Sentences with phrase «up to government pressure»

«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.

Not exact matches

The European Parliament representative on Brexit has stepped up pressure on the U.K. government to make its position more clear before negotiations kickoff.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott flew into Perth today to announce $ 500 million of extra Commonwealth funding for WA roads, while his finance minister Mathias Cormann kept up pressure on the state government to reciprocate by privatising more state - owned assets.

But May is also facing pressure from the many pro-Remain lawmakers in her ranks, who are up in arms over a new «EU Withdrawal» bill that will effectively allow the government sweeping powers to change laws already in force without consulting parliament, once the U.K. leaves the EU.

Certainly, the province's Liberal government is vowing to keep up the pressure on the United States.

And that the polls would show that they would be getting a minority PC government, with a Wildrose opposition, they thought this would be a good balance, a strong NDP Caucus putting pressure who would hold them to account and a lot of people woke up the next morning going what the heck happened to our Alberta.»

And inflation would pick up (due to increased government spending, higher US wages, pressure on China to push up the RMB and, possibly, tariffs).

Mexico also turned up the pressure last Wednesday, with government officials warning that the country would leave the NAFTA negotiating table altogether if the US tries to withdraw from the agreement.

The French and Italians are continually pushing for a devaluation but the Germans were clear at the ECB's inception that it would remain independent and true to its mandate - recently it has come under enormous pressure - including from your new government - to free up credit but so far moves have been relatively mild particularly compared with your own government.

The difference is made - up from interest payments that are owed to the trust funds, but that amounts to one part of the government paying another, so it is already adding pressure onto the rest of the budget.

Resentment is growing not only towards those who ran up the debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki, with its Icesave accounts, and heavily geared property owners in the Baltics and central Europe — but also towards the foreign advisers and creditors who put pressure on these governments to sell off the banks and public companies to insiders.

Resentment is growing not only toward those who ran up these debts — Iceland's bankrupt Kaupthing and Landsbanki with its Icesave accounts, and heavily debt - leveraged property owners and privatizers in the Baltics and Central Europe — but also toward the neoliberal foreign advisors and creditors who pressured these governments to sell off the banks and public infrastructure to insiders.

On Wednesday, Liberal MP Dan Tehan stepped up pressure for restrictions governing the level of foreign ownership for national carrier Qantas to be lifted, a measure Mr Abbott supports over the government buying a stake in Qantas.

OTTAWA / WINNIPEG (Reuters)-- The U.S. dairy lobby is ratcheting up the pressure on Canada as talks to renegotiate NAFTA draw closer, demanding concessions the Canadian government looks unwilling to grant, according to people familiar with the file.

The victims families have been campaigning for the past 20 years for the papers to be released and the government finally conceded to pressure after 140,000 people signed a e-petition set up by Liverpool fans.

But in a move that may pressure Mexico, Trump has ordered US government agencies to count up how much aid they are giving to that country under different programs.

We are looking to Sir Nicolas Bratza, the new British president of the Court, to stand up to political pressure, not least from the UK Government.

Since Gordon Brown's budget statement made no concessions at all to the lone parent lobby, pressure on the government grew in the period up to the bill's decisive Third Reading in the House of Commons.

The migration impacts fund was set up Gordon Brown in response to local government claims that they needed central help to deal with unexpected pressure on housing, schools and hospitals.

With the American federal government being criticized for a slow response, it has been up to the mayors of Puerto Rico to help the island and keep order and pressure on higher officials amid the devastation.

Labour has piled pressure on the Government after it emerged a review set up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy is set to avoid proposing a...

Ms Baldwin claimed her legislation had put pressure on the government to set up the commission.

To those left spluttering by what they see as the disingenuousness of it all, Nick Clegg's post-Queen's Speech pronouncements on his government's planned shake up of childcare will only raise their blood pressure higher still.

During a speech in Irondequoit Thursday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo kept up pressure on local governments to cut their budgets.

