Sentence examples for substantial coalition from inspiring English sources

Finally, a substantial coalition of support (if not participation) was involved in the Afghan war.

In 1876, the U.S. Army had been making threatening noises for months, and when Custer finally turned up on June 25th, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and other Lakota leaders had assembled a substantial coalition, including Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho allies.

The provincial governor has made a major push, backed by the United Nations and a substantial American-led coalition force, to win over the tribes and start reconstruction.

What is striking about Miliband's proposals is not their radicalism, but their timidity compared with the substantial advances the coalition has made under the city deals programme.

General McKiernan has directed substantial changes to coalition tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), but those cannot eliminate the possibility of civilian casualties, especially when the Taliban has clearly adopted "human shield" tactics.

But if there are a substantial number of coalition defectors, the reform effort will crash and burn.

Only in two of the six countries are these transformational change coalitions vocal enough to be heard, yet to exercise their agency effectively and to support more substantial reforms, these coalitions would need the participation of more influential policy actors, particularly state agencies that have the authority to make binding decisions about policy.

The Labour motion calling for the abolition was defeated by 252 to 226, a substantial cut in the coalition majority.

But since the middle of last year, when the Conservative-Liberal coannouncednnounced substantial budget cuts to balance the budget, growth has virtually disappeared.

Yet – seeking economic credibility – they have also signed up to substantial chunks of the coalition's fiscal strategy and to its welfare cap.

Members had to be named only if they contributed more than $10,000 to the lobbying activities in a semiannual reporting period and exercised substantial control over the coalition's activities.