Sentence examples for a regional assembly from inspiring English sources

"I am not in favour of new institutions for our region - I opposed the idea of a regional assembly and I still believe it would be wrong.

In 2004 the north-east voted overwhelmingly against a regional assembly.

In 2004 voters in north-east England voted overwhelmingly against a regional assembly.

He backs a regional assembly for Cornwall rather than the larger south-west assembly favoured by tidier-minded colleagues.

Labour's botched attempt to introduce a regional assembly in the north-east in 2004 is instructive here.

Back in 2004 the then Labour government asked the people of the north east whether they wanted a regional assembly.

696,519 (77.93%) voted against devolution, with only 197,310 (22.07%) voting in favour of an elected regional assembly to give the region a stronger voice.

The Turkomans would, for instance, have a much larger proportion of seats in a Kurdish regional assembly than they now do in the federal parliament in Baghdad.Publicly, the Kurdish leaders still insist on a referendum by the end of June, as promised by the Iraqi government.

He believes a powerful regional assembly could offer the North East a way of competing both with Scotland and the south of England.

In 2004 people in the North East of England rejected a devolved regional assembly, which had been proposed by the then Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

As if to confirm their judgment, the national government of Evo Morales, the socialist president, felt obliged to take out full-page newspaper advertisements declaring the referendum a "resounding failure".In theory, the voters approved a plan to set up an elected regional assembly that would assume many of the powers of the central government.