Sentences with phrase «former coalition partners»

In England, the party failed to inspire former Lib Dem voters as the Tories bagged the majority of seats held by their former Coalition partners.

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

The result represented a 19.3 % swing from the Tories to their former coalition partners — the biggest Con - Lib switch since 1997 when Mark Oaten won in Winchester.

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

Not exact matches

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo war.

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Thus a combination of factors has united white Protestants in the same coalition, with the former senior partner becoming a junior one in terms of total vote support for the GOP.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

These were previously blocked by their former Liberal Democrat coalition partners because of the failure to secure House of Lords reform.

In Politics: Between the Extremes, former Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg explains the challenges of being the small, Liberal partner in the coalition, and argues forcefully for the importance of -LSB-...]

A former Conservative minister wondered about the future of the coalition, after Liberal Democrat partners «ratted and reneged» on a deal over new Parliamentary boundaries, and he claimed the smaller party could no longer be trusted.

Imagining what could have happened had the Tories not become the senior coalition partners, Mr Pickles warned of a «dour» Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, cursing Tony Blair and listening to the advice of former spin doctor Damian McBride and «policy wonk» Ed Miliband.

That means, in just one year, more than 12 million women and men will experience «intimate partner violence» — which, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) is any physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.

Hope Street Group Education Director Jocelyn Pickford, a former teacher who also worked at the U.S. Education Department, emphasized that the education community will need to partner with a broad coalition to implement reform.

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The Parti Québécois tried to make political hay in early February when it jumped on a La Presse story that revealed that 46 of the 180 lawyers with the Montreal - based business law firm BCF had contributed a total of $ 20,000 to the coffers of Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), a new right - wing provincial political party led by former PQ cabinet minister and businessman François Legault — and for which BCF co-founder and managing partner Mario Charpentier is in charge of finances.

The coalition will hope that this extra funding will prevent warring couples from representing themselves in court, which slows down the legal process and often results in vitriolic testimonies against former partners.