Sentences with phrase «as coalition partners»

Will the Liberal Democrats benefit or suffer from their role as coalition partners?

Without the Lib Dems as coalition partners, the Tories are free to do whatever they will to mental health budgets.

With the 57 Lib Dems as coalition partners, however, they had comfortably enough to command a Commons majority.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

«We will continue working as coalition partners in the days to come to avoid unnecessary distractions and strengthen our mutual efforts to elect more Democrats and enact the progressive agenda that remains incomplete.»

The Tories tried to sneak these changes through in March but someone conveniently forgot to inform us as the coalition partner.

We have to assume that many of those lost Tory votes went to the Lib Dems as the coalition partner with the greatest chance of winning.

The Lib Dem election campaign focused on the likelihood of there being a hung parliament and sold the party as the best option as a coalition partner for either Labour or the Conservatives, promising to stop each party lurching off to the left or the right.

Not exact matches

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

The election result was surprising to political analysts as it saw the Lega party overtake Forza Italia, its center - right coalition partner, in terms of vote share giving it more influence in the coalition and potentially at a national level.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

«As long as pro-regime forces are oriented toward Coalition and partnered forces the potential for conflict is escalateAs long as pro-regime forces are oriented toward Coalition and partnered forces the potential for conflict is escalateas pro-regime forces are oriented toward Coalition and partnered forces the potential for conflict is escalated.

The break down of the talks came as a surprise, especially as it was announced by the resurgent FDP, Merkel's preferred coalition partners who had dropped out of parliament four years ago and had ruled with her conservatives 2009 - 2013.

The so - called program calls for 100 shipping containers with laptops, furniture, and Land Cruiser vehicles will be set up as makeshift, mobile police stations in Mosul and across five liberated provinces, Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, who is director of partner force development for coalition.

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.

Distressed at the sheer scale of the demands from Brussels, the leader of Tsipras's coalition partner, the populist Independent Greeks, said he could not support a key element of the proposals that he described as «barbaric».

«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.

On the digital insurance side, Swiss Re has partnered with US - based Coalition, an MGA startup that provides up to $ 10M in cyber liability coverage, as well as App in the Air (which teamed up with Swiss Re and Chubb on a real - time flight delay insurance) and Cuvva (which partnered with Swiss Re to offer pay - as - you - go car insurance to drivers in the UK.

Yet Merkel as the senior partner in this coalition may still have wiggle room to push for greater integration.

Among the global alliances that have emerged as a result are Concert (which brings together British Telecom and the US company MCI), Global One (consisting of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom and Sprint of the USA) and World Partners, a coalition of a number of companies, including the US mega-corporation, AT&T.

A couple mainline churches (Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ, St. Mark's Episcopal Church), a Unitarian Universalist congregation, and two interfaith coalitions are listed as partners.

SNF has been working as part of a national coalition of partners, collectively known as the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC), to expand brpartners, collectively known as the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC), to expand brPartners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC), to expand breakfast.

As many of our readers know, we have partnered with The Westchester Coalition For The Hungry And Homeless to help collect diapers for their diaper closet.

Population Health Improvement Partners (formerly known as the Center for Public Health Quality) helps health - focused organizations and coalitions build organizational and community capacity to improve and sustain population health.

However, the EU's determination to stabilise the Eurozone as the Greek debt crisis deepened in 2011 with the treaty - based «Fiscal Compact» caused an early rift, not only with Merkel and other EU leaders but also with his Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

Ed Miliband's tactic, and the tactic of many of his colleagues, has been to attack the Lib Dems as the weak link - to prompt a falling - out between the party and its coalition partners.

Her impressive performance in the debate and her potential role as a decisive partner in any potential coalition government meant she gained a considerable amount of attention.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

The most likely constellation for the next Austrian government is a coalition of the People's Party with the Freedom Party as senior partner.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

Regarded as one of the most left - wing of Lib Dem Cabinet ministers, the Business Secretary is often touted as a possible partner for Ed Miliband if the party went into coalition with Labour.

This could be undertaken in a formal coalition or an informal arrangement known as confidence and supply, where a smaller party agrees to back the larger partner in crucial votes in return for policies but does not take ministerial seats.

In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory - Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner «very unattractive, very cynical».

As for the LibDems, it's a truism of coalition politics that the junior partner frequently suffers in the polls.

The correct comparison for influence is between Tory - LibDem coalition as junior partner, or supply and confidence deal (leaving aside either alternative outcomes or new electins).

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

As much fun as it would be to throw out the Tories and their coalition partners after one term, would replacing them with Labour achieve what we wanAs much fun as it would be to throw out the Tories and their coalition partners after one term, would replacing them with Labour achieve what we wanas it would be to throw out the Tories and their coalition partners after one term, would replacing them with Labour achieve what we want?

The party's «air campaign» — national messages aimed at broadcasters — proved painfully frustrating as it dawned on the leadership that they were on course to be swallowed up by their coalition partners.

The Lib Dem collapse in Wales reached the point where they finished behind the British National party (BNP) in a number of constituencies, but their five seats could leave them as prospective coalition partners for Labour.

He and his foreign secretary, William Hague, had warm words for their Lib Dem coalition partners, and ploughed a fresh furrow: that it is the Tories, as much as the Lib Dems, who have pushed for «cuddly» policies, in the language of the prime minister.

Such moves could appear to leave party leader Nick Clegg, who is seen by many voters as being wholly associated with his coalition partner David Cameron, extremely isolated.

The Liberal Democrats remain on 7.5 points, roughly where they've been all month, so there seems to be no evidence of a Budget bounce as far as the other coalition partner is concerned.

It is one thing to vote against your own manifesto (as the Lib Dems did on student tuition fees) when your coalition partner will not budge.

The Blair strategy of the 1990s is defunct because the obvious partner in the centre went into coalition with the Tories and was destroyed as a political force.

If Labour does lose its control of the Assembly and forms a coalition, Plaid is set to demand a rotating First Ministership as the price of being a coalition partner.

His radical proposal also appears designed to upset the delicate equilibrium between the coalition partners as well as appeal to Labour grass roots.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

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The Erie County Department of Social Services will join other members of the Lackawanna Stakeholders Coalition to host «Family Night Out» on Monday, March 27 at Catholic Charities in Lackawanna, an event designed to raise awareness among the public of the human needs - based services and resources available to them while bringing the partners providing those services together as well.