Sentences with phrase «launched against the government»

Two separate legal challenges have been launched against the government's «right to rent» policy, which critics claim forces landlords to act as border guards.

More than 40 lawsuits have been launched against the government on allocation issues.

He says the LANEQ is still hoping for positive outcomes to a legal challenge it launched against the government's back - to - work law, as well as an action filed with Quebec's labour relations board, accusing the government of bargaining in bad faith.

Not exact matches

Trump ordered the launch of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syria - government airfield on Thursday evening.

Eric Brammer, 30, an information technology specialist from Roanoke, Virginia, who describes himself as Democrat, said he expects tensions to continue over Russia's support of the government of President Bashar Assad in civil war - wracked Syria, where the U.S., Britain and France last week launched missile strikes against Syrian chemical weapons facilities.

The Syrian government denied its forces had launched a chemical assault, while Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, called the reports fake and warned against military action on the basis of «invented and fabricated excuses.»

But this time, with the US considering its response to another attack against civilians blamed on the Syrian government, Russian officials threatened to shoot down US missiles, and potentially the ships that launched them, if they attacked Syria.

Khadr subsequently launched a $ 20 - million civil suit against the Canadian government.

Consider TransCanada Corp., which recently launched a $ 15 - billion (U.S.) arbitration case against the U.S. government over President Barack Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

This allows corporations to essentially launch private arbitration against international trading partners (national governments) if they feel that trade agreements are not being adhered to.

Though it never drew a direct link, the Liberal government's review of its arts funding policies - launched last January - came on the heels of allegations of sexual misconduct that were levelled against Albert Schultz, the founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre.

Trudeau's government could launch their own legal challenge against B.C. for any actions the province takes, around respecting First Nations right or defending local health and safety.

CNN: Catholic bishops launch religious liberty campaign The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a two - week crusade against what it calls the federal government's violations of its religious liberty.

Last Tuesday's suit comes a year after the government launched an investigation against the national headquarters in St. Petersburg.

These mechanisms through which the Nicaraguan government worked to overcome a long legacy of poverty and exploitation offended the empire and its allies within Nicaragua, who immediately launched their war against the poor.

There's a great opportunity here to launch into a polemic against government mandating employer - based health care.

So President Obama is proposing a limited missile strike in order to send the message to foreign governments that if they deploy chemical weapons against their own people, the US might eventually launch an attack that wil leave the targeted regime intact.

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

When the Government launched antitrust action against the trotting association in 1958 Sheppard told the frightened directors to fight back.

In 2003 Oxfam launched a campaign against Nestlé's attempt to extract US$ 6 million from the Ethiopian Government at a time the country was experiencing famine.

Miffed by the constant abuse of the naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) have joined forces to launch grassroots campaign against naira abuse across the 774 local government areas of the country.

Though the ex-MEND leaders noted that the Federal Government had launched a high powered investigation into the incidents to bring the perpetrators to book, they said that the claims against the frontline ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) and other ex-militant leaders were untrue and misplaced.

A few days ago, President Trump launched an airstrike against a Syrian airbase in response to the Syrian Government launching a Saren gas attack.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

At conference a year ago, I launched our campaign against cuts to tax credits and we succeeded in knocking this government back.

Cleveland police authority has today launched a legal challenge against the government's plans to merge it with two others in the north east.

Labour MPs, led by Ed Miliband, and Tory rebels voted down ministers» proposals to launch strikes against Syrian government targets after the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against his own people.

Virgin Trains is launching legal proceedings against the government for choosing the «highest risk bid» for the west coast mainline over its own.

Meanwhile news emerged that business secretary Mr Cable had encouraged colleges to launch a legal challenge against the government's immigration policy.

Or so we thought: court proceedings have been launched as the bearded one continues his fight against the government.

Ministers have launched an investigation after a letter by Whitehall's top civil servant warning against the leaking of government secrets was leaked to a newspaper.

David Cameron on Tuesday night personally challenged the leader of the Tory rebels who launched a highly effective operation against House of Lords reform, involving unofficial whips, which produced the largest rebellion against the government of this parliament.

The Government has come under fire as it launches its biggest campaign against trade unions in 30 years.

Nevertheless, Bloomberg has pressed ahead with a coalition against illegal guns that he launched several years ago, started an immigration reform coalition of mayors and business leaders, including Rupert Murdoch, and brought on three deputy mayors with either national political or government experience — Howard Wolfson, Robert Steel and former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith.

In April 2018, More United supported the launch of a legal challenge against the government, led by three deaf and disabled candidates of different parties, all of whom are also Members of More United.

The federal government has awarded $ 3.4 million in grants to help Erie County launch a tougher countywide fight against lead poisoning.

Civil society organizations and the media recently joined the government to launch series of campaigns against illegal mining which is causing havoc to livelihoods and property as well as Ghana's water bodies and forest covers.

Further concessions to the government's beleaguered NHS reforms seem likely after Liberal Democrat peers launched a new offensive against the health and social care bill.

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) decided today to launch legal action with other unions against the government over unilateral changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme and hold a strike ballot amongst 270,000 PCS members working for the civil service and its related bodies

Russia and China have already launched cyber attacks against the UK government, it emerged today.

Governments across the state have launched task forces to combat the crisis, and many counties have filed individual lawsuits against some pharmaceutical companies seeking compensation for costs associated by the epidemic.

Although the Nigerian army has dislodged Boko Haram from much of the territory it claimed as a caliphate in 2014, the group continues to launch attacks against civilians, government officials and troops.

The British Government should formally recognise historic atrocities against the Iraqi Kurds as genocide according to a report from a cross-party group of MPs, launched today in the Commons in co-operation with the Henry Jackson Society.

Voting SNP will «strengthen Scotland's hand» against a Tory government, Nicola Sturgeon has said ahead of her party's manifesto launch.

A second assault upon Brown's premiership was launched in September 2008 when Siobhain McDonagh — an MP who had never voted against the government [118]-- spoke of the need for discussion over Brown's position.

Turkey's filtering program, which was launched at the end of November, has drawn broad criticism because it filters sites about political opposition to the government and blocks sites that go against «Turkish values.»

The cases against the eight academics are part of a series of high - profile political trials launched by the government since 2007.

The BSI has released a statement in response to the UK Government announcement that two new vaccine programmes will be launched this September to protect babies and young people against the meningococcal bacterium.

Instead, FAA's Pamela Melroy focused on the need for an extension to the government's authority to indemnify commercial launch companies against third party liability claims resulting from launch or reentry accidents.

Industry witnesses at a congressional hearing June 6 asked Congress to make permanent the government's authority to indemnify commercial launch service companies against some of the losses that could result if there was a catastrophic launch accident.