Under proportional representation, neither of the major parties, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), was able to secure an overall majority in federal elections and the FDP was the indispensable junior coalition partner.
Harper's intervention will be seen as significant because it confirms the main Lib Dem argument: that the bill is an indispensable part of the coalition agreement.
De Valera claimed, however, that a strong single-party government was indispensable and that all coalitions must be weak and insecure.
Mr. Mukherjee has often been described as the indispensable man in India's coalition government.
Independent voters were an indispensable part of the Obama coalition in 2008.
I would like to offer three indispensable elements to this social movement: coalition building, political education and analysis, and messaging.
Men like Lieberman, Levanon, and Lior are scarcely embittered figures on the irrelevant margins: a hard-right base — the settlers, the ultra-Orthodox, Shas, the National Religious Party — is indispensable to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition.
Sanders has also failed to take the best opportunity to dramatically and decisively demonstrate that blacks, and especially black women, are an indispensable and valued component of his progressive coalition and of its top leadership.
IF NOBODY is indispensable, Lionel Jospin, prime minister of France's Socialist-led canlition, can surely cope with the departure on October 18th of Martine Aubry, for the past three years his minister for employment and social "solidarity".
As a check on Labour's tendency to illiberalism in any future coalition, they could become both popular and indispensable.
