Sentence examples for mix coalition from inspiring English sources

Given that we now have a "pick 'n' mix coalition", will the Lib Dems cross the floor.

4.37pm BST Peter Bone, a Conservative, says Clegg was right when he said a "pick 'n' mix coalition" was a waste of time.

A leader in the "Oil and Water Don't Mix Coalition" is Aaron Payment, the tribal chairman of the Sault Ste.

Quick-witted, he poked fun at the grey men and women who have long reduced Dutch politics to a stodgy, stale mix of coalition governments who merely seem to offer the same recipe over and over again.

Migrant workers stream through all day and into the evening, buying tortillas, Jarritos soft drinks, and mole-sauce mix at the coalition's co-op grocery store.

He saw himself as the vital leftish cement in the coalition mix, and says his "head before heart" speech was crucial in persuading his colleagues to back a deal with the Tories.

Instead, it praises "open public services," or "multi-sourcing"—that is, mixing providers.Alas, the coalition's commitment to forge a "Big Society", in which charitable and voluntary groups would prosper as the state shrinks, looks a bit threadbare, given the growing heft of major suppliers.

But those failures and that backlash did not change the basic realities of national coalition-building; it just required some rethinking about what kind of policy mix a center-right coalition should pursue.

David Cameron accused Nick Clegg of adopting a "pick and mix" approach to the coalition after the deputy prime minister claimed that the Liberal Democrats had restrained the Tories from imposing cuts to the schools budget.

"The problem is that the image of the Liberal Democrats is mixed up with the coalition government," said Opik.

At the same time, ideological polarization is not maximal; there are still many ties in the network that allow for cross-coalition mixing, effectively binding the two ideological camps together in one single component.