Sentences with phrase «government shares powers»
It's the concept under which the central (federal) government shares powers with the states.
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The Brazilian government holds a so - called golden share in Embraer, giving it veto power over strategic decisions involving military programs and any change in its controlling interest.
Western Australia's Nationals say they are getting down to the «business end» of choosing whether to form a government with Labor or the Liberals as both parties submit their power sharing proposals.
The deal would maintain the government's so - called golden share in Embraer, a former state enterprise, giving it veto power over certain strategic decisions, including Boeing's current push for a tie - up.
A power point presentation for investors by Ian Anderson, president of Kinder Morgan Canada Group, provides a wealth of information that has not been widely shared with the general public or local governments:
Although resetting and transforming the relationship with First Nations is a «foundational piece» of the power sharing agreement between the NDP and Green Party, the government has not kept this commitment at the centre of its responses to Kinder Morgan.
Instead of shaping the outcome of this or that political race, they've sought to amplify the voices of activists and intellectuals who share their suspicion of government power.
In the meantime, the government could implement the spirit and intent of its commitment in the power sharing agreement by instructing the staff reviewing Kinder Morgan's permits to bend over backwards to engage affected First Nations on any issue, even if they tangentially involved.
Their rise is cutting deeply into support for Greece's two mainstream parties — the conservative New Democracy party and the center - left Socialists, known as Pasok — that share power in a fractious coalition government.
Shares of Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) were trading higher by more than 3 percent early Tuesday following unconfirmed reports the electric - car and solar - power maker is close to reaching an agreement with the Chinese government.
Federalism is based on shared principles including respect for the constitution and the division of powers, while being aware that Quebec has not agreed to the Constitution Act, 1982, and accepting that there are differences among the provinces and territories and that governments may have different policy priorities and preferences.
State share sales expected this year include those of power generation company EVN Genco 3, estimated to be worth about $ 2.2 billion in local media reports, and the divestment of additional shares in $ 9.6 billion Airports Corporation of Vietnam, currently 95 percent owned by the government.
The British government's recent setbacks are also weighing on the pound, a typical tailwind for shares in dollar earnings British companies, after Britain's upper house voted to give parliament powers to block or delay a final deal on departure from the European Union.
To begin with, though we have had to give up Jefferson's moral confidence in a rationally enlightened humankind, we have good reason to share his other motive for separating government from religion, mainly, humankind's tragic experience with melding the state's unlimited power and religion's absolute truth.
One hopes that the new government would allow some sort of sharing of power between faiths like is done in Lebanon — but then again, Christians are nearly 40 % of Lebanon, not 10 % like in Egypt.
The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has asked the British government to push back the existing power - sharing agreement deadline at the Northern Ireland Assembly by six weeks.
The power sharing agreement changed the historical ethnic composition of government and ended the exclusion of Hutu from politics.
Having emerged as the dominant parties in the assembly election, the DUP and Sinn Fein have until March 26th to agree on a power sharing arrangement or the British government will suspend devolution in the province.
If everything goes as planned, the elections should deliver a new assembly and a new power - sharing government would be formed at Stormont on March 26th.
The prime minister Tony Blair will today meet with Dr Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams to discuss the restoration of a power sharing government in Northern Ireland in 12 days time.
The move clears a major obstacle in the way of the restoration of power - sharing government between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at Stormont, which, under the terms of the St Andrews agreement, could take place in March.
After the civil war, Burundi implemented a complex scheme of consociational power - sharing, carefully instituting ethnic proportionality at all levels of the government.
Left - libertarians may argue that freedom is not achieved by transferring power from a somewhat democratically controlled government to fully undemocratic companies, but that freedom and egality are achieved by an increased sharing of power.
Some statutory powers are shared, being exercised by Scottish ministers for matters wholly within Scotland and by the UK government for cross-border, UK - wide matters.
