Sentences with phrase «under the coalition as»

A former accountant and finance manager, she started off under the coalition as Osborne's economic secretary to the Treasury, before a swift promotion to transport secretary in 2011.

Not exact matches

According to Airwars, a UK - based independent monitoring group, between Trump's inauguration and mid-July, more than 2,200 civilians appeared to have been killed in coalition airstrikes — almost as many as the 2,300 likely killed by coalition strikes under Obama.

Capt. Kathleen Atanasoff, a spokeswoman for AFCENT, cautioned that the numbers released by the command — which includes assets and actions under the Combined Forces Air Component Commander, or CFACC — don't reflect the «entirety of kinetic activity in OIR,» such as assets belonging to coalition partners or other U.S. components, like the Combined Joint Land Component Commander and Special Operations Joint Task Force.

«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.

In rendering her decision, District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn stated that the Coalition's motion should be granted because its proposed brief «provides a unique perspective» as the only filing party «representative of financial professionals in the United States already operating under a fiduciary standard.»

U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn stated the Coalition's motion should be granted because its proposed brief «provides a unique perspective» as the only filing party «representative of financial professionals in the United States already operating under a fiduciary standard.»

Advocates of a mass amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens, under the banner of «comprehensive immigration reform,» seldom fail to mention «church leaders» and «faith groups» as part of their «coalition.»

They're supposed to have kept the conservative coalition together, but opinions vary as to whether they should have kept King Mob under wraps, or moved more quickly to the positions that King Mob rightly espouses.

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.

In his scenario, the country fell under a military dictatorship early in the twenty - first century and the Dark Years continued until 2044 when the Democratic Vistas Party, a «coalition of trade unions and churches,» toppled the regime and ushered in an era of egalitarian fraternity (or, as some insisted, «siblinghood»).

Even without the kind of success Planned Parenthood experienced under Richards, some pro-life leaders said their movement's opposition — which now enjoys a broader coalition of religious voices and a wave of enthusiasm from millennials — would be just as fierce.

The coalition under Deborah pose the enemy; and thus embraces all the tribes in central as well as northern Canaan, that Canaan, north of Esdraelon.

We registered complaints with the UN Global Compact Office under so - called Integrity Measures as part of a coalition of Nestlé Critics.

Life has gone on as normal, to a surprising degree really, under the coalition.

«The hope I have always had is that the two parties could come together in a coalition and learn from each other» And I. Unfortunately, it was Labour in office that sold that idea down the river, and the marginalising those that favoured it (such as the under promoted Ben Bradshaw who should've hit Cabinet before either Miliband or Balls did).

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials.

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.

[v] The last time the Green party formed part of a governing coalition (1998 - 2005), their electoral program had included a demand for the «legalisation of certain drugs such as cannabis under similar laws and regulations pertaining to alcohol» (p. 127).

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.

In 2010, he stated that he would demand Clegg's resignation as a precursor to any future Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition under his own leadership.

But as the coalition descends into unresolvable divisions he will have a real chance to present himself as the leader of a united party with a clear alternative to the divisions and tortures of life under the coalition.

But as the many political contradictions and tensions within the loose coalition that is the NTC come to light, the position of the NATO countries will be challenged and put under increasing pressure.

As the pamplet says: «The rebellion rate for coalition MPs collectively is way above all other first sessions in the post-war era (the previous record was 28 %, for Labour MPs in the 2005 - 6 session, as the party entered its third, and most troublesome, parliament under Tony Blair)»As the pamplet says: «The rebellion rate for coalition MPs collectively is way above all other first sessions in the post-war era (the previous record was 28 %, for Labour MPs in the 2005 - 6 session, as the party entered its third, and most troublesome, parliament under Tony Blair)»as the party entered its third, and most troublesome, parliament under Tony Blair)».

Senior Conservatives were jubilant at winning the AV vote and preventing any major lose of councils in England but they were under strict instructions from Downing Street not to be seen celebrating, as ministers tried to prevent the election from destroying the coalition.

The coalition have made a good start scrapping useless quangos, but there are two big spending candidates that are still, as far as we are aware, under review.

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.

Under rules adopted for this session, the I.D.C. is regarded as a separate conference in the chamber and part of a ruling coalition.

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?»

If the Dems pick up both seats in the special election, the two sides, under the proposed deal, will create their own majority coalition with members from each side serving as co-leaders of the chamber.

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

The Tories tactically saving his seat in Sheffield Hallam as a coalition insurance policy was, after David Cameron's unlikely majority, a cruel and unusual political punishment that should be banned under the Geneva Convention.

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.

The issue of control orders, under which terror suspects are placed under «virtual house arrest», is the one of the most sensitive civil liberties issues for ministers as opposition to Labour's authoritarian counter-terror policy was seen as part of the glue that made the coalition possible.

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials,» she said.

A coalition of election observers under the aegis of All Nigerian National Nationals in Diaspora (ANNID) with over 18 million membership, on Monday said much as...

«We continue to stand firmly in that posture as we seek a coalition under similar terms as have existed between the IDC and Senate Republicans, and are willing to enter a coalition consistent with the recent correspondence from state Democratic party officials,» she stated.

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.

Cameron kept Whitehall's department structure largely unchanged, as he had under the coalition, and ruled mainly with Osborne.

[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.

In Ghana we have The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO)-- formed in 2000, under the initiative of the Center for Democratic Development, CDD - Ghana, as a network of various civil society groups to observe the 2000 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

Chief Sam - Sumana, who was dismissed under controversial circumstances in 2015, informed the former President that his delegation comprised leaders drawn from several political groups in Sierra Leone and the diaspora, who had decided to come together as a coalition to contest the country's next election.

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.

Registered under section 527 of the tax code, it was being revamped by Gillespie, who envisioned it as an aggressive campaign arm for state races that would extend the coalition's reach down ballots.

By the same token, 2011 promises to be a year of social and economic misery, as the coalition's cuts and the heaviest costs of the bankers» crisis are loaded on to the poorest under the slogan «we're all in this together».

This time Mr Weah's campaign - under the Coalition for Democratic Change banner - appealed to the youth vote, while incumbent Vice-President Boakai was seen as old and out of touch.