Sentences with phrase «came to power in»

Yew came to power in 1965, when he set out to achieve two primary tasks.

The Liberals came to power in 2015 on the back of some very big promises.

In Dunmore, agricultural workers were excluded from labour relations legislation in Ontario when the Conservatives came to power in the 1990s.

The other important exception to the appointment practice is of course Quebec, which has not appointed a Queen's Counsel since the Parti Quebecois came to power in 1976.

From the Pacific a significant decision has prompted a new Grundnormon the judgment of the Fiji Court of Appeal which resulted in the President suspending the constitution and reappointing the interim executive that came to power in the coup.

The process has been especially galling to many in light of the platform of anti-corruption and transparency that Erdoğan's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP, or Ak Partı — «White / Clean Party» — as they prefer to be known, in Turkish) successfully campaigned on when it first came to power in 2002.

Putin came to power in a desperate situation for Russia.

US President Barack Obama, who came to power in his first term with the promise to deal with climate change, was noticeably coy about the issue in recent years.

Despite his promise following his re-election in 2011 to govern in a «humble» and consensus - seeking way, many believe the political process has instead become less transparent and more top - down since his party first came to power in 2002.

The family lived in a wealthy area of the city, but when Hitler came to power in 1933 Ernst decided to move his family to England for safety.

When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, business was empowered and labor was belittled.

Freud moved to Britain in 1933 with his parents after Hitler came to power in Germany.

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, many works in private collections were seized by the government.

In Germany Arnold Schoenberg (1874 — 1951) was forced to flee to the U.S. when Hitler came to power in 1933, because of his Modernist atonal style as well as his Jewish ancestry.

When Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 this breed as well as Borzoi was labeled «bourgeois», and the number of these dogs decreased critically.

The Pope and Mussolini tells the story of two men who came to power in 1922, and together changed the course of twentieth - century history.

Juan Peron, a Nazi sympathizer with fascist leanings came to power in 1946.

The number of teachers has fallen by 2,000 from 53,000 since the SNP came to power in 2007 and Mr Russell said recently this trend was unlikely to be reversed.

Tony Blair came to power in 1997 on a promise of standards and not structures.

When the Coalition came to power in 2013, however, Australia saw very little substantive change of position in relation to schooling policy.

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

There has been much discussion between the international community, Thai government, and Myanmar government concerning the repatriation of the 150,000 Burmese refugees in Thailand since President Thein Sein's nominally civilian government came to power in Myanmar in 2011.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

Nevertheless, it suggests that the new government, which came to power in a general election last August and is led by the Democratic Party of Japan, is enthusiastic for the project, say Peter Krizan, a physicist at the Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Critics claim that the government has used the trials to bully critics, including academics with political views different from those of the religiously conservative AK Party, which came to power in 2002.

The agreement is the first major international political deal made by the nation's new leader, Kim Jong - un, who came to power in December 2011 following the death of the previous incumbent, Kim Jong - il.

Former Home Secretary Jack Straw recalls the battle to bring the age of consent for gay men in line with that for heterosexual couples after Labour came to power in 1997.

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

He had been Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since the Tory - led coalition came to power in May 2010 until he dramatically resigned two days after Budget in March 2016.

Michael Fallon has written recently in the Sevenoaks Chronicle that when Labour came to power in 1997, the constituants of Sedgefield and Sevenoaks each received # 66 per head funding from the government.

The Labour government planned to build a third runway at Heathrow, but that was scrapped when the coalition government came to power in 2010.

When Labour came to power in 1997 Reid served as Minister of State for Defence.

The Federal Government and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, the party under which Governor Peter Obi came to power in Anambra State are in a...

They personally came to power in order to amass wealth for themselves which some of us saw clearly and we decided to go against them.»

Jammeh came to power in a coup in 1994 and his government established a reputation for torturing and killing opponents.

The New Deal programme was funded by a one - off windfall on utility companies shortly after the party came to power in 1997.

«It was the first time the opposition party came to power in our history and the first time an incumbent president lost election.

When the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) came to power in 1981, it sought co-operation with the TUC but it did not receive the support it wanted.

Jerry Rawlings, r, seen with US President Bill Clinton, came to power in a coup but won subsequent elections

On the government's strategic defence and security review, he said that when the Labour government came to power in 1997 and set up a similar review, talks went on for 18 months.

The Labour government came under fire from unions at this week's TUC in Brighton for failing to address the «massacring of manufacturing» in Britain, which has seen 1.5 million manufacturing jobs lost since they came to power in 1997.

When the coalition came to power in 2010, there was a brief window in which civil liberties were exalted by ministers and some of the more draconian Labour laws were repealed.

He said Scotland's recent economic growth, which has seen unemployment fall by 50 per cent since Labour came to power in 1997, had only been achieved by a «partnership» between Westminster and the devolved government at Holyrood.

Labour was initially committed to renationalisation but the policy was dropped when Tony Blair came to power in 1997.

Labour promised to reform the House of Lords when it came to power in 1997, and under the House of Lords Act 1999 swept away the majority of the hereditary peers and replaced them with political nominees.

In a new white paper, leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw set out proposals to finish the reform of the Lords that Labour started when it came to power in 1997.

Pay freezes and below - inflation pay rises have reduced public sector workers» pay by 20 % since the coalition came to power in 2010, public sector pensions have been attacked and public services have been slashed across the country.

With most people returning to work today, the Labour leadership has been keen to focus on the «truly staggering» rail rises that have hit commuters since the Tories came to power in 2010.

He, however, said that Odigie - Oyegun's place is assured in history as the APC national chairman under whom the party came to power in 2015.

Ashcroft — who gave the Conservatives # 8m while the party was in opposition and led a drive to win marginal seats — has said he decided to write the book when Cameron declined to reward him with a sufficiently senior job in government when he came to power in 2010.