Sentences with phrase «silent on this issue»

After remaining silent on the issue during Stephen Harper's reign, the central bank now is providing intellectual cover for the government as it confronts doubters ahead of its first budget.

Industry Minister Christian Paradis has remained silent on the issue, but last week the Canadian Marketing Association told its members that further consultations are now planned and that the law will not take effect until the middle of 2012 at the earliest.

And for me in particular, I think in learning history, that we know that staying silent on these issues is simply not acceptable.»

The White House had remained silent on the issue until Tuesday.

Hard to understand why CNN has been so silent on that issue today.

Once Americans fell silent on the issue, unsure of what to say to loved ones, afraid of being labeled as bigots, so did our leaders on Capitol Hill.

Churches remained largely silent on the issue.

Scripture is silent on the issue.

Just be silent on the issue.

But when God is conspicuously silent on an issue, maybe the reason isn't that you're asking the wrong question or not listening hard enough, but maybe it's that He's already given an answer.

It takes one's breath away to read a scholar of Turner's stature write that liberation theology is «strangely silent on issues of theodicy.»

Evangelical Protestants have not grown silent on issues of marriage or abortion.

Others were silent on the issue.

Yahoo won't talk about it, and the Mexican courts are keeping silent on the issue, so just what they did that blew up so expensively is a mystery.

He couldn't remain silent on the issue, but hoped that the conversation would continue without him, and that one day the church would flourish again.

«Supermarkets have been suspiciously silent on this issue.

Since that point, whispers are all we've had to go on, as both the Sox and Napoli were near silent on the issues holding things up.

Our school board has been virtually silent on the issue, even though they know many families are not on board with this decision.

The one incumbent has been silent on the issue, as far as I know.

Once the Library District moved forward by publicly releasing their development plans and holding informational meetings on a possible referendum, the Park District remained silent on the issue to avoid accusations of tampering with their referendum.

As the prime minister said in 2002, before becoming curiously silent on the issue:

While both Volksparteien have been opposed to cannabis liberalisation, and stay silent on the issue in their party programs, [i] the smaller parties are a more outspoken on the issue, with Die Grünen, FDP and Die Linke supporting cannabis liberalisation and the AfD fervently opposing it.

Overall, the action manual appears to be silent on the issue of third party minorities, and whether they can be racist, or whether whites can be racist toward them.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has been relatively silent on the issue, having taken a stand - off approach to the agency since the George Washington Bridge scandal.

The most brutal irony of Gordon Brown's now - confirmed attendance at the Iraq inquiry before the general election is that, after staying silent on the issue for years, he now has to speak out just when it could do him maximum political damage.

Sean Ryan, defender of the rights of women, is silent on the issue of Sheldon Silver and his empowering of Vito Lopez to continue his vile behavior toward his staff after the hush - money pay - out.

So far, Zuckerberg has been silent on the issue but U.K. lawmakers want to hear from him.

In one of the most recent examples of animosity between Syracuse's mayor and the county executive, Miner criticized Onondaga County for being silent on issues such as the «sanctuary city» movement this April.

Their manifestos are silent on this issue.

It will be silly to be silent on the issue, since it is now the number one problem facing this town and many other neighboring towns.

The state has been relatively silent on the issue.

While the president - elect has largely stayed silent on the issue, he has signaled that one option is off the table.

Would we expect Iain to stay silent on the issue?

«It's a breakthrough, because up until this point Nassau had been silent on the issue,» he said.

After promising to lead the convention push, Cuomo was essentially silent on the issue until he mentioned it in his 2016 State of the State address, and he never took the steps that might have increased the referendum's odds.

Even on March 1, when his party, the APC, had passed a vote of confidence in him, denying that it was not the same as endorsing him for a second term, the President had remained silent on the issue, keeping some people guessing.

«Suppose unions remain silent on this issue,» he said.

Teachout and Bharara urged the Legislature to keep Underwood in the job for now, but Gianaris was reportedly silent on that issue in a statement issued Friday.

The United States Constitution is silent on the issue of state legislative redistricting.

... to avoid taking a principled stand, either for or against a rise, and to remain silent on the issue, would repeat the mistake we made at the election, even if the money markets do applaud George Osborne for raising VAT».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been mostly silent on the issue up to this point.

Why then has the President remained silent on the issue?

«Choosing to remain silent on this issue speaks volumes about one's leadership, character, and willingness to stand up for what's right.»

Why are David Cameron and William Hague silent on this issue?

«Instead, he restricted himself to his script, which was silent on the issue.

One man who has been silent on this issue is Jim Marshall because he cares more about winning the Republican vote and is taking us Democrats for granted.

«I am dismayed that the Prime Minister is completely silent on the issue of party funding.

He accused the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Students (ASUU) of complicity in the sack of the vice-chancellors as it had been silent on the issue.

For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

To my mind, to avoid taking a principled stance - either for an increase or against it - and to remain silent on the issue would repeat the mistake we made at the election - even if the money markets do applaud George Osborne for raising VAT.»