Sentences with phrase «up political support»

Two recent project announcements indicate that the U.S. offshore wind sector is burgeoning, bolstered by falling prices and ramped - up political support.

Asked why WHO convened the emergency committee only this week, WHO Assistant Director - General Keiji Fukuda this morning said the organization was initially focused on coordinating the response on the ground and on raising awareness and drumming up political support, for instance at a meeting of health ministers in Accra in early July and a meeting with Chan and West African presidents last week.

Such statements are primarily targeted at shoring up political support and secondarily at painting President Obama as being soft on China.

The rules are different, because Iran is nothing like a democracy (and for other reasons), but the motivation for this religious attack is to shore up political support, not to practice Islam.

Not exact matches

Musk made the offer in response to a comment made on social media by Mike Cannon - Brookes, the co-founder of Australian software maker Atlassian (team), who said he would be willing to line up funding and political support if Tesla could supply batteries that would solve South Australia's problems.

Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Top - down politicization happens when policymakers - all the way up to the president - spin intelligence and investigations to support their political agenda.

For starters, there is no strong body of support on either side of the political fence in the U.S. (or globally for that matter) for the sort of trade war that is being whipped up around U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets and policy outpourings.

In Europe, the pundits were initially wrong on the palpable support for Brexit in the United Kingdom, and we've seen various non-mainstream political movements and candidates picking up momentum elsewhere around the world.

The Islamists contended in response that «Islam is the solution», and in the 1980s built up networks of grassroots support, becoming a political threat to governments in North Africa, Egypt and the Gulf.

Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy had political support from the church leading up to and during WWII..

Besides all of this, Mitt Romney has flip flopped on every issue, attacks political policies that he once supported and stirs the pot to try to fire up his supporters.

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.

Popular support waned, and political parties began using the environment as a weapon to beat each other up.

Their large numbers (approximately two - fifths of the population in 1960), their relatively high levels of religious commitment and political activity, and their conservative opinions on most issues all combined to produce formidable support for the GOP up and down the ticket.

Action is passing out political flyers and putting up yard signs supporting or opposing certain candidates and issues.

Christians living in better circumstances, however, need to take up the cause of their suffering brethren: they need to educate themselves about what is happening, spread the news, ask their own religious leaders to speak out, support reputable organizations that are working for religious freedom, and appeal to their political leaders to do far more in their contacts with key diplomats and oppressive governments.

Ed Fulton, political trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «After yet another enthralling Premier League season in England, timed nicely in the run up to a snap election next month, we thought it would be interesting to identify which manager would generate the most support if they were to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Yesterday's plant tour and shoring up of political support is part of a string of broader meat industry's attempts to rehabilitate BPI's maligned reputation.

Kate Kaye's picked up on a story that bombarded the e.politics bunker with at least half a dozen Google Alerts this morning: Twitter has decided not to allow political campaigns to purchase «Promoted Tweets» through the end of this political cycle, which effectively cuts campaigns off from the microblogging site's foray into ad - supported content.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

The WIPF, made up of women leaders from 26 registered political parties led by Ebere Ifendu of the Labour Party expressed their full support for the government's war on corruption and insecurity.

By matching a message to a recipient's predicted political leanings, groups will try to rev up folks not inclined to support Trump, preparing the ground for GOTV operations in the fall.

President Fernandez - Kirchner is likely to seek a second term in «La Casa Rosada» and is likely to reach for a comforting and well - used political crutch in the run up to polling day to help rally support for her re-election - the «Malvinas» question.

By making all revenue fungible, you virtually eliminate the concept that a specific tax goes to any specific service and thus political support for the tax may shrivel up completely.

Tolbert, a Buffalo native who supervised the FBI's Buffalo office and later headed security for the National Basketball Association, said he harbors a «very strong interest» in running for sheriff and is now lining up the necessary political and financial support.

(CNN)- The Senate Democratic leadership failed Thursday to muster up enough support for a bill that would have put new restrictions on political television advertising by special interest groups.

There is no suggestion of these things at the moment but it is a line of argument that may open up were there to be political support for those sorts of activities.

