Sentences with phrase «than party advantage»

This imbalance should be corrected for reasons better than party advantage.

Not exact matches

That will be an advantage for the Conservatives, who sit atop a larger war chest than the other parties, as Alice Funke recently noted in Maclean's:

«My objection is similar to my honourable friend's - it gives an advantage to political parties with deeper pockets than their opponents,» Vaizey explained.

In this way, the legislative advantages of ruling parties, which enjoy far more sticks and carrots to enforce discipline than opposition parties, helps to explain the failure of the Kenyan parliament to defend democracy.

The lack of any net advantage elsewhere means the Conservatives can afford to lose no more than 23 seats to Labour if they are to remain the largest party.

New York City Council District 23: Democrat Barry Grodenchik, a former assemblyman, will likely defeat Republican Joseph Colcannon in a district in which his party has a more than four - to - one enrollment advantage.

With so little separating the two motions, Miliband's striving for party advantage seemed more acute than ever.

But the state Republican party filed a complaint with the SEEC in late 2014, saying the Democratic Party violated the clean - elections statutes by taking advantage of the federally regulated account's ability to accept contractor contributions under federal election laws that are less restrictive than Connecticparty filed a complaint with the SEEC in late 2014, saying the Democratic Party violated the clean - elections statutes by taking advantage of the federally regulated account's ability to accept contractor contributions under federal election laws that are less restrictive than ConnecticParty violated the clean - elections statutes by taking advantage of the federally regulated account's ability to accept contractor contributions under federal election laws that are less restrictive than Connecticut's.

For now, however, the cause of reform is overwhelmingly more likely to be achieved by a Lib Dem partnership of principle with Labour than by a Lib Dem marriage of convenience with a Tory party which is explicitly hostile to the cause and which currently plans to redraw the political map for its own advantage.

Democrats hold an enrollment advantage of more than 9000 in the county over Republicans, but small parties and voters not enrolled in any party are likely to hold the keys to the race.

Count it up and you have 33 states where Democrats have a five point (or higher) party affiliation advantage compared to just five states where Republicans» ID edge is greater than five points.

Although Democrats enjoy a wide party enrollment advantage in New York State, up until now, Republicans were far more enthusiastic about voting than Democrats.

This means that whichever party can attract more participants in their primary will have a huge advantage, as the number of swayable voters will be far smaller than normal.

While FPTP continued to operate to Labour's advantage in the 2015 election, the analysis above suggests that the effect was significantly weaker than in the past, mainly because the party lost its dominant position in Scotland.

Writing for the Blairite Progress magazine in 2013, Johnson described trade union officials as «fat, white, finger - jabbing blokes on rostrums shouting and screaming» [38] and said in 2014 that «A perception that Labour is in the pocket of the unions is damaging to the party... The precious link between Labour and the unions becomes a liability rather than an advantage when it is allowed to look like a transaction.»

EW:... In a coalition you have to compromise and most people I've talked to say given the financial mess that we've got ourselves to try and deal with it's about time parties co-operated and they looked to try and get things done on behalf of the country rather than for party political advantage.

In less than a semester, the console has already received a lot of fun little party games which take advantage of its portability and joycons.

Both Sony and Microsoft have the same problem that while the Pro and X can add far more than just higher resolutions, it's up to third party studios to take advantage of that.

Such amendments would not only present the advantage of ensuring that the Paris Agreement is not discarded for similar reasons than those invoked by the United States, it would also encourage the United States as well as other non-State Parties to reconsider their position on the Paris climate deal.

Whichever parties get to take advantage of this line of cases gets a distinct benefit, in that they are going to get more of their legal fees covered than the average litigant.

The balancing of interests under s. 1 gives no procedural advantage to the party seeking to use the Charter as a sword rather than a shield.

Moreover, Master Short has said more than once that the «equality of arms principle» is embodied in the amendments — a principle that suggests a court should not allow a party to spend its way to an advantage.

Agencies are not, however, taking advantage of significant opportunities to reduce their backlogs: the 25 departments and agencies that handle the bulk of the third - party information requests received the fewest requests since reporting began in 1998 — 63,000 fewer than 2006 — but they processed only 2,100 more requests than they did in 2006 (when the backlog soared to a record 39 %).

115 In Appendix (2) we provide additional statistics showing that in our federal court sample, moving - party lawyers enjoy greater advantages in resources, repeat appearances before the motion judge, and overall experiences than in our state court sample.

Unfortunately, some well - heeled companies use this reality to their advantage in both their regular business dealings and in structuring their legal strategy with the goal of driving results that reflect the disparity in resources between the parties rather than their merits.

i personally think that pc online gaming is far more better than console online gaming because u can get much higher fram rates in 1080p 1440p gaming but if you are going for a low budget build you cant really make a choice but with an intel pentium g4560 + nvidia gtx 1050ti +8 gb of ram can mostly play games at high setting on average 35 - 60 fps another advantage of pc online gaming is that you do not need to pay for online membership plans (ps plus) and with a pc you can sometimes download and play online games without buying them from third party website

When the iPad Pro launched, Zagg had a third - party keyboard ready to go for the device - the Messenger Universal, an affordable universal keyboard designed to fit a wide range of tablets as large as the 12.9 - inch iPad Pro.As a simple universal keyboard, it has the benefit of being readily available for purchase and it's relatively cheap compared to other options, but there are some definite downsides to the Messenger Universal that may prevent it from being a viable option for some people.Rather than taking advantage of the Smart Connector on the iPad Pro, the Messenger Universal connects over Bluetooth like any traditional Bluetooth keyboard, pairing via the Settings app on the iPad Pro.

However, Google says it is already reaching out to third - party manufacturers to register their devices to take advantage of the feature, and, in the long run, Google is much more likely to be generous with its registration process than Apple, particularly as it's a software solution, and doesn't require the fancy W1 chip.

Apple's two - second mantra is no joke: I find myself accomplishing tasks with watchOS 3 much more quickly than its predecessors, even when using third - party apps that haven't been updated to fully take advantage of the new backgrounding tasks.

This is an advantage over some devices that only offer basic calls and messages, rather than third - party notifications too.

Collaborative divorce often takes advantage of experts to focus on the future and the children rather than the arguments of the past, and helps parties develop budgets and financial scenarios to ease the transition from married to single life.

The advantage of these fixed fee arrangements is that you have some level of transparency with the fees involved but you will need to make sure that the # 410 court fee has been included and check how the costs are likely to change if the divorce process is less straightforward than hoped e.g. if the other party defends the divorce or does not engage in the divorce process.