Sentences with phrase «coalition policy so»

The 2015 timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan was the most popular coalition policy so far, earning 80 % approval.

Not exact matches

Returning to the same south Texas courthouse where a Texas - led coalition won a sweeping victory against a key immigration policy of the Obama Administration more than three years ago, Texas and some of its former allies moved on Tuesday to scuttle the last remaining part of that policy — the so - called «DACA» program.

So, to be true to itself, should the left just warmly embrace conditionality and support the Coalition government's policies on this matter?

But, as with so much of the coalition's policy agenda, they have edged towards the right policy solution without having the courage to go all the way.

What the party still does not seem to recognise, or at least accept as a problem, is that the coalition can be best understood as the preferred option of a leadership grouping that has consistently proposed policies designed to reduce the role of the state and so move a centre - left party steadily rightwards.

Speaking on BBCTV Julian Brazier has urged the Coalition to drop «pretty ridiculous fringe policies» like gay marriage and Lords reform and switch to three or so more popular issues, notably control of immigration.

This would not be a formal coalition so the SNP would have no automatic access to policy documents or the civil service, nor would it have any additional financial support.

So, their theoretic policy aspirations which could be imposed on left wing coalition members are a much more concerning threat to the left than Muslims for whom control of the government is not a viable possibility in these places.

Not only that, but if the Lib Dems» argument boils down to it not being reasonable for Coalition MPs to work against Coalition Agreement policies, they may have to watch out for some uncomfortable moments in the coming months, should Tory MPs wish to push the British Bill of Rights, recall of MPs, and so on.

The UK was last investigated in 2009, so no previous CESCR investigation has looked at the effects of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government's policies nor those of its successor.

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.

Klein indicated last month in Puerto Rico that he was quite content to spend his time pushing Democratic policies by working in a coalition with Republicans, and his spokeswoman responded to Stewart - Cousins by tartly declaring that she hadn't even called in «nearly a month... so we have no idea what her grand plan is for Democratic unity.»

At the time I thought Mann was just engaging in rather empty grandstanding, but he managed to get Osborne branded as a modern - day Marie Antoinette in a tabloid splash and he contributed to establishing the pasty tax as one of the coalition's worst policy disasters, and so he was clearly onto something.

Since then, Lord Ashdown, Nick Clegg, Simon Hughes and Chris Huhne have made various attacks on coalition policy and members, so here is an updated list of the last fortnight, including remarks by Dr Cable:

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

The discussion has now moved on from the «Labour's bound to lose because they're so useless» narrative so beloved of Atul to what are we going to do in coalition and looking further ahead to future policy approaches such as Blue Labour.

This certainly seemed to be the case in the initial phase of the Common Core State Standards, when the idea of «fewer, clearer, and higher» standards that were consistent across states was supported by an unprecedented coalition of business, civil rights, government, and labor groups (see McDonnell and Weatherford's (2013) article «Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption» in the American Journal of Education for a detailed explanation of the varying reasons why so many different groups initially supported the Common Core).

This policy proposal from the TeachStrong coalition explains how we can raise the bar for licensure so it is a meaningful measure of readiness to teach.

The power of the NFCC brand, which you have all worked so hard to enhance in recent years, also has helped us attract respected partners and build coalitions on important policy issues.

So as I am a humble backbencher I am sure he won't complain if I tell a few home truths about the farce that the Coalition's policy, of lack of policy, on climate change has descended into.

Some are focused on climate trutherism specifically: The Global Climate Coalition, Heartland Institute, the Science and Environmental Policy Project, Friends of Science, and so on.

The so - called «clean jobs» coalition members includes the Environmental Law and Policy Center, which accepts money from the natural gas company Invenergy, as well as solar and wind companies that stand to benefit from the closure of Illinois nuclear plants.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet told National Times Breaking Politics on Friday that Liberal MPs «know as well as anyone else knows that the Coalition's so - called Direct Action policy won't work».

Smart Grid: The Demand Response Smart Grid Coalition has 21 policy recommendations, including tax credits for companies that use so - called smart meters or devices and software to reduce power use (see Smart Grid Coalition Seeks Tax Breaks for Negawatts).

The coalition used to have a policy of soil carbon storage which involved paying farmers to change the way they grew crops so as to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil.

Our priorities, just as we've seen with natural gas, are clearly misplaced: a coalition of green groups called b.s. on the president's policy last January, arguing it undermines the progress that's been made so far and that it keeps us from prioritizing the real clean energy solutions that are badly needed.

But if it did so, it would bring it into conflict with the entire establishment... Chief amongst them, the coalition government's fragile claims to certainty regarding the most expensive policies ever conceived: a commitment to nearly 20 years of expensive renewable energy policies.

I wanted to put Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson in there too, as I think they all have something to contribute on how policy is being formed for Aboriginal people and the impacts that it has on us and our environments of urban, regional and remote... I think people expect Marcia, Noel and Warren to all be part of this should the Coalition win the election, so I thought what other Aboriginal leaders have equal experience but are not always heard and these are the ones I came up with my shortlist.