Sentences with phrase «junior partners of»

We have to remember that for most of Churchill's political life he was the junior partner of Lloyd George and like him wore his party affiliations lightly.

I still think of Frieze Masters as the junior partner of Frieze London, because this was how it was founded.

Not exact matches

High - profile discrimination and harassment cases like those of Ellen Pao, a former junior partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of Tinder, have made headlines but little change in the culture.

By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo war.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

«I am writing to register my disappointment and concern regarding the impact of the reorg / refresh on me,» said Pao, who was a junior partner.

Then, while the NDP was the junior partner in Paul Martin's minority Liberal government, it was vaguely in favour of the Afghan mission.

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A new coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel still seemed the most likely outcome, although negotiations between the various parties looked set to take some time, mainly due to the difficulties of accommodating the opposing views of the junior partners in the proposed coalition, the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens.

A recent gender - discrimination trial — in which Ellen Pao, a former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, sued the firm — exposed elements of a male - dominated culture in which women are sorely underrepresented.

Publicly funded institutional investors may be able to leverage private capital on a multiple of 4 to 5 for even smallholder investments basis by accepting as low as a 20 — 25 % first loss for being the junior equity partner in a stacked capital deal.

This involved a rather heavy sense of responsibility and humility: in effect it was seen as partaking of God's ongoing creation of the world as God's junior partners.

Thus a combination of factors has united white Protestants in the same coalition, with the former senior partner becoming a junior one in terms of total vote support for the GOP.

During these two reigns, Judah gained a considerable degree of political stability, despite first her friction and later her costly alliance as junior partner with Israel.

We may experience that desire as coming from ourselves, which delights God and us, or we may become aware of resistance within ourself, which signals our need for spiritual growth — either way, we are just junior partners, agreeing with our will, while God leads in infinite wisdom.

KKR and junior partner Rhone Capital offered that amount on August 4, up from the original solo KKR proposal of $ 4.70 which became public on May 20.

The company last week received a $ 5.20 - a-share bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and its junior partner, Rhone Capital, which itself was an improvement on KKR's original standalone offer of $ 4.70 per share.

The board of Treasury Wine Estates is demanding private equity suitors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and its junior partner Rhone Capital accelerate their due diligence process to minimise disruption as the maker of Penfolds weighs an increased $ 3.4 billion takeover offer.

This came after an exhaustive due diligence process where Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and junior partner Rhone Capital, and rival bidder TPG Capital, investigated the inner workings of the company but couldn't pay what the company's major institutional shareholders wanted.

RUDY GALINDO SAN JOSE Rudy, 17, won the World Junior Men's figure skating title in Kitchener, Ont., and a bronze in the pairs with his partner, Kristi Yamaguchi of Fremont, Calif..

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED asked the 132 teenagers — 90 boys and 42 girls — playing in a recent American Junior Golf Association tournament for their opinions on Tiger Woods, favorite playing partners, politics, performance - enhancing drugs, the makeup of their bags and more

The rest of the season he was a junior partner, and, afterward, Bull Cyclone highly recommended him to Delta State.

She also applied for a Partners for BIC grant for two of the district's 42 schools: Walker Elementary and North Corbin Junior High.

Contact us for more information about the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties and how we can partner together and make a difference in our community.

The shirt comes in a neutral, warm gray that makes it easy for Dad's to share the care of junior equally among partners.

The Junior League undertook a $ 26.6 million capital campaign and led a statewide team of educational partners, community and business leaders, elected officials, parents, volunteers, children and nationally recognized children's museum experts to plan, develop and build a one - of - a-kind, state - of - the - art, statewide children's museum.

If they have any gut response to being in coalition, it's a feeling of pity at the plight of their junior partners.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

As for the LibDems, it's a truism of coalition politics that the junior partner frequently suffers in the polls.

It is also clear that this was the high point of their influence, and that the «junior partner» rationale is going to get heard more and more.

A Happy ShopperBlatt added that the Teen Boutique wouldn't be possible without the help of the entire community, including event partners from the Junior League of Central Westchester.

The determination of the party to amend the health bill can only help Nick Clegg's negotiating position and demonstrate in times of adversity for a junior coalition partner the value of its democratic processes and its progressive outlook.

In the end, 75 % of Tory gains were taken from their junior coalition partners.

The party was pushed back into fourth place by Ukip, which almost trebled the votes of the coalition's junior partner.

Nothing will come of this fairytale demonisation of the junior coalition partner.

She's an appealing, culturally well - timed combination of gay, female, and middle class; and the city remains basically satisfied with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to whom Quinn has been a very loyal junior partner for seven years.

Instead of an immediate election, it might be possible for Nick Clegg to offer to form a government, with either Labour or the Conservatives as the junior partner.

The project has received support from a diverse base of private and public partners including the Junior League of Buffalo / Buffalo News, Rich Family Foundation, Wegmans, Patrick P. Lee Foundation, James H. Cummings Foundation, Assembly Member Sean Ryan, NYS Empire State Development, NYS Homes and Community Renewal, the City of Buffalo, M&T Bank, Peter C. Cornell Trust, City Council Member David Rivera, Simple Gifts Fund, Children's Foundation of Erie County, and individual donors.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

«I don't have a solution, but as Plaid Cymru found out in the One Wales Agreement with Labour, it's often difficult for junior partners in coalitions to retain ownership of policies.

In other parliamentary democracies with proportional voting, it's typically necessary to seek alliances with a number of small parties and those junior partners have a lot of leverage.

But most Conservatives, while grumbling about the excessive influence of their junior partners, would be secretly relieved if a cosmetic pause comes closer to a full stop on reforms which the public finds incomprehensible.

I had hoped that Senator Klein and the IDC would have thought carefully about these policies before accepting a junior partner role consisting exclusively of personal perks.

Since the 1980s, the popularity of other parties has increased such that coalition governments are now typical and expected, with one of the two major parties being the «Senior» partner, and with one or more «Junior» partners ensuring that the coalition retains a majority in the Dáil.

The Liberal Democrats faced a crisis of identity and purpose reflecting directly on their role as the junior partner in power.

I understand that the legislature thinks it should make itself more meaningful in the overall scheme of things, but after almost a decade of executive government the legislature has turned into a junior partner, reactive and indolent, an echo rather than a voice.

Lib Dem ministers still don't seem too worried about their position in the polls, commonly dismissing it as just what happens to a junior coalition partner until they find their voice, but presumably it will become a cause of concern for some point (not just for the Lib Dems, but presumably also for Conservatives who fear it placing pressure upon the coalition.

It would damage the leaders of both coalition parties, not just the junior partner.