Sentence examples for big coalition from inspiring English sources

It is a very, very big coalition".

A big coalition to merge two agencies' health records?

Yet liberal groups have already formed a big coalition to lobby against any such move.

A big coalition, like Ms Rousseff's, can make things harder, as ministries and jobs must be shared out among more competing hands.

In the week when the meaning of austerity hits home for many, the one big coalition giveaway comes in the form of the rapidly rising personal tax allowance.

Mr Serra still has most of Mr Cardoso's big coalition behind him, and so will get the lion's share of the television slots that will be screened from next month.

It kept small parties out of parliament unless they joined one of the two big coalitions, and ruled out landslide victories by either side.

Under the current voting system, the UK will continue to be ruled by one of two big coalitions and more obviously constrained leaders.

Because the parties clump together in big coalitions that haggle with national governments and the European Commission, ordinary folk do not know how to vote if they want to influence EU laws.

This has reserved nearly all the seats in parliament for two big coalitions, the centre-left New Majority (to which the president, Michelle Bachelet, belongs) and the centre-right Alliance.The system has brought Chile stability at the expense of diversity.

Though the two big coalitions are indeed that, not parties, for the first time, after 14 elections since 1948, the new Italian parliament will look like the British or American legislatures.This is what Italy's adoption of first-past-the-post for three-quarters of its seats was meant to achieve, but in 1996 did not.