Sentences with phrase «by members of the coalition»

The letter, dated Friday, was signed by members of the coalition, including Common Cause's Susan Lerner, Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice, NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney and David Palmer of the Center for Working Families.

Now Russia is preparing a charm offensive for William Hague as the foreign secretary makes the first visit to Moscow by a member of the coalition government.

One recipient will be chosen for each available scholarship by the members of the coalition.

Not exact matches

Thousands of brand - new members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) may very well be the ones who decide on whether Germany will be governed by a grand coalition with Angela Merkel at its helm.

NRF is a member of the Coalition for the American Dream, which supports renewal of the DACA program that allows children who were brought to the United States illegally by their parents to remain.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

The snap ballot came only days after Mrs Merkel changed her long - held stance on the issue by allowing members of her conservative coalition a free vote on the matter.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

Judging by the well - known record of some members of the coalition, it does seem likely that different, and perhaps even contradictory, motives are engaged.

In 1989, the attempt by one of these coalition governments to placate lowcaste discontent through affirmative action - for example, reserving a portion of government jobs for members of these castes - angered and alienated many upper - caste and middleclass Hindus.

Starbucks is a founding member, alongside a growing coalition of industry leaders, of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a call to action led by Conservation International to make coffee the world's first sustainable agriculture product.

Organised by the newly - formed Right to Food Coalition, whose members include the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance, Foodbank NSW, Red Cross, SecondBite, Blacktown City Council, NSW Department of Health (South Western Sydney District), Liverpool City Council and others, the centrepiece of this conference is the presentation by Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger.

Therefore, Starbucks is one of the founding members of The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a diverse industry coalition led by Conservation International with the call to action of making coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product.

The aisle was opened in the George Verberne Jumbo Supermarket in Wageningen by Louise Fresco, President of Wageningen University & Research's executive board and a member of Champions 12.3, the global coalition of executives committed to halving food loss and waste by 2030.

Thanks to dedicated members, friends, and board of directors who all volunteer their time to support a staff of three, the Coalition has grown into an effective statewide voice for land protection, as evidenced by the growing influence of the Conference.

Baby Milk Action, the International Baby Food Action Network and the Baby Feeding Law Group, a coalition of 23 leading health bodies including the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, have been working with MEPs and Member States to bring about an overhaul of these regulations for over 20 years — aware that mothers have been misled by the aggressive promotion carried out by the baby food industry.

We are proud to be a member of the coalition organized by the National Partnership for Women and Families to get the Family Leave Act passed.

On Monday 21st June a parliamentary reception was held at the House of Commons, Westminster, hosted by the Member of Parliament, Emily Thornberry, to celebrate National Breastfeeding Week 2010 and 3 years since the launch of the Breastfeeding Manifesto Coalition (BMC).

This session will update on progress since last year's conference, on the work between coalition members of the Baby Feeding Law Group to develop a resource for food bank organizers and volunteers, and a pilot to implement the resource supported by Leicester City Council.

TXBC board member covered by this conflict of interest policy are the coalition's members, paid or contracted staff, and those serving in volunteer leadership positions (such as committee and task force chairs and members).

In lobbying individual members of the state Legislature, the coalition supporting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for universal pre-Kindergarten is coming prepared with district - by - district statistics breaking down who benefits.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

Members of the public could block council tax increases under proposals unveiled by the coalition government.

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

The bill had leadership juice behind it: it was sponsored in the Assembly by Herman «Denny» Farrell, D - Manhattan, the Assembly Ways & Means chairman, and co-sponsored in the Senate by John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, the Finance Committee chairman, and Diane Savino, D - Staten Island, who is both a close ally of labor unions and a leading member of the Independent Democratic Coalition.

Maffei was also among 43 members of the New Democrat Coalition, a group of business - friendly House moderates, who signed a letter opposing the derivatives language approved by the Senate.

And over the last two weeks, lulus have become a byword for Albany's political self - dealing, after news that eight senators — all members of a ruling coalition led by Republicans — had received tens of thousands in such payments for jobs they did not hold.

Critics of the idea have claimed it is a cover for the coalition's spending cuts agenda, by transferring responsibility from the state to unprepared members of the public.

Also at 11:30 a.m., members of the Stop the Cuomo Tax coalition and other advocacy leaders mark the passage of one year since the state PSC voted to approve Cuomo's estimated $ 7.6 billion bailout by releasing new figures that detail the financial hit to ratepayers to date, LCA pressroom, state Capitol, Albany.

Enhancing skills of coalition members and the community by Increasing there skills to deal with underage drinking and drug issues.

Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party and the Democratic Unionist Party are taken seriously by journalists as potential members of a future coalition government.

(New York, NY)-- A week and a half after the shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a coalition of New York legislators and gun violence prevention advocates today urged the State Senate and Assembly to promptly hold votes on a bill sponsored by Senators Brian Kavanagh and Brad Hoylman and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon that would empower family members and law enforcement to prevent gun violence.

BY SAM SPOKONY A coalition of City Council members and Democratic Council nominees likely to win on November 5 took to the steps of City Hall on October 30 to begin making their case for sweeping reforms to the Council's rules.

With the Assembly Democrats squarely against the changes, the wild card could be the extent to which the Senate, controlled by a coalition of Republicans and the eight Independent Democratic Conference members, would during the 2018 legislative session join a push to force a delay or a revisiting of the rule changes.

Members of the fair elections coalition were joined by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Tuesday to again call for public campaign financing.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

A coalition of business interests, many of which are members or partners of the pro-Cuomo Committee to Save New York, are lobbying legislative leaders to reject a key element of the cost - cutting and reform plan put forward by the Medicaid Redesign Team and embraced by the governor in his 30 - day amendments.

Meanwhile, students, parents and community members organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Citizen Action of New York and the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice delivered valentines to state lawmakers» local offices in the Capital District Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island asking them to reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed education aid cuts.

In a recent survey of party members by LibDemVoice, Browne recorded the worst net popularity rating -LRB--18 %) of any Lib Dem minister since the coalition was formed.

The Senate is currently led by a coalition of Republicans and the five members of the Independent Democratic Conference.

Although Ms. Quinn didn't call out her rivals by name, in the original Times story, her campaign criticized Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, for having ties to some members of NYC Is Not for Sale 2013, the attack ad coalition.

The legislation is sponsored in the Senate by David Carlucci, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a coalition of eight Democrats who have a power - sharing agreement with Republicans.

Surrounded by a phalanx of supportive fellow City Council members and activists from the Real Affordability for All coalition outside City Hall today, Council Member Costa Constantinides called for more affordable units in the proposed 8.7 - acre, 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove rezoning that reached the Council last week following its approval by the City Planning Commission.

The rally was organized by members of the End AIDS NY 2020 Coalition, which is made up of 60 organizations throughout New York State.

QUEENS, NY — With the beginning of the school year fast approaching, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is encouraging members of the public to once again donate backpacks and other school supplies to homeless children as part of «Project: Back to School,» an annual initiative organized by the Coalition for the Homeless.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

«While Fernando Cabrera's a hardworking elected official who has fought in the City Council for his constituents, he falls short on key litmus test issues supported by all the members of the I.D.C. and important to a coalition that accomplishes these goals.