Sentences with phrase «sides of the political parties»

Moe's many achievements — including serving as the first Hispanic in two senior executive roles in the White House — and reputation have garnered him the respect of U.S. government officials and policy makers on both sides of the political party aisle.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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

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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.»

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».

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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

His political opponents and even hawks on the other side felt comfortable dealing with him to the extent that people perceived as architects of Npp diabolic operations including known Npp inclined journalists saw him as a brother, a friend and others a comrade.One may ask, what went into that magic moves.In opposition he was one character whose communication skills helped shape the philosophy of the party.The boldness he exhibited in the media and his principled approach to issues reshape the philosophy of the party.

The defeat of party anointed candidates on both sides could also signal the political demise of Republican and Democratic leaders.

2014: Sitting side by side on CNN's «State of the Union» - a rarity these days on political shows, where members of opposing parties often appear during different segments to talk about the same topics - Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, addressed the challenges they both face in the upcoming midterm elections.

Former party member Martin Heneghan, from Sheffield, told The Times: «Brexit is the biggest political event since the Second World War and Labour is now on the wrong side of history.»

Less party political chicanery please, and more consistent, responsible, intelligent and grown up politics from our MPs, especially the ones who are now on the other side of the House.

Isn't the ultimate irony that this Party of political geeks, special advisers and Westminster Village bubblers - Ed Balls, the brothers Miliband, Andy Burnham, James Purnell, Liam Byrne, Yvette Cooper... all actually have the temerity to claim to be on the side of [Labour speak coming up here] «hard working families».

«London is a younger demographic but the real reason we are not as strong in London as we are just on the other side of the M25 is political parties rely very heavily on voluntary structure and our voluntary structure is 12 to 18 months behind the rest of the country.

«Today's complaint shines a light on yet another sordid side of the show - me - the - money culture that has so plagued Albany,» the prosecutor once said, announcing the indictment of a top Gov. Andrew Cuomo aide, Joseph Percoco, a Democrat — but political parties never played a role in who Bharara targeted, Kramer reported.

The parliamentary majority required in the Commons after 6 May is a majority of pluralists — of MPs committed to deep political reform, willing to work with pluralists in other parties, and ready to face down the tribalists and conservatives on all sides.

The comments sections on most political blogs is either one sided, or dominated by petty political point scoring and tired rehearsals of party political spin.

Everyone was told to prepare to convince their meeting partner to come around to their side; half of the subjects, however, were told to prepare to make their case to a member of the opposing political party, and half were told to make their case to a member of their own party.

Bipartisanship was the order of the day, although all three Democrats noted how far the two sides had come since last year when sharp political divisions on an earlier version of the bill resulted in tense party - line votes in committee.

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For as much as the characters on screen are fooled by their affiliations and disappointed by betrayals, they hang on to the very idea of parties and sides, generational or political, gendered or classed or sexed.

Though a Labour Party victory in the next election would definitely lead to policy tweaks, all the major political parties (of which England has three) generally support the reform thrusts described above, as has pretty much been the case on both sides of the Atlantic since the eighties.