Sentences with phrase «functioning as an opposition»

Hence the phenomenon which has emerged since 1997 of the Lib Dems functioning as the Opposition to Labour in the North and to the Conservatives in the South, particularly in areas which have a tradition of «one - party rule» — the heartlands of the two main parties.

As few as 30 MPs would be willing to sign up to take jobs under Mr Corbyn in a move that would effectively stop the party functioning as an opposition, senior figures have warned.

Not exact matches

While the AIIB still has many obstacles to overcome before it is a functioning entity (not least the opposition of the United States and Japan, as well as the incumbent Asian Development Bank in Manila), there can be little doubt now that it will come to fruition.

Barisan Nasional said in an email response that Bersih's findings should not be taken as objective facts as it was a «functioning arm of Malaysia's opposition».

For a long time, opposition to Roman Catholicism functioned in the minds of many Protestants as a mark of identity of their faith.

Theories that posit the logic of binary oppositions, on the other hand, fail to accommodate the Whiteheadian «principle of relativity» according to which a subject constitutes itself Out of its prehensions of its past world, and then in turn functions objectively as a datum in the past world of all subsequent occasions (Whitehead, Process 214; 43).

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

She obviously thought that the absence of any functioning opposition in parliament gave her the breathing room to do a quick raid on people who would otherwise be thought of as core Tory supporters.

John McDonnell is set to spearhead Labour's Brexit fightback today in a reported attempt to show the party can still function as an effective opposition despite the recent mass resignation of its MPs.

Recently, detainees in the custody of the 1st respondent have been dying due to lack of proper care and adequate medical facilities, as the 1st respondent is not normally well - funded to function effectively, except to be used by the ruling government to hound the opposition,» Adegboruwa added.

Labour is the only opposition the Tories have, people in this country need them to function as a democratic party, and you are a selfish, solipsistic drag on their ability to do that.

Labour have elected a leader that even his supporters do not see as prime minister, which runs contrary to the basic function of opposition.

Introduced way back in Jungle Action # 6 in 1973, Erik Killmonger has been a longtime nemesis of T'Challa, functioning as a psychologically conservative opposition to the somewhat more progressive T'Challa.

Michel François's enigmatic art functions in those gray areas between such oppositions as nature / culture, interior / exterior, private / public, and fragility / strength.

KUNSTHALLE Michel Francois's enigmatic art functions in those gray areas between such oppositions as nature / culture, interior / exterior, private / public, and fragility / strength.