Sentences with phrase «public pledges in»

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«It is disturbing that the same companies and investors who have pledged to work with the City to respect California public safety and public realm laws are spending lobbying dollars in Sacramento to repeal them,» San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has been leading the charge to regulate the scooters, told TechCrunch.

The government did pledge $ 47 billion to infrastructure spending over the next 10 years and extended the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufactures — a tax relief program for investments in new machinery and equipment — by two years, which means stock holders could get a boost if public companies are able to take advantage of this spending and savings.

The 23 - year - old Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, won three Grammys, struck a deal with Apple Music for $ 500,000, and pledged to donate a million dollars to Chicago Public Schools — all in the last month.

On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

In June, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale promised to consult Canadians on the bill, a public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.&Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale promised to consult Canadians on the bill, a public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.&public engagement exercise that he pledged would «probably be the most extensive the government of the country has ever seen.»

Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have made charitable donations in the past, pledging $ 37.5 million to Nevada's public education system in 2014.

If a billionaire has pledged as collateral shares he or she holds in a public company, the value of those shares or the value of a loan taken against them is removed from the net worth calculation.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

There's been a call to review UK anti-terror laws since, because Mr Choudhary was able to preach radical Islam openly on social media and in public for years before he was finally arrested in 2014 when he openly pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

David Cameron pledged to reduce immigration to «tens of thousands» rather than «hundreds of thousands» in order to ease the pressure on public services and the former Labour welfare Minister, Frank Field, supported this.

Second, there is likely to be little public awareness of the history of the phrase «under God,» which was added to pledge in 1954.

The more you conform to the practices the church blesses and honors for heterosexuals — public pledges of fidelity to another person, family commitment to the nurture of children — the less likely that you can be ordained and that you will be welcomed to work out your discipleship in most Presbyterian congregations.

It seems twisted to me that in refusing to recite the pledge in public places, I can be judged by people who clearly have much less knowledge than I regarding the history of the pledge.

While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.

Public ordinances are the sign, the pledge of God's presence; and in the use of them, he does in a special manner manifest himself present.

Corbyn pledged that a Labor government would give the NHS and social care with sufficient assets while blaming May for driving a legislature that gives billions away in tax reductions to huge business and the wealthiest in the public eye while cutting administrations for the most helpless.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

The announcement coincides with World Breastfeeding Week 2014, where the hospitals and other health partners — who are members of the Philadelphia Multi-Hospital Breastfeeding Task Force **, will be declaring Philadelphia «The City of Motherly Love» and encouraging members of the public to sign a pledge showing their support for nursing mothers in the city.

It is for these reasons, and in accordance with our Core Values in which we pledge to «support and encourage collaboration with professionals in related fields within medicine, health and education to promote sleep health and sleep safety from birth to adulthood among families and the general public», that we endorse the initiative and efforts of Start School Later.

«At the next election we shall have a choice between the people who've given us five years of austerity, the people who left us this mess, and the people who signed public pledges that they wouldn't raise student fees, and then did so - the most blatant lie in recent political history.

The same Chancellor who still tries to claim that a global financial and banking crisis, which began in the USA and echoed round the world, was somehow caused by or made worse by levels of public spending here in Britain — when as Shadow Chancellor, before the crash, he had pledged to match Labour's spending plans.

This, in the senator's mind, is tantamount to «double crossing» of the community by its elected officials, whose names he has pledged to make public — just as soon as he figures out who has met with whom.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday in Albany during a reception at the executive mansion pledged to push for a long - stalled effort to increase the age of criminal responsibility in New York as well as his own proposal to provide free tuition at public colleges and universities.

While Amtrak has rebuffed the governor's public offer to step in and take over emergency repair work at Penn Station, Cuomo inserted himself into the process this morning with a pledge to speed up bridge and tunnel repairs by early July.

