Sentences with phrase «over the referendum»

The fight over the referendum itself has had an odd effect on its meaning, however.

Boosted by the bullish supply - demand reports, oil prices rallied on Monday, with Brent hitting a more than two - year high on strong oil demand growth and the threat to Kurdish oil exports over the referendum on independence.

Campaigners for electoral reform are being accused of airbrushing out a black poet from their literature, as the debate over the referendum becomes increasingly heated.

Greek Prime Minister reversed course after a rebellion within his own Socialist party over the referendum, but ignored repeated calls to resign and call elections.

Still, while Cameron had been the victor in initial skirmishes over the referendum itself, this had only been the beginning.

Turkey, which has pulled forward a cabinet meeting and national security council session to Friday over the referendum, will also convene parliament for an extraordinary meeting on Saturday, the chairman of the ruling AK Party's parliamentary group said on Thursday.

After long being absent, Gordon Brown has suddenly been all over the referendum campaign.

Miliband's advisers, in their Westminster bubble, seem to have forgotten that the Scottish Labour party is fighting a fierce battle over the referendum.

The signals from Downing Street over a referendum came after as a series of ministerial aides threaten to resign.

The popularity of Alex Salmond has plummeted 13 % since December, as the storm over a referendum on Scottish independence dominates the front pages.

Appealing to the public's expenses anger is unlikely to win over referendum voters to the «yes» campaign, research has suggested.

The Scottish government is touting today's white paper as a «national conversation», averting an immediate parliamentary clash over a referendum.

Instead of thanking the PM for suspending collective responsibility over the referendum — so that she can in effect call her boss useless, a failure in the greatest challenge of his political career, and still keep her job — Patel says that his most senior official is stitching the whole thing up.

William Hague sought to brush over the referendum issue in his first speech to the Conservative party conference.

But despite the heated controversy over the referendum, English voters are adamant there are far more important matters.

It's why there was all that jousting over referendum process in the past few months.

Straight out of the coalition with Tories over the referendum in Scotland and into a coalition with UKIP in Rochester and Strood?

After taking office as Labour leader in December 2011, Lamont urged First Minister Salmond to set a date for the referendum, arguing in her leadership acceptance speech that uncertainty over the referendum's timeline was having a negative impact on Scotland.

Hard feelings over the referendum will likely complicate coming legislative skirmishes about money — and might even affect the makeup of the state board of education.

Vote Leave, Grimes and a third group, Veterans for Britain, are under investigation by the election regulator over referendum spending.

During the 2006 debate over a referendum to establish universal pre-K in California, the Heritage Foundation, Reason Foundation, and other conservative groups published articles highlighting fade - out.

That's not the largest rebellion of the Parliament so far (which was over Lords reform), or even the largest rebellion over Europe (the revolt of a year ago, over a referendum, involved 81 Conservative MPs).