Sentences with phrase «recent election promise»

The federal Liberal Party's recent election promise to create a new tax bracket for rich Canadians has been quickly decried by — well, rich Canadians.

Its pledge for the recent election promises to «extend to individual schools responsibilities that currently sit solely with local authorities, allocate more resources directly to headteachers and enable them to take decisions based on local circumstances».

Not exact matches

The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same promise Cameron made.

Swaths of virgin desert in the U.S. West in recent years have transformed into solar farms, a trend green energy supporters predict will persist even with the election of a president who is making fossil fuel - friendly Cabinet appointments and promises to bring back coal.

Italy's borrowing costs have come down in recent months, helped by the promise of European Central Bank support but the election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.

Given recent economic developments (which suggest there will be no surplus this year) and global uncertainties, together with a commitment by all three major political parties to balanced budgets and no tax increases (other than the NDP), it would be fiscally imprudent for any political party to make new major election «promises» in the coming months without indicating how they would be financed.

Wynne's recent election win spared Ontario from the 100,000 public service job cuts promised by her Conservative opponent Tim Hudak.

Mr. Fildebrandt is sour from a recent interview Ms. Tait published in which she quotes him as claiming the NDP duped Alberta voters by actually implementing promises made during the election (and he later referred to Ms. Tait as a b - list reporter and accused her of auditioning for a job in the Premier's Office — a comment he later retracted).

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

The government pressed on regardless — and produced a collapse in the vote for the LibDems at the recent local elections largely because they have been seen to betray a specific pre-election promise.

The Akwa Ibom state Liaison office in Abuja has been locked down by protesters over the alleged failure of Governor Godswill Akpabio to fulfill his promise to pay each staff N50, 000 for travelling home to vote for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the recent general elections.

«At the last election I made a very clear promise about bus passes, about television licences, about winter fuel payments,» he said in a recent session of PMQs, «We are keeping all those promises.»

Now, after Conservatives promised a referendum on EU membership and UKIP garnered up to 34 % of the vote in recent European elections, there is the slim yet distinct possibility that the UK could leave the EU.

Republicans have often won support in recent elections by promising to repeal the ACA.

The WFP has been trying to boost its profile ahead of the election — a slew of prominent women officials recently appeared in a recent video promising to vote on the party line.

Naturally, the discussion returned during the election campaign this year, with Labor promising $ 400 million for teaching scholarships aimed at encouraging recent STEM graduates to enter the education field.4 At the same time, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull floated the idea of making maths and science a requirement for finishing high school, stating it was a «big priority» for the Government.

The «promise of democracy» that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about in his iconic «I Have a Dream» speech feels very distant today, but not just because of the controversial recent election, Daniel Evans Pritchard told a somber audience at a «counter-inauguration» hosted by a group that called itself Writers Resist.

Some people have said the government's recent economic statements have more to do with them wanting to back away from their election promise to lower taxes than anything else.

Indeed, this exploration of recent British history is designed to orientate us prior to the general election, which likewise doesn't sound too promising.

Since the recent federal election there has been much discussion (and as my colleague Eugene Kung notes, an abundance of open letters) about the Liberal party's election promise to «review Canada's environmental assessment (EA) processes and introduce new, fair processes» for reviewing projects (or re-reviewing them, as in the case of major proposals like the controversial Kinder Morgan and Energy East oil sands pipeline and tankers projects).

They were to calm jittery shareholders who have penalized the company's stock price almost 20 % since Facebook released its most recent quarterly earnings and promised to make changes to its News Feed to emphasize more «meaningful» content (read: less shamelessly viral, ergo less engaging) in the wake of Russian election interference.