Sentences with phrase «as dup»

As the DUP are hunting Conduits left right and centre, they have overrun Seattle with security systems, high walk ways, scanners, searchlights and checkpoints to hunt down the so called «Biosterrorists».

The Electoral Commission has confirmed to openDemocracy that in the European referendum, where the whole country was treated as a single constituency, donations made to a Northern Irish party such as the DUP could be used to fund campaigning in Scotland, England and Wales, and yet Northern Irish secrecy laws still apply to this cash.

High - February 5th: Powersharing breakthrough - Deadlock over the devolution of policing and justice powers finally ended as the DUP and Sinn Fein cut a deal.

As the DUP manifesto proclaims: «This is Northern Ireland's opportunity to contribute and shape British life like never before.»

The replacement of the more moderate UUP and SDLP by the DUP and Sinn Fein as the largest parties polarised the situation further, making a resumption of devolved government considerably harder, as the DUP formally refused even to hold talks with Sinn Fein.

We've put many hours into EVE: Valkyrie on the Oculus Rift and while the PS4 isn't quite as adept at rendering the graphics as a duper high end PC, it only takes a few minutes until you're so absorbed that you don't notice graphical fidelity at all.

Not exact matches

The last election was held in 2011 and saw the right - wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) win the most seats (38), and republicans Sinn Féin elected as the second largest party (29).

It didn't really work as a baked good, but it thickened and warmed and was super duper delicious that way, too.

A also highly recommend a using a cut - resistant glove, as mandolines are super duper sharp.

It's delicious cooked, roasted and even raw, it goes amazingly well with other spring veggies, such as green peas and spinach, and it's super duper good for you!

It's super duper yummy and I hope you enjoy as much as I do!

If you would like to make a super duper fuss over your cookies (as I did for the photo above), trim their edges with a [cookie cutter 2 inch].

As you know this blog would be super duper boring without all of you.

This off - season, Team Greco merged into Team Maione, as many Players joined the Chicago Men's League leaving one - super duper power, who would become the # 1 overall Seed — Team Maione.

You can now continue putting your bag lining together as usual, only with the addition of a super duper fantastic zippered pocket!

But DUP MPs have notoriously poor attendance records and at least one senior Lib Dem MP believes the party could hold the «balance of power» for votes on areas of mutual interest, such as housebuilding.

Sinn Fein have called on the DUP to agree to power sharing by the deadline and chief negotiator Martin McGuiness has written to Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain to confirm he will serve as deputy first minister if asked.

Having emerged as the dominant parties in the assembly election, the DUP and Sinn Fein have until March 26th to agree on a power sharing arrangement or the British government will suspend devolution in the province.

Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson is back as Northern Ireland's first minister, after claiming his wife's scandal did not pose a legal threat to him.

«March 26th is cast in stone,» Mr Hain stressed, giving DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness until midnight on Sunday to come forward as first and deputy first minister.

Unless DUP leader Foster agrees to quit as first minister, at least temporarily, a Stormont election will be triggered within weeks.

Elections were held on March 7th, returning the DUP and Sinn Fein as the two largest parties.

That the biggest leap forward in the Brexit negotiations was created by an emergency tactical manoeuvre by May responding to the DUP shows the negotiations follow the formula of «Brexit by cock - up», with little regard to what is best for the country as a whole.

As the dishevelled Tory - DUP agreement struggles to nail down its Brexit strategy, intellectual property seems destined to be left by the wayside.

Which is odd seeing as she won the election, albeit she lost her majority and had to buy a new one from the DUP.

As with the Tories Labour would also call on the DUP and Liberal Democrats first if those parties were sufficient to yield a majority, on the basis that the SNP will be harder for Labour to do a deal with, especially given their differences over Trident.

What the Conservatives need is for the Conservative / Unionist (adds to the Conservative majority) to do well against the DUP and for Sinn Fein to do well as they won't take up their seats (adds to the Conservative majority).

The DUP (28 seats) and Sinn Féin (27 seats) emerged from the 2017 elections as the two largest parties.

Moreover there is an additional 5 % chance of an outcome in which Labour and DUP would command a majority but Labour might prefer the support of the Liberal Democrats instead or as well in this situation.

However, a senior DUP source dismissed speculation about Dodds as «complete nonsense», indicating she was too young to be in the House of Lords.

Last night's meeting of local party members voted 108 - 84 against a motion which pointed out the demonstration was also attended by some Conservative and DUP MPs, as well as Tory peer Norman Tebbit.

Moreover there is an additional 6 % chance of an outcome in which the Tories and DUP would command a majority but the Tories might prefer the support of the Liberal Democrats instead or as well.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) may have weathered a storm in recent years as they fought to make powersharing work, but they now face a tough test to make progress in Northern Ireland's Westminster elections.

The DUP could also oppose Tory plans to cut winter fuel payments; Foster has pledged to «resist any assault» on what it sees as an important universal benefit in Northern Ireland.

The Greens and Sinn Fein are furthest to the left; the SNP and Plaid Cymru occupy the same position to the left of Labour; the SDLP adopts the same position as Labour (its MPs informally take the Labour whip in the House of Commons); the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland adopts the same position as its sister party, the Liberal Democrats; the Conservatives are on the centre - right, followed by the DUP and the independent Unionist MP, with UKIP furthest right.

(Note that UKIP don't appear, as there's practically no chance of them winning more seats than the DUP.)

The DUP instinctively perceive the «special status» demanded by Sinn Féin as a backdoor to remaining in the EU and, ultimately, Irish reunification.

The Lib Dem leader Tim - Nice - But - Everyone - Sins got ousted as leader of the Liberal Democrats for his views on gay sex and the DUP are now the most powerful small party in Britain despite theirs.

The DUP had been angered over the last few days after details of their assembly members» finances were leaked to the BBC, suggesting that some of them would face financial hardship if their salaries were cancelled as a result of the deadline being missed.

Aside from their mutual support of orange men, on issues such as abortion and marriage equality both Pence and the DUP's respective views are deeply rooted in a fundamentalist interpretation of Christian scripture.

Given the Conservatives distasteful campaign, the unrelenting politicisation of Corbyn's relationship with the IRA, their call for an end to the «unfair» prosecution of British soldiers for crimes committed during the Troubles and their present desire for a deal with the DUP, one might be forgiven for wondering how a Conservative government might ever expect to be perceived by nationalists as independent guarantors of the Nothern Irish peace process.

Sinn Féin ministers in a Dublin administration would thus have to act as honest broker between themselves and their DUP opponents in Belfast.

He relaunched the group along with the new vice chair Suella Fernandes MP, and it took off with a flourish, persuading, as Baker put it, «Sixty Conservatives plus colleagues from the DUP, Labour and UKIP» to sign a statement saying that ««The UK must leave the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Customs Union», the so - called «Single Market»» — the position we now know as hard Brexit.

A pact among the two largest unionist parties in Northern Ireland — the UUP and DUP — also virtually guaranteed a knife - edge result, with the contest framed as a battle between nationalism and unionism, or «Green and Orange».

The Conservatives» working majority has torpedoed the DUP's plan to extract as many concessions for Northern Ireland as it could from a Westminster government.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

At the moment, the Northern Ireland Assembly is run by the DUP's Peter Robinson as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister.

Ms Villiers, generally perceived as detached from local affairs, caused consternation in Belfast by openly campaigning with the DUP ahead of the EU referendum.

In this case, although all five parties are in the power - sharing government, the DUP and Sinn Féin are acting as if they are «the government» and the UUP, SDLP and Alliance are «the opposition».

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has described the meetings as «defining and critical» as his party claimed it had done all it could to placate the DUP.