Sentences with phrase «coalition government began»

The resulting coalition government began moving the country toward renewable energy.

Sometimes that's an reassuring place to remember when the strains of coalition government begin to hurt.

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But almost as soon as it was founded, ISIS - K began suffering losses, as they found themselves fighting the Pakistani and Afghani governments, the NATO Coalition, and the Taliban all at the same time.

CAAT states that U.K. government data it has compiled show that since the Saudi - led coalition began airstrikes on Yemen in 2015, «the U.K. has licensed # 4.6 billion ($ 6.3 billion) worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, including # 2.7 billion worth of ML10 licenses (aircraft, helicopters, drones) and # 1.9 billion worth of ML4 licenses (grenades, bombs, missiles, countermeasures).»

People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

And in the four months since the Coalition Government was formed, I think we have begun to show that we are serious about a longer term approach to policy and politics.

The row began over the weekend when shadow chancellor Ed Balls said a future Labour government would retain the coalition's pay squeeze on public sector workers.

That leads to a coalition government and a vicious circle begins.

In the UK, a Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition government elected in 2010 began a strong austerity drive by halting and reviewing all major IT contracts, squeezing IT suppliers for costs reductions, cutting back consultancy and instituting stringent requirements for the launching of any new government IT innovations.

At the beginning of this parliament the Labour party lost precious months conducting an overlong leadership campaign that allowed the coalition government to develop its big fat lie about the global recession, while we in Labour examined our collective navel.

The Autumn Statement was supposed to be a celebratory moment for the coalition government — with its deficit - reduction strategy nearing completion and the 2015 election on the horizon, pre-election giveaways could begin.

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

After Labour had largely remained quiet about the issue in the first two years of the Coalition government, Miliband touted his speech as the first step in a new conversation, and offered extensive apologies about Labour's past policies on immigration in a bid to begin to rehabilitate Labour's public image in this policy area.

That ambition now depends on translating Labour's defining beliefs in fairness and the necessary role of government into a popular argument which could begin to rebuild Labour's coalition.

They've reached out to voters of diverse backgrounds and successfully brought together coalitions of community organizations and individuals to begin to reclaim their local governments.

The new coalition government in Britain has begun a process of attacking working class living standards through public spending cuts, slashing public services and reducing public sector pay, jobs and pensions.

In this coalition we have begun to turn the page, but the real test will come in the next parliament — when government will have to show whether or not we have really, genuinely, learnt from the mistakes of the past.

Beginning the long campaign against the government's # 81 billion spending cuts, the shadow chancellor said his party would not have implemented the «slash - and - burn» approach taken by the coalition government.

The Lib Dems had begun months before to think seriously about participating in a coalition if the electorate gave no one party an overall majority, and Cameron and Osborne had ruthlessly done a constituency audit and come to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely they could form a single - party government.

Coalitions in parliamentary democracies iron out a legislative agenda when forming a government at the beginning of the session, sometimes in writing, and mostly stick with it.

Furthermore, the rise in the state pension age to 66 explicitly contradicts the government's own programme in the coalition agreement, which promised not to begin to raise the qualifying age until at least 2016 for men and 2020 for women.

It is thought that, although continuing to warn publicly of the dangers to the economy of a hung parliament, the Conservatives may have begun privately considering how a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats could be possible.

The cuts, which began under the coalition government, have led some forces to share services while many have also reduced costs by closing police stations, reducing procurement costs and reorganising the workforce.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg formed the Cameron — Clegg coalition [1][2][3][4][5] after the former was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to begin a new government, following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010.

As a result, some began to see the solution as Proportional Representation and the essential formation of moderate, anti-extremist, inter-party, coalition governments.

Following a continued campaign, including help from thousands of PETA supporters, the coalition government has begun a review of Section 24 — the confidentiality clause — of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

«The cladding of tower blocks did not start under this government, it did not start under the previous coalition governments, the cladding of tower blocks began under the Blair government,» she said.

These Greens reached out to voters of diverse backgrounds and brought together coalitions of community organizations and individuals to begin to reclaim their local governments.

Michael Gove began this Government as one of the Coalition's most committed supporters.

A senior Conservative minister has become the first member of the government to back proposals to field coalition candidates at the next general election.His comments to The Sunday Telegraph came as both parties began a battle to bolster the coalition in the wake of a week of damaging revelations made by Vince Cable and other Lib Dem ministers to undercover reporters.

Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, is understood to have ordered his MPs to embrace their Coalition partners amid fears that strains between the two sides could begin to undermine the Government.

In comparison, our regular tracker on who people blame the most for the cuts still finds 48 % blaming Labour the most and only 18 % blaming the Coalition - suggesting that people may blame the last Labour government for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present Ggovernment for the generic need for cuts, but once specific cuts are announced they may begin to apportion more of the blame more upon the present GovernmentGovernment.

While some measures designed to make life harder for illegal migrants date back to the last Labour government, most Whitehall insiders and immigration experts point to the arrival of the Tory - led coalition government in 2010 as the moment when the «hostile environment» mission began in earnest.

Nick Clegg took a brave gamble at the beginning of this government, and bet everything on the success of a Conservative - led Coalition.

The following five years saw the last Labour government provide the money and begin the foundations of the new hospital and the demolition of the old hospital was underway before the coalition came into office in 2010.

These Greens reached out to voters of diverse backgrounds, brought together coalitions of community organizations and individuals to begin to reclaim their local governments.

The U.S. Air Force, on the basis of these declines, has already begun to assemble a coalition of government, university, and industry representatives to address the situation.

An industry coalition denounced the study as flawed almost from the beginning and took the government to court several times.

Nicosia, the Capital of Cyprus, and the only divided city in the world is situated in the centre of the Mesaoria Plain, there is nothing of interest in the Talks for a coalition government in the self - proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) are set to begin, after the right - wing National Unity

The coalition government led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has launched a 20 - year Strategic Development Plan that began in 2011 aiming at transforming Timor - Leste in the course of the next two decades, from low middle income country to upper middle income with an annual per capita income of at least $ 10,000.

«Although it's well - documented that teachers had their pay frozen at the beginning of the Coalition Government, education was actually dealt a better hand during the economic downturn than many other professions.

«We were very excited to put on the (coalition government's) priority school building programme but we were expecting an imminent development and I'm now beginning to wonder what priority means,» he said.

These children have experienced their entire school education under the coalition and conservative governments and the reforms which began under Michael Gove.

In the last 90 days, our AWS team got back to work on a big government contract, we brought 8 million square feet of fulfillment center capacity online, deployed 1,382 Kiva robots in three FCs, provided a new venue for artists to reach customers, signed up millions of new Prime members, announced Kindle MatchBook, Login & Pay, and nine new original TV pilots, joined the Code.org coalition, acquired TenMarks - a company that helps kids with math, scored a win for customers who want to use Kindles on airplanes even during takeoff and landing (also, a big hat tip to Nick Bilton on that one), began hiring and training 70,000 new U.S. FC employees to help serve customers this holiday season, and saw the Kindle Million Club grow to include 14 KDP authors.»

You play as Marcus Fenix, a former COG (Coalition of Organized Governments) soldier who begins the game locked in a prison cell.

An auctioned cap or a tax with 100 % return of the proceeds to the people is the most practical policy for several reasons: (a) it would begin real carbon reductions quickly; (b) it would be an honest and transparent way of treating the American people; (c) it would attract the broadest attainable political coalition across party lines; (d) it would be administratively simple for both the government and the private sector (with the tax or auctioned permits collected at the first point of sale or import of the carbon - containing fuel); (e) it would be a non-regressive way of introducing the carbon price into the economy; and (f) it would avoid a fiasco such as the special interest feeding frenzy that surrounded the recently failed Boxer - Lieberman - Warner bill in Congress.

After the UK general election in May 2010, the Global Warming Policy Foundation began lobbying the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government to stop subsidies for alternatives fuels and encouraged the government to abandon the UK's emissions reductions targets.

VANCOUVER — A coalition of more than 50 of British Columbia's best - known chefs convened today in Vancouver, alongside scientist David Suzuki, to call on the provincial government to protect wild salmon by terminating open net - pen salmon farm tenures opposed by First Nations as they begin to come up for renewal in June.

A new coalition of leading UK environmental and social justice groups, convened by Oxfam and NEF (the new economics foundation) and including Friends of the Earth and the Royal College of Nursing, says the government can not choose between tackling poverty and climate change; it must begin to tackle these related issues together and it must take action now.

As the new government of British Columbia begins its work, a broad coalition of legal organizations has come together to call for significant reform of BC's justice system.