Sentences with phrase «defections in»

Now, I have seen it suggested that Tea Party pushback defections in the House could have a surprising effect — yielding a less conservative ESEA reauthorization, because House Speaker Boehner will have to turn to the Democrats for the necessary votes.

Labour's vote share is actually not too far where it was under Ed Miliband *, just one ortwo points down on the general election result, and yet you hear stories of mass Labour defections in the North, the Midlands and in Wales.

He'd be better off getting his head down, winning some respectable local election results, giving the impression of upwards movement, and then talking up the chance of defections in a couple of years.

But the history of defections in British politics suggests that the Tories can probably stand a few more losses.

This was in spite of the fact that during the latter half of the century there was a growing defection in France from the Roman Catholic Church.

This is the second defection in the last 24 hours for the party UK - wide.

Those whips might have thought it was «their turn» — since Reg Prentice's defection in 1977, no Labour MPs have crossed the floor, while four Tories have travelled the other way.

MP Mark Reckless's defection from the Tories to UKIP prompted the contest - the second by - election caused by a UKIP defection in just over a month.

Confirming her defection in a statement, Ekwunife said her defection was hinged on her concern not to allow the Ndigbos to be relegated from the national bargain.

Meanwhile, the national leadership of the party has said it will not react to the gale of defection in the party.

May argued that virtual tournaments like Axelrod's might not accurately replicate the interplay of cooperation and defection in real life.

Most talked about their defection in social terms, friends following friends.

She also sustains a surprising amount of suspense — Alliluyeva's defection in 1967 in particular has the tension of a spy thriller or an episode of «The Americans.»

Arturo Cuenca, one of Cuba's foremost artists, has been living in New York since his defection in 1991.

The alleged aria, punctuated by the tossing of a chair, was cited in a sworn statement by Lucovsky that became public during court hearings over another Microsoft - to - Google defection in September.

Not exact matches

Most analysts think the final bill will end up looking more like the Senate's version, since the GOP holds 52 seats in that chamber and therefore can afford only two defections to pass a tax bill along party lines.

Rumblings of dissent often swirl around the Politico empire, with periodic defections of senior staff and questions about the company's ambitious expansion plans in Europe and elsewhere.

In the face of corporate defections, Trump announced plans Wednesday to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative

Republicans hold a majority in the chamber but can not afford to have more than 21 defections for the measure to pass.

In the face of corporate defections and the member's disclosure, Trump announced plans to dissolve the group and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative council.

He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's vote in the Senate, where he remains vulnerable to further defections by allies like one that forced him to resign temporarily last week.

What - if plan: This is a contingency plan — in case your worst case scenario happens, such as market share loss, heavy price competition or defection of a key member of your team.

PNC and Suntrust will see the least amount of customer defection compared to their competitors in the top ten list of big banks.

President Lyndon Johnson's administration feared her defection would disrupt relations with the Soviet Union, but after the Central Intelligence Agency helped stow her in Switzerland, American publishers offered her so much money for her memoirs that the government let her in on her own dime.

«The optics of any accumulation partner defections between now and 2020 are negative in our view, making new Aeroplan partner announcements between now and 2020 that much more critical to stem changes in member behaviour,» he wrote in a report.

With Democrats united in opposition to the plan, Republican defections from a few traditionally Democratic - leaning states could be enough to torpedo it in the House.

Reps. Dave Brat, Gary Palmer, and Mark Sanford joined all of the House Budget Committee's Democrats in opposing the legislation, leading to a razor thin 19 - 17 passage (that rate of defection would be enough to sink the bill in the full House).

Tsipras, locked in fraught negotiations with EU leaders in Brussels until Monday morning, indicated that he would carry the Athens parliament, despite some defections, in a vote on the package by Wednesday.

The Otto founder was put in charge of Uber's entire self - driving division, which sources said contributed to staff defections.

SHANGHAI (AP)-- Gucci America has quit the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the second defection since the Washington, D.C. - based group allowed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to become a member in April.

In the end, plummeting fundraising returns, bad polling numbers, MLA defections, and a caucus and party on the verge of revolt forced Ms. Redford to step down as Premier of Alberta and Leader of the PC Party on March 23, 2014.

The defection has certainly left a bad taste in the mouths of many Albertans, but the political maneuver removes the most likely alternative that voters had to send a message to the Tories.

And in AB because of PCs 4 decades of monopoly, and WRP defection.

In an attempt to stem the defections, the Moscow Patriarchate changed the status of the Russian Orthodox Church in UkrainIn an attempt to stem the defections, the Moscow Patriarchate changed the status of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukrainin Ukraine.

And, finally, defections from traditionalist to modernist faiths are apparently more than offset by movement in the other direction.

Left unchecked, the large number of defections could have resulted in the disappearance of Christianity.

I am happy to count among my own friends a rather remarkable number of men of high intellectual distinction who have returned to the full Christian outlook after years of defection from it, and I should say that in practically every case the renewed hospitality of their minds to Christian truth came about through their awakening to the essential untenability of the alternative positions which they had been previously attempting to occupy.

There were those, for example, who would have denied a ceremonial burial in Krakow to the Nobel laureate poet Czes?aw Mi?osz, who had served the regime for a short time before his defection.

A single man's moral defection, as in Achan's case, or a single family's refusal to follow the leader, as in Korah's jealousy of Moses, (Numbers 16:1 ff.)

The quarrels and the defections of first generation disciples, the sins of disciples in our own generation, and the defects and delinquencies of the race at large are grave indeed but not so grave as to engulf us all.

In the ministry today, defection is high and probably on the increase, while recruitment is declining.

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

Allowing that these defections from Catholicism may have been overestimated, Jenkins says the rapid increase in conversions is nonetheless phenomenal, and in some countries — Guatemala, Chile, Brazil — Pentecostals already represent a powerful numeric bloc.

I would go further: in the absence of such historical controls, we are lured into just the kind of dubious suppositions — for example, about allegedly increased defections from oldline to conservative — that have plagued recent discussions.

(6) Humanity is sadly in defection from its deepest intentionality and unable to achieve proper fulfillment; in Christian language, «We are sinners.»

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

It has almost been as if we humans, with our limitations and in our finitude, not to mention our obvious and tragic defection from right alignment with the divine intention for the world and for us, were to insist that until and unless we are given what we regard as due recognition and the security of our own survival in an individualistic sense, we shall refuse to take our place and play our part in the creative advance of the universe.

The sixth Christian assertion tells us that human existence is in defection from its proper potentiality, from the true self, from God, and from other human beings.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.