Sentences with phrase «ran on a platform promising»

But Long said it shouldn't matter to Republicans who ran on a platform promising to repeal the law.

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Trump delivered a swift kick to the political status quo by running on a populist platform, promising the average Joe more money in their pocket, and fewer people coming in to the country to compete for jobs and benefits.

Essentially, this amounts to imposing a tax that is then used to subsidize premiums (charging everyone a tax and then paying people to get health insurance is the same thing as charging people who don't get insurance a «penalty»), but Obama ran on a platform of not raising taxes on people making less than $ 250,000, so he went through this «penalty» shenanigan so he could pretend to have kept his promise.

Running on a pro-business platform, Clement promised to leverage his private - sector experience to attract new investment and new residents to the city.

He ran on the platform of no tax increase, as did I. I chose to stand by my promise and deliver results to residents.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.

In many ways, the Kinder Morgan pipeline has become a symbol for all the broken promises that Justin Trudeau made when he won the 2015 election after running on a platform for «real change.»

The result has triggered outrage from the 48 % of the population who voted to remain, with calls for a second referendum, suggestions that the House of Commons could ignore the result, and a promise by the leader of the Liberal Democrats that the party would run on a platform to remain within the Union in any future general election.

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However, future in the field of crypto are always unpredictable in terms of short - run but Komodo is one of those promising platforms which has a great chance of being on the list of top 20 cryptocurrency after a few years.