Sentences with phrase «pledged during its election campaign»

It pledged during its election campaign not to sell the state's electricity poles and wires, Western Power.

Governor Cuomo pledged during his election campaign that he would work toward reforming the state's campaign finance system, which contains loopholes that permit nearly unlimited amounts of money to be given to candidates.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged during his election campaign to regulate and legalize recreational marijuana, though his ruling Liberals have not addressed their plans for medical marijuana at length.

Not exact matches

Trump pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the pact immediately after taking office, but had wavered on the issue since winning the election.

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.

During the election campaign, Labour officials said the foxhunting pledge had helped them enormously on the doorstep.

It could become a major political controversy given the pledges on pensioner benefits Cameron made during the election campaign.

And the third, of course, is that David Cameron bitterly regrets his rather rash pledge to the BBC's James Landale in his Oxfordshire kitchen during the election campaign to quit as PM in a few years» time.

The cuts for school districts in the Gap Elimination Adjustment were closed by 50 percent, with the proviso the rest would be taken care of next year — a key campaign pledge for the conference during last year's elections

It's not entirely clear what has led to the lowered revenue, though one possibility could be taxpayers shifting their income out of 2016 after Donald Trump's election as president in order to benefit from the potential tax cuts he had pledged during the campaign.

We hope that, following the outcry during the election campaign, Theresa May has now abandoned the manifesto pledge for a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act.

However, the NPP, during its 2016 election campaign, insisted that the country still needed more teachers and nurses and pledged to introduce the allowances, since they served as motivation for many to attend nursing colleges and colleges of education.

During the 2017 general election campaign on 2 May 2017, Labour's pledge to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers was overshadowed by Abbott's inability to give accurate funding figures.

But President Adama Barrow, who defeated Jammeh in a December election, pledged during the campaign to undo Jammeh's decision, restore human rights and repair the country's badly - damaged foreign relations.

During the 2010 elections, New York City Mayor Ed Koch campaigned for redistricting reform and won a pledge from many lawmakers, including all the Senate Republicans, to support nonpartisan redistricting.

During the campaign for the general election this past June, the ruling Conservative party pledged that overall R&D funding would reach 2.4 % of gross domestic product (GDP), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average, by 2027 and eventually rise to 3 %.

The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.

Landowners in the region are worried about water quality and the agricultural impact, and the Parti Quebecois had pledged a moratorium during the 2012 election campaign.

As was pledged by Premier Wynne during the election campaign, the new Budget is virtually identical to the version that was first tabled on Thursday, May 1, 2014 (and which triggered the recent election).

Michael Geist reports that, «coming out of last night's election, 34 candidates who supported the copyright pledge during the campaign were elected - 11 Liberals and 23 New Democrats».

During the 2013 election campaign, Prime Minister Abbott pledged to be the nation's first «Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs».