Sentences with phrase «back benchers with»

In addition to providing back benchers with an additional 1.5 inches of legroom, headroom in the aft quarters is up by 0.6 inch and shoulder room grows by 1.8 inches in all locations.

It's so great to be a back bencher with no Ministerial ambition and be able to say that.

Not exact matches

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

This battle with his back benchers plays right into the hands of his main leadership rival, Boris Johnson.

Against this background, the Conservative back benchers» attempt to repeal the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in order to promote their party's vested interests, just like the Prime Minister's attempt to shape devolution with much the same aim in mind, appears ill advised.

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

And the revolt goes beyond the front bench with a BBC poll showing 63 per cent of Labour back benchers are against the plan.

While admitting that she had not read Labour's manifesto in detail Ms Sturgeon added: «I would be seeking to build alliances with parties like Plaid Cymru and the Greens and back benchers...

State law effectively gave Silver the power to choose a new comptroller — and he tapped DiNapoli, an Assembly back - bencher with zero experience in finance.

This wack would make a good back - bencher / advocate, but his temperament is toxic... if he didn't have his own money he couldn't get a job bussing tables in a greasy spoon with that nasy - assed «tude.

Back benchers who are a bit cranky or eccentric can be dealt with much more easily than a free thinking, common sense type.

The government's focus should be on investment in the thousands of early years providers in England, not fiddling with 160 grammar schools to appease a couple of dozen back - benchers.

(6) the necessary but unknown qualities of time and trial - and - error effort to solve such problems, conflict with fulfilling the incentives for becoming a bencher, e.g., becoming a judge or obtaining other government appoints, or formally establishing the fact of one's success and popularity, and giving back to the profession the benefit of one's years of experience, and being re-elected as a bencher;

My comments along with those of other back benchers are at the end of the review.