Sentences with phrase «public petitions calling»

Two types of recall election are needed: (i) local people forcing a by - election on their sitting MP; and (ii) public petitions calling for a general election: once more than 50 % of the electorate had signed a properly conducted petition, then the sovereign would dissolve parliament for a general election.

Following the survey, the Fair Education Alliance has launched a public petition calling on the government to scrap the proposed plans to open new grammar schools in England.

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(More than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for legal action against Yuri for stirring up public unrest.)

While calling for the Senator to «come clean,» Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy reminded the public of Panepinto's 2001 misdemeanor election fraud conviction for collecting false signatures on nominating petitions.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has decided to allow new evidence in regards to a petition calling for the removal of Carl Paladino from his position on the Buffalo Public School Board.

A New York City Police Department detective says he has 300 signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Dean Skelos» name from a Rockville Centre sports complex and park after the former State Senate Republican leader was convicted of public corruption.

Families of those who had died in the war, including Ms Gentle and Reg Keys, handed in a petition to Downing Street today calling for a public inquiry.

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.

Miner has recently called for better broadband in Syracuse, and has signed a petition to the state's Public Service Commission asking for an investigation into broadband's rollout in the state.

The senators summoned Sagay before the Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee for allegedly calling them «childish and irresponsible» for asking President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu.

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

The law, formally called the Parent Empowerment Act of 2010, enables a majority of parents at a low - performing school to force a major overhaul through a petition campaign, with reform options ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to converting the traditional public school into a charter.

The petition called taxing health care benefits «bad public policy» that would force employers to cut back health care benefits to avoid the tax or pass the new tax onto employees.

In addition to the ads, E4E members will spend their vacation day on Tuesday collecting petition signatures from fellow New Yorkers to call on Albany to act now and support great teaching and learning in the city's public schools.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Marshall Tuck this week launched a petition calling on his opponent, incumbent Superintendent Tom Torlakson, not to appeal a lawsuit ruling that struck down statutes giving California teachers firing protections and rights to tenure and seniority.

They call themselves «school reformers» and petition state legislatures to use tax payer funds to replace public schools with charter schools.

Key players in the American publishing community are unified in their call for a lift of the US book embargo of Cuba; a public petition is also up.

But instead of the usual online petitions and angry blog posts, the indie devs have gone several steps further: They're calling Langdell out by changing the titles of their own games to include the word «edge,» and in the process, instigating a large - scale public mockery of the CEO's repeated transgressions against game developers.

The petition calls for a public discussion over the design, which is by Herzog & de Meuron, and for more transparency over the project's finances.

Environmental leaders delivered a petition with more than 350,000 signatures to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch Thursday afternoon calling on her to launch an investigation into whether ExxonMobil misled the American public on global warming.

In response, we launched a petition calling on the Antarctic Place - Name Committee to name the iceberg «ExxonKnew 1» for their role in deceiving the public about the nature of climate change.

Even companies that are sticking with ALEC appear to be embarrassed by the association: Duke Energy has done all it can to not confirm renewed ALEC membership, ignoring repeated calls, emails and a 150,000 - strong public petition delivered by a diverse coalition of organizations whose members don't appreciate how ALEC's bad policies make Duke appear two - faced.

A petition calling for an end to fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters has garnered more than 100,000 signatures on the White House's «We the People» online platform, surpassing the threshold necessary to trigger an official response from the White House.

TriplePundit credits the change of heart to a petition on Change.org that collected more than 100,000 signatures calling for the Grand Canyon Park Service to «do its job and protect our public land by immediately banning plastic bottles from the canyon.»

The «National Green Schools» initiative is aimed at raising general awareness of the benefits of green schools and the critical need for building and modernizing all schools with healthy, high performance green classrooms.Sign a petition for green schools Global Green is calling upon the public to sign a letter urging President Obama to push Congress to make green schools a high priority in the 2009 legislative and to urge local school districts and city councils, mayors, governors, and state legislators to utilize green standards for school construction.

MoveOn.org continues its environmental advocacy work, work, work, work, now with a public call to petition congress on this week's vote on H.R. 969.

There's also a White House petition in place that calls for a ban on Glass «until clear limitations are placed to prevent indecent public surveillance.»

Public outrage resulted in national headlines on Friday, and an online petition calling for her resignation reached 10,000 signatures.

In response to Coinbase's petition to block the summons, the agency attacked the notion that it was looking to enforce it «for research or public relations reasons,» calling the summons part of a «legitimate» investigation.

The revelation that certain South Korean government officials cashed out of their cryptocurrencies before the news of regulations were made public ushered in a public outcry — and a petition of 200k signatures calling on the government to reassess their stance on virtual currency.

A public petition that called to have both ministers removed from their jobs and to lessen regulation subsequently gathered over 200,000 signatures, which means the government must formally respond to it.