Sentences with phrase «honour promises made to»

«My advice to him is: Let the governor go and honour the promises he made to the Ekiti electorate (if he ever made any).

You, the council taxpayer, are required to honour promises made to pension scheme members.

Not exact matches

In the tabling of the Main Estimates, the President of the Treasury Board made no reference to the election promise and why it was not honoured at this time.

We are not powerless and fearful, not us: and so I pray and I work; I make coffee in the morning and hot meals to gather around the table at suppertime; I worship and sing out words of promise and praise; I raise children and read good books; I pray for my enemies and write letters and send money and show up to fold clothes and drop off meals with an extra bag of groceries; I advocate with the marginalized and amplify the oppressed and antagonize the Empire with a grin on my face; I will honour those who get after the work of the Kingdom and celebrate; I learn how to listen to those with whom I disagree; I abandon the idea that we can baptize sinful practices in the name of sacred purposes; I will stand in the middle of the field near my house with my face turned up to the rain and consider it a minor baptism.

like I've said before, Wenger is simply stating that Sanchez is staying so that he can regain some leverage when it comes time to make a deal and to shift the focus back squarely on Sanchez... this is 101 tactics in PR management... the very fact that he even mentioned RVP's name speaks to the utterance arrogance of a man that believes he answers to no one... before you harshly judge Sanchez think carefully about what the ultimate intentions of both parties involved... Sanchez wants to win trophies and get paid generously for his efforts, whereas the club wants to pull the wool over our eyes once again so that we blame the player for wanting the very things we told him we wanted when we brought him in... how many times do we have to go down this road before we realize the only common factor in each of these scenarios is the club itself... trust me, if we showed any ambition Sanchez's contract demands would be much different... just like in other major sports players will take a «home town» discount if they see those in charge making a truly honest attempt to fight for the highest honours in their respective fields... that being said, if they see a team trying to make disparaging remarks about them in the press and not following through on their promises, they will likely try to make them pay a premium for their services or seek greener pastures... btw if anyone simply looks at the score versus Bayern today and thinks that even for a second that this was a deserved victory, just watch the game and judge for yourself... actually save yourself the anguish and just know that if it weren't for Cech and Martinez this could have been a repeat of our Champions League flopping or worse

Relations between train operators and the transport secretary, Lord Adonis, are strained as operators struggle to honour promises made before the recession.

The former Labour leader had told ministers that their decision to axe Leveson had been «contemptible» and it was a «matter of honour about the promises we made» to the victims of phone hacking.

Furthermore, the prime minister is able to use honours for leverage: many of the victims of Harold MacMillan's «night of the long knives» were mollified with peerages; more recently it was alleged in some quarters that Tony Blair convinced a number of ageing Labour MPs to retire in 2001 to make way for young New Labour high - fliers, by promising them peerages.

Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «The government has an opportunity to avoid legal and industrial action by ensuring officials honour ministerial promises to make the changes through negotiation rather than imposition.

It is a big test of the unity of their partnership, their leadership mettle and their willingness to honour the promises they made in opposition.

I've recently discovered Daniel Wellington, which may be proof that I've been under the old rock, but when trying to honour a promise one made to her future husband that went something along the lines of «I will spend less money on clothes» the rocks not a bad place to be.

Strength and Honour (R for profanity) Overcoming the odds drama about an ex-boxer (Sean Kelleher) who re-enters the ring and thereby breaks his promise to his dying wife (Norma Sheahan) not to fight again in order to make enough money to save the life of their dying son (Luke Whelton).

What is reassuring about these cases, ignoring, as one probably can, the decision in AA (Pakistan), is that they reveal a willingness to recognise that promises made to migrants in an attempt to lure them to the UK should be honoured, while giving proper weight to the government's need to modify immigration criteria to reflect changing economic and social needs.

Notwithstanding the promise from the Trudeau government of a «new dynamic» on Charter matters, CCLA believes that proactive accountability and transparency measures are needed to help compel our government and parliamentarians — both present and future — to honour their fundamental duty to uphold the Charter throughout the law - making process.

The most significant and most interesting feature of MMF is the Court's exploration of «the honour of the Crown,» beginning with the ways in which the Court distinguished between the Crown's fiduciary obligations — which it found did not apply in this instance — and the honour of the Crown which, the Court found, did apply, even though it had not been raised in the appellants» briefs to the SCC, though they had raised it in earlier proceedings as a ground for requiring fulfillment of promises or undertakings made by the Crown.

After it became apparent that governments were not going to negotiate with them in order to give meaning to their inclusion in s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Métis have repeatedly turned to the courts to uphold this country's honour and fulfil the constitutional promise made to them more than 30 years ago.

(42) Referring to the affidavit filed by the State in response to that direction, his Honour said that it appeared that the delay had been caused by the State's failure to «make a response, as it had promised to do, to the then existing proposals of the applicants and the pastoralists».

Turner: Labour talk is cheap on foster care Scoop.co.nz (press release)- New Zealand... foster families, to give these foster parents and other children some time... honouring the pre-election promise it made to grandparents raising grandchildren and...