Sentences with phrase «party members supported»

We know that more Labour Party members supported David Miliband for the leadership rather than Ed.

All are Independence Party members supported by Democrats.

Just over half of Tory party members support the death penalty compared to under ten per cent of Labour and Lib Dem members and a fifth of SNP members.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

I can't claim to be a natural cheerleader for the Gord although, naturally at the time as a good Labour Party member I supported him with all the grim determination that he seemed to manifest for hanging on in there as prime minister.

Labour party activists have endorsed an emergency motion calling for a UN resolution to be in place before party members support the expansion of British bombing of Isis targets in Syria.

Most Conservative Party members support Ed Day's regime, but if party members don't get out to vote on Tuesday a renegade candidate supported by a Ramapo faction of the party could take the line.

Not exact matches

The delivery company is supporting the USO's Holiday for Heroes program, which sends care packages and hosts holiday parties for service members deployed in Southwest Asia and remote locations.

The bloc is holding key elections in several member states at a time when rising support for anti-euro and anti-European parties threatens the current political system.

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Despite receiving the support of local Conservative members and several leading Tory MPs, Goldsmith's decision to resign from the Conservative party in protest at the decision to build a new airport runway in his constituency meant he was barred from accessing the crucial local voter data he required.

These tools enable the bagman to launch sophisticated campaigns that identify potential supporters and move them «up the support pyramid,» from casual ally to party member to donor.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-- Three small opposition parties are calling for a boycott of a government - sponsored referendum seeking support for opposing any future European Union plans to resettle refugees among member countries.

Ms. Jansen responded that she is not a member of the federal Conservative Party and is under no obligation to support their candidates (her pragmatic reply is unlikely to appease her Wildrose critics).

B.C. Premier John Horgan's tenuous government hangs on support from three anti-pipeline Green Party members.

A motion supporting Gay - Straight Alliances introduced by Liberal Party MLA Kent Hehr was defeated in April 2014 and a private members» bill introduced by Liberal Laurie Blakeman in November 2014 derailed the PC agenda for the fall sitting.

Members of the two conservative parties also supported each other's amendments — the PCs supported 91 per cent of Wildrose amendments and the Wildrose voted in favour of every of PC amendment.

Because of his track - record as a social conservative and Wildrose supporter, Mr. Kenney might not find a great deal of support among existing PC Party members, including the 1,001 who attended the party's annual general meeting earlier this Party members, including the 1,001 who attended the party's annual general meeting earlier this party's annual general meeting earlier this year.

Carlos, in support of your point, Barry Cooper, a man described in Wikipedia as «a member of an influential group of conservative political scientists, the Calgary School», said the PC party lost its way in the second half of Ralph Klein's tenure.

EDMONTON — Alberta MP Jason Kenney says he will still pursue a unity agenda even if he wins the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race but fails to get support from party members to merge with the right - centre Wildrose party.

In September, the House Rules Committee blocked a vote on inclusion of this Amendment, signifying the gap in support for pot's expansion between conservative members of the Republican Party and Democrats.

At most, guest worker programs are a policy that a faction within the Republican party happens to support — and Gardner is a member of that faction.

Passed largely thanks to support of members from the ruling right - wing Law and Justice party (PiS), the bill is set to be formally signed into law by PiS ally and President Andrzej Duda.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

SBAL, which works to elect pro-life women to office, typically supports pro-life members of both parties.

This concept was supported vigorously by important labor and left - wing Zionist groups, including the radical Marxist Ha - Shomer Ha - Tzair kibbutz movement, the Ahdut Ha - Avodah socialist party, the Poale Zion Smol (Left Workers of Zion) party, and the Mapam party (which at one time embraced the other groups); and by such significant political figures as Haim Margalit - Kalvarisky (a member of the Zionist Executive), Bert Katznelson (a founder of Ahdut Ha - Avodah and of the Histradut federation of labor), and Henrietta Szold (the first woman member of the Zionist Executive and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America).

MPP Norm Miller's Private Members Bill, the Reducing Waste One Pod at a Time Act, passed second reading today with support from all three parties.

Members of the foodservice equipment and supplies industry often feel that the implementation of apps, online ordering or third - party delivery systems won't impact how they support their operator - customers — but they could not be more wrong.

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Baby Milk Action supporters were amongst those encouraging their Members of Parliament to support the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Infant Feeding and Inequalities, which was formed on 19 January 2016.

The party chieftain therefore implored members of the party in Nigeria particularly in the state on the need for them to remain steadfast and continue supporting the current administrations in the state and Nigeria in general.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

But in an on - stage interview with the women's magazine Brigitte on 26 June, she shocked the German media by saying, in response to an audience member's question, that she had noted other parties» support for gay marriage, and would allow a free vote at an unspecified time in the future.

Hillary Clinton said she doesn't support abolishing the death penalty but would like to see it used more judiciously, another point of contrast with the most liberal members of her party and with her nearest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Sir, as a confirmation of the fact that the flagbearer had always been scheming and plotting to side - line or remove the National Chairman, he issued a statement in support of the decision of the National Executive Committee to suspend the National Chairman indefinitely and urged all loyal party members to accept the decision.

Party members voted by 90 per cent to back the Sinn Fein leadership's motion to support the PSNI and the rule of law, and encourage the nationalist community to cooperate with the criminal justice system.

If you get right down to the marrow of it, gerrymandering is essentially a sophisticated means of exploiting rounding errors in a crude historical method of determining a political party's support via single member districts.

I have read a proposal (not supported by Mr. Wilders) to require parties that wish to participate in the elections to be democratically organised and member - based, arguing that it would make democracy less vulnerable (the wannabe - dictator could then be ousted by his own party members even if he has a majority in parliament).

He said Zellner has the support of the committee members who will actually vote at the party's reorganizations meeting next month.

Joanie Mahoney, the Republican Onondaga County executive and first woman to hold that post, is the latest member of her party to announce support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, YNN's Bill Carey reports.

The former Labour MP won the support of 71 per cent of Labour Party members in his head - to - head contest with former city councillor Steve Bedser.

As a Council, we are appalled at some individuals within the ruling party, including a sitting Member of Parliament, whose tacit support and actions seems to be providing oxygen for these criminal elements to carry out these acts of impunity, having the potential of not only casting a slur on their own party leadership and government but undermining the authority of the Presidency, thus eroding the confidence and goodwill that Ghanaians have reposed in the new administration.

An individual congress member can side against their party in support of a bill.

And there are three reasons why they are likely to attempt to stick to this position: they know there are dangers in policy U-turns (think Lib Dem commitments to oppose student fees); commitment to the renewal of Trident is entrenched in some parts of the party, even if key members of the leadership understand the downsides; and it would be seen as weakness if they succumbed to pressure from smaller parties with less credibility and electoral support.

With these levels of support, the party has ostensibly become a prominent member of the Western European populist right, which includes parties sharing a populist anti-establishment appeal and a negative attitude towards immigration and European integration.

The call currently has the support of Party members from 24 CLPs and the Socialist Health Association.

Miliband took the biggest gamble of his time as leader yesterday when he confirmed that only individual union members who actively opt - in to supporting Labour would contribute to the party, rather than the current system of an automatic «affiliation» fee paid by three million union members.

He has the support of 2006 GOP gubernatorial nominee John Faso, who carries some weight among party members, but it's unclear if that will be enough to put Malpass onto the ballot.

The trio insisted that the Leader of the Opposition had won the support of party members because he offered «an alternative to the austerity driven divisions within our economy and society».