Sentences with phrase «dem coalition partner»

Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces targeted suspected chemical weapons sites in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

Schulz opposes becoming the junior coalition partner because this has previously impacted the party in a negative way, every time it joined forces with Merkel.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

Ministers will then be sworn in later in the day - almost six months after last September's national election in which both coalition partners lost support to the far - right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

The break down of the talks came as a surprise, especially as it was announced by the resurgent FDP, Merkel's preferred coalition partners who had dropped out of parliament four years ago and had ruled with her conservatives 2009 - 2013.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

It is plausible that the aircraft carrying out joint - operations with the Russians belonged to coalition partner Turkey.

Distressed at the sheer scale of the demands from Brussels, the leader of Tsipras's coalition partner, the populist Independent Greeks, said he could not support a key element of the proposals that he described as «barbaric».

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

While the size of the victory and Syriza's choice of coalition partner caused some angst — Greek bond yields jumped around 60 basis points immediately after results were announced — the damage to financial markets was limited.

They have been a traditional coalition partner, but you have the Greens who are on the left side of the political spectrum, you have the FDP on the right hand side of the political spectrum, and that's going to be quite a complicated coalition to put together.

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

The Protestant Religious Right, they argue, has become a coalition partner with Catholicism in the struggle against abortion.

Mr Alexander said his party would start campaigning for change immediately and if it couldn't convince its Conservative coalition partners it would made a manifesto pledge ahead of the next General Election.

One wonders how far Mr Cameron will go in order to find nuggets of pleasing news to throw to his coalition partners, in this case the Lib - Dem «Equalities Minister», Lynne Featherstone.

Also congratulated PM on Iraqi Sec Forces success against ISIS & highlighted the partnership [between] them & US military & coalition partners,» he tweeted.

However, the EU's determination to stabilise the Eurozone as the Greek debt crisis deepened in 2011 with the treaty - based «Fiscal Compact» caused an early rift, not only with Merkel and other EU leaders but also with his Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

Ed Miliband's tactic, and the tactic of many of his colleagues, has been to attack the Lib Dems as the weak link - to prompt a falling - out between the party and its coalition partners.

Mr Hague and Mr Cameron are constrained by his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, whose pro-European stance effectively blocks a British referendum on the EU during this parliament.

The Tories tried to sneak these changes through in March but someone conveniently forgot to inform us as the coalition partner.

The London mayor fired one of his strongest salvos yet against the Conservatives» coalition partners on the way down to Hampshire from the capital, in a move only likely to send coalition relations further into the mire.

«Yes, we must show people that we are different from our coalition partners.

I can't tell you much more than I already have, but suffice to say it's a little more aggressive towards his coalition partners than the extracts already out there will have suggested.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

Nick Clegg has broken ranks with the prime minister on drugs reform, just five days after his coalition partner ruled out a royal commission on decriminalisation.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

First and most importantly, there is no clear pattern whereby the smaller coalition partner loses in a grand coalition.

The result represented a 19.3 % swing from the Tories to their former coalition partners — the biggest Con - Lib switch since 1997 when Mark Oaten won in Winchester.

Thus, «one of the consequences of having a fixed - term Parliament [is] that the Prime Minister loses that bargaining power, the ability to be able to threaten a recalcitrant minority coalition partner with the consequences of an early election» (House of Commons, PCRC, 2013, HC440; Ev.

But the changes are in the interests of everyone (* except * the Conservatives, perhaps), including a viable Labour coalition partner for the Liberal Democrats, for the Liberal Democrats to have increased power against the Conservatives.

The problem is the newshounds of the press gallery are naturally more interested in internal rows between the two coalition partners.

The coalition partners were hammered at the polls last night, with the Tories falling to fifth place in Rotherham, and the Liberal Democrats coming eighth.

Major losses for the Liberal Democrats could see Ukip emerge with more councillors than the coalition partner.

Maybe some form of strategic voting could come close (first vote for a major party like the CDU and SPD, second vote for their «natural» coalition partner like the FDP or the Greens).

«It is no secret that we have different priorities to our coalition partners.

This may well happen in a non-majority Parliament when coalition partners fall out.

The Conservatives succeeded tactically and mostly at the expense of their coalition partner, the Lib Dems, by gaining 26 of their seats and 10 of Labour's, destroying Labour's ambitions to target 80 Conservative - held seats.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

Much will depend on the negotiations between the three potential coalition partners and their willingness to address the issue.

He was lucky to find a willing Coalition partner in Nick Clegg in 2010.

He needed to boost Liberal Democrat performance, especially in the party's existing seats; set out his post-election strategy to the country and potential coalition partners; and save his own seat, currently under threat according to recent polls.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, a NYSUT organized coalition, announces that it has put together a group of more than 100 coalition partners.

The junior coalition partners were predicted to lose around 50 seats but ended up ceding more than seven times that number.

After their rout in the elections and referendum, the Liberal Democrats now talk privately about «identity issues» where they diverge from the Tories, to remind voters they are a separate party, and «unity issues» on which they strongly support their Coalition partner.