Sentences with phrase «called by a minority»

They therefore called on the «general public to disregard the call by Minority in Parliament for the interdiction of the MD of BOST... and support the MD's quest to ensuring that all who have aided in looting the nation through BOST are duly punished.

Ironically it was called by a minority Conservative government, just as today.

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During the call, Peladeau said Quebecor would review of its dividend policy after the repurchase of the minority share of Quebecor Media Inc. that's currently owned by the Caisse de depot pension fund, but he didn't provide timing.

The budget agreement negotiated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D - N.Y., calls for a $ 63 billion increase in domestic...

Canadians would revoke Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship by ratio of nearly three - to - one November 7, 2017 — Some have called the Rohingya of Myanmar «the world's most persecuted minority».

His followers are doing pretty good job of eliminating minorities by forcing them to leave their country or be converted to Islam, but you know what, those days of Koranic abuse are over, people are hitting back at s. a. v. a g e s from air, governments around the world are not hesitant to call them terrorists and killing them any place they find.

Many American Muslims feel singled out by government anti-terror policies; significant minorities have been called names or had their mosques attacked; and most say it's harder to be a Muslim in the United States now than it was before September 11, 2001.

The Dutch people are tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority of residents are of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.

Choices of profound importance had to be made, not only by clans and tribes as a whole, but by minority groups and individuals, and nothing more imperiously calls out the sense of personal worth and dignity than the exercise of moral choice.

CIT said it will submit a complaint to the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland against what it calls «viewpoint discrimination» and refusal of services by Queen's University to those representing a valid ex-gay minority group.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

The House of Commons later unanimously approved a Motion tabled by Christian and Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, describing the slaughter of these minorities as a genocide and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

«Internationally the Government must take a lead in its role on the UN Security Council to support calls from the United Nation's own committees for the creation of a «safe zone» in Iraq, enforced by UN peacekeepers, to protect the country's minorities.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Wilders has pleaded, for instance, for a hard line against what he called the «street terror» exerted by minorities in Dutch cities.

He said, «Beyond the churches and religion, can we not all simply resolve, in our increasingly divided, bewildered and uneven society, to be clothed with goodness, to call to account and encourage the reform of individuals and entities which deliberately or by stealth, neglect and carelessness collude in oppressing minorities, burdening the poor and robbing individuals of their dignity?»

This Pope is calling for a Christianity that reaches out and loves, which is in direct contrast to the GOP Christianity defined by hating minorities (Gays, Mexicans, Arabs, etc) and hoarding Money.

They control the majority of the World's wealth and arguably are one of the most powerful blocks in the world, hardly a quality one would associate with a «minority» Perhaps the millions of non Christians who lost land or culture (not to mention millions of lives) as a result of Christian nations colonizing the World justifiably would call this headline atrocious as it simply is historically untrue if one looks at the World over the past 300 or so years and it ignores the reality of suffering brought forth by a particular religion that seeks to change all people to any one particular religion.

The discovery has lead to increased calls by experts to take steps at all levels of sports, from professional down to the youth level, to limit exposure to such repetitive trauma, while a shrinking minority (including the NCAA) continue to urge a more cautious approach until more is known.

The key questions are whether the majority of Labour MPs and the significant minority of party members who oppose Labour's lurch towards far left politics are alienated enough by it all to leave (given that the alternative of an internal challenge has failed), and whether the unions, who still underwrite much of the party's finances, will eventually call time on the Corbyn project.

Minority in Parliament has called on government to use the opportunity presented by the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama to urgently «put an end to the culture of impunity and lawlessness which is pervasive across the country».

This strikes me as a continuation of a theme Lazio started when he called on Cuomo to investigate the funding behind the mosque proposed for construction near Ground Zero (actually, 600 feet away, to be exact)-- a call that has since been seconded by his fellow Republican, Rep. Peter King, the ranking minority member of the House Homeland Security Committee who once said there are «too many mosques in this country.»

