Sentences with phrase «on campaign promises for»

Asked about Trump, Browning said he hasn't followed through on campaign promises for an infrastructure bill or to unite the country.

Not exact matches

The terms of service of crowdfunding sites state that they aren't responsible for campaigns that fail to deliver on their promises.

The Trudeau government campaigned on a promise to incrementally reduce the corporate tax rate for small businesses from 11 % to 9 %.

Another prominent example is the Kreyos smartwatch campaign, which raised $ 1.5 million on Indiegogo, promising a powerful, gesture - controlled waterproof smartwatch with weeklong battery life, all for about $ 150.

For Trump, the tariffs represent a step toward making good on a campaign promise to get tough on the country that produces the most panels — China.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to create more jobs for American workers, and since his election, he has regularly touted his ability to negotiate deals that bring jobs to the U.S.

Even though Kasich fared well on questions about his ability to follow through on campaign promises and only 0.67 percent of survey respondents thought he was the worst choice for president, he came in last as top choice for president among the then Republican primary candidates — a tepid showing for an honest and proven executive.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

Constructing a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border was one of Trump's campaign promises, along with the claims that Mexico would pay for it and that the structure would be up to 65 feet tall.

Trump, who had campaigned on a promise to keep companies from moving jobs overseas, plans to travel to the plant on Thursday for a formal announcement of the deal.

Trump, a self - professed fan of junk food, has not been explicit on what he plans to do with food policy, although he campaigned for the Nov. 8 election on a broad promise to undo regulations on business.

The Conservatives dangled several pricey promises during the 2011 election campaign that were contingent on them balancing the books, including tax - splitting for couples with children under 18, doubling the annual tax - free savings account limit and doubling the children's tax credit.

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has promised to do quite a few things that are beyond the powers of an American president, like billing Mexico for a border wall.

And they'd taken care of themselves but the fact is that the individual Congressmen knew not only that they weren't promised any cash on the table for themselves to sell out their voters to Wall Street but they thought that even if the Democratic National Committee or the Republication Congressional Committee contributed money to their campaigns, no amount of television or media advertising could persuade the voters that they were not crooks.

In accordance with his campaign promises on the issue of trade, Trump's already starting to go after China for both its trade policies that hurt American workers and its geopolitical ambitions.

Trump went hard after China during his campaign, blaming it for a host of American economic ills and promising to be tough on the Asian superpower.

The document lays out the skeleton of Trump's trade policy for the first 200 days of his presidency, focusing on a set of principles including renegotiating or withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement — a frequent promise Trump made on the campaign trail.

But the draft memo reveals what the Trump transition team has developed as a blueprint for Trump's administration based on its pre-election work and Trump's own campaign promises.

The Liberals campaigned on the promise to cut taxes for Canada's middle class.

PARIS (AP)-- The leader of France's far - right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist «offensive» and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is...

For us in Canada, what is equally perplexing is that all this is coming from a government that campaigned on a promise of «Real Change.»

Trump's warm personal relations with Xi have softened his anti-China campaign stance; Trump hasn't followed through on his many, many promises to punish the country for what he sees as unfair trade practices.

But many experts interviewed by CNBC dismissed Trump's calls for extreme tariffs — 35 percent on Ford vehicles from Mexico and 45 percent on Chinese goods — saying they strained credulity, even by campaign - promise standards.

Canada's Liberal government campaigned on a promise to legalize marijuana for recreational use, arguing prohibition does not prevent young people from using the drug.

On the federal level, the Federal Trade Commission could investigate an organization for unfair and deceptive advertising (e.g. lying about the scope or character of the products and services promised in an ICO campaign).

In Syriza's case, for example, it campaigned on a promise to end the former administration's austerity programs.

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After months of pressure and a particularly bad week of campaigning, Governor Mitt Romney followed through on his promise and released his 2011 tax return, which ought to give anyone who knows how to read tax returns something to do for the rest of the day.

Trump has largely stood by his pro-life campaign promises, appointing conservative justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, signing a law allowing states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood, and reinstating a ban on federal funds for organizations that perform abortions overseas.

However, I did not vote for President Obama either time, as I didn't feel he had the experience or leadership skills (2008), let alone reneging on his promise to abide by campaign finance reform; or had accomplished what he promised (2012).

There is still time for Arsenal to rescue the campaign and lift the EPL trophy in May and I'm sure that all Gooners will be Geordies for the night when Newcastle take on Leicester tonight, but it will take an epic comeback like the one produced by the Arsenal side of the late 80s, the one in the film Fever Pitch that blew a promising position and then went on a late run that culminated in a title decider on the last day at Anfield.

The report adds that Mourinho is also keen on # 89m Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann, and so it promises to be a busy summer for the Man Utd boss as he looks to build and improve on his first campaign in charge at Old Trafford.

AS claim that despite a promising pre-season with Real, if Cheryshev remains with the club, he is likely to be sent out on loan for a third consecutive campaign.

The Trotters are still nursing an FA Cup semi-final hangover it would seem, losing 5 - 0 to Stoke last month to miss out on the opportunity to feature in this weekend's show - piece against Manchester City, and are now finishing a campaign full of promise with a real whimper, with last week's 2 - 1 reverse to Sunderland at home their third consecutive defeat following disappointing outcomes away at first Fulham (3 - 0) before helped Blackburn, who were previously without a win for ten games, to end their barren streak (1 - 0).

Update 16 May 2014: Danone is now the target of the DanoNO campaign for failing to deliver on its promises.

Mark Thomas picked up on Baby Milk Action's campaigning on this issue to put Nestlé executives on the spot and eventually extracted a promise for change from Peter Brabeck.

Following on the heels of a revelation by the Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei, that the NPP government was currently involved in negotiations to extend the programme to 2018, it should be clear that the Akufo Addo government has broken yet another campaign promise because reality has dawned on them

Touching on the campaign promises of his main contender Nana Akufo - Addo, Mr. Mahama urged Ghanaians to be cautious of a man who promises «One district, one factory» for votes, when he has never constructed any factory in his lifetime.

Corruption and impunity have become accepted convention in the administration, nepotism is eating the administration up yet, some members of OccupyGhana and other civil society organisations are helping the administration to play the blame game on the past Mahama administration as a coverup for the administration's failure which is betrayal of what these groups and their mother organization the Npp promised Ghanaians during the campaign.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the Minister for Special Development Initiatives, Hawa Koomson, are holding on to opposite ends of the «0ne Constituency — $ 1million» campaign promise by the ruling New Patriotic Party.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

And in the twentieth century, movements pressing for colonial liberation and female emancipation furthered the demand for equal legal protection, building campaigns for human rights on the back of the promise of Magna Carta.

The inimitable Susan Finkelpearl of Free Range Studios has written up a Politics Online panel discussion on the promise of mobile technology as a tool for campaign organizing.

Being the first SONA to be delivered by him, there was huge expectation that he would use the occasion to offer a broad overview of his vision and plan for Ghana especially in the light of the extravagant promises he made on the campaign trail in the 2016 elections and as contained in the NPP's manifesto for the same election.

Campaign promises on special quotas for women have in the past remained a political rhetoric.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

Now, I don't really see American political campaigns paying people to get it on (though I do have a friend who got nekkid in public repeatedly for an anti-fur campaign a few years ago), but this idea of inserting links into video, called hotspotting, shows real promise.

In voting to repeal Obama's signature health care law, House Republicans finally delivered on a key Trump administration goal and on a campaign promise that they have made for the better part of a decade — but at a potentially steep political price.