Sentences with phrase «policy pledges which»

The International Monetary Fund agreed in late 2009 to lend $ 1.4 billion to Angola in return for policy pledges which include more transparency for Sonangol, but it remains to be seen whether these pledges will actually be implemented.21

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For now, Mr. Carney said he is content with his current policy stance, which is encompassed by the extraordinary pledge he made in April to leave the benchmark interest rate near zero until at least June, 2010, conditional on the inflation outlook.

Obama urges continued economic support President Barack Obama wants his counterparts at the G20 summit to pledge continued «policy support» for the economic recovery, which could put the United States at odds with European governments that are headed in the opposite direction.

Preempting today's release of the lengthy report, which also offers moderate praise for the school's recent policy changes on abuse disclosures, BJU's new president pledged yesterday to learn from victims who found the school's counseling to be «inadequate, insensitive and counter-productive.»

Dr Bawumia recalled the record of the Kufuor - led NPP Administration which reduced corporate taxes to stimulate the private sector and create growth, which caused an increase in government revenue, and reiterated the pledge by the NPP to introduce more of such policies to create growth and jobs and further revive the economy.

As you'll recall, Paladino started yesterday morning trying to move away from his angry personal attacks against Cuomo and onto talking about policy with a Web video in which he pledged to eliminate the capital gains and corporate franchise taxes and panned the AG's jobs plan.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration — which the governor pledged would be the most transparent in state history — has quietly adopted policies that allow it to purge the -LSB-...]

[100] Miliband subsequently unveiled five pledges at a rally in Birmingham which would form the focus of a future Labour government, specifically identifying policies on deficit reduction, living standards, the NHS, immigration controls and tuition fees.

For all the focus on leaders» debates, policy pledges and the inevitable gaffes in the final weeks, ultimately the outcome of the election will be decided by which party manages to motivate its supporters to knock on doors and deliver leaflets in the gruelling weeks ahead.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration — which the governor pledged would be the most transparent in state history — has quietly adopted policies that allow it to purge the emails of tens of thousands of state employees, cutting off a key avenue for understanding and investigating state government.

She said the 2016 election should be a «competition of ideas» and pledged her party to a programme of policies which would be deliverable whatever powers the Assembly has.

«In order to achieve anything we must unite around policy issues, which is why we've asked our Democratic colleagues to pledge their support to seven progressive issues including reproductive health, single - payer health care and the DREAM Act.

The centrepiece of Labor's policy is the Fair Work Act, which the Coalition has pledged to keep in place (with changes).

Pitching the right line, which has the potential to go from soft pledge, to hard policy, can therefore be a dangerous game.

«I signed the pledge on the basis that had we been in government on our own, which was the commitment, we would have put through that policy and we would have done so.

The whole strategy of the Conservative leadership seems to be to go for an even more image based version of the one that Tony Blair used in 1997, the pledge by Labour in the 1990s followed a situation in which the whole economic strategy of the then Conservative government had fallen apart to the point where things that had happened by accident were being described as policy and Kenneth Clarke commented that he went into a cabinet meeting in a situation in which the government no longer had an economic policy.

This policy is strongly opposed by the prison officers» union, the POA, which launched its «Prisons are not for Profit» campaign in 2009 and has pledged to continue its campaign against private prisons.

«I will be helping to portray those policies in primary colours - bold, direct measures,» he said, pledging a presidency in which he would play a key role in the party's «marketing operation».

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

The move is designed to ease Lib Dem concerns about the policy, which directly contradicts their manifesto pledge to abolish tuition fees.

Under questioning, de Blasio pledged that he would never again form an issue - advocacy organization like the Campaign for One New York, which was the subject of a federal investigation, all while stressing the worthy policy goals that the group helped achieve, chiefly universal pre-K.

In a speech in central London he vowed to stand up for Britain and laid out a number of policy pledges, and tackled the thorny issue of his decision to stand, which prompted the former London Mayor to stand aside.

The coalition government has pledged to keep free museum entry, a policy in introduced in 2000 by the then Culture Secretary Chris Smith which led to more people passing through the turnstiles.

Over the last several years, I've spent a fair amount of time defending the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in my role as a senior fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education - policy think tank in Washington, D.C.. Now, given president - elect Trump's pledge to «end Common Core,» which he terms «a disaster,» I expect many more opportunities to defend high standards, at least for the foreseeable future.

Store owners who sign and return the pledge which declares that they will discontinue selling puppies in their store, or those who «make official» a current policy of not selling puppies, will be listed on the HSI / Canada website.

National and global discussions of climate science and related policy choices have intensified markedly in the last several months, which is not surprising given pledges by President Obama and congressional leaders to pursue climate legislation and the December deadline world leaders set for a new climate treaty.

At the same time, he gained credibility with oil and gas, and by not giving up on his pledges for offshore production, is increasing his industrial credibility, which might enhance his ability to enact future energy policy initiatives because he'll get less opposition from them downstream.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

Mind the gap: the $ 1.6 trillion energy transition risk is the first report to analyse the upstream financial implications for investors of the yawning gap between the Paris Agreement, which pledges to keep climate change well below 2C above pre-industrial times and aims for 1.5 C, and government policies, which are consistent with 2.7 C of warming.

This is much more specific than Russia's Paris pledge, which only said that policies would back an «increasing share of renewables in the Russian energy balance».

Carbon Brief also produced manifesto grids which summarised the energy and climate policies being pledged in the elections in France and Germany.

In the study, Monier and his co-authors applied the IGSM framework to assess climate impacts under different climate - change scenarios — «Paris Forever,» a scenario in which Paris Agreement pledges are carried out through 2030, and then maintained at that level through 2100; and «2C,» a scenario with a global carbon tax - driven emissions reduction policy designed to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

But that link is tenuous: Trump's domestic policies matter more than the Paris accord, which included no enforcement mechanism for countries that failed to meet their pledges.

The first is that by 2018 all countries are committed to making improvements to their existing pledges to cut carbon, which still gives sufficient time to adopt the necessary policies to take effective action.

Sonja Meister, Friends of the Earth Europe's Climate Campaigner, said: «The EU recently pledged to promote the development of renewables, but now we need to see sound policies and the kind of investment which is still enjoyed by nuclear and fossil fuels.