Sentences with phrase «of a political party since»

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The «poisoned chalice» has been a political trope since the day it was uttered on stage in 1606 during the first run of Shakespeare's Macbeth, and a bitter aftertaste was pretty much the only thing the PC party left behind for Notley.

She spoke for the first time since clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, acknowledging the milestone of becoming the first woman to earn the nomination of one of the nation's major political parties.

Since Suu Kyi's 2010 release, her political party has clinched dozens of seats in Parliament.

The refugee crisis that has struck Europe is the worst the continent has seen since the Second World War, and with it has come the resurgence of political parties that have not enjoyed this kind of support since 1945.

The Oil Crescent Area has been in the hands of Haftar's LNA since 2016 and is a bone of contention for Libya's main political parties.

«All political parties,» said the senator, who has been fundraising since the days of Diefenbaker, «require money to operate.»

Greece has been unable to form a coalition government since voters gave support to political parties that want to cancel or renegotiate the terms of a massive financial bailout by international lenders that requires harsh austerity measures.

Mr. Cooper is known in political circles for his hard - line conservative positions and has been involved in politics since he was a teenaged national director of the Canadian Alliance Party.

All across Europe, membership of political parties is at its lowest level since the World War II.

«Since the 2015 Alberta election there has been significant discussion about the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and the Wildrose Party coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.&rParty of Alberta and the Wildrose Party coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.&rParty coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.&rparty,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.»

PACs have become a big issue in Alberta politics since 2015, when the New Democratic Party government banned corporate and union donations to political parties as their first piece of legislation.

The most notable PAC created since the NDP banned corporate political party donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative Pparty donations was Jason Kenney «s Unite Alberta PAC, which supported his campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party and the United Conservative PParty and the United Conservative PartyParty.

The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN) has since changed its stance on the word however, advocating a change along with other political parties following the survey.

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

This war, begun in 1910, is called The Revolution, and Mexico even today exalts in its revolutionary past, so much so that the historian Brandenburg was able to identify what he calls the «creed» or set of values that emerged from the revolution and to which verbal commitment is nearly universal.14 This creed is embodied in the only political party to rule since the revolution, the Institutional Revolutionary Party orparty to rule since the revolution, the Institutional Revolutionary Party orParty or PRI.

Nothing unifies political parties like the presence of a formidable enemy, and Republicans, whatever their internal differences, can agree that the most expansive liberal agenda since the New Deal and the Great Society must be opposed without reservation.

If God had made it rain in answer to Perry's prayer for rain I might consider that his faith is in the true God, but since God didn't make it rain I must conclude that Perry is just another false «christian» of the christian political party.

Political pressure has intensified since the Kentucky Republican party finished its takeover of Kentucky's legislature by winning control of the House of Representatives.

Since the war socialists have been harassed rather than persecuted, but only in the last few years has a large socialist group, the left - wing Italian Socialist party attained a share of political power, and that certainly not the lion's share.

In a small political party that is unlikely to elect anyone to office, or is likely to elect only a handful of officials, the drafting of the party platform is often seen as the primary mission of the party since it articulates the ideas that are associated with the party and provides a marketing document for the party and for its ideas.

Since the end of the Cold War efforts to promote democracy — by strengthening parliaments, supporting political parties and building the capacity of civil society — have become common place.

«The police and other security agencies have been maintaining law and order since the commencement of campaign by political parties.

The bulk of political violence against other parties since the end of the war was towards the FNL, a Hutu - dominated party (and more recently against MSD).

My Ayariga appealed to other political parties not to hesitate to offer constructive criticism and help NPP to succeed in their four - year mandate to build a prosperous country since Ghana belongs to all of us.

Since 1945, for the Thatcherites, the Conservative Party — and consequently British society — had committed a series of betrayals: the Unionist Party had surrendered the Union; the Imperial Party sacrificed the Empire; the Party of aristocracy hastened its political demise, and the Tories accepted — even pioneered — greater state intervention and welfare.

