Sentences with phrase «speaking against this measure»

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In particular, they were most supportive of Harper for speaking up against protectionist sentiments in other G20 countries, and for using tax and other measures to encourage Canadian business investment.

Speaking in August after President Donald Trump signed in the new measures against Russia, Jean - Claude Juncker, the European Commission president, said the bloc would be ready to take counter measures if the penalties harmed European companies.

The governor and legislative leaders have spoken against pension cuts and other cost - cutting measures in the proposal.

If the Catholic church spoke out against abortion or supported a pro-life ballot measure, would anyone blink an eye?

According to House aides, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke out against the measure along with Kevin McCarthy of California, however, the vote was behind closed doors so there is no public record of who voted for and against it.

That figure shrinks to insignificance when measured against the $ 70 million in small change that annually flows into the BGEA coffers, or the additional millions that his books, weekly newspaper column and speaking engagements bring in each year.

In his column for the FIFA Weekly, the 78 - year - old spoke about the need to tackle discrimination in the game and that «no half measures» can be taken in the fight against racism.

Fears that Britain could turn into a «safe haven» for foreign criminals have intensified after peers spoke out against the government's plans to opt out of EU police and criminal justice measures.

However, Liberal Democrat MP Sarah teather spoke out against the new measures saying they would place the UK in a «roll call of dishonour» on the world stage.

I know that there are many ministers and Conservative MPs who want to speak out and vote against this ill - thought - out and inadvisable measure.

Luckily, a few brave souls that are not afraid to speak out against a good ol' boy system where loyalty is measured by submission.

Too many times I have spoken to MPs who say the party can't do anything about it because there is no parliamentary majority against the measures.

Boris Johnson, the London Mayor, has also spoken out against the measure which many Tories believe will raise little revenue while discouraging enterprise.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

In the Assembly, where the measure has been blocked the past six years, some who oppose the measure want a chance to speak out against it, Morelle, the bill sponsor, said.

At a Dec. 5 public hearing, people involved in agriculture and wine production filled Town Hall to speak out against the measure.

De Blasio testified against the measure when he spoke about his budget priorities in Albany last week, saying it would «produce uncertainty in financing and unnecessarily add difficulty and delay to the process of building the affordable housing struggling New Yorkers need.»

«It's a bit as if our skiers were told: «You ski very well but you won't be able to go to the Olympic Games -LSB-...] to measure against skiers from all over the world»,» Arlettaz told French - speaking public radio station La 1ère today.

Myriad Genetics refused to speak about the case, as did the USPTO, both noting their policies against commenting on pending litigation measures.

In Wall Street - speak, that means two out of three fund managers «underperformed» the stock benchmark they are measured against.

Even for the Senate, where members are well - known to prefer talking to listening, the amount of unilateral jabbering on the climate change bill has been remarkable, with lawmakers both for and against the measure arguing repeatedly over how much time was allotted for them to speak.

Another is Caleb Rossiter, a left - leaning statistician at American University, who spoke out against the alarmists when he discovered that their statistics were junk and that the measures being introduced to «combat» climate change were harming the world's poorest.

Every single word he speaks about CAGW will be measured and turned into large numbers of votes for or against him.

If you spoke to me about who I was measuring myself against, I would describe the group of law students who had it all: great relationships, lots of friends, supreme fitness, straight As, buckets of energy, and made law review.

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8