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France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

The Conservatives made good on an 2011 election promise with the April change, effective this year.

Not exact matches

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

With Trump's Nov. 8 election victory and his campaign promise to tear up international trade deals threatening to shatter a fragile global recovery, Singapore «s open economy remains among some of the most vulnerable markets to U.S. protectionism.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Now that he has won the election, Trump needs to back up his promises with actions.

There had been speculation one or more of the following election promises would be included: • Increase the annual contribution limit for the TFSA to $ 10,000; • Increase the limit for Children's Fitness Credit to $ 1,000 (and make it refundable); • Introduce Adult Fitness Tax Credit of up to $ 500; • Permit income splitting of up to $ 50,000 for couples with children under 18.

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.

Trump, a self - professed fan of junk food, has not been explicit on what he plans to do with food policy, although he campaigned for the Nov. 8 election on a broad promise to undo regulations on business.

The Conservatives dangled several pricey promises during the 2011 election campaign that were contingent on them balancing the books, including tax - splitting for couples with children under 18, doubling the annual tax - free savings account limit and doubling the children's tax credit.

To be sure, CEOs at the companies Trump listed — all of whom have met personally with Trump since his election — have said they are encouraged by Trump's promises to cut regulations and lower corporate taxes, moves they said that will allow them to grow.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

In the 2006 election campaign, the Conservative Party promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.

In the 2006 election campaign, the Conservatives promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

With federal Labor promising to lift the emissions targets if it wins office at the next federal election, state Labor governments in Victor...

The latest budget contained two of the election promises: potential reimbursement to the province of Quebec for costs associated with the potential harmonization of the provincial sales tax with the GST and the phase - out of political subsidies.

With Parliament recessed for the summer and an election call imminent, all three major political parties will now spend the coming weeks making new election promises.

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.

Since his election, Trump's pushback against Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on expanding the Afghanistan troop presence (which Trump backed down on) and his promises to bring back 2,000 Americans in Syria «very, very soon» (let's see) play strongly with his base.

TERRACE — The New Democrats agree with the newly formed Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance that the B.C. Liberal government should act on their election promise to share Northern resources with Northern communities.

Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a litany of campaign promises to Canadian voters over the course of his election campaign, one of them being to improve relations with Canada's southern neighbor.

The PCs promised they'd deal with this in the last election, but the Throne Speech contains only a hollow silence.»

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

In White House meetings with members of Congress and motorcycle maker Harley - Davidson, Mr. Trump reiterated his key election promise to either revamp or do away with the 1994 free - trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

Nobody should want the politicizing of church leadership that comes with popular elections, as is the case in many Protestant denominations, and the Board assumes the right of the pope to appoint bishops, but they are convinced that the present pattern of the promotion of the like - minded by the like - minded within a clericalist club designed to perpetuate the habits that created the present crisis is not a promising way toward reform.

The Calvinists on the other hand have their particular bias, precedence, of man having no inherent - free - will capacity to accept or reject God's call / drawing, commands, instructions, teachings, promises and gifts that they interpret John 6:25 - 71 with — which interpretation is consistent with their precedence and consistent with their ideas of unconditional election and irresistible grace.

That is what Ephesians 1:4 promises with the truth of election.

Then when they got elected last fall they ignored the election promises about helping with the job situation and went right back to trying to push the social agenda's of anti abortion and anti gay marriage.

Hacked off Milan trying to chase Kaka, hacked off Manchester United trying to sign Cristiano Ronaldo — but eventually succeeded — hacked off Villarreal trying to sign Santi Cazorla right after hacking off Valencia trying to sign David Silva and / or David Villa, hacked off Madrid's own fans with broken election promises of Cesc Fabregas, Kaka and Arjen Robben, but eventually got Arjen Robben, who Chelsea didn't want anymore anyway, and then Calderon's interim successor, Ivan Boluda went on and talked smack about walloping Liverpool in the CL, only to be walloped.

Last week I wrote The Time for Change is Now: A Call to Action Part 1 and promised that I would follow up with Part 2 with stories of my family and friends who have inspired me with their volunteer efforts to help Barack Obama win this election.

The election of the Coalition Government in May 2010 reignited the debate, with the RSPCA warning of «a real threat» that the ban on hunting with dogs could be overturned as the new coalition government had promised MPs a free vote on the issue.

As some of our readers know by now, IMANI is, in keeping with past tradition, strongly focused exactly on this issue: filtering out partisan and self - serving opinions and claims from solid facts in the promises and policy proposals being made by politicians in the lead up to the 2016 elections.

Hunting became a particularly high - profile political issue in the late 1990s, with the election of Tony Blair's Labour government, which in its 1997 manifesto promised MPs a free vote on a ban on hunting with hounds.

I am a Labour supporter, and have been for many years, but my problem with any established political party is they don't keep the promises they make during election campaigns.

With Election Day quickly approaching, Murphy is sure to feel the consequences of his broken promises in November.»

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

At least with respect to elections, East Timor is a kernel of democratic promise in the Asia Pacific region.

A pro-National Democratic Congress group — #iChooseJM — has promised to carry on with the dreams of the late President John Mills by supporting John Mahama to win the 2016 elections.

The Green party said they are ready for an early election with Caroline Lucas promising a «bold, positive vision for a different kind of Britain» and co-leader Jonathan Bartley saying that the Green party would give people a «real alternative to the politics of the past».

More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans made the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling — against one of the people who sought to expose it.

Bill Mahoney, the research coordinator at NYPIRG, said after reviewing the documents that the Commission appeared to have gotten off to a promising start with an unprecedented review of a system plagued by wildly inconsistent reporting by campaigns and lax oversight by the state Board of Elections.

«The Liberal Democrats will fight the next election on a clear and unequivocal promise to restore British prosperity and role in the world, with the United Kingdom in the European Union, not out.

In response to the alliance, reported by the Hebrew media Sunday, a senior Likud source involved in the coalition negotiations accused the national - religious Jewish Home party of «voter fraud,» for forming an agreement with Yesh Atid instead of allying with Likud - Beytenu, as it had promised it would in its elections campaign.

In principle any system with repeated elections does this to some extent as regards politicians, in that people tend not to vote for a politician or party which is thought to breaks promises.

The prime minister had promised to bring in «early legislation» to allow voters to force a by - election, in an attempt to deal with voter anger over the expenses scandal.

The SSP launched their manifesto for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election with promises to oppose cuts and tax the rich.