Sentence examples for shape a coalition from inspiring English sources

The expectation was that, in the days or even weeks to come, each party would then have to find an envelope, a pencil, and a pocket calculator, armed with which it could then try to shape a coalition — clubbing together with other, smaller parties to attain the magic number.

So the UIA will have first go at shaping a coalition government.

Duncan Smith, who as chair of the social justice cabinet committee is one of the key figures shaping a coalition response to the riots, warned there was "every chance" riots would recur unless structural reforms were made to repair "communities in which so many families are broken".

The two groups still disagree on the shape of a coalition government, the election system, control of security and, above all, policy towards Israel.

She hopes events like Sunday's conference will help shape a broader coalition outside of the Somali community that will work towards confronting racism in Canada.

One may be emerging from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, whose Oslo-based secretariat oversees the development of multilateral standards shaped by a coalition of governments, companies and civil society.

Shaping such a coalition is critical for the success of the American campaign, because otherwise an Afghanistan stripped of Taliban control could quickly revert to the internecine bloodletting of past decades.

It will form a coalition.

Shaping a wobbly coalition led to several odd situations.

Even during the great heyday of Democratic government in the 20th century, when the party enacted Social Security and Medicare and civil rights legislation, its dominance was possible only because Democrats had shaped a majority coalition made up of Northern liberals and Southern conservatives.

"The administration is using the diplomatic ambiguity of the moment to shape a more centrist coalition," he says.