Sentences with phrase «while party leaders»

Rank and file legislators are paid $ 10,000 a year, while party leaders are paid $ 12,500.

It was learnt that an altercation had ensued among some party supporter while party leaders in the area were meeting to arrive at a harmonised list of local government executives.

Supporters praise the uprising of popular politics against the shared interests of an entrenched patrician and business elite, while party leaders and pundits on both sides fear the rising tide of populist fervor.

Supporters praise the uprising of popular politics against the shared interests of an entrenched patrician and business elite, while party leaders and....

While party leader Nick Clegg has stressed his opposition to the ban, some of his MP are likely to support it.

So we have a Senator - elect mistaking a near - universal consensus for a 50/50 debate, while her party leader thinks nature is mostly responsible for rising greenhouse gas levels when it isn't.

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

YEREVAN, May 2 - The leader of a protest movement that has rocked Armenia on Tuesday called a pause in a campaign of civil disobedience while he seeks assurances that the ruling party will back him to be the next prime minister.

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

And he became a source of division and turmoil within the Republican Party, as GOP leaders navigated the challenge of supporting their party's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behaParty, as GOP leaders navigated the challenge of supporting their party's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behaparty's nominee while condemning some of his most controversial rhetoric and behavior.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green ShParty (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green ShParty — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shparty and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

The twice - a-decade leadership reshuffle saw Xi further consolidate his power, with his name inserted into the party's constitution, an honor no Chinese leader has enjoyed while still in power since Mao Zedong.

While neither Mr. Ryan nor Mr. McConnell immediately withdrew formal support for Mr. Trump, Republican leaders in Washington held anguished discussions throughout the evening about how the party should proceed with a badly wounded and potentially toxic nominee.

Andrew Weaver, BC Green Party leader, said that while what happens on the ocean is clearly a federal responsibility, spilled oil washing up on the coast is well within provincial jurisdiction.

Bloomberg's Enda Curran and Alessandro Speciale: «Enjoy the party while it lasts: That was the opening day message for the corporate and political leaders attending the [WEF's] annual meeting.

As such, some have suggested that Canadians may support domestic political parties and leaders that resemble Obama's image, while turning away from incumbent parties and leaders.

As the 2008 campaign continues to unfold, the political parties and their leaders will continue to place an emphasis on their economic policies and credentials, while, at the same time, working to downplay and discredit the plans of their opponents.

B.C. Green Party Leader Jane Sterk accused the NDP of trying to «have their cake and eat it too» by appealing to urban environmentalists while leaving the door open to a twinned Trans Mountain pipeline with a different backdoor outlet.

While his party has not had much to celebrate over the past year, Liberal leader Raj Sherman earned a small victory this week.

While Brian Jean is party leader, one of the real brains behind the operation is the venerable press secretary Vitor Marciano.

While the UCP does not yet have any official policies, or even a permanent leader, it is seems clear that Fraser is uncomfortable with the direction that the province's largest conservative party is heading.

Gaius is probably the most influential of the Elder's friends and supporters in his own community, while Diotrephes is the leader of the party hostile to the Elder.

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

He called on new government leaders to «stop all the violence by whoever commits it,» while appearing to criticize the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition party.

While police in Overland Park, Kansas, stopped short of labeling the Sunday attacks a hate crime until they were further along in their investigation, the suspect - Frazier Glenn Miller - is the founder and former leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party.

And while the headlines regarding churches and pedophilia remain largely focused on Catholic parishes, the lack of hierarchical structure and systematized record - keeping in most Protestant churches makes it harder not only for church leaders to impose standards, but for interested parties to track allegations of abuse.»

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Their current leader, the untypically - Tory Ruth Davidson, helps in this respect, while the collapse of the Scottish Labour Party has sent thousands of voters searching for a credible alternative.

In the process we will provide immediately useful information for party leaders while learning how best to integrate the refined expertise of our party's messaging professionals with the je ne sais quoi of our engaged rank and file.

