Sentences with phrase «campaign against the government»

On the broadest social level, the ostensible «free market» lobbying effort sponsored by banks to shift the property tax onto labor and industry has become a campaign against government itself.

We took our campaign against the government's online snooping bill to all three party conferences.

Actually, the events in December and January were preceded by a spontaneous campaign against government repression in May of 2010, in which people reacted to an opposition leader's attempt to start a protest march by posting supportive photographs on Facebook, a development that Nour believes emboldened cyberactivists.

In 2011, Thornberry challenged David Cameron over his false claims about wages at Islington Council, [39] campaigning against government measures which Thornberry claims have exacerbated child poverty in Islington, [40] and answering over 1,000 enquiries a month from constituents.

Prominent Cabinet members have been accused of «rank hypocrisy» after apparently campaigning against government policy to shore up support in their own constituencies.

Beginning the long campaign against the government's # 81 billion spending cuts, the shadow chancellor said his party would not have implemented the «slash - and - burn» approach taken by the coalition government.

Mr Johnson is not the only figure on the left preparing for a staunch campaign against the government's cuts.

She says she wants to combat child poverty, has pledged to campaign against government plans to limit future child tax credit to two children and to bring about a childcare and digital «revolution».

Take it as read each of the candidates will campaign against the government's crazy police cuts which will see up to 16,000 officers, a similar number of back office roles and 1,800 PCSOs face the chop.

Of course one sympathises with the wider campaign against government waste.

It is anticipated that Unite members will join other public sector unions on 10 May as part of the on - going campaign against government attacks on public sector pensions.

David Cameron is re-launching his campaign against the government's so - called NHS cuts with a focus on the closure of NHS district hospitals.

He has promised that, under his leadership, the Lib Dems would campaign against government proposals to extend the right to buy to housing association tenants, something he has predicted Labour will not be brave enough to oppose.

A business organisation campaigning against the government's cap on immigration tells Channel 4 News Cabinet minister Vince Cable is right to say that the measure is damaging the economy.

Environmentalists have banded together over the years, campaigning against the government to ensure our natural environment including the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest are totally protected for future generations with a recognised «World Heritage» status from UNESCO.

Establishing conservative think tanks and media outlets, they propagated sophisticated intellectual arguments and expert public - relations campaigns against government regulation for any purpose whatever.

Siakor and his SDI colleagues are now campaigning against a government plan that would allow timber from agricultural concessions to be exported as a legal, sustainably produced product, thus accelerating the rate of deforestation.

Not exact matches

For months government officials have waged a campaign against Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow - based maker of popular antivirus software.

NEW YORK, NY — Today, the Democratic National Committee filed a wide - ranging, partisan civil lawsuit in federal court against the Trump Campaign, WikiLeaks, and the Russian Government.

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.

As a result, the Opposition parties will likely vote against the bill and the Harper Government will again use this against them during the upcoming election campaign.

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.

The relentless campaign against the legislation has proven effective as it appears virtually certain that the government will now delay its implementation.

All of the politicians implicated angrily denied the allegations, accusing the government of engineering a politically motivated campaign against them.

The charges against the pair related to nearly a decade of foreign work they did for the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian politicians before they joined Trump's campaign.

Toward the goal of clean capital markets, in 2004 Byrne began a vigorous citizen - journalist campaign focusing on regulatory capture, hedge fund mischief, settlement system failures, systemic risk, and the possibility of economic warfare against the US by organized crime and foreign governments.

Two Court of Appeal judges today granted Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) to appeal against the High Court judgement which allows the UK government to sell arms to Saudi Against Arms Trade (CAAT) to appeal against the High Court judgement which allows the UK government to sell arms to Saudi against the High Court judgement which allows the UK government to sell arms to Saudi Arabia.

On Friday's broadcast of CNN's «Situation Room,» Representative Jackie Speier (D - CA) criticized the DNC's lawsuit against the Trump campaign and its associates, the Russian government, and WikiLeaks as «ill - conceived,» and «the wrong thing to be doing.»

That hatred is fading mainly because the campaign against that mega-expansion of big government isn't being waged.

A Christian charity is starting a new campaign against what it believes are government plans to stifle... More

Stephen Evans, campaigns manager at the National Secular Society (NSS) says: «We welcome the government's robust response to the specific allegations against schools in Birmingham, but it has a long way to go before we can be confident that children's education isn't being compromised by groups with a religious agenda.

CNN: Catholic bishops launch religious liberty campaign The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a two - week crusade against what it calls the federal government's violations of its religious liberty.

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.

His [Stalins] government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public insti tutions (Society of the Godless), discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers.

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

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.

It will be a difficult fight against a government - funded campaign (ie one backed by our money), which has daily access to the media, especially to the BBC - which has clearly shown that it intends to push for «gay marriage».

A recent example of just such suspicion and mistrust took place in August, when an anti-trafficking nonprofit called Agape International Missions (AIM) came under fire from the Cambodian government for purportedly working with CNN to stage a smear campaign against Cambodian women.

Though the HHS mandate represents an expansion of government power into the heart of many religious institutions, efforts to resist this expansion were portrayed by HHS Secretary Sebelius as a «war against women,» a label that has stuck and a narrative that the Democratic party during its Convention sought to make a dominant theme of the campaign» it would seem, with considerable success.

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

But a negative campaign against saturated fats in general, and coconut oil in particular, led to most food manufacturers abandoning coconut oil in recent years in favor of hydrogenated polyunsaturated oils that come from the main government - subsidized cash crops in the US, particularly corn and soy.

At the end of June 2016, a number of Nobel laureates accused Greenpeace's campaign against Golden Rice as a «crime against humanity «and called upon governments around the world to «do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace's actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology ``.

In 2003 Oxfam launched a campaign against Nestlé's attempt to extract US$ 6 million from the Ethiopian Government at a time the country was experiencing famine.

Without access to the city's internal records, we may never know what really brought about Milwaukee's dangerously substandard medical care implicated in the Fetal Infant Mortality Review, or discern the cause of the extreme bias toward African - American babies dying in Milwaukee, or discover the root of the subsequent bizarre publicity campaign by the local Milwaukee government against cosleeping, but we can be sure of one thing, «Something's rotten in Denmark... er, Milwaukee.»

Following extensive campaigning by Humanists UK and its supporters for greater action against illegal, unregistered schools, the Government has finally indicated that it will look to close the legal loopholes that allow them to continue operating.

Tens of thousands of people are thought to attempting to flee the north - east of the country as the government continues its military campaign against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

At NCCL, Harriet also campaigned for prisoners» rights, for a Human Rights Act and against Government secrecy.