Sentences with phrase «with british»

Mr Cameron wants to replace the act with a British bill of rights that would define the rights set out by the convention in «clearer and more precise terms».

It would stain Whitehall's reputation for international development and show the UK was willing to funnel taxpayer funds to human rights abusers in Africa, if they were fortunate enough to enjoy pleasant personal relationships with a British secretary of state.

Efforts to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick Clegg.

David Davies is the Member of Parliament for Monmouth, Chairman of the Welsh Affairs select committee, and a Special Constable with the British Transport Police.

It would mean adopting what a recent YouGov poll revealed was the favoured solution of about half of Ukip supporters of «encouraging» lawfully settled immigrants (together with their British - born children) to return to their country of origin.

The government has watered down its plan to put forward a bill on replacing the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights, bowing to reported disquiet among senior Conservative backbenchers.

The cat was only mentioned in the case because the foreign national facing deportation had cited the cat as evidence of the length and nature of their romantic relationship with a British national.

The Conservative proposal to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights is a sound idea.

Tory ex-Cabinet minister Justine Greening last night took a damning swipe at her own party - saying it had not «connected» with British...

We are recruiting an outstanding student to undertake PhD research with the British Election Study (Professors Jane Green and Edward Fieldhouse) and the Hansard Society (Dr Ruth Fox), to analyse the factors governing the perceived problem of representation in politics.

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has threatened to turn into a geopolitical spat, with British politicians increasingly irritated by President Obama's tough rhetoric.

An early proposal in response to growing antisemitism in Europe was to establish a state in modern day Kenya with British support, but was rejected by the group.

More likely, she is deliberately fudging the issue until the unstoppable force of reality has its final reckoning with British cakeism sometime next year.

The prime minister had announced that MPs would be given just one day's debate on going to war this Wednesday, with British bombs set to rain down on Syrian towns before the end of the week.

Sadiq Khan MP, shadow justice secretary, said: «The energy and time this government is spending on arguments about the Human Rights Act shows how completely out of touch it is with the British people who are not interested in cat fights between ministers but how the safety of their communities will be protected after cuts in police budgets which go too far and too fast.»

Liam Pape is a 15 - year - old student at Darlington School of Mathematics and Science and was on the editorial team of their «Branksome Bugle», who in March 2011 handed in a petition on smoking in cars at 10 Downing Street with the British Lung Foundation.

A concern that a new settlement will be a stitch - up amongst the major political parties and the vibrancy of the referendum campaign in Scotland have energised campaigners to call for a convention that is either constituted fully by randomly - selected citizens (as with the British Columbia Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform) or one that is a mix of randomly - selected citizens and participants appointed by political parties (as with the Irish Constitutional Convention).

Anyone with experience of dealing with British officialdom will know what «where operationally possible» means.

Nevertheless, the best programme seems to be the one employed by Malaysia, where the government boasts of having rehabilitated 95 % of participants — which is why the country agreed on November 10th to share its experience with the British government.

[11] Beginning in the 15th century, numerous European powers contested the area for trading rights, with the British ultimately establishing control of the coast by the late 19th century.

This article originally appeared in U.S. Studies Online, a digital forum for postgraduate and early career researchers associated with the British Association of American Studies (BAAS).

Iain McLean FBA is Professor of Politics, Oxford University, and author of What's Wrong with the British Constitution?

I started work on my new book What's wrong with the British Constitution?

The Conservative Manifesto argues that the Human Rights Act, 1998 (HRA) should be scrapped and replaced with a British Bill of Rights based on «common sense,» but...

Public funds totalling # 500 million a year are being spent on an army of at least 29,000 professional politicians in the UK — which compares with the British electorate of more than 44 million.

In his speech to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, Osborne said he was levelling with the British people that now was not the time to ease up on cutting the deficit.

Science writer Simon Singh has won a court battle with the British Chiropractic Association today.

Iain McLean is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and author of The Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom and What's Wrong with the British Constitution?

Trippi in particular mentioned being brought in to talk with the British Labour Party a couple of weeks before a major election in the last decade, and having to tell them that there was very little they could do online in the time they had remaining that would do much good.

The Conservative Manifesto argues that the Human Rights Act, 1998 (HRA) should be scrapped and replaced with a British Bill of Rights based on «common sense,» but that is still consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

It is a disease spread apparently upon contact with British political debate: the sense that the BBC is engaged in a conspiracy against their interests.

Plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British bill of rights have been considered for a long time but they never seem to happen.

Eurostar is swamped with British and EU officials coming and going on a daily basis trying to finalise an offer acceptable to all.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

The UK contributed to a range of technical sessions, had a national pavilion and hosted a reception with the British Ambassador.

I personally would be very sad if Scotland became independent, but that has nothing to do with money and (just as for Martin) everything to do with a British identity of which Scotland is an important part.

Flags flown at half - mast outside the EU Commission in solidarity with the British people.

The prime minister is right on so many issues, but on this one he is out of touch with the British people.

Another is the perception of necessity or effectiveness, as with the British bombing of Germany during World War II.

Mandelson declared three appointments to Acoba: speaking engagements and writing newspaper articles, senior adviser to Lazards, the bankers, and chairman of Global Counsel LLP, described as a «global advisory partnership serving non-British companies or organizations and working with British companies or organizations outside the UK».

Let us make clear at the earliest possible opportunity that these kind of controls are simply not compatible with British democracy.

With British friends like this the EU has bright prospects.

«A clarification of the UK position is indispensable for us to negotiate and for us to make sufficient progress on this financial dossier, which is inseparable from the other withdrawal dossiers... As soon as the UK is ready to clarify the nature of its commitments, we will be prepared to discuss this with the British negotiators.»

The prime minister was speaking on a surprise visit to Afghanistan, where he met with British troops in the Helmand province and held talks with president Hamid Karzai in the capital, Kabul.

«Anyone who wants to be honest with the British public about dealing with the deficit... should also be honest about the savings that are required.»

With British food banks serving around a million people in a year and poverty spiralling out of control, some of Britain's poorest people may feel under attack from their own government rather than a foreign power.

It is not normally used in connection with the British monarchy.

Nevertheless, continental Europeans have a great deal in common with the British.

That's Sunder's view, I think, and also the view of my colleague Iain McLean in his book «What's wrong with the British constitution?»

The Liberal Party of Australia and the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan do not have very much in common with the British party of that name.