Sentences with phrase «less than the coalition»

Nearly half of voters thought a Labour government would be cutting public spending by less than the coalition is currently doing.

Not exact matches

Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces targeted suspected chemical weapons sites in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.

Sofge, who stressed coalition forces» efforts to avoid civilian casualties, said the actual process likely takes less time to complete than it does to describe, in part because of the experience they have doing it and because parts of it happen concurrently.

Less than a week after construction began on the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, a coalition of crawfishers and environmental groups took legal steps to immediately shut down the project.

Due to the commitment of the Coalition and the demonstrated competence of our partners in Iraq and Syria, there are estimated to be less than 1,000 ISIS terrorists in our combined joint area of operations, most of whom are being hunted down in the desert regions in eastern Syria and Western Iraq...

As a result, they stepped down from the Gospel Coalition, the movement's flagship organization, with best wishes for their future ministry but with strong hints that behind the scenes the departure had been less than amicable.

How can they participate in a coalition that is largely poorer, less educated, and darker - skinned than they are, while maintaining their comfortable position (both economically and socially)?

There is a temptation to abandon one coalition and join another when programs are less successful than expected.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

That has led us to a position where I think more than scraps have been delivered (where you give tnem less credit) but I agree with you that a coalition can not be rebuilt without clarity about what Labour stands for.

Today's story in the Sunday Mirror that Labour would cap tuition fees at # 6,000, # 3,000 less than the level planned by the coalition, has certainly captured the headlines.

Less than a year ago the Tory Right collaborated on a book, After the Coalition: A Conservative Agenda for Britain, which was broadly complementary to the Cameronite vision of Britain.

The Coalition thus formed would have been significantly more authoritarian and less liberal than the Lib Dem preferred position.

The first comment to make is that a Tory majority government has been less radical and much less competent in its first year than the Tory / Lib Dem coalition at the same stage.

In those more recent fiscal squeezes, year - to - year cuts in public spending have been notably less deep than those imposed after both world wars or the «Geddes Axe» cuts initiated by the Conservative - Liberal coalition of the early 1920s.

The expenses upheaval of 2009 means that many dying swans are already dead, so that the Coalition need worry less about unhappy incumbents than previous governments.

Whether it would be a coalition, confidence - and - supply or some other kind of agreement is not addressed here; that is less important for policy than which parties are involved.

It is unclear how «unprecedented» is defined here, as the no coalition is arguably less diverse than the similar coalition in 1997 and no coalitions in other states with convention referendums.

There's a palpable sense that coalition, whether with the Tories or Labour, seems less likely now than it did even a year ago.

Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.

Alexander, who participated — alongside Clegg, Cameron, and Osborne — in the «quad» meetings where coalition policy was hammered out, was less interested in the politics of the issue than the economic impact; he believed it was a necessary step to reduce the deficit.

A fact they would rather you forgot when they lecture the Government on a rise of less than 10 % under the Coalition.

It may be fair to say that this Coalition Government — our Coalition Government, has done more to address the deepseated malaise at the heart of our banking system in less than 12 months than the previous administration did in twelve years and more.

(Albany, NY)-- Less than two weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, New York Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention — a bicameral coalition of New York lawmakers — released a package of bills to prevent gun violence in New York and save lives.

More than two thirds of swing voters think the coalition's proposed cuts are «unavoidable», compared to less than half in the Labour movement.

57 % of the public expected the coalition to be tougher than the last Labour government in dealing with crime; only 13 % thought it was being tougher; 23 % said it was less tough and 64 % said it was about the same.

The same effect is obtained by voting on a little party that obtains less than the required threshold (for example 4 % for the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the case of parties running outside of a coalition).

With the coalition keen to promote its agenda for economic growth this month, it should listen to calls by SMEs for a bit more Vince (Cable) and a little less George (Osborne) as we approach the busiest time of the year for retailers — and to ensure the government's messages about the economy are more relevant to Joe Public than Hooray Henry.

This is a genuine defence, up to a point, though a weaker and less catch - all one than coalition supporters imply.

Evoking memories of the end of the John Major's administration, ministers are pulling up the shutters, with the coalition government spending a third less time on legislation than the last Labour government.

Of course, Mr. Cuomo is not the sole arbiter of the state budget — there's also the Democrat - led Assembly and the State Senate, now controlled by Republicans who are less than pleased with Mr. de Blasio, who campaigned hard for Democrats to take the majority and sought to end the GOP's ruling coalition with breakaway Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference.

There are a number of local Liberal Democrats less than enamoured by the cuts agenda of the Coalition, and already there is talk of finding a high profile candidate to carry the banner for a more recognisable Liberal candidate, who local supporters with their long non conformist tradition might buy into.

[86] However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government.

After incumbent president Hamid Karzai accepted the need for a second round yesterday coalition forces are contemplating preparing a second round of voting to take place on November 7th, less than three weeks away.

He noted that despite winning an «outright majority,» the Senate GOP is continuing its «historic coalition» with the IDC, though he did not mention that the terms of that relationship have been modified to provide the breakaway Democrats with less power than they used to have.

Unless minority coalition governments were explicitly encouraged from the outset; established majority parties will discourage and disparage minority governments since the major parties would prefer to rule less often but completely, than rule more often but share power.

It pointed out the total # 1.4 billion being spent over three years was less than the annual spending of its regional development agencies, which were scrapped by the coalition.

By September 10, which is on Sunday, over 5,000 members of the Niger Delta Coalition of Agitators will shut down no less than over 20 platforms,» the group told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday.

Robb Smith, Executive Director of Interfaith Impact of New York State and a member of the Coalition of Gambling in New York, said that because gambling already exists in Saratoga, also home to the iconic flat track, the arrival of a casino could have less of a negative impact than in other areas.

Though the coalition remains more trusted than Labour to manage the economy overall, people are if anything less optimistic about economic prospects than they were at the end of last year.

Significantly, even in the Liberal Democrat - held seats, less than a quarter of voters thought the Lib Dems were having a significant impact on the coalition government's agenda.

In Laws's interpretation, only Mandelson, Brown and Andrew Adonis wanted to form a so - called progressive coalition and Brown was motivated less by principle than desperation.

As I write, Radio 4's Eddie Mair is trying to get Danny Alexander to explain why the coalition has published a document that contains less detail about the government's future plans on issues like childcare than you'll find in the papers.

That is one reason which if there is a similar number of Labour and Conservative MPs elected a Lib Dem coalition with the former is less likely than the latter.

But putting aside Cuomo's subsequent hedging, that coalition is less unified than it's cracked up to be.

In particular, his attempt to wrong - foot the opposition by claiming at the end of his speech that the coalition was actually cutting spending less than Labour planned to do, turns out to be false, a straining and meretricious ploy straight out of the Brown playbook.

Less than one voter in three agrees that «by entering the Coalition, the Lib Dems have managed to get real liberal policies put into action» — and most of these are either already Lib Dem supporters or pro-Coalition Tory voters.

Less than two months into the first phase of the coalition's consulting process, and the prime minister did little to quash talk of a debate, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «This government is taking government off the sofa and putting it round the cabinet table.

In short, nothing has really changed: Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg look slightly less popular than a month ago, and the Coalition partners thought to be working together a little better — but even these changes are just as likely to be the result of sampling fluctuation.

Labour politicians have long pointed to their «Plan B», and their deficit reduction strategy that would, apparently, be carried out slower than the Coalition plan, and be less «painful».