Sentences with phrase «from majority government»

The Prime Minister is chosen by the Queen as the person most likely to from a majority government.

Clegg has succeeded in dramatically shifting the expectations of the public and the commentariat away from majority Government and towards a more fluid, continental model of Government.

(For all the fights the 2012 budget sought to pick with the Yankees and the environmentalists, there were a lot of hangdog expressions at Hy's that night among Conservatives who had hoped for real small - government conservatism from a majority government and thought Flaherty had delivered thin gruel.)

Not exact matches

«It is important that we achieve a two - year agreement that funds our troops and provides for our national security and other critical functions of the Federal government,» the statement from the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said.

And because the majority of Eritrean youths were now conscripted in the National Service, any business requiring their labour had to effectively rent them from the government.

September 16 — As many as 30,000 Malaysians, the majority of whom are from the Malay community, march through Kuala Lumpur in a show of support for the government.

While representing the vast majority of its metro region, Calgary Economic Development also benefits from diversified funding from the city, private industry and other levels of government.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Government lending data reviewed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows the companies direct their lending toward white borrowers and white neighborhoods, even in metros like Philadelphia where a majority of residents are people of color.

Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.

While a majority of those from younger generations in Canada's westernmost province tend to side with the B.C. government in this dispute, seven - in - ten (70 %) residents over 55 say it is making the wrong call.

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

Given that an overwhelming majority of the Bitcoin trading volume comes from China, the government has

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

The election of a majority Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric — think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.

When the Conservatives finally achieved majority government in 2011, they ensured that more committee meetings would be held in camera — away from the public's prying eyes.

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

A Christian charity has said the Government needs to «step up its game» when it comes to protecting children online from pornography, after a landmark report found the majority had watched it by the age of 16.

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

One of the primary reasons that our government was set up as a Democratic Republic (as opposed to a pure democracy) was to «protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority».

It is the constltution that prevents a majority from granting tyrannical powers to the government in a time of crises.

Burma's government and most of the Buddhist majority opoose the term «Rohingya», saying the members of the Muslim minority are «Bengalis» who migrated illegally from Bangladesh.

Thank the Greeks for Democracy and for the majority of Western Civilization because our culture and system of government stems from their Classical period.

A «faction» is any group that attempts to «impose» its own conception of the good on others, and government must be so organized as to prevent any majority or minority faction from doing that.

From reading the posts on this blog, along with other posts on other blogs, it seems that the majority of people against abo - rtions are also religious and against bigger government.

Sadly, the vast majority of the world is forced to live in fear from various propaganda's that are put across in our media about all things, including religion, government, and beliefs that are in conflict or against our own personal belief systems or the belief systems of the masses that are in our general sphere of influence.

«I think what is happening in America right now, and it goes beyond Donald Trump and the presidential race, is that a majority of Americans feel the government needs to let us compete as individuals, to let America compete, and to stop coddling us and protecting us from competition and ourselves.

In what may prove reassuring for those who wish to shift the argument from self or government censorship to parental responsibility, the poll showed that a majority of parents (63 percent) monitor what their children watch either «frequently» or «occasionally,» with 82 percent of parents of younger children (ages 2 - 11) supervising the youngsters» viewing.

If the majority of our middle class citizens work for our state government, and the administrtion keeps taking money away from our livelyhood, how can we contribute to the efforts of trying to restore our economy?

The government's majority may have been slashed from 84 to 21, but enough Liberal Democrats broke a pledge with the electorate to vote against any increase in tuition fees.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

That may well be the best position from which to oppose a majority Conservative government.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

Experience from other countries suggests that a majority - commanding group of parties is more likely to control the government the fewer parties there are in the group was well as greater the ideologically similarity between them.

But if a government was seen to have failed to attract the support of a majority of MPs from England (or England - and - Wales) for business affecting those interests, it would be likely to sustain severe political damage.

Even commitments from previous majorities / governments are usually not considered fair game for political posturing and honoured by the next government.

Theresa May has this morning announced that she intends to call a general election on June 8 in a bid to increase the size of her parliamentary majority and to reduce the ability of opposition parties to extract concessions from the government during Brexit negotiations.

The government has won the tuition fees vote, but its majority has been slashed from a notional 84 to just 21.

But even though the 5 - 4 majority ruling makes an intellectual end run around the language of the Second Amendment to get to their ruling, they very clearly state that society (government, convened to collectively protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from as individuals) has the right to, and legitimate interest in controlling gun ownership, in several specific ways.

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

By trying to separate confidence from dissolution and moving the goalposts to 55 % for that, you are trying to insulate yourselves and enjoy the same protection from dissolution a majority Government has.

The history of this is well - known and we would not want to return to a situation where an elected government, commanding a Commons majority, can be blocked by unelected peers from raising the money it needs when it has made a clear political choice to raise those funds.

The vast majority of voters think the government should cancel the reduction in the top rate of tax from 50 % to 45 %.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

The government majority in Parliament shied away from breaking the filibuster by applying the «nuclear option» permitted by law, which also would have been unprecedented.

Though a majority of Joiners said in the poll that they thought Labour had learned the right lessons from its time in government, much of this is wishful thinking: in discussion, they struggle to think of any evidence that Labour has changed or learned, often insisting simply that «they must have done».

CMA deals mostly with information technology contracts from local and state governments, and hired former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno as its CEO after his retirement from the State Senate in 2008.