Sentences with phrase «party political side»

If Labour were to stick to such arguments and ignore the party political side of this they might improve their credibility.

Not exact matches

For all his tactical talent, McConnell was blind - sided by the Tea Party revolution that remade the political landscape in Kentucky and across America.

Stephen Harper and the Conservative party, but also friends * who find themselves on the opposite side of the political spectrum, still think there's a choice to be made between the economy or the environment.

Had Trump taken the measures suggested repeatedly by ethics experts on both sides of the political aisle, he would by now have put his assets in what's called a blind trust, which would entail turning over his empire to a third party with whom he will have no contact, who would sell off the properties and reinvest the resulting money in other assets without providing the president any information about the sales or the purchases.

Political affiliation emerges as another key driver of opinion, with past Conservative Party of Canada voters overwhelmingly taking Alberta's side.

Needless to say it is hard to imagine either political party, or anyone associated with either the supply - side or the demand - side ideology, signing up to the whole program.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk beside a small Greek flag, carried from a party political rally, by his side, in Athens, Saturday May 5, 2012.

Due to a lack of traditional organized conservative political opposition outside the PC Party, it has been an odd and sometimes humorous sight to watch rookie Wildrose MLA's stand side - by - side with New Democratic Party MLAs at protest rallies over the course of the summer.

Now, there were two aspects to the night life of Shady Hill; there were the parties, of course, and then there was another side — a regular Santa Claus's workshop of madrigal singers, political discussion groups, recorder groups, dancing schools, confirmation classes, committee meetings, and lectures on literature, philosophy, city planning, and pest control.

By walking on both sides of party lines, the political strategist is paving a way for Christians in politics.

Not only do the vast majority of teens surveyed think Americans are divided, but they basically embrace the divide: Three in four «already have a party preference,» and only around 25 percent think they have «a lot in common» with people on the other side of the political aisle.

They may not yet be on par with intellectually high sided political vocalists yet give them a chance to understand their predicaments and they just may bring down the house of cards that many politicians read from.Bot parties have card weilding politicians knowing what to say by their card readings.

Even I, who am not one of Darby's followers, was surprised to learn that the word «rapture» never occurs in the Bible, but at least one curious side effect of his scenario has been the political alliance between Christian evangelicals in this country and the Likud Party in Israel, both of whom — for their own reasons — want to see Israel, not Palestine, in charge of the Holy Land.

I don't care what political party you side with, what color your skin is, what religion you are or how you feel about religion.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

This involves, for them, siding with some political programs and parties against others.

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He added: «It is sad that Alhaji Aliu Mahama, who so distinguished himself in the office of Vice President of the Republic, could not witness this day; it is heart - breaking that Otanka Obetsebi - Lamptey, my childhood friend, is not here by my side today to savour the moment; it is difficult to accept that Adams Mahama, the dynamic chairman of our party in the Upper East Region, is not here with us; it is tragic my cousin and political neighbour, J.B Danquah Adu, is not here with us; it is sad that the bubbly Peter Wiafe Peprah is not here; it is painful that young, bright, hardworking and cheerful Kwabena Boadu is not here with us; and that Abubakar Siddique should miss this occasion.»

By yet again pulling consideration of this bill because of the amendment being proposed to it by distinguished members from all sides of your Lordships» House, the Conservative party, for party political reasons, is seeking to subvert the role and practice — the constitutional role and practice — of this House.»

«It is like once you get into politics, you throw discipline to the dogs, you are not under any law, you can do anything you want as a politician and it is that character that is going through... There are structures, party structures, legal structures but because you are in politics, the people who are actually activating the political system, they think that once I am in politics; I can push discipline and the law to the side and the policeman can not even do anything to me,» he lamented.

Today, however, both sides appeared to have put aside their differences when they urged Mr Miliband to agree to their agreement in recognition of the «need for political parties to work together as far as possible to meet the challenge of climate change».

«All the political parties are on Akufo - Addo's side; it's only me and Hassan Ayariga who are against him because he is not a good person» she stated.

The government now consists of two parties normally associated with being on different sides of the political divide - centre - right and centre - left.

Historically, the left side of the Dutch political spectrum used to be the PvdA as the big labour party, with some small socialists and former communists on the fringe.

«I suppose that's always interested me, the idea of people in the same side of the political spectrum who have very different ideas about what the movement should be doing, what the party should be doing, and this idea of a broad church with everybody welcome.

