Sentences with phrase «plan reneges»

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RBS came under fire earlier this year after announcing it would close 62 branches across Scotland, and was forced to partially renege on its plans and suspend 10 branch closures in response to public anger.

Since the Chinese government has formally pledged to institute «universal suffrage,» many Hong Kong residents viewed Beijing's new electoral plan as reneging its promise.

The faction of the party led by former minister of Information, Professor Jerry Gana has refused to renege in its plan to hold its own convention.

Mandelson, the former business secretary and chief architect of New Labour, describes how he and other No 10 aides drew up plans — codenamed Operation Teddy Bear — to split the Treasury into two in an attempt to weaken Brown's challenge to Blair in 2003 when the prime minister agreed not to fight the following general election, only to renege on his promise.

A spokesman for Cuomo, asked about the calls to increase taxes, accused Democrats who run the state Assembly of reneging on a plan to strip felonious officials of their public pensions.

Later the recession gave them an excuse to renege on their commitment to support the Government's already tight spending plans, a U-turn greeted enthusiastically by their supporters and the right - wing commentators who had also cheered Hague's tax cuts.

Making plans only for them to be reneged on soon after is another telltale sign - getting on swimmingly in the ether of endless instant messages is no substitute for a real, face - to - face rendezvous.

This means that you mustn't renege on plans; if you've decided you're going to meet up with someone you've met online don't pull out at the last minute.

Fearing financial responsibility should any attack actually occur (a precedent foretold by a civil lawsuit in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting at The Dark Knight Rises), the five biggest theater chains all took Sony up on their offer and reneged on their plans to screen the movie.

But it now looks like NBC has reneged on the plan and fans will not be able to say farewell to their beloved characters.

«For Ofsted to have reneged on it is a serious matter, and it's clear that the DfE is employing all sorts of tactics to get heads to agree to its plans for academisation.»

It seems quite obvious that to renege on charter school expansion plans would be contrary to the terms of the Compact and would undoubtedly put in jeopardy any unspent or future dollars under this philanthropic entity.

In mid-August, the UK government confirmed that they had no plans to renege on the 6.1 percent student loan interest rate that was recently implemented.