Sentences with phrase «result of a majority government»

Liberal commentator Olly Grender said it was old fashioned to suggest that the best decision - making came as the result of a majority government.

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Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

The meeting boasted a long list as to why a merger of Wildrose and PC ideologies not only make sense, but could result in a majority Conservative government.

Disabled teachers are being held back in their careers, the majority having experienced discrimination as a result of Government changes, according to poll conducted by the NASUWT.

Disabled teachers are being held back in their careers, with the majority having experienced discrimination as a result of Government changes, according to a poll conducted today by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

Moreover, «[i] f the election results in an overall majority for a different party, the incumbent Prime Minister and government will immediately resign and the Sovereign will invite the leader of the party that has won the election to form a government» (§ 2.11).

It was a defining issue in the 1969 elections, as a result of which they were able to form a government, though with a very narrow majority, and the issue in the subsequent 1972 elections which they won comfortably.

Despite the close polls and the surge of the Scottish National Party, the UK election result of a single party majority government is one almost no one predicted.

The 2015 election result took almost everyone by surprise, with the Conservatives winning a narrow majority despite predictions of another hung parliament or a minority government.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

In the likely event of a close election result in 2015 (and assuming he's still in situ), Ed Miliband will need hungry, ambitious lieutenants who can either sustain or attack a government with a small majority, or make Labour shine within a coalition.

It was backed by nearly 100 MPs, many of them Tory, but opposed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, resulting in a government victory of 241 votes to 97 — a majority of 144.

In countries that have inherited the Westminster system, loss of supply typically results in government being required to either reform as the majority that blocked supply; or dissolve parliament so the electorate can pass judgement and presumably break the deadlock.

The government has a majority of 63 and the result is a severe setback for Brown because it suggests that Labour discipline is breaking down.

Although very rare, minority governments can be formed during the formation period of a Dutch cabinet, if an election result makes a majority coalition impossible.

That majority was progressively whittled away through defections and by - elections defeats, the most notable of the latter including those in Newbury, South East Staffordshire and Wirral South, resulting in the eventual loss of the Major government's majority in Parliament.

As a result of budget negotiations with Labour's Welsh Government who have been one seat short of a majority we have led budget negotiations that have delivered substantial extra finance for the region's schools, discounted bus travel for over 24,000 of the region's young people, and so much more which would not be happening without the Welsh Lib Dems.

Annastacia Palasczuk will be able to form majority government after the final results of the Queensland election were announced.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

This resulted in a reduction of the actual government majority from eighty - three to seventy - three.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

If at a General Election the national figures were Conservative 44 % Labour 26 % Liberal Democrat 17 % then I rather suspect that actually the majority would be of over 150 - the Liberal Democrats might manage to hold onto as many as 40 seats, Labour would go way down though below 200 seats, the Conservatives would probably break through 400 seats, it does depend a lot on tactical voting, however the likliehood of a such a result in the next 10 years is virtually nil, in the longer term I would say it was quite probable at some stage in the future once the Labour government finally collapses.

As a result of the 2016 elections, the state government of Rhode Island remained a Democratic trifecta, meaning that party holds the governorship as well as a majority in both the state Senate and state House.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

They would have preferred no changes at all, but the end result was so watered down and loophole ridden that, according to good government advocates, that it didn't post much of a threat to the G.O.P. majority's many lawyer - lawmakers.

Research by the School Cuts coalition of unions (NEU, NAHT, ASCL, UNISON, GMB and Unite) shows that class sizes are rising in the majority of secondary schools as a result of the government's underfunding of education.

While the vast majority of K - 12 spending is done by state and local governments, the bulging layers of bureaucracy that administer education policy are the direct result of federal overreach into our education system.

But former education secretary Nicky Morgan said the government had raised the bar to a more «rigorous system» and said she «knew» it was «asking more», adding: «This is the first year we have assessed pupils under the new more rigorous system and it is no surprise that this year's results look different to previous years, but despite that the majority of pupils have achieved above and beyond the new expected standard.»

For a Member of the House of Representatives, a by - election would be held - because the Liberal / National government has a majority of 1 and 3 of their members are in the gun the results will be... interesting.

In other words, granting Binyam Mohamed and his four co-defendants their day in court might result in official confirmation, or new revelations, of the CIA's relationship with Jeppesen; of the cooperation and complicity of foreign governments in rendition and torture; about the Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program in general; and about the CIA's practices and methods — all matters which, our government insists and the narrowest of majorities of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agrees, «in the interests of national security should not be divulged.»

While the recent election of a majority Liberal federal government may result in a focus on expanding the Canada Pension Plan, until that time, Paul's article provides helpful information on the proposed implementation of the ORPP.

Another and more significant result was the election of a Liberal majority government with only 39 per cent of the vote.

The fact that the majority of population can not obtain legal services at reasonable cost will eventually result in these solutions: (1) the Ontario government establishing a competing string of law offices providing legal services at cost, thus reducing the law society's monopoly over the provision of legal services; and, (2) the right to legal services at reasonable cost becoming a constitutional right.

As a result, the vast majority of original academic research in Canada, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, has been published by Canadian - owned firms (including the scholarly presses) which have needed both protection in law and subsidization by governments at all levels.

The 1997 Explanatory Memorandum provides (Chapter 26, para 26.5) that the word «unduly» was inserted in subs.82 (2) as a result of a Government amendment made by the Senate, implementing a recommendation of the Majority Report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund on the 1997 Bill.