That was a central election promise made by the BJP.
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After 11 months, Senate Republicans finally delivered on a core election promise.
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For President Trump, the designation debate is an election promise made good.
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"It's an election promise and he'll find some excuse later," Levi said.
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Current opinion polls suggest Corbyn has little chance of fulfilling his election promise.
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Even then, he may struggle to keep his election promise to "get Brexit done".
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The bill is the third key election promise Modi's government has delivered since August.
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That was a key 5-Star election promise and was included in the 2019 budget.
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The FDP had made abolishing the tax, which was due to expire in 2019, an election promise.
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Wednesday's charges fulfilled an election promise to prosecute Najib, whom he called a "thief" during the campaign.
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That explains Trump's impromptu pre-election promise of a new 10 percent tax cut for the middle class.
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At the same time, it's a safe bet that Israel will pressure Trump to honor his election promise.
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"It is the election promise," Ye Htut, an NLD member of parliament told Reuters ahead of the vote.
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Adding to the hostility is his election promise for a bill to strip lawmakers, and himself, of immunity from prosecution.
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The Socialists oppose his pre-election promise of a referendum for Catalonia, though Iglesias suggested some flexibility on that issue.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is focussed instead on fulfilling an election promise of returning the budget to surplus this year.
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He says it's an effort to put pressure on the feds to keep their election promise and end pot prohibition.
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However, the conservative coalition government is seen likely to stick with its election promise of returning the budget to black.
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In a round of media interviews, Hammond faced tough questions about why he appeared to have reneged on the election promise.
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Passage of the bill was a key election promise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, re-energizing his nationalist, Hindu support base.
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Passage of the bill was a key election promise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, re-energising his nationalist, Hindu support base.
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President Andrzej Duda presented the draft to make good on a 2015 election promise, leaving it to KNF to estimate the costs.
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Netanyahu, in a last-minute election promise, said he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term.
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The government has also driven up its costs by awarding public servants a big pay rise to make good on an election promise.
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It is also likely to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi achieve his election promise of providing homes for all Indian families by 2022.
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This pre-election promise from Netanyahu was widely seen as an attempt to draw right-wing votes rather than a change of policy.
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Deploying fearsome military firepower against ISIS is one way of living up to his election promise to intensify the battle against the terror group.
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Despite his 25 re-election promise of no new taxes, Malloy signed a $163 billion tax hike that falls heavily on businesses and individuals.
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"Is that realistic?" asked Chief Elaine Johnston of Serpent River about Trudeau's election promise to end boil water advisories on reserves in five years.
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AND THAT'S AN ELECTION PROMISE OF SORT OF DONALD TRUMP AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT THING TO DEVELOP AND CREATE JOBS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
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The plain fact is productivity has soared as automation has expanded, and companies aren't about to forfeit those gains in service of an election promise.
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Fulfilling an election promise, Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said that the country will stop bombing Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by February 22nd.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers voted to strip themselves of immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, fulfilling an anti-corruption election promise by reformist President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
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The economic fallout also means Morrison's government might be unable to keep its election promise of delivering the first budget surplus in over a decade.
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Its closure was an election promise of outgoing President Francois Hollande in 2012, but the company has so far managed to put off a final decision.
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Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, speedily made good (at great expense) on an election promise to resettle 25,000 Syrians, and then promised to take more.
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Then there is the pre-election promise by Mr Trump to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with all the symbolism that would involve.
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" In his address, a full copy of which was posted online about 10 minutes before he delivered it, the president recalled his original election promise of "change.
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After taking power, Moon suspended its deployment, in line with his pre-election promise to put any decision on its future to vote in the country's parliament.
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High on the agenda of the next parliament will be fulfilling a major Zelenskiy election promise: that lawmakers should vote to remove their own immunity from prosecution.
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Ramirez Cuellar's committee faces the challenge of increasing tax revenues while sticking to the election promise of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to not create new taxes.
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Last month he tweeted out thanks to an activist from BC who send all Liberal MPs a gram of weed to remind them of their election promise.
