Sentences with phrase «political background support»

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Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

Partly because of his political background, he was generally sceptical of cooperation with other parties, supporting the 1976 - 78 Lib - Lab pact only grudgingly and taking a hard line against a too - generous allocation of seats to the SDP in the early days of the Alliance in 1981 - 82.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi has resigned from the Government after saying she can not support its stance on Gaza, here is a brief look at her background and political career.

At the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes.

Speaking against the background of reports that some other political parties including the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Accord Party, collected N100 million each to support the PDP, Umeh said that nobody collected a kobo on behalf of APGA for the support given the PDP in the last presidential election.

WAMC's political observer Dr. Alan Chartock discusses indications that President Trump is open to supporting a bipartisan congressional effort to revise federal background checks for prospective gun buyers and President Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race.

Mr. Ibrahim, on behalf of the Mahama family has rather urge all Ghanaians, irrespective of their political and religious affiliation and ethnic background to support the newly sworn - in president, Nana Akufo Addo and his NPP administration with prayers to successfully steer the affairs of the nation.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Multi-disciplinary master of many arts Robert Wilson discusses his inspirations, his collaborations and his commitment to supporting artists from many cultures and backgrounds, now under severe political pressure.

In light of the recent political focus on curtailing immigration, a cornerstone of the history and identity of the United States, the time has come for artists of diverse backgrounds to come together and present a united voice in support of multiplicity.