Sentences with phrase «in this majority government»

The No campaign makes inflated claims about costs and it says it will lead to more coalitions, when the evidence is that every election since 1945 that has resulted in a majority government would have done so under AV.

Cameron's return in a majority government should usher in a new golden era for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which drafted much of Margaret Thatcher «s and John Major's agendas.

The Brit Tories want the minority Liberal Democrats to join them in a majority government.

In his latest blog, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reveals that the latest poll, for Mori / Reuters, suggests the Tories could be in majority government zone.

However, this coalition currently appears like the only option for Merkel to stay in power in a majority government.

Most if not all votes were whipped, which meant that, in a majority government, the position of the Prime Minister and his inner Cabinet invariably became the law of the...

Not exact matches

Out of a total population of around 32.5 million people, the majority are in their mid-30s or younger, according to government data.

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

«Macron has tried to strike a fine political balance to maximize his chances of building a majority, while making sure the new government has enough competent figures to launch reforms,» Antonio Barroso, deputy director of research at Teneo Intelligence, said in a note.

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

September 16 — As many as 30,000 Malaysians, the majority of whom are from the Malay community, march through Kuala Lumpur in a show of support for the government.

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

The motion, a broadly worded declaration of support for foreign policy, received 158 votes in favor, below the necessary majority of 160 votes and was followed by a chorus of opposition calls for the government to «quit, quit, quit».

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

When insurance companies demutualized in the 1990s, the government legislated that companies with more than $ 5 billion in capital had to be widely held, thereby preventing a majority takeover.

Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

«The coalition that allowed a majority to form government in March 1933 might not have been able to form had fiscal policy been more expansionary,» the researchers wrote.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

Controversy around the deal prompted the Conservative government to implement restrictions on state - owned enterprises acquiring majority stakes in Canadian companies.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

This sentiment was reflected elsewhere; a Nanos research survey showed 48 % of Canadians felt the country was headed in the right direction and a healthy majority believed Harper's government was doing an average job, at least.

«Everything would have been very difficult... but luckily a majority decided to change and overcome the resignation they wanted to put on us,» Macri added, in what appeared to be a critical reference to Kirchner's government and supporters.

Small and medium companies across the country that have contracts with the prime (think of a parts manufacturer for a car or airplane company) or with the government are eligible in the vast majority of cases.

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.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

The bank, which is majority - owned by the U.K. government, saw its first profit in a decade last February.

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

France's Finance Minister Michel Sapin has said that he wants the newly - elected President Emmanuel Macron to succeed and win a majority in the country's upcoming parliamentary election, though he insisted a cohabitation government would not hamper the country's prospects.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the company's $ 85 million in revenue depends on government funding, Virts - Mozer is confident that her firm will make it through the shutdown just fine.

Government lending data reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows the companies direct their lending toward white borrowers and white neighborhoods, even in metros like Philadelphia where a majority of residents are people of color.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

Despite its name, RBS is currently majority - owned by the taxpayers of the entire U.K., since it needed a government bailout in 2008 to make up for bad investment decisions.

Five local companies will share in a combined $ 92 million worth of contracts awarded by the state government, with the majority of the work comprising school construction jobs.

Kinsella later accepted blame for the defeat, the party's first time without a majority government in the province in 42 years.

If the Conservatives do not get a majority in this election, Canada could still get a majority government.

As Don Braid wrote in the Calgary Herald, «Alberta has become a kind of social laboratory, unique in North America, to test whether a near - majority of women in a government caucus makes a change in style and substance.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

Enbridge's Gateway (now with major Chinese government investment) has already garnered 56 % majority opposition in this province to ANY pipeline and supertanker traffic in the north irrespective of any upping of the benefits package.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Steve said «this honour really belongs to CCGG as a whole and is based on what everyone involved with CCGG has done in the last 10 years to bring the majority voting issue to light in Canada and to keep it top of mind with federal and provincial governments, the TSX, directors and the press».

Three months later, after the Meighen government was defeated in the House and another general election took place, King and the Liberals were returned with a majority.

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

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B.C. and Atlantic Canada are evenly divided over whose say should be final, while a majority in Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan say the federal government should have final say, given the wider impact of these decisions outside of the focus provinces.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.