Sentences with phrase «campaign against state»

The Guardian has recently been fighting a valiant and sometimes lonely campaign against the state's invasion of our privacy.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's vowed to lead a campaign against the state's Republican congressional representatives in the 2018 elections, has spent the final weeks of 2017 feuding with them over their votes on the federal tax overhaul bill.

Last year, he endorsed former Comptroller John Liu's unsuccessful campaign against State Senator Tony Avella.

He complained of a «persistent campaign against state education» in national newspapers.

A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has threatened to start a campaign against state officials including Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, to force them to reduce the number of cars in their convoys.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney is struggling to raise money for her 2018 election campaign against State Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in what is expected to be one of the most competitive House races in the nation, new disclosure reports show.

Former Guantánamo detainee says his campaign against state complicity in torture and rendition is real reason for move

At noon, activists launch a new «toxic tour» campaign against state senators who have received large donations from Wall Street, 159 State St., Albany.

Tied for the largest single donation to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the campaign against the state's recreational marijuana proposal, was $ 500,000 from Insys Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company known for selling the painkiller fentanyl in the form of a sublingual spray.

Republicans campaigned against a state income tax, pointing to a recent measure approved by the Seattle City Council that would implement a 2.25 percent tax on income above $ 250,000.

Not exact matches

Hecker said the success of the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria meant the A-10s could be deployed to Afghanistan instead of Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where they would otherwise have been based.

A massive terror attack in Paris carried out by militants associated with the Islamic State earlier this month prompted France to ramp up its campaign against the group in Syria and enlist the US's help in identifying ISIS targets on the ground in Syria.

Washington state filed the country's first consumer - protection lawsuit against a crowdfunding campaign in 2014.

Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

The French official said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria «must stop,» saying it is threatening the broader U.S. - led military campaign against the Islamic State group.

Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed «serious human rights violations, including war crimes» against civilians fleeing Islamic State - held territory.

The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign rally in Ryan's home state of Wisconsin on Monday in which the crowd chanted «Paul Ryan sucks» and Trump railed against what he called «corrupt» media and a «rigged» election system — a frequent accusation the Manhattan billionaire has brought up without evidence.

«Iran is engaged in an ongoing campaign of malicious cyber activity against the United States and our allies,» Sigal Mandelker, Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.

In 29 states, it «s still not explicitly illegal to discriminate against both employees and prospective hires based on sexual orientation — and 32 states allow workplace discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organization.

The indictment of President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's former business associate Rick Gates includes a count of «conspiracy against the United States.»

He dismissed the U.S. - backed military campaign against Islamic State in Syria as «only a few raids», and said a more comprehensive approach was needed.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

North Carolina Democrats filed an Federal Election Commission complaint against Tillis» campaign and the state Republican Party.

Lauren Michaels, legislative affairs manager for the California Police Chiefs Association, which donated $ 20,000 to the campaign against Prop 64, noted that her organization supports medical marijuana in the state but opposes the proposed recreational system because «there's much less oversight and accountability for complying with state regulations.»

Through her family's trust, she has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to the organization's efforts to defeat California's recreational marijuana proposal, given at least $ 30,000 to the campaign against Nevada's proposed legal weed law, and donated another $ 25,000 to defeat the pro-pot effort in Massachusetts, according to an analysis of state campaign finance filings by VICE News.

The state's Republican governor, Mike Pence — later picked by Trump as his vice-presidential running mate — decried the decision, and spoke out against it often on the campaign trail.

Bob White and the auto workers captured the attention of many Canadians by breaking away from their American parent union in 1985 and then leading an inspired campaign against the Mulroney government's proposed free trade agreement with the United States.

The Elon Musk - led company went a step further as well, stating that the piece was an «ideologically motivated attack by an extremist organization working directly with union supporters to create a calculated disinformation campaign against Tesla.»

The former State Department diplomat who oversaw U.S. government sanctions policy said he was «extremely» frustrated when the Obama administration issued «weak» and «frankly inadequate» sanctions against Russia in December 2016 in response to that country's campaign to disrupt the U.S. presidential election.

Rick Gates, formerly a senior Trump campaign official, is expected to plead guilty to conspiracy against the United States and lying to the FBI.

The House of Commons approved a motion late Monday to extend the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for a year, and expand airstrikes into Syria.

Wikileaks has stated that they will be leading a campaign against Coinbase next week which will focus on boycotting Coinbase, calling it an unfit member of the cryptocurrency community.

Kenney also noted that Canada's Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson was in Saudi Arabia last month for a meeting with dozens of international military commanders from countries opposed to Islamic State, including about 25 actually involved in the military campaign against the terrorist organization, among them top officers from key Middle Eastern countries.

Activist hacking group Anonymous have declared this Friday December 11 a «trolling day» against the so - called terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) as part of its cyber campaign against the militant Islamist group.

This includes recent legislation that discriminates against the LGBT community, as stated in a recent letter released by the Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina and signed by numerous CEOs, including Howard Schultz.

Senate Democrats and state AGs are waging a campaign against a Trump administration decision not to require internet service providers treat content equally.

Just in time, as it turned out, for the arrival of US President Donald J. Trump, who had campaigned against the agreement and withdrew the United States from the deal within days of taking office.

Amazon has been a champion for the LGBT community as early supporters of the Equality Act, backers of marriage equality campaigns, and active voices against legislation that discriminates against transgender people in states across the country.

Airstrikes take place almost daily as part of ongoing campaigns such as the battle against the Islamic State, but focused initial missile strikes and military operations can have an abrupt impact on markets.

The ACLU is a powerhouse in advocating for the rights of immigrants, campaigning against discrimination and challenging state and federal laws.

Veteran GOP operative Paul Manafort, who ran Trump's campaign over the summer, has been indicted on 12 counts including conspiracy against the United States, along with his business partner and frequent White House visitor Rick Gates.

It promotes inclusion in education, and campaigns against any form of exclusion in state - funded education on the grounds of religion.

The atheists are fighting a campaign against Fundamentalist Christians who are trying to run for President of the United States and change our laws to suit their ridiculous biblical ideas.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

A massive campaign aimed at forcing Switzerland to make billions available in «compensation» was launched by the WJC, with the governors of four American states threatening economic sanctions against the Swiss, and the City of Los Angeles withdrawing millions of dollars of pension funds from a Swiss bank.

The United States also managed the repression and terror utilized by the contras in Nicaragua as part of a proinsurgency campaign against a popularly elected government.

But both MacKinnon and Dworkin have stated they will continue their campaign against pornography through all available channels.

As Humanists UK campaign against the involvement of religious organisations in the running of state schools, they say this money from the Catholic church «represents inappropriate influence.»

Orban's government has campaigned against an EU plan to spread some of the burden of the influx of migrants and refugees by requiring member states to accept quotas.

Richard Lamm, the former governor of Colorado who has campaigned against excessive medical costs, recently cited the case of a patient in a Washington, D.C., hospital who has been in a comatose state since Lamm was a high school student.