The Jan. 1 implementation date for the layoffs coincides with Paterson's departure from office and the expiration of his «no - layoffs» pledge to the public employee unions in exchange for Tier 5.

While on the one hand saying that strain on services was due to austerity, she nonetheless pledged to bring back the Migration Impact Fund «in specific areas where public services and housing are under strain».

The pledges from Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills are contained in court documents submitted by the State Department as a part of a public records lawsuit brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch.

Last week, Garodnick and 26 other City Council members sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo in support of his renewed pledge to support a statewide bill for public campaign financing.

Cuomo's speech was intended to promote spending plans in the state budget due Saturday, and he noted that the state «will pledge $ 550 million to clean up public housing, which is the largest commitment in the state's history.»

HARLEM, Manhattan — Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed New York City's handling of public housing and pledged $ 550 million — which he says is the largest commitment in the state's history — for NYCHA during a Sunday speech in Harlem.

Last month, Entergy rebuffed a pledge by the Public Service Commission to make tax credits available to Upstate nuclear plants as early as June in an attempt to keep FitzPatrick open.

In February 2015, Labour pledged to reverse the privatisation of the railways by getting rid of the franchising system, after previously saying that they would allow the public sector to bid for franchises.

«Sunshine Week» makes it clear that it is important to maintain an open government, in order to ensure the proper relationship between public officials and the citizens they are pledged to serve.

«There's been a steep decline in the public's faith in government, and the willingness of Congressional candidates to sign this pledge would show an understanding of the need to take real steps to bring reform and restore public faith in government,» Koch said in a press release.

[48] Shortly before the 2010 election, Osborne had pledged to be «tougher than Thatcher» on Britain's budget deficit, [49] and he duly set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015 — 16, total public debt would be falling as a proportion of GDP.

This is about the richest Tory front bench in living memory pledging to introduce an «age of austerity» — involving public spending cuts and pay freezes — from which their own estates will be conveniently exempt.

In her e-mail, Zulunova rather cryptically said «the next campaign has already begun,» and pledged to remain active in public servicIn her e-mail, Zulunova rather cryptically said «the next campaign has already begun,» and pledged to remain active in public servicin public service.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci began his new life as a nominee for state comptroller pledging to run a positive campaign on Wednesday, saying that it was «crucial» considering he will participate in a public matching program.

Labour also said today they would pledge better value for public money while making no big spending commitments in a bid to reduce a record budget deficit.

In a BBC interview, Mr Osborne pledged to reduce Britain's borrowing by cutting public spending — rather than increasing taxes.

Conservative pledge The Conservatives say Labour's plans will undermine economic growth, raise unemployment and fail to cut waste in the public sector.

It also pledged to crank up spending in the public health sector, scrap prescription charges, reintroduce free eye tests and grant the English and Welsh access to free social care in Scotland.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

Pramilla has pledged to focus her attention on several major issues in the 42nd district: protecting our environment, transforming our energy infrastructure to renewable energy, transitioning our economy to support «green» job creation, education, public health, safety and welfare.

Nick Clegg and the other Lib Dem negotiators called for a «a commitment not to raise the cap on tuition fees» (a watered - down version of their manifesto pledge to phase out tuition fees over six years), a cut in the number of government ministers, a four year fixed - term parliament and «a commitment to no public subsidy for nuclear power stations».

When Michael Howard had his one to one interview befre the election on BBC1, he said that we'd been wrong to say that public spending should be less than 42 % of GDP, beat his breasts about the evils of Section 28, and pledged increases in public spending.

Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg pledge their support for the recommendations of the chairman of the committee on standards in public life

When Shadow Chancellor George Osborne MP set out his party's pledges on public spending in The Times last September, his promise to match Labour's fiscal plans for three years caught the most attention.

A two - step prototype hit the ground running in September 2009 when Progressive Caucus co-chairs sent a public letter to Obama on behalf of the caucus — pledging to vote against any healthcare bill «without a robust public option.»