Sentences with phrase «into majority government»

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

Not exact matches

Republicans and some Wall Street analysts warn that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision to blow up the filibuster on presidential nominations will lead to an even darker period of partisan acrimony, throwing into question the ability of Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past January and raise the debt limit in February.

Her new majority will provide an opportunity for her government pursue its fever dream of enormous liquid natural gas revenues that will miraculously banish all debt and deficit from the province, a dream that is more than likely to turn into a nightmare of environmental damage and business losses well before the longed for and probably illusory No More Debt Day arrives.

For all those reasons, it is a remarkable failure not only that Canada's mining machinery industry remains underdeveloped, capable of meeting only a small portion of the mining industry's needs in Canada (let alone globally)-- but, worse yet, that Canadian governments haven't even seriously thought about how to translate our growing resource extraction industry into a larger domestic mining machinery capbility. We've never seriously tried to make those connections. Which explains why the vast majority of the sophisticated, expensive, high - tech equipment used in our mines is imported.Â

Only ten months later, Mr. Prentice is gone, the NDP have a majority government, the Wildrose rebounded into official opposition and Alberta has been thrown into a new political reality.

Taking care of a loved on is the hardest thing most people ever do, it cost every emotion one has, it takes money and frequently requires The vast majority could never afford long term nursing care without driving themselves into desti.tution to get government help.

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

What we conclude is that several of the government established around the world aren't Republics they are democracies or pseudo-democracies, and i say pseudo-democracies because the majority (the poor) are which choose the politicians, and several of the liberties, rights, taxes, and others aspects of the society are controlled by this «people» or fraction of it and many of these policies aren't directed for the common benefit but they are for the majority benefit, so the democracy at the end is converted into Ochlocracy.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

Beginning with the Labour governments of Tony Blair, which introduced 374 new peers into the house in order to balance the Conservative majority that had developed under the previous Conservative governments, the size of the house has grown substantially.

The third is that Cameron makes it back into Downing Street as the leader of a Conservative government with either an uncomfortably small or non-existent majority.

What has been a consistent 5 - 4 conservative - liberal balance will shift into a 6 - 3 or 7 - 2 conservative majority led by Chief Justice, John Roberts, who cut his government teeth working in President Reagan's Justice Department in the early 1980s.

Majority of taxi of drivers interviewed by The aL - hAJJ in the capital city, Accra, on the leadership struggle in the opposition National Democratic Congress over who leads the party into the 2020 elections, endorsed Mr Mahama as the marks man to kick out the Akufo - Addo government.

If, on the other hand, the Lib Dems succeed in dismantling Goldsmith's majority in a perceived safe seat, the Lib Dems could undermine the government on Brexit and force Theresa May into concessions.

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

Skelos, who was majority leader before entering into the power - sharing arrrangement with the five - member IDC, said in his statement that New Yorkers want a bipartisan government.

Those in the public affairs profession understand this relationship and practise the art of business diplomacy, advancing the interests of their clients, taking into account both the majority and minority interests within the government.

The answer isn't to try and divide MPs into sheep and goats and risk creating problems whereby one party is in government, but doesn't have a majority for English affairs.

He had the courage to defy his party's left - leaning majority and take the Liberals into government for the first time since the Second World War.

It raised questions about whether May will be able to command a majority next week for another contentious amendment, tabled by the government, to put the proposed date of Brexit — 29 March 2019 — into law.

All rights reserved THE BRITISH electorate, to judge by the opinion polls, is about to vote into power either a minority Labour government or - just possibly - a Labour government with a tiny overall majority.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif hammered the message into POLITICO New York, saying his party will grow its Senate majority this year as «the last thing anyone wants is our entire state government controlled by Mayor de Blasio and the New York City Democrats.»

If any other government department or agency was having the majority of its decisions overturned on appeal, they would be put into special measures.

