Sentences with phrase «in their powers for»

She is following a succession of fiscally impaired, torn - mainsail governments (Stelmach, Redford, Prentice) under a PC party that had become nearly as fossilized as the resource that kept it in power for over four decades.

«How can the Liberals call this leadership when they were in power for many years and did nothing?»

However, current leader Kim Jong Un has only been in power for about three years, which raises the possibility that the nation could have swayed from that policy, DeTrani said.

Opposition leaders say they will fight any legislation put forward to enhance the president's powers, and have already made comparisons to previous dictators, like Hosni Mubarak, who remained in power for 30 years.

Mathiot told the Guardian that in northern France, the left has been in power for so long that it had lost the habit of «being in political competition.»

One might have thought the Martin government would remain in power for about as long as the two Pearson minorities — that is, nearly three years.

Well before the end of Chinese president Xi Jinping's first term, political experts had already begun speculating that he was planning to stay in power for longer than the 10 - year limit accepted by previous leaders.

The exceptions were Pierre Trudeau's Liberals in 1972, which lasted about 20 months, and Stephen Harper's Conservatives in 2006, which remained in power for about 33 months.

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.

will let it fail and will do everything in his power for electric cars to succeed, but we can't say that about all growth stocks.

Even as he led a party that had been in power for almost 40 years, his campaign tipped their hat to an energetic campaign south of the border by using the slogan «Change that works for Albertans.»

That's how they've stayed in power for 2000 years.

It might open your eyes to recognize the same old dreary, hateful, anti-Semitic lies that have been used by those in power for 2500 years to benefit themselves at the expense of their peoples intelligence and, often, their wealth.

Protestors in Egypt began their fight on Jan. 25 against President Hosni Mubarak, who was in power for almost 30 years.

«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

Perhaps because they have been in power for so long, they think they can set the terms of the debate.

Christianity has been in power for many centuries in one form or another, whether it was the Roman Catholic Church that sought political dominance in Europe, the Christianized culture of the medieval period, the Inquisition that persecuted heretics, or the modern nation state of Europe that went to spread Christianized culture to its colonies.

Fortunately, my vision stabilized after each surgery, but annual trips to the optometrist still meant a slight bump in power for my contact lenses and glasses.

That's it, Board of Directors, let him stay in power for ever!!

Stalin and Hitler would be in power for everrrr and everrr.

Trump did the impossible, but he is a nothing compared to Wenger therefore i salute him for deluding idiots to remain in power for years, bravo le frog

He feels very strongly that he has done everything in his powers for the club....

I don't think there are many who relish another Tory Government, but frankly, when you have «New Nazi» in power for 12 long and bloody years (Iraq & Afghan Wars) you get to the stage where absolutely ANYONE BUT LABOUR will do.

He's asked if he backs fixed - term parliaments, but says it worries him that a weak minority government would be stuck in power for four years.

Mr Cameron concluded: «There is a time in the life of every government when they've been in power for so long that complacency tips over into arrogance, and arrogance even becomes indifference to the law.

Fair enough about the inequality, but Labour had been in power for ten of the previous 14 years, and not even to question the ability of late - 70s Labour to tackle inequality is pretty breathtaking in its myopic partisanship.

Many of the oldest state leaders are constitutional or absolute monarchs or presidents who have been in power for a long time.

This crisis undermined the appeal of the programme of economic modernisation, which had kept Putin in power for the previous eight years.

Excellent post here, if we do not swing a big effort from our side, then the culling of seats could leave Ham - Face in power for a decade.

child poverty: Labour has been in power for twelve years and has failed to achieve even its own goals on this.

And he said that unless «progressives» join forces, the Tories will be in power for the next 25 years and have free rein to devise what Brexit Britain looks like.

«One of the differences is that was when the Conservatives had been in power for 17 or 18 years.

Labour, which will have been in power for 12 years by this May, can not sell itself on a concept of «change»: right now, it's only real narrative is that the last thing Britain needs to do is change its government.

Sheldon Silver was very adept at making sure his friends and allies occupied the seats that opened up in the State Legislature, and it helped him stay in power for 20 years.

As one minister put it to me «Until the exit poll we assumed we would be in power for the next fifteen years.

No Prime Minister in modern times who has needlessly thrown away a majority has remained in power for very long.

It seeks to entrench the major party and the current coalition in power for five years, regardless of whether parliament has confidence in it.

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

In local authorities elsewhere, where Labour has been in power for 25 years or more, the LibDems have (very properly IMO) challenged this as entrenched power and called for change.

Both coalition parties have a clear incentive to stay in power for the full term, as it's the only hope they have of not losing seats at the next election.

He must now convince his MPs and supporters to seize the chance by exercising the kind of iron will and discipline that kept Tony Blair in power for three General Elections on the trot.

So we must work hard to ensure that our party remains in power for more than 20 years».

Get this right, and the Tories should be in power for 10 years.

Paladino, meanwhile, could hamper GOP efforts to stay in power for another 2 - year term if his primary plan comes to fruition.

Instead, he declared, «I have never been interested in power for power's sake.

A key ally of Jeremy Corbyn has warned that the Conservatives could be in power for the next 20 years.

There's a sense that each of these competitive seats represents a chance not just to send someone to Washington but to either keep or flip the party in power for the whole country.

He also stressed on the point that President John Mahama is putting the Ghanaian economy on solid rocks to ensure no storm brings it down hence the massive infrastructural development going on nationwide and urged Ghanaians to vote and retain the NDC in power for a continuation of the good works of government.

«As the Deputy General Secretary of the party, NPP has been in power for 11 months they have neither given me a car nor fuel same.

That said, if the Tories manage to get an actual majority, go about their own electoral «reform» and keep themselves in power for a while without going anywhere near PR, I suspect Nick Clegg will go down as the worst player of a good electoral hand in history.