Sentences with phrase «govern as a minority»

If that's the case the Tories may find themselves obliged to govern as a minority.

The rationale: Nick Clegg could decide to establish a confidence - and - supply arrangement with the Conservatives, allowing David Cameron to govern as a minority for the remaining months until the next general election without Lib Dems in power.

And, of course, there are many diehard tribalists who'd rather try to govern as a minority than deal with anyone.

Labour's biggest union backer says the Labour leader should govern as a minority government in the event that Labour does not win the 2015 general election outright but is the biggest party.

Not exact matches

As a minority government for the past three years, the Conservatives could not govern with complete independence for fear of losing a vote of non-confidence in the House of Commons.

As «People of the Book» under classical Islamic law — which ISIS has purported to restore in its newly - declared caliphate — Christians can choose to abide by the terms of the Dhimma, the notional contract that governs the treatment of Christians, Jews, and some other minorities.

The Christian minority, CBN reports, is praying for Ahok as well as for Anies, who they hope will meet the standards his predecessor set and govern in a way that is fair to all Indonesians.

Mr Bone asked: «Would my preferred deputy prime minister arrange a divorce from the yellow peril so that we can govern with Conservative policies as a minority government?

Ken Ofori - Attah, in responding to the issue in Parliament, stated that the issuance was transparent and was done in accordance with the laid down procedures governing the issuance of bond and government securities in the country, adding that there was no conflict of interest, as he «had no direct dealings with the investors» as alleged by the minority in Parliament.

But Survation's numbers puts the Tories a long way from being able to govern even as a minority.

The Hastert Rule, also known as the «majority of the majority» rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican [1][2][3] Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships [4] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.

The play follows the activities of both Labour and Conservative whips» offices, as they battle for the favour of the «odds and sods» — angry Scots raging about devolution, some drunken Irish, and Liberals in beige checked flares — in order to hold influence in the House governed by a precarious and potty - mouthed Labour minority.

The Minority side in Parliament is alleging that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is planning to raise a bond of $ 2.4 billion bond using the energy sector levy as collateral for a period of 15 years.

This strikes me as a far better analogy than the earlier elections you cite — Like Wilson, Cameron could have cannily used every day to illustrate that while he was doing his best to govern with a minority, the radical changes the economic crisis demanded were being blocked at every turn and that he deserved to be given a real chance to put his policies into effect.

There is also a deep antipathy in Labour to the Liberal Democrats for having joined with the Tories, prompting some senior Labour politicians to argue that in event of a hung parliament, they would prefer to try to govern alone as a minority administration.

Heath resigned on the Monday and was replaced as prime minister by Labour's Harold Wilson, who governed with a minority government until October of that year.

The Minority Leader of Ghana's Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has described as a «hoax» the governing New Patriotic Party's (NPP) much touted free Senior High School policy which is to be fully rolled out on Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

It implies that the SNP could govern much more easily as a minority, or form a majority government with any party it chooses including the Greens.

It implies that the SNP could govern much more easily as a minority, or form a majority government with any party it -LSB-...]

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After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.