Sentences with phrase «opposed by the president»

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The open letter never mentions President Trump by name, instead stating Under Armour's values in diversity, equal rights, job creation, and opposing Trump's executive order travel ban.

China's commerce ministry said on Friday that it «resolutely opposed» a move by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

In an email to employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, «I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.

Keystone XL is strongly opposed by environmentalists both in the United States and Canada, and President Obama says he won't approve the project until he's convinced it won't seriously contribute to climate change.

Republican Presidents, including Trump, have promised to balance future budgets with gigantic reductions in discretionary spending, a category that includes both outlays for defense, and all other areas that are voted each year (as opposed to entitlements that provide benefits guided by a fixed formula).

Things may be more tense in South Korea, where President Moon Jae - in has opposed in principle the idea of unilateral action against North Korea by the U.S. President Trump will also skip a visit to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) there.

Over the past 18 months, increasingly in the past few weeks, we've seen small businesses, Fortune 500 organizations and everyone in between buck conventional wisdom by using social media to oppose President Donald Trump's controversial executive orders and policies.

«I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights,» Cook wrote.

Trump may find it easier simply to oppose President Barack Obama's domestic plans to reduce U.S. emissions by between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

She argued that CNN was writ - large opposed to Trump, and accused Stelter of being jealous of Fox News» ratings, a common tactic used by the president's backers to deflect from tough questions on CNN.

«I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.

A plan put forth by the White House Sunday supports arming teachers, banning bump stocks, and strengthening background checks, but it does not propose raising the age to buy guns to 21 — something the president previously suggested but that the National Rifle Association strongly opposes.

And Intel, run for decades by proud immigrant Andy Grove, is one of the companies that signed a brief opposing President Trump's travel ban.

President Trump fueled this divide by repeatedly siding against the tech industry in the campaign — from supporting the FBI in the encryption debate to opposing one of the industry's most significant proposed mergers.

More than 200 investors and startups today added their names to an open letter opposing President Donald Trump's recent executive order that restricted travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven Muslim - majority countries and suspended refugee admissions.

Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran on a platform opposing gun control.

He also wants to impose a minimum tax on foreign earnings, a move opposed by multinational corporations and perhaps the most contentious provision in the president's plan.

However, imposing taxes on products used daily by American consumers and job creators is not the way to achieve those ends,» said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy group that has long been opposed to Trump's trade policy.

In response the FOMC's hawks, led by Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher and Richmond Fed President Jeff Lacker, having already opposed the Fed's last rate cut in March, refused to support any further cuts, and would go on opposing them, successfully, until October.

What Clinton was trying to avoid during his first term as president, says Marcus, was discovery, the process by which lawyers seek information from the opposing parties before trial to build their case.

However, because Section 232 arises out of national security concerns and uses a different process, adversely affected importing companies may not have those same opportunities to oppose or challenge the new tariffs and quotas if adopted by the president.

In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy was thrown out of office by voters opposed to his belt - tightening program.

In the worst cases, democratically elected presidents who opposed the company were replaced in coups by puppet dictators.

The Catholic Church has helped frame this year's election by strenuously opposing a rule in President Obama's health care law that requires insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage to nearly all American employees, including those at Catholic colleges and hospitals.

Yet, on no occasion since taking office has President Obama stood up publicly for a single Christian individual, group, church, act or event, whom or which was being opposed or oppressed by others.

All these internet diagnosis of the Presidents» religion, birth certificate, college transcripts, etc just amplify how easy it is for some people to be persuaded by what they don't know, as opposed to seeking the information to make objective decisions.

Actually, Milton was complimenting the President by referring to him as «rational» as opposed to the radical so - called «christian» right.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

Could public opinion sustain such a policy as the public seems to oppose even the more limited bombing proposed by President Obama?

(CNN)-- A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the nation's first to drop its health care plan because it opposes parts of the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama.

Most U.S. Olympians opposed Carter's decision, but the public rallied behind the President, and he pressured the USOC board to back him up, by about a two - to - one vote.

And when a pro-abortion president has been followed by a new one that opposes abortion at all cost, the discou...

Recall that one of the earliest walls Gov. Eliot Spitzer ran head - long into was a proposal to allow undocumented workers receive drivers» licenses issued by the state, a move that was vehemently opposed by county clerks and became a campaign issue for Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic nomination for president.

«Before the imposition of the migrant ban I would myself have been strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster Hall,» he said.

«After the imposition of the migrant ban by President Trump I am even more strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster Hall.»

The federal policy, also opposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is backed by President Donald Trump and is seen as impacting high - tax states like New York, New Jersey and California.

Democrats in the narrowly divided state Senate have sought to stake out ground opposing (or «resisting» in the parlance of the political times) the Trump administration as well as pointing out their contrasts with Republican lawmakers, who they have sought to tie to actions by the new president.

I found this intriguing, especially as de Gaulle seemed to have been adopted by the Left, who had opposed him vigorously for much of his time as president.

Gillibrand insisted in the interview on Tuesday she is not interested in a White House bid, even as she rises to a new level of prominence in the Senate by opposing nearly all of President Donald Trump's cabinet nominations.

Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat, implied that Americans should grab weapons and oppose President Trump by force, if the commander - in - chief doesn't follow the Constitution.

The Today's Newspaper some few months ago published that it has laid hands on a leaked report by the committee which said for instance, at one of the committee's meetings held outside Accra last month to put finishing touches to the report, its sources said the report nearly hit a snag as former President Dramani Mahama's loyalists vehemently opposed the recommendation of having a new presidential candidate for the party in 2020.»

The head of the New York City Council on Thursday outlined a legislative plan to resist President Donald Trump by blocking his immigration agents locally and rallying sympathetic municipalities to oppose him nationally.

Washington (CNN)- Despite President Obama's accusation Wednesday that Republicans are holding middle class income tax cuts «hostage» by tying them to an extension of tax cuts for wealthier Americans, the reality is several Democratic senators also oppose allowing President Bush's tax cuts for higher earners to expire.

Under fire for defending racist activist groups, President Trump said on Twitter that he was «sad» to see United States» history torn apart by the removal of «our beautiful statues and monuments,» echoing a popular refrain of white supremacist groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments.

Leadership elections in the NYC correction officers union will be delayed at least a week until a Manhattan judge can decide if the embattled incumbent president, Norman Seabrook, will be opposed by rival William Valentin.

Voters oppose Cuomo running for president, 63 percent to 28 percent, while they also oppose a Gillibrand bid by a smaller margin, 58 percent to 28 percent.

BROOKLYN — The developer behind the controversial plan to build a 1,146 - unit apartment complex in the Broadway Triangle slammed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Friday for bowing to what they dubbed «anti-Semitic bullying,» by opposing the project.

The conservative Gorsuch joined the court in April 2017 and has yet to weigh in on mandatory union fees, but government employee unions opposed his appointment by President Trump for fear he'd side with his fellow conservatives.

Leadership elections in the city correction officers union will be delayed at least a week until a Manhattan judge can decide if the embattled incumbent president, Norman Seabrook, will be opposed by rival William Valentin.