Sentences with phrase «campaign promises because»

Politics helps [businessmen] harm competitors; in new democracies, robber barons are often the only ones rich enough to finance election campaigns; and business people do not trust politicians to keep campaign promises because there is no real party discipline, so they go into politics themselves.

Following on the heels of a revelation by the Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei, that the NPP government was currently involved in negotiations to extend the programme to 2018, it should be clear that the Akufo Addo government has broken yet another campaign promise because reality has dawned on them

Not exact matches

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

Because CBSA is not letting importers qualify for the tariff exemption, consumers will pay higher prices for imported electronic goods − exactly what the Conservatives promised to avoid during the 2011 election campaign.

This promises to be another grind - it - out campaign for the Jazz (25 - 22 at week's end), especially since it will go 26 days between home games because of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

In Glen Ellyn Elementary School District 41, the board was asking for a tax increase because it kept a promise to increase spending only as much as needed during the campaign for a March 1988 referendum.

Tony the Million Dollar phony, he is running because the Democratic Senate «Crazy» Committee promised to spent a Million dollars on his campaign.

I was wondering the case where a hypothetical candidate makes a campaign promise, and after getting access to classified briefings may come to believe that their promise can not be fulfilled because it would put people in the way of an up to now unknown risk.

The campaign was launched because the former mayor believes the lawmakers are reneging on their promise to enacted reforms in Albany.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Republican donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer backed the company because of this promise, and they and then - ally Steve Bannon encouraged groups on the Right to sign up as clients, including the Trump campaign.

Because Johnson made promises he never intended to keep in a campaign he never thought he'd win.

CISLAC states categorically that such actions have continued because this government has failed to establish clear cut regulatory and legal frameworks that were promised while campaigning for office.

Npp government is making the trust for politicians erode before the good people of Ghana as the days go by, because we politicians who promised during our campaigns to serve the ordinary people after winning elections ride on the neck of the poor people who pushed us there.

«John Hall is in trouble this fall because he's failed to live up to the promises he made on the campaign trail.

Some of them openly expressed their disappointment in this administration and apologised to the former President for voting against him in the 2016 election because of lies told them about him and his government by the Npp, and failure on their part to critically evaluate promises the Npp made during the campaign.

Bill Lipton, the party's state director, said the party decided to stick with Mr. Cuomo because he promised to support some of its top goals, such as raising the minimum wage and providing public financing for state political campaigns.

The compromise stems from de Blasio's mayoral campaign, when he promised to ban horse carriages from New York City, purportedly because he thinks they're inhumane.

The elections in our northern targets will be the best resourced ever - partly because of Campaign North's promise to spend all money raised in the north, within the north.

Mr. Avedzi wondered further if the NPP were against the NDC's proposal to use the Heritage Fund because they held the fund «as their hope in fulfilling their campaign promises.

She promised to fight burdensome regulations and taxes, cast Maloney as an elitist and accused him of helping two Orange County businesses because of campaign contributions from their CEOs, who happened to be Republicans.

Former Member of Parliament for Ningo / Prampram Constituency Enoch Teye Mensah has said that he is contesting to be the Greater Accra Regional representative on the Council of State because he believes he can work with President Nana Addo to fulfil his campaign promises.

Wealthy pensioners will still get benefits like free bus passes and winter fuel payments until 2015 because David Cameron promised to protect them during the 2010 campaign.

Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have not made that commitment, and I presume George Osborne will be hoping that they do not do so because he would probably like to run a traditional Tory campaign saying that Labour's spending promises will lead to tax increases.

Sixty - four percent of voters chose Quart, who during the campaign promised to improve air quality, bolster rent protections and help businesses struggling because of the Second Avenue Subway construction.

Now critics are saying that the Democrats» pro-Malloy mailings will undo the original promise of the public financing system — because the special - interest money will flow into the state campaign through the party's «federal account» even as taxpayers continue to pay for campaigns that were supposed to be kept «clean» of contractors» money.

When he first ran for county executive back in 2001, Tom Suozzi campaigned on a theme that promised to fix Nassau's problems, proclaiming: «I can do it, because I've done it.»

But he's a candidate who, because of his integrity and honesty will not make campaign promises that he knows he can't keep.

Many of them pledged their unflinching support for him and promised to go all out to campaign for Mr. Greenstreet because he understood their condition better than the other candidates.

The Purge: Election Year (R for profanity and disturbing, graphic violence) Third episode in the horror franchise finds a U.S. presidential candidate (Elizabeth Mitchell) and her bodyguard (Frank Grillo) on the run from government operatives during The Purge because of her campaign promise to discontinue the gruesome annual ritual.

This is particularly worrisome because the administration doesn't have any real ability to enforce these provisions or punish states for not fulfilling their promises; and a blow - up will be especially troublesome for President Barack Obama as he fights a tough re-election campaign against Republican nominee Mitt Romney (whose school reform agenda differs little from that of the current office - holder).

And so, perhaps, when NJEA leaders objected to the selection of Paula White because of her association with DFER, Murphy, who had breached his contract with them, made a promise he could keep, even though that decision makes Repollet look far removed from the loop of state educational leadership, makes Murphy look like Pavlov's dog when confronted with a whiff of dissension from his patron, and makes NJEA look like Pavlov himself, a metamorphosis it may welcome after a humiliating defeat of the $ 5 million campaign to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney by replacing him with a Trump - supporting climate - change - denying immigration - foe.

Part of the reason I stopped working on publicity campaigns for authors was because it was so impossible to promise authors that there would be a return on their investment.

I'm currently reading (actually, that's not exactly true; I'm currently devouring) Steve Weber's book, Plug Your Book: Online Book Marketing for Authors (more about that in a future post, I promise, because this is a book that no one who's tackling a book promotion campaign can afford to ignore, and I'd like to explain why in a post dedicated to the topic).

The IMF cut its outlook for the U.S. because it no longer thinks the U.S. president will get the big tax cuts he promised in the campaign.

And the demo is for $ 60 and above backers because that was one of the promises of the original campaign, as an incentive to supporting the game more, those fans would get a chance to be more involved in the process.

Not having a proper campaign is a disappointment, not only because the Vegas games were so fun, but because Rainbow Six: Patriots sounded extremely promising when it was announced several years ago.

But remaining in the Paris Agreement will not sit well with many of those who voted for Mr. Trump in part because of his campaign promises to withdraw from the agreement.

That's because President Obama promised in the 2008 campaign his policies would create 5 million new green jobs within a decade.

re-four) is probably happening because Republicans are terrified of not delivering on their campaign promise to «repeal and replace» Obamacare.

It is the first time the group has chosen to endorse a candidate for governor and does so only because Shundler made campaign promises to take away state funding for family planning at Planned Parenthood centers.

But Dorfman expects the plan to resurface after the November elections, because there will be a new governor, many new legislators, and a lot of budget - related campaign promises to keep.