«We agree with suggestions that the assignment of an appropriate share of revenue of the tax collected to Scotland, while not providing the total accountability nor the kinds of powers for specific policy objectives the Scottish Government seeks, does provide an indirect advantage to Scotland in that greater economic growth as a result of local policies would increase revenue.
«It tells you all you need to know about Theresa May that she would call a snap Westminster election in the middle of intense efforts to restore power sharing government to Northern Ireland.
First, the power - sharing government that followed the disputed election results of 2007: by bringing a large number of political actors on - board, government action has been stalled and many of the ministerial responsibilities duplicated, leading in turn to a lack of accountability.
In Northern Ireland, the election compounds the political turmoil, which followed the failure of the DUP - led power - sharing government, electoral losses for the DUP, and the subsequent inability of the unionist and nationalist parties to come to a new agreement.
Although the power - sharing requirements for devolved government under the Good Friday Agreement were probably essential to involve the mainstream parties representing both communities, they handed a veto on progress to those parties.
The presence of a power - sharing government increases the attention on the 2013 election because many politicians view the current system as unmanageable.
The leaders in the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly on Monday indicated they would push to change Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to require local governments to develop ways of sharing services and scale back his efforts to expand his office's powers over the state budget.
In fact, crime - related issues came 24th in the list, continuing its diminishing share of MPs» postbags since the coalition government came to power in May 2010.
The former is an attempt by a minority sect to cling to power when it has been voted out, the other (given likely seats and vote shares) is a democratic government.
Instead, federal government comprises separate but coordinate institutions sharing in authority and in power.
Sen. Jeff Klein has now made clear that he and his fellow IDCers would like to form a so - called coalition government with the Senate Republicans, which, in his description, entails a true bipartisan power - sharing situation when it comes to running the chamber.
They were seen as a fairly unprincipled, power - hungry bunch who didn't care whose 30 pieces of silver they took to get a share of government.
[66][67][114] Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant the two effectively shared power in the 2010 — 16 government, whilst commentators pointed to Osborne's hand in Cabinet reshuffles.
During the premiership of David Cameron, George Osborne was widely viewed as a potential future Leader of the Conservative Party; one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron Government.
Brian shares my values, including a deep belief in the power of government and a commitment to fight for our communities.
«The shared services council that's being created has the benefits of a consolidated government, because it puts the buying power together inside that entity, but it also addresses the concern people had about the desire to keep separate identities,» she said.
Skelos, who was majority leader before entering into the power - sharing arrrangement with the five - member IDC, said in his statement that New Yorkers want a bipartisan government.
And he urged the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to accept this progress and, if tomorrow's conference results in a pledge of confidence in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), to proceed to a power - sharing government with Sinn Fein.
The Alliance party is opposed to the Northern Ireland power sharing executive on the grounds that it believes the people of Northern Ireland should be able to elect their own executive and decide their own system of government without systems imposed on them by Westminster.
My government fully supports and shares in your vision to become a research - intensive university, and we will do all in our power to help you actualize this.
Government sources acknowledge the Coalition faces a «hard grind» following the upheaval of the power - sharing deal and the announcement of huge spending cuts.
Furthermore, with the collapse of the power - sharing agreement in Northern Ireland, there is no official government representing Nothern Irish views in these negotiations.
In this case, although all five parties are in the power - sharing government, the DUP and Sinn Féin are acting as if they are «the government» and the UUP, SDLP and Alliance are «the opposition».
Today, the USA is a collection of different political entities with individual state laws / constitutions, that share sovereignty with the federal government which has specific delegated powers.
«I think we would be in the wilderness for as much as 15 years because all the changes that the Conservative majority government would bring in would actually not be about fairness or equity or even sharing power, it would be about excluding the Labour party,» he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Unless minority coalition governments were explicitly encouraged from the outset; established majority parties will discourage and disparage minority governments since the major parties would prefer to rule less often but completely, than rule more often but share power.