Sentences with phrase «leaders of both political parties»

Colin Hart, director of The Christian Institute, commented: «This poll should act as a wake up call to the leaders of the political parties.

The moderator of the Church of Scotland has meet with the leaders of every political party in Edinburgh.

It would be a mistake to imagine that Pope Francis were somehow endorsing the policies of his predecessor as perhaps the incoming leader of a political party might wish to be seen as the anointed successor to this or that great political figure.

She is in a unique group of women leaders of political parties in England.

He therefore called on the leaders of the political parties and the members of the respective parties to exercise restraint in all they do especially during these times.

12.21: Ajetachi Unit, Anyigba — Leader of a political party stormed unit with thugs and carted away ballot materials amidst shooting.

He has exercised that right as a person and also as the leader of a political party with his members,» Mr. Adams said.

«I am a bit concerned that a leader of a political party would seek to make capital out of this, because it is a minor issue, it does need resolving, I'm concerned by Nigel saying that people are becoming overly sensitive to Muslim communities, I think that makes it a far more divisive issue than it needs to be.»

Perhaps you will be too for the right of a leader of a political party who won the elections for the European Parliament in 2014.»

People know that I will take the steps that are in the national interest but I think I am perfectly entitled as the leader of a political party to say that I will spend the next 50 days fighting for a majority government.

He appears more human, which for the leader of a political party is always a good thing.

Gana, who was a former Information Minister had on Wednesday while submitting the report of PDP Strategy Review and Inter-party Affairs in Abuja said that PDP was already meeting with some leaders of political parties.

Similarly, the Commission would meet with leaders of the political parties on Tuesday and conclude its series of meetings with the media and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Wednesday.

Lords Jones says Labour has «one of the least business - friendly leaders of political parties seen for years».

Today's meeting comes weeks after the leaders of the political parties met the President in Accra to report on progress made so far.

Throughout the debate, Curran returned to the central theme of her campaign — that Nassau must reform its ethics policies after the indictment of elected officials and leaders of both political parties.

It is a common sight during election campaigns to see the leaders of political parties touring the country, often on buses emblazoned with their faces.

Last year, former Labour cabinet minister Alan Johnson told The Times Corbyn was «totally incompetent and incapable of being the leader of a political party».

He told the Huffington Post: «I think any leader of any political party is judged by their results and we need to set ambitious, challenging targets for what we want to achieve in May.

The Assembly's Presiding Officer has today written to leaders of political parties to inform them that plans to film behind the scenes could not «get unanimous approval» from all of the political parties.

The current Labour leadership was «one of the least business - friendly leaders of political parties I have seen for years» said a former minster, who served under the last Labour government.

In a blog post last night, Ms Swinson said: «Being the leader of a political party is a unique and all - encompassing job, even more than the roles of MP and minister that I have undertaken before.

«Nick Clegg is the deputy prime minister and leader of a political party and therefore needs to set out education policy for state schools and that is what he is doing.»

The letter is the biggest ever endorsement by business leaders of a political party and will further undermine the economic credibility of Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, and Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor.

On Mr Corbyn, he said: «He is totally incompetent and incapable of being the leader of a political party and he knows it.

It was learnt that the INEC boss vainly attempted to justify the creation of the additional polling units at the meeting between him and his top Commissioners, on the one hand, and leaders of the political parties under the aegis of Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), on the other hand.

A critic of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, just before Corbyn was elected leader in 2016 for the second time, Johnson told Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson of The Times: «He is totally incompetent and incapable of being the leader of a political party and he knows it».

Once a source of national leaders of both political parties, New York state has descended into a bizarre, riveting spectacle of corruption and political debasement, with its governor facing calls to resign as well as new charges of accepting illicit perks and lying under oath, the dean of its congressional delegation giving up his gavel over corruption charges and another House member announcing he won't run again amid allegations of sexual harassment.

And we find growing support for several strategies put forward in recent years by leaders of both political parties — most notably, online education and merit pay.

A year after a switch to new standardized tests for public school students caused passing rates to plummet, leaders of both political parties in the New York Legislature on Tuesday called on the state to back away from plans to use those exams to grade teachers.

The antipathy to Common Core is part of a much larger rejection of the dominant education - reform paradigm, supported by leaders of both political parties, that embraces charter schools, vouchers, more testing of students, increased accountability for teachers and hostility to teachers» unions.

It also was backed by the state teachers union, a coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, leaders of both political parties, and Gov. Jack Markell, who helped present the plan in person to the review teams that chose the winners.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

One of the lead authors of the «hard science» section of the upcoming IPCC report is deputy leader of a political party that fancies itself a beacon of leadership in an otherwise irresponsible world.

As we look ahead to COP21 and beyond, we must hold leaders of all political parties and at all levels accountable for taking action to combat the largest threat the world has ever faced.

- The leader of a political party («party nominees»)-- cl 9 would require the leader to indicate the procedure and criteria used in selecting their names.

Not exact matches

«Too many of our political leaders are putting party before country, power before principle and cynicism before civility.

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

Questions about where Mr. Low and the prime minister's stepson — a movie producer behind films including «The Wolf of Wall Street» — obtained money for the United States properties have helped fuel political unrest in Malaysia, where several political leaders in the opposition and in Mr. Najib's own party have called for the prime minister to step down.

However, given the fragmentation of the Dutch political scene, the party's leader, Geert Wilders, in unlikely to get a majority.

The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate.

The Popular Unity Candidacy joins a line of far - left movements seizing the political momentum in Europe, from Greece's ruling Syriza party and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour Pparty and Spain's own far - left Podemos movement to the shock emergence last week of hardcore socialist Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain's Labour PartyParty.

The leader of Germany's socialist party is under heavy pressure to fix the country's political stalemate — despite the experienced lawmaker not being involved in recent coalition talks.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told leaders of his centre - right EU political group on Saturday that he would comply with demands from Brussels to change measures branded an attack on academic freedom, the party said.

His shooting spree lasted an hour and 13 minutes, as he methodically stalked and killed many of the 600 up - and - coming leaders of Labour, Norway's dominant political party, which he blamed for the rise of multiculturalism.

The indictment says Manafort and Gates received the money by acting as unregistered agents of the pro-Russia government of Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.

Part of being the institutional party is refraining from putting excessive strain on institutions — either tangible ones, like investigative agencies that feel compelled to maintain their own public reputation, or intangible ones, like the sense of the public that political leaders have high ethical standards.

And in recognition of the new political landscape, New York's Sen. Chuck Schumer, the incoming minority leader responsible for corralling his caucus, is also embracing populist rhetoric to shepherd the party in the Trump era.

Faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling because people distractingly assume they are getting the whole picture (from a plethora of media) but they are not!

Monday's meeting of Greek party political leaders may be dominated by a call for finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to be removed from the country's negotiating team.