Sentences with phrase «as a bloc with»

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If Britain stays in a customs union it must agree to apply the same tariffs on imports from outside the EU and can not negotiate free trade deals with other nations, as the government currently hopes to do once the U.K. leaves the bloc.

At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs union.

May has said she wants a bigger majority in parliament to strengthen her hand as she goes into negotiations with the rest of the European Union about Britain's exit from the bloc.

Among the pundits, the New York Times» Paul Krugman has come out behind Clinton, while Noah backs Obama, on the grounds that if all the plans are, as Noah maintains, gradually introducing socialized medicine, there's no point in antagonizing a large bloc of voters with a mandate.

Even after the proposed cut, agriculture would remain the largest spending area, with deeper cuts pencilled in for infrastructure investment in the bloc's poorest regions as well as research.

With three - quarters of the vote counted, as of 9:00 a.m. local time, the early results showed that no one party or bloc would have a majority of votes enabling it to govern alone.

May's government has worked hard on pushing the idea that the U.K. could sign a free trade agreement with the United States, but, as the Guardian reported, EU diplomats have said that «while no one can stop Britain from talking to future trade partners, any concrete attempt to negotiate free - trade agreements before Britain leaves the bloc could rapidly sour Brexit negotiations.»

Therefore the fall in sterling can be seen as a simple recalibration of what constitutes the natural rate of exchange once Britain has left the EU — with the expectation that trading and transaction costs will be higher as British exporters become subject to new tariffs once outside the bloc.

With an energy - related rebound in inflation fading, signs of improving economic conditions need to be put into perspective — despite the strong performance of Germany, the bloc's largest economy — as the output gap across the region as a whole remains large, and so does the slack in its labor market.

Many global companies with a footprint in the U.K. have been grappling with the same tough decision: stay put or move to protect their access to the EU in the event their current ability to conduct business, as well as hire European nationals, seamlessly across the 28 - member trading bloc becomes compromised post-Brexit.

OECD countries as a bloc are forecast to grow a little faster in 1993 — perhaps by about 2 per cent, compared with around 1 1/2 per cent last year.

And finally, Canada's minister of international trade is looking south — way south — as he sets his sight on entering into trade negotiations with South America's Mercosur trading bloc of nations this week.

But if these approaches always showed up in coherent form with coercive intent, as they would in a bloc or a sect, the republic would suffer.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Dictating the pace and pattern of political policy was Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region who held sway in Kaduna as leader of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, the party that with its allies formed the largest bloc in the federal parliament.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Although Bo is identified with the elitist bloc for his time in Liaoning and as Minister of Commerce, during his tenure in the interior city of Chongqing, he adopted a number of populist policies more typically associated with the left.

Unlike Gibson, who has gone to great lengths to portray himself as a political pragmatist, both Teachout and Faso are strongly associated with the left of center and right of center, respectively, which could make it difficult for them to appear to a key voting bloc: independents.

Second, in November Ulrich also said that he expected to vote as a bloc, albeit a small one, with the two other Republicans in the new council.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

So the plausibility of the claim rests upon the idea that we should be identified with Labour as a «progressive bloc».

Long regarded as a Republican stronghold, the New York State Senate currently includes 30 Republicans, 28 Democrats and five «swing» seats who identify with the Independent Democratic Caucus but typically vote with the Republican bloc.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Then, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ensuing decades saw this demographic flip, with Southern whites becoming a core constituency of the Republican Party and the African American community voting as a bloc for Democrats.

For the Republican Conference, a conservative bloc hailing mostly from the suburbs and upstate, the IDC is a lifeline: As long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statAs long as it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue statas it remains on good terms with the IDC's leader, State Senator Jeff Klein, the GOP will not plunge into the minority in an increasingly blue state.

Skelos's approach to deal making with Cuomo, as well as a five - member bloc of Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference, angered grassroots conservative voters in New York, who were especially upset over the gun control legislation passing the chamber.

While smaller incidents with European - style black blocs and «antifascist» groups had occurred before, many leftists perceived Trump as an actual fascist takeover, requiring even violent resistance.

