Sentences with phrase «hold in opposition»

But somewhere along the line the party did what many governing parties do and started to retreat from the civil liberties positions it held in opposition.

«I have been open about the fact that we have not been able to deliver the policy that we held in opposition because of the financial situation and because of the compromises of the coalition government.»

Baroness Warsi, who took over as secretary of state for faith and communities in 2012, took the opposite stance to the one she had held in opposition.

Then, two days before her expected start date for her new position, she got a phone call informing her that Scott Stringer had just received a copy of a video that shows Leslie standing and participating with me — her husband — at a peaceful demonstration that we held in opposition to same - sex marriage.

Not exact matches

But his name has also been sullied lately: The NDP Opposition accused the B.C. government of selling land in Coquitlam to Khosrowshahi's Wesbild Holdings for well below its assessed value.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

At Saturday's protests in a freezing Warsaw, opposition leaders served hot tea to the police and some of the 5,000 demonstrators who held banners saying «Free media» and carried Polish and European Union flags.

The current scandal may be the country's worst yet, with Prime Minister Najib Razak facing increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing last month to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent are scouring for projects, while Didi's acquisition of Brazil 99 showed deals can get done quickly, unlike the political opposition Chinese companies face in the U.S.

Opposition politicians are calling for a snap election after it was revealed that Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson held shares in a company that allegedly invested in Iceland's troubled banking sector.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

However, it would have been far better for us all if he had been held to account in a court of law,» said Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Labour, the main opposition party.

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of the South African opposition Democratic Alliance party — and an ally of the fractious MDC — called for Mugabe to resign immediately, and for «fresh elections to be held in Zimbabwe as soon as practically possible.»

At first, opposition rivals attacked him for failing to put his substantial holdings in the firm, which manages pensions, into a blind trust after he was named to a cabinet position responsible for regulating the industry.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

A claim by the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten that private insurers held $ 6 billion in excess capital was misleading because most of the excess was held by non-profit funds, analysts said.

Morneau failed to disclose ownership of the corporation that holds his French villa, which in turn gave opposition MPs a chance to revisit Trudeau's ill - advised Christmas 2016 trip to the Aga Khan's private Bahamian island — images of elite leisure that hardly reinforce the PM's mantra about attending to «the middle class and those working hard to join it.»

As the chart above illustrates, there is an interesting correlation between the seat - advantage a minority government holds over the official Opposition, and the length of time between general elections when the minority is in power.

This opposition however, has not been held by a majority of B.C. residents in reporting done by the Angus Reid Institute.

You'd think the same would hold true for a governing Conservative party that came to office in 2006 on a platform of transparency and accountability, or the three opposition parties who make daily denunciations about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's penchant of secrecy.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

Meanwhile, the opposition held up a letter from Alberta Medical Association President Patrick White in Question Period today claiming that even the doctors» union wanted a public inquiry.

It is noteworthy that shares in Medibank Private hit a record high the day after Opposition Leader Bill Shorten attacked the private health insurance industry for allegedly earning excessive profits, holding too much capital and ripping off customers with too many policy exclusions.

Aside from the brief sitting held in the spring with the almost sole purpose of ejecting retired MLA Ken Kowalski from his long - held spot in Speaker's Chair, the newly elected Wildrose Official Opposition has had little opportunity to spar with government ministers in a formal setting.

Aside from the two - day speech driven sitting held last month, this will be the first time that new Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet will gather in the Assembly to present a legislative agenda and field questions from Opposition MLAs.

The Progressive Conservatives have opened their nomination process, leading a number of candidates to declared their interest in opposition held constituencies.

The Canadian province, which holds the world's third - largest crude reserves, is reviewing renewable - energy policies as exports from its oil sands face increasing opposition from environmental groups and lawmakers in the U.S. and Europe.

A top figure in Armenia's ruling party says it will support opposition leader Nikol Pashinian as prime minister if he keeps his supporters from holding protests.

Even the most eccentric reconstruction of presumably primitive myths can provide the avant garde with a place to stand in opposition to Christianity and Western culture, which are, at the same time, declared to be both thoroughly discredited and powerfully holding humanity in thrall.

