Sentences with phrase «of unpopular moves»

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CARACAS, May 3 (Reuters)- Venezuela said on Thursday it arrested 11 top executives of the country's leading private bank Banesco for allegedly hurting the OPEC nation's ailing currency, the latest move against the private sector that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro blames for a deep...

The bill's supporters say the move will help stabilize health insurance premiums, even though it takes on one of the Affordable Care Act's most unpopular provisions.

The result was that while the Vietnam war was unpopular, the antiwar movement was even less popular — and the style of some activists may have deterred working - class and rural Americans from moving to an antiwar stance.

It would be an unpopular move - the cost of royal security falls to the taxpayer.

After many bold and locally unpopular midseason moves by general manager John Hart — 40 % of last season's American League championship team is either gone or injured — the Tribe has shown that it is better equipped for the postseason than a year ago.

The club originally wanted to become the new tenants for the Olympic Stadium, meaning a relocation from north to east London, though this move was unpopular among fans and the owners of the stadium.

Cuomo did call for some things that will be unpopular with public employee unions (freezing pay, creating a Tier VI in the pension fund, reducing the size of state government — a move that will undoubtedly necessitate job cuts, but he makes no mention of that I can find in «The New NY Agenda: A Plan for Action»).

One of Trump's seemingly most unpopular moves came this week when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program will shut down in six months to give Congress time to find a legislative solution for the immigrants.

Far from damaging Labour's electoral chances as a range of Blairites have warned, this actually offers the opportunity to move away from the unpopular policies of the Blair era.

In 2007 Livingston and Edinburgh East were part of the SNP growth in constituency wins, with Angela Constance becoming a new MSP and Kenny MacAskill moving from the regional list, replacing Susan Deacon who stood down that year, her Labour successor Norman Murray, an unpopular local councillor, finishing second, with 1,382 fewer votes.

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

The media, eager for a new story after years of Tory failure and with an increasingly unpopular Labour government, gave him the glowing coverage he craved, helping him to «decontaminate» the Tory brand and move the party back towards the centre ground, where, the conventional wisdom has it, British elections are won and lost.

The move, in theory, would relieve Curran of the need to make immediate — and likely unpopular — cuts herself.

He faces a tough dilemma in an election year: Blocking lawmakers» push for a moratorium would be unpopular, but allowing them to move forward would take the teeth out of a law that he has presented as one of his crowning achievements.

But when Phil takes a job with an organic dog food company and moves the family to California, Marmaduke discovers that he doesn't fit in with the neighborhood's cool dogs, and must instead team up with a trio of unpopular mutts (voiced by Emma Stone, Steve Coogan and Christopher Mintz - Plasse) in order to win the affection of a Collie named Jezebel and become the big dog on the block.

In a move that was wildly unpopular amongst librarians it appended its own rule on top of the one - book - one - license framework, forcing libraries to renew its license of any given ebook after 26 circulations.

The new Liberal government has already expressed a desire to revisit this controversial approach to sentencing though unwinding laws that guarantee longer jail terms for gun crimes and child abusers may prove an unpopular move even to Trudeau's broad base of supporters.

Raising taxes is one of the most unpopular moves possible for politicians, in almost any economic climate.

Whether a reluctant judge is being moved to make an unpopular decision or a witness being coaxed into remembering what really happened or accepting the implausibility of their evidence, there is nothing to touch it.

One of the unpopular features in Windows 8 was the appearance of the Charms Bar, every time your mouse moved to the upper - right or bottom - right corners.