Sentences with phrase «forming coalitions with»

And, says Laura Ayrey, executive director of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association, «Independent stores have been challenging e-fairness state - by - state by forming coalitions with other local businesses to amend sales tax legislation, and have had success in a number of states.»

Adult males are the more gregarious sex, forming coalitions with other males to assert rank, defend their territory and hunt as a group.

Lubell's peers credit him with raising APS's profile in Washington, D.C., by forming coalitions with other scientific groups to advocate on behalf of research.

French President Emmanuel Macron has welcomed the decision of more than 70 countries to form a coalition with the aim of choking off financing for the Islamic State group and al - Qaida.

This bolsters our initial conjecture that New Democracy might be able to form a coalition with PASOK, as the latter appears to have won 11 - 12.4 percent of the vote based on the most recent polls.

Labour originally sought to form a coalition with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, but this collapsed after Mike German's Lib Dems pulled out of talks.

Cameron is indeed in No 10, but he won without a majority and was forced to form a coalition with Nick Clegg.

Had the Conservatives had a Parliamentary majority (or had formed a coalition with a certain party whose name shall go unmentioned), they might have found a way back to the status quo ante on at least (some of) the reforms that are practically reversible, viz. the House of Lords, the Human Rights Act, the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction over the judiciary.

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

Their open seats are predicated on the plan to have Democrats unify in the Senate chamber amid a push to have the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference form a coalition with the 23 - member mainline conference of Democrats.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Savino, one of five independent Democrats who have formed a coalition with Senate Republicans, told The New York Observer's Politicker that one of the impediments to public financing are ex-council members who are current legislators in Albany.

Have the Democrats (and Trump) formed a coalition with moderate Republicans (if such an animal even exists any more)?

In his book 5 Days in May, Andrew Adonis goes so far as to argue that the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the Conservatives rather than Labour not because of the parliamentary arithmetic was considerably better but instead because Nick Clegg and David Laws especially were ideologically closer and personally warmer to the Tories than to Labour.

The IDC has formed a coalition with Republican senators in the past and has not said yet whether it might now ally with the Democrats.

It was lowest among those who thought the Lib Dems should have formed a coalition with Labour or stayed in opposition (35 %), voted in protest against the bigger parties (46 %), and to stop the party they most dislike from winning (31 %).

Whether the aim is to try and gain a majority in an un-reformed parliament, or to position yourselves to form a coalition with the LD's and / or others if the ConDems see AV introduced, you can't simply carry on.

If there is no clear election winner when the polls close on 6 May the Liberal Democrats may be asked to form a coalition with either Labour or the Tories

Support was twice as high among those who thought the party was right to join a coalition with the Conservatives as among those who thought the Lib Dems should have stayed in opposition or formed a coalition with Labour.

But my nightmare is that, when we get a hung parliament, Clegg will (predictably) choose the wrong option and form a coalition with the Tories.

But if May has not secured a deal with another party by Monday morning, there will be pressure on her to call off the talks, particularly if Labour can show it can form a coalition with other parties to form a working majority and send Corbyn into Downing Street as Prime Minister.

Plaid formed a coalition with Labour, making progress on a referendum on further powers the key plank of their negotiations.

However, they will usually be surrounded by less radical individuals, or have formed coalitions with groups that share a common enemy.

Touching on NPP's allegation that the NDC is sponsoring Mr. Kwesi Addae Odike's United Progressive Party (UPP) to do it's bidding, the deputy scribe of the ruling party said the NDC has no immediate plans of forming a coalition with some political parties.

It is this twentieth - century politics that allowed the Conservatives to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats - the ideological obstacles to forming a government only took five days to overcome.

Senior figures were stunned when, two weeks before the election, Clegg suddenly suggested to the FT that he would not form a coalition with Labour if it involved any arrangement with the SNP.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with -LSB-...]

The hung parliament of 2010 produced a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition but after the Lib Dems» unhappy experience in office — and with neither Labour nor the Conservatives prepared to form a coalition with the resurgent SNP — the UK may be heading for a minority government.

Drawing on his unique perspective as the man responsible for the party's target seats and polling, the 133 - page book gives Lord Ashcroft's view of the Conservatives» progress since their third defeat in 2005, the reasons for the party's failure to win an overall majority in 2010, and David Cameron's decision to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Ed Miliband has said Labour would not form a coalition with the SNP, although he has left open the prospect of a confidence - and - supply agreement, or a minority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

But he seized the opportunity of forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats to provide economic stability and to achieve and deliver a lot of Conservative policies under the Coalition Agreement.

Much better for the Queen to let Brown have his go, then Cameron and then... why, that nice Mr. Clegg, who might just be able to form a coalition with Labour support.

If they had formed a coalition with Labour they would have supported an entirely different economic plan in return for similar concessions on other policies.

Finally there is the background and drama of the attempts to form a coalition with no certainty that it would be formal or necessarily between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

The agenda for the party's annual conference in Liverpool reveals growing tensions between activists and the party leadership over the decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives.

If the Government's economic medicine is perceived to have worked, he knows he may well need to form a coalition with the third party to have any hope of becoming prime minister.

Nine Labour councillors in Aberdeen were suspended last year after forming a coalition with Conservatives.

Balls proceeds to make an unusual invitation, not least coming from someone regarded as a tribal Labour figure: he invites Liberal Democrat MPs to form a coalition with Labour now.

And charter - school supporters, led by Mr. Loeb, have poured millions of dollars into ensuring that the State Senate remains in Republican hands — even as Democrats have won a majority of seats — backing Mr. Klein's renegade group, which first broke away from the party in 2011 and eventually formed a coalition with the Republicans.

That meant he was forced to form a coalition with the centrist Liberal Democrats.

[87] On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader before the Labour Party Conference but a day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.

He would also form a coalition with other mayors and lawmakers from Upstate New York to lobby for more state revenue sharing.

The Liberal Democrat - who played a key role in forming a coalition with the Tories in 2010 - lost the seat he had held since 2005 to Drew Hendry.

[86] However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government.

Then Nick Clegg's decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives so detoxified them — and contaminated the Lib Dems — that it allowed the bridgehead created by the collapse of Blairism to be consolidated into today's Conservative parliamentary majority.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

What is now clear is that Clegg, Laws and Danny Alexander never had any intention of forming a coalition with the Labour.

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

And more than half would oppose forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats if their own party won the most seats, but no overall majority in 2015.

They have formed a coalition with Republicans in the past, and have not promised that they'd necessarily rejoin with the other Democrats after elections.