Sentences with phrase «position of political parties»

That is possibly true - but is that the policy position of political parties or simply 3D real human beings are more nuanced than the two party choice available to them?

Do you agree with every single position of that political party?

Election coverage ordinarily incorporates a range of different commentators, offering their views on almost anything from the policy positions of political parties to speculation about the potential outcome of the election.

Indeed, the proposals submitted to Smith are largely the well - established positions of the political parties and not the result of any independent or cross-party review.

In a Facebook post after the two - day forum by the Electoral Commission to hear the various positions of the political parties and civil society groups on the matter, Sammy Awuku wrote,

Not exact matches

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

But that begs the question of why governments should get away with bumping up our food bills for their political interests, an especially egregious position for a party — recall Mulroney again, but also multiple free trade agreements under Harper — that once championed free trade.

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.

This is interesting given the positions of Alberta's two principal political parties, the governing NDP and Opposition United Conservative Party, on both issues.

Taiwan Milestones Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou and his Kuomintang party lost control of important political positions in late November, when Taiwanese voters chose opposition party and independent candidates in local elections across the island.

For the most part, the document echoes the moderately left - of - center positions of the Democratic Party, which is itself left of center in our political culture.

This position makes the gambling interests nervous, because the Religious Right, with its moralistic opposition to gambling, might decide to criticize the Republican Party for yielding to the political influence of gambling money.

The problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicization we're confronting the purpose of which is to give one American political party a strategic governance position while ignoring the reports from US Border agents as to who is coming over the border.

A much smaller but culturally significant portion of advertisements promote political parties, candidates for office, public policy positions, favorable acceptance of various industries, unions, or other entities, particularly if they are unpopular for some reason.

According to their report, the assignment of individuals to one of the eight core typology groups is based primarily on their position on nine scales of social and political values — each of which is determined by responses to two or three survey questions — as well as their party identification.

Sharp declines in relative numbers (to about one - fifth of the population), even sharper reduction in religious commitment, and deep divisions on social issues sapped the Mainline's political strength and undermined its dominant position in the Republican Party.

Conservatives and Republicans have put him in the position of being the party's chief ideologue and political strategist.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the CatholPolitical Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholpolitical platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholpolitical constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

Despite these very significant expressions of Christian support for socialism, the majority position among both Catholics and Protestants in the twentieth century has been against too close an association of Christianity with any political programme or party.

When a social group or political party embraces a position and maintains its commitment to it beyond a threshold of faddishness, when a cause becomes permanently entrenched within a group's self - understanding, a likely explanation turns to moral and philosophical grounds, not an embrace born and preserved out of expediency.

For some time now the positions of the two national political parties regarding religious and moral issues have been getting farther and farther apart.

After many political schemes to get the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North in the Ashanti Region, Collins Owusu Amankwah, out of his current position, he has won the Constituency primaries for the second time in a tense competition.

«Any political party that does not have an openly stated position on these issues is a mere association of elites coming together only to feather their own nests,» Okupe said in the statement.

Campaigning is at the heart of what she wants to do, as the Green peer uses her position in the second chamber to launch coordinated political manoeuvres with Caroline Lucas, the party's sole MP in the House of Commons.

This put Putin's political party in the position of being both in charge of large parts of the economy (through direct ownership) and in the position of majority in the government.

That is what political scientists call a «competency» or «valence» issue, meaning that political parties have an incentive to prove their ability to contain such costs irrespective of their different policy positions on other issues.

The party's strident, single - minded position suggests to me that most Labour politicians either do not realise or do not care about the political implications of the referendum campaign.

«The difference between Len's position and Ed's is that Len believes a political party can win an election on a platform of promising no cuts, no job losses and continued levels of public expenditure.

As one panelist described it: «He's backed up by, pretty much, the leaders of all other political parties and so many people in positions of authority

After almost a decade of decline, during which the party has fallen from a position of complete political dominance into third place behind the all - conquering SNP and the rejuvenated Scottish Tories, Labour can't seem to get back on its feet never mind mount a serious electoral challenge.

One of the most striking aspects in the current debate on devolution in the North of England is that the main actors (local governments, leaders» boards, political parties, business organisations, etc.) seem to work in isolation — each devising their own plans, often irrespective (or wary) of the positions of the others.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

Even though their positions in the political spectrum span from the left to the extreme right, the total number of votes won by these three parties amounted to nearly 6.5 million, against the Conservatives» 11.3 million.

I must admit I haven't read either Cowley or Norton, but I do wonder if Hanna's position, though his recent article doesn't make it explicit, is not more accurately understood as a lament on the loss of amateurism as a virtue in the political establishment (the amateur MP, the eccentric parliamentarian, the independent - minded representative, which of course gives the Hannan position indirectly: the professionalisation of politics and political parties, the well - drilled party system and an overbearing executive).

But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.

The Labour candidate expressed the position that the problems in accountability leading to the scandal had been fixed; his opponents noted that of the parties currently representing Britain in Brussels, only Labour has not yet disclosed their expenses (although Mr Vaughan states that the party will begin to do so soon) and Mr Griffiths furthermore declared that the scandal was part of a wider problem: the corruption of the political system by big business.

According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

AG Eric Schneiderman just announced his second round of appointments to key staff positions, tapping some veteran political hands and also a top union organizer who handled field for the state Democratic Party's coordinated campaign this fall.

With the major political parties fighting over who is in the best position to make the swingeing cuts necessary to help fix our ailing economy, not enough attention is being paid to the question of how we become profitable again.

I feel I need to make my position on party funding explicit, as you might be forgiven for thinking that I am defending the practise of buying access to political parties.

In 2015 we conducted an event at the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference at which we presented analysis of the Conservative's electoral position and prospects, we were invited to submit independent scholarly evidence to Labour's Learning the Lessons Review, chaired by Margaret Beckett, and we co-hosted a 2015 post-election event in June 2015 with cross-party attendance and participation by a broad political range of commentators, and also leading UK journalists.

Ms. Richardson ran for district leader in 2014 with the support of the Clarkes and their Progressive Democrats Political Association Club, but lost the party position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishparty position by a few hundred votes to Shirley Patterson — who is also running for Mr. Camara's seat on the Independence Party line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishParty line, with the backing of the Kings County Democratic Party establishParty establishment.

This article details how many of the Erie County Conservative Party's leadership has been appointed to positions in government, suggesting some sort of political gamesmanship.

The left - wing positions of Central Scotland's SNP and Labour candidates within their own parties highlight that the political culture of the region's voters may be more stable than dramatic vote swings suggest.

Following concerns that the NDC is a party for the masses and one without intellectuals, the political scientist told Moro Awudu on Class91.3 FM's Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday, August 29 that: «It is less the case that the NDC doesn't have intellectuals and more the case of maybe the NDC doesn't involve the intellectuals in decisions that go on and [that has] become more or less the position of the party.»

«My motion sets out clearly my party's position on the union, recognising that it has been one of the greatest political success stories of modern European history,» he said.

Some of the more conspiracy theory - minded members of New York's political class wondered what the governor was up to, and if he was hoping to confuse voters and dilute the WFP vote — potentially bumping the labor - backed party from its hard - fought position on Row D, or even perhaps robbing it of ballot status altogether.

Such funds shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

Denis Healey, even when fighting for his political life, did his utmost in the contest to stretch his personal position on all sorts of issues to preserve the appearance of unity in the Labour party.

We were fighting someone who had no right, in our view, to a position of trust in our party, who would have brought it to political extinction.