As a minority government for the past three years, the Conservatives could not govern with complete independence for fear of losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.
Many Tory backbenchers have contemplated a third possibility, in which the Lib Dems drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement in which they allow the Conservatives to remain in power
as a minority government for the 12 months before May 2015.
Not exact matches
While Wynne's
minority Liberal
government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement income system, the new provincial plan was touted
as the next best thing
as governments deal with aging populations and people who aren't saving enough
for the future.
Every
minority -
government budget is to some great extent a political document, purpose - built
for two contradictory goals: persuading at least one opposition party to support it to keep the
government afloat, while also serving
as a de facto election platform if no one bites.
Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of
government use procurement programs
as a means to support small and medium enterprises and
minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies
for federal crown corporations and agencies.
One might have thought the Martin
government would remain in power
for about
as long
as the two Pearson
minorities — that is, nearly three years.
It proved a good move
for the Conservatives, who gained 25 seats and formed a new
minority government,
as well
as for the New Democrats, who added 10 MPs.
That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a
minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing
for Harper insofar
as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.
Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal
government allows a small
minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue —
for use
as a soap - box to disseminate their views.
The party is pushing to overcome a surge of support
for the Liberals that seems to threatens any chance of the Conservatives winning a majority
government and potentially a
minority as well.
Sadly our culture has been destroyed by the French
government over the years,
as was the case
for every European ethnic
minority in the French territory.
Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western
governments have recognised
as the legitimate representative body
for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian
minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.
«Already it is difficult
for us
as minorities to retain our
government jobs.
Even if a
minority of parents actually use them
as a sleep space, etc. there is still no way that a
government body would hand out an inherently dangerous product
for all new citizens over eight decades.
The
government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to
minority faiths
as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak
for some other
minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).
This election has been a disaster
for them,
as it has too
for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price
for locking themselves into a secure majority
government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory
minority administration.
Goldie secured more police officers, a freeze in council tax and new approaches to drug treatments
as part of her support
for the budgets of Alex Salmond's previous
minority government.
I thought
for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and
as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a
minority government with no formal agreement.
Ghanaian firm, Smarttys Management and Production Limited, has rejected claims by the NPP
minority MPs that it was contracted
as the country representative
for the Chinese firm that allegedly over-bloated the cost of a
government electrification project.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP)
government should be apologizing to Ghanaians
for its inability to fully implement the free secondary education policy
as promised over the years, the
Minority in Parliament has stated.
Plaid Cymru, the official opposition, having put forward Leanne Wood
for election
as first minister would have sought to form a
minority government with its 12 AMs.
As Salmond pointed out this morning, he is «one of the few leaders» in British politics who has the experience of running a
minority government (he did so in Holyrood
for four years).
Green groups have held weight
for quite some time now, of course, and to a large
minority of conscientious voters their pronouncements about the
government's behaviour have been a cause to vote, or not vote,
as the case may be.
Nearly every Democratic senator considering running
for president in 2020 voted against reopening the
government,
as furious liberals accused Senate
Minority Leader Charles Schumer of selling out the base in the immigration fight.
Deputy
Minority Leader, James Avedzi, has mocked President Nana Addo's appointment of over 100 Ministers to steer the affairs of his
government, saying he may
as well appoint Ministers specifically
for Whatsapp and Twitter if need be.
And while I sympathize with his frustrations regarding «the holes in his roads and in the county budget»,
for most in the community know that I,
as a
minority legislator, have been one of the most prominent voices in county
government trying to stop financial missteps over the past few years.
The Labour MP also branded the
Government as a whole «institutionally racist»
for introducing policies which she said «disproportionately» affect
minority groups.
Lynne served
as Chairwoman of the Health & Human Services Committee
for four years,
as well
as serving
as Vice Chair of the Public Safety Committee,
Government Affairs Committee and
Minority & Women Business Enterprise Committee.
First elected to the House of Commons in 1922
as the MP
for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour
minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.
