Sentences with phrase «increasing numbers of party»

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

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Trump responded that he thinks the number of black voters in the Republican party will increase.

The founder also said Toutiao will create a «blacklist system» and increase the number of censors it hires from 6,000 to 10,000 — staff who are likely to be members of the ruling Communist Party.

In regard to seniors, the Party is committed to making the Alberta Seniors Benefit inflation - proof by tying it to the Alberta Consumer Index, increasing the number of dental procedures covered under the Dental Assistance for Seniors Program, and improving the province's system of senior centres.

Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Curran said the increased number of claims was driven by more claims from its marine and fire risk division in Asia as well as higher - than - budgeted crop losses in Ecuador and ongoing «issues» in its Colombian third party motor insurance book.

Also, given the potential for increasing numbers of distressed producers, there is a level of counter party risk that we need to be wary of (producers that go bankrupt and can not satisfy their distribution contracts with the pipelines).

We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independent legislators can increase the global efficiency of a Legislature, in terms of both number of laws passed and average social welfare obtained.

Numbers at the Evenings of Faith have been steadily increasing over our two years: in this summer series several large pizzas and some bottles of wine were needed every time for the party that follows the discussion.

Herberg pointed out the increasing number of marriages between Irish and Italian Catholics, a union that at one time had been taboo but which was now deemed acceptable because both parties were Catholic.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

«The business unit benefited from higher outsourcing volumes as an increasing number of integrated consumer goods companies shift their focus towards sales and marketing, and are seeking to source liquid chocolate from third parties,» the company said.

It is ironic that in many countries we see the number of acres under third - party organic certification increasing quickly, while the number of certified organic farmers is hardly growing.

The player has been linked with a number of Serie A sides during recent weeks as the likelihood of Balotelli returning to Italy seems to have increased, but many may be unable to stump up the funds to secure a permanent deal for Balotelli, with a loan move that could turn into a permanent one at the end of the season perhaps being a solution to suit all parties.

For participants, a Twitter Party is a fun way to find new like - minded friends on Twitter and increase your number of followers while you join in a ultra-fast-moving conversation with hundreds of people.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

One potential problem with the measure may be if there are some councils who dramatically reduce / increase the number of seats while others at the same time don't and the pattern of reduction / increase is correlated with party performance.

We can't retire those Lib Dem Peers so the only way to create proportionality is to increase the number of Peers from other parties.

The way the question is currently written, one could either interpret it as any case where a party first got a small number of seats in one election and was then able to increase their share significantly in the next (by whatever means), or it could be interpreted as just covering the technique of using symbolic gifts to provoke their opponents.

As chairman of the Tory Reform Group, the largest membership group within the Conservative party, that is why we are dedicating time and resources to build up our student wing and why I'm proud to count among our members a record and growing number of students, and increasing presence across University campuses crisscrossing the country from Cardiff to Hull, London to Edinburgh.

He warned that the party faces «existential» threats and suggested it had failed because while it increased its number of MPs it had lost votes at the last election despite an «empty, voiceless, vacant and uncontested» space at the centre of politics.

As a basic starting point, the number of people who are actively involved - on a number of different levels - with the Labour party has to increase ten-fold.

Harman also commissioned a report on allowing political parties to draw up all - black shortlists [53] designed to increase the number of black MPs in Westminster.

Democrats had a 5:3 advantage in the number of voters registering with their party, a ratio that was likely to increase as more immigrants and minorities came of voting age in the state.

However it is undeniable that the scheme in the Labour Party has increased the number of women MPs and done some good to make Labour more representative of women.

The party improved on their 1997 results at the 2001 general election, increasing their number of seats to 52 and their share of the vote to 18.3 %.

However, the increase in support for the Liberals at just 1 % was the smallest increase in a number of years, partially squeezed by the two main parties.

Political parties have increased the numbers of female legislative candidates.

In an email to supporters, WFP State Director Bill Lipton points out there's a number of things the party is behind in the new budget, including a renters tax credit, funding for pre-Kindergarten programs and increased support for child care.

Labour's first openly gay female MP calls on party to increase number of BAME and LGBT people in influential positions

In a further strengthening of the left's position, the party has also increased the number of NEC delegates from members and unions and authorised a further review of party rules to be conducted by Corbyn's allies.

The IDC resolution joined others that reflected the increased influence of the party's progressive caucus, which numbers around 80 members.

The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37.

Out of the 34 seats in the region, the NDC and the opposition New Patriotic Party control 20 and 14 respectively; but the NDC is hoping to increase its number to...

Obviously by the time the Commission processes outstanding applications, the number of political parties will increase.

[62] Despite the increased number of seats and votes, it was still an incredibly disappointing result for supporters of the Labour party.

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st June 2011 The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37.

The Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) says the increasing number of registered political parties is not a challenge to it or the electoral process of the country.

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who was one of the panellists, said rather than problem, increasing number of political parties would increased peoples» participation in democracy.

Mr Aminu Idris, Director, Election and Party Monitoring, INEC, gave the assurance at the Debate on «Increasing number of political parties in Nigeria and access to ballot in 2019» on Tuesday in Abuja.

On his part, Mr Emmanuel Agbo, Deputy National Secretary, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) linked the increasing number of political parties to the ambition of some individuals to be parties» national leaders.

The co-chair of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, has suggested that UKIP's increase in council candidates has coincided with a drop in the number of BNP candidates.

In 2010 Welsh Conservatives increased their number of MPs from three to eight, and in 2011 we became the second largest party in the Welsh Assembly.

Also getting a good spot at the front is Baroness Sal Brinton, the wheelchair - bound Liberal Democrat president who previously chaired the party's diversity engagement group aimed at increasing the number of black and female Lib Dems.

Finally, the precise rules chosen to determine the number of additional seats aren't mathematically sound and will often increase the size of Bundestag more than necessary, while still allowing the allocation of seats to fall out of proportion with the party votes.

That vision includes a number of bread - and - butter planks for the state Democratic Party: Paid family leave, increasing the state's minimum wage and reforming campaign finance laws.

, calls on political parties to take «positive action» to ensure the number of women elected to parliament increases.

Not only did Conservative Party members form the single largest group at Conference, but over the last six years the number of Party Members attending Conferences have increased significantly — reaching a peak at Birmingham last year.

This system heavily biases the vote towards increasing the number of seats of the top two parties and reducing the seats of smaller parties, a principle known in political science as Duverger's law, and thus minority governments are relatively uncommon.

The disparity between the numbers of votes and the number of seats obtained by the smaller parties gave rise to increased calls for replacement of the «first - past - the - post» voting system with a more proportional system.

However, the number of individual union and party members could increase, bolstering Labour's campaigning presence.