Sentences with phrase «chancellor over their opposition»

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Prime minister Gordon Brown has faced opposition from his own party over the plans resulting in chancellor Alistair Darling telling the House of Commons that a proposal to assist pensioners under 65 and workers with no children was under consideration.

After a dispute over «the facts» of other countries» growth figures and a remark about chancellor George Osborne having «lashed himself to the mast» - which triggered extensive laughter from the opposition benches - Mr Miliband once again returned to the unemployment record.

Over on the Labour front bench, some unease might also be gathering, since both the leader of the opposition and the shadow chancellor promise what might charitably be termed «austerity lite».

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.