Sentences with phrase «opposition to government policies»

Raised in a family of teachers and talking often of her three school - aged children Powell took to the role well, winning plaudits for her boisterous opposition to government policies, including forced academisation and teacher shortages.

In his letter, Duncan Smith attacked Labour for their «out - of - control» spending on welfare and their opposition to government policies like the reform of sickness benefit and work experience programmes for the young and unemployed.

Not exact matches

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

Gov. Berta Gardner also has voiced opposition to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» recension of Obama - era policies that protected states with legal marijuana operations from federal government interference.

Actual note from HSBC to clients Friday: «It's become an uncomfortable reality to the market — post the Conservative (party) conference — that the UK will embark on a «hard Brexit»... The currency is now the de facto official opposition to the government's policies.»

The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

Britain's opposition Labour Party said the attack on English hospitals showed the need to place cyber security at the heart of government policy.

The policy director of a Koch - backed activist group discusses his opposition to local governments giving tax breaks to Amazon.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

But whether it's a taxpayer advocacy group, a policy institute, a coalition akin to the one now fighting proposed changes to private corporations, opposition Conservatives and New Democrats, or even a more tax - reduction friendly government such as Quebec, the idea of a $ 10,000 TFSA should be a positive rallying point for many reasons.

There is a widening gap between individuals who have benefited from the policies of governments and those who have seen little relief, and that gap is particularly wide in autocratic countries where people have inadequate ability to change those policies or to voice their political opposition.

As members of the Opposition it is our civic moral obligation to every taxpayer in Alberta to question the government on their policies and actions to ensure that Albertans get the most from their representation.

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

The characteristics are, but are not limited to... Keeping more than 1 week's worth of food in your household, owning any type of gun or ammunition, paying in cash, physical disablements and disabilities, disagreement with government policies, opposition of 1 world government, opposition of the UN and agenda 21, opposition of the Federal reserve, living off the grid, being a prepper for disaster situations, growing your own food supply, etc...

Our opposition to the Chinese revolution has been a vital factor in U.S. foreign policy until the recent rapprochement with the Peking government.

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Their analysis is regularly quoted by both the government and opposition parties and their sometimes damning, but always impartial reports on the economic plans of various UK governments are required reading for anyone wishing to get a grip on the financial impact of government policies.

His comment comes at a time members of the biggest opposition party have been chiding the Mahama government for doing little to develop the country, claiming that, policies of the government have negatively impacted on Ghanaians.

Indeed, this time, it's not the opposition which poses the threat to the government's policy; it's the government itself which has initiated the referendum and elements of the governing party fighting to defeat it.

Now in Opposition we want to continue that commitment, push the Government to do more and also formulate our policy for what we would do in Government.

His tenure as Labour leader was characterised by a leftward shift in his party's policies, and by opposition to the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government's cuts to the public sector.

Various of the policies within it are drawn from the Conservative 2010 manifesto, although Lib Dem opposition forced the Government into a «listening period» and resulted in several changes to the legislation.

Again, they are running on the basis of opposition to a major government policy, and will need to demolish a 20,000 vote majority - this time, that of former Conservative MP and Brexiteer Zac Goldsmith.

The shadow justice secretary is expected to use a speech on criminal justice policy to confirm the opposition would scrap the controversial ban, which forms part of the government's incentives and earned privileges scheme.

First, given the current political balance, the Turkish legislature is likely to become more of a rubberstamp than it already is under a single - party government, and this will be detrimental for opposition groups, which are already weak and unable to affect policy.

The issue of how best government is keeping free SHS students has become one of the major concerns to both critics of the policy, parents and the opposition National Democratic Congress.

Having failed to get the policies favoured by the left (for the most part and on the key issues) when in opposition, do you think that this will become easier when Labour is in government (and when the stakes are higher for the leadership)?

As a show of support for a statement Party policy as opposed to opposition to a Government action, this is...

National Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams says the Akufo - Addo - led government's flagship program, the free Senior High School policy is comparable to his party's progressively free education policy.

«It is the duty of a responsible opposition to examine all government policy in a forensic and clear - sighted way - and to suggest changes where they are necessary.

``... I believe that he [Dr Bawumia] is actually the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party,» Mrs Bawa Mogtari told Prince Minkah on Class91.3 FM on the Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday 20 September while responding to some issues and accusations levelled against the government by Mr Boakye Agyarko, Policy Advisor to the opposition party's flag bearer at a press conference the party organised on Monday 19 September.

We are united across our party in our opposition to the destructive austerity, failed economic policies and the deep unfairness of this government.

«With the economy in the state it's in, it needs all hands to the pump — businesses, unions, workers, government, opposition,» said the former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member.

So why has this party — without a single seat in parliament — managed to change government and opposition policy on what many voters think to be the most important issue of the day?

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

It's hard to overstate how much that control means to a certain brand of diehard liberals, who long to see unified state government finally crank its policy machinery at full activist throttle (and whose exasperation with Cuomo forms the core of opposition to the governor within his own party).

Crucially, the official opposition party should do two key things — hold the government to account with constructive criticism and put forward a coherent set of policies of its own.

Despite his opposition to Blair's government on issues like the Iraq War, Livingstone was invited to stand for re-election as Labour's candidate and was re-elected in 2004, expanding his transport policies, introducing new environmental regulations, and enacting civil rights policies.

I actually that policy commitments are (at best) secondary when it comes to determining GE outcomes, and that these are in fact decided by how well things seem to be going under the incumbent governing party (or parties, in the case of a coalition government) and how well - placed the main opposition is to capitalise on any disasters that occur, but that's beyond the scope of the discussion.

Despite the upbeat word from the Ashdown camp, all the front runners to succeed Mr Ashdown have marked themselves out in the last year by criticising his policy of «constructive opposition» to the Government.

To the Lib Dems, the Labour / Conservative debate is arbitrary and simplistic, although their policy remains much closer to that of the government than the oppositioTo the Lib Dems, the Labour / Conservative debate is arbitrary and simplistic, although their policy remains much closer to that of the government than the oppositioto that of the government than the opposition.

The leader of the biggest opposition party also made a firm commitment to introduce a regime that will implement a policy for the election of District Chief Executives (DCEs) explaining that: «The time has come to bring accountability to local government through competitive politics.

«I have been open about the fact that we have not been able to deliver the policy that we held in opposition because of the financial situation and because of the compromises of the coalition government.»

On May 20, 2015, nine days BEFORE the government was inaugurated, I laid out «Policy Prescriptions» - diversification of production, government revenue, and exports; imperative of a strong and credible economic team and cabinet; targeting «opportunity sectors» (solid minerals, refining and petrochemicals, a new and realistic fiscal regime for upstream oil and gas, private sector investments in power and infrastructure, agro-processing, retail and construction); freeing «up resources from downstream petroleum sector deregulation» emphasizing «an economic reality in which hard decisions including some previously rebuffed by the opposition will have to be taken» a clear reference to the petrol subsidy which government waited a full year before countenancing the critical decision!

Britain to take hundreds of the most needy refugees from Syria, as the government ends its opposition to the policy

Clegg said that, even though the vote was on an opposition day motion and not on a piece of legislation, the government would have to change its policy.

The Government has come under fire in recent months from a section of the public, particularly the opposition, for these policies that have been adopted in a bid to address the country's economic concerns.

Highlighting policies that Liberal Democrats pioneered in the Coalition Government, policies or funding secured by Welsh Liberal Democrat's in opposition, or existing Liberal Democrat policies which will contribute to the solution

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