Sentences with phrase «relentless campaigning»

On the back of relentless campaigning by TIGA (the trade association representing the UK games industry), tax relief will now be offered for videogame developers in the UK.

It looks like Diane Kruger's relentless campaigning has indeed helped the film (even though Kruger has a slim chance of earning a Best Actress nod, so this seems to be her consolation prize in a way.

Thanks to relentless campaigning by the UFT, the City Council and early childhood advocates, the mayor retreated from his initial proposal to eliminate 16,500 child care slots, restoring $ 40 million of the $ 91 million in child care funding that he intended to cut.

And with a combination of relentless campaigning, furious fundraising and general good fortune, she just might catch lightning in a bottle.

I won my Durham seat this year against the odds because of relentless campaigning and hard work, a reputation for listening and delivering, and by mobilising a truly collective effort.

Since then his relentless campaigning has seen the building of a 10,000 majority that increased in 2010 while Labour seats elsewhere saw vote shares tumble.

Relentless campaigning by animal welfare organisations has had some success.

The relentless campaign against the legislation has proven effective as it appears virtually certain that the government will now delay its implementation.

That's the issue that made me start writing pastoral position papers, because it kept coming up, and I either had to write something, or wage a relentless campaign of homiletical apologetics from the pulpit week after week.

Boko Haram continues to commit war crimes by wilfully destroying churches and pursing a relentless campaign of religious cleansing against Christian communities in southern Borno.

The relentless campaign presence of the NPP in the central region, according to him, is ample evidence that the party is committed not only in winning more votes from the region but ultimately end the political aspirations of the vice president.

Grayling accused his boss of running a «relentless campaign of fear».

In November 2011, Samia, as party chair, accused Dr Nduom of waging a relentless campaign to demoralise party supporters ahead of the 2012 elections.

Nigel Farage, who has won considerable political support with a relentless campaign on the end of the movement controls, was left unimpressed by the U-turn.

Corey Ortega, who worked for Wright in the New York State Assembly, and Gricel Ortiz - Thompson are running together for male and female district leader, respectively, and they have been waging a relentless campaign to knock Clark and Campusano off the ballot.

Somers spoke of Herbst's relentless campaign - trail work ethic.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

Jay Dutcher, a Republican political operative who is coordinating Grow the Economy PAC, said the group plans to continue its relentless campaign against Tenney through Election Day on June 28.

Critics yesterday blasted Mayor Bloomberg for getting on his high horse in a relentless campaign to control what New Yorkers eat and drink to fight obesity — while jacking up the fees at city recreation centers where they go to work off those calories.

Compounding the Administration's self - restraint was the expected squeeze on science by the Republican - led House of Representatives as part of a relentless campaign to trim overall federal spending and reduce the deficit.

In a relentless campaign of 30 - second views, the telescope will open a movie - like window on heavenly bodies that change or move on rapid timescales: exploding supernovas, hazardous asteroids, and objects in the distant Kuiper belt.

Discharged from the Marines due to her injuries, Megan embarks on a difficult and relentless campaign to adopt Rex despite military policy to the contrary.

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative session.

I admit that this issue had not been in high relief on my radar screen before ACTA's relentless campaign to reform the failures in the current system, but I have become completely sold on the crying need.

It was because of the relentless campaign by the breeders that in 1977 the Alsatian finally got back its original name, German Shepherd Dog.

A 2,000 - year - old society springs to life in The Emperor and the Assassin, director Chen Kaige's epic drama about the reign of China's first emperor, Ying Zheng (246 - 210 b.c.), whose ferocious military skills and relentless campaigns of terror united seven warring kingdoms under a central government.

A Relentless Campaign: There is no taking cover or stopping to regenerate health as you beat back Hell's raging demon hordes.

One of the world's most controversial artists, Adel Abdessemed has conducted a relentless campaign to confront life's essential traumas through work that has ranged from videos of farm animals being slaughtered with a sledgehammer — drawing an outraged reaction at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 — to haunting emblems of the Holocaust.

