Sentences with phrase «members of the government majority»

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

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That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

Burma's government and most of the Buddhist majority opoose the term «Rohingya», saying the members of the Muslim minority are «Bengalis» who migrated illegally from Bangladesh.

Why is our government is pandering to religious figureheads when the majority of their members are use some form of birth control?!

But a Section 30 Order would temporarily grant the Scottish government that power, subject to a majority vote by members of the Scottish parliament (MSPs).

«Any time (former Senate Majority Leader) Joe Bruno was criticized, our members postage or printing allotment would be shut off; they denied us access to government websites (serviced by the same firm handling the Republicans» political websites); Senate Republicans even went so far as to force several of our members to operate without district office space for months at a time.»

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

If the European Council, after consulting the European Parliament and the Commission, adopts by a simple majority a decision in favour of examining the proposed amendments, the President of the European Council shall convene a Convention composed of representatives of the national Parliaments, of the Heads of State or Government of the Member States, of the European Parliament and of the Commission.

Democracy has never meant the tyranny of the simple majority,... Democracy entails an elected government, subject to certain checks and balances such as the common law and the courts, and an executive ultimately responsible to parliament, whose members are entitled to vote according to conscience and common sense.»

But she was not elected and her government has a tiny majority of only twelve Members of Parliament.

Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson said his 32 - member majority conference will be voting «yes» on the budget extender bill next week — even if it includes public employee furloughs, as Gov. David Paterson has threatened — because he is «not in the business of shutting downs state government.»

the Council, acting by a qualified majority, may decide to suspend certain of the rights deriving from the application of the Treaties to the Member State in question, including the voting rights of the representative of the government of that Member State in the Council.

A majority of members (53 per cent) think Labour is now on course to be in government in 2020, but if Corbyn was replaced only 42 per cent think Labour would win the next general election.

Therefore if the Welsh Government wants its preferred route for the M4 to be built, then it must survive a legal challenge, produce a convincing environmental assessment, win a majority at the next Assembly elections, convince its own Assembly Members of its merits, then face a public inquiry.

We expect a leadership that protects its members against the claws of the majority, we expect a minority that makes government extremely uncomfortable and restless.

While a majority of Moreland Commission members backed a recommendation in a preliminary report to create a public financing system, seven members joined a dissent that argued against the proposal, which is backed by labor groups and good - government advocates.

«The government believes that where a majority of members of parliament request a recall, the Speaker should consider the request, including in cases where the government itself has not sought a recall,» it stated.

Twenty - two per cent of members believe a Liberal - Labour coalition will win in 2015, while 20 % believe Labour will secure a majority in its own right and 11 % expect a minority Labour government.

Corruption charges brought against a member of the state Senate Republican majority Wednesday have provided an opportunity for Democrats to jumpstart the seemingly dormant conversation on government ethics as state budget negotiations enter their final week.

Under such a government, legislation can only be passed with the support of enough other members of the legislature to provide a majority, encouraging multi-partisanship.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

A minority government tends to be much less stable than a majority government because, if they can unite for the purpose, opposing parliamentary members have the numbers to vote against legislation, or even bring down the government with a vote of no confidence.

This wasn't a particularly good thing, from a good - government perspective: The Democrats» unassailable majority, and the combination of loyalty and fear that Silver inspired in his members, meant little dissent, debate or — aside from the occasional prosecutorial or investigative - journalistic breakthrough — public scrutiny of the chamber's activities.

Nevertheless, usually an incumbent government that loses its plurality in the House simply resigns, especially if the main opposition party is only a few seats short of having a majority or if it feels it has no chance of winning the support of enough members of smaller parties to win an initial confidence vote.

Updated 11:09 p.m. While a majority of House Republicans appear ready to support a short - term continuing resolution to keep the government open through Feb. 16, enough Freedom Caucus members remain uncommitted to make passage questionable.

Top members of the state Senate Republican Majority and Democratic Minority predicted the latest state government scandal won't affect the battle for the control of the Senate, though the drumbeat of reform won't die down through Election Day.

He said: «The overwhelming majority of Labour members and voters want the party to speak out clearly and unambiguously against the Government's plans for a hard and destructive Brexit.

But in a hypothetical hung Parliament situation where the Liberal Democrats could form a majority government with either party, and both offered equally good deals, 46 % of Lib Dem members would prefer a deal with Labour.

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.

Member of Parliament for Amenfi Central Constituency in the Western Region, George Kofi Arthur, who gave the assurance on Onua FM Thursday said the fact that «we change government does not mean minority should destroy the majority».

He said: «We are on the path of building a majority government for Labour... I think they should calm down and listen to their members.»

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

Opportunistic House Republicans incorporated the fallout from that abuse of government resources into a last - minute amendment that led nearly half of the members of the majority party to vote against a bill that they otherwise strongly supported.

The current crisis actually has its roots in a row as far back as 1989 when members Kerstin Ekman and Lars Gyllensten left their chairs after a majority of the academy voted against a proposition to submit an appeal to the Swedish government to engage against the fatwa issued by Iran against Salman Rushdie for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses.

He added: «I think the majority of members will want to give the government the benefit of the doubt but there will be a minority of members that are upset by the decision.

In 2018, for the first time, a majority of the allowance value will be distributed to EU member state governments via auctions, as opposed to being given away for free to industry and the electricity sector.

A yes vote would shift the plans up the chain of decision making in Brussels to the European Council where a qualified majority among the 27 member governments would be required in a vote weighted in favour of the largest nations.

For a Member of the House of Representatives, a by - election would be held - because the Liberal / National government has a majority of 1 and 3 of their members are in the gun the results will be... interesting.

The Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences was created by the provincial government last spring after a number of incidents involving clashes or controversies between members of minority groups, in particular religious minorities, and the members of the highly secularized French - speaking majority that overthrew the restraints of... [more]

As well, the federal government had an effective majority of members since the chair does not normally vote.

I am now of the belief that the government is simply trying to make the post-Blakely world of federal sentencing seem extremely chaotic in the hope that some member of the Blakely majority might become afraid to apply Blakely to the federal system.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

In the latter situation, existing well - established practice in Commonwealth constitutional Law and Conventions suggests that the Governor General, before acting to withdraw the mandate from an incumbent Prime Minister, is entitled to be satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, of the political capacity of Opposition parties to be able to form, and then maintain for a sufficient time period, an alternative government that commands the support of a numerical majority of House members.

Firstly, we have the provincial governments through their legislation, the impact of which has never been viewed by the majority of members as problematic or too invasive.

Some lawmakers and potential Cabinet members have talked up halting government backing for the kind of loan that the majority of Americans rely on to buy a house: the 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage.