Sentences with phrase «than the coalition over»

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Our coalition of over 300 global institutional investors currently represents more than $ 400 billion in managed assets.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

On that generous assumption, the Coalition government achieved a reduction in net administration costs of 27 per cent in real terms between 2011 - 12 and 2014 - 15, which is much better than we observed over comparable periods in the three decades covered by our earlier analysis.

In particular, if David Cameron presides over a minority government or coalition, his own side would be expected to do better than that.

Enthusiasm among most universities to charge higher tuition fees than ministers had expected is set to exacerbate coalition tensions over the policy.

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.

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

Unshackle Upstate is a bi-partisan coalition of over 80 business and trade organizations representing upwards of 70,000 companies and employing more than 1.5 million people and has one goal: To achieve reforms in Albany that make Upstate New York a stronger place to do business.

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

It pointed out the total # 1.4 billion being spent over three years was less than the annual spending of its regional development agencies, which were scrapped by the coalition.

«Giuliani and Bloomberg were elected in part by that old coalition losing its strength and losing its cohesiveness and de Blasio was able to stitch that together better than it had been for over 20 years and he also was able to bring in new constituencies, people of color, immigrants,» said Ken Sherrill, a professor emeritus of political science at Hunter College.

By September 10, which is on Sunday, over 5,000 members of the Niger Delta Coalition of Agitators will shut down no less than over 20 platforms,» the group told SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday.

But the two coalition parties almost see the Queen's speech as a sideshow to the chief political task of rebuilding an economy over the next year that they say was more damaged than they realised when they took office.

The commentariat has expressed surprise that there has been more dissent amongst Conservatives over the coalition than amongst Lib Dems.

Only just over a fifth of Lib Dem voters think their party has much influence within the coalition — indeed Conservative voters are more than twice as likely to think Nick Clegg is influential than his own supporters.

- if there was a hung Parliament (current chances: over 50 %, under 66 %, eg 8/11), it is more likely than not that there would be a minority government than a coalition, and the most likely outcome is a Conservative - led minority govt if the party does win most votes, and esp if it wins most votes and seats.

Despite the fact that the European elections were the almost perfect second - order elections — with the coalition divided over Europe, European elections scheduled one year before general elections, and low turnout — and the two «UKIP MPs» were nothing more than rebranded Tory MPs, most of the British media and pundits enthusiastically bought into Nigel Farage's «Purple Revolution».

«Devolution under the Liberal Democrats in Coalition Government moved faster than it had in over decade.

The parties in the coalition enjoy a combined opinion poll lead of about 20 points over Labour, with the Tories two to six per cent higher than their general election score.»

Instead it was the Tory share of the vote that collapsed by more than half, triggering right - wing protests over Mr Cameron's softly - softly approach to his coalition partners.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

The Baywatchers program has amassed more than two decades of data that has been a valuable resource over the years not only to the Coalition's education and outreach efforts, but also to agencies that monitor water quality and draft clean up plans.

Because of its success, we decided to take our efforts one step further and launch a formal World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition in 2016 with more than 40 organizations from over 20 countries across the globe.

Chiefs for Change (CFC), a coalition of over two dozen state and district education chiefs, serving 5.3 million students and 330,000 teachers, and dedicated to excellence and equity for all students, urge Congress to fund the Title II, Part A (Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants) at no less than $ 2.055 billion, the FY 2017 appropriation.

The speech comes more than a week after Greuel hired a new campaign manager, Janelle Erickson, who in addition to being a former aide to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (as well as, previously, Greuel herself), was serving as the spokesperson to the Coalition for School Reform, which spent over $ 3 million to elect reform candidates to the School Board in the March 5 primary.

The same Jonathan Sacker who set up ConnCAN's unknown sister organization called the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy Inc. which poured more than half a million dollars into legislative lobbying over the past few years helping to get Achievement First more money and a special law exempting charter schools from having to have all their teachers certified.

Over the last few day's I've laid out the irrefutable evidence that the guiding hands that created and manage Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, are the same hands that created and coordinate the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc (ConnCAN) and the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc (the entity that paid more than half a million dollars to lobby for Achievement First and ConnCAN's agenda).

Not only that, New Zealand First (NZF) got 9 seats, which are more than enough to get either National or a Labour - Greens coalition over the 61 seats needed to form a government.

By working with more than 110 NKLA Coalition partners, including Los Angeles Animal Services, as well as passionate individuals all over the city, NKLA is well on track to reach the 90 percent no - kill benchmark by the end of 2017.

Some of these include Furburbia pet adoption centers in malls (taking pets out of the shelter to the public); pet super adoptions (adopting hundreds of animals at a time over a weekend), the first coalition - based effort to end the killing; the Big Fix statewide mobile clinic, serving every nook and cranny of the state and cranking out more surgeries than any other mobile clinic of its kind (around 100,000 surgeries during its time); creative corporate partnerships, including Squatters Chasing Tail Ale and Hooters for Neuter; the first statewide community cat trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs; and the first dedicated shelter program to save pit bull terriers (the Pit Crew).

Over the past 14 years, this coalition, which synergizes the efforts of approximately 150 Alliance - participating animal shelters and rescue groups, has saved more than 300,000 animals.

The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 1970).

For instance, Monbiot has it that «Between 2000 and 2002 [TASSC] received $ 30,000 from Exxon», and that this same organisation (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition) «has done more damage to the campaign to halt [CLIMATE CHANGE] than any other body»... If donations of just $ 10,000 dollars can buy the effect Monbiot is claiming TASSC achieved with it over three years, why on earth would anyone pay for far more expensive comment drones?

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

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The coalition, with a rolling membership of more than three dozen groups over the years, describes itself on its website as «informal and ad - hoc,» and focused on education.

With a hung parliament expected following the UK general election this week, most partners would prefer another coalition over a minority government, with more than two - thirds of respondents to a new Legal Week survey arguing a minority government would be bad for the economy.

I suppose the question would then become whether a coalition of conservatives who don't want to give the liberal bloc another vote, «proceduralists» (or whatever you want to call people like me who don't think results - oriented conservatives are much better than results - oriented liberals), and liberals fuming over executive power and the torture memo would take down the nomination.

A seasoned leader and entrepreneur with a sharp strategic focus, experienced in building alliances and coalitions, an astute negotiator, communicator and diplomat, able team motivator, highly analytical and goal oriented and handled T / O in excess of $ 180 million and superintended over more than 1500 staff at a given time.