Sentences with phrase «support of both political parties»

The report calls for charities to be permitted to engage in political campaigning so long as it is not in support of a political party, and it also calls for the amendment of CA 2003 to remove the political advertising ban for third sector organisations.

Not exact matches

While there is a vocal minority who want gun laws in the U.K. relaxed, they do appear to be very small — all the mainstream political parties support strict gun laws, and much of the debate centers on whether the U.K., which already has some of the strictest gun laws in the entire world, needs more control.

Polls show the race is tight and that the large «Together for Yes» block formed by pro-independence parties from the rest of political spectrum will need support from the smaller CUP to secure a 68 - seat majority in Catalonia's 135 - seat parliament.

Despite a heavy political calendar in Europe and expectations of rising support for populist parties across the region, Goldman Sachs seems confident that there are opportunities arising amid such an environment.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Financially, I support political friends regardless of party.

The refugee crisis that has struck Europe is the worst the continent has seen since the Second World War, and with it has come the resurgence of political parties that have not enjoyed this kind of support since 1945.

While most lawmakers of both political parties typically equate helping community banks with apple pie and baseball in terms of their support, Warren signaled she has a different view.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

The Finance Committee's consultation report is primarily a political document, reflecting the priorities of their respective parties, loosely using the hearings to support their respective policy paradigm.

All political parties love to make public announcements in support of infrastructure spending, and why not?

Trump's comments, delivered at a White House news conference, illustrate the political minefield he will navigate in September as he tries to draw support for disaster recovery funds but wages a bitter fight with lawmakers from both parties about whether U.S. taxpayers should finance the creation of a wall that he has long promised Mexico would fund.

While surveys conducted by both the Centre for Political Research and Studies (CIEP) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) indicate that while the Costa Rican electorate is happy with Solís» performance in office, they have not repaid his party with substantive support for its candidate.

Greece has been unable to form a coalition government since voters gave support to political parties that want to cancel or renegotiate the terms of a massive financial bailout by international lenders that requires harsh austerity measures.

This impression is supported by the fact that around half of the French electorate voted against the established political parties.

Trends, arguably, are important in public opinion, something Alberta political parties forget — or ignore — in their ongoing conversation about the level of public support for that pipeline across the Rockies to B.C.. However, that needs to be a topic for another day.

Carlos, in support of your point, Barry Cooper, a man described in Wikipedia as «a member of an influential group of conservative political scientists, the Calgary School», said the PC party lost its way in the second half of Ralph Klein's tenure.

The most notable PAC created since the NDP banned corporate political party donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative Pparty donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative PParty and the United Conservative PartyParty.

A good many of the new faces in Washington will have been supported by the Tea Party movement, and a good number of these are committed to the worldview and political philosophy of libertarianism.

However, whereas progressive Christianity interprets this to mean that the church must remain aloof from involvement with political parties and economic interests, the fourth church, at the urging of its forceful thinkers, supports the best systems available.

But as we have seen with the Tea Party (another political movement Perry hopped aboard in its early days), the support of a constituent group doesn't come without strings.

It shows that although there is statistically significant evidence that individuals change their views to match those of the political party they support, the shift in attitudes is relatively slight.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

And so I can not support a party that sees itself as the political extension of religious organizations trying to use government to force themselves into my soul, into my faith, into my life.

They support the political party (GOP) that ostensibly stands capitalism and stand for and promotes individual achievment whle eschewing collectivism, yet they really are collectivists — just for their own world view of a conservative fiscal policy coupled with «conservative social values.»

To me, it seems that progressives are doing the very thing that conservative Christians have been criticized for: pulling verses out of context to say that supporting a political party's agenda is supporting God's agenda.

Whether or not the amendments are made official, its a significant move for the LGBT community, which has never had its cause officially supported by either of the major political parties...

One positive change is the increase in support of international aid programs from the U.S. public and political leaders of both parties.

Did the Socialist Party have no higher political ideal than the victory of one class over another it would not be worthy of a moment's support from any right - thinking individual.

This concept was supported vigorously by important labor and left - wing Zionist groups, including the radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America).

The basic implications of the changes are a greater freedom of the church from party and state on the one hand and a wider range of political options for Catholics than support of the Christian Democratic party, options that include support of more vigorously reformist or radical parties of the left.

Despite these very significant expressions of Christian support for socialism, the majority position among both Catholics and Protestants in the twentieth century has been against too close an association of Christianity with any political programme or party.

Although the upholders of the Sunnah did not have a program of dynastic or political change, they supported the parties which actively worked for an end of the Umayyad rule.

Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.

They had been assigned to represent either the Federalist or the Republican party during the political debates of the 1790s, and they covered their posters with slogans and arguments supporting the case for their vision of government, preparing for a class - wide debate.

Political scientists have noted that many third parties that had strong political support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters andPolitical scientists have noted that many third parties that had strong political support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters andpolitical support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters and backers.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

Since the end of the Cold War efforts to promote democracy — by strengthening parliaments, supporting political parties and building the capacity of civil society — have become common place.

«It would imply a massive amount of taxpayer support for political parties,» he explains.

Convening such a body would provide a space to debate how best to address systematic political inequality, whether through thorough - going electoral reform including PR and compulsory voting, the radical overhaul of the democratic aberration that is the Lords, or in reforming party funding, all of which the report supports.

Subsequent policy papers will examine political party support and cross-cutting themes, such as the role of gender in democracy promotion.

Población local activism flourished throughout the 1970s and 80s, supported by the Vicariate of Solidarity — progressive branches of the Catholic Church — internationally funded NGOs, left - wing political parties, and radical armed groups (such as the FPMR and the Lautaro Youth Movement).

Foreign affairs spokesman Edward Davey said there was a «strong» case for a short postponement to give the main political parties the chance to reflect and urged Britain to support a delay if Pakistanis think it is in the best interests of democracy.

If you get right down to the marrow of it, gerrymandering is essentially a sophisticated means of exploiting rounding errors in a crude historical method of determining a political party's support via single member districts.

If there were enough people who thought like the IDC to create a third party in the political center to break the stranglehold of tweedledum and tweedledee misgoverning NY, I'd support them in a heartbeat.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

The Technical Support Team, which was led by the former Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, assisted the Liberian NEC to update their systems, tackle the queries of the political parties and also meet the directives of the Liberian Supreme Court.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

So far he's managed to get Murdoch to give a very clear denial, under oath, that he never lets business factors get in the way of deciding which political parties he should support.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant