Sentences with phrase «made public promises»

Responding to increased expectations from consumers and pressure from environmental organizations, among other motivations, hundreds of corporations have made public promises to help end deforestation.

«Many high - profile manufacturers have made a public promise to start using only certified sustainable palm kernel oil from 2015, but it's looking increasingly likely that this won't be possible for many of them.

Not exact matches

The British government assured employees working on the company's public - sector contracts that they'd be paid, but no such promises were made to workers on Carillion's contracts in the private sector.

GM has promised an «unvarnished» report and said it will make at least some of the results public.

He also emphasized that the reality of Brexit has proven to be «quite unlike» the promises — less spending, improved public services, easier bilateral trade — made by pro-Brexit groups during the referendum campaign.

With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive made their pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.

First, almost none of the promises that were made to the public about what was going to happen under Dodd - Frank financial reform is actually happening.

This includes the splitting of pension income for seniors, (to make amends for breaking its promise on the taxation of family trusts); special tax preferences to support participation of youth in sports activities, arts and cultural activities; tax breaks for people who take public transit; and, tax breaks to help volunteer firemen.

But Krugman tells us that ordinary OMOs will only fail if they are perceived to be temporary — if the public doesn't believe central bank promises to make the monetary injections permanent.

Cash - rich state companies also pay little in dividends despite repeated promises by the ruling party to make them share more of their wealth with the public.

Despite promises from Premier Christy Clark and Health Minister Terry Lake that the report would be released to the public, the government has hidden significant portions of the report and failed to make it available to the public online.

WIKILEAKS» PROMISE to give tech firms access to exploits in their systems before making them public have hit a snag after the organisation added a demand that they must be fixed within 90 days.

After all, he made a very public promise to buy all the aspirin you want.

Granted, President Bush did make a public relations misstep in the days immediately following the 9/11 attacks when he called the coming U.S - led war against global terrorism a «crusade» and promised that terrorists would face the «full wrath» of the U.S. «A lot of people think that America is out to get Islam, anyway,» Joshua Salaam, director of the Council on American - Islamic Relations, warned at the time.

Clearly made public now are options which are demanding as well as promising.

Remember from the beginning of the Obama administration the very public mantra was «our number one priority is to make Obama a one term president» and the Greedy Obstructionist Politicians made good on their promise with record numbers of filibusters and anonymous objections with the sole purpose of making government as non-functional as possible.

The SA Government is promising to keep watch as a live export ship loads its first shipment of sheep in the state since horrific images of suffering animals were made public, but protesters are calling for an end to the practice.

This chapter recommends a comprehensive approach that builds on a promising start to mobilize public and private sector resources to make the healthy choice the easy choice for all Americans.

The statement read, «In keeping with the promise he made to the good people of Lagos State on assumption of office that there will be no room for corrupt and indisciplined police officers under his watch, the Lagos State Police Command hereby releases to the general public the breakdown in figures, of police personnel punished for various disciplinary offences between the months of September and December 2017 as follows:

Making and keeping promises helps to give signals to the public about the future, ensuring steadfastness.

The Prophet says it makes no financial sense for a government who promised to protect the public purse, to spend such an amount on a 60th anniversary.

In a comment piece for politics.co.uk, the NUS president wrote: «The promises they made gained them significant student support at the ballot box - and I can personally guarantee that we will do everything we can to ensure that any MPs who so flagrantly betray the public's trust are never given the opportunity to serve us again.

§ These costs and benefits have not been assessed for over a decade, despite promises made to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee.

Committee of Public Accounts chair Meg Hillier MP said: «The programme is at a critical juncture and the Department has some major decisions to make if it is going to protect taxpayers» interests and deliver all that the Government has promised from HS2.»

People familiar with the situation say Schaffer had promised Gargiulo the job behind closed doors, and Gargiulo «wasn't aware of the fact» that he wasn't supposed to make it public yet.

The city's new public advocate, Tish James, who had vowed to be a thorn in the side of fellow officials, is already making good on her promise.

The fact that all the major political parties have already made extensive and frequently conflicting promises on public spending, taxes and benefits means that such negotiations are likely to be more complex and take much longer than the 22 days of May 2010.

Several other states and more than 100 communities have established the College Promise program, though SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said adding four - year public colleges «makes this proposal above and beyond what any other state is talking about.»

The former makes wild claims that Labour is irrelevant, becoming toxic and losing out to UKIP; whilst the Tories won in 2015 because they promised public spending cuts.

He promised to lower the voting age to 16 and to make public services delivery more responsive and empowering for citizens.

The charter concept is a promising one, but only if the charters commit to helping the kids who can't make it in regular public schools.

The FNC added, «We demand that the investigations into it must be made public as promised by the police authorities, while something very urgent and painstaking measures must be done by the Federal Government to quickly address the conspicuous concerns in the land.

The group regretted that since «the shabby reaction» of the police authorities that the case was under investigation and their promise to make its findings public soon, nothing had been heard on it.

It wasn't their fault the corrupt politicians and public sector unions made promises they couldn't keep.

De Blasio has promised to form his own commission, but has yet to make any public announcements that shows progress.

«And New York kept its part of the promise too — because if we didn't quite rival the Kennedys, a New York City public school kid like me was able to make it all the way to New York City Comptroller,» he said.

Makes good on a promise to safeguard our Public Library System from politics and ensure stable funding levels by increasing the System's tax levy beyond the pre-Collins-cut level to $ 22.172 million;

«Lazio has engaged in a six month game of cat - and - mouse with New Yorkers: repeatedly promising to make his tax returns public and repeatedly refusing to say when.»

I guess the man that reneged on the promises he gave at the time of the Moreland commissions inception, which he prematurely dissolved as they were building cases, has no interest in voters making an informed decision on him or Ms. Teachout, he's going to hide from the press and not debate his rival to the detriment of keeping the public informed.

«This would address the lack of public trust when people hear politicians making promises about EU referenda — too many have been broken in the past.

Mr Osborne speculated: «The only explanation for the incompetence in not making them public as promised is that Gordon Brown has blocked them at the last minute while he dithers about what to do.»

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Our public education system is a promise we make to the nation's children and young people that they will have opportunity, high quality, good outcomes and an expectation of success for all.

«I should make this promise: if I'm prime minister I won't take my shirt off in public», I solemnly pledge to the crowd.

The Minister while responding to questions from journalists at the Abuja National Stadium on Thursday, said a committee has been set up to suggest how the marriage will be effective, promising to make the report public when the committee concludes its work.

- PHOTO SLIDESHOW BY ADI TALWAR Yesterday, a group of South Bronx activists braved the oppressive afternoon heat to re-energize a campaign to hold the Yankees baseball club accountable for promises they made to community for the right to build a new $ 1.5 billion stadium on public parkland.

A health review of fracking promised more than a year ago has never materialized, and the commissioner assigned to the job, who faced increasingly intense questions from reporters (including this one) each time he made a rare public appearance, abruptly left in May.

In his first public speech after being declared winner of the polls, he pledged to fulfil all promises he made while on the campaign trail.

Then Cuomo promised that he would make sure construction jobs in his aggressive agenda of public projects all go to unionized workers: «Every job a union job.

In terms of the savings which need to be made to restore the public finances, the Government is discharging its promise for which it is to be congratulated.

Even with Labour promising an expansion from 15 to 25 hours of free childcare for three and four - year - olds, and the free offer of 15 hours for 40 % of two - year - olds, it is unlikely that the public subsidy available per place will enable a cost - effective service, let alone a service that makes a profit.