Sentences with phrase «standing up to the government»

«The markets at the moment really want to see a rate hike by the central bank, as a sign that it is still a credible institution; that it's taking its inflation targeting somewhat seriously and that it is prepared to stand up to government pressure,» Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist William Jackson said.

In standing up to the government, these companies made the case to their customers that American products can be trusted and that American companies would protect their data.

And it means standing up to a government that is failing in its duty to protect our clean water.

Dean shares about his own experience of not paying taxes for nearly two decades and of standing up to government thugs and even...

As state leaders, we have an innate responsibility to investigate public health and safety crises and protect those who are not powerful to stand up to government malfeasance.»

This is a principle Mr Hoyle, a Labour backbencher who has not been afraid to stand up to the government in the past, is looking to apply with his bill.

The party when embraced market reforms, you know, these media outlets realized that they needed to deliver something that people wanted to watch and so real journalism was part of that and so when this man was able to stand up to the government and the word got out in the international media, it quickly made its way onto the Internet, so people in China could see it and then it spread very quickly on text messages on cell phones and on instant messaging, and e-mail.

Andrew Copson, BHA chief executive, said: «This is a stunning victory for the three humanist families who stood up to the government on this issue.

It is difficult enough to convince legislators to stand up to the government education industry and support school choice without them worrying that the law will be found unconstitutional.

This module builds on Video Module 1 by showing how Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt movement mobilized citizens to stand up to their government and demand social and environmental justice.

These powerful speakers also made it clear that they are standing up to our government, and not willing to back down.

And it is important to note, that because Dr Roque stood up to the government, other doctors did as well, and they too were vindicated.

Not exact matches

The Americans stood up to the political and media bullies and voted for a president that would work for them and not the Chinese government.

The tunnel threat report also accused Netanyahu and Ya'alon of endangering Israelis living near Gaza by halting government funding for their local security teams, and pulling out the soldiers who used to stand guard outside their communities in the year and a half leading up to the operation.

But as a government official said, «It was a way of demonstrating that Singapore was prepared to stand up against the mighty America.»

He brought up one question that stood out to him about what the government planned to do next, only to be asked by more than one person to answer it directly, once and for all.

It is comforting to know that the legislative branch can stand up in the face of withering criticism and dire warnings from the media and even the president to take action and keep the government's finances from going off the rails.

U.S. regulators expect Internet service providers to sue the government over any changes in the way they are regulated and must reevaluate any proposals to make sure they stand up in court, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said at a meeting on Friday.

U.S. regulators expect Internet service providers to sue the government over any changes in the way they are regulated and must reevaluate any proposals to make sure they stand up in court.

It was as a result of Canadians standing up and saying they did not want to go in that direction that the Liberal government finally came to its senses and recognized the right way to go.

The appointment of the next PBO will need to be someone who understands the budgetary and estimates processes and is willing to stand up to his / her major critics — the Government.

And the government does not stand ready to back up Bitcoin exchanges that lose your money or identity to thieves.

The next Officer will need to be someone who understands the budgetary and estimates processes and is willing to stand up to his / her major critics — the Government.

«The Canadian government really has no choice but to stand up for Canadian industries on this.»

The next PBO will need to be someone who understands the budgetary and estimates processes and is willing to stand up to his / her major critics — the Government.

When it comes to employment, it is this government that believes in standing up for creating Canadian jobs for Canadians.

Further, Premier Klein continued to present himself as the candidate to stand up against the federal government and protect Albertans» interests.

What better way to stand up for hardworking Canadians than to make reform of supply management the centrepiece of the government's push to create one national economy?

And, in the legislature I stood before my colleagues and Indigenous leaders to publicly apologize that the Alberta government did not stand up against residential schools.

While the NDP Government try to paint an unrealistic picture of Alberta, United Conservatives will stand up for Albertans and common - sense ideas.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

Just two and a half months after the US national deficit surpassed $ 20 Trillion for the first time ever, the United States government has now managed to rack up another half Trillion and the outstanding debt of the world's largest economy now stands at...

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

Its expertise is crucial in negotiating with Europeans about wine labeling, or standing up to countries that refuse to recognize American «straight bourbon» for what the government says it is: corn whiskey stored in charred new oak containers for at least two years.

You get to practice your silly religion all you like, it's just when you attempt to inject that into my school, my courthouse or my government that I will stand up and shout in your face, so don't act all surprised when it happens like «Oh, well, we just didn't know, we thought everyone wanted us to force our religion on the rest of society...»

People who can't stand up for themselves and are preyed upon by others typically are in favor of government regulation, laws, things of this nature to protect them.

So just as it would seem to be impossible for any earthly government to exist without a standing military, without violence toward enemies, and without governing rules for order and peace which include death to traitors and some form of capital punishment, so also God had to include such things in the earthly government which He set up in Israel.

it is up to you, all of you to stand up and put a stop to this overthrowing of the American government.

After the president's alleged intervention, the platform was changed to include this sentence: «We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God - given potential.»

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

She tells us to simply relax and accept the disestablishment of marriage while asking law and government to stand ready to pick up the pieces for children, women and even men as best they can.

The people that take a stand for a secular government are trying to keep our country up to the high standards established by our Founding Fathers.

But the White House counters that the order will put «an end to the federal government punishing Americans for standing up for their moral beliefs.»

He told Premier: «Some Pakistani government ministers and court lawyers have tried to deal with this [persecution in Pakistan] but actually one or two of them have been executed over the years, just because they stood up for a minority, i.e. for the Christians there.

Other churches are marching, organizing protests, standing with the powerless, lobbying their governments, speaking up and using their voices to amplify the oppressed.

The U.N. was furthering the one world government, credit cards were a step away from selling our souls to Satan and tattooing 666 all over our bodies with glee, the liberals were ruining a perfectly good country, and Buchanan was a stand up candidate.

THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET!!!!! WHY ARE WE LETTING OUR GOVERNMENT TAKE EVERYTHING AWAY FROM US???? IT»S TIME TO STAND UP FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS AND BELIEFS!!!!!

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Unless our government takes a stronger stand against ISIS, UK Churches may have to step up their security measures, writes Johnnie Moore.

When being a Christian is still an unwritten requirement for the highest government office, it's vital for those who don't view reality through a lens that distorts their views with myths and beliefs that don't stand up to even the most basic logic and reason, to make their voices heard.