Sentences with phrase «in opposition over»

Most parents want what is best for their child despite being in opposition over many other issues.

Sea - ice coverage near northern Greenland and in the western Arctic Ocean varied in opposition over much of the Holocene.

Gordon Brown is eager that the public perceives changes before the next General Election and an early election doesn't allow him to do this, Labour though will delight in confusion in the Opposition over the timing of an election.

And what of the increasingly strident warnings of a former Labour leader, Tony Blair, who helped win general elections for a party that has spent rather too much time in opposition over the decades?

Not exact matches

A war erupted inside the Labour Party, the government's official opposition, over leader Corbyn's decision to make the party's parliamentarians vote in favour of May triggering Article 50.

On Wednesday, after Leslie Moonves took over as chairman of CBS (CBS)-- the other media conglomerate that Sumner Redstone controls — there was speculation that Dauman might not be named chairman of Viacom, in part because Shari Redstone made her opposition to him abundantly clear.

This will be all over the news channels, imagine the negative publicity,» Nathalie Kosciusko - Morizet, head of the conservative opposition in Paris, told Europe 1 radio.

Fusion was initially hired by anti-Trump Republicans to conduct opposition research on Trump in late 2015, and Democrats took over funding for the project after the Republicans pulled out.

An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, said four people had died and 10 were injured in the chaos over the last two days, but he did not specify the circumstances.

He bonded with Obama in the Senate over their mutual opposition to the Iraq war.

Republicans in Congress are opposed to bringing Guantanamo detainees to U.S. prisons and have expressed opposition to transfers to other countries over concern that released prisoners will return to militant activities.

If my proxy solicitation results in Mr. Hagenbuch's failure to receive over 50 % of the votes cast for his election, then I believe the failure of the board to accept his resignation would be an egregious violation of proper corporate governance and in direct opposition to a clear shareholder directive.

Edwards» predecessor, Republican Bobby Jindal, had been among the national leaders in opposition to Obamacare's Medicaid expansion — Jindal argued it would cost the state at least $ 1.7 billion over a decade.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Vancouver, BC — Opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines has subsided over the past 10 months in British Columbia, with the province's residents now being staunchly divided on the project, a new survey from Insights West has found.

Facebook over the weekend removed an event page promoting a Jan. 15 demonstration near the walls of the Kremlin in support of Aleksei A. Navalny, a leading opposition figure.

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.

To sum up, the six general elections considered here ended with minority governments, and those minorities all enjoyed a relatively small advantage in the number of seats — ranging from two to 22 — over the official Opposition.

It seems evident that minority governments with a comparatively narrow seat - advantage over the official Opposition usually stay in power for relatively brief periods of time.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

«The controversy over fracking in the UK has deepened as Scotland imposed a ban on giving the green light to new schemes amid ongoing public opposition to the process.

So the interesting thing is that over the last few days it does seem like we're getting a bit of that back and Gold is now trading in opposition to the Nasdaq...

The opposition NDP and Liberals both support loosening marijuana laws, and welcomed the government's trial balloon — in part, because the Conservatives have regularly attacked Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau over his support for legalizing marijuana.

However, polls show opposition right - wing candidate Mariano Rajoy in a firm lead over socialist candidate Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.

But it was over the cost of the mission in Iraq where the Conservatives fought a pitched battle with Opposition parties.

Allies kept nudging him away from Ottawa and toward Alberta, where the NDP had stunningly taken over in May 2015 and two conservative parties, the Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose, jostled in opposition.

5) Edmonton - Glenora Represented by both PC and Liberal MLAs over the past twenty years, this constituency could be a key battleground for five opposition parties in the next election.

Over the course of the debate, she proved herself to be the only opposition MLA who has been able to throw Mr. Prentice off balance and exposed a huge rift between moderates and social conservatives in the PC caucus.

Taking a quick look back at Alberta politics over the past twenty - five years, you will find opposition leaders that made positive contributions to Alberta politics, but could not withstand the meat - grinder of opposition politics in Alberta.

While it looked as if the NDP might form the official opposition in that election, over the course of the election Notley chipped away at Jim Prentice's campaign, gaining momentum through a positive and hopeful campaign that contrasted to the uninspiring institutional campaign presented by the PCs.

The Alberta Liberal Opposition has represented Albertans in the Legislature for over 100 years.

-- Over 500 people packed a hall in Vegreville to voice their opposition to the construction of new electrical transmission lines.

Kenney made it clear at a news conference in Edmonton that he isn't interested in the Progressive Conservatives or the Opposition Wildrose taking each other over.

Founded in 2013, the AfD rose to prominence on the back of an anti-immigration stance and its opposition to Merkel's decision to open the country's borders to over a million migrants, mainly those fleeing violence and persecution from the Middle East.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

Over 60 years ago when it was still extraordinary for women to work out of the home in this country the mainline was making the theological case for women in ordained ministry against the overwhelming opposition of most Christians throughout history.

To check the loss of zeal in the churches and to assure a common point of view over against growing opposition, an attempt was made to furnish a careful check on the pastors and congregations.

My concern was particularly with the pro-life movement, and I noted the general increase in opposition to abortion among the neocons over the last decade.

I suppose you are right, the fact that I continue to respond is in direct opposition to my premise that» Arguing over the beliefs of atheists is just useless».

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

Eichenwald is careful to compare opposition to homosexual practice only to biblical offenses that he thinks evangelicals will have a difficult time opposing consistently: drunkenness, greed, pride, and the injunction in 1 Tim 2:9 — 15 for women to keep silent and not have authority over men.

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.

Amid a backlash over these claims, the OCA released a statement in which Mabon claimed that Lively had «gotten tired» of being called «Nazi» because of the OCA's opposition to LGBT rights.

It is not my purpose to argue for the correctness of one or the other view of education, only to note that these are issues over which reasonable people may differ, and to question whether the State has a right to impose the first approach in the face of opposition from parents.

In the dispute over «speech codes» on campuses, to take but one example, there was the irony of conservatives, in their opposition to such codes, sounding like moral libertarians, while liberals were determined to impose moral standardIn the dispute over «speech codes» on campuses, to take but one example, there was the irony of conservatives, in their opposition to such codes, sounding like moral libertarians, while liberals were determined to impose moral standardin their opposition to such codes, sounding like moral libertarians, while liberals were determined to impose moral standards.

But the view of the moment and the view of eternity over the same matter have never stood in such atrocious opposition.

The other branches and tribes thereupon banded together in opposition and took a written oath to boycott the protecting quarters until Muhammad was handed over to them.

The entire experience of the peoples of America has created and nurtured a world view which stands over against the world view of the Bible in sharpest possible opposition.

In their opposition to Protestantism, Tridentine and post-Tridentine theologians sought to defend the revelatory role of tradition and the magisterium over against the sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) emphasis of Protestant Christianity.

Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.