Sentences with phrase «trade public praise»

In an oddly choreographed scene, the state's top elected Democrats managed to attend the same lunch and trade public praise but not actually speak to each other.

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Clegg tried to show a bit of Thatcherite ankle before his spring conference last weekend, praising the Great She - Elephant's victory over the trade unions as «immensely significant» and saying that the public finances should be repaired by spending cuts rather than tax rises.

NEC members praised his conference speech and drew attention to Tory attacks on employment rights including access to tribunals, the paradox under which British railways can be run by states as long as they are foreign states, the need for good jobs not just any jobs, further cuts in public service pay, the threat of a new European / United States trade agreement, excessive warmth towards free schools, and expansion of food banks and payday loans into mainstream society.

In 2009, for example, he advocated against the cap and trade systems that the Obama administration and its overseas partners were trying to install here and globally, calling it «a market - based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels... [allowing] polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars.»