Sentences with phrase «governing labor party»

In the latest round of federal elections, the governing Labor Party promised to implement power plant emissions standards and carbon capture requirements for new coal - burning generators.

[292] The Australian Green party called for a parliamentary inquiry into News Limited, but Hartigan directly denied allegations by both the Greens and the governing Labor party that News Limited has been running a campaign against them, describing his group's journalism as «aggressive but fair.»

Education Secretary Ruth Kelly told the conference of the governing Labor Party that «the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end.»

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The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

The labor - backed party has Facebook ads posting today, part of a broader effort aimed at pressuring the eight - member bloc as Democrats hold a numeric majority in the state Senate, but do not have the votes to form a governing coalition.

Powerful labor allies of Mr. Cuomo's are pushing to fill vacant slots on the party's central committee to tilt the governing body in the governor's favor — and threatening to withdraw from the party entirely if they fail and Ms. Nixon wins the endorsement.

Ironically, a deal to secure the Democratic majority may have cost Mr. Liu the election: he lost much of his coveted labor backing, like the Working Families Party, after Mr. Avella's IDC agreed this Spring to govern with the Democratic conference next year.