Sentences with phrase «political support since»

Not exact matches

While in prison and since her release, Manning has remained a highly visible political voice, with growing support from leftists within and outside the Democratic party.

The refugee crisis that has struck Europe is the worst the continent has seen since the Second World War, and with it has come the resurgence of political parties that have not enjoyed this kind of support since 1945.

Though foreign authorities are still probing aspects of the funding furore, last month's annual assembly of the United Malays National Organisation, the country's dominant political force since 1957, produced a strong show of support for the prime minister.

While Chinese policy has gradually shifted since its late recognition of the National Transitional Council of Libya, China still prefers to support incumbent regimes rather than risk assuming responsibility in the case of chaotic political transitions.

Greece has been unable to form a coalition government since voters gave support to political parties that want to cancel or renegotiate the terms of a massive financial bailout by international lenders that requires harsh austerity measures.

The most notable PAC created since the NDP banned corporate political party donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative Party.

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, he has solidified political support from three important constituencies: neoconservative intellectuals, American Jews (including members of the influential pro-Israel lobby) and fundamentalist Christians, constituencies that find common ground in their vigorous support for Israel.

Since the end of the Cold War efforts to promote democracy — by strengthening parliaments, supporting political parties and building the capacity of civil society — have become common place.

Ghana is respected for its political stability and open - door policy, not to talk about the far - reaching contributions of its leaders since the establishment of the Fourth republic to support peace - making efforts.

Since then, Democrats and Republicans have been relatively evenly balanced in political power and alternated control, with Southern Democrats as late as Bill Clinton being wary of losing moderate support by not being sufficiently «pro-defense.»

Since then, advocates changed their political approach, ceasing to simply support the Democratic conference as a whole in hopes of pushing the issue across the finish line and targeting key «no» voters for ouster.

In the Nevada case, they're trying to help Harry Reid break up Republican Angle's support among the fringe Right, in part by pointing out the fact that this «political newcomer» has been in the Nevada Legislature since the late»90s and (I assume) has taken campaign donations from financial services firms.

The League will be the first outside group to run ads in the campaign (aside from the national political parties) since May, when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce paid for a $ 131,000 two - week ad blitz in support of Buerkle.

Since the court has ruled that there was no evidence of fraud or wrong - doing to support his prolonged incarceration, Bala Mohammed is on solid grounds to insist that he is a victim of some grand conspiracy to demonize him before the Nigerian public and probably put his political future in jeopardy.

Working through more than two dozen limited liability companies, Glenwood has contributed at least $ 3.6 million to state politicians and the political committees that support them since 2010.

Since 2010, the Hotel & Motel Trades Council and a political action committee it supports have given Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign $ 110,300.

The political insider said the senator's vote was a bid to maintain the support of Sen. Ruben Diaz (D - Bronx), an outspoken opponent of same - sex marriage and a key Monserrate ally since the Senate coup in June.

He continued, «I have been involved in political campaigns since 2004 but have never seen this groundswell of support for the NPP... this is the year the people of Ghana are ready to change course,» he told Joy FM.

Since the new breed of political corruption takes the form of corporate money smothering our democracy, our club is staying true to its roots by supporting Howie Hawkins: a genuine friend of the working and middle classes,» said long time club member John Bredin.

This is a particularly interesting line of reasoning from Dadey, since most Republicans are not fans of the public financing idea to begin with, arguing that it's inappropriate to use taxpayer dollars to support political campaigns.

Keep in mind that Cuomo has been expressing support for using taxpayer dollars to fund campaigns for years now — at least since he was running for governor in 2010 — but has not yet expended significant political capital to actually achieve that goal the way he did with similarly controversial issues like same - sex marriage (a supposed non-starter with the Senate Republicans) and Tier 6 (particularly unpopular with Democrats in both houses).

Since this time, an almost all - encompassing network of Antifa groups exists, supported by parts of media and political establishment, with violent acts being prosecuted only half - heartedly (police and judges are often attacked by media when seriously prosecuting them).

«It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people.

Schools have worked since 2010 to make this fall's statewide launch of the new standards a success — led by our amazingly committed teachers and school chiefs and supported by many of New York's political leaders.

