Sentences with phrase «fight over trade»

A fight over trade this year ruptured the usual alliance between the Democratic president and the organized labor movement.

The issue looked definitive, of course, way back when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives beat John Turner's Liberals in the epic 1988 election — the campaign so bitterly fought over the trade deal with the U.S. that Mulroney secured at great political risk.

Not exact matches

The Canadian government is buoyed by other recent developments in Canada-U.S. trade: this week Boeing has dropped its legal fight against Bombardier and there are indications of a potential settlement in a dispute over glossy paper.

The fight over net neutrality continued to heat up as major Silicon Valley trade group, The Internet Association, said it will sue the FCC.

That has blurred the lines over the pending solar trade fight even within the United States, where American manufacturers are squaring off against American installers and users of the panels.

Once their prized squad is assembled, they trade them, and my goodness if all doesn't go as planned, they fight over them.

The president said Nigeria had over the years benefited from the cooperation of the Asian country in trade and investment, agriculture, technology and the fight against terrorism.

Fighting for Florida and beyond, Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tangled in an intense debate last night over who's the true friend of American Hispanics, trading accusations over guest worker programs «akin to slavery» and the embracing of «vigilantes» against immigrants.

While the fight against the TPP is far from over, the outspoken opposition to fast - track authority from both House and Senate Democratic leaders further marginalizes the handful of corporate Democrats who support this job - killing trade agreement.

Perhaps the biggest and most bitter fight within Labour is set to be that over the question of Trade Union influence.

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

Our fight is not yet over to end insider trading in Congress and demand more accountability in our political system, to make our food supply safe for American families, and fix the trade policies that have left our local manufacturers competing on an unlevel playing field.

Enemy kings had long fought over the region's lucrative river trade.

Gavin took the start of the 2h40m race on Sunday (23 August) and spent the majority of his stint trading places with the # 25 Team RLL BMW Z4 in the hands of Bill Auberlen in a physical, yet fair fight over sixth position.

While traditional publishers (actually, the top end publishers) are fighting over business and legal issues, like any big business, you adapt and work with what works — eBooks still represent a minority in sales, but it is rapidly catching up to print, and by all accounts, has already passed hardcover (which has been in decline in a slow death since the advent of paperbacks and trade paperbacks in the 40s and 50s).

Senior Amazon executive Russ Grandinetti has defended the company over its trade dispute with Hachette Book Group in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, saying that the online retailer is simply fighting for better prices for its customers.

The hard - core value purist hopelessly drooling over a great price... of some cheap micro-cap which trades by appointment, is at the mercy of its lenders, and is fighting a relentless battle against the decline of its business & industry.

The fight over California Assembly Bill 485 shows that animal activists are confident that they can succeed in the next stage of their attacks on the responsible pet trade.

Your generous gift will allow us to fight to protect all the important gains we've made over the years as well as continue our work to advocate for legislation taking on domestic violence against pets, horse slaughter and horse soring, animal testing for cosmetics, shark finning, the dangerous exotic pet trade and dog meat trade, and other cruelties.

Bandai has had an affiliation with Digimon videogame adaptations since they began in 1999 with an RPG titled Digimon World on PS1, while numerous RPG, 2.5 D fighting games in the style of Super Smash Bros and spin - offs based directly on the trading card gameplay have released on almost every platform throughout each console generation totalling to over 40 Digimon games.

Trade goods are represented by in - game items which can be traded, pirated, and fought over.

In nearly 100 pages, he explores who had the biggest advantage — in money and media spin — in the fight over a cap - and - trade climate bill, along with cultural issues, like the deep liberal tilt among scientists, that flavor how such battles are waged.

Armed groups finance themselves through the illicit conflict mineral trade and fight over control of mines and taxation points inside Congo.

With cap - and - trade, fights over the distribution of the spoils were largely inconsequential to the policy's environmental effectiveness.

Since the thrust of your report is about the fight over cap - and - trade, isn't it more important to assess the fairness, albeit admittedly more difficult, of coverage on that issue — e.g., exaggerated alarmism over potential energy price spikes, etc. — than whether consensus science was reflected?

The fight by conscientious scientists to elevate the growing crisis of global warming into the limelight of concern over the last several years — higher that of the Iraq War and the World Trade Center catastrophe — fits all of those journalistic prerequisites to a tee.

Oceana announced, «Last year, we fought to end shark finning in US waters and won but since sharks don't respect international boundaries, continued trade meant that sharks all over the world were still in danger.

A case which proves that even the largest international brands can have difficulty managing their portfolio of trade marks, Apple has lost a trademark fight in the Chinese courts over the registration of «iPhone» in relation of leather goods including mobile phone and tablet cases.

In this week's Weekend Reads: America might get embroiled in a trade war over the price of Bourbon, and it's obviously worth the fight.

Indeed, the NAFTA effort appears to be aimed at least as much at sidestepping the ongoing congressional fight over platform regulation as it is aimed at exporting U.S. law to our trading partners.

After fighting the IRS in court, popular digital currency marketplace Coinbase has been ordered by the Northern District of California to turn over more than 10,000 users» personal information and trade history — but it could have been much worse.

The battle to get a bitcoin - based exchange traded fund (ETF) listed in the US has been a long and hard - fought one, with a number of different individuals and entities having mounted their own attempts over the past couple of years.