A great man and a great leader of the Conservative Party who I had the pleasure of working for while he was leader of the opposition.

Activists distributed copies of a «Tory Brexit Budget» while wearing a mask of the former London mayor ahead of a major speech by deputy party leader Tom Watson.

Gordon Brown joked about the «snow - storm plot» to unseat him as Labour Party leader while he launched the government's growth strategy in central London.

The local Green party has announced it will not run against Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for ultra-marginal Ealing Central and Acton, while Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker is seeking a united front against controversial Tory Philip Davies in Shiparty has announced it will not run against Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for ultra-marginal Ealing Central and Acton, while Women's Equality Party leader Sophie Walker is seeking a united front against controversial Tory Philip Davies in ShiParty leader Sophie Walker is seeking a united front against controversial Tory Philip Davies in Shipley.

There is a grimly predictable ritual that takes place in British politics whereby all party leaders declare themselves in favour of improving behaviour at prime minister's questions, while doing everything they can to encourage the opposite.

In London, former Cabinet ministers Vince Cable and Ed Davey are putting themselves forward as candidates, while the party's former deputy leader Simon Hughes will stand in his former constituency of Bermondsey and Old Southwark.

As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

Those on the Left fear Momentum may prove a flash in the pan or ultimately reckless while those to the Right assert they provide, as one leader put it, the «ballast to keep our party's feet on the ground and the show on the road.».

Meanwhile the takeaway line from the SNP leader's speech, «let's resolve to put Scotland in the driving seat», like the conference slogan «PROGRESS», was vague and eminently forgettable, while there was also a weirdly hubristic section which implied the party might remain in government for «the next ten years and beyond».

The leaders of the six «main» parties (VVD, PvdA, CDA, D66, SP and PVV) each had two opportunities to debate, while the leaders of the six «small» parties (Green Left, Christian Union, 50 +, Party for the Animals, Reformed Political Party and Independents) each had the chance to debate once.

Iain Dale, the conservative commentator on LBC suggested that while Farron was of course perfectly within his rights to hold his views, perhaps if he held them he should not have put himself forward to be party leader.

I readily recall a famous quote of the late leader of our party and former President Professor John Evans Atta Mills who said «while party activists must be rewarded, we must understand that some get their reward in the morning, others get theirs in the afternoon and others in the evening.

While Tom Watson, the party's deputy leader, distanced himself from the decision in an interview on Radio 4's Today:

There is a precedent in a UK - style electoral system: In the 1989 provincial election in Alberta, Canada, the Progressive Conservative party won a majority while its leader, Don Getty, lost his own seat.

The Amherst Republican told YNN's Katie Cummings while he understands the reaction to these allegations; he doesn't believe party leaders are to blame.

But as is becoming normal the party leader Vince Cable failed to make much of an impact, while businesswoman and transparency campaigner Gina Miller committed news.

Better precedents would be James Callaghan, the former Labour prime minister, and the ex-Conservative leader, Michael Howard, who both stayed on temporarily while their parties debated changing leadership selection rules.

Edward Walsh, the former politically powerful Suffolk County Conservative Party leader, was sentenced Tuesday to 2 years in prison following his conviction on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government services for pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Suffolk sheriff's department while golfing, gambling and politicking on county time.

Thirteen months after its devolution deal was first announced, not a single candidate from a major party has come forward to stand in the city region's mayoral election next year, while local leaders have continued to question whether they should even have to introduce a metro mayor full - stop — despite the Communities secretary Sajid Javid stating explicitly that this would continue to be a «real red line» for progressing with devolution deals.

Former Labour leader says Corbyn's position is untenable, while party's deputy Tom Watson seeks talks to avoid «civil war»

Nassau district attorney investigators arrested Gerard Terry, a former North Hempstead Town Democratic Party leader, on April 12, 2016, who, public records show, amassed nearly $ 1.4 million in state and federal tax debts while receiving government jobs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.