On the political front, both AG Andrew Cuomo and Rick Lazio both released RttT statements, which I find of particular interest in Cuomo's case since his support of charter schools is something that rankles both the teachers unions and many of the Democratic legislative allies.

Tim, please tell me what has changed in Cameron's official position since the publication of the Conservative Party's proposals for the funding of political parties (March 2006 Andrew Tyrie MP) that supports your «abandoned» claim?

Hofstra University political analyst Lawrence Levy said Spitzer has little choice but to buy support since he's been shunned by most of the Democratic establishment.

In his words: «In view of what you have done so far in Cross River State since your assumption of office on May 29, 2015 in the area of socio - economic, political and manpower development as attested by many, and in view of your workers friendly posture, we the workers of Cross River State have viewed critically the options open to us and our future, and have agreed on this day to massively support your second term in office.

I have been struck since the beginning of the campaign by the plain speaking, fresh thinking and political courage of Liz Kendall and the new generation of politicians — Chuka Umunna, Emma Reynolds, Tristram Hunt — who have declared their support for her.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

In short, for the first time since the 2008 campaign when she was the vice-presidential running mate to GOP presidential candidate John McCain, Palin is supported by a political operation befitting someone considering a presidential run.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

Since I did not encounter any young people who support the Islamic movement or define themselves as followers of political Islam in either neighborhood, I will also exclude young people supporting political Islam from the analysis below and primarily focus on the subjectivities of youth born to secular and leftist families.

Though a Labour Party victory in the next election would definitely lead to policy tweaks, all the major political parties (of which England has three) generally support the reform thrusts described above, as has pretty much been the case on both sides of the Atlantic since the eighties.

In California, the law had been in the making since the 1980s, but stalled repeatedly as a result of infighting among state agencies and a lack of political support.

NCLB cleared Congress in 2002 with massive bipartisan support but has since become a political catastrophe: The law's strategy for prodding and shaming schools into improvement proved deeply flawed over time, and its unintended failures have eclipsed its bright spots.

They also worked closely with legislators, a number of whom they have supported at significant levels since 2010 through their political committees.

Since our first audiovisual performances and video projections as Celestial Twins (a collective of experimental cinema and avant - garde music platform), my mission as an independent curator has been to create space that reclaims and reflects on the poetic, political and erotic, and to support greater female representation as a dynamic force in the international scene, encouraging subversions to audiovisual language, abstractions and occult art.

I love his political satire - sometimes not his politics - though he is a liberal (surprisingly most people from creative arts tend to be liberal - guess because they support and need welfare more,) Since I am in India - I call myself a conservative (when filing taxes) or liberal (when drinking er tea)

[72] Since climate change has been recognized as a global problem with grave environmental, social, economic, distributional, and political implications, [73] activists and the body politic have now firmly put climate science in the position of having to support policies to protect the threatened planet and the human, animal, and plant life on it.

Since it means a lot to you, you expend effort and political support (money) to make the (relatively) small spending that accures to your benefit happen.

Unfortunately, the anti-science of climate science will continue since it appears to be prerequisite of research funding - in simple words, scientists are forced to support the consensus green political agenda in order to survive and thrive.

The industrial scale logging supported by SFM has proven to be difficult if not impossible to regulate since most countries which stand to benefit from REDD suffer from poor legal frameworks, weak enforcement, and corruption involving political elites and the logging industry.

Since 2001, 26 plants have been built in the U.S., bringing the total to 87, as political support for the fuel has grown.

At least as important, join and support Citizens» Climate Lobby, which since 2009 has been organizing to create political will for carbon taxes and which played a major role in both the 2015 and 2017 resolutions.

Since the USA has one political party that has made the Greens a part of their base they are convinced they have all the political support they need to accomplish their goals.

The vested interest of political structures lies in CAGW being believed, since this would support the case for further politicisation of society.

And in a more general sense, given the twists and turns of American politics in recent years — since 2005 the conventional wisdom has gone from permanent Republican domination to permanent Democratic domination to God knows what — there has to be a real chance that political support for action on climate change will revive.

It is not until the global economy recession since 2008 that the political support for international free trade started to weaken, shaping a different international trade landscape for today from the past scores.