Sentences with phrase «political weight behind»

«We need to put some political weight behind a bolder agenda and come to terms with, yes, that may require some up - front investments, but ultimately it's going to put Connecticut in much healthier shape both in terms of our economy and our environment,» said Claire Coleman, energy attorney at Connecticut Fund for the Environment.

But acknowledging the political weight behind EEI's proposal, Greenstein today suggested a compromise that starts with free allowances for the electric utilities so long as they are also phased out at the same time that direct tax relief gets ramped up.

Busquin provided the badly needed political weight behind the idea, which was subsequently endorsed at the highest political level?the European Council of Heads of Government.

Podesta's endorsement is likely to raise questions among party insiders about why President Barack Obama has yet to throw his significant political weight behind the candidacy of New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson (D).

Earlier in the day, Donovan had rallied with his own heavy hitters, including vocal supporters Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch, all of whom threw their considerable political weight behind him.

Not exact matches

Many Republicans slammed the political strategist Steve Bannon for throwing his weight behind the former judge Roy Moore, who lost in Tuesday's special election in a massive upset that delivered Alabama's first Democratic - controlled Senate seat in decades.

As the essential power broker in Egyptian politics, the military cast its weight behind first the Islamists and then secularists, thereby determining the constitutional and political configuration of the state.

The British government should urge restraint on the Trump administration and throw its weight behind peace negotiations and a comprehensive political settlement.»

Yoruba socio political organisation, Afenifere, has thrown its weight behind Prof. Wole Soyinka's call for the use of hunters and vigilante groups to tackle the menace of herdsmen in Ogun State, in collaboration with the other security outfits.

Before we rail against charter schools, or any other form of non-traditional school, and thereby throw our weight behind political initiatives that will limit the access of families to schools of their choice, we need to check our privilege.

The Congress for Cultural Freedom (the CIA front) threw its weight behind abstract painting, over representational or realist aesthetics, in an explicit political act.

Meanwhile, the weight given to different parts of the strategy will help reveal which of the competing political priorities behind the energy union has won out.

Political opponents on the right and in some sectors of the oil and gas business, for their part, accused Trudeau of shallow political theatre, posing as a friend of the industry to win a few Red Tory votes by pretending to put his weight behind a project his environmentalist allies would surePolitical opponents on the right and in some sectors of the oil and gas business, for their part, accused Trudeau of shallow political theatre, posing as a friend of the industry to win a few Red Tory votes by pretending to put his weight behind a project his environmentalist allies would surepolitical theatre, posing as a friend of the industry to win a few Red Tory votes by pretending to put his weight behind a project his environmentalist allies would surely block.