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Disheartened by the lack of will to pave a road to her medical center, Maryam makes it her election promise to do so herself if she wins.
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Disheartened by the lack of will to pave a road to her medical center, Maryam makes it her election promise to do so herself if she wins.
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The resignation left in doubt the pre-election promise Mahathir had made to Anwar that he would cede power before his five-year term ended in 2023.
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Mr Khan, although undoubtedly not in charge of the generals, has won plaudits for trying to honour his loudest election promise, which was to crack down on corruption.
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A Blue House official at the Presidential Committee on Jobs, a body Moon launched last year to fulfill his election promise of creating jobs, declined to elaborate further.
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The Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, is delivering on his election promise of a referendum on membership in the union, with a vote due by the end of 2017.
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Trump's post-election promise of "insurance for everybody" with "much lower deductibles" set up a standard Republicans had no intention of ever meeting but kept having to answer for.
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FISCAL CHALLENGE Ramirez Cuellar's committee faces the challenge of increasing tax revenues while sticking to the election promise of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to not create new taxes.
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The current government's pre-election promise to smooth the path between health and social care has yet to have much effect, says Andrew Haldenby of Reform, a think-tank.
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His election promise of "America First" -- do you get a sense perhaps he's backed down a little from his campaign rhetoric, now that he's had time to settle in?
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians voiced alarm while Israelis weighed the gravity on Sunday of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sudden election promise to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Netanyahu, in a pre-election promise last time around, said he would declare Israeli sovereignty over settlements in the occupied West Bank, a possible annexation, if he wins another term.
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If the tax breaks are delayed, maybe for months or even a full year, it would pile pressure on the government already facing criticism for possibly breaking an election promise.
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University lecturer Stella Nyanzi unleashed a series of colorful attacks on the president and his wife after he failed to keep an election promise to provide sanitary pads to schoolgirls.
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The FDP, which returned from the German political wilderness with 10.7 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, promise to cut taxes and raise investment in infrastructure, partly funded by privatisations.
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The FDP, which returned from the German political wilderness with 10.7 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, promise to cut taxes and raise investment in infrastructure, partly funded by privatizations.
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" Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, on Twitter: "The election promise of Netanyahu, who is giving all kind of illegal, unlawful and aggressive messages before the election, is a racist apartheid state.
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But Mr. Netanyahu has not been given totally free rein on settlement building, and Mr. Trump's election promise of moving the United States Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv remains unfulfilled.
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This can run until the end of December 03 under the current rules, but the Conservatives made an election promise not to extend the transition period beyond the end of 2020.
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The government enshrined in law Mr. Johnson's election promise to increase funding of the health service by 33.9 billion pounds, or about $43 billion, by the fiscal year covering 2023 and 2024.
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Sam Wang, a neuroscience professor at Princeton and part-time psephologist, kept a pre-election promise to eat an insect on live television if Mr Trump won more than 240 electoral-college votes.
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Opposition politicians have skewered Prime Minister Narendra Modi for presiding over a situation where Mallya was allowed to leave the country, mocking Modi's election promise to bring back illicit "black money" stashed abroad.
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This diplomacy is part of an ambitious effort by Zelensky to make good on an election promise to end the deadly five-year military conflict with Russia in the east of the country.
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The reasons for the muted response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-election promise on Tuesday were many: It was seen as a late-game appeal by Mr. Netanyahu to right-wing voters.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian lawmakers voted to strip themselves of immunity from prosecution on Tuesday, moving to help push through a signature election promise by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to root out corruption in politics.
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Young voters have not forgotten the Lib Dems' "betrayal" of the young in 503, first forging a coalition with the Conservatives and then abandoning a pre-election promise to oppose increases to tuition fees.
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Construction of a "grand temple" in Ayodhya has long been an election promise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won a second term with a landslide this year.
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Stella Nyanzi repeatedly accused Museveni and his wife Janet, who is the education minister, of breaking an election promise to offer free sanitary pads to schoolgirls so they do not have to skip classes.
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The uncertainty threatens to disrupt already stuttering efforts to revive a struggling economy, including Mahathir's pre-election promise to cut mounting government debt, a key benchmark of reform success for investors and ratings agencies.
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"What's guiding this is he ran to protect American industry and American workers," one of the U.S. officials said, referring to Trump's 2016 election promise to take a hard line on trade with China.
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While Scholz has the backing of Chancellor Angela Merkel, some SPD members doubt whether lowering taxes is the right strategy when the party's main election promise was to hike investment in education, housing and infrastructure.
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She was happy when the new prime minister of Malaysia fulfilled his election promise to move to repeal the fake news law passed by the previous government, even if the opposition is currently blocking it.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, he said on Sunday, reiterating an election promise made five months ago but again giving no timeframe.
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But she appeared flustered taking questions about her announcement of a cap from journalists, including one whom suggested she was "weak and wobbly" in contrast to her election promise to be a "strong and stable" leader.
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Hammond was forced into another U-turn earlier this year, when he dropped a plan to increase social security contributions by self-employed workers after uproar among Conservative lawmakers who said it broke a 2015 election promise.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland lowers its retirement age on Sunday, a costly election promise by the ruling conservatives which goes against a European trend of gradually increasing the pension age as people live longer and stay more healthy.
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Construction of a "grand temple" in Ayodhya has long been an election promise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which secured a second term with a landslide general election victory this year.
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But now that Canada's Liberal government has finally decided to fulfill one major election promise and legalize weed by July 2018, it will also have to start seriously grappling with how to minimize the associated environmental impacts.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pre-empted the whole proposal this week with his pre-election promise to annex nearly a third of the occupied West Bank — reducing any future Palestinian state to an enclave encircled by Israel.
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The STOXX Europe 600 Basic Resources index surged more than 10 percent, before paring some gains, on expectations that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will keep his election promise to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure over a decade.
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With the U.S. economy close to full employment - the jobless rate was 143 percent in October - Trump's election promise to cut taxes and upgrade the country's aging infrastructure could provide a big boost to both growth and inflation.
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For Buhari, the campaign against former militants is a part of his election promise to fix a country gripped by graft and mismanagement, but many locals in the Christian south see him, a Muslim northerner, as an oppressor.
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In his later years as leader of the Liberal Democrats, Clegg was criticised for having a "toxic brand" following a controversy over the party failing to deliver on an election promise to oppose any increase in university tuition fees.
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In most cases, the cause for a recall is clear: maybe the lawmaker stands accused of embezzlement charges, or they reneged on an election promise to voters by backing a tax increase after making a no-new-taxes pledge.
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To address the challenge of taxing the growing number of self-employed workers, Hammond said they would pay a higher rate of national insurance contributions, angering some who accused the government of breaking the spirit of an election promise.
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In his 72-minute speech, Conte said priorities would include tackling social hardship through the introduction of a universal income - a 5-Star election promise - and to stem an influx of illegal immigrants, a pivotal policy of the League.
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A compromise might actually be what a lot of congressional Republicans favor, but it may anger Trump's base if it doesn't include funding for the Mexican border wall -- a key election promise that put him in the White House.
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It noted that marijuana stores, which have been popping up in Canadian cities in anticipation of Mr. Trudeau's efforts to fulfill his election promise, are clearly illegal, suggesting that they are unlikely to be part of a new system.
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Since then, House GOP leaders and rank-and-file lawmakers have pointed fingers at their Senate counterparts for failing to do their part to gut ObamaCare, the central election promise that handed Republicans full control of government last November.
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"(In) a narrow right wing government, Netanyahu's legal problems will make him more dependent on his coalition partners, and they will press him to implement a hard right agenda, including his election promise on annexation in the West Bank," Walles said.
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They blame his government for being slow in reaching out to them after drought ravaged their crops in 2014 and 2015, making a mockery of his election promise that they would make a 50 percent profit on their cost of cultivation.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Hindu nationalist ruling party vowed on Monday to strip decades-old special rights from the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that provoked warnings of a backlash in the country's only Muslim-majority state.
