Sentences with phrase «repeatedly called on the government»

To reverse this worrying trend, the Business Council has repeatedly called on the government to adopt a competitiveness agenda that includes simplifying the tax system.

Senior judges including Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court, have identified the future role of the ECJ as a key concern, repeatedly calling on the government to provide more clarity.

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The opposition Labour Party, which had repeatedly called on Rudd to resign, said May was responsible and should explain her own role in the government's immigration policies.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

The UK Government has not yet implemented the International Code and subsequent, relevant Resolutions in legislation, despite being called on to do so repeatedly by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has repeatedly called on the UK government to take this action and said in its last report on the UK:

We make submissions to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which has repeatedly called on the UK Government to fully implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions in the UK, acknowledging that violations of these measures are «commonplace».

Health professional bodies, mother support groups, the UN, Trading Standards and even the government's own advisors have called repeatedly for politicians to introduce an outright ban on formula promotion as in many other countries, but have been ignored.

Both men voted Remain in the EU referendum, with Nick Clegg subsequently having taken on the role of Brexit spokesman for the Lib Dems - and having repeatedly called for the government to pursue a soft Brexit.

Mahoney has repeatedly called on Antonacci — who prides himself on government transparency — to disclose his clients.

At Commons question time, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman seized on the «secret Treasury analysis» to attack the government's strategy of cutting public services, repeatedly calling on Cameron to publish the document.

Cuomo, in the wake of the shooting, has repeatedly called on federal lawmakers to strengthen the nation's gun laws — even suggesting that Democrats in Congress force a government shutdown to pressure reluctant lawmakers.

By calling for a big increase in government education spending as a way to boost the U.S. economy, the president is doubling down on a bet that has already been lost, repeatedly, by his predecessors.

This came after 8 years of wasted time on the subject of AGW / CC Energy, and pipelines and Fracking by the Democrats and Obama, the so - called great communicator and Nobel Peace Prize winner ordering murders to be committed by US citizens and their Proxies all across the planet and repeatedly lying through his teeth about all manner of topics Geopolitical, War, and Economics and repeatedly interfering in other nations governments and «Democratic» elections.

In the 1980s, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner Lee Buchheit was called upon repeatedly by Latin American governments to advise on restructuring sovereign debt.