Sentences with phrase «much political support»

Things are moving rapidly on this, but not much political support (to put it mildly).

After expressing interest in increasing the minimum age to purchase a so - called assault weapon to 21, Trump later declared there was «not much political support» for the move.

Not exact matches

While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

Both Twitter and Facebook said Tuesday ahead of the hearing that they would support the Honest Ads Act, a proposed piece of legislation that would require tech firms that sell ads to disclose how much they are paid for placing political ads on their platform.

The sources of Trump's political support have been much debated, but his argument that trade deals were a «very bad deal» for Americans was compelling to a swath of voters across the political spectrum.

But the 5,000 - strong force's first operation in November was plagued by logistical problems, and it remains very much a work in progress despite political support from a variety of powers including Russia and China.

Honestly, look at pretty much all of the countries in your 50 % and over group and they are nearly all puppet regimes supported by the US political machine, or overthrown puppet regimes whose governments now hate the US because of the corrupt regimes that the US supported there.

U.S. policy toward Latin America has fluctuated between open support of dictatorships and hostility toward movements of liberation, and advocacy of a «restricted democracy,» in which a limited amount of political space is allowed so long as it does not rock the boat too much internally and in the hemisphere.

On the domestic front, China's leaders may recognize that protestantism, with it's myriad of denominations is a malleable tool: the protestant work ethic, submission to «scriptural» authority, apocalyptic programming, and unquestioning support for political and military agendas easily has as much potential to support communism as it does capitalism in the West.

This is not meant as a critique as much as a fact: A demagogue is «a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.»

How callous he is about these matters I do not know, but he gives much religious aid and comfort to those who are callous, and he provides political support for those who seek to solve our national problems at the expense of our most vulnerable people.

But as much as I, too, support this idea, I don't believe it can gain widespread political traction in this country, at least for the foreseeable future.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

But the point... there is a clear plan in Brussels as part of the need to support the euro to move towards much greater political integration.»

With the public increasingly turned off by political spin and slogans it's little wonder Corbyn is gaining so much support.

By supporting parties, opinion makers, and other political organizations much of the effort, and most of the knowledge and thinking needed to keep democratic governments more or less responsible can be off - loaded from the general populous.

As you'll see in our highlight reel, the speeches displayed much of what Team Cuomo has going for it; four years in office with some significant legislative accomplishments, nearly universal support from elected Democrats and their political organizations, enormous amounts of state money spent over the past four years which, whether well spent or not produces support from recipients, and a powerful speaker at the top of the ticket.

A vote share of 11 % for UKIP will not translate into an MP for Nigel Farage's party unless UKIP's support can be concentrated in one or more parliamentary constituencies, but it would reveal much stronger support for UKIP in the country and it will have important political consequences in the months and years ahead.

It was partly due to people like Noble that Duggan, a longtime political operative and former Detroit Medical Center CEO who spent most of his life in suburban Livonia, managed to win so much grassroots support.

Political support in the US tends to be my team vs your team, not much different than a sports teams support.

Much of the leftist political establishment, and especially media, supported this.

Nevertheless, the political benefits were much greater than the costs to his base support.

The Javid plans, which were not clearly set out in the Conservative manifesto, are likely to blow a hole in Labour party funding because the number of union members who will proactively support paying the political levy will be much lower than those who pay the political levy through inertia.

A perceived turning point was when Blair controversially allied himself with US President George W. Bush in supporting the Iraq War, which caused him to lose much of his political support.

«While some members of Congress are content to play political games at the expense of their constituents, I'm proud to join members of the New York Congressional Delegation in support of this legislation, which provides much - needed property tax relief while protecting New York's healthcare system,» Cuomo said.

Much of the super PAC's money has come from a handful of political megadonors, and the group has supported candidates also favored by its benefactors.

Much of that international support resulted from the attractive political agenda mapped out by the NTC.

Klein also has support from much of the Bronx political establishment, including Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and county Democratic Party Chairman Carl Heastie.

But that was before this weekend's WFP convention and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's newfound support of the Senate Democrats» quest to re-take the majority, which likely changes the political calculus for the rest of the session, leaving the Republicans with little interest in pasasing very much of anything.

Capping one of the more bewildering political debacles in recent New York memory, de Blasio's speech was overshadowed — before he so much as delivered a word of it — by the implosion of his widely mocked, ill - supported deal to get horse carriages off New York City streets.

Pretty much all but the most fundamentalist of political activists have at least some criticisms of the politicians they support.

Mark - Viverito, a previous candidate for Council in the district, is an East Harlem community activist and organizer with the Hospital Workers Union who has the support of much of the political leadership in the south Bronx.

Stewart has exhibited erratic behavior in the past, including support for incumbent Republicans, and has generated much opposition from local political leaders.

Then in 2011 the Compass membership voted to take the huge cultural and political step of changing our constitution to open up membership beyond just Labour to welcome in party members from the Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru and anyone who supported our good society goals of much greater equality, sustainability, democracy and pluralism.

It is imperative that the Congresswoman reverse her attempt to attach this much needed support and relief for stricken families to a game of political brinkmanship in Washington, D.C.»

Asked on BBC Radio 4 whether Labour was overspending before the crash, Cooper said: «I think there were things that we were spending wrongly on, there were issues that we would have been spending money, too much money on — for example there were things that went wrong with the NHS computer system, with all sorts of things like that — but the deficit at the time was 0.6 %, the current deficit, and all the political parties at the time were all supporting the spending plans.»

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Assembly Democratic leaders said much the same thing, claiming Senate Democrats had passed the measure out of mere political expediency and not because they supported charter schools.

Entering the race at such a late stage means much, if not all, of the Democratic institutional support like labor unions, political clubs and elected official endorsements have been consumed by the Stringer campaign.

Urging Labour voters who had backed independence to support his vision for the party, he claimed Labour had «so much more in common with [those who] voted «Yes» in the referendum than we do with many of the political leaders who campaigned for «No» on the 18th of September».

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

Much of the existing research looking at these differences has been based on small samples, where gay men are recruited from political or social support organizations.

Harsh political struggles on how best to move forward and escalating fiscal uncertainties aside, this plan enjoys substantial support and promises as much drama as the Apollo landings.

But he worries that public support may not stay strong if science becomes too much of a political pawn.

Now that the fulcrum of political power in America rests in Arkansas, we wondered how much support New Scientist enjoys there.

Suddenly freed from responsibility, the senator begins speaking truthfully about issues — much to the consternation of his long - suffering political aides (Oliver Platt, Jack Warden and Joshua Malina) and the lobbyists supporting his re-election bid (including Paul Sorvino).

One story tells of two college students who have decided to put their comfortable career track on hold in order to give their support to the war effort in Afghanistan, much to their political science professor's dismay.

I, and the millions of people who were not born and who do not live (or aspire to live) in America, who have supported you in this campaign, understand that you are only human and that there is only so much you can do within the difficult constraints of your political and existencial context.

Though a Labour Party victory in the next election would definitely lead to policy tweaks, all the major political parties (of which England has three) generally support the reform thrusts described above, as has pretty much been the case on both sides of the Atlantic since the eighties.

By failing to offer more advantaged families any benefits, the charter movement then loses their political support, and advantaged families have much more political power than disadvantaged families.