Sentences with phrase «leader holds on to power»

Candidates are locked in an awkward dance of increasingly distancing themselves from Nancy Pelosi as the longtime leader holds on to power and raises millions of dollars.

Not exact matches

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

But the idea of party leaders «trying to claim power or hold on to power» was the big story he wanted to explore.

County Leaders will be prevented from unilaterally controlling the party via proxy voting and will not be able to stack the Executive Committee with human proxies to preserve their hold on power.

Justice Abdul Aboki, in his own lead judgment in the Ekiti State governorship election appeal also held that «even the President of Nigeria has no powers to call on the Nigerian armed forces and to unleash them on peaceful citizens, who are exercising their franchise to elect their leaders.»

Iain Duncan Smith, Peter Bottomley and others have joined Edward Leigh to call for the Speaker to take on the powers currently held by the Leader of the Commons.

They spoke instead about turning Harlem power over to a new generation of young leaders, and the need to hold on to Harlem's cultural tradition in the face of gentrification.

As for Flanagan, «It's clear that to an embarrassing degree Flanagan is Cuomo's flunky, his most loyal ally in the Legislature, a guy who will abandon the supposed fundamental positions of his own Republican Party in order to hold on to power,» said the lobbyist, a Democrat who has worked with both leaders.

Also at 7 p.m., a rally is held outside Schumer's residence as part of a nationwide day of action against Trump's «climate denial» cabinet nominees, calling on the newly - minted Senate minority leader to use his powers to block confirmations, 9 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn.

Cuomo's counsel Alphonso David (in a letter dated Monday) instructed the leaders of the state Public Service Commission, the Department of Environmental Conservation, and the New York Power Authority to «suspend or discontinue all communications» with the power company, and put any pending consideration of its projects on Power Authority to «suspend or discontinue all communications» with the power company, and put any pending consideration of its projects on power company, and put any pending consideration of its projects on hold.

Some Suffolk County Dems accuse Schaffer of being more interested in holding on to power and gaining patronage jobs by cutting deals with local GOP and conservative party leaders than helping his own party win state office races.

Thorpe's message had a unique resonance, given that he was the last Liberal leader to face more or less the same scenario that Clegg woke up to on May 7th — Thorpe held the balance of power in 1974 and went into talks with the Tories.

«The leaders of the House of Representatives will do well to focus on their primary constitutional duty of making laws for the peace, order and good government, and performing oversight role on spending of public funds rather than engaging in inherently execution functions of designing and executing projects This will enhance the operation of the sacred principle of separations of powers and the ability of the House to properly hold the executive to account for spending of public funds.»

Student leaders are organizing on over 50 campuses across the country that are critical for the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, including states that will hold political significance leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

Andrew Weaver, the Green Party leader who holds who holds the balance of power in B.C., isn't prepared to vote down the government on Site C (and cause an election over the issue) despite the fact that he is equally outraged.

The country was still reeling from the Asian economic crisis that started in 1997 and the exit of a leader who had held on to power for three decades.