Sentences with phrase «opponents of government»

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association fears (rightfully so) that the bill can be used to target opponents of government policy.

In contrast, an active effort to help technologies bridge the valley of death will inevitably require supporting individual firms and technologies, precisely the sort of behavior that opponents of government intervention often find most troubling.

While gamers are notoriously rabid opponents of government infringement on the industry, it's hard to see them sticking their nose up at this one.

He said, «The truth is that Captain Iheanacho for obvious political reasons has continued to sustain his media attacks against the governor and the few opponents of the government in the state have leveraged on that to be giving the impression that Okorocha and Iheanacho are at war, when they are not.»

Opponents of the government's NHS reforms have three months to «stop this bill», Ed Miliband has said.

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

We continue to be vocal opponents of government profligacy and have won the fight for spending transparency.

In a sign of increased coordination among opponents of government cuts, student leaders have written to trade union officials to ask for their support.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Opponents of government introduced an amendment reversing that disparity, and the final version of the Bill contained a compromise in which the pressure to guarantee new seats to the industrial constituencies was more evident than hostility to the rotten boroughs.

While the crackdown has drawn concern and criticism from Western capitals, rights groups and some domestic opponents of the government, most Turks have shown unity in their opposition to the coup attempt, with regular rallies of solidarity.

I am no right - wing knee - jerk opponent of government.

Granted, some change will occur if this happens, but it is perhaps telling that media sources linked to Plahotniuc have directed a negative campaign against Andrei Năstase and Maia Sandu, while largely ignoring Dodon, despite the latter theoretically being the main opponent of the government.

The groups alleged that Soon, a prominent critic of mainstream climate science and opponent of government action on climate change, had not disclosed funding from corporate sponsors to journals that published his work, potentially violating journal policies.

Barton, an outspoken opponent of government policy who has said his decision to stand is sparked by rage at the government's grammar school plans, is likely to want ASCL to campaign harder than it has in recent years.

Not exact matches

A political opponent of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen wants Facebook to hand over information that might help him fight legal claims against him by the government.

President Francois Hollande's Socialist government, accused by political opponents of doing too little to avert the attack that killed 84 and hurt hundreds, also said it would step up strikes against Islamic State in its strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

For instance, intelligence agencies may go after political opponents to maintain or increase the level of influence they enjoy with the government.

Opponents of the state government's controversial Roe 8 highway extension project have taken their fight to the High Court following a recent decision that validated the project's environmental approval.

Called by some a sellout to corporate interests and a surrender to Washington, Bill C - 32 — the federal government's third attempt at bringing the Copyright Act into the Internet age — has its share of opponents.

Even if the Trans Mountain proposal gets bogged down — by a antagonistic new provincial government, or by the 19 lawsuits it faces, or by the massive civil disobedience opponents promise — if Kinder Morgan can entice enough investors to hand over $ 1.75 billion in an initial public offering, the company will walk away with hundreds of millions even if the proposal dies and investors lose their shirt.

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois government tabled what it calls a «responsible» budget Thursday aimed at erasing doubts over the party's economic record and blunting opponent attacks ahead of an expected spring election.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

Opponents counter that the TPP is far more than trade deal — it is an unprecedented set of rules created to increase the profits of transnational corporations and grant them extraordinary powers to override governments that enact legislation in the public interest.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

Opponents of Bill C - 51 claimed that new spy laws passed by the former Conservative government with support from the Liberals could target Canadian citizens who oppose the expansion of oil pipelines.

UCP MLAs sat stonefaced and silent Thursday, looking at phones and tablets as opponents accused them of misogyny and political cowardice over the government's proposed abortion clinic buffer zone bill.

In their mind, opponents to critical energy projects will be persuaded once Albertans are paying more of their own money to the government.

Sounding yet again like a cheerleader for opponents of Alberta's energy industry, Notley, head of the left - leaning NDP government, reacted positively to U.S Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton's surprise announcement that she's opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf.

The most prominent opponent of ISDS so far is the German government.

Opponents of CETA fear that those special rights undermine democracy because they weaken the power of local and national governments.

We must resist the claim of any government that it represents some mystical «general will of the people,» thus relegating its opponents to the categories of subversive, subhuman or counterrevolutionary.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

[If a foreign government is your opponent, then you should first offer justice and peace, but if this is refused then defend yourself by force against force...] And in such a war it is a Christian act and an act of love confidently to kill, rob, and pillage the enemy, and to do everything that can injure him until one has conquered him according to the methods of war.13

«Over a number of decades we were political opponents and held very different views on many, many issues but the one thing we were absolutely united on was the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government.

More seriously, Americans must have moral qualms about the strident anti-Semitism of the NSDAP, and about some of the methods used by it to intimidate its political opponents both before and after its takeover of the German government.

Opponents of the new standards claim that the recommendations could outprice organic items for conventional consumers, and that the suit could drive consumer mistrust of government agencies that can't reach an agreement without a court proceeding.

This week, Beef Products Inc. announced the temporary shutdown of three of its four plants that produce an inexpensive, chemically treated recovered beef product the government calls «lean finely textured beef» but opponents have dubbed «pink slime.

In addition, we have a President who has been easily portrayed by his opponents as a champion of Big Government, determined to trample on individual freedoms (as well as pedantic and elitist), while Michelle Obama is portrayed as harsh and militant.

Pettit is certainly able to show that some figures like Harrington, opponent of Hobbes» attack on the «democratical gentlemen» who opposed government by prerogative, have something like Pettit's account of freedom as resting in being free from subjection «to the potentially capricious will or the potentially idiosyncratic judgement of another» [7].

It doesn't solve anything, it only makes things worse, and you're now forcing the government / police not just to deal with the white supremacists, but with the illegal actions of their opponents as well.

'' [It] further condemns the actions of the government of Zimbabwe that have denied its political opponents the right to campaign freely, and calls upon the government of Zimbabwe to stop the violence, to cease political intimidation, to end the restrictions on the right of assembly and to release the political leaders who have been detained,» it adds.

Ahmadinejad's opponents in Iran have started chanting this unusual call during protests in response to the government's policy of giving away free potatoes.

But opponents argue that all council services will suffer as a result of deep cuts in the central government grant.

The introduction of the benefit freeze and the accompanying diatribes spewed by government ministers was designed to set a trap for the government's opponents.

This approach is going to undermine the politicking strategies of other opponents of Lords reform, who see defeating the programme motion as the only realistic way of forcing the government to back down.

It is also unclear, how the state will benefits from Mr. Cudjoe's membership of the business delegation, as he has acted more than political opponent of the Mahama government, than a business oriented individual.

Cuomo first claimed that «some» of his Republican opponents (he refused to name names) «have had more government experience than I have,» adding:

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

But neither were offered or refused a «serve in government with [democratic] opponents choice like that of the LibDems in May 2010.