Sentences with phrase «government in the difficult position»

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«The welfare ministry is in a difficult position — it will not and can not say, «public pensions are in trouble and you won't be receiving much,»» said Hideyuki Morito, a member of a government panel on pensions and professor of law at Keio University.

For all the talk of change in Washington, lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week in a familiar position: up against a series of difficult deadlines to keep the government open and raise the nation's debt ceiling.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary and minister for women and equality, intervened as the archbishop of Wales complained that the government had put his church in an «enormously difficult position», which threatened to «severely curtail» its freedom to act according to its conscience.

Sure, from the position of being in government, these contests are going to be harder to fight, and we musn't be unrealistic about our chances of winning seats that are always going to be difficult - Barnsley Central springs to mind, for example.

But it is difficult to imagine how Nick Clegg could retain a position in Government in a Lab - Lib coalition without either disowning his record or refusing to submit himself fully to the doctrine of collective responsibility.

Commenting on the announcement of the draft Scottish budget for 2013/14, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the fastest growing teachers» union in Scotland, said: «While the Scottish Government has been placed in a difficult position by the Westminster Government's imposition of its austerity measures, it is deeply disappointing that the Scottish Government has chosen to follow the Coalition's flawed economic policies by imposing another year of pay freeze on public sector workers.»

Were a Conservative MP to be elected as chairman in the next round of elections, it would be difficult to prevent suspicions arising of the government seeking to influence a key position in the House in an improper way.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «While councils have a statutory duty to ensure every child has a school place available to them, they find themselves in the difficult position of not being able to ensure schools, including academies, expand.»

«By handling out phantom RECs, the government is putting homeowners in the difficult and perverse position of either forgoing any financial support to install solar or increasing the amount of dirty electricity in Australia,» says Alternative Technology Association Energy Advocate Damien Moyse.

Pai may have a difficult road ahead, as the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the government's position on net neutrality rules in a 2 - to - 1 decision from a three - judge panel just this past year.

Perhaps the most politically interesting aspect of this session was the exchanges on fisheries, The government knows it is in a difficult position over the transitional deal it has struck with the EU.