Sentences with phrase «majority government since»

Elected at the fourth federal election in 1910, it was the first majority Labor government and the first majority government since Federation in 1901.

On April 23, 2012, Alberta's most hotly contested election in decades culminated with the re-election of the twelfth consecutive Progressive Conservative majority government since 1971.

Not exact matches

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

Despite its name, RBS is currently majority - owned by the taxpayers of the entire U.K., since it needed a government bailout in 2008 to make up for bad investment decisions.

The Tories are set to suffer losses as Theresa May to her biggest electoral test since she lost her government majority last year.

Obama has really done a great job with America, he has pushed for equality and has improved the economy since Bush was taken out of our government, sure it has been a slow re-growth but that is expected since the majority of Republicans really messed everyone over.

The Government has proposed to drop the 50 % cap despite the fact that it has proven to be the most effective integration measure in the majority of new faith schools since its introduction in 2007.

It's been over 20 years since they won a majority, nine years since Cameron became leader and four years since they failed to win an election against a hugely unpopular Labour government.

Interestingly, we haven't heard a PUBLIC word from Skelos since Klein's big reveal, although Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous went on Talk 1300 this morning with the NY Post's Fred Dicker and called Klein's coalition government statement «very powerful,» without either confirming or denying that talks to form a coalition are actually underway.

It has now been presented to the Lower House, and I assume it has been passed, since the government has absolute majority there.

Moving towards simply needing a majority of the population to have power could make majority tyranny worse, since separated powers wouldn't slow down the process or stop bills that hurt a minority with disproportionate power in one part of government.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

Skelos, meanwhile, was noting that there were no government shutdowns for all the years that the Senate was under Republican control (Democrats have had a majority since 2008).

Since the rules of PR generally prevent any single party from achieving a majority government, parties in all PR nations seek out other political parties to form coalition governments.

The local government elections on 3 May 2018 will be the first big test of voters» opinion since they deprived the Conservatives of their majority in parliament last June.

He was of the view that since the majority of the population are farmers living in such communities, it will be important for the government to invest in farming and the accompanied value chain, through proper training of extension officers and deploying as many as possible to help manage the largely uneducated farmers.

Since Ed Miliband would probably have to step down as Prime Minister at the moment of independence (in my scenario of no Labour majority in rump UK), the Scottish government would find itself negotiating with someone whose job depended on the negotiations» failing for as long as possible.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

The No campaign makes inflated claims about costs and it says it will lead to more coalitions, when the evidence is that every election since 1945 that has resulted in a majority government would have done so under AV.

He had the courage to defy his party's left - leaning majority and take the Liberals into government for the first time since the Second World War.

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

The Conservatives have had a working majority on Essex County Council since 1997 but no other party has controlled the council since local government re-organisation in 1973.

However, since the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act 2011, terms are now a fixed five years, and an early general election can only be brought about either by a two - thirds majority in favour of a motion for a dissolution, or by a vote of no confidence that is not followed within fourteen days by a vote of confidence (which may be for confidence in the same government or a different one).

Since being appointed Manhattan US attorney by President Obama in 2009, Bharara has won a string of government corruption convictions, most notably against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

In the United Kingdom, 18 of the 23 general elections since 1922 have produced a single - party majority government.

The seven - member Supreme Court panel, presided over by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, in a 6 - 1 majority decision, said the two are illegally in the country since the then government allowed them into the country without prior approval by Parliament.

Some have mentioned that the government should listen to other parties on the Brexit strategy since the Conservatives do not have a majority.

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.

On the first day of session since both former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos were convicted on multiple federal corruption charges, good government groups unveiled a

A Conservative spokesman said 2.1 million apprenticeships had been created since the coalition came to power, and the majority of people had been under 25, with an average of 87,000 more young people a year taking this route into work than under the last Labour government.

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.

In an astonishing civil suit unveiled Tuesday, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged that Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and 19 relatives or officials of his Soundview HealthCare Network have looted more than $ 14 million from the government - funded nonprofit since 2005.

Since 1997, by contrast, we have seen successive governments use a simple parliamentary majority to radically overhaul the structure of the judicial system; strip the office of Lord Chancellor of most of its historic authority; introduce fixed - term parliaments and devolve substantial legislative powers to selected parts of the United Kingdom.

The government reform group noted that Lanza since his first run for state Senate in 2006 has accepted at least $ 113,000 in LLC money coming from real estate, lobbying and other interests — including $ 34,000 from Glenwood Management, which were players in the recent legal cases against now former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Recall the heady days of 2005 - 06, when the Democrats, who hadn't elected a majority in the county legislature in almost 30 years under the Republican - controlled multi-member at - large system in effect since 1967, were touting single - member elections as the end - all and be-all to curing the ills (read, jail debacle) of county government.

Since then, Gallo has inveighed against alleged «party elites» and accused fellow elected officials — including Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, Common Council President James Noble, former council majority leader Tom Hoffay and current Council Majority Leader Matt Dunn — of forming a «shadow government» to thwart his policies and eventually unsmajority leader Tom Hoffay and current Council Majority Leader Matt Dunn — of forming a «shadow government» to thwart his policies and eventually unsMajority Leader Matt Dunn — of forming a «shadow government» to thwart his policies and eventually unseat him.

Theresa May faces her biggest electoral test since she lost her government majority last year.

To best of my knowledge as the majority leader of Kwara State House Assembly since 2015, the state government is not diverting councils» fund.

The Lords is likely to be a battleground for the government since the Conservatives do not have an overall majority in the upper chamber, even though in practice there are strict limits on how far peers can resist central planks of legislation agreed by the Commons.

It is a mere eight days since Ladbrokes was offering 10 - 1 odds against the Conservative majority government that was convincingly elected less than 48 hours later.

«The government will announce its intention to sell a majority of the world's oldest postal service in the most ambitious privatisation since John Major sold off the railways in the 1990s.

Mr Cameron, who has promised to lead a government for «one nation» after his party won its first majority since 1992 with 331 seats, has already spoken to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose party won 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.

Biomedical research on chimpanzees has been waning since 2013, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would phase out most government - funded chimp research and retire the majority of its research chimps to sanctuaries.

Relations between the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey's academic establishment have been rocky since Erdoğan's party won a large majority in parliament a decade ago.

A new analysis by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, with the Department of Energy funding a majority of the research.

The government plans to tackle the transportation sector first, since it comprises the majority of the country's energy use.

Since announcing the scheme last May, the government has struggled to find affordable long - term private finance for the majority of the 261 schools it planned to rebuild this way.

So far this has been primarily a battle between mayors and teachers unions, which is not surprising since teachers are often a majority of government employees in many jurisdictions.

Unfortunately, since the vast majority of American students attend government schools, the government crowds out innovation in the tiny remaining private sector.