Sentences with phrase «coalition of small government»

An unusual coalition of small government conservatives and anti-testing progressives have joined with growing numbers of parents concerned with how test based accountability is consuming their children's education.

They have built a coalition of small government republicans and pro-choice democrats, none of whom understand what is really at stake.

Not exact matches

«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Supporters of Trump's plan like the Small UAV Coalition, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, and the Academy of Model Aeronautics praised how the new drone program still designates the FAA as the ultimate authority over drones, trumping local governments.

The Small UAV Coalition echoed Johnson's concerns in a November letter to the FAA that said, «State and local governments have no authority to govern or regulate the operation of aircraft, both manned and unmanned, in the National Airspace System.»

The government may wish to consider a proposal made yesterday by a coalition of organisations, including unions and the Federation of Small Businesses.

@Stuart White: Of course there's a difference between (a) a minority government which a smaller party permits to remain in office by not using its votes to defeat its programme and legislation, either ad hoc or in accordance with some semi-formal pact, and (b) a coalition in which both parties hold seats in the Cabinet.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

Instead, the party with the largest number of seats — in this case, it looks like the Conservatives — will attempt to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.

was a member of the smallest minor party in a coalition government, the country faced the existential crisis to end them all as war raged across Europe.

What's more, since the Syriza - Independent Greeks coalition government assumed power, every day Greece's GDP has decreased $ 22 million, an average of 59 small businesses have closed, and approximately 613 jobs have been lost, not to mention the first - ever default by a developed nation on an IMF payment and three weeks of chaotic capital controls.

[18] After the last election Helle Thorning - Schmidt started working towards forming a centre - left government coalition consisting of the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberal Party with parliamentary support from the small Red - Green Alliance.

This would certainly have had an influence on him becoming deputy prime minister, which had never happened previously in this country to the leader of the smaller party in a coalition government.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

The Assembly has already voted to approve the Dream Act — a state version of the federal proposal to allow certain illegal aliens to gain access to a variety of government programs — but it is opposed by Senate Republicans, who control that house in coalition with a small group of Democrats.

In the likely event of a close election result in 2015 (and assuming he's still in situ), Ed Miliband will need hungry, ambitious lieutenants who can either sustain or attack a government with a small majority, or make Labour shine within a coalition.

It seems more likely that the Coalition of 2010, as organised by a very small clique of political elites (probable ministers and senior party figures), required the bypassing of Westminster and the Coalition agreements, precluding formal democratic procedure and parliamentary government founded on accountability to the electorate.

Even if the Tories are the largest party with the most number of seats and will therefore have the first chance to form a government, she will find it difficult to go into coalition with a smaller party like the Liberal Democrats, who are fundamentally opposed to Brexit.

The tradition in the United Kingdom appears to be that single party government is the norm, even when a general election leads to a hung Parliament, and that the largest single party, rather than participate in a coalition government, usually forms its own ministry, supported tacitly or openly by one of the smaller parties.

There is anger within the business community because many companies are now able to recruit only small numbers of non-European staff as a result of the coalition government's interim cap on work visas for people entering Britain.

The possibility of some SNP involvement in a Labour - led government materialised when Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in the House of Commons suggested its MPs would be willing to join Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and MPs from other smaller parties to form a rainbow coalition.

Coalition government can be a good thing, but they must reflect the will of the electorate who must be able to appropriately reward and punish both big and small parties for their performance.

So while the job market for Swedish postdocs looks increasingly bright, this small, but in the long run perhaps significant, brain - drain is one of the problems Sweden's nascent government — which seems likely to be a coalition of the Social Democrat, Green, and Left parties — will have to tackle in the coming years.