Sentences with phrase «general social democrat»

... even if, like Germany's Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 - 2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for....

... even if, like Germany's Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 - 2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for your own political gain.

Not exact matches

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

The Social Democrats actually gained 7 % since last year's general election and did not seem to have suffered from entering into a grand coalition with the Christian Democrats.

It isn't that Republicans in general are using social media better than Democrats and thus garnering more followers online, it's that right now there's a better fit between what those candidates are offering and what the online base is looking for.

The Social Liberal Forum is committed to ensuring the Liberal Democrats fight the 2015 General Election as an independent party.

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Catherine Murphy was selected to be the Social Democrats candidate for the next general election at a convention on 17th July 2016, as reported by the KFM Radio website.

Niall O Tuathail was selected to be the Social Democrats candidate for the next general election at a convention on 27th July 2016,

A brief introduction to me: I joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010, campaigned as part of Bosworth PPC Michael Mullaney's team in the run - up to the 2010 General Election (where Michael gained one of the largest swings to the Lib Dems in the country), I joined the Social Liberal Forum shortly after that.

Evennett was elected as the Conservative MP for Erith and Crayford at the 1983 general election when he defeated James Wellbeloved who had defected from the Labour Party to the newly formed Social Democrats in 1981.

The Danish Social Democrats have just won the General Election by advocating moderately high taxation, moderately high spending and access to services based on citizenship - not (supposed) need.

The abolition of fees remains central to Liberal Democrat education policy and the Social Liberal Forum believes that unless HE is paid for through general taxation, a fairly instituted graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.»

In the autumn of 2005, one year ahead of schedule, general elections were held and the Social Democrats were defeated.

Clare Short, elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards, resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true «Social Democrat».

(CNN)-- It was sort of lost in the headlines but Democratic members of the so - called super committee proposed some major changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending — something Democrats in general strongly oppose.

The Social Market Foundation (SMF) hosted its first keynote address with Oliver Letwin MP, Danny Alexander MP and Brendan Barber - General Secretary of the TUC - at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference last night.

The Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic (NDC), Koku Anyidoho says he still remains an unrepentant social democrat despite his detention by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for allegedly threatening a civil revolt and a coup in Ghana.

It is the reality of the world in which we live — Republicans and Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly are often divided on complex social and economic issues.