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South Korea's new government announced a 0003 trillion won ($10.00 billion) fiscal stimulus package on Monday, increasing social welfare subsidies and taking the first steps to deliver on President Moon Jae-in's key election promise - to create 810,000 public sector jobs.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, propelled to power by his election promise to put "America First" and protect U.S. workers against what he views as unfair trade practices from China and others, has weakened the WTO as a forum to settle disputes.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand launched a review of its central bank's mandate on Tuesday, making good on an election promise to include maximizing employment as a monetary policy goal and providing investors with some relief by excluding currency targets from its overhaul.
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SALAGA, Ghana (Reuters) - The leader of Ghana's main opposition party, Nana Akufo-Addo, climbed from his car, picked up a microphone and made a bold election promise to give every constituency the equivalent of $1 million a year if his party wins power.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he would annex settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office in a vote on Tuesday, a late pre-election promise that would enrage Palestinians and the Arab world.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party said on Monday it would remove decades-old special rights for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, making an election promise that could provoke a backlash in the country's volatile only Muslim majority state.
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He added that given oil prices are expected to rise and dent private consumption, it made more sense for Germany to invest in its future rather than spend the budget surplus on tax cuts, a subtle criticism of the conservatives' election promise.
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If Labour repeats its 2017 election promise of 48.6 billion pounds ($62.85 billion) of extra spending on services, coupled with a new 10-year 250 billion-pound infrastructure plan, public spending would hit 43.3% of GDP, significantly above the 1970s average, it said.
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Olivier Schneider, head of French Bike Users Federation FUB, said the new fund falls well short of President Emmanuel Macron's election promise of 200 million euros per year, but he said he hoped it would spur cities into building new bike lanes.
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Mr. Hammond said the government would raise the amount that about 1.6 million self-employed Britons have to pay into social security, breaking an election promise but helping to build an economic defense against possible economic shock brought on by the British exit.
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Mass disqualifications of reformist candidates are further undermining the chances of political and social change to match Iranians' expectations of a better economic life after Rouhani fulfilled his other election promise - to end international sanctions on the country under a nuclear deal with major powers.
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The phone call was made just after Trump took office, and the US President was fuming at Turnbull over the deal, which contradicts his election promise to ban people arriving in the US from Muslim-majority nations and to suspend the country's intake of refugees.
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If Labour repeats its 2017 election promise of 48.6 billion pounds ($62.85 billion) of extra spending on services, coupled with its new 10-year 250 billion-pound infrastructure plan, public spending would hit 43.3% of GDP, significantly above the 1970s average, the Resolution Foundation said.
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Son's pledge to Trump to invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 new jobs was light on details but spoke to the president's election promise to boost economic growth by making deals with individual companies, rather than through complicated trade deals.
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Under pressure to deliver on an election promise to help improve transport links outside London, the government agreed to help Flybe, in contrast to a similar test last September when it took no action to help save the much larger travel company Thomas Cook.
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Under pressure to deliver on an election promise to help improve transport links outside London, the government agreed to help Flybe, in contrast to a similar test last September when it took no action to help save the much larger travel company Thomas Cook.
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If Budapest won, Hungary would become the first Eastern European country to welcome the Summer Games in the post-Communist era.. Hamburg pulled out after a negative referendum result in 2015, while Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi ended her city's bid last year to honor an election promise.
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Comments like those from the president have ignited furious criticism from his hard-line, anti-immigrant supporters who accuse him of caving to demands for cheap foreign labor from corporations, establishment Republicans and big donors while abandoning his election promise to protect his working-class supporters from the effects of globalism.
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The latest boost for Modi came on Saturday, when the Supreme Court handed Hindu groups control of a contested site where a 16th-century mosque was razed over two decades ago, paving the way for the construction of a temple there that has long been an election promise of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Those demands included Mr. Trump's election promise of ending the Afghan war, the Taliban's sensitivity about not fracturing their forces, the Afghan government's need to be seen as having the support of its main ally and sponsor, and Qatar's wish to get credit for hosting the long-running talks at a time when neighboring countries have ganged up on it in with a blockade.
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