Sentences with phrase «push government leaders»

I mean what could possibly be «delicate» (or «careful», for that matter)-- let alone «balanced» — about Pachauri's «hope» that WGII's report would «push government leaders to deal with climate change before it is too late -LSB-... and] jolt people into action»?

The Sierra Club has a long and successful history mobilizing our two million - plus members and supporters to push government leaders to protect our health, air, water, land, animals, and climate.

Not exact matches

Development cost the government tens of billions of francs, and it became a centrepiece of President François Mitterrand's push to make France a leader in aviation, nuclear energy and electronics.

The two leaders, who realized they stand to benefit more from cooperating in order to push prices higher, agreed to work together to help world oil markets clear a glut that had more than halved oil prices since 2014, pummeling Russian and Saudi government revenues.

And our leaders in government are probably the worst of all, pushing us further into debt with their overspending.

The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.

One of the first groups to push out its support for the Cuomo plan was the SUNY Student Assembly, which represents student government leaders on 64 campuses.

The upshot, though, is the same: any future Labour leader — even some Frankenstein fusion of Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson and Blair himself — will be hard - pushed to win even the barest Labour plurality in the May 2020 general election, let alone a majority government.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) tonight sounded the government transparency alarm bells as the Governor and legislative leaders are reportedly preparing messages of necessity to push through several high profile bills that will affect the lives of millions of New Yorkers.

A coalition of New York public health, environment and healthy schools advocacy groups have banded together as they push state government leaders to take action.

And last week, the leader of Ontario vowed to push a law that could restrict New York companies from bidding on billions of dollars of government contracts in that Canadian province in retaliation for a «Buy American» program signed two months ago by Gov. Andrew Cuomo for major state road and bridge projects.

While good - government groups and lawmakers push for more oversight and transparency of economic development spending in New York, legislative leaders in Albany still hope to strike a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo on the issue.

He has, however, talked with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, whose push to retain the GOP's lone toehold in state government will be the state party's next big challenge.

Governments have suffered dearly from these reckless appointments usually pushed on their leaders by powerful hands in our parties.

A coalition of women lawmakers, union leaders and good - government advocates are pushing the legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to back sweeping changes to the state's voting laws.

Senate Democrats, who are the minority party in that house, held a news conference with government reform advocates to push for public financing of campaigns, a bill Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson says will lessen the influence of big money special interests in politics.

ALBANY - State legislative leaders admitted Wednesday they'd bow to Gov. Paterson's push for worker furloughs - rather than shut the government down in protest.

Turnbull also argued that Democrats deserve credit for saving taxpayers money by fighting to renovate, rather than replace, the county Government Center, and that Jeff Berkman — a Middletown legislator who preceded him as minority leader — had pushed with Middletown's Democratic mayor, Joe DeStefano, to extend the county's Heritage Trail through Middletown.

When the Federal Government and its agencies show the way on how to navigate ourselves from the wilderness of the economic doldrums that our past leaders have pushed us into through their greed and avarice, then the rest of the masses can join the present corps of leaders to salvage the nation together.

Government is often resistant to change, but the Public Advocate's role is to push our bureaucracy to become more responsive and hold our elected leaders accountable to the needs of the people.

Legislative leaders, however, say Cuomo's modest savings would further cut services for residents, while pushing many governments closer to fiscal crisis after years of layoffs and cuts.

The strategy continued into 2017, reports Elana Schor in Politico, when «All but four of the Senate's 48 Democrats [in December] warned congressional GOP leaders against pursuing a government funding plan that would boost defense spending for the rest of the fiscal year while leaving domestic priorities at current levels... Some Senate Democrats began pushing back... as House conservatives pitched Republican leaders on a full - year hike for the Pentagon paired with a continuing resolution for domestic programs.»

«I'm glad that others are involved to help push the importance of elevating leaders of color in powerful positions within government,» he said in a statement.

The leader of the government's push into alternative energy talks about fuel - making microbes, the next industrial revolution and how soon his high - risk projects will reach the market

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has warned that music and drama could be squeezed out of the curriculum if the government pushes on with the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) proposal.

Primary school leaders should «look to the positives» following controversial government academies announcement As the dust settles on the recent government academies announcement a leading educational resource and training provider has urged head teachers to «take stock and seek advice» before pushing ahead with «monumental changes».

Mr Stokes said he will be pushing for the Federal Government to deliver on $ 5 billion worth of new funding for NSW schools during ongoing negotiations between the federal, state and territory leaders.

[1] Each wave of reform has been led by different combinations of leaders and stakeholders: government officials, educators, parents, and activists (focused on equity); business leaders and policymakers (focused on excellence / accountability); and parents (focused on choice and pushing back against assessment).

As Apple CEO Tim Cook declared in a statement, Jackson would make Apple the «top environmental leader in the tech sector,» using its influence to «push electric utilities and governments to provide the clean energy that both Apple and America need right now.»

When leaders from the developed world pushed Prime Minister Narenda Modi's government to refocus his government's energy plans on renewable power on the sidelines of the COP21, the Indian leadership agreed — if those affluent countries helped India and other developing countries cover the costs.

Success, however, will ultimately depend on environmental advocates joining with moderates and right - of - center leaders in pushing for a range of smaller scale policy actions across levels of government.

And the orthodox side seems to constantly struggle with why their message has failed to break down public skepticism, after being pushed by many world leaders and governments for years.

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Anglin believes the ruling actually provides an opportunity for a federal government or federal party leader to push to lower trade barriers, using the federal power to regulate trade and commerce.

Since then, Elio Motors has been plagued with funding issues and repeatedly pushed back the production start date for its vehicles, leaving its portion of the Caddo plant empty and government leaders frustrated.

Since then, Elio Motors has been plagued with funding issues and repeatedly has pushed back the production start date for its vehicles, leaving its portion of the Caddo plant empty and government leaders frustrated.

Support for the Government and NIC push for a move to individual titling of communal land tenure has been given mainly by conservative commentators30 while the majority of Indigenous leaders oppose it.