The austerity measures in the eurozone's third - largest economy come as France seeks to capitalise on the redrawing of European power - relations with a new intra-EU bloc that would effectively create a two - tier union.

Johnson said the CBC and black voters should use their leverage as a voting bloc to work with Trump instead of always toeing the Democratic line and being taken for granted by party leaders.

The EU has also helped cement peace in Europe since the Second World War and gives members more weight when negotiating trade deals with other major trading blocs such as North America and China.

Downing Street and David Davis's Brexit department are understood to see Britain's intelligence expertise as a key asset in negotiations with the bloc.

The House Republican anti-terrorism bill that includes Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin's gun measure yesterday remained on hold, with no timeline for passage, as House Speaker Paul Ryan worked to overcome opposition from his party's conservative bloc.

(WP)-RRB- ******************* Very likely!If, as expected, the Supremes» right - wing bloc, with possibly Kennedy joining, stike down the mandate, the Obamacare, ACA, will collapse.The mandate was a sop to the private insurance giants, in return for their lukewarm support for the ACA.The mandate would have given the private insurers up to 20 - 30 million new customers, with a large percentage subsidized by the feds.

So far, Trump's approach to the media, labelled as the MSM (Mainstream Media) by predominantly right - wing and / or libertarian demographics has played well with his core voter base who believe that the media bloc are part of a larger coordinated conspiracy against him and the right wing in general.

NatCen study shows «pick - and - mix attitude to EU», as 88 % of Britons back free trade with bloc but 69 % support customs checks

The Democrats, as you'll recall, didn't cast any votes for Tier VI — with the exception of the four - member IDC, which voted no in a bloc — because they walked out of the chamber to protest the redistricting bill.

Sharon Belton - Cottman and Theresa Harris - Tigg — who have been part of a voting bloc with Nevergold — will serve as vice presi...

This is a bigger possibility than it might seem as Plaid Cymru could negotiate en bloc with the SNP and Greens.

The South, voting as a bloc on measures that challenged slaveholding interests and augmented by defections from Free State Senators with Southern sympathies, was able to tally majorities.

«Scientific partnerships, spearheaded by Norway, with Eastern Europe's Communist bloc in the 1970s served as a foundation for international cooperation on environmental pollution despite ongoing Cold War frictions,» says Rothschild, an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Since then, this strategy has become a staple of US politics as state legislators redraw voting blocs with tortuous creativity.The two predominant approaches to gerrymandering are often referred to as packing and cracking.

The reform is not sealed, as the Parliament must now negotiate with the Council of Ministers, which represents the bloc's 28 member states.

For example, he relates how, as a member of the Southern farm bloc in Congress, he has had to struggle over sugar subsidies with corn - syrup lobbyists in his state.

Also returning are festival favorites such as the Saturday Morning Cartoons program that comes complete with free breakfast cereal, a number of short film programs including an all New England based horror bloc, and the always popular music video program.

Using carefully sculpted carrots as tools, Dyrehauge stamps raw canvases with gridded fields of colored dots and marks, creating iterative blocs of rhythmic patterning that meet, bleed and coalesce in organic and dynamic motifs.

Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jirí Kovanda, Karel Malich, Zdenek Sykora and others map the historical events as well as the personal stories of the protagonists of the Czech «second avant - garde» and the «neo-modernism» of the former socialist bloc.

In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, a tendency of the 1990s and 2000s has been to deny responsibility operational legitimacy in artistic practice and violently push it out as incompatible with and foreign to the post-Soviet context, eagerly privileging its diametrical opposition — irresponsibility — as the only appropriate and fitting for the contemporary moment.

Re-elaborated in science fiction pieces, with extraterrestrial enemies and robots representing the enemy of the Western capitalist bloc: the communist as equal, but different.

Gopnik calls Gerhard Richter abstractions, en bloc, «schlock», which is worse than childish, buffoonish and moronic, it's simply wrong, as anyone with a real involvement with art instinctively knows.