In the Nevada case, they're trying to help Harry Reid break up Republican Angle's support among the fringe Right, in part by pointing out the fact that this «political newcomer» has been in the Nevada Legislature since the late»90s and (I assume) has taken campaign donations from financial services firms.

The Conservatives appear poised to gain some votes from their coalition partners while UKIP continue to pick up votes from all three main political parties (see UKIP: Picking up lumps of old Labour support?).

YORKVILLE — Opponents of the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station are ramping up support for political allies just in time for Tuesday's primaries — sending out 80,000 direct mailings that blast the project's proponents.

A similar story played out in Stockholm; the city's transportation director, Jonas Eliasson, noted recently that «If you survive this valley of political death, and people actually see the benefits, and also realize that, in addition to the benefits, it's actually not as bad as you thought — it's not so hard adapting to this — then support starts going up again.»

Despite the obvious political risks in doing so, we faced up to the difficult issue of how to pay for care and support in the century of the ageing society.

MPs from previous Parliaments especially told me that they've found canvassing support from political opponents a liberating experience - as they line up with them as legislators to hold the Executive to account.

Mr Clegg concluded: «We are determined to get the balance right, respecting Northern Ireland's political arrangements, standing up for its security, supporting its prosperity.

The increasingly confident statements of support for the Syrian rebels worries some analysts, who warn that western governments remain ignorant of the make - up of the Free Syria army - especially given the complicated cultural, political and ethnic make up of the country.

The Tory leader spearheaded calls for the debates among political leaders in the run - up to the election campaign, but in an interview with the Independent on Sunday he admitted they complicated his run by prompting a swell in support for Nick Clegg.

2) It is not accidental that these developments were supported by international reaction, that socialist construction, especially during the period of the abolition of capitalist relations and of the founding of socialism, up until the Second World War, concentrates the ideological and political wrath of international imperialism.

INWOOD — Two former Borough Presidents threw their support behind opposing candidates in the State Senate District 31 race this week — opening up old wounds in a longstanding political battle.

Presenting a communique after its meeting, the Omabala forum made up of four council areas of Anambra North zone and Awka North council area led by former Minister for Health Dr. Tim Menakaya and fifteen others, the body said «Ndi Omabala as a whole shall support and adopt a credible gubernatorial election candidate of Anambra North Senatorial Zone origin in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Anambra State irrespective of political platform

Negron soon brought Ross on to work with his political committee as he was sewing up support for his Senate presidency bid, which he clinched in late 2015.

He said he supported Deacon over the other two Democratic candidates because she grew up in Syracuse, attended Syracuse schools, and worked her way up in the political arena, working for former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand before running for office this year for the first time.

Combined with the expansion of political education that the Welsh Lib Dems also support, this move will almost certainly create an informed and engaged generation who will end up being voters for life.»

The party's activist wing, however, fed up with a Wall Street — friendly centrist, wanted to defy Cuomo and support Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor known for her academic work on political corruption.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan picked up his second tabloid endorsement this morning, landing the support of the Daily News, which said the Republican's years of prosecutorial experience and lack of political ties to Albany make him «best suited» to clean up public corruption in state government.

Cuomo has supported public financing of political campaigns in the past, but has up until this point not included such a system in the state budget proposal — a process that the governor's office has broad power over.

For the record, McKeon isn't just «supporting the current attorney general» for governor, he is spearheading the group «GOPers for Cuomo ``, which entails rounding up Republicans like himself to endorse the Democratic frontrunner and keeping political reporters up to date on his efforts.

Gibson, meanwhile, is working to shore up support among independent voters and Democrats by appealing to the «healthy pragmatism» that he sees as the prevailing political instinct in the district.

Silver, who gave up his speaker position but retained his assembly seat after his January arrest, has been on trial simultaneously with state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son on charges that the Republican badgered companies to give his son more than $ 300,000 in exchange for his political support.

Mr. Bloomberg's assiduous courting of labor paid political dividends: after getting virtually no labor support in his first campaign in 2001, he picked up dozens of union endorsements in his third - term victory in 2009.