Sentences with phrase «rather than a coalition»

It didn't even seem to matter he was speaking for the Bilderberg Group itself rather than the coalition.

In practical terms, therefore, I see a considerable difference between the two arrangements, and quite strong grounds for guessing that both sides might opt for a pact rather than a coalition.

Seventy - three per cent of respondents said they would rather see an outright Tory or Labour majority in 2015 rather than another coalition, although the close nature of the polls suggests they may be disappointed.

Of course, some things would be more straightforward if I was running a Conservative - only administration, rather than a coalition.

Analysis shows that as far as these issues are concerned Conservatives are the focus of attention rather than the coalition government — this helps to explain why Liberal Democrat support has not improved over time.

Directly addressing the tensions between his party's right and Liberal Democrats within the coalition, he wrote in an article for the Telegraph newspaper: «Of course, some things would be more straightforward if I was running a Conservative - only administration, rather than a coalition.

What he also said in that speech was that at some stage in this parliament the Conservative party rather than the coalition government would publish a bill to provide for a referendum by halfway through the next parliament, so 2017.

There would have been no question of a lab - Lib Dem, coalition; the Lib Dems bargaining position with the Tories would have been weaker - maybe David Cameron would now lead a minority Conservative government rather than a coalition?

Our polling suggests that Party members believe that David Cameron should be preparing, as the next election gradually draws nearer, to pursue Majority Conservatism rather than Coalition Conservatism after it - assuming that we gain an overall majority, that is.

She was speaking to Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics about the Greens potentially looking at a «confidence and supply agreement rather than a coalition» with Labour after the election.

Not exact matches

Four of six regional airports teamed up to «grow synergistically rather than competitively» as part of the Upper Michigan Green Aviation Coalition.

Martin Schulz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has stated repeatedly that the party wants to stay in opposition rather than joining another coalition, despite gaining 20.5 percent of the vote in September's election.

Within the coalition are two factions: those pushing to play hardball on Capitol Hill by threatening to force uncooperative lawmakers from office in November, and those who'd rather see the debate settled at the congressional negotiating table sooner rather than later, even if it means making policy concessions to companies such as Verizon and Comcast.

Lega's ambition is to lead the center - right coalition rather than be a junior partner in an unstable alliance with Five Star.

The coalition, the email said, «has become a revenue generating business rather than the nonprofit organization we all so desperately need.»

Given that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's ruling Liberal - National Coalition has consistently stated it wants to hold a referendum on the issue rather than pass it in parliament, it's unlikely a change in marriage law will now happen for the foreseeable future.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

The coalition recently sent out a booklet to all 14,700 public school districts in the country attacking those who contend that teenagers can and should resist or redirect, rather than act upon, their homoerotic desires.

Typically, they will be coalitions for justice rather than preaching posts.

Other perspectives have been available: a veritable host of historians — Paul Kleppner, Robert Swierenga, Richard Jensen, and Ronald Formisano, to name only a few — have demonstrated that American political parties have always been coalitions of «ethnocultural» or «ethnoreligious» groups rather than economic or class - based alliances.

Operating under the myth that sexual involvement is always delayed until marriage and that the family is the only normal setting for child - rearing, this coalition opposes programs of «optional parenthood» in which having a child is a matter of choice rather than of chance.

The TUC has accused the coalition of legislating out of «pure political spite» rather than genuinely taking action to tackle rich corporate lobbyists.

In fact Stephen Beer claimed Labour needed to respond to the tough decisions it faced on the economy, outline an economic plan for the future rather than a retrospective attack on Coalition policy and most importantly close the economic credibility gap that was first conceived and then grew during Labour's last years in office.

«Positive internal reforms of the traditional institution are increasingly being driven by a broad coalition of the thought leaders in the communities, such as the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII), rather than a small clique of the aristocracy.»

You could feasibly write about how the coalition government looks unlikely to tackle it (ie, Tories dropped their IHT threshold raise and raised CGT, but it seems very unlikely that they'll go further on either position; tax reform overall remains to be seen, but I don't hold out much hope while it consists of «crackdowns» rather than actual proposals for changing the law).

He has been a loyal, pragmatic ally trying to help, rather than undermine, the coalition government, even if this made him look weak and dull.

