Sentences with phrase «major plank»

Software giant IBM has made trade finance and supply chain management major planks of its blockchain strategy, leading it to ink cooperative deals with major shipping corporations like Maersk and global retailers like Walmart.

WASHINGTON — President Trump, who has called the North American Free Trade Agreement «the worst trade deal» ever signed by the United States, appears to have backed off his threat to abandon the deal and is instead proposing keeping major planks in place when he begins renegotiating it later this year.

Only guy shooting is OX and honestly I don't know what he has been doing at the practice because he is shooting major planks.

The Supreme Court vacancy could put the fate of one major plank of US President Barack Obama's climate - change strategy in Trump's hands.

President Donald Trump made combating America's opioid addiction and prescription painkiller epidemic a major plank of his 2016 campaign.

Social media is a major plank in the probes into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The restoration of the Bible to the laity was a major plank in the reformers» platform.

Instead there develops a commitment to what John Murray Cuddihy calls the Protestant etiquette — a ritualized belief that no religion should offend another — and this commitment constitutes a major plank in the American civil religion.

My purpose is not to debate two of the major planks in his theological platform — i.e., evolution and progress — but to lay to rest the mistaken impression that the whole of his eschatology is utopian.

Michelle Obama has embraced more fruit and vegetable consumption as a major plank in her efforts to improve American diets and combat weight - related illnesses, especially among children.

I believe life sciences and support to boost the pharmaceutical industry will be a major plank.

Cuomo made it a major plank of his successful 2010 campaign and though he has signed laws to require legislators to disclose more about their outside incomes and stiffened ethics penalties, critics say the governor and lawmakers haven't addressed the cornerstone issues such as the state's weak campaign - finance laws.

The other three parties, registered for the 1979 elections, were variants of these two major planks: the Nigerian People's Party (NPP), under Zik; its offshoot, Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP), under Waziri Ibrahim, and the People's Redemption Party (PRP), under Mallam Aminu Kano, still bore ideological fealty to tendencies in the 1st Republic.

How does a government which made free SHS a major plank in its campaign turn around to look Ghanaians in the face and tell them that it will cater for only the children of the haves?

The major plank for the rejection of Magu by the senators was a security report on him by the Department of State Services.

Asset restitution is a major plank in the UNCAC, adopted 13 years ago and the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument.

As a result, the budget left out major planks of the Democrats» progressive platform, like early voting, the Child Victims Act, criminal justice reforms, and more.

Nixon has made Cuomo's tolerance of the IDC a major plank of her campaign, repeatedly criticizing him for not doing more to reunify the Democrats in the Senate.

A major plank of Labour's longstanding economic and foreign policy was defeated in the referendum and we effectively handed the right in this country their biggest victory in a century.

«President Buhari, while reminding the ministers and CBN governor that reviving the economy was one of the major planks on which the campaign of his party, the All Progressives Congress, was based, expressed gladness that things were looking up after two years of serious work.

Being tough on crime was a major plank of Pataki's campaign for governor.

Paired with the early successes of Chris Grayling's prison reforms in reducing reoffending rates, this should be a major plank of the Conservative message at the next election - we have saved you money and misery by cutting spending and by stopping criminals.

He said the industry should be a major plank of the agriculture sector and as such the Buhari administration would ensure that it got help regarding the challenges being faced by operators of the sub-sector.

The major planks of Mr. Dupree's improvement strategy have been the magnet programs in each elementary school, a redesign of graduation requirements, and increased rigor in all high school classes through the Cambridge International curriculum.

Detroit is also noted for its aggressive charter school program, a major plank of the «Excellent Schools Initiative» that Bobb helped design.

It's a major plank in Barcelona's expansion plans, as it seeks to cast off the shadow cast by super-successful sister brand Skoda: the Ateca is Seat's first fully fledged SUV (barring curios such as the Altea 4Track we last drove in 2007).

Within a few hours of the EU referendum, the major planks of the Leave campaign had evaporated.

· Additionality is becoming a major plank in the positions taken by the LDCs in various international fora.

Dominic Regan shares his concern that proportionality, a major plank of the Jackson reforms, is so often sidelined

It's not the way most insurance companies in India have grown, but small towns and local recruits are the major planks of Bajaj Allianz's distribution strategy.

And as of today, we've got some major plank poppage goin» on around here.