Sentences with phrase «government over majority»

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There were a few dissents, but a majority of the Monetary Policy Committee also opted to create # 60 billion (about $ 100 billion) to buy government bonds over the next six months and # 10 billion to purchase corporate debt over 18 months.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that he intends to hold a debate over immigration measures, such as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, before Feb. 8 — but only if the government reopens.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he intends to hold a debate over immigration measures before Feb. 8 — but only if the government reopens.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

B.C. and Atlantic Canada are evenly divided over whose say should be final, while a majority in Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan say the federal government should have final say, given the wider impact of these decisions outside of the focus provinces.

While a majority of those from younger generations in Canada's westernmost province tend to side with the B.C. government in this dispute, seven - in - ten (70 %) residents over 55 say it is making the wrong call.

Moreover, a solid majority of 68 % believe that the federal government should prioritize clean tech and renewable energy over oil and gas, when promoting Canada's natural resources in Asia.

She said: «On the day when the Belfast Court of Appeal ruled that it is up to the Stormont Assembly to decide on abortion law in Northern Ireland, the Government at Westminster has now decided to ride roughshod over the views of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland.»

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

Obama has really done a great job with America, he has pushed for equality and has improved the economy since Bush was taken out of our government, sure it has been a slow re-growth but that is expected since the majority of Republicans really messed everyone over.

While the Government sweats over pensions, the church must wake up to its older members, look beyond the stereotypes and begin utilising this silent but significant majority, argues Brian Adams.

The majority of mainstream Christians have allowed a vocal minority to take over our government and interpret scripture and Christian values for all Christians.

It comes as the government has stepped up efforts to have pro-Kurdish lawmakers prosecuted over their alleged links with militants amid mounting tension in the Kurdish - majority southeast.

The government won the vote over Mr Hunt's future with a majority of 38.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

He is presiding over a vast federal bureaucracy, with majorities in Congress and across most state governments.

The vast majority of pornographic websites are in foreign countries, which the British government has no jurisdiction over.

It's been over 20 years since they won a majority, nine years since Cameron became leader and four years since they failed to win an election against a hugely unpopular Labour government.

Earlier this week, a Tory backbench revolt over CLG's original proposal cut the Government's majority to 27.

The English system prioritizes the achievement of accountable majority government over representativeness, so whether you think this is democratic or not depends on your stance on that issue.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

The size of the NHS — almost # 1 in every # 5 of public spending, employing over a million people — makes problems in the health service hard to manage even for governments with a healthy majority.

However, the majority of Israelis support a two state solution, Israel has offered Palestine a state several times, it is the stance of the current government that the conflict should be resolved via two states, and Israel is currently in negotiations over a final status agreement that would establish a Palestinian state, so we can conclude that Israel's «long term plan» in the West Bank is to establish a Palestinian state over almost all of it.

Although Scotland and England have been in a union for over 300 years, they have never merged completely: there have always been separate Scottish institutions, a different national church, a different legal system, different administration of government and now a Scottish Parliament dealing with the majority of domestic Scottish affairs.

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

From 2011 to 2015, DEAN SKELOS served as Majority Leader and Co-Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, a position that gave him significant power over the operation of New York State government.

«We formed the Senate majority coalition because we believe that it is the best way to continue to build on the progress we've made over the last two years in ending government dysfunction, bringing spending under control, enacting a property tax cap and helping businesses create new jobs.

Whatever people may think of New Labour's achievements, faults and mistakes, there is an enormous difference between the timidity with which a government with a majority of 170 + proceeded in its first term, carefully implementing its incremental manifesto but always looking over its shoulder in search of the «daily mandate», and the astonishing bullishness of this Coalition despite the hung parliament.

The threshold level of votes had been set at 2.5 % (For the purposes of this example) Points to note include In an FPTP election, Party A, with 335 MPs would have a clear majority over all the other parties combined, and thus would be the single party of government, despite the fact that they only won 35.2 % of the popular vote, and almost 2/3 of voters voted for other parties.

But now some Republicans are raising red flags over DeFrancisco, the Senate's deputy majority leader, saying he will be viewed as an Albany insider who will have little appeal to voters looking to reform a broken state government.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, over a four - day period, repeatedly ducked and dodged after The Post asked the simple question of whether he's representing legal clients who have business before state government.

If this is correct we may hope to expect more pragmatism in fiscal policy over the next few years, rather than allowing a Conservative majority government to spark a determination to reduce the share of government spending and the size of the public sector, regardless of the costs.

Cooper will argue that it is unprecedented for a government to abuse its small majority in the Commons to try to cripple an opposition party through partisan measures to cut its funding, while doing nothing to provide transparency over corporate donations to the Tories.

Dutchess County Legislature Assistant Majority Leader Donna Bolner said, «With more than 70 % of the county budget mandated by the state and federal government, we must continue to be prudent and wise with the remaining 30 % of the budget that we have direct influence over.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

The seven - member Supreme Court panel, presided over by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, in a 6 - 1 majority decision, said the two are illegally in the country since the then government allowed them into the country without prior approval by Parliament.

There are cases also when a parliament is simply not capable of sustaining a government over the long term, such as the House of Commons elected in February 1974, in which neither the Conservatives nor Labour could achieve a majority.

Voters on Long Island will soon pick a replacement for a convicted former top lawmaker — ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — in a contest that could help give Democrats complete control over New York state government.

But the past year has seen a repeat of the drama and turmoil of the Major years: a rancorous party split over Europe within months of victory and a slim commons majority making the government vulnerable to defeats by opposition ambushes and even small backbench rebellions.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

The climbdown illustrates again how vulnerable ministers are over the bill, given the number of potential Tory rebels often exceeds the government's tiny DUP - aided majority.

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

As a result of budget negotiations with Labour's Welsh Government who have been one seat short of a majority we have led budget negotiations that have delivered substantial extra finance for the region's schools, discounted bus travel for over 24,000 of the region's young people, and so much more which would not be happening without the Welsh Lib Dems.

Critics have historically argued that the committees have no real purpose beyond being a kind of «mini-me» image of the Commons as whole, always dominated by a government majority and chair, and with over 99 % of ministerial amendments moved at the Committee or report stages, and a success rate for non-government amendments of below 1 %.

Foreign secretary William Hague last night said he hoped to win over Conservative voters considering voting Ukip by pointing out only the Tory majority government would be able to deliver such a choice.

The decision will be felt most immediately in the coming midterm elections, given that it comes just two days after Democrats lost a filibuster - proof majority in the Senate and as popular discontent over government bailouts and corporate bonuses continues to boil.

County government has no control over the cost of these programs or how to run them; we are simply given the bill,» said Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo.