Sentences with phrase «been in power for»

He said that when a new government came into power after another had been in power for a long time, policy change was inevitable.

This probably flows from the fact that Labour has been in power for 13 years, and attitudes to the party are more fully worked out, while the opposition Conservative Party attracts a more general reaction of belief or disbelief to the promises put forward by David Cameron.

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, was surprised the government after having been in power for one year, does not yet know that the two terrorist suspects have been granted refugee status.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

Since the leaders of our town have been in power for so long, they have forgotten what having a Town government is supposed to mean.

Mr Blair offered a fresh face in 1997, and change from a bunch of tired - looking Tories who had been in power for 18 years.

The LDP has been in power for over fifty years, with one brief interlude in 1993.

The current opinion poll lead, while encouraging, is sustained during a period when the Labour Party has been in power for ten years, is prosecuting a deeply unpopular war and has a departing leader.

«We have a government that has been in power for 20 months, yet they don't have timetable to conduct Local Government election.

Questioned about the details of the 55 % proposal, he still has the justified response to fall back on that the government has only been in power for three weeks.

I do not propose to speak about what the NDC stands for, save to make the point that the Party had been in power for eight years and it was when they had lost power and were in opposition that they met and decided they were Social Democrats.

«There seems to be a preponderance of the People Democratic Party members standing trial because they had been in power for 16 years, they had access to the public treasury and abused the trust reposed in them.

Buhari has been in power for nearly three years and he continues to blame the past government.

According to the angry supporters, Constituency Chairman S.A. Alhassan, who has been in power for the past 16 years, has broken all regulations to contest the constituency elections unopposed.

David Laws said: «Labour has been in power for almost ten years, so it seems extraordinary that in the twilight months of Blairism, John Hutton should be calling for a review of such an important problem.»

«There is no better symbol of an out of touch, authoritarian and failing government that has been in power for far too long.»

It will be us heading towards mid-term territory, a government that has been in power for six years.

He pointed out that in 2008 Prof. Mills was voted for while current president Mahama was also voted for in 2012 stressing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been in power for 8 years unlike the claims of John Mahama that he requires another 4 years to conclude developmental projects he's started.

And eventually, when they have been in power for a while, they will lose touch, they will forget what it was like not to have power.

President Akufo - Addo last week complained bitterly about how section of Ghanaians are criticizing his administration and expecting results from him as though he has been in power for more than five years.

the left have been in power for 3 months — enough said.

Having been in power for five years, the party will now struggle to survive as a relevant political force.

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years.

These words come from a government which has been in power for three years, armed with the mandate to fight corruption and rebuild the economy, but has chosen to invest in excuses.

Country: Uganda When: Feb. 18 Why you should pay attention: President Yoweri Museveni has been in power for about three decades and is looking to secure another five year term, which analysts expect him to win.

Addressing a durbar of chiefs and residents of Tarkwa in the Western Region Tuesday, the President said critics of his government speak as though he has been in power for more than five years.

«As the Deputy General Secretary of the party, NPP has been in power for 11 months they have neither given me a car nor fuel same.

In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

«One of the differences is that was when the Conservatives had been in power for 17 or 18 years.

child poverty: Labour has been in power for twelve years and has failed to achieve even its own goals on this.

Many of the oldest state leaders are constitutional or absolute monarchs or presidents who have been in power for a long time.

Fair enough about the inequality, but Labour had been in power for ten of the previous 14 years, and not even to question the ability of late - 70s Labour to tackle inequality is pretty breathtaking in its myopic partisanship.

Mr Cameron concluded: «There is a time in the life of every government when they've been in power for so long that complacency tips over into arrogance, and arrogance even becomes indifference to the law.

Christianity has been in power for many centuries in one form or another, whether it was the Roman Catholic Church that sought political dominance in Europe, the Christianized culture of the medieval period, the Inquisition that persecuted heretics, or the modern nation state of Europe that went to spread Christianized culture to its colonies.

Perhaps because they have been in power for so long, they think they can set the terms of the debate.

Even as he led a party that had been in power for almost 40 years, his campaign tipped their hat to an energetic campaign south of the border by using the slogan «Change that works for Albertans.»

Mathiot told the Guardian that in northern France, the left has been in power for so long that it had lost the habit of «being in political competition.»

However, current leader Kim Jong Un has only been in power for about three years, which raises the possibility that the nation could have swayed from that policy, DeTrani said.

«How can the Liberals call this leadership when they were in power for many years and did nothing?»

Protestors in Egypt began their fight on Jan. 25 against President Hosni Mubarak, who was in power for almost 30 years.

Stalin and Hitler would be in power for everrrr and everrr.

And he said that unless «progressives» join forces, the Tories will be in power for the next 25 years and have free rein to devise what Brexit Britain looks like.

As one minister put it to me «Until the exit poll we assumed we would be in power for the next fifteen years.

Get this right, and the Tories should be in power for 10 years.

A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has warned that the Conservatives could be in power for the next 20 years.

He accused the NDC of being in power for seven years and yet taking loans amounting to GHS200 billion without investing in productive sectors of the economy.

Dokpesi lamented that, «today the Party which we all boasted to be in power for 50 years is now in the minority at all level of governance in the country.

The Tories will win the next election by a landslide and will be in power for a generation as both the other parties fragment.

The Labour peer added that his party is suffering after being in power for 13 years and that he was «not as fearful» of a hung parliament as others.