Sentences with phrase «as coalition members»

In neighboring Rheinland - Pfalz, the Greens knocked the Social Democrats (SPD) from their absolute majority, forcing the SPD to accept the Greens as coalition members in order to preserve their hold on the state government.

They organised strikes, street protests in the 1910s and 1920s, they first gained power as a coalition member in 1924, and (after a couple of splits and a period in a national government during the war) gain power in 1945.

They organised strikes, street protests in the 1910s and 1920s, they first gained power as a coalition member in 1924, and (after a couple of splits and a period in a national...

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Germany's fellow euro zone members are unlikely to welcome the spending blueprint either, as they had hoped the Social Democrats, part of Germany's governing coalition, would steer the EU's economic powerhouse away from austerity.

A founding member of the Reform Party, he quit Ottawa to become head of the anti-tax National Citizens Coalition, «on the libertarian side of the conservative movement,» as he described it.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

As a founding member of the Fair Tax Coalition, The Vancouver Board of Trade played a lead role in achieving a one - per - cent reduction in business property taxes, bringing the total tax reduction to 10.2 per cent.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

Blandin has been active on several national boards, including the Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy as vice president of the board of directors and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards as a member of the CFP Board of Governors and chairman of its national Consumer Advisory Council.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has long supported the Mayors» Council plan for transit and transportation, both as an independent organization, and as a founding member of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition.

After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.

«I'd say the level of alarm is still very high with respect to the package of changes as a whole,» said Dan Kelly, a coalition member and president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Kim also serves as a board member with the following: the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Community Business Diversity Council, the Women's College Hospital Investment Committee, and the United Corporation (a listed closed - end fund).

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

But in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 25 ruling overturning RFRA, the formerly close - knit coalition shows signs of fraying, as members bicker over what they should do now.

In brainstorming with the members of the Arizona chapter of Christians for Biblical Equality, I saw frustration in their faces as they talked about the seemingly insurmountable popularity of organizations like the Gospel Coalition and Acts 29.

But organizations such as the Christian Coalition can exacerbate the problem that its members seek to remedy.

Members of distinct religious traditions saw the issues differently, and as a result these religious groups were critical both to the formation of party coalitions and to the way individuals voted.

They were determined that Hope would not lose its Christian identity as it pursued excellence (as happened at Oberlin, for example), and that Hope would neither join the evangelically oriented Christian College Coalition, which has some fundamentalist members, nor become confessionally focused (like Calvin, for example).

Chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, said: «Accord is regularly made aware of qualified teachers who are excluded from jobs at faith schools, including serving members of staff who are forced to leave their post for behaviour deemed to go against a school's religious tenants, such as for seeking a divorce.

The churches would get on board — several already were as members of the «Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights» — and stay on board.

«We are proud to have worked alongside Members of Congress, as well as a broad coalition of public health and education groups and others in the food and beverage industry, to see this bill pass,» Neely said.

As a founding member of the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER), a coalition of leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability, in FY17 Bacardi signed the Joint Commitment on Climate Change.

As members of 1 % for the Planet and the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Khala Cloths also has a company committed to supporting environmental causes and charities.

She noted that she had made many of the recommendations in her 2006 book, Home Team Advantage, and, more recently, as part of MTI's SmartTeams program, and that the recommendations regarding process are more fully developed in the International Safeguards for Children in Sport, which MTI, as a member of a global coalition of 38 NGO's has developed over the past four years, and is now implementing worldwide.

Touted as the first of their kind, the guidelines, however, largely mirror best practice recommendations that MomsTEAM Institute has long advocated that independent sports programs adopt as part of a holistic approach to safety using a process spelled out in the International Safeguards for Children of Sports, which MTI played a part in developing as part of a 38 - member global coalition of sports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams program.

tori has since served the communities she has lived in as a member of la leche league, a WIC breastfeeding peer counselor, chair for onslow county breastfeeding coalition, and now as an international board certified lactation consultant.

As promised, members of a coalition created to oppose Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan for a longer school day will be back at City Hall this week.

Lactation consultant and Marin Breastfeeding Coalition member Susan Martinelli points to the health benefits as part of the reasoning behind the ads,

Thanks to dedicated members, friends, and board of directors who all volunteer their time to support a staff of three, the Coalition has grown into an effective statewide voice for land protection, as evidenced by the growing influence of the Conference.

As the executive director of NYSHEPA, Nancy ran an 800 member - strong coalition and advocated at the local, state and federal level for numerous nutrition and physical activity measures including school nutrition standards, calorie labeling, trans fat ban, Complete Streets, breastfeeding bill of rights, nutrition standards for fast - food kids» meals sold with toys, Safe Routes to School, nutrition standards for foods marketed to children, and the sugar - sweetened beverage tax.

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She has served as a member of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Care (CIMS) Leadership Team, and is Executive Director of Uzazi Village, a nonprofit devoted to improving perinatal health outcomes in urban communities.

Dr. Long has served as president of the DC Breastfeeding Coalition since its inception in 2004, and is a member of the Board of Directors for Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere.

TXBC board member covered by this conflict of interest policy are the coalition's members, paid or contracted staff, and those serving in volunteer leadership positions (such as committee and task force chairs and members).

As corporate members of the Tarrant County Breastfeeding Coalition, we are proud to be a breastfeeding - friendly business.

Furthermore, as the Eurogroup showed during the crisis, member states in these coalitions decide on important decisions outside the EU legal framework and without public deliberation.

In the New Statesman, George Eaton noted that the UK Conservative Party (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direction.

We can compare this performance with Conservative aims to cut the cost of politics (as opposed to government) by reducing the numbers of members of both Houses of Parliament, and the Coalition's promise to «cut the perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament» (Coalition Agreement, 2010, p. 27).

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has formerly registered as a member of Coalition for Nigerian Movement.

It is why Britain is a leading member — alongside the United States — of the coalition working successfully to defeat Daesh; why we have agreed to send 800 troops to Estonia and Poland as part of NATO's forward presence in eastern Europe; why we are increasing our troop contribution to NATO's Resolute Support mission that defends the Afghan government from terrorism; and it is why we are reinforcing our commitment to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, South Sudan and Somalia.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on Monday did not rule out further primary challenges to members of the Independent Democratic Conference and derided their coalition with the Senate Republicans as a «false majority.»

was a member of the smallest minor party in a coalition government, the country faced the existential crisis to end them all as war raged across Europe.

Meanwhile, the Scottish National Party and the Democratic Unionist Party are taken seriously by journalists as potential members of a future coalition government.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?»

If it did appear that the coalition was becoming permanent, expect the Green vote to skyrocket as a large number of voters (and members) defect.

He mentioned the support his campaign received as proof, calling it a «fusion» including members of ethnic coalitions, civic organizations, even members of his opponent's party.

On Thursday, Sistas and Brothas United (SBU) as well as members of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition dropped off signatures urging the passage of the Dream Act, which opens tuition assistance programs to undocumented immigrants.