Proudly calling himself the National Rifle Association's «Public Enemy No. 1,» U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged congressional Republican leaders top listen to the «millions and millions» of March for Our Lives protesters by introducing gun - control legislation.

It is important to note that, in this my first year of office, two separate bi-partisan probes in Parliament have been established to inquire into allegations of corruption, as against zero in the Mahama years, despite the persistent calls by the then Minority.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a statement Thursday called for an independent investigation of Bronx Democrat Jeff Klein in the wake of a sexual misconduct allegation made against him by a former staffer.

This gives appeal to the option of forming a minority government bolstered by a supply and confidence agreement until the first best opportunity arises to call a snap election.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Trump to preserve a pair of tax deductions widely used by Long Island and New York City property owners that would be eliminated under the White House's recently proposed tax plan.

Surrounded by union workers, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump's infrastructure plan a sham, and urged that recent federal tax cuts for corporations and the richest Americans be rolled back to help pay for long - overdue repairs.

«The Executive Order issued by President Donald Trump should serve as a wake - up call to New Yorkers,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Addressing a press conference in Parliament on Wednesday, Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson, said the complex structure of the bond and unrealistic assumptions by the government caused what the Minority called the spectacular failure of the bond.

The latest Newsday op - ed to call for public financing in New York state, by Make the Road New York member and community organizer Maria Magdalena Flores, explains why public financing is needed to combat apathy among working - class and minority voters.

The decision to write the CJN arose from a point of order which was raised by the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who called the attention of the chamber to newspaper reports indicating the decision of the Abuja to stop the process of amendments.

The Minority in Parliament say they are «shocked and dismayed» by what they called a brutal and unprovoked attack on the Member of Parliament for the Asunafo South, and former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Eric Opoku.

He applied for a job at the union UNITE HERE, but the organization's president recommended he instead look into a new program for ambitious minority youth called «Yes We Can,» founded by Mr. Obama.

When pressed by Gov. David Paterson today on why they won't simply vote the executive budget up or down and call it a day, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos replied he considered the question moot, since the Democrats who control the Legislature won't bring the plan to the floor in the first place.

His comment that of a lot of black and minority soldiers were «idle and useless» and that being called a «black b * stard» was a part of army life saw him quickly dumped by Mr Cameron.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan through a spokesman on Friday called the racially tinged comments by billionaire donor Daniel Loeb aimed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins «clearly inappropriate.»

The Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, while making the demand on behalf of the caucus in the day's plenary, also called Uba's removal as Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts by Wednesday.

Activists point to how Cuomo has enabled Republican control of the State Senate by failing to use the State Democratic Party to support Senate Democrats and actively supporting a group of breakaway Democrats called the Independent Democratic Conference that has empowered Senate Republicans in exchange for a say in policy and perks they wouldn't enjoy as part of the minority.

The back - and - forth didn't go unnoticed by Councilman Vincent Ignizio, the minority leader and one of the loudest voices calling for the 1,000 new cops in the city budget.

According to a high - level Democratic source with knowledge of Pelosi's efforts, the minority leader has placed calls to both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, urging them not to let the proposal released by US Magistrate Judge Roanne Mann earlier this week become law.

When that failed, Senators Klein and Valesky and the other conservative Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference (all also nominated by the corporate Democratic branding operation called the Working Families Party) decided to break off and keep the Republicans in power despite their minority status.

Parliament is being reconvened early after the Minority wrote to the Speaker urging him to call for an emergency sitting over claims that expatriates were charged huge amounts by the Ministry of Trade and Industry in order for them to sit...

The Minority Spokesperson on Energy and Mines, K.T. Hammond, says recipients of the ex gratia payments by the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC), should be languishing in prison, calling the payment to Tsatsu Tsikata and three others, «criminal.»

The Minority has called on government to withdraw the 2018 budget statement presented to the House by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori - Atta.

Also at 11 a.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and his colleagues will be joined by education advocates and professionals at a press conference to call for equitable education funding and the release of school aid runs, back of Assembly chamber, state Capitol, Albany.