Sentences with phrase «win back some of the government»

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After the June 1953 uprising in East Germany, the secretary of the communist party's writers union distributed leaflets declaring that the people had lost the confidence of the government and it would take redoubled efforts to win it back ¯ to which Brecht responded, «Would it not be easier in that case for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?»

The results seem to substantiate the arguments of those who said Ed Miliband's decision to back government cuts would alienate his own support while failing to win the backing of Tory - leaning voters.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

The workers, who have won the backing of the Trump administration, 20 states, and numerous labor watchdogs, argue that these payments are tantamount to forced political advocacy, since the government unions affect budgetary decisions and other matters of public policy.

What I don't understand is how Labour are going to win back the votes of people who voted leave, by campaigning for a second referendum, and if we don't convince them to vote Labour we will not form a government in 2020.

Mr Cameron and his ministers insist the process of lifting the «cloak of secrecy» around government is essential to win back voter trust after the expenses scandal and a breakdown of public belief in the political system.

A Welsh MP's bid to toughen up the child cruelty laws has won the backing of the UK Government.

It suggests that what has happened in the last month is that Labour supporters who had been disillusioned with Brown's government, but in most cases hadn't embraced the Conservatives as the alternative and were just dismissing the lot of them, have been won back over.

Speakers at the walk were confident of NDC winning back power in 2020 due to what it describes as mismanagement of the economy by the NPP - led government.

They'll discuss the latest news related to state government including Governor David Paterson's attempt to win back the support of voters and the Democratic Party's efforts to maintain control of the State Senate.

There were countless discussions about getting involved in State Legislatures and winning back local chambers so we can develop our ideas in the laboratories of democracy that can be state government.

In addition to John Preston becoming President, Ray McCann today becomes Deputy President and Glyn Fullelove Vice President of CIOT.1 On tax simplification John Preston will say: «Whichever party wins on June 8th, we hope they take seriously the unquestionable need to simplify the UK tax system... Whilst the OTS has achieved a great deal under John [Whiting]'s leadership and, I'm sure, will continue the great work under his successor Paul Morton, it must feel at times that they are fighting with one hand tied behind their back with the Government deciding certain reforms are simply politically unacceptable.

The conference was organised by former Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) who served under the past government with the aim of devising strategies to win back power for the NDC in 2020.

Since taking over from the rather more liberal, Kenneth Clarke Grayling has attacked human rights as «political correctness», proposed dramatic restrictions to the right of individuals to challenge the state through judicial review, imposed significant restrictions on access to lawyers with no - win no - fee cases, moved the government back on to the course of building more (and bigger) prisons — despite the evidence against them — and is set on dramatically privatising up to 70 % of the probation service ceding state responsibility for offenders to commercial enterprises.

While UKIP voters were as likely as the electorate as a whole to admit they didn't know what to expect, two thirds of those expressing a view thought the Conservatives would be back in government; most of these said they thought the Tories would win outright.

The government backed down on a programme motion but won a thumping majority at second reading, moving an elected Lords to the next legislative step, or perhaps, steepe — stretching out to the horizon as we enter months of trench warfare.

James began his career working for Business for Sterling, the successful campaign against British membership of the European single currency, and he managed the No campaign against the proposed North East Regional Assembly in the 2004 referendum, which won an upset landslide against the government - backed Yes Campaign.

The media, eager for a new story after years of Tory failure and with an increasingly unpopular Labour government, gave him the glowing coverage he craved, helping him to «decontaminate» the Tory brand and move the party back towards the centre ground, where, the conventional wisdom has it, British elections are won and lost.

That's what will happen if we all keep behaving as we have been for too long — Labour ministers and MPs not fighting back; some senior Labour and trade union colleagues predicting a Tory government; party members sullen and inactive; all of us continuing to behave as if a Tory win is inevitable.

He did not in 2009 when, working off of a broader indictment that peeled back the inner workings of state government's top deal - making, prosecutors won conviction on two of seven counts.

This should be worrying for Labour supporters, because as well as losing large amounts of support after every election, during their previous stints in government the Conservatives have also won back large amounts of support in the two years prior to an election with an average gain of 18.5 % against Labour.

Backbench bills have to clear the same path as other bills, but the problems for them is a lack of Parliamentary time unless they win some backing from the government and party whips.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.

Coalitions, minority governments, electoral reform haggling — if none of the parties win a clear majority on Thursday, it's back to the tactics of elections past

Richard Watts, the leader of Islington council and the chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils are operating «with one hand tied behind their backs», and wants to win back the power to open new schools.

In the last 90 days, our AWS team got back to work on a big government contract, we brought 8 million square feet of fulfillment center capacity online, deployed 1,382 Kiva robots in three FCs, provided a new venue for artists to reach customers, signed up millions of new Prime members, announced Kindle MatchBook, Login & Pay, and nine new original TV pilots, joined the Code.org coalition, acquired TenMarks - a company that helps kids with math, scored a win for customers who want to use Kindles on airplanes even during takeoff and landing (also, a big hat tip to Nick Bilton on that one), began hiring and training 70,000 new U.S. FC employees to help serve customers this holiday season, and saw the Kindle Million Club grow to include 14 KDP authors.»

This and your paper together suggest that the PACE type of scheme, in which household energy improvements that are more or less fixed in place, are included in mortgage style instruments that «stay with the house» and are backed by local government, would be win - win - win - win, and the best way around this problem, particularly when combined with an energy outreach and audit program:

Forcing Quebec's Crown attorneys and government lawyers back to work with the promise of a six - per - cent raise over the next five years is about as far away from a winning formula as the Quebec government could get.

According to one Quebec City labour lawyer, the failure of government lawyers to win widespread public support for their cause enabled the government to bludgeon them back to work.

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More recently, SCL says it was hired by the Ukrainian government to provide «localised communications campaigns» to help them win back control of Donetsk during the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Childnet has created a number of innovative resources, from the recently launched app version of its celebrated children's storybook, Digiduck's Big Decision, to its award - winning suite of cyberbullying resources, Let's Fight IT Together, which includes films, interactive games and government - backed guidance for schools.