Sentences with phrase «larger member of a coalition»

In the New Statesman, George Eaton noted that the UK Conservative Party (currently in power as the larger member of a coalition) is experiencing such low membership that it is vulnerable to «entryism», joining a party with the aim of changing its direction.

Not exact matches

The new Coalition's founding members include the Vancouver Board of Trade; Unifor, Canada's newest and largest private sector union; Tourism Vancouver; Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association; David Suzuki Foundation; Greater Vancouver Gateway Council; and BC Chamber of Commerce.

In previous German governing coalitions, the country's finance minister has traditionally been provided by the second - largest party in the coalition — in the current negotiations, the FDP — so there was also speculation that prevailing German political opinion was likely to become more resistant to any future proposals from fellow EU members to reform the region's financial markets through a mutual underwriting of eurozone debt.

Even at this uniquely precarious moment for the de Blasio administration, the mayor has assembled a large coalition of surrogates to support mayoral control, including 100 business leaders who are not traditional de Blasio allies, clergy members, union leaders, technology executives, elected officials and former top officials under mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.

Joseph Jerome, the principal of JEMB and the moving force behind the Small Business Coalition; Taxpayers for an Affordable New York, an earlier manifestation of the powers behind Jobs for New York; Katrina Peebles, wife of Roy Peebles of the Peebles Corporation, the largest black - owned real estate company in the country and recent buyer of 346 Broadway; Stephen L. Green, real estate magnate and brother of boy wonder Mark Green; Aaron Sirulnick, chairman of the Rent Stabilization Association: these are the hefty contributors to the campaigns of Rafael Espinal, one - term Assembly Member and cutout for the Dilans and Vito Lopez.

His coalition with Republicans for control of the Senate has resulted in larger offices for members and significant say over what bills come to the Senate floor, which can include money for individual IDC member districts.

If it did appear that the coalition was becoming permanent, expect the Green vote to skyrocket as a large number of voters (and members) defect.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

At 12:30 p.m., the Climate Works for All coalition and NYC Council members Donovan Richards, Ben Kallos, Barry Grodenchik, Carlos Menchaca, Brad Lander and Alan Meisel call for mandatory energy efficiency retrofits of large buildings, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The governor's proposal also comes a day after the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference decided it would once again form a coalition with the Senate Republicans, much to the chagrin of larger Democratic caucus, which has been out of power in the body for the last six years.

A large group of area residents, members of the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition and members of Samuel Harrell's family marched down Market Street in Poughkeepsie to the Dutchess County District Attorney's Office Thursday.

In 2012, Republicans again faced the prospect of being in the minority, but formed a coalition with the Independent Democratic Conference, a five - member group that infuriated the larger Democratic caucus by siding with the Republicans.

It's no surprise that we have large and diverse range of Coalition members in Memphis, which has been the epicenter of education reform, with multiple large - scale efforts at innovation over the past decade.

But the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers» union and a coalition member, expressed relief that the state is challenging Moukawsher, a reflection of the disparate views likely to emerge from a group that includes labor and management.

This newest challenge to the coalition's associational standing hinges primarily on the large number of school districts and municipalities that are members — creations of the state which are not ordinarily able to bring suit against it.

Talking points on community schools to help coalition members discuss their schools» experience within the larger framework of community schools; and

NAESP is a member of the Committee for Education Funding (CEF), the largest and oldest education coalition in the nation.

ADLA is a member of the Humane Legislative Coalition of Arizona (HCLA) *, an alliance of local animal advocacy organizations that represents the Arizona animal community's largest effort to date to protect our state's animals.

As a member of the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP), a coalition of the largest animal welfare organizations serving the four - county Portland metropolitan area, Multnomah has become a model of what it takes to reduce euthanasia rates.

Aeroplan program members enjoy membership in the largest global airline alliance, the Star Alliance, and as a coalition loyalty program offers members a vast array of ways to earn and burn miles.

Lufthansa, one of the five founding members of the world's largest airline coalition Star Alliance, created an on - demand, portable entertainment service called BoardConnect.

Reilly is a founding member of both The Feminist Art Project (TFAP) and the Women's Action Coalition (WAC)-- two organizations fighting discrimination against women in the art world and society at large.

For instance, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times reported that the scientists advising the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a now defunct organization that spent millions of dollars in lobbying against climate change policies and whose members were primarily corporations whose operations or products were large producers of greenhouse gases, reported to the GCC that:

And in a June 23 newsletter to members, the Doctors Company — the nation's largest physician - owned medical malpractice insurer — said its group and other members of the coalition «worked to draft new federal medical liability legislation.»

«The members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness and the thousands of businesses — large and small — under attack by patent trolls thank President Obama and his Administration for making patent reform a priority.