Sentences with phrase «national agenda as»

The lines of debate on both right and left are still emerging, but immigration is on the national agenda as it was not a year ago.

Apart from EV and new energy, NIO Capital is looking for opportunities in self - driving technology - another part of China's national agenda as the country pushes into artificial intelligence in a bid to rival U.S. market leaders such as Google and Microsoft.

Not exact matches

THE National Competition Council this week released a comprehensive stocktake of reforms undertaken by various State governments, as part of their yearly review of progress by States in implementing reform under the Hilmer competition policy agenda.

Hint Water CEO Kara Goldin resigned from her position on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE) over the weekend, saying she did not want her participation to be interpreted as support for President Trump's agenda.

Gun control and the prevention of gun violence have emerged as prominent themes in pride events this year, with the Orlando slayings putting them near the top of the national political agenda.

Because the law includes much more than tax cuts — it removes Affordable Care Act's so - called individual mandate and opens up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling — potential avenues for future agenda items are now viewed as increasingly possible for Republicans.

Such an early result will be concerning to Europe as M5S and Lega are likely to push their anti-establishment, euroskeptic agendas at a national level.

Australia's biotech industry group AusBiotech was among those cheering Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's government in December after it announced a National Innovation and Sciences Agenda (NISA) designed to position Down Under as a leader in biotech and other technologies.

A decision by the Trump administration to use national security to protect an industry would be among the most dramatic — and risky — moves in the president's trade agenda, which seeks to limit what he regards as unfair foreign competition.

As the country's most pro-abortion president, Barack Obama has pursued a radical pro-abortion agenda,» said National Right to Life President Carol Tobias.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

As events at this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego show, the putative alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party offers little solution; and the truth is that grave dangers exist regardless when the independence of a religious mission is married to a particular political party's agenda.

After all, the BJP as a national government has found it convenient to uphold the secularization option while at the same time covertly encouraging its Sangh Combine (RSS, VHF, Bajrang Dal, and SS) to pursue the Hindutva agenda.

What results, Tooley suggests, is an Evangelical Protestant vulnerability to the shifting agendas of «elites,» such as those in charge at the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE).

We may dislike their vision, but these new storytellers «will set our national agenda, interpret our national future, just as the scribblers themselves had done until these last sputtering days of the 20th century.»

As the Healthy People 2030 development process is now underway to update national health objectives, the month seeks to «chart the course together» to ensure that breastfeeding is incorporated into all relevant areas of the public health agenda.

In line with AGENDA 50 - 50, the Regional Youth Wing under the auspices of the Eastern Regional Executive Committee of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) today organised a football gala dubbed «JM Cup» at Mpraeso in the Mpraeso Constituency to rekindle the party's spirit in the Kwahu zone as part of the annual Kwahu easter festivity.

Unfortunately, as a result of her «Tracy Flick» like unbridled ambition she regularly puts the needs of her national political agenda ahead of the needs of hardworking New Yorkers.

First there is the importance of a «national» agenda as cohesive glue and thus justification of a campaign for statehood in the conventional sense of territorial cohesiveness, along with a differentiation between urban and non-urban variations of that agenda, with the leading cities developing a dual identity, strategy.

The Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr Koku Anyidoho, has revealed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as part of a grand scheme to penetrate into the Volta region, has launched a vote buying agenda.

Following the abrupt firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump signaled he's prepared to dismiss aides with whom he's clashed — including national security adviser H.R. McMaster — as he works to surround himself with advisers more aligned with his populist agenda and freewheeling style.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

The couple sent out an e-mail yesterday that included a link to a recent National Review story entitled «Cuomo the Conservative,» and urged fellow Tea Partiers to back Cuomo's agenda, even though it doesn't go nearly as far as Paladino had proposed.

The Deputy National Organizer told GhanaPoliticsOnline.Com that walking with members in the constituency also gives them easy access to him and the authorities of the constituency, in letting them know the truth about the better Ghana agenda of the president as well as gather massive votes for JM in the 7 Nov, polls.

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

The Summit, which is taking place at a time President Mahama has been traveling across the country in furtherance of his transparency agenda to account to the people of Ghana, is important in moving forward Ghana's anti-corruption agenda as contained in the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (2015 - 2024) and our commitments under the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).

Referring specifically to his country, the President added that the Government has put in place a national development plan that is aligned to the AU Agenda 2063, the AU Plan as well as the SDGs.

