Sentences with phrase «day party politics»

The plan is to stop day - to - day party politics from scuppering much - needed projects and reducing business confidence in the UK.

Not exact matches

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

«The «right to abortion,» with its theme of sexual liberation,» as Hadley Arkes puts it, «has become the central peg on which the interests of the Democratic party have been arranged,» just as, «since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Republican party has become... the pro-life party in our politics.»

His stance can be a little too conservative for my taste (mostly on social issues) but he is articulate and has some well thought out plans, not to mention he is pretty moderate and I think in this day and age we need a centrist, someone who isn't afraid to work with both sides of the aisle instead of just playing party politics and only pandering to one half of the country.

We read about the early days of Ghana's politics towards independence the yielding of Parliamentary Leadership of the 1956 Parliament by Chief S.D Dombo to Prof K.A Busia after the fusion of the various parties which were affected by the Discrimination Avoidance Act introduced by the CPP, namely; NLM, GCP, NPP, Islamic Party, Ga Shifo Mo Kpe, Togoland Congress Party.

Now he documents Hitler's radical right wing politics and early days in the tiny Nazi Party in Becoming Hitler The Making of a Nazi (OUP).

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told me during a CapTon interview yesterday that he has also encouraged members of his conference who are facing primary challenges to consider skipping what's essentially a three - day junket that features a lot of partying with some politics squeezed in.

I am equally sure that the conventional routines of party politics, indispensable though they are to the day - to - day working of a pluralist democracy, have little or nothing to contribute to the new public philosophy that the times demand.

«I think it's true Ukip demonstrates the days of two - or even three - party politics are over,» she added.

Well, I live by the day and somehow leave my next line of action or ambition to God, I remained a very committed party man, in politics by call, I can honestly restate that I came into politics by call, I left a very lucrative job as a senior staff of NNPC and with 20 yes experience to politics that is full of uncertainty, I voluntarily retired my job and not sacked.

Gone are the days of one - man rule over Democratic politics, he said, as the legendary Bailey did in Connecticut and as national party boss during John F. Kennedy's presidency.

He may rely on others to enforce discipline: Ken Livingstone's old backroom team from his London mayoral days; constituency parties threatening to de-select rebellious MPs; the major union leaders moving back into frontline Labour politics.

The supposedly cultured, civil and enlightened members of left wing political culture (up to and including President Obama, who three days earlier publicly decried the lack of civility in American politics) and supposedly professional journalism (CNN and MSNBC main anchors and PBS senior correspondent, not just some random blogs or forum commenters) decided that this term would strongly elevate American civil discourse if it was publicly and massively applied to members of Tea Party (which was, of course, a political movement named after a famous historical event wherein a quantity of tea cargo was destroyed in protestation of British tax policies).

To mark this, on the first day of the conference the party sent out a pamphlet, Modern Compassionate Conservatism, as the Tories sought to emphasise they would be staying on the centre ground of politics, despite pressure from some inside the party.

But having spent two days at the party conference, and deciding that the need for a carefully planned revival of the party is more «urgent» than ever, Mandelson agrees to make his most wide - ranging intervention on British politics since leaving the country for the European Commission in 2004.

A momentous day in British politics It was a day in which the electorate allowed none of the parties to claim outright victory in yesterday's general election.

Echoing the sentiments of Tony Benn when he quit parliament «to spend more time on politics», Purnell and a member of his constituency party will spend next week relearning the tools of their trade at a five day community organising course run by the UK's largest community organisation, London Citizens.

If anything, what our experience in the last few days has confirmed is that we can disagree without being disagreeable; and that our party may be young, but we remain the bastion of progressive politics in Nigeria.

Andrew Adonis's insider account of the Lab - Lib coalition talks provides a vivid and vital, and often surprising, insight into the crucial politics of the day — and is also particularly relevant to the prospects for both parties after the 2015 general election.

How did you feel the day you actually won the primaries because in African politics, it is not quite easy to remove a sitting MP especially from same party

U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, a fixture of Republican politics in Alabama for a generation, sent a clear message to his home state when he said on national television that the party could «do better» than elect Roy Moore to the state's other Senate seat in two days.

Two days after becoming the newest symbol of «tea party» politics, Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky thrust himself, his party and the movement into an uncomfortable conversation about the federal government's role in prohibiting racial discrimination and about a period of history that most politicians consider beyond debate.

Labour's new leader also hammers home his «straight talking, honest politics» message in the new film, released the day after his first party conference as leader.

The immediate family of former President John Dramani Mahama has drawn down the curtain on days of speculations over the future of the former Ghanaian leader making a comeback to politics with official confirmation that the immediate past president will not lead the now biggest opposition party into the 2020 presidential election.

«Nobody comes into politics to be a thorn in their party leader's side but at the end of the day it's such a massive issue that if you don't stand up for what you believe in, I'm not sure what the point is of going into politics.»

Several days after MPs voted against UK military action in Syria, the Daily Politics asked commuters and shoppers which of the main two party leaders came out on top.

Party politics these days are, however, more de-aligned and fluid.

So, with this I think the next wiser step left for Osoba is to lead his people out of (Egypt) APC to promised land.Moreso, with what his on grand now in ogun state toward 2015 election, am sorry for Amosu, especially when all who is who in ogun politics are ready to work with Osoba and there is strong alliance discussion going on in opposition party, but people even in Amosun cabinet were leaving APC day by day, I foresee what happened in Ekiti and kwara between Olushola SARAKI and then governor Lawal again in ogun come 2015, The victory of Aregbesola for APC in osun is so diffrent with this: some few month to election in osun many politician especially former governors were started joining APC to support Aregbesola while reverse is the case in ogun here, many even in cabinet are leaving the government to oppose Amosun, just imagine ew months to election now all former governors were agaist Amosun, all senators, Reps, and many assembly members were leaving APC agaist him and this is just the begining.Though,» ETI O WUN A WI TI OLUWA LASE» yet All EYI O WUN TI A NWI NI 2001, ILE OSOBA NI OLUWA TI FI ADE SI NI 2011.

He ennobled Maurice Glasman, a great believer (and participant) in grass - roots democracy, and he hired Arnie Graf, the American veteran campaigner who had mentored Barack Obama in his early days as a young activist in Chicago, to inject the Labour party with the movement politics spirit.

The Daily Politics is testing the mood of the delegates at the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative parties where people are asked to vote with coloured balls on an issue of the day.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- On a tumultuous day in politics in Washington and for the Trump White House, the Erie County Democratic Party leadership is looking for some answers from local Republican politicians and strategists on how they plan to respond to the allegations against Paul Manafort and...

The Daily Politics presenter heard what delegates in Manchester wanted to hear in the coming days as the party prepares for the 2015 general election.

Many present - day Green Party activists first became active in electoral politics within the Citizens Party.

The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) organized a day's round table engagement meeting held in Tamale on «the menace of political party vigilantism and Ghana's electoral politics.»

Savouring a cheap pint the day after the Conservative party ended Labour's eight decade rule in Copeland, the lifetime Labour voters expressed antipathy towards Jeremy Corbyn and deep disillusionment about politics in general.

In the case of local and state level politics, a quid pro quo exists between a handful of party leaders, patronage the only order of the day.

If that is the price we pay for party unity, should we be surprised that party politics is becoming the butt of the joke and an object of scorn to an increasing number of Americans, much as it was to my countrypeople in the last days of the Soviet Union?

Centering on Abraham Lincoln's attempt to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the waning days of the Civil War, the movie is dialogue - heavy, focusing on legislative process and party politics as Lincoln and his aides try to win the necessary votes from both fellow Republicans and Democrats across the aisle.

In the conflict between Republicans and Federalists described by Ellis throughout the book, readers can understand the origins of party factionalism that is a strong factor in American politics to this day.

This work is brought into close dialogue with the evolving politics of its day, in particular the Civil Rights struggle and the Black Liberation movement — specifically, photographs from 3 May 1963 when the authorities turned police dogs and fire hoses on black protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, and powerful imagery relating to The Black Panther Party, in particular its charismatic leader, Huey P. Newton.

This covers party politics only... «issue» advocacy for slot machines, Global Warming, and day care legislation aren't covered by these laws.

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Wirth also boasted (same interview) of how they intentionally picked the hottest day / week of the year in DC, how the weather co-operated, and how the original campaign was integral to politics of the Democratic Party and to that year's (unsuccessful) presidential campaign by Michael Dukakis.