But facing media pressure, Cuomo subsequently promised that his changes would not end up costing the city any money, and were instead part of a joint program to find efficiencies in government.

Reporting from the Open Government Summit in London, where sixty countries are represented along with 300 representatives from civil society organizations, Susannah Vila and Christopher Wilson cover how those non-governmental groups are trying to use the summit to pressure their governments to actually live up to the nice promises they keep mouthing.

Soon after the News - Review broke the news of the county's findings in 2009, several government officials, including U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, began to pressure the Navy to abandon its theory that the plume would take care of itself — and to take active steps to clean up the plume.

Now is the time to keep up the pressure and show the government we remain united, strong and determined to defeat these cuts.»

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

He's ratcheted up pressure on the Legislature, using ads to warn them they would take the blame for a government shutdown if the budget isn't completed on time.

De Blasio commended sanitation workers for their role in helping the city rebuild following Hurricane Sandy in 2012, as he battles the federal government over how effectively the city managed funds provided for the Build It Back program for homeowners and faces pressure from City Council members to speed up the rebuilding of homes.

More than 30 Labour MPs signed up to an early day motion condemning the move before it was withdrawn under government pressure.

The message from the Scottish public at the 2015 UK election was that the SNP were best placed to keep up the pressure on the Cameron government to deliver on devolution.

Under pressure from lawmakers such as Rep. Tom Reed, R - Corning, and Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, the lawmakers who drew up the GOP bill allowed states to continue that expanded Medicaid program, which offered government health insurance to people earning up to 138 percent of the poverty level.

[32] Catalan government officials argued that calculation by experts showed that without police pressure and closures, turnout could have reached up to 55 %.

The pressure on the town to zone the 840 - acre island, which is federally owned and therefore not currently subject to local planning regulations, intensified when the U.S. General Services Administration suggested the government sell the land to a private developer for the construction of up to 500 houses on the property.

«If the government can find the money to postpone it for longer then all the better because it is a big pressure and of course you've also got bus and train fares going up in January too, so the cost of getting to work for people — there's an issue about whether work pays for a lot of low - paid workers.

In a speech in Irondequoit Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo kept up pressure on local governments to cut their budgets.

The government backed down and restored communications to keep the country's economy on life support, but the masses kept up the pressure until Mubarak resigned 14 days later.

If the government doesn't come up with the additional funding required to cover rising annual costs and maintain the current level of quality for every student, universities will be forced to put more pressure on the government to remove current restrictions on tuition and, in a worst - case scenario, restrict the numbers of new undergraduate enrollments.

According to the pressure group Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), the government has made up some of the shortfall with bits and pieces of new funding announced over the past 2 years, but today's # 600 million is the largest so far.

With time and money running out, Brazilian scientists are turning up the pressure on the federal government to avoid a total collapse of the national science and technology funding system before the end of the year.

Treaty talks lend added uncertainty The CDM executive board is swamped with a tight reform agenda as governments and companies pressure it to speed up its review process.

Piller and Bronshtein's work, and the follow - up pieces that came out of this investigation, applied real pressure on the government to fortify its efforts to improve clinical trial data reporting.

It's not hard for me to believe that the CIA, or whatever government agency you want, would plan these secret training exercises in order to see if one of its agents is up to the incredible demands, or pressures, of the job.

But here, Stark doesn't go quite as dark — he just ratchets up his annoying / amusing egotistical façade to cover up the fact that the metal in his arc reactor is killing him, he's under pressure by the U.S. government to give up his technology, he still has severe daddy issues, and he has to keep the world safe for peace.

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

As far as mining is concerned its like a wild west out there and so governments are under pressure by their companies not to set up a system to limit this.

The sweeping education plan proposed by President Bush last week reflects a growing political consensus that the federal government should step up the pressure on states and school districts to improve academic achievement, especially for disadvantaged children, observers say.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.