Sentences with phrase «pressure campaign against»

But the concerted pressure campaign against the speaker, which seemed to making her increasingly nervous as time went on, is over.

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In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

In the campaign against slavery in the nineteenth century, Protestant churches used internal discipline and external pressure.

With United opening their campaign up against Bournemouth on Sunday, new boss Jose Mourinho will hope that it ultimately doesn't act as a distraction for the 20 - year - old who will be under pressure to build on the success that he enjoyed on the pitch at Old Trafford last season.

Pressure is on our side to keep pace with the top of the table after a slow start to the campaign thus far, and Nicholas thinks we should be more aggressive in our approach at home against certain sides, and leaving Xhaka out the starting line - up would be his decision.

Although Aston Villa ended their goal drought with a strike against Chelsea, it was another defeat that leaves Paul Lambert's side in trouble and the manager under huge pressure after a dismal campaign.

Pressure is coming, though — the 2008 and 2010 campaigns broke down a lot of barriers, and consultants are also being pushed more often into lump - sum channel - neutral contracts that don't discriminate as much against the «net.

In the case of ISIS and Twitter, imagine a retaliatory attack on a hacker cell that ends up killing civilians in large numbers by accident, creating international pressure against the U.S. bombing campaign against the Islamic State.

The head of the city's Department of Investigation, who served as finance chairman of Mayor de Blasio's 2013 campaign, came under pressure Monday to take legal action against City Hall.

A poll, released yesterday, showed a slight slip in her already - strong approval ratings and, even more significantly, her campaign recently attempted to use legal pressure to get television stations to pull a negative ad against her, generating flurry of free press coverage for her opponents.

But the GOP lawmakers, including Rep. John Faso who voted agains the bill, have not taken well to Cuomo's pressure campaign to vote against the tax measure.

Andrew is also a supporter of a number of pressure groups including, the Countryside Alliance, The National Trust and The Campaign Against Political Correctness.

Campaign groups like the Coalition For Marriage are placing intense pressure on backbenchers, having notched up over 600,000 signatures for their petition against same - sex marriage.

However, Cameron's claim came under pressure when Gani told LBC Radio that he backed the Tory candidate Dan Watkins last May against Khan in Tooting and even supplied canvassers for his campaign.

People who have spoken with the senior New York senator believe the pressure campaign is having an effect: They say there is a growing sense inside and outside the Capitol that Schumer will vote against the deal when the Senate considers it in September.

Left - wing pressure group Compass is supporting a campaign against business secretary Peter Mandelson's plans to part - privatise the postal services provider.

A coalition of liberal groups will start a pressure campaign designed to warn against providing tax benefits and other inducements to Amazon as state economic development officials seek to bring the online retailer's next headquarters to New York.

The party is planning to campaign against the CGT cuts in the coming weeks to apply more pressure on the chancellor following Iain Duncan Smith's shock resignation as work and pensions secretary, when he branded Osborne's budget «deeply unfair», triggering the scrapping of the disability benefit cuts.

Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout's campaign to run against Andrew Cuomo on the Working Families party line forced him to bow to pressure.

Gov. Cuomo, who was under pressure from the Working Families Party according to the New York Daily News, had called for the IDC to realign with the mainline Democrats and said he would campaign against them if they did not.

Some ISPs did not include pressure from Attorney General of New York Andrew Cuomo's aggressive campaign against child pornography as one of their reasons for dropping Usenet feeds as part of their services.

He was Scottish spokesperson for Conservative Friends of Israel and for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, a campaign allied to the Freedom Association, a right - wing Eurosceptic pressure group that supported apartheid in SouthCampaign Against Political Correctness, a campaign allied to the Freedom Association, a right - wing Eurosceptic pressure group that supported apartheid in Southcampaign allied to the Freedom Association, a right - wing Eurosceptic pressure group that supported apartheid in South Africa.

As for the Liberal Democrats, I will be campaigning round the country to put the pressure on them to vote against it.

But the doubts about his campaign have renewed pressure on Miss Cooper, who has told friends she does not want to stand against her husband.

However, none of the charges U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has leveled against the two men pertain to campaign donations, though Mr. Silver stands accused of pressuring Glenwood into hiring a law firm that paid him legal fees while Mr. Skelos faces allegations that he used his position to obtain a sinecure for his son at a company Glenwood held stock in.

Rebecca Fischer, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, praised the impact of the SAFE Act and said the governor's new campaign «will continue to put much needed focus and pressure on Washington.

The decision reverses an earlier decision reported here, and follows pressure from constituency parties eager to start campaigning against the Tory - led government.

But animal rights advocates, who helped fund an expensive ad campaign against de Blasio's primary opponent in 2013, have kept the pressure on City Hall and the mayor asking him to deliver on his campaign promise.

The left - leaning Working Families Party, which has long championed bread - and - butter labor issues, has shifted focus and is now pressuring New York lawmakers to tackle global warming and support a campaign against Big Oil, The Post has learned.

The campaign's message appears to run against the current, its leaders acknowledge, because many school districts are responding to recession - driven budget pressures by postponing the very types of capital - improvement projects the coalition is calling for.

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Warren Buffett funneled millions through his family foundation to the secretive Tides Foundation to pressure groups campaigning against the Keystone and Sandpiper Pipelines, thereby benefiting his railroad and tank car companies that haul oil.

A tireless defender of the oceans and marine life, Claire Nouvian led a focused, data - driven advocacy campaign against the destructive fishing practice of deep - sea bottom trawling, successfully pressuring French supermarket giant and fleet owner Intermarché to change its fishing practices.

It is very likely we will see efforts to pressure Chairman Ring into recusals like the recent campaign against Member Emanuel.

A campaign to pressure the police to bring criminal charges against ministers of state for misconduct in office over Brexit has collected more than 4,000 signatures.

They have had no compunction about making his life miserable, undermining his job prospects and so on, in order to try to pressure him into saying something they can use as part of their campaign against VL.

Thousands of EFF supporters spoke out to oppose the bill, and many others joined us in a campaign to pressure Obama again to take a strong stance against encryption backdoors.