Sentences with phrase «government opposed the motion»

The government opposed the motion, and the judge took the issue under advisement.

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In terms of the vote on that motion, I wonder for now what argument the government could make for opposing this motion.

The Australian Workers Union boss questioned why federal Labor would oppose the sell - off of the government - owned health insurer, which the Abbott government has set in motion.

In Monday's shadow cabinet meeting, MPs agreed that Corbyn would open Labour's argument in Wednesday's Commons debate by opposing airstrikes while shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn will close the debate with an argument in favour of the government's motion.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

Even if you were wavering over whether Ed Miliband's decision yesterday to reject the government's motion on Syria (before it was published) was a political stunt, it's a little more difficult to see why the Labour leader plans to continue to oppose the rewritten motion when it comes to a vote in the Commons this evening.

The Commons has backed a Liberal Democrat motion opposing the government's» policy on the Gurkhas, in a «historic» defeat for defence ministers.

Labour's decision to back the prime minister in opposing a Commons motion calling for a referendum meant there was not a chance that the government would be defeated.

John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour's motion «would not be opposed», though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy

They are in disarray on this issue, with over 50 Labour backbenchers backing a Commons motion opposing Government policy.

With a government suffrage reform bill pending in parliament, the WLL introduced a motion to the 1909 Labour Party conference committing the party to oppose any suffrage extension bill that did not specifically include women.

The original government whipping was to oppose but was reversed at the last minute with the submission of a bland government amendment to the motion's wording, enabling Tory MPs to back it.

Even if Maryland were a proper forum, there can not be a claim for equitable relief, as opposed to a claim for damages, against a government official in his individual capacity, the motion argues.

Liberal MP Bill Blair — the man in charge of the marijuana file — described the rate of marijuana charges as «shocking,» yet, last week, the government opposed an NDP motion calling for its decriminalization while we wait for the slow wheels of legalization to turn.

In a decision released on February 25, 2014, the Federal Court of Canada granted the plaintiffs» motion for an order protecting the identities of «John Doe» and «Suzie Jones» which was opposed by the Government of Canada.