Sentences with phrase «central campaign promise»

De Blasio made the establishment of the ID card a central campaign promise.

And now, in the run up to the 2015 British election, the Conservative party has made holding a referendum on EU membership a central campaign promise.

Trump's central campaign promise, as you know, is to build a «big, beautiful, powerful wall» along the U.S. - Mexico border, which analysts at investment firm Bernstein estimate could cost anywhere between $ 15 billion and $ 25 billion, requiring 7 million cubic metres of concrete and 2.4 million tonnes of cement, among other materials.

At the time, de Blasio simply dropped his call for the tax and claimed pre-K — one of his central campaign promises — as a victory.

De Blasio embraced the 66 - year - old law enforcement veteran as a kindred spirit and «progressive visionary» capable of fulfilling one of his central campaign promises — mending the Police Department's relationship with communities of color while keeping crime in check.

Expanding school choice was one of President Trump's central campaign promises.

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You remember, of course, the wall: The central — or at least most attention - grabbing — campaign promise of Donald Trump.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Deacon said she was proud of her campaign and promised to continue working for Syracuse and the rest of central New York.

The Senate's 142 - page proposal, worked out in secret by a group led by McConnell, aims to deliver on a central Trump campaign promise to undo former President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which has provided coverage to 20 million Americans since it was passed in 2010.

Nearly four years after running as an outsider promising to curb police powers, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has emerged as a cheerleader for the NYPD, touting the city's low and falling crime rate as a central theme of his re-election campaign.

Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin today promised to make tax a central issue in the upcoming election campaign following a think - tank report that claims Labour will have to raise taxes if they retain power.

In the weeks before and after the election of Trump, whose promise to deport millions of immigrants was a central theme of his campaign, the number of couples getting marriage licenses has surged in New York and other cities across the country, though there's no data to establish a direct correlation between the two.

But fundamental disagreements still divide Republicans on one of the central promises of their 2016 campaigns: repealing the health law.

As a law professor, currently at Fordham, Ms. Teachout has focused on anti-corruption, and her anger, shared by so many, over the governor's failed promises to eradicate the carousel of bribery and pernicious influence in Albany has been central to her campaign.

That's the approach that Labour and the rest of the Remain campaign need to take over the next eight days, rather than promising to unpick the central tenets of EU membership.

The Oguaa Traditional Council in Cape Coast, has lifted a ban on noise making to allow the NDC 2016 campaign launch in the Central Region on Sunday which promises to be a political jamboree, and the NDC is happy with the decision.

He said the newly - hired senior staff will help him keep his campaign promises to Central New Yorkers.

Nearly four years after running as an outsider promising to curb police powers, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has emerged as a cheerleader for the NYPD, touting the city's low and falling crime rate as a central theme of his re-election campaign.

Councilman Rafael Espinal, chairman of the consumer affairs committee, plans to announce Wednesday his opposition to Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign promise to ban horse - drawn carriages in Central Park, sources told Capital this afternoon.

But he kept a «worst landlords» watch list while he was the city's public advocate, and a central promise of his mayoral campaign was to protect low - income tenants and make housing more affordable for the poor and working class.

«Whether it is breaking a promise to voters by voting to defund Planned Parenthood four times or the majority of special interest money bankrolling his campaign, it's clear that Katko answers to Washington, not central New York,» Lesswing said.

In January, de Blasio finally attempted to make somewhat good on his 2013 campaign promise, and announced a compromise to restrict the horse - drawn carriages to Central Park.

Mr. de Blasio and industry stakeholders tonight announced an «agreement in concept» to restrict the horse - drawn carriages to Central Park — a compromise that falls short of Mr. de Blasio's campaign promise to ban the industry entirely on «day one» of his mayoral administration.

Yet Trump has consistently tried to follow through on the biggest promises that were central to his campaign.

Coming out first in an African - American church in South Central Los Angeles, he explains why politicians never deliver on their promises to the black community: «You don't give money to my campaign.»

The Liberal promise to rejig the tax brackets was a central pledge in the campaign platform that helped propel it to victory in October.