is an attempt by the third group to redefine evangelicalism by progressive standards.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

Andy Newman posts that «I think they have the argument spot on, perhaps they have limited this to Labour Party members in an attempt to steer the party away from the negative approach revealed by smeargate; but I am am sure that many progressive bloggers outside the Labour Party will also fully endorse their general argument.

Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has said that the latest media propaganda by the self - styled Unity Forum of the All Progressives Congress is a desperate attempt to rubbish the result of the ward congresses conducted on Sunday.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is responding to a rebellion from the state's progressive third party by attempting to push other Democrats away from the Working Families Party.

The WFP, which is among a host of progressive and liberal groups that joined with protestors in recent weeks at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, says the plan announced yesterday by the mayor's office is merely an attempt to end the protests.

The governor frowned at the publicized arrest of President Buhari's associate and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Jafaru Isa, and his reported refund of N100 million to the EFCC describing it as the first trick used by the Federal Government in its attempt to deceive Nigerians into believing that the fight against corruption was not selective.

As my colleagues, Dana Rubinstein and Laura Nahmias, wrote on Tuesday, de Blasio has been frustrated by the politics of Albany when he's tried to push his progressive agenda at home and is attempting something of an end run.

He maintained that the claim of exit from recession was nothing but another attempt by the Buhari - led All Progressives Congress to deceive Nigerians ahead of the 2019 elections.

An unusual # 600,000 donation has been handed to 30 Labour and 15 left of centre Liberal Democrat election candidates by a former Lib Dem peer in an attempt to create an Ed Miliband - led progressive government.

Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has said that the latest media propaganda by the Unity Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a desperate attempt to rubbish the result of the ward congresses.

What is clear is that Vince is determined to present an economically credible, progressive and above all distinctly Liberal Democrat economic platform — as the Tories test their coalition partner's resolve by attempting to legislate for crushing austerity in the next Parliament, his defence of a Lib Dem approach to economic policy will matter more and more.

And it's this distance that has allowed him (presumably) to keep a straight face as his running mate, Kathy Hochul, attempts to bolster her own Democratic credentials ahead of the Sept. 9 primary by complaining that the Senate coalition didn't achieve enough for progressives.

DeFrancisco suggested during the radio interview that the accusation could be leveraged politically by progressives calling for the Senate Democrats and IDC to reunite and attempt to wrest control of the state Senate from Republicans.

But it's not a party at all — it's just a cynical attempt to knock out a huge piece of the progressive infrastructure by stealing votes away from the WFP.»

Rising up from the burgeoning netroots in 2007, OpenLeft attempted to do something slightly novel for online politics — use the blogging medium not simply to pontificate, but to make progressive politics more interactive, a la the Internet, couched in the history of the American left and guided by strategic thinking.

The All Progressives Congress, APC and its presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari, yesterday kicked against any attempt by the Federal Government to postpone the February 14 and...

An All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator representing Zamfara Central, Kabir Marafa, yesterday said the ongoing debate by the National Assembly to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB and the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT Act was an attempt to introduce immunity clause for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and shield him from prosecution.

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has said Friday's attack on the State Judiciary, is an attempt by the Police and the All Progressive Congress (APC...

Some people feel what is happening to Tinubu in the All Progressives Congress is an attempt by the North to trample on the Yoruba nation.

But in a brief media address on Monday, Chairman of the Progressive People's Party, Dr. Nii Allotey Brew - Hammond, said attempts by party officials to seek clarity on the disqualification of its candidate had proven futile, as the EC's offices were closed at the time of their visit not long after they heard of Dr. Nduom's disqualification in the media.

Using a progressive overload system when working out, means you should attempt to increase the weight by 5 lbs each week if possible.

The structure of federal income tax brackets was first implemented by the IRS in the early 1900s in an attempt to create a progressive tax system that would demand less from lower - income individuals.

Written by lone coder Mervyn Estcourt (who also produced a PC remake almost 20 years later), this remarkably progressive 3D chase game gets the player to ride a futuristic motorbike through dense woodland, attempting to track down and shoot enemy riders.

Instead, the work by African - American artists that I have seen, as radical, as progressive, as coherent and eloquent as it is, remains unfortunately «nationally self - centred» [if I can use such a term] insofar as it scarcely attempts to connect with African communities living in Europe.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.

If attempts are made to roll back any of the insanity through legislative action, the progressive organizations, most of which are funded in part by the government, will sue to overturn the laws and / or reinstate the regulations and the courts, firmly in control of the progressives, will simply rule that the legislative actions are «illegal» or «unconstitutional» and overturn them.

While developed countries may appear progressive by asking for a mandate to negotiate a new legally binding treaty, the truth is that this is nothing but a veiled attempt to kill the Kyoto Protocol and escape from their further mitigation obligations under the already existing mandate in the Protocol itself, and the agreement in 2005 for negotiating further emission cuts.

Mann et al are being «hounded» for two major reasons: fraudulent manipulation of data to produce «results» that would support political actions advocated by fellow «progressives» and conspiring with other prominent progressive climatologists and organizations to suppress conflicting data by trashing, personally and professionally, and blackballing the scientists who collected and attempted to disseminate it.