Sentences with phrase «last election promising»

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Budget cuts not possible - Buswell The state government's economic policy was in tatters last night after Treasurer Troy Buswell conceded he would not achieve the controversial 3 per cent cuts expected to pay for election promises in this year's budget.

The Trudeau government promised to «modernize» the National Energy Board during last year's election.

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.

Trump has been vocal in his praise of Carrier and has reportedly offered the company $ 7 million in tax breaks as part of the agreement, which Trump brokered after his election win last month after promising on the campaign trail that he would save the jobs in question.

The company says it won't throw good money after bad until someone can do something about the NDP government of John Horgan in B.C., who promised in the election last summer to try to stop the project.

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, many British Columbians believed the Liberal election promises last year.

On the pipeline, the B.C. NDP is trying to fulfil an election promise made last year.

While it may feel like a lifetime or two since the last federal election, when Trudeau was promising a very different kind of democratic reform, 19 months isn't a long time to get Canada's electoral system protected from 2019 - style threats to its fairness and integrity.

In the last election, the Conservative promised additional tax expenditure, amounting to $ 3 billion a year, once the budget is balanced.

Senator Smith: I watched CNN last night, and they showed all of the promises that Trump has made during the election campaign and that he has changed his position.

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.

The U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

In addition to promises of jobs for British Columbians in this industry, Premier Clark also said in the last election that our LNG would be the cleanest in the world.

Meanwhile, the Trudeau government will add four times as much debt as it promised in the last election.

Susan, Alison Redford won the last election on promises she made that we very quickly learned were just pure lies.

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

Heck, you could even promise to implement your party's long - list of unfulfilled promises from the last election.

And after President Donald Trump's surprise election victory in 2016, investors rejoiced over his promises of big tax cuts to provide further economic stimulus; late last year, Trump delivered.

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.

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.

But in the last week or so, the party has made St Albans one of its top targets after unexpectedly promising results in the county council elections.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

Not only did many of them feel betrayed by the Brexit vote but many more turned their back on the brand of Conservatism offered to them last June in the election and instead opted for the empty and costly promises of Corbyn's Labour.

«For eight years he has broken promises,» WFP director Bill Lipton said of Cuomo, who had the party's support in his last two elections.

As opinion polls and results from local and European Parliament elections showed, promising to abolish tuition fees at the last election proved to be a colossal error.

On their parts, taxi drivers at Nungua in the Krowor constituency told The aL - hAJJ that, though they supported and voted for Akufo - Addo in last year's election hoping to better their lives as Akufo - Addo promised, they have since regretted.

12:07 - She says last local election Clegg promised local people more control over their health services.

According to him, Akufo - Addo has no excuse than to implement the juicy campaign promises that won him power at the last elections.

President Akufo - Addo assented to the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill last week to mark the fulfillment of a major campaign promise in the run - up to the 2016 elections.

The main federal investigation, which covers fund - raising by Mr. de Blasio and his staff since his 2013 election campaign, is examining whether donors were promised or received favorable municipal treatment in exchange for their contributions.The nonprofit is in the process of closing down, the mayor said last month, explaining that its work advocating universal prekindergarten and affordable housing was finished.

«Maude welcomes funding review Main We did not lose the last two elections because we promised tax cuts»

Osborne's fuel duty commitment follows intense backbench pressure and is his riposte to the promise last week by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to freeze electricity prices for 20 months after the 2015 election.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

They'll discuss what Cox says are promising signs for the GOP from last week's election.

We were promised by all three party leaders in the last Parliament that we would have a referendum on Europe: the Conservatives went into the last election talking about a referendum lock.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

TP's very own Dan Hodges finally streaked down Whitehall today - three years after promising to do so if Ukip did well at the last election.

In the run up to last Thursday's London Mayoral election Sadiq Khan pledged to freeze fares on public transport for the next four years, increase spending on cycling and he has since promised to introduce a new one hour bus ticket allowing unlimited changes within an hour.

One of the reasons why Nigerians voted for the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) during the last general election was his promise to fight corruption and end impunity in the country.

During the Leadership and Deputy Leadership elections last year I made a promise to our members that I would serve whoever they elected to be leader.

In his autumn conference speech Brown promised a referendum on AV, but at the last minute excised a commitment to pass a law setting a date for a referendum after the election.

«At the last election I made a very clear promise about bus passes, about television licences, about winter fuel payments,» he said in a recent session of PMQs, «We are keeping all those promises.»

She says the governor actually promised a stronger proposal to the Party last spring when Cuomo sought, and won, endorsement for re election.

NOM has also promised to spend $ 1 million in the next election to protect their allies and target their own enemies to combat against the threat that LGBT advocates would work to vote out state senators who oppose such a bill (as they did with two state senators in last year's election).

«Labour promised at the last election that every woman would be supported by the same midwife throughout her pregnancy and be entitled to choose where she gave birth,» he said.

«Also during last year's elections, the people of Ghana said that the NPP was what they wanted and they voted for them so we should be watchful of their doings and push them to deliver their promises because their policies, whether good or bad will affect all of us,» he said.

In an effort to minimize a rebellion from organized labor and the left during the governor's election last year, Cuomo made promises to workers and their organizations that he would raise the minimum wage to $ 10 an hour for public employees.

«Governor Cuomo's false and hysterical charges about this provision are unfortunate,» said Faso, who won election to Congress last year in part by promising to find a way to end the county Medicaid mandate.

Before the last election, Mr Cameron promised a judge - led inquiry into the very serious allegations that the British state has been involved in torture.