The idea of all these initiatives is that it's easier to put Labour's fractured electoral coalition back together through informal co-operation and non-competition rather than aiming for formalised unity at party level.

In his book 5 Days in May, Andrew Adonis goes so far as to argue that the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the Conservatives rather than Labour not because of the parliamentary arithmetic was considerably better but instead because Nick Clegg and David Laws especially were ideologically closer and personally warmer to the Tories than to Labour.

I am fully aware that coalition politics is the norm rather than the UK's traditional adversarial approach, and of course all those who favour electoral reform, as I do, should accept that coalition will result.

Given the previous willingness of Kenyatta and his allies to use violence to manipulate voters» insecurities, it may be that Kenyatta wins the election by destabilising the voting period and depicting his coalition as the more national, rather than ethnic, option.

Due to circumstances beyond the coalition's control — or so they would have you believe — the UK's gross domestic product is now shrinking, rather than growing.

You know it's worst of all when the prime minister's veiled comments appear to criticise his coalition partners, rather than the opposition, in PMQs.

The coalition's messaging on this immediately before and after the 2010 election was powerful and effective (basically, «Brace yourself»), but since then it has been more focussed on trumpeting «how clever we are for reducing the deficit», rather than explaining sufficiently that it was simply slowing the rate of overall debt increase.

On balance, Clegg will be better for the Tories if they don't think there's much chance of winning a majority anyway and would rather remain in Coalition post-2015 than occupy the opposition benches.»

A fact they would rather you forgot when they lecture the Government on a rise of less than 10 % under the Coalition.

He added: «The reference to the tens of thousands of immigrants rather than hundreds of thousands is not part of the coalition agreement, it is Tory party policy only.»

Indeed Tories would rather see the Lib Dems or the Greens as part of a coalition than Nigel Farage's party.

The F - 35 Joint Strike Fighter will revert to using the short take - off and vertical landing (Stovl) configuration rather than the catapult and arrestor gear system the coalition had originally backed.

«I feel certain that the long - term best interests of your party are better served by acknowledging that and doing something about it, rather than acting out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the coalition.

Lib Dems privately recognise the deeply illiberal record of the last three years of the coalition, but insist that they were wiser to spend political capital on measures with potentially big public support, like free school meals, rather than matters like legal aid or judicial review, which are completely alien to most people.

Writing in a pamphlet published today and quoted by the Observer newspaper, Reeves stated: «For what it is worth, I think the coalition tightened a little more than necessary in the first two years; relied a bit too much on spending cuts rather than tax rises to fill the hole; and above all has taken a myopically conservative approach to borrowing for investment.»

At the book's heart is criticism of the incoherence of coalition strategy: the understandable dominance of US policy and resources, a policy driven by the Pentagon rather than the State Department; an Afghan government that lacked institutions or the ability to govern the provinces directly; Afghanistan's part in Pakistan's strategic conflict with India; and criticisms of the UK deployment to Helmand.

The coalition is sticking with its «Plan A» to reduce Britain's fiscal deficit sooner rather than later.

And many long hours were being spent discussing medium - term planning rather than joining the day - to - day battle with the Coalition.

Davis says that Clarke's plan could do «much more harm» than locking criminals up, and implies that the Coalition is trying to «save money rather than solve the problem».

He said he needed more details about how the coalition would work, but emphasized that he does not want to negotiate details of government with a committee rather than a single leader.

As leader of the five - member breakaway faction that allied with Republicans to form the chamber's governing coalition (and keep Democrats from assuming the control that should have accompanied their mathematical majority), Klein has been justifying the partnership since it formed in 2012 as a win for progressives, rather than as a means of self - empowerment.

The party leadership should not forget that 79 % of Tory members want to see the Conservatives governing alone rather than in Coalition after the next general election.

Rather than any question of how much longer he can hang on — a question which, as recently as this April, Fred Dicker was raising in print — the test for Silver is how effectively he'll be able to advocate for the liberal priorities of his members with Cuomo campaigning as a centrist, and the State Senate in the hands of coalition of Republicans and breakaway Democrats.

Leader of the coalition, John Duku, said rather than support Buhari, it would back any candidate that would address issues affecting the development of the Niger Delta region.