Sentences with phrase «opposition against president»

On Sunday and Monday, 127 Bay Area companies filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit stating their opposition against the president's executive order on immigration.

Not exact matches

There is widespread opposition across the euro zone against Jens Weidmann, the current head of the German Bundesbank, as the debate grows over who's going to replace ECB President Mario Draghi next year.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

The president's comments about the deputy come as he's promoted the idea of training and arming teachers to defend against shooters, a controversial proposal to which prominent Democrats and Republicans have voiced opposition.

However fresh clashes have broken out this month with hundreds killed over reports of attacks against both President Salva Kiir and the opposition leader Riek Machar, who is also Vice-President.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

What they wanted from the president when he was still in power was to give them permission to use more real force and weapons against the opposition.

All else being equal, the opposition party has a better chance against a new candidate than an incumbent President.

A pro-Trump outside group is stepping up its attacks on GOP Sen. Dean Heller over his opposition to the Obamacare repeal plan — a stunning act of retribution against a politically vulnerable member of the president's own party.

«President Buhari and the APC were only engaged in a smearing campaign against our leader because they don't want any opposition to speak against all their anti-peoples» policies,» Ishola stated.

Whilst in opposition to the then liberal government, current Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance of several political parties, vehemently protested against the Rosia Montana mining project, which was supported by President Traian Basescu and his Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

Post-election violence in Gabon has killed between 50 and 100 people, the opposition presidential candidate said Tuesday, a toll much higher than the government's count of three in days of violent demonstrations against the president's re-election.

Amnesty International says a military court in Cameroon has sentenced an opposition leader to 25 years in prison for hostility against the homeland and contempt of the president.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz was also against the plan — opposition that ultimately triggered the passage of a living - wage law in New York City.

(The last point comes amidst a heated debate in Washington over the Trans - Pacific Partnership — one that pits President Obama against the left wing of the Democratic Party, which includes opposition from Warren and de Blasio.)

Mr President, your friend and top financier of your party warned you and your party not to «touch» the BOST boss in spite the corruption allegation levelled against him because he supported you financially in opposition.

Citing instances of such attempts by elements within the opposition party, President Akufo - Addo recounted the allegations levelled against Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko that he had bribed members of Appointments Committee to facilitate his approval.

However, within the last 24 - hours since Mr Hague's comments, the White House has said that Syrian forces under President Assad have used chemical weapons «on a small scale» against the opposition rebels.

The acting president said this in Port - Harcourt while responding to members of the opposition who blame the federal government for the fall of the Naira against the Dollar.

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged Ghanaians, notably the youth, not to listen to vile propaganda and lies being leveled against the current Akufo - Addo administration by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

Though the party has been meeting with individuals to form a coalition against the ruling All Progressives Congress in the past, it was however gathered that the main opposition party had stepped up consultations following the open declaration by the members of the nPDP, who are in the APC, that the ruling party and President Muhammadu Buhari last week were marginalising them.

The miraculous manner he emerged the Senate President against all odds and his strong opposition to a Muslim - Muslim ticket for the APC in the build - up to the 2015 general elections were major reasons for Saraki's persecution and prosecution, based on his claims.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler tore into President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile assault on a Syrian airbase yesterday evening in retaliation for dictator Bashar al - Assad's use of nerve gas against a rebel - held town — and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

The Presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo - Addo defeated President Mahama with a 53.85 percent lead in all valid votes cast, against the latter's 44.40 percent.

«The various lengths to which President Buhari has gone to end the spate of killings, such as mobilising state resources against the attackers, approving the setting up of new police and army formations in the affected areas, and the recruitment of thousands into the police and other arms of the military, are a few of the several steps taken which a more reasonable opposition will acknowledge.

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Economic Advisor to the Vice President, Gideon Boako, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no business cautioning the NPP administration against leveraging Ghana's natural resources, specifically bauxite through its recent partnership with China, since the former sold 58 percent of Ghana's bauxite concession to Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President Mahama.

«The fact that the APC government to have presented a list that reflected the opposition alone is a confirmation that the fight against corruption under President Buhari is merely political and must be dismissed with a wave of the hand,» a US - based political commentator, Remi Badru, said.

The incumbent President John Dramani Mahama polled 4, 713,277 votes representing 44.40 % of the total votes as against 5,716,026 which is 53.85 % by the main opposition NPP led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo - Addo to emerge the victor in the 2016 presidential elections.

At the United Federation of Teachers Delegate Assembly on February 11, 2015, Sterling Roberson, the Vice President of Career and Technical Education stated, in opposition to the resolution, ``... the union is against over-testing, but testing is important for parents to know where their child is compared to other children.»

In a recent post, I wrote that Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against the use of value - added models (VAMs) to evaluate and measure teacher effectiveness.

As just posted on Diane Ravitch's blog, Randi Weingarten, the current president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has (finally) expressed her full opposition against using value - added models (VAMs), the statistical measures of utmost interest on this blog, for teacher evaluation, accountability, and merit pay purposes.

In 2015, an unnamed Nigerian billionaire paid # 2 million ($ 2.8 million) to Cambridge Analytica in a bid to lure it into orchestrating a «ferocious campaign» against the country's opposition presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari amid the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan at the time, according to The Guardian.