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

You don't have to stick to what others say family is, the same way you don't have to stick with what others say «god» is, or «love» is... so I don't quite get the holding on to some terms / verses / theologies in opposition to what you actually want / believe.

If the churches are to be outspoken in their call for non-violence and an international order, they may expect opposition, especially from those who want to hold on to the full sovereignty of the nation state.

The horizontal x axis in Figure E holds in binary opposition the canonic and gnostic sides, while the vertical y axis has as its poles the charismatic and gnostic sides.

Dom Helder Camara, the diminutive Brazilian archbishop who symbolizes Christian opposition to military dictatorship not only in Brazil but throughout Latin America, was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at Harvard University in 1974.

«5 With Nietzsche he holds that «God» is «the deification of nothingness,» in polar opposition to the world, «the contradiction of life,» one who «crushes the life of man,» «the deepest embodiment of... No - saying, [i.e.,] absolute life and self - negation.

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

In opposition to the «unreformed» subjectivist principle, which holds that «the datum in the act of experience can be adequately analyzed purely in terms of universals» (PR 157/239), Whitehead insists that we have a direct experience of the causality of the past (PR 169 / 256, 178 / 271In opposition to the «unreformed» subjectivist principle, which holds that «the datum in the act of experience can be adequately analyzed purely in terms of universals» (PR 157/239), Whitehead insists that we have a direct experience of the causality of the past (PR 169 / 256, 178 / 271in the act of experience can be adequately analyzed purely in terms of universals» (PR 157/239), Whitehead insists that we have a direct experience of the causality of the past (PR 169 / 256, 178 / 271in terms of universals» (PR 157/239), Whitehead insists that we have a direct experience of the causality of the past (PR 169 / 256, 178 / 271).

The person who is secure in their acceptance is much more able to hold to their principles (as opposed to their pride) in the face of the opposition and displeasure of others.

A story like that of the pastor who sponsored refugees unfolds as pastor and congregation hold firmly to their principles in the face of bitter opposition.

Thus, in a series of works published in 1919 and the early 1920s, in opposition to relativity theory, Whitehead argued not only that the geometry of the world was uniform, but that «the properties of time and space express the basis of the uniformity in nature which is essential for our knowledge of nature as a coherent system» (R 8, 29).1 Furthermore, he held that this uniformity was actually discerned there (H 14).

Bishop Antoine Audo, the Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo told Premier people in his pastoral visits have told him life is better for them since President Bashar al - Assad launched the final assault on the opposition - held east Aleppo.

While polls should never have an undue effect on someone's political or moral positions — as Robert Wuthnow convincingly argues in the most recent issue of First Things — this new poll does seem to reveal that an artificial consensus created by the elite of this country, and the relatively quiet response among the opposition, has not taken dramatic hold of the hearts and minds of ordinary people in this nation.

(If a considerable number of Psalms go back to the prophetic period or earlier, as some modern critics hold (in opposition to the view which prevailed thirty years ago), then there is additional support for the view that there was no such radical change from collective to individual conceptions at the Exile as has often been asserted.

This was in direct opposition to the new theological temper critical of liberalism; so religious education continued to rely on a theological position that no longer held the field.

Jesus is a real historical figure, a viewpoint held by the vast majority of atheist, agnostic and believing historians, yet you cling to the illusion that He isnt in opposition to all the evidence to the contrary

In his book, The New York Idea, Mario Cuomo states that over and above both his «personal feelings» and the significant civic and religious opposition to casinos, «there is a respectable body of economic though that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.»

At Heidelberg, Luther had failed to convince the old men from Erfurt; particularly saddening was the opposition of Fr Trutvetter, whom Luther loved and held in esteem, though he spoke sharply about him sometimes in letters to Spalatin.

And the signs so far in Brazil are very positive — a public inquiry will be held, legislation to ban live export is to be drafted, vets and vet students are being educated and beginning to speak out against the trade, and the meat processing union has publicly announced its opposition to live export.

When Arsenal scores an early goal in a match for some reason it seems to destroy them mentally, their overall football in terms of ability in maintaining possession and holding good shape whilst defending tend to disintegrate until the opposition score on them.

However, these have come vs lesser opposition, ozil hasn't performed well in big games and I fear that is where a lot of the criticism takes hold.