These successive years as the government's junior coalition partner gave the party an influence on Irish politics and economics disproportionate to its small size.

It was however thanks to his strong skills in economics and finance, that the coalition lasted for a relatively long time, 1 year and 7 months.

She was first elected to the parliament in 1991 as deputy of Istanbul and served as Minister of State in charge of economics in the coalition government of Süleyman Demirel.

He brought together a coalition of economic conservatives, who supported his supply side economics ; foreign policy conservatives, who favored his staunch opposition to Communism and the Soviet Union ; and social conservatives, who identified with his religious and social ideals.

* In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, the titular Alliance refers to a coalition of heroes that normally work independently of one another, or in separate units.

Included are deaths attributable to coalition and insurgent military action, sectarian violence and criminal violence, which refers to excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.

The term coalition therefore refers to the cooperation between parties and not to the participation in the state cabinet.

This refers to the Minister for Local Government James Tully, and his scheme of redrawing every constituency in the country in an effort to maximise the vote for the coalition partners.

The 2nd of Khordad Movement is a term that usually refers not only to the coalition of 18 groups and political parties of the reforms front but to anyone else who was a supporter of the 1997 reform programs of Khatami.

The Trade Justice Movement in the UK was the first formal coalition of groups to use the term " trade justice " ( partly because in the UK, " fair trade " usually refers to Fairtrade certification and is a consumer model of change rather than an overtly political movement calling for government action ).

The Coalition in Australian politics refers to a group of centre-right parties that has existed in the form of a coalition agreement

In realist theories of international relations, bandwagoning refers to the act of weaker states joining a stronger power or coalition within balance of power politics.

The term refers to an association between the symbolic colors of the parties in such a coalition — black for the CDU / CSU ; yellow for the FDP ; and green for the Green Party — and the colors of the flag of Jamaica.

The expression Black traffic light ( German: Schwarze Ampel or the portmanteau word Schwampel ) refers to the classic traffic light coalition, an alliance between the SPD ( red ), FDP ( yellow ), and the Greens, together whose symbolic colors match the colors of most German traffic lights.

This coalition has held, although occasionally the group adopts a government-opposition dynamic with the other groups, notably during the budget crisis when it opposed the Socialists and brought about the resignation of the Santer Commission.

Dollfuss was sworn in on May 20, 1932, as head of a coalition government between the Christian-Social Party, the Landbund — a right-wing agrarian party — and Heimatblock, the parliamentary wing of the Heimwehr, a paramilitary ultra-nationalist group.

Yet the party's group in parliament voted against an oppositional motion for gay marriage, in order not to threaten the coalition with the Christian democrats.

Lord Russell was the leader of the Whig Party, the largest group in the coalition government.

After the Liberal Party left the coalition in April 2000, Prime Minister Mori welcomed a Liberal Party splinter group, the New Conservative Party, into the ruling coalition.

* 2003 – 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U. S .- led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

In about 1175 BC, Egypt was threatened with a massive land and sea invasion by the " Sea Peoples ," a coalition of foreign enemies which included the Tjeker, the Shekelesh, the Deyen, the Weshesh, the Teresh, the Sherden and the PRST ; the last group are commonly regarded as identical with the Philistines.

The SNP is also currently the largest group in Scottish local government and, in coalition, forms 12 out of 32 local administrations.

Several groups, however, disputed this: including UNO, a broad coalition of anti-Sandinista activists, COSEP, an organization of business leaders, the Contra group " FDN ", organized by former Somozan-era National Guardsmen, landowners, businessmen, peasant highlanders, and what some claimed as their patron, the U. S. government.

* April 19 – In Laos, the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a right-wing military group, led by Brig.

Stuart A. Wright, an American sociologist and author, asserts that apostasy is a unique phenomenon and a distinct type of religious defection, in which the apostate is a defector " who is aligned with an oppositional coalition in an effort to broaden the dispute, and embraces public claims-making activities to attack his or her former group.

After meagre results for his 2005 senatorial candidacy, and ahead of the 2007 elections, he joined a group of Province-based parties and Macri's Commitment to Change in a new centre-right coalition dubbed Republican Proposal ( Propuesta Republicana, PRO ).

The PUK was a coalition of at least five separate political entities, the most significant of which were Talabani and his closest followers, Nawshirwan Mustafa's clandestine Marxist-Leninist group Komala, and the Kurdistan Socialist Movement ( KSM ), led by Ali Askari.

A coalition might also refer to a group of citizens uniting behind a common goal.

As soon as the MoU was scuttled, a group led by Raila Odinga left the NARC coalition Government.

There is a Coalition Committee, and an operational working group, to handle appeals over coalition disputes and to plan future policy.

Although largely continuing Harcourt's policy agenda, Clark's government appeared rudderless with the campaign behind it and the Premier's scrappy style began to further alienate parts of the NDP coalition outside of the core group of labour activists who had masterminded Clark's campaign.

By 1928-1929 a coalition of a new Palestinian nationalist group began to challenge the hegemony so far exercised by al-Husseini.

In 2004 the Freedom Party was involved in founding the English Lobby, a pressure group and electoral coalition which campaigns for the recognition of St George's Day and the creation of an English Parliament.

Roblin was a part of the latter group, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in 1949 as an " Independent Progressive Conservative " opposing the coalition.

The political decision to leave the coalition was subsequently made by the parliamentary group.

The group claims to have renounced violence in 2001 and today it is the main component organization of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), an " umbrella coalition " calling itself the " parliament-in-exile dedicated to a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran.

Formally, it is a coalition of U. S. and European CEOs, largely from transnational corporations, launched at the urging of former United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in Seville ( Spain ) in late 1995 at a conference attended by CEOs from more than 100 U. S. and EU companies and by top government representatives led by the Commissioners for Trade and Industry and by the U. S. Secretary of Commerce.

* Raytheon is a leading member of the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a Washington D. C .- based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for a larger International Affairs Budget, which funds American diplomatic, humanitarian, and development efforts abroad.

NEDRA is a coalition of drag racing fans, electric drag racing vehicle owners and drivers, individuals interested in promoting the sport of EV drag racing, EV parts suppliers, EV manufacturers and other environmentally concerned companies and individuals.

More recently, companies involved with supplying the coalition forces in the Iraq War, such as Bechtel, KBR, Blackwater and Halliburton, have come under fire for allegedly overcharging for their services.

It describes itself as: " The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigorous European Software Culture based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source software such as Linux.

Through its substantial holding of companies such as Huaren Holdings, MