Sentences with phrase «with members of the coalition»

Texaco spokeswoman Faye Cox: «We do agree with the members of the coalition that the Kyoto protocol... is not going to responsibly address the goal of controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

Together with members of the Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, West Coast LEAF has written Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several key Cabinet Ministers regarding the promised national public inquiry on violence against Indigenous women Read More

Together with members of the Coalition on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, West Coast LEAF has written Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several key Cabinet Ministers regarding the promised national public inquiry on violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Not exact matches

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

«The disruptions we saw in Q1 this year and even at the end of last year were incredibly significant,» said Greg Northey, director of industry relations with Pulse Canada, a member of the Ag Transport Coalition.

«We've been working closely with the Coalition for Better Ads and industry trades to explore a multitude of ways Google and other members of the Coalition could support the Better Ads Standards.»

Under Day, the party had virtually collapsed, with seven members of its caucus joining a coalition with the Tories.

Thousands of brand - new members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) may very well be the ones who decide on whether Germany will be governed by a grand coalition with Angela Merkel at its helm.

«I'd say the level of alarm is still very high with respect to the package of changes as a whole,» said Dan Kelly, a coalition member and president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

In brainstorming with the members of the Arizona chapter of Christians for Biblical Equality, I saw frustration in their faces as they talked about the seemingly insurmountable popularity of organizations like the Gospel Coalition and Acts 29.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

The coalition of industry associations, of which FPA is a member, sought clarification on the scope of the Conflict Minerals rule with regard to chemical compounds derived from tin, tantalum and tungsten

For example, several ISEAL members have come together to form the Global Living Wage Coalition, and ISEAL is working in partnership with The Sustainable Food Lab and GIZ on the Living Income Community of Practice.

THE Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) hailed members of the militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Bikol (KMB) or Peasant Movement in Bicol together with the Sararong Inisyatiba nin Kahinwanmaan na Wasakon ang Agrokemikals na Lasong - GMO (SIKWAL — GMO) who uprooted Golden Rice yesterday, August 8, in an experimental lot at the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit No. 5 at Pili, Camarines Sur in Bicol region, Philippines.

Therefore, Starbucks is one of the founding members of The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a diverse industry coalition led by Conservation International with the call to action of making coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product.

Bumble Bee is also a founding member of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation — a first - of - kind initiative in the U.S. involving a coalition of retailers, non-profit organizations and food and beverage manufacturers with a mission to help reduce obesity, particularly childhood obesity.

Each year, members of the Connecticut Elks Association work with local Safe Kids coalitions to host safety events at schools, churches, Fire Departments, Police Departments and elsewhere.

Baby Milk Action, the International Baby Food Action Network and the Baby Feeding Law Group, a coalition of 23 leading health bodies including the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, have been working with MEPs and Member States to bring about an overhaul of these regulations for over 20 years — aware that mothers have been misled by the aggressive promotion carried out by the baby food industry.

As the executive director of NYSHEPA, Nancy ran an 800 member - strong coalition and advocated at the local, state and federal level for numerous nutrition and physical activity measures including school nutrition standards, calorie labeling, trans fat ban, Complete Streets, breastfeeding bill of rights, nutrition standards for fast - food kids» meals sold with toys, Safe Routes to School, nutrition standards for foods marketed to children, and the sugar - sweetened beverage tax.

The Northumberland Breastfeeding Coalition is comprised of members from our community, who have come together with a common goal of supporting breastfeeding moms.

«A mother who has a glass of wine with dinner or one beer when she goes out is not an issue or a problem,» said Marsha Walker, a registered nurse and a member of the board of directors for the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition.

In lobbying individual members of the state Legislature, the coalition supporting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's push for universal pre-Kindergarten is coming prepared with district - by - district statistics breaking down who benefits.

Sen. Malcolm Smith's desire to join forces with the Independent Democratic Conference and bolster its members» effort to form a coalition government with the Republicans makes a lot of sense — from his standpoint, at least.

Members of the Fair Elections coalition — including Citizen Action of New York and the Sierra Club — will be protesting outside the Chop House tonight to express their disappointment with Grisanti.

In the New Statesman, George Eaton noted that the UK Conservative Party (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direction.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

At the same time, there are five members of the Independent Democratic Conference who have worked with GOP lawmakers in the past through a majority coalition.

Their open seats are predicated on the plan to have Democrats unify in the Senate chamber amid a push to have the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference form a coalition with the 23 - member mainline conference of Democrats.

Holding only 84 seats in the parliament, the Socialists engineered a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a mainly ethnic Turkish minority party, which had 36 deputies, thus securing a total of 120 votes in the 240 - member parliament.

Because it became public so swiftly, some members of the IDC have floated the idea of remaining a separate conference but splitting off from Republicans to join a new coalition with mainline Democrats in January.

Savino, one of five independent Democrats who have formed a coalition with Senate Republicans, told The New York Observer's Politicker that one of the impediments to public financing are ex-council members who are current legislators in Albany.

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

Also at 11 a.m., the New York City Coalition for Adult Literacy hosts a press conference with Assembly members Ron Kim and Pamela Hunter to call attention to the elimination of adult literacy classes from the governor's executive budget, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Monday did not rule out further primary challenges to members of the Independent Democratic Conference and derided their coalition with the Senate Republicans as a «false majority.»

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

In this environment, members of Congress have little need to build coalitions across voters with different sets of political preferences or values.

Currently, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have the same amount of members — 31 each — but the Democrats are divided, with eight members in a breakaway group that forms an informal ruling coalition with the GOP.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

Assembly Member Jim Brennan and Senator Marty Golden, the bipartisan sponsors of the transit funding lockbox bill, stood today with a broad coalition of transit advocates in the -LSB-...]

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

Back in September I co-authored an article in the Guardian with Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass, about the need for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between Liberal Democat and Labour members.

Our answer is that this year with a weakened leadership after five years of coalition with the Conservatives the social liberal nature of their MPs and members will matter much more.

A coalition of citizens and civic organizations, including members of the Buffalo Common Council, New York State Assemblyman Michael Kearns, and CNU continue to call for the Skyway to come down and the replacement of urban sections of Route 5 through Buffalo with a surface boulevard.

His coalition with Republicans for control of the Senate has resulted in larger offices for members and significant say over what bills come to the Senate floor, which can include money for individual IDC member districts.

The focus from liberal advocates has been on the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which remains a key bloc of votes in the Senate chamber and has in the past worked in a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.