In January 2012, in a speech in Strasburg, Prime Minister David Cameron set out an agenda for reforming the ECtHR which would reduce the number of admissible cases, and thus the backlog, by ensuring that the Court did not act as a small claims court or Court of Fourth Instance and did not go over national decisions where it did not need to.

Also worth noting: Even Democrats who voted against unpopular national Democratic agenda items such as health care reform, including Reps. Michael McMahon and Michael Arcuri, ended up losing.

The founder and flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has said her main agenda is to promote what she describes as grass - roots democracy emphasizing inclusive governance.

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When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

As Michael Chessum, national organiser of the campaign group Another Europe is Possible, said to us: «For those in charge of it, Brexit is not just a process or a policy — it is an agenda of deregulation and resurgent nationalism.

De Blasio has come under fire before for trips away from New York City to promote his national agenda; an August Quinnipiac poll showed more than half of New Yorkers believe his «involvement in national issues is distracting him from his duties as mayor.»

That reality prompted, as part of the Osogbo conference agenda, the idea of federalizing political parties, along geo - political lines, with local demands driving each party's national charter, though with APC as case - point.

A reliable source in the Presidency informed our corespondent that the sole item on the agenda of the meeting was how the governors would work towards the emergence of a former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, as the party's national chairman.

Voters head to the polls in New York's 20th district today to choose a replacement for appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a close race in a swing seat that has seen considerable spending by both national parties and will almost certainly be cast as an early referendum on President Obama's agenda.

- Sinclair, which injects pro-Trump commentary and conservative news segments into local newscasts, «plays an outsized role in shaping the news agenda here, particularly when it comes to local and national politics,» they write, as «any news it decides to air can blanket the region multiple times.»

Plans to overhaul the city's sex education curriculum, offer more birth control to women and join a national group of city legislators to promote a unified urban agenda are also likely to figure prominently in her last year as Speaker.

The forum will address these issues and bring together representatives from the Empire State Pride Agenda, New York Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, as well as an official from the federal government.

He speculated that Cuomo was seeking national headlines and seeking primarily to placate the left, and then wondered whether it was even worse, and Cuomo was using the latest shooting tragedy as an excuse to push a radical gun agenda he wanted to advance «all along.»

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has welcomed the ruling of the Court that upheld its suspension of the party's National Chairman, Paul Afoko, as lawful, saying it gingers them to pursue their «change» agenda.

Of course, the Rockland County Times profited from the Journal News» folly, earning national spotlight for its coverage of its rival newspaper's mishap, as well as hero status locally for confronting the wayward agenda - driven editors.

Citing ongoing projects such as the National Digital Property Addressing System, the soon - to - be-issued national ID card, the land records digitisation agenda and efforts to increase financial inclusion via interoperability in the payment systems, Vice President Bawumia indicated that government was already engaged in the use of technology for the transformationNational Digital Property Addressing System, the soon - to - be-issued national ID card, the land records digitisation agenda and efforts to increase financial inclusion via interoperability in the payment systems, Vice President Bawumia indicated that government was already engaged in the use of technology for the transformationnational ID card, the land records digitisation agenda and efforts to increase financial inclusion via interoperability in the payment systems, Vice President Bawumia indicated that government was already engaged in the use of technology for the transformation agenda.

Sammy Awuku, who as the NPP National Youth Organizer, played vital roles to help the party win the 2016 elections, has stated that NPP staying in power for many years remains his utmost desire and agenda.

The first openly gay Council speaker also had the entire gay political establishment behind her, including the Empire State Pride Agenda, the Stonewall Democratic Club, Lambda Independent Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Democrats, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, and the Human Rights Campaign, along with women's organizations such as Emily's List and the National Organization for Women - NYC.

«The people responsible for defence, interior and national security must bring this to the top of their agenda otherwise they will have very little to defend... we shouldn't take this as lightly as people are taking this,» he added.

For decades, they have invested in campaigns on the local, state and national levels, as well as think tanks, legislative development, and media outlets, building a unified front to advance their self - serving agenda.

Dems will continue using the Medicaid expansion to paint GOP governors in purple or blue states as hostage to a national Tea Party agenda.

National Republicans castigate Pelosi every chance they get, warning voters of a «Speaker Pelosi» agenda and labeling her as the San Francisco liberal that she usually is (although she voted for the original Patriot Act).