Question topics included what he'll say to Rob Astorino if he bumps into him locally, what he has to say to the anti-fracking protestors, what was most surprising in the campaign, whether he'll be disappointed if he wins by 10 points rather the 20 points that public polls predict, for whom and on what line he and Lee voted, what he'll do to affect the state senate leadership should there not be any single majority conference, what he'll do in a second term concerning state mandates to local governments and what effect Republican control of the United States Senate will have on New York and his administration in a second term.

The seven - member Supreme Court panel, presided over by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, in a 6 - 1 majority decision, said the two are illegally in the country since the then government allowed them into the country without prior approval by Parliament.

Heading into the 2017 election, Virginia had a Democratic governor and Republican majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, meaning the state was under divided government.

A Conservative spokesman said 2.1 million apprenticeships had been created since the coalition came to power, and the majority of people had been under 25, with an average of 87,000 more young people a year taking this route into work than under the last Labour government.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

This was before Spitzer got into an all - out war with State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno, before Bruno called Spitzer «a rich spoiled brat» and his staff «thugs» and «hoodlums,» before Spitzer may or may not have called Bruno «senile,» before the machinery of government seemed to skid to a halt.

And a Labour - Lib Dem deal probably couldn't happen either, once the government has gone into an election with a Commons majority and come back having lost it.

Espada (D - Bronx), the Senate majority leader, had the offices of his government - funded clinic raided by the FBI and IRS yesterday as part of an investigation into possible money laundering and mail and tax fraud.

Private Members» Bills are railroaded into submission by the government majority or by the Whips» shenanigans.

Although the Greens, like UKIP, have no realistic prospect of forming a majority government in May, they have fallen into the trap of accepting the burden of proof expected of the main parties who do hope to.

After it became clear that a majority in both houses of parliament were in favour of legalisation, in July 2013 the Government inserted a section into the Same - Sex Marriage Act, which was at the time going through Parliament, saying that it could in the future legalise humanist marriages in England and Wales, if it wishes, without the need for further primary legislation; and also that it had to consult and make a decision on doing so before the end of 2014.

Opportunistic House Republicans incorporated the fallout from that abuse of government resources into a last - minute amendment that led nearly half of the members of the majority party to vote against a bill that they otherwise strongly supported.

Rejecting an inquiry into the «theological merit» of the religious beliefs, the majority ruled, «Our only task is to determine whether the claimant's belief is sincere, and if so, whether the government has applied substantial pressure on the claimant to violate that belief.»

While Minters and officials settle into their new post-election roles, the sector is trying to make sense of the policy trajectory of an unconstrained Tory majority government.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

As participants transition into retirement, the majority of their assets are invested in inflation - protected government securities matched to their retirement horizon.

Private lenders have been getting back into the game after shying away from it for years after the government seized control over the majority of the market.

Let me educate you: RESP's in Canada include 60 + providers, most of which are banks and financial institutions (life insurance & investment companies) the majority of which will invest your savings into mutual funds — there are no guarantees with these, your principal could be lost and your grant too & if your child doesn't pursue post-secondary education, you would have to pay the government grant back out of your own pocket — also the fees associated with these are called MER's (management expense ratios) which compund over time and will usually eat up as much as 1/3 of your investment.

I realize that you guys sit around the faculty rooms philosophizing on overpopulation, limits on natural resources, third world industrialization et.al which has brought about this children's fairy tale to scare the majority into turning toward big daddy government with pleas and majority votes to save the bad people from themselves.

The company, which is majority owned by the Norwegian government, recently announced plans to invest 15 - 20 % of its capital into renewables and low - carbon technologies by 2030.

Monday night saw Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party swept into power in Canada with a majority government.

Even if we assume that the Minister's comments reflect the intention of the government, and of a majority of the legislators, we still have no idea whether the Legislature also wanted to protect occupiers outside the narrow confines of recreational trails, and particularly those occupiers who enter into commercial agreements.

You can't opt out lawfully except perhaps through the so - called right of revolution, which is even written into some state constitutions, where the majority of people decide they are no longer being represented and violently overthrow and reform the government.

Given that neither the central (federal) government nor the majority of other states in U.S. requires either registered or certified so as to get into the medical assistant profession.