Sentences with phrase «coalition colleagues in»

The benefits of maintaining stability to safeguard the remaining years in power slowly diminish as the case for the alternative - attacking one's coalition colleagues in a bid to win an overall majority at the next general election - becomes more and more compelling.

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That's why I'm thrilled to share with you a new «white paper» on food rewards in classrooms, co-authored by my blogging colleague Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids, along with Dr. Alicia Fedewa of University of Kentucky, College of Education and Anita Courtney, M.S., R.D., of Tweens Nutrition and Fitness Coalition.

Clegg insisted the British people would ultimately appreciate «we can win in the world by being open» if his coalition colleague David Cameron gets his referendum in the next parliament.

Nick Clegg mounted a strong attack on his coalition colleagues today, as the Eastleigh by - election campaign began in earnest.

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Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

I look forward to working with the coalition, and with my colleagues in the Assembly and the Senate, especially Senate sponsors Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Michael Gianaris, Election Law chair Michael Cusick, and Assemblymember Latrice Walker, all of whom have been leaders on these issues, to do the vital work necessary to strengthen this most basic aspect of our democracy.

«I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo for adding this funding to his budget proposal and recognize all of my colleagues in the legislature and the advocates, especially the Let New York Vote Coalition, who have worked tirelessly to make early voting a reality in New York.

It is worth saying to colleagues on the Government Benches who support the Government's proposals and respect the coalition agreement that my hon. Friend's amendment is not compatible with what we set out in the coalition agreement, which was a simple majority referendum, without an outcome - specific threshold.

Meanwhile, the party supports the idea that the Scottish Parliament should use its new income tax powers to raise rates in order to have more money to spend on public services (a far cry from their Westminster colleagues» advocacy of lower income tax when they were in coalition with the Conservatives).

This was to be a strength for the leadership of the coalition, especially the «Quad» and its close advisers, but also a weakness in the eyes of those parliamentary colleagues who felt uneasy with a coalition and were politically excluded.

Whether Nick Clegg (assuming he still leads his party) and his colleagues are up for a deal — either in the form of a full coalition or a looser confidence - and - supply arrangement — is another matter, which might not be resolved for some days.

Conservative MP and Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, who once lost in a by - election to the Liberal Democrats, sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

Nick Clegg has made clear he expects Conservative colleagues to «stick to the deal» in the coalition agreement, following a vote on House of Lords reform on Tuesday night in which 91 Tories rebelled.

Of course, I am always happy to discuss these issues with colleagues from either side of the House, including those in the coalition.

The people with the broadest shoulders must take the greatest burden and while the coalition agreement may have failed to spell out how exactly that should be done, we trust that you will continue to press your Conservative colleagues in government on how best this might be achieved.

«For the past two months, as part of an unprecedented coalition, NYSUT members made more than 500,000 calls from phone banks; knocked on tens of thousands of doors; and distributed literature to their friends, families and colleagues,» New York State United Teachers said in a statement.

I urge my colleagues in the Senate Republican / IDC Coalition to drop their opposition to the full, omnibus Women's Equality Act and allow this initiative to the floor for a vote.»

Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked the Lib Dems for their «broken promises» in the Commons, before David Cameron defended the «courageous and difficult decision» taken by his coalition colleagues.

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

That his Lib Dem colleague Paul Burstow was then made care services minister in the coalition administration, while Lamb became parliamentary private secretary to deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, prompted raised eyebrows.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to anger his Conservative coalition colleagues today as he hails free movement in the European Union and attacks immigration «scare stories».

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

Often referred to by colleagues as a coalition builder with a low - key personality, Heastie will be pressured to crack down on corruption in an Assembly still reeling from the Silver scandal.

He endorses the Coalition (in May 2011 as he did immediately when his colleagues disagreed with him in May 2010) in that he accepts it is a reality, so would prefer it to succeed, not fail.

Emphasing his commitment to continuing to make the rich pay more in tax, Mr Clegg said: «The priority for me, and for the whole coalition government, will be to provide real help to people of middle to low level incomes who face higher prices [and] who've had to face great difficulties because of the economic enclosure she and her colleagues presided over in government.

Ten months later he repeated this position in spades in a shadow cabinet meeting: «the shadow chancellor bluntly warned colleagues that even under a Labour government there would have to be serious cuts», perhaps referring to the Coalition's # 30 billion «hit list» being drawn up in the treasury.

Shortly before Christmas and as Liberal Democrat Lords rampaged against the Cameron - Clegg compromise on secret courts, he remarked to one colleague that the «coalition had already broken down» in the House of Lords.

The independent Democrats, who split with their mainline colleagues in 2011, say that their coalition with the Republicans allows them to push for progressive policies, but the arrangement has been criticized by Democrats in New York and beyond, particularly after Mr. Trump's election.

His colleague Norman Lamb said some Labour MPs had been «hysterical» in their reaction to the coalition.

Accused by Coalition colleague Nick Clegg of «outrageous untruths» and putting the lives of children at risk by her department's inactivity following her speech to the Tory Party conference in 2014.

I, along with my colleagues in the West Bronx Housing Coalition led by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, vow to end this practice by reforming and strengthening New York State's rent laws.»

Since 2012, the leader of the State Senate's Independent Democratic Conference has enjoyed some kind of coalition agreement with the State Senate Republicans, granting him many of the perquisites of power his former colleagues in the mainline Democratic caucus once sought to deny him.

«I am pleased to work with colleagues in government and community leaders to form the West Bronx Housing Coalition.

The militants, for example, did not pull ahead as quickly with improvised explosive device (IED) attacks, which «suggests that the coalition military counteradapts to IEDs better than to other threats,» Johnson and his colleagues noted in their paper.

Josh also joined with colleagues at the American Geophysical Union and the Aerospace Industries Association to spearhead the formation of a broad - based NASA advocacy coalition, now known as the Coalition for Aerospace and Science, and he was a community - wide leader in advocating for reforms to burdensome government travel and conference policies which have significantly impacted the AAS community's ability to collaborate effcoalition, now known as the Coalition for Aerospace and Science, and he was a community - wide leader in advocating for reforms to burdensome government travel and conference policies which have significantly impacted the AAS community's ability to collaborate effCoalition for Aerospace and Science, and he was a community - wide leader in advocating for reforms to burdensome government travel and conference policies which have significantly impacted the AAS community's ability to collaborate effectively.

I also want to thank our scientific colleagues and the coalition of community members, educators, businesses, unions, political leaders, and stakeholders in Hawaii who have brought us to the point of the granting of the CDUP.

Reframing how the legislation was written to capture that focus on «students» and «equity,» rather than «choice» or school type, enabled the coalition to attract more Democratic colleagues in the House.

Schools in our coalition have established thriving partnerships with other schools and seek out opportunities to learn from and exchange ideas with our colleagues.

Rivera Herrera and his coalition colleagues are now mounting a fundraising campaign to help the government purchase the remaining privately owned land in the corridor.

A slight digression: it was interesting to read in the Legal Action Group's (LAG's) Austerity Justice book that the coalition government dropped plans to introduce competitive tendering because, as LAG director Steve Hynes tells it, Ken Clarke was persuaded by «his old colleagues at the criminal bar».

Some of the BC Employment Standards Coalition's health worker colleagues in Ontario have launched a new campaign for paid sick leave.

MPs do need to wake up to this — a more responsible approach would be for John Hemming to persuade his colleagues in the coalition to back amendments which address these concerns.»