Since scientists get the vote too, they, like everyone else, get to influence the decisions that political parties make about policies of the future and the present.

On the chances of an independent candidate and his effectiveness should he be elected, Mr Wilson said chances that an independent candidate would be more effective are higher since he would have the total freedom to work without political party control.

If borne out it would be the first time a leader of the three main political parties has lost their seat in a general election since Labour's Arthur Henderson in 1931.

Since the three main Westminster political parties all endorse the conclusions of Sir Ian Wood's recent review on how to maximise the economic recovery of oil and gas from the UK Continental Shelf (Search for UKCS Maximising Recovery Review Final Report, here), and its tacit underlying fiscal premises (namely that there is a need for a simplified fiscal regime to incentivise investment and drilling activity, as well as to ease the burden upon the new regulator of the upstream sector), it does not take the gift of prophecy to appreciate that the ultimate outcome of this subsequent review on the shape of the UK fiscal regime seems foreordained; namely, a return to the situation that prevailed before the introduction of SC, whereby the only levy on income from oil and gas fields is to be Corporation Income Tax at the standard rate levied on the likes of Starbucks and Amazon.

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.

Having critically followed the electioneering campaign in Ghana from for several years now, and particularly since 2015 for this year's elections, and having also assessed the points articulated by the presidential candidates of all the political parties, The Republic Newspaper is honoured to be endorsing the candidature of His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama for the 2016 Presidential election.

That Clegg is at risk of losing his seat at all is remarkable, since this is just not something that happens to the leaders of mainstream political parties.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

Developing from work he did for the Conservative Party in his Deputy Chairman role, since 2010 [46] Lord Ashcroft has been a major independent public pollster of British political opinion.

Since World War II, the political party of an outgoing two - term president or consecutive political party administration has lost an average of 450 state legislative seats, excluding President Barack Obama.

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.

There are important political questions about how the trends for the Westminster parties up to last year's local elections have been disrupted by the rise of UKIP since this time last year.

The Minister said, the observation of the holy month of Ramadan, should be used to intensify the peaceful co-existence between all political parties and its followers, since that was crucial for Ghana to achieve its set goals.

Juncker spent the months since the European elections in May 2014 negotiating with national governments, political parties, and candidates until in September the Brussels rumour - mill ground to a halt with the announcement of the proposed Juncker Commission.

That said, I was slightly disappointed when they admitted that «effective political representation of domesticated animals -LSB-...] will not be through extending the vote -LSB-...] since animals are not capable of understanding the political platforms of different candidates or political parties».

Since then, Conservative grassroots members» views on Europe appear only to have hardened — and, as a new report from the Project published yesterday by the Mile End Institute shows, they are one of the many things that set the Tory rank and file apart from the members of other political parties.

But ever since D'Amato was forced into early retirement from public service from Democrat Chuck Schumer in 1998, he has slowly broadened his political horizons in recognition of the dwindling power of the Republican Party in New York.

In British political history since the bourgeois revolution, it can be clearly seen that there have been four periods of party dominance corresponding to the political party systems outlined earlier.

Since the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010 the SLF has consistently stated that the Liberal Democrats must maintain independence as a political party, and develop policies that are distinctive, radical and progressive.

Abrams Fensterman, a frequent donor to political candidates from both major parties, has given Mangano's campaign $ 20,550 since 2010, according to the state Board of Elections.

Whilst failing to win any outright overall control in any council area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including Glasgow City Council, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time since 1980.

The changes to the current system of contracting out of paying the political levy are also likely to be equally controversial since there had been an unwritten understanding at Westminster that no party would introduce partisan reforms to party funding without cross party consensus.

Since the referendum there's sort of been a mass hysteria in virtually all our political parties at the moment, and I can't completely understand it to be frank,» he said.

Director: Prateek Buch has influenced Liberal Democrat party policy on matters of political economy and public policy since 2008.

And my political advisers, some of whom have been with me since the day I stood for my party's leadership 11 years ago.