Turnbull also argued that Democrats deserve credit
for saving taxpayers money by fighting to renovate, rather than replace, the county
Government Center, and that Jeff Berkman — a Middletown legislator who preceded him
as minority leader — had pushed with Middletown's Democratic mayor, Joe DeStefano, to extend the county's Heritage Trail through Middletown.
«Even if the stars had aligned in such a way
as to make a
minority Conservative
government a real possibility, the choice David Cameron made to enter a coalition would still have been the right one, both
for the country and
for the Conservative Party.»
The
Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia's new appetite
for borrowing describing it
as shameful because he criticized the Mahama
government for same reasons.
They believed — just
as many Conservatives hoped — that Cameron could and would take office in a
minority government and prepare
for a second election a few months later to give a clearer result.
Nigel Farage also insisted he would require a pledge to hold an in - out referendum before August 2015
as the price
for propping up a
minority Tory
government.
[21][clarification needed] He subsequently became MP
for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104, [22] when Harold Wilson took over from Edward Heath
as prime minister of a
minority Labour
government.
The
Minority in Parliament has described
as illegal,
government's decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds
for the implementation of the free senior high school policy.
He said on ITV: «In the interests of the country we are willing to form a
government — a
minority government — to put forward a programme, a Queen's speech,
as well
as an alternative budget and an alternative programme
for the Brexit negotiations.
The danger lies in the fact that when our
government fails in its obligation to protect «inalienable rights»
as provided
for in our constitution the end result —
as we have repeatedly learned from our past history — is always violence by the unrepresented
minority towards the overriding majority.
Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and
Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies
for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia
as well
as business and
government.
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Minority Business Entrepreneur (MBE) magazine is published bi-monthly by Enterprise Publishing Inc. and serves as a nationwide forum for minority and women business owners, corporations and government agencies concerned with minority and women business enterprise deve
Minority Business Entrepreneur (MBE) magazine is published bi-monthly by Enterprise Publishing Inc. and serves
as a nationwide forum
for minority and women business owners, corporations and government agencies concerned with minority and women business enterprise deve
minority and women business owners, corporations and
government agencies concerned with
minority and women business enterprise deve
minority and women business enterprise development.
She served
as Governor Jeb Bush's deputy chief of staff
for education, enterprise solutions
for government,
minority procurement and business and professional regulation.
Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state
government have worked
for the past decade to disenfranchise
minority voters through efforts such
as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.
As any student of American history knows by now, the federal government has more - often been used as a tool for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than for transforming schools and communities for poor and minority childre
As any student of American history knows by now, the federal
government has more - often been used
as a tool for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than for transforming schools and communities for poor and minority childre
as a tool
for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than
for transforming schools and communities
for poor and
minority children.
107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal
Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in
Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal
Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status
as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services
for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.
Under the conditions of high concentration of ownership and weak legal protection
for small - and medium - sized shareholders in China, the distribution of dividends can be used
as a way to limit large shareholders» ability to expropriate
minority shareholders» rights or improper
government intervention in the listed companies.
Silence is not an option when your
government does not speak
for you or when a country such
as Cameroon has no art schools or museums; or when in South Africa hierarchies of apartheid and exclusion privileged only a
minority to officially partake in art; or when in Ethiopia, the communist military junta which overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 also undid his work
as patron of the arts, turned the art school into a socialist realist propaganda machine and jailed or killed all dissident voices.
So Canada will once again drop off the radars, Stephen Harper will be polite and much more careful about what he says in public, a certain chief of staff named Guy will be looking
for a new job, and we will probably continue with a
minority government under Prime Minister Harper
for another two years while Iggy sharpens his knives
as Leader of the Opposition.
While Ontario has fared somewhat better in that 10.9 percent of the provincial
government's appointees are visible
minorities, this is nonetheless out of step with the diversity of a province where,
as of 2006, visible
minorities accounted
for 22.8 percent of the population.
As well, law firms are required to have employment equity policies and report their statistics on gender, visible
minorities, aboriginals, disabled people, and others to the NSBS if they want to work
for the provincial
government.
The challenging political situation means uncertainty
for employers
as the
minority Government juggles with implementing new domestic legislation, while also embroiled in Brexit talks.