Sentences with phrase «making election pledges»

The ability for politicians to dramatically change public opinion just by making election pledges has therefore reduced.

Not exact matches

On Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddling.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who ran on an economic platform of bring back manufacturing jobs that had been sent from the U.S. to points overseas and pledged to «Make America Great Again,» more attention has been paid to the offshoring trends that have permeated the economy for a generation.

Mr Alexander said his party would start campaigning for change immediately and if it couldn't convince its Conservative coalition partners it would made a manifesto pledge ahead of the next General Election.

God's election and covenant faithfulness — incarnated in Ruth's pledge to Naomi — is what makes a marriage a marriage.

According to him, the renaming is in honour of the late Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, and in fulfilment of a pledge made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections.

Having made an apparently copper - bottomed campaign pledge to appeal to the student vote, many LibDem MPs have found out the hard way that headline - grabbing promises in the heat of an election campaign can come back to bite you hard if they are impossible to credibly support in office.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo has assured Ghanaians that his government has begun fulfilling the promises made to Ghanaians in the run - up to the December 2016 elections, adding that, ooner than later, Ghanaians will be witnesses to the immense benefits of the realisation of the pledges he made to them.

Now he is running as an independent in a by - election all of his own making, after pledging in 2009 to resign as an MP if ministers backed a third runway at Heathrow.

Now, however, Democrats have been putting the brakes on, citing the prohibitive cost of a special election as the main reason for their reluctance to make good on the governor's pledge.

It was a pledge originally made in his leadership election campaign at a time when his victory over rival David Davis was far from certain.

«52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.»

Again, 52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.

The Labour Party first pledged itself to a Freedom of Information Act in its 1974 election manifesto, but the precarious positions of the Wilson and Callaghan governments made progress impossible.

«That is government's duty, the rest is the duty of the Electoral Commission and I pledge that government will play its part to make sure that we have a peaceful and successful elections,» he added.

However, in practice all candidates for the electoral college make a pledge to vote for the president candidate and vice president candidate endorsed by their party, which makes the actual elections of president and vice president just a formality.

I'm just saying that saying that the Lib Dems have gone against a lot of their manifesto is both a trivial and meaningless point to make: the Lib Dems didn't win the election, and in other very similar circumstances, the Lib Dems would be getting * absolutely none * of their campaign pledges enacted, as opposed to the limited quantity now.

Bush was facing an uphill fight in that election for a lot of reasons, and people who were mad about tax hikes probably would have been no less angry had he not made the pledge (and supported the same tax hikes.)

Here in percentage terms (after factoring in fixed costs and manifesto pledges) are the degree to which the IFS thinks you are in the dark: you don't know 87 per cent of the cuts Labour would have to make if they stuck to their election promises, 82 per cent of the Tory cuts that would come your way, 74 per cent of the cuts the Lib Dems would have to make.

It could become a major political controversy given the pledges on pensioner benefits Cameron made during the election campaign.

But he made clear both that the free movement of Labour and people would come to an end, and that Labour would not fight an election pledging to overturn the result.

Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment, as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997.

De Blasio's decision to host a fundraiser for Bryce, a candidate in a district far from New York, comes as de Blasio seeks to fulfill a pledge he made after Donald Trump was elected president last year to involve himself in this year's midterm elections.

EU ministers demanded that the three party leaders of the caretaker coalition under Papademos deliver signed pledges on the programme, making them binding and irreversible regardless of who wins an early general election expected in April.

Each candidate made a campaign pledge before the 2010 general election that, if elected to government, the Lib Dems would abolish tuition fees outright.

Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their manifestos; so groundwork has been made.

Ahead of the 2010 general election, David Cameron pledged to make a third of his ministerial list female by the end of his first term.

He was speaking after the sacking of Dominic Grieve as attorney general heightened speculation that Cameron will make a threat to withdraw from the ECHR an election pledge.

«But I can make this pledge - at the next election we will have the best, most progressive package for students of any mainstream party.»

«As the new leader of our great party and the NDC's Presidential Candidate for the 2012 elections, it is my pledge to provide the needed leadership to ensure that citizens» voices matter in decision - making», President Mahama stated.

Ambode disclosed this while speaking at the grand finale of the campaign of All Progressives Congress (APC) forSaturday's bye - election for Ifako - Ijaiye Federal Constituency of the House of Representatives, Governor Ambode assured that no electoral promise made by him would go unfulfilled, saying that he had operated under that principle ever since assuming office and remained committed to fulfilling all pledges and doing even more.

This confirms that the party made no attempt to stick to its election pledge to delay spending cuts until 2011.

«The Conservative party pledged to crack down on public sector pay and pensions on Monday, in a politically risky bid to make state «excess» a battle line at the next general election.

According to President Akufo - Addo, many of the pledges he made to the Ghanaians, prior to the December 2016 elections, were described by his political opponents as lies and impossibilities.

According to Akufo - Addo, many of the pledges he made to Ghanaians, prior to the December 2016 elections, were described by his political opponents as lies and impossibilities.

Taylor, a Republican who took a pass on running herself this fall, but has made no secret that she both thought of doing so (in a challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand) and might yet enter the political realm she has heretofore left to her significant other, pledged to help Saujani in whatever way she could in the election and has been serving as an unofficial campaign advisor.

President Akufo - Addo said many of the pledges he made to the Ghanaians, prior to the December 2016 elections, were described by his political opponents as lies and impossibilities.

Last night, Ballot Access News appealed for donations and / or pledges to COFOE (the Coalition for Free & Open Elections) for the purpose of making it possible for the Vermont ballot access lawsuit to go forward.

For his part, Benjamin, the Democratic nominee in the May 23rd special election for the 30th Senate district, pledged to make the issue his top priority if elected.

In the run - up to the 2015 election, with his poll ratings falling, Clegg issued a public apology for making the pledge.

At the launch of the campaign in Accra Thursday, Mr Yeboah who was called to the podium to make the pledge on behalf of the CPP said: «I am just here, supposed to come and pledge beautifully towards a peaceful election 2016 but I am sorry that I am not able to do that, I decline».

Many will remember reading the election manifesto pledge and the Prime Minister made clear the need for a «Sovereignty Bill», the purpose of which is to restrain «unaccountable judges».

«I can tell you I'm going to spend a lot of time between Election Day and January 1 making sure everybody who signs the pledge to pass the Women's Equality Agenda recommits and recommits,» the former Council speaker told Capital, alluding to her surrogate role for the governor on women's issues.

Chief executive Pam Tatlow said: «The Liberal Democrats made a clear election pledge that tuition fees for full - time and part - time students would be abolished.

Clegg, whose political reputation never recovered from his party's support for a rise in higher education tuition fees in contradiction to a Lib Dem manifesto pledge before the general election, said: «This is a breach that is entirely of their own making.

At another, he pledged to «make certain, before this election, people know who Charlie Rangel is, was.»

Earlier this month an election leaflet outlining «10 reasons to vote Conservative» made no mention of the environment, which Mr Cameron once pledged to make a Tory priority

The refurbishment of the Harbour, was began by the Mahama administration in July 2016, and now completed by the Akufo - Addo government, the President said, «is evidence of the pledge I made in the run - up to the 2016 general elections that I will not abandon any project merely because it was started by a previous government.»

The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.