Sentences with phrase «in narrow party»

We were willing - despite our fundamental objections to elected mayors - to deliver a City Region deal and saw this effectively blocked by Tory MPs in narrow party political grounds.

Not exact matches

Already, sticking points in the plan have emerged, threatening the loss of votes for a party that holds only a narrow majority in the Senate.

The Iowa Democratic Party is standing by the results of the Iowa caucuses in which Hillary Clinton apparently defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders by the narrowest of margins, The Des Moines Register reported.

But Trump's tax reform hopes have begun to encounter resistance in the Senate, where the Republicans» narrow majority means they have to keep almost everyone in the party on board.

Scheer, for those who missed it, edged out a narrow victory against Maxime Bernier in May in the contest for leader of the Conservative party.

And while Premier Alison Redford has been cold towards the idea of granting cities more financial power, saying she's «satisfied with the way things are,» her party should not forget that city voters are who they owe for their narrow re-election to government in 2012.

The Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the election, while the Democratic Party of President Obama held on to the Senate by a narrow margin.

Yet, militant right - wing Christians, in a most uncharitable and un-Christian manner are working through the ignorant Tea Party and narrow - mnided GOP party to try and legislate morality and take away others» freedoms who do not believe as theParty and narrow - mnided GOP party to try and legislate morality and take away others» freedoms who do not believe as theparty to try and legislate morality and take away others» freedoms who do not believe as they do.

How many noble causes are frustrated by quarrels that express the narrow interests of the parties more than genuine differences in belief about how to move forward!

I think what got them in trouble was an unwavering commitment to a party, a narrow definition of «values» and how they set up a narrative that inferred true Christians could only cast their ballot for the GOP.

However, we want to suggest that the word politics need not be understood in this narrow sense of «party politics».

Rather, he depicts Roosevelt as a major force in shifting the historic roles of the two political parties, whereby Democrats abandoned the habits of nineteenth - century individualism for «a spiteful and ultimately self - destructive inactive protectionism» and Republicans traded the moral paternalism of nineteenth - century Whigs for a «narrow and doctrinaire brand of «free enterprise.

«Whilst a frustrating and disappointing season is mitigated by a lengthy injury list and a record number of narrow defeats resulting in losing bonus points, both parties agreed it was best for the side that there was a new voice at the helm going forward.

The pledge to freeze energy prices received wide support in post-election polling, and when it comes to which party would be better at increasing people's living standards, Miliband and his party have a lead (albeit, a narrow two - point one) over Cameron and the Conservatives.

«The party machinery has to show some faith in the good judgment of voters and you can not do that by drawing up rules which narrow down the contest.»

«At the top of the Conservative party, the narrow vote in favour of leaving the EU has now been interpreted as the pretext for a drastic cutting of ties with Europe, which would have dire economic results - and as an excuse for the most toxic rhetoric on immigration we have seen from any government in living memory,» the statement reads.

Senate Republicans hold a narrow majority in the chamber, while Democrats expect to do well in suburban and upstate swing districts with Hillary Clinton atop the party's ticket this year.

«Her appointing Government failed in the rigging agenda despite all the attempts by the Commission to narrow the election to a two - party race to facilitate easy rigging for the incumbent.

The race for the 9th Senate district is a hotly contested one for both parties given the narrow divide in the chamber, currently led by Republicans.

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«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

Continuity Remain turns out to have been a very narrow band of opinion that gave up on the Lib Dems after their terrible start to the election campaign - and the Brexit - voting southwest had no interest in backing the party that once dominated the region.

But in their self - imposed season of anomie, Afenifere committed the ultimate ideological apostasy, by their own Awoist doctrine: pushed the wrong cause, backed the wrong horse, kept the wrong company, and coalesced behind the wrong person, as arrowhead to Aso Rock, in Ondo Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, ruthless political hustler and survivalist, who just defected to the wide - and - merry Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), from the supposedly straight - and - narrow Labour Party (LP).

The party's current approach of washing away anything that stands in the way of narrow progressive politics is driving a wedge between it and the communities that set it up.

Labour's moderates would have to argue that it is important for the party to stay in the game in anticipation of another close election result, and not throw it away by choosing a leader who would split the party, lacks prime - ministerial credibility and has a narrow electoral appeal.

Though Ed Miliband's party are static on 32 %, the Conservatives are up three points to 30 %, bring the Labour margin down from five points to the narrower advantage we have seen in recent weeks.

Trump carried the 22nd District by double digits, but Tenney won her first term by a narrower 6 - point margin in a race with a third party candidate.

The point she was seeking to convey to the more ideologically zealous among them was that the Conservative Party could only hope to govern again if it remained in touch with mainstream society and was not seen to pursue the exclusive, narrow - minded agenda of a select few.

Having lost by a relatively narrow 800 votes in the General Election in June 2010, Heathcoat - Amory announced to the local party members and media that he would not be contesting the next general election.

Both campaigns say they believe the gap will narrow as Republicans increase their early voting efforts, but it also reflects differences in the parties» get - out - the - vote operations.

The 40 is rather different as it is a group of MPs brought together solely by necessity - the members are those MPs who were elected in 2010 with the narrowest majorities in the Party.

Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles recollects an election night which saw him elected to Bradford council, but disappointment at the narrow defeat of the Conservative candidate in Keighley.

The latest ComRes / Independent poll confirms that the gap in support between the main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, with the public deeply confused about what passes for David Cameron's economic policy.

In the years which have passed Scotland and Wales have both elected nationalist parties into power, albeit by a narrow margin.

A «Yes» victory would have been seriously damaging for his standing in his party and the country and would have raised the prospect of him possibly leading a lame duck government, in the event of a narrow victory in the 2015 general election.

His point that the party is now unable to claim «we're all in this together» is just another way of saying that the Tories can no longer claim to be appealing to voters outside of their narrow core support.

The party recently endorsed Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy in NY - 20 again after backing him in the 2009 special election and providing more votes than his narrow margin of victory over Assemblyman Jim Tedisco in that race.

I don't want to see anymore panicky responses from David Cameron to placate the Ranting Right in his own party, and the narrow nationalism of Nigel Farage.

There is a risk that the narrow party interests, point - scoring politics and divisive scaremongering encouraged by the present system — and perpetrated by leading Conservatives in the No campaign — will succeed in defeating attempts to move to a new one.

Labour have a narrow 1 point lead on being the party people would trust to get us out the present crisis, but asked which party they trust on the economy in general the Conservatives continue to lead by 34 % to 30 %.

Labour's national executive committee will meet for the first time since the election in the next fortnight and one source close to the NEC said they believed Lavery's comments would be a controversial topic of discussion — particularly on narrowing the spectrum of political views in the party.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party, the Working Families Party, that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for the party's endorsement in the fall electparty, the Working Families Party, that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for the party's endorsement in the fall electParty, that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for the party's endorsement in the fall electparty's endorsement in the fall elections.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party the Working Families Party that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for that party's endorsement in the fall electparty the Working Families Party that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for that party's endorsement in the fall electParty that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for that party's endorsement in the fall electparty's endorsement in the fall elections.

If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.

While Ms. Nixon's position may help her in the primary with a narrow group of Democratic Party voters, it would hurt her if she were to proceed beyond the primary with voters in highly taxed Long Island and Westchester County.

A new Quinnipiac poll in the Florida Senate race shows former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) narrowing the gap against Gov. Charlie Crist (R), numbers sure to embolden national conservatives who are already casting the primary as a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican party.

Tessa Jowell was picked as the Labour candidate in Ilford North to defend the party's very narrow majority in what proved to be a key byelection in 1978, caused by the death of the sitting MP.

I totally agree that a convention that is established quickly against a backdrop of narrow party political point scoring in the run - up to the election will be a disaster.

However, Democratic party chair Jay Jacobs argues the process is also democratic (note the lowercase «d») because in the contentious five - way race for Attorney General, the party made a decision to allow all candidates access to a primary ballot instead of letting delegates narrow the field at the convention.

I think the question is meaningless because there is no standard of how «wide» or «narrow» the base of a political party must be, a practical guide to tell us (in the ideological dimension) what a «political party» is and what a «coalition» is.