Joe, you mention that «Lewandowsky falsely linked climate skeptics to moon landing hoaxism, and free marketeers to rejection of beliefs they overwhelmingly endorsed» Far worse, his compatriot Prof David Karoly falsely linked skeptics to an (imaginary) «relentless campaign» of electronic death threats against Australian climate scientists, none of which Karoly deigned or was asked to produce as evidence despite the fact that he was alleging the existence of a serious (and despicable) criminal conspiracy.

Turnbull has had massive help — a relentless campaign of hate speech — demonization — defamation — character assassination — from almost 100 % of our almost 100 % warmist MSM.

As a recent study from the University of Bristol documented, climate scientists have been so distracted and intimidated by the relentless campaign against them that they tend to avoid any statements that might get them labeled «alarmists,» retreating into a world of charts and data.

At the heart of his relentless campaign of anti-science and debunking of measures to reduce Australia's carbon emissions is a visceral hatred of environmentalism, especially the Australian Greens, whom he wants to» destroy».

But we don't have that choice because the fossil fuel industry has funded a relentless campaign of climate denial and purchased political outcomes that forestall progress.

From the 1991 «Ice Campaign» run by the coal and utility industries to the Marshall Institute's bogus «Study» of 1998 (which was designed to resemble a National Academy of Sciences document) to the recent efforts of ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy to eviscerate efforts to address the climate crisis, in tandem with the Bush White House, the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

He has conducted a relentless campaign to vilify people who claim living near turbines is affecting their health.»

If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

... the fossil fuel lobby and its ideological supporters have waged a relentless campaign of deception and disinformation to confuse people about the reality of warming - driven climate change.

by Tom Tanton, E&E Legal Director of Science and Technology Assessment As Appearing in The Sacramento Bee The Center of Biological Diversity's relentless campaign against domestic energy production in California has reached new lows for distortions and fear - mongering.

In 2006, Helen Green won a landmark case against Deutsche Bank and was awarded over # 800,000 in damages by the High Court for being the victim of «a relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress».

«From the beginning, this relentless campaign has been about one thing: antiabortion extremists who will do anything — lie, twist facts, villainize providers, and even reportedly break the law — in their quest to ban abortion and block millions from accessing basic reproductive health care,» she said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have been relentless in pressuring Sessions to take a fresh look at Obama - era dealings, in an effort that Democrats contend is aimed at steering attention away from investigations into Trump campaign ties to Russian election meddling.

Berlusconi's campaign, mixing sweeping tax cut pledges with relentless attacks on Monti and Merkel, echoed many of the themes pushed by Grillo and underlined the increasingly angry mood of the Italian electorate.

In October, Wang stepped down from the Communist Party's top rank under informal retirement rules, after spearheading Xi's relentless anti-corruption campaign that has

In October, Wang stepped down from the Communist Party's top rank under informal retirement rules, after spearheading Xi's relentless anti-corruption campaign that has punished over 1.5 million officials over the past five years.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-- A month ahead of Hungary's referendum on European Union migrant quotas, the government's relentless anti-migrant campaign has become inescapable and shows no sign of letting up.

At the same time, Obama decided not to place a clear, ambitious agenda at the heart of his reelection campaign, focusing instead on a relentless effort to portray Mitt Romney as an unacceptable alternative.

The relentless NRO campaign against Newt and for Romney is annoying and is probably helping Newt.

Murphy lived through a campaign where Obama waged relentless culture war (despite enormous and unexploited weaknesses on abortion policy) and somehow Murphy decided that social conservatives were to blame for Romney's defeat.

UPDATE: Immense political pressure and a relentless media campaign have unravelled this historic greyhound racing ban.

The Foxes were 5000 - 1 outsiders to win the Premier League before the campaign kicked off, but their relentless push to upset the odds saw them crowned champions to complete what is one the biggest sporting upsets of all time.