Sentences with phrase «coalesced around a position»

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One of the party's MPs I've spoken to recently was keen to point out that, as the SNP's policy position was independence or bust, it was up to «civil Scotland» to try to coalesce around a third devo - max option.

This would have begun back in the autumn, with the shadow cabinet and PLP coalescing around a clear position, spoken of publicly only as one of a number of options under consideration: continued membership of the single market with immediate application of an emergency brake on immigration, and a drive for serious reform to free movement.

«The plan would be to look at the candidates and their positions and if someone has a clear lead, we would like to coalesce around that candidate,» he added.

I was in a position to build bridges and to open lines of communication and to find consensus and policy things that folks could coalesce around.

«Republicans in this country are coalescing around a uniquely dismissive position on climate change.

I didn't mean that all scientific issues have been settled — far from it — but rather that we face a situation of seeking a negotiated climate policy in a situation in which one of the major parties, to quote National Journal, appears to be «coalescing around a uniquely dismissive position on climate change.»