Sentences with phrase «as a minority administration»

It may not be good for the future of politics but needs must and it may be enough to ensure the Party wins enough seats to have a hope of forming another coalition or going it alone as a minority administration.

The alternative would be to end the coalition and run as a minority administration, but press the Lib Dems to vote on individual measures, a system known as confidence and supply.

If the Conservatives go forward as a minority administration, they will fill all the ministerial positions themselves.

There is also a deep antipathy in Labour to the Liberal Democrats for having joined with the Tories, prompting some senior Labour politicians to argue that in event of a hung parliament, they would prefer to try to govern alone as a minority administration.

It's true that they have made a net gain of five councils, including some that really sting like Hammersmith and Fulham and others, like Merton, which they ran already as minority administrations.

The Conservatives, led by Donna Jones, have run the authority as a minority administration since 2014.

The Conservatives will continue running Portsmouth City Council, as a minority administration.

Not exact matches

Trump pointed to low unemployment numbers for women and minorities as proof that his administration is helping communities improve their economic circumstances, saying West recognizes the progress.

It's also possible that Harper, himself, could pull the plug on his minority administration at some point before the next fixed election date — just as he did in September — although such a move would make an utter mockery of Harper's own, now - tarnished, fixed - election law.

According to the report which cites sources from the administration, the ban will mostly focus on Muslim refugees from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen as it includes an exemption for «religious minorities» who are being persecuted.

When the refugee program resumes, the Trump administration plans to prioritize refugees who have undergone persecution as a religious minority.

«As a female and minority professor, I know that my views have been solicited by the administration in its quest for greater diversity,» she stated.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

Barring a political deus ex machina, the only question that now remains is will the Tories manage to secure a majority, or will they be returned to government as part of a coalition or a minority administration.

This will allow the successful nomination of Carwyn Jones as first minister, and the establishment of a Labour minority administration.

The ongoing detente between mainline Senate Democrats and the Cuomo administration continued on Tuesday as Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul held a joint rally in support of Planned Parenthood.

Reading, which had been a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition, is to be run as a minority Labour administration after the Green party abstained in the leader vote.

In the days after Trump's victory, Cuomo has asserted himself as a prominent defender of immigrants and minorities in New York, saying the state would be a «refuge» during the Trump administration.

As my administration works every day to attract new investment and grow our existing economy, we never lose sight of the importance of expanding opportunities for minority and women entrepreneurs.

As The Washington Post recently reported, «the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials

But Jenkins lamented that the commission, now full of Astorino political appointees, is not acting proactively as it was intended to, lacks a full - time executive director and added that he would work to re-establish advocacy offices for minority groups, which, he said, have also been marginalized under the Astorino administration.

According to Diaz, who chairs the Senate's Puerto Rican / Latino Caucus, Sampson has appointed Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan to serve as assistant minority leader for Senate Policy and Administration; Sen. José Peralta to serve as Senate Democratic Conference minority whip; and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, to serve as chair of Senate Minority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing Cominority leader for Senate Policy and Administration; Sen. José Peralta to serve as Senate Democratic Conference minority whip; and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, to serve as chair of Senate Minority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing Cominority whip; and Sen. Adriano Espaillat, to serve as chair of Senate Minority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing CoMinority Business Development and as the ranking member of the Senate Housing Committee.

«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»

Conservative campaigning sought to highlight what they described as the dangers of a minority Labour administration supported by the SNP.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit predicted recently that «whichever of the main party leaders fails to get into No 10 after the election, Mr Cameron will make full use of his rights as a sitting tenant and carry on as prime minister — but of a Conservative minority administration».

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmental goals.

A hung parliament, leading to electoral reform as the price the Lib Dems will try to exact as a condition of supporting a minority administration, could be the key.

Schumer, the Senate minority leader, predicted the Trump administration's revised order will be challenged in court, as well.

Bloomberg administration officials have characterized the sex ed mandate as an effort to improve the lives of minority teenagers.

That lack of response demonstrates the difficulties looming for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration as it seeks to respond to a water crisis in a predominately minority city of 30,000 residents, many of whom are poor.

«As Minority Leader during [President Lyndon Johnson's] Democratic administration, my responsibility has been to propose Republican alternatives,» said Minority Leader Gerald Ford, R - MI.

Former aides, including Steve Cohen, have been informally searching for people and the governor has also been looking for talented staff among the staffs of Democrats in the U.S. Senate, where they are about to be in the minority, as well as the administrations of departing governors, including Maryland's Martin O'Malley.

Whilst David Cameron may become Prime Minister next year with an overall Conservative majority in the Commons, any administration he forms will start its life as a minority government in the House of Lords.

The Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Dr. Athony Akoto Osei, has described as petty, President Mahama's request for the disclosure of the cost of the cedi redenomination exercise undertaken in 2007 by the then NPP administration.

In her letter to de Blasio, James described the human - rights agency as a disaster — a stinging charge against an administration that has positioned itself as a defender of minorities and the poor.

Labour's initial attempt to re-nominate Carwyn Jones as first minister of a minority administration after the 2016 assembly poll election failed, when opposition parties united to back Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood instead.

The governor's announcement was cheered by lawmakers from minority neighborhoods as well as by civil rights groups, who are increasingly looking to Albany and to Washington in an effort to rein in what they see as overly aggressive tactics on the part of the Bloomberg administration.

(CNN)- A congressional tactic described as a «freight train» to run over the minority party could derail any hopes of bipartisanship with the Obama administration, some Republicans warn.

On the other hand, you still have to say something to your inquisitive relatives and friends, so I did come up with a few choice things in answer to the «What are you going to do when you're done» question: science policy; educational policy; working for funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, or the Packard Foundation; teaching at a minority - serving institution; university administration.

Smith wrote that Bienenstock also worked to expand opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM while serving as associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Clinton administration.

It is puzzling, then, that a coalition of prominent civil rights organizations last week issued a statement criticizing the Obama administration's current emphasis on chartering as a strategy to turn around low - performing schools and bemoaning the heavy concentration of charters in high - minority areas.

The federal government's chief civil - rights official last week defended his performance, and that of the Reagan Administration as a whole, against mounting criticism of the Administration's efforts in protecting the rights of women and minorities.

But the fact that the administration has blessed moves by states such as Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia have enacted race - and class - based socioeconomic targets (including the so - called Cut the Gap in Half approach structured by the Education Trust) that define proficiency down as well as damn poor and minority kids to low expectations also proves lie to Duncan's statement.

As Dropout Nation noted back in January, DeVos and her team are going to use every tool available in their collaboration in the Trump Administration's low - grade ethnic cleansing against poor, minority and immigrant communities.

Further evidence of how the Obama administration's waiver gambit is rendering poor and minority kids invisible is clear after one reads through the Education Trust's latest report, which partial reverses its support for the waiver gambit (and largely disavows its troublesome role in helping the administration, as well as Florida, in instilling Plessy v.Ferguson - like accountability targets).

While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minority kids.

He later served as a tenured professor of educational administration at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Los Angeles, and was Director of the Future Teacher Institute and National Director of the Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.