Sentences with phrase «against their coalition partners»

My guess is that the way the Lib Dems have used coalition government to u-turn on promises like tuition fees, have constantly briefed against their coalition partners and have also struggled with collective responsibility will produce a lasting souring towards the idea of politicians «working together».

Not exact matches

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo war.

«A thought that I have is the United States could lead a coalition of large trading partners and allies against China, or to let China know that they're breaking the rules left and right,» Kudlow said on «Closing Bell.»

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The race saw the government's coalition partners pitted against each other, but Tory candidate Anne McIntosh won the delayed fight with 20,167 votes.

It is one thing to vote against your own manifesto (as the Lib Dems did on student tuition fees) when your coalition partner will not budge.

The party had a mixed performance in the north of England - mostly bad - and failed to offset those setbacks in the south against the Liberal Democrats, who managed to hold their own against their senior coalition partners.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

Coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats actively campaigned against changing the rate by launching a poster campaign dubbed the «Tory tax bombshell» (pictured below).

Unlike a coalition formed after an election, the partners in an electoral alliance usually do not run candidates against one another but encourage their supporters to vote for candidates from the other members of the alliance.

That means, in just one year, more than 12 million women and men will experience «intimate partner violence» — which, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is any physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.

ADLA and its partners in the Humane Legislation Coalition of Arizona in partnership with Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, worked to develop a bill that strengthens penalties against convicted animal abusers.

Laura just spent a week with a coalition partner and a Sierra Student Coalition volunteer camping and canvassing door - to - door in Juneau to get Alaskans to take action against the Chuicoalition partner and a Sierra Student Coalition volunteer camping and canvassing door - to - door in Juneau to get Alaskans to take action against the ChuiCoalition volunteer camping and canvassing door - to - door in Juneau to get Alaskans to take action against the Chuitna mine.

In January 2016, Scenic Hudson and a coalition of partners filed a lawsuit against Global, claiming that Global failed to obtain a required air pollution permit and institute necessary pollution controls when it modified its Albany facility in 2012 to allow a five-fold increase in the amount of crude oil handled at the facility and that Global has violated its air permit by handling Bakken crude, which emits far more air pollutants than conventional crude oil.

This was a very significant case for women's equality rights as it gave LEAF and its coalition partners an opportunity to elaborate on the key human rights concepts of adverse - effect discrimination and the duty to accommodate, as well as to argue against the idea of «reverse discrimination».

As a key founding partner, CFI Canada helped to launch the International Coalition Against Blasphemy Laws.

Together with law enforcement agencies, insurance companies and community partners, the newly formed Coloradans Against Auto Theft (CAAT) coalition is working to put the brakes on auto theft.

According to National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), almost 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States while more than 20,000 phone calls are received by domestic violence hotlines on a normal day across the nation.

The coalition will hope that this extra funding will prevent warring couples from representing themselves in court, which slows down the legal process and often results in vitriolic testimonies against former partners.