Sentences with phrase «years in opposition»

McKibben takes some solace from the grassroots movement that has grown up during the Obama years in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.

After years in opposition, the NPP — led by John Kufour — formed a government in 2001 after winning Ghana's national elections.

The Blairite establishment is out in force this morning, warning variously that Ed Miliband would lead Labour into an «electoral cul - de-sac», would vacate the «centre ground» and would consign the party to years in opposition.

We lost sight of one of the bitter lessons we had learnt in those wilderness years in opposition: a party that loses the willingness constantly to reform itself loses the capacity to renew itself.

Labour would be facing another five years in opposition.

So please starting preparing how you are going to spend the next four years in Opposition.

After eighteen years in opposition, Labour ousted the Conservatives at the May 1997 election with a 179 - seat majority.

This meant that the new leader has to spend the best part of five years in opposition.

Following the defeat of 1951 the party spent 13 years in opposition.

Eighteen years in opposition after 1979 taught him that it is a thankless task.

Crucially, by 2020 the Labour Party will be seeking to return to government after ten years in opposition.

The bloke who said to Neil Kinnock we've got our party back was right, now here's to 15 more years in opposition,

During their long years in opposition, they liked to posture as the pious party, the people who could be trusted to tell it straight.

Labour's leader has been more mocked than praised in his first two years in opposition.

Instead, it's spent its years in opposition generally opposing the coalition's cuts as a matter of course, making its commitment to fiscal rectitude just as the election approaches feel like a late conversion indeed.

Labour is currently trailing the Conservatives in the polls by 12 - 17 percentage points (depending on the pollster), an extraordinary position for a party seven years in opposition.

The responsibility for the crisis is identified in turn with Berlusconi and his failure to deliver on the liberal revolution he repeatedly promised; with the Democratic Party which many saw as hopeless during the long years in opposition; and finally, with Mario Monti, whose technocratic government some perceive as the product of the economic establishment which created the crisis and is now passing the costs on to the middle class.

After nine years in opposition, the party was mired with internal and financial problems which led him to resign in 1982.

«They had years in opposition, they watched things,» he says.

Alberta PC MLAs voted to invite Independent MLA Mike Allen back into the government caucus after a year in the opposition benches.

But nearly one year in opposition, the former Vice President has asked Dr Bawumia to respond to his own questions since he is a «great economist.»

Not exact matches

Though the 36 - year - old now sits in opposition as MP for Calgary Nose Hill, she's still making an impact, not least through her frequent and often combative use of Twitter.

WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

«I suspect Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod,» he said.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

In February, Erik Nielsen, global head of CIB research at UniCredit, told CNBC that «Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.&raquIn February, Erik Nielsen, global head of CIB research at UniCredit, told CNBC that «Weidmann's vocal opposition to most of the ECB decisions in recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.&raquin recent years has generated too much opposition in too many other member states for him to get the nod.&raquin too many other member states for him to get the nod.»

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Last year the White House floated further fees on million - dollar loans and investments to cover the administrative costs, although opposition in the congressional committees promptly nixed that idea.

Earlier this year, in Australia, a Chinese billionaire reportedly threatened to withdraw an AUD$ 400,000 donation to the opposition Labor party after an Australian official took a hard line against the Chinese military's activities in the South China Sea.

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

He used to be former prime minister Gordon Brown's fixer in Fife, and backed Corbyn in his leadership election last year, breaking from Dugdale's opposition to the Labour leader.

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

Earlier this year it backpedaled on its plan to end Saturday mail delivery after running into opposition in Congress.

John Feeley, a longtime diplomat who resigned last year as the US ambassador to Panama in opposition to President Donald Trump, explained his decision in an op - ed in The Washington Post on Friday.

Maduro's approval ratings have tumbled amid the crisis to 28 percent, near the lowest in 16 years of socialist rule, and while there's no sign the sometimes violent street protests that overwhelmed the country a year ago will return anytime soon, polls indicate that the opposition will coast to victory in legislative elections expected to take place by year end.

May's government also faced questions from the opposition Labour Party about why it awarded the company 1.3 billion pounds of state contracts after Carillion fell into financial difficulty in July last year.

The SPD only agreed to ally with Merkel after promising a list of distinctive policies to secure the approval of party members, many of whom wanted the SPD to regroup in opposition after the last four years in coalition damaged its standing among voters.

In other words, Magna appears to be maintaining the arrogance of the Stronach years while ditching Magna's founder's unwavering opposition to leveraging.

Opposition leaders say they will fight any legislation put forward to enhance the president's powers, and have already made comparisons to previous dictators, like Hosni Mubarak, who remained in power for 30 years.

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

Deputy chairwoman Stephanie Cadieux of the Opposition Liberals and Andrew Weaver, leader of the Green party, say the recommendations provide the foundation to bring in ride - hailing by this year.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

The news comes as the first time in 37 years of the GSS, Americans in opposition to same sex relations were in the minority.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

In Poland, parliamentary elections will take place October 25, where the opposition party is currently gaining power for the first time in eight yearIn Poland, parliamentary elections will take place October 25, where the opposition party is currently gaining power for the first time in eight yearin eight years.

Where it becomes really interesting, said Golinger, is if marijuana consumption lounges become legal in Ontario, a possibility that has been hinted at by both the provincial government and the opposition, although not for the first year of recreational legalization.

All of which is to say that, for the next one and a half years until the next provincial election, you can expect the noisiest chirping in the country to emanate from Alberta — much of it from the next opposition leader's Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Former federal minister Jason Kenney is newly installed in the legislature as United Conservative opposition leader, and should he win, as widely expected, he says he would set the province on a more aggressive fiscal reordering, eliminating deficits one year more quickly.

The Obama administration pursued such an agreement for years, but it was largely moribund even before Mr. Trump took office, in part because of popular opposition in Germany.