Voters were courted by political institutions from all sides — the government, all the political parties apart from UKIP, the Bank of England, international organizations, foreign governments, the US President himself and the «Remain» or StrongerIn campaign convened by Conservative, Labour and the smaller parties.

Now where such libertarians stand in the US political landscape, I'm not sure, but I strongly suspect the majority does not tend to side with the Republican Party.

In the political calculations, alignments and re-alignments of 2014 which brought back Aregbesola for a second term, Adeleke emerged a factor that was required to complete the rank of all former governors of the state to be on one side (that of Aregbesola) as against ambition of the then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore.

And that there is the problem, Democrats think its a 1 sided issue and that they're above the law when its actually quite complex and involves both political parties.

For years the operating assumption in Albany political circles on both sides of the aisle was that eventually, one day, Democrats would take control of the State Senate, thus completing the extermination of the Republican Party in New York State.

If two rival parties from opposite sides of the political spectrum decide to join forces in a grand coalition, what was the point of voting in the first place?

But in terms of the Conservative electoral coalition, Brexit has produced a less ambiguous effect: the party has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borparty has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borParty that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borders.

In spite of how much impassioned talk there has been of austerity on both sides of the party - political divide, the table also suggests that the UK coalition government's overall cutbacks to date have been modest in comparison with the seven earlier episodes of fiscal squeeze shown.

Some may argue that the political parties are redundant in today's political landscape, where party leaders on both sides of the main political spectrum appear to be marching to the centre.

Form an interest group which uses peaceful protesting and information campaigns to call attention to certain issues and force political parties to take a side.

One Upper West Side Democratic Party source who knows the Stringer family well said David's financial and personal problems could be a political liability for the comptroller if it turns out Scott Stringer pulled any strings or favors to help his troubled brother land jobs.

While they are quite well aligned with their voters, who on ICM's poll averaged at 27, they are both a long way from the political centre, and on the «wrong side» of their voters, i.e. Conservative voters consider their party to be further to the right than themselves.

There are a lot of people on both sides of the aisle that are questioning the events leading to Trump's election win, mainly the overwhelming consensus in the intelligence community that the Russian government carried out cyber warfare against a major political party with the intent (cont)

Liberals remain skeptical, however, Cuomo is truly on their side, pointing to what they see as half - hearted attempts at public financing of political campaigns and flipping control of the Senate to his own party.

Furthermore, the vast majority of public union political activity seeks to aid the left side of the political spectrum, as the unions are closely aligned with the Democratic and Working Families parties.

Michael Steele chose to side with pricey Albany political consultants — who succeed only in expending billable hours, not winning elections — rather than the elected leadership of the state party, so I can't imagine Steele was expecting any support from the the state powers that be.

However, as the wants of the party members fall more and more out of step with what the 99 percent of people who do not belong to a political party desire, it will become more and more difficult for the leaders of said parties to satisfy both sides of the equation.

«On the one side there is the IMF, the OECD, the credit rating agencies, the bond markets, the European commission, the CBI, the IoD, the BCC, the governor of the Bank of England, most British businesses, two of our historic political parties, one of the Miliband brothers, Tony Blair and the British people.

On a side note, the lingering 21st century bans were / are against specific ANC members; and the US» reasons for adding or removing people from their T.E.L. is opaque and deeply political, so we can't easily extrapolate to entire post-apartheid political parties.

I'm proud to be leading a genuinely cross-party campaign which isn't trying to hide the political links of the many people supporting us — but which is able to put those party ties to one side and work together to stop an obscure, unfair and expensive voting system being forced on our country.

«Plan B» involved exploiting a loophole in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act which states that the Electoral Commission can only give official designation to a «lead» campaign group on one side if there's a credible campaign on the other side to officially designate.

Michael Dawidziak, a veteran Long Island political consultant who works largely with Republicans, said the new progressive groups that helped Pellegrino mount and fund her campaign did an impressive job in a low - turnout special election with party divisions on the Republican and Conservative side.

There is no chance of her doing a deal with Labour or the Scottish National Party, who are on opposite sides of the political divide to the Conservatives.

On the one hand, it is possible to see the comic side in the Manifesto pilfering phenomenon and agree with the «great minds think alike» wisecrack, but, on the other hand, it is a dangerous practice for our country for political parties simply to take on concepts and programmes they do not believe in, nor have thought through.