Sentences with phrase «federal structure»

The leaders of South Asia could meet in a grand conference to manage the orderly redrawing of borders as well as the establishment of new federal structures of governance across the subcontinent, but there is little prospect of such an endeavor, hence the changes — when they come — are likely to be chaotic and messy.

A further reason for the decline in royal power, and one that was not predicted at the time, was the shift of the United Kingdom to a formal federal structure in the middle part of the century.

And in the party system, there is growing talk of a more federal structure for those political parties that operate across Britain.

The list of items that Russia wants to be the basis for negotiation in Ukraine includes a new federal structure for Ukraine and the recognition of Russian as a second language.

Essentially he has to decide with his Cabinet colleagues whether they go forward with the Smith Commission with more income tax powers for Scotland and more borrowing and welfare payments, or whether they go even further, as some people have said, and move to a more federal structure.

This provision also applies to states with federal structures.»

The Scottish Labour leader, Kezia Dugdale, spoke on Monday to an audience around the corner from Davidson at University College London, setting out her party's proposal for a «progressive federal structure» for the UK.

«It would also undermine the Labour party federal structure and seek to amend a system of trade union contributions that is already highly transparent and heavily regulated.»

It's a commonplace that few, if any, of our sister parties in the Socialist International have the remarkable and enduring federal structure that our Labour Party has constructed and defended for the best part of a hundred years.

Describing the idea of state police as a step in the right direction, the governor averred that the present federal structure of security agencies was not sustainable.

These cases, which together have fundamentally altered state and federal structured sentencing guidelines systems, suggest that for some reason, the «centre can not hold.»

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and a representative of the Yoruba Unity Forum, Chief Dipo Jemileyin, have called for the restructuring of Nigeria's federal structure in line with the country's peculiar circumstances.

I will advise President Muhammadu Buhari to adopt the 2014 Conference report when he returns to the country; what we need is a new federal structure.

The Special Conference should be the launch pad for the local government and European elections, not navel gazing and gambling with the federal structure of the party.

When the last of the post-war Welsh Liberal MPs, Roderic Bowen (Cardiganshire), lost his seat in the 1966 general election Hooson, Lord Ogmore, Martin Thomas (Lord Thomas of Gresford), Roger Roberts (Lord Roberts of Llandudno) and Mary Murphy established the Welsh Liberal Party as a separate state party [clarification needed] within the Liberal Party's federal structure.

Ajimobi stated that out of the 36 states in the federal structure, not as many as five could survive without federal allocation, saying apart from Rivers, Lagos, Enugu, Delta, Katsina, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi and Bayelsa State, which have tried to balance their budgets since creation, all the other States have had to depend more on Federal Government for survival.

The cycle of attempts at hegemony and domination undermining Nigeria's federal structure, unity and stability (which led to the Nigerian civil war and the June 12 crisis) persists till today!

Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim leaders.

Ideally we should look to have a federal structure for the UK, in order that power remains close to the people (why should the people of Scotland have a say in what the people of Surrey do, and visa versa?)

Furthermore, the recent experience of the provinces with their ultimately unsuccessful attempts to replace the first past the post (FPTP) electoral system can not be ignored in a country as mindful of its federal structure as Canada.

«Ironsi scrapped the federal structure and replaced it with a unitary system, since then we have not come back to true federalism.

My thoughts are, we either make the Scottish Party operationally independent (on the proviso they sit with us in Whitehall but have a free vote) or we reorganise the entire Conservative Party itself into a Federal structure, with a local government level split into MSPs, English Councillors, Welsh AMs etc. and then Westminster set on top.

The federal structure of our government offers an opportunity to specify the role of Washington strategically, to leverage what it clearly can do best, while allocating to states and locales what they are best suited to do.

And if that's a federal structure country, what state / area within that?

The tourism umbrella organization has a federal structure and represents the interests of local, regional and national tourism organizations.

In an ongoing case challenging the centre's decision to make Aadhaar mandatory for government welfare schemes, the Supreme Court bench asked the West Bengal state counsel: «In a federal structure,...

I won't deny that India is a complex jurisdiction with overlapping laws due to its federal structure, however, the right kind of legal adviser can help the companies tide over the systemic inefficiencies.

Recognition of judgments across the country is inherent in a federation, and the rules of comity as they apply between the provinces must be applied generously within the federal structure of Canada's Constitution.

In Argentina there is a federal structure, whereby the provinces are the owners of the natural resources, such as oil, minerals, water.

If there ever was a question for legislatures and parliaments to sort out for themselves, subscription to and disassociation from a federal structure is surely it, no?