Sentences with phrase «many senior party members»

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

The key figure was Jacques Corriveau, a senior party member who «enriched himself personally and provided funds and benefits» to the party.

The recent stance of senior party members against the third mandate has led to the exclusion of most dissident voices and the Nkurunziza camp establishing its dominance over the party apparatus.

He went from being a respected, senior party member to being a back - stabbing opportunist in a single morning.

In attendance were the constituency executives, the MCE and some senior party members of NDC.

The two senior party members have in the past three days launched scathing attacks against each other with serious allegations some of which borders on criminality being made in the media.

The General Secretary and senior party members are all there extremely angry, and to say that you can not bail him is a political issue, and I don't think anybody should go home.»

In response to Labour's poor performance in Scotland, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy initially resisted calls for his resignation by other senior party members.

Senior party members have sought to distance themselves from the case, after it raised questions over what the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, knew of the scandal.

Usually, he / she direct the party members to stick to the party's stand on certain issues and direct them to vote as per the direction of senior party members.

However, other senior party members insisted that Miliband had been forced to act or suffer «catastrophic» consequences in the polls.

Senior party members claim win in face of multiple scandals shows strength of Lib Dems on the ground and within coalition

After he was confined to his house, he appealed to many senior party members as to what the Chinese Constitution said was illegal about his imprisonment.

Not exact matches

Matniyaz was given a «stern warning,» stripped of his party secretary duties and downgraded from senior staff member to staff member.

Japan's Jiji news agency on Monday quoted a senior member of the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, saying Kuroda met its criteria for BOJ Governor so he would be hard to opparty, the Democratic Party of Japan, saying Kuroda met its criteria for BOJ Governor so he would be hard to opParty of Japan, saying Kuroda met its criteria for BOJ Governor so he would be hard to oppose.

A compromise had appeared possible earlier in the day when senior members of both parties struck a more conciliatory tone, but the momentum shifted instantly upon the release of the new documents.

In 2014, China arrested ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, the first Politburo Standing Committee member and the most senior Chinese official to get investigated for corruption in decades, which sent waves through the Communist Party.

«Joachim Gauck is right,» said Thomas Oppermann, a senior member of the German opposition Social Democratic Party.

Other members include Dave Filmon, a partner with a Winnipeg law firm and son of a former Manitoba premier, and Gary Clement, a senior manager with TD Bank who is also a member of the committee organizing the party's convention in May.

Some covenants, in fact, involved simply the commitment of the senior to the junior member; others required a decisive mutuality, the acceptance of formally defined obligation, and appropriate ceremonial ratification of mutual covenant by both parties.

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Exhibition space has sold out and corporate chiefs are expected to flock to the business forum at party conference, where they can mix with «prominent business leaders and senior shadow cabinet members».

«It may not go down well in international diplomacy... but in the Labour party it will be welcomed as a rare flash of honesty from a senior member of the government,» Peter Kilfoyle said.

However, a senior female member present pleaded with the party executives to temper justice with mercy.

«Members are invited to join David Cameron and other senior figures from the Conservative Party at dinners, post-PMQ lunches, drinks receptions, election result events and important campaign launches,» boasts the Conservative party's webParty at dinners, post-PMQ lunches, drinks receptions, election result events and important campaign launches,» boasts the Conservative party's webparty's website.

«As a senior member of the party, I hereby call on all those who left the party because of its leadership issues to return to their natural home and build the PDP.

``... I think the election defeat is a useful lesson that we have learned as a party and many of the elders and senior members of the party have come to me to say that if they had listened to my early signals about the way things were going, we might not have been in opposition.»

«Despite clear directives from the police, senior members of both the major political parties were observed at the headquarters of local governments in disputed areas (observed in Khana and Gokana).

The rest include Chief Executives and board members of some state institutions, senior party officials, functionaries relieved of their posts and «new comers».

As a result we have seen what looks vey much like a coup by senior members of Farage's party in recent days.

It seems clear that Cameron has decided (i) to keep Osborne as Shadow Chancellor, which I have personally all along predicted he would, while there have been some senior right - wing commentators calling for him to be moved http://www.nextleft.org/2008/11/why-george-osborne-will-stay.html (ii) to rebalance his team to make Osborne somewhat less prominent, with Clarke in a public - facing role, while putting firmly on the record that Hague is the senior member of his team, which the well informed Daily Telegraph reported as «an interview widely interpreted as a slap - down to Mr Osborne, who is usually considered number two in the party hierarchy» and as «widely seen in Tory circles as a blow to Mr Osborne».

David Cameron needs to rebuild the «damaged relationships» between himself and Conservative party members, a senior backbench Tory MP has said.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

Ed Miliband has been attempting to improve liaison with the party machine, including weekly meetings between senior staff and two members of his team, Simon Alcock and James Barge.

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

The most senior (though not necessarily the longest - serving) member of the minority party on a committee (or subcommittee).

The supposedly cultured, civil and enlightened members of left wing political culture (up to and including President Obama, who three days earlier publicly decried the lack of civility in American politics) and supposedly professional journalism (CNN and MSNBC main anchors and PBS senior correspondent, not just some random blogs or forum commenters) decided that this term would strongly elevate American civil discourse if it was publicly and massively applied to members of Tea Party (which was, of course, a political movement named after a famous historical event wherein a quantity of tea cargo was destroyed in protestation of British tax policies).

This was certainly a «known unknown», with senior members of the Labour Party seemingly forgetting the major element of a surprise election was that it should be... well... a surprise.

Senior figures in the party are understood to be deeply concerned about losing more members to UKIP.

Kim Yo - jong, a senior Workers» Party official promoted to the politburo last year, will be the first immediate Kim family member to cross the border.

Reacting to this outright falsehood from the Akufo - Addo hireling and a card bearing member of the New Patriotic Party, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, in unequivocal terms stated that, neither the University not its Political science department has conducted any Polls «The Department of Political Science hasn't conducted any such study.»

In addition it was increasingly clear during the negotiations that many senior members of the Labour party did not want a coalition with us and preferred the option of going into opposition.

But Hislop hit back: «I sat through the entire proceedings of Leveson in which one of the main points was the closeness of the relationship between senior members of the Conservative party and Mr Murdoch.

Dr Apaak among other allegations submitted that, current senior members in government and other party grass root encourage vigilantism and have therefore failed in condemning acts of lawlessness being carried out by party members in the country.

Nevertheless, Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes — the most senior member of the party who is not formally a member of the government — has now himself admitted having texted Ed Miliband.

Turning to Odigie - Oyegun, Buhari said, «Accept my sympathy for losing a senior member of your party.»

Everyone knows that each House and Senate committee has representatives from both parties which include a senior member of the minority party.

Atlantic Bridge's former funders are key funders of the Conservative party on whom David Cameron relies, and senior cabinet members were on its advisory board.

Rep. Serrano, the most senior Member of Congress of Puerto Rican descent, urged action by interested parties inside and outside the island to come together and jointly find solutions to get Puerto Rico on the path of long - term sustainable economic recovery.

«We note with deep regret the failure of senior members of the Liberal Democrat parliamentary party to denounce in the strongest possible terms Lord Rennard's behaviour; the reports of which are described as «credible» by the investigating QC.