Sentences with phrase «coalition partners said»

We may not agree with everything our coalition partners say — they certainly don't agree with everything I say — but that's the point.

Not exact matches

«A thought that I have is the United States could lead a coalition of large trading partners and allies against China, or to let China know that they're breaking the rules left and right,» Kudlow said on «Closing Bell.»

More than 75 % of the city is now cleared of ISIS fighters, he said on Thursday, adding that Syrian Democratic Forces, a mainly Kurdish force partnering with the coalition, «have made clear progress and we are seeing ISIS begin to lose its grip on their self - declared capital in Raqqa.»

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

Distressed at the sheer scale of the demands from Brussels, the leader of Tsipras's coalition partner, the populist Independent Greeks, said he could not support a key element of the proposals that he described as «barbaric».

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

«With this new Canadian cleantech coalition, we want to create a competitive advantage for both the ecosystem and our country by focusing business, investors, strategic partners and governments on a strategic plan to promote clean technologies, nationally and internationally» said Denis Leclerc, President and CEO of Écotech Québec.

Mr Alexander said his party would start campaigning for change immediately and if it couldn't convince its Conservative coalition partners it would made a manifesto pledge ahead of the next General Election.

I can't tell you much more than I already have, but suffice to say it's a little more aggressive towards his coalition partners than the extracts already out there will have suggested.

«When this bill is finally talked out on some dark rainy night... we have to go back to the government and say to our partners in coalition «give us a government bill».

In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory - Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner «very unattractive, very cynical».

The same can not be said of the Lib Dems and our current coalition partners.

«Number 10 need to listen to their Conservative backbenchers and the Conservative Party grass roots more often, and to their minority and junior Coalition partners less often,» he said.

«That caused lots of panic internally,» said one source, who added that Clegg had to be told that he must remain neutral about possible coalition partners.

Although his critics say Cable is too academic and too ill - disciplined for the cut and thrust of modern politics, throughout his time in government he remained an irritation to his coalition partners.

However, the Conservative»» coalition partners remain fiercely opposed to any changes to the current law and Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, said: «If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in coalition.»

Lib Dems say their coalition partners are immoveable on the subject.

«I am frankly shocked that coalition partners can stoop to a level of campaign that we have not seen in this country before,» Chris Huhne said on Newsnight.

«In the next phase of the coalition, both partners will be able to be clearer in their identities, but equally clear about the need to support government and government policy,» he said.

Even before the result was announced, Positive Slovenia's coalition partners the Social Democrats, Civic List and Democratic Party of Retired Persons of Slovenia had said they would dissolve the coalition if Bratušek was defeated, so the country appears to have entered a period of upheaval.

Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), said the organization's upstate partners in central and western New York have been working on the ground from Rome to Rochester to highlight the «tragic deportations and fear» that ICE has brought about in the state's immigrant communities.

«Awkward,» said someone sitting next to me as the prime minister greeted his former coalition partner warmly and sat down.

The correct democratic thing — as much as I hate to say it — is to recognise that the conservatives have the democratic right to be in government as the majority partner in a coalition, and the offer cameron has made is in my view fair and reflects the electoral mandate.

Their most likely coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, this week said they would not support a referendum on independence.

«What coalition partners want to put in their election manifestos is entirely up to them,» he says.

Mandelson said the coalition is right to tackle Britain's fiscal deficit, though he challenged his old sparring partner, George Osborne, on two fronts.

Paddy Ashdown has urged his restive party to prepare for the possibility of a second coalition with the Tories, saying the Conservatives have proved surprisingly good and trustworthy partners for the Liberal Democrats in government.

Speaking in a debate, he said the Lib Dems would never allow their coalition partners to repeal it.

If she did so yesterday during a speech she gave to the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI), the Guardian doesn't say so this morning, but it does report that she described marriage policy as one of the few areas of substantial difference between the Coalition partners, and said that she'd «no idea» when the promised marriage tax break would be implemented.

A coalition of upstate theater directors aired their concerns about potential new casinos in New York, but said they have assurances from the Cuomo administration that the gambling halls will partner — not compete — with them.

Addressing supporters at party headquarters, Merkel, who will now have to find new coalition partners, said she hoped for «better results».

We tease him to say which of the contenders for the Labour leadership he'd find most congenial as a future coalition partner.

In 2014, Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power - sharing coalition.

In 2014, Senator Klein said that if the Democrats won the majority of seats in the elections, then the IDC would switch sides and partner with the regular Democrats in a power sharing coalition.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

Republicans in the State Senate, who are the dominant partner in its ruling coalition, have been unwilling to support the DREAM Act, saying tax money should be directed elsewhere.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

«We hope to demonstrate the powerful benefits to the U.S. agriculture and timber industry of protecting tropical rainforests,» Glenn Hurowitz, Washington director for Avoided Deforestation Partners and director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, said of the motivation behind the report, which comes just as senators will be heading to their home states for the Memorial Day weekend.

Kathi Apostolidis, Vice President of The European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) one of the partners on the eSMART project, said: «In many European countries, patients undergoing chemotherapy, experience great difficulties in coping with the adverse events and the anxiety during their therapy and between treatments.

Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation — a coalition of private space companies — said in a statement that SPD - 1 «directs NASA to partner with the US commercial space industry to return Americans to the Moon.»

In response to a call to AFC's national headquarters to ask why they are interested in funding election campaigns for lawmakers in North Carolina, Matt Frendewey, communications director, said via email, «as the nation's voice for educational choice, AFC and its coalition partners in states such as North Carolina support candidates on a bipartisan basis who believe in strengthening education by giving parents more educational options for their children.»

«School librarians lead transformational learning through their instructional leadership in the digital learning landscape,» said Leslie Preddy, president of the American Association of School Librarians, an FRS coalition partner.

Since then, following behind the scenes consultations with his coalition partners, Mr Gove said the vast majority of children would sit the new exam, but they are likely to do so at different ages.

«The historic low number of killings at Los Angeles Animal Services is the result of years and years of hard work,» said Aimee Gilbreath, executive director of Found Animals Foundation, an No - Kill L.A. coalition partner, in a statement.

«2015 is the year when our coalition partners really started to embrace the idea of «together,»» says Sandy Nelson, manager of Best Friends» NKUT initiative.

Now, when HSUS says they are working with a «coalition» of partners, there should be no mistake who the voice behind the petition is.

Brumby said it was crucial that any future design of performance reporting frameworks and targets must involve Indigenous stakeholders as equal partners, saying consultation with governments is required under the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on Federal Financial Relations: «It should extend to key Indigenous stakeholders such as the Closing the Gap coalition.»