Sentences with phrase «governments of both stripes»

On top of all this, governments of all stripes are diminishing the power of unions through legislation.

Through this period, governments of all stripes in Ottawa and the provinces enacted worker - friendly legislation that promoted workplace health and safety, employment equity, pay equity and union organizing.

It is emotion as opposed to reason and should have no place in government of any stripe.

When the Premier made her announcement about reducing hydro bills, she also claimed «Decades of under - investment in the electricity system by governments of all stripes resulted in the need to invest more than $ 50 billion in generation, transmission and distribution assets to ensure the system is clean and reliable.»

The release was put out on a Friday, the day that governments of all stripes tend to make announcements that they don't want to have dominating the news cycle.

We point out that this is the latest and most dramatic twist in what has felt like a war of attrition against our communities in recent years by governments of all stripes, State and Commonwealth.

Another delegate urged governments of all stripes to stop designing health systems for «white, male 50 year olds» and to make them «for the person with kidney disease in the Torres Strait» — «the 50 year old will be fine», she said.

Not exact matches

Governments of all political stripes have been elected and re-elected, here in Canada and abroad, on a similar economic platform: openness to trade, fiscal discipline, tax competitiveness and investment in skills, research and infrastructure.

«There isn't a government of any political stripe in this country who wouldn't want to deliver today's budget,» says Iain Black, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Public Eye has been supported for the past two years by a small group of readers who have made monthly $ 10 contributions to keep me filing freedom of information requests, poring over government reports and holding politicians of all stripes to account.

Over the years, Bombardier has received roughly $ 1 billion in federal support, from governments of all political stripes, including the last Conservative one.

Theocratic systems, no matter their religious stripe, are inherently unfree, because the government claims to act in the name of God, which makes any opposition from the devil...

«Our supporters are real people, not special interests, because New Yorkers of all stripes are fed up with a state government that doesn't represent them and they demand open, honest, and accountable leadership from Albany.»

Regardless of the atrocities Saudi Arabia has committed, governments of all political colours and stripes have consistently and uncritically supported the regime.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Of course part of the issue is that, by their nature politically motivated governments (and indeed the people who elect them) of any stripe tend to be very bad at long term decision makinOf course part of the issue is that, by their nature politically motivated governments (and indeed the people who elect them) of any stripe tend to be very bad at long term decision makinof the issue is that, by their nature politically motivated governments (and indeed the people who elect them) of any stripe tend to be very bad at long term decision makinof any stripe tend to be very bad at long term decision making.

His non-ideological political sensibility has proven well suited to an age of diminished resources, with no money in the cupboard for expensive new programs and voters of all stripes demanding that the government tighten its belt.

Incumbent and neophyte politicians of all stripes were present and hobnobbing at an East Hampton Group for Good Government meet - the - candidates affair on Sunday afternoon at Arthur and Laurie Malman's house.

During the past 20 years, under Governments of different political stripes, significant developments have included the removal of most hereditary peers from the House of Lords, freedom on information legislation, the establishment of the Supreme Court, the introduction of fixed - term Parliaments, and the domestic legal entrenchment of human rights.

And the cosy relationship between it and successive British governments — of all stripes — is worrying.

In the wake of the 16 - day government shutdown, which polling shows angered voters of all stripes, New York Congressman Bill Owens, a Democrat from the North Country, says the GOP may be in danger of losing control of the House.

Cities and states have a diverse and dizzying array of programs: Head Start and other government - funded programs for low - income families; private programs of many stripes and price points; free or low - cost classrooms in public schools, sometimes guaranteed and sometimes secured by lottery.

The government can't be accused of advancing a religion because its funds equally support public colleges and private colleges of all stripes.

«Leaders of all stripes understand that our best bet is for all sectors — including business, government, education, nonprofit, and labor — to work together to rebuild the commons,» said Jan Rivkin, a professor at Harvard Business School who co-chairs the school's US Competitiveness Project.

You mean like government officials of a variety of stripes ranting about how «deniers» should be brought to trial or otherwise penalized?

Socialists of all stripes no longer have to spew Marxist notions that turn most people off; now, they can talk the science of global warming and hurricanes and massive floods and such, and, using fear, trample the average guy into their socialist goals of stifling capitalism, growth, and having the government take over the economy through this environmental back - door.

Regardless of the outcome of any political stripe, the public service for the most part is kept intact and continues to serve the government of the day.

And as Ellis makes clear, such a result is not a function of the political stripe of the current federal government, but is endemic to the system itself: 20 years earlier, Jean Chrétien's Liberal government viewed Mulroney - government appointees to the board as too obstructionist with refugee claims, and simply replaced them with its own set of patronage appointments more inclined to deliver politically simpatico approvals of refugee claims.