Sentences with phrase «as a minority government for»

As a minority government for the past three years, the Conservatives could not govern with complete independence for fear of losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

Many Tory backbenchers have contemplated a third possibility, in which the Lib Dems drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement in which they allow the Conservatives to remain in power as a minority government for the 12 months before May 2015.

Not exact matches

While Wynne's minority Liberal government said a CPP enhancement was still Ontario's «preferred approach» to strengthening the retirement income system, the new provincial plan was touted as the next best thing as governments deal with aging populations and people who aren't saving enough for the future.

Every minority - government budget is to some great extent a political document, purpose - built for two contradictory goals: persuading at least one opposition party to support it to keep the government afloat, while also serving as a de facto election platform if no one bites.

Among its suggestions is a recommendation that all levels of government use procurement programs as a means to support small and medium enterprises and minority - owned businesses, including requiring supplier diversity policies for federal crown corporations and agencies.

One might have thought the Martin government would remain in power for about as long as the two Pearson minorities — that is, nearly three years.

It proved a good move for the Conservatives, who gained 25 seats and formed a new minority government, as well as for the New Democrats, who added 10 MPs.

That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

The party is pushing to overcome a surge of support for the Liberals that seems to threatens any chance of the Conservatives winning a majority government and potentially a minority as well.

Sadly our culture has been destroyed by the French government over the years, as was the case for every European ethnic minority in the French territory.

Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western governments have recognised as the legitimate representative body for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.

«Already it is difficult for us as minorities to retain our government jobs.

Even if a minority of parents actually use them as a sleep space, etc. there is still no way that a government body would hand out an inherently dangerous product for all new citizens over eight decades.

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).

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.

Goldie secured more police officers, a freeze in council tax and new approaches to drug treatments as part of her support for the budgets of Alex Salmond's previous minority government.

I thought for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a minority government with no formal agreement.

Ghanaian firm, Smarttys Management and Production Limited, has rejected claims by the NPP minority MPs that it was contracted as the country representative for the Chinese firm that allegedly over-bloated the cost of a government electrification project.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) government should be apologizing to Ghanaians for its inability to fully implement the free secondary education policy as promised over the years, the Minority in Parliament has stated.

Plaid Cymru, the official opposition, having put forward Leanne Wood for election as first minister would have sought to form a minority government with its 12 AMs.

As Salmond pointed out this morning, he is «one of the few leaders» in British politics who has the experience of running a minority government (he did so in Holyrood for four years).

Green groups have held weight for quite some time now, of course, and to a large minority of conscientious voters their pronouncements about the government's behaviour have been a cause to vote, or not vote, as the case may be.

Nearly every Democratic senator considering running for president in 2020 voted against reopening the government, as furious liberals accused Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of selling out the base in the immigration fight.

Deputy Minority Leader, James Avedzi, has mocked President Nana Addo's appointment of over 100 Ministers to steer the affairs of his government, saying he may as well appoint Ministers specifically for Whatsapp and Twitter if need be.

And while I sympathize with his frustrations regarding «the holes in his roads and in the county budget», for most in the community know that I, as a minority legislator, have been one of the most prominent voices in county government trying to stop financial missteps over the past few years.

The Labour MP also branded the Government as a whole «institutionally racist» for introducing policies which she said «disproportionately» affect minority groups.

Lynne served as Chairwoman of the Health & Human Services Committee for four years, as well as serving as Vice Chair of the Public Safety Committee, Government Affairs Committee and Minority & Women Business Enterprise Committee.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

Turnbull also argued that Democrats deserve credit for saving taxpayers money by fighting to renovate, rather than replace, the county Government Center, and that Jeff Berkman — a Middletown legislator who preceded him as minority leader — had pushed with Middletown's Democratic mayor, Joe DeStefano, to extend the county's Heritage Trail through Middletown.

«Even if the stars had aligned in such a way as to make a minority Conservative government a real possibility, the choice David Cameron made to enter a coalition would still have been the right one, both for the country and for the Conservative Party.»

The Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia's new appetite for borrowing describing it as shameful because he criticized the Mahama government for same reasons.

They believed — just as many Conservatives hoped — that Cameron could and would take office in a minority government and prepare for a second election a few months later to give a clearer result.

Nigel Farage also insisted he would require a pledge to hold an in - out referendum before August 2015 as the price for propping up a minority Tory government.

[21][clarification needed] He subsequently became MP for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104, [22] when Harold Wilson took over from Edward Heath as prime minister of a minority Labour government.

The Minority in Parliament has described as illegal, government's decision to allow the Scholarship Secretariat to administer funds for the implementation of the free senior high school policy.

He said on ITV: «In the interests of the country we are willing to form a government — a minority government — to put forward a programme, a Queen's speech, as well as an alternative budget and an alternative programme for the Brexit negotiations.

The danger lies in the fact that when our government fails in its obligation to protect «inalienable rights» as provided for in our constitution the end result — as we have repeatedly learned from our past history — is always violence by the unrepresented minority towards the overriding majority.

Meanwhile, the congressionally chartered Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology Development is holding public hearings (the next will be held 7 December at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland) and is formulating a report on specific strategies for how to deal with the slow pace of change in academia as well as business and government.

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She served as Governor Jeb Bush's deputy chief of staff for education, enterprise solutions for government, minority procurement and business and professional regulation.

Especially when you consider that Alabama Republicans in control of state government have worked for the past decade to disenfranchise minority voters through efforts such as closing motor vehicle branches in Black communities, a key way of frustrating voter registration.

As any student of American history knows by now, the federal government has more - often been used as a tool for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than for transforming schools and communities for poor and minority childreAs any student of American history knows by now, the federal government has more - often been used as a tool for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than for transforming schools and communities for poor and minority childreas a tool for promoting the racism that is America's Original Sin (especially in education policy) than for transforming schools and communities for poor and minority children.

107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

Under the conditions of high concentration of ownership and weak legal protection for small - and medium - sized shareholders in China, the distribution of dividends can be used as a way to limit large shareholders» ability to expropriate minority shareholders» rights or improper government intervention in the listed companies.

Silence is not an option when your government does not speak for you or when a country such as Cameroon has no art schools or museums; or when in South Africa hierarchies of apartheid and exclusion privileged only a minority to officially partake in art; or when in Ethiopia, the communist military junta which overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 also undid his work as patron of the arts, turned the art school into a socialist realist propaganda machine and jailed or killed all dissident voices.

So Canada will once again drop off the radars, Stephen Harper will be polite and much more careful about what he says in public, a certain chief of staff named Guy will be looking for a new job, and we will probably continue with a minority government under Prime Minister Harper for another two years while Iggy sharpens his knives as Leader of the Opposition.

While Ontario has fared somewhat better in that 10.9 percent of the provincial government's appointees are visible minorities, this is nonetheless out of step with the diversity of a province where, as of 2006, visible minorities accounted for 22.8 percent of the population.

As well, law firms are required to have employment equity policies and report their statistics on gender, visible minorities, aboriginals, disabled people, and others to the NSBS if they want to work for the provincial government.

The challenging political situation means uncertainty for employers as the minority Government juggles with implementing new domestic legislation, while also embroiled in Brexit talks.