Sentences with phrase «under the coalition government as»

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«Many smaller businesses might be on the cusp of being defined as a large employer — namely those having 50 full - time equivalents — and thus being under this law,» says Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs for the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Va., and a spokesperson for an industry coalition called Employers for Flexibility in Health Care (E-FLEX), which was formed two years ago to fight for changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Even the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella group which several western governments have recognised as the legitimate representative body for Syria, includes the Muslim Brotherhood, whose recent treatment of the Christian minority under President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt is hardly encouraging.

The push, which advanced on Monday in Albany with a Senate hearing on the issue, comes as the IDC is facing pressure from the left for their coalition government with Senate Republicans in the new era of uncertainty for liberals under the Donald Trump administration.

They rocketed under the coalition and peaked at around 90,000 in October 2013, as the government introduced sanctions of up to three years in the supposedly most extreme cases.

As for the former, the regulation of the parliamentary party has been modified under the coalition government and Cameron has faced an unprecedented scale of persistent backbench revolts throughout his first term.

And Cabinet Secretaries and the office have been a steadying and guiding hand with governments under pressure, such as Churchill's last, Wilson's second and Major and then Cameron's Coalition government.

Shortly after his re-election in 2010, David was appointed as the Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for Wales in the Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.

The system is unfair and I am delighted that, under the coalition Government, it will change to reward those who strive in the face of adversity, rather than those who sit back and ask, «What can I have for as little effort as possible?»

More recently, under the coalition government, regional schools commissioners were created to bridge the widening chasm between Whitehall and the regions as more schools become autonomous under the academies programme.

Speaker Scholes continued in the Chair for the remainder of the sitting under the new Government, 24 and remained as «deemed» Presiding Officer, under the Presiding Officers Act, until Speaker Snedden, who was a member of the governing coalition parties, was elected when the next Parliament met on 17 February 1976.25

Under the coalition government's stated plans to establish the same proportions along party lines as in the Commons, the chamber's membership would increase to 1,100.

Details have been released of the selection panel for the new inspector and one name stands out: Lord Oliver Henley, former Tory minister at the Home Office and Defra under the coalition, as well as serving in numerous government roles under Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Following Baroness Ros Scott's decision not to seek a second term as Party President, the race is on to become the Liberal Democrats» first new President under the Coalition government — a role that is increasingly significant given the Party's participation in said Coalition.

[17] When the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition formed the Government in 2010, Blunt was appointed as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice.

Addressing the TUC Congress during the debate on Pensions, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this: «No one can be in any doubt that ordinary working people and families are under a sustained assault as a result of the ideologically - driven programme of the coalition government and their failed economic policy.

[157] Under the constitution governing what happens in the event of a hung parliament, Brown remained temporarily as Prime Minister, [158] while the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives entered into talks aimed at forming a coalition government.

In the One Wales coalition agreement on 27 June 2007 the Wales Labour Party and Plaid Cymru made the commitment «to proceed to a successful outcome of a referendum for full law - making powers under Part IV of the Government of Wales Act 2006 as soon as practicable, at or before the end of the Assembly term».

The Coalition for Public Trained Registered Nurses and Midwives in a statement, described as «very sad» government's plan to recruit them under the Nation Builders Corps (NaBCo), calling on members to reject the move.

He was joint - Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war - time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957.

The story referred to a Bill introduced into the Commons by Lib Dem MP Andrew George to water down government legislation (known in Whitehall as the under - occupancy penalty) which had represented a collective decision of the coalition government.

A second reason for the lack of impact, could be that the way the Coalition government have made inadequate schools into academies was not as effective as the way it was done under Labour.

Morgan, who served as education secretary under both the coalition government and the majority Conservative government elected in 2015 until she was sacked by May last July, questioned the government's rhetoric around «meritocracy», a term the prime minister used during speeches about the selection plans.

It apologized to Aboriginal groups for the nightmarish, state - led practice of residential schools; it contributed $ 500,000 to the ICC to enable the OTP to investigate atrocities in Darfur; under the Liberal Government, Canada decided not to join the «Coalition of the Willing» in Iraq; Canadian forces played an effective and leading role in the intervention in Libya; and, more recently, Canada rightly withdrew from the UN World Terrorism, I mean Tourism, Office after it appointed Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, as its head.

The Volokh Conspiracy has post up about Strine v. Delaware Coalition for Open Government, Inc., a case the tests whether a Delaware statute that provides that judges may act as arbitrators in civil cases is constitutional under the First Amendment where the arbitration sessions are closed to the public.

Brumby said it was crucial that any future design of performance reporting frameworks and targets must involve Indigenous stakeholders as equal partners, saying consultation with governments is required under the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on Federal Financial Relations: «It should extend to key Indigenous stakeholders such as the Closing the Gap coalition.»

Sarra's speech is being widely shared and welcomed on social media, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia enter more unchartered waters under a new Federal Government with little outlined by the Coalition on their Indigenous affairs policies over the next term.