Sentence examples for To be coalition from inspiring English sources

"We had said working together is a good thing and you should expect there to be coalition governments.

Both sides are preparing for the time when they cease to be coalition partners and return to full-blooded competition for seats.

With 75 seats to 65, Mr Berisha will have a working majority.Not as plannedAlthough the DPA and SPA have long dominated Albanian politics, governments have tended to be coalition affairs, given that several small parties have tended to gain representation in parliament.

Eight seats tipped to be Coalition wins turned out to be Labor wins (including Bennelong, John Howard's seat).

He said an ETS "used to be Coalition policy but it is not any more", saying an ETS was "no more than one mechanism to reduce emissions, it is a means to an end... a piece of economic plumbing".

Five seats tipped to be Labor wins turned out to be Coalition wins, meaning that the seat-by-seat markets blew 13 calls, but hit the actual seat count pretty well: putting seats won by independents aside, the seat-by-seat markets got the seat count correct to within 3 seats.

Parties used to be coalitions of interest groups".

Thanks to the country's system of proportional representation, all Dutch governments have to be coalitions.

Thanks to Ireland's complicated system of proportional representation and transferable votes, governments are very likely to be coalitions.

This means that governments in Denmark tend to be coalitions, often even minority alliances with parliamentary support from other parties.

Public endeavours of any kind are likely to be coalitions, in a country where not only churches but political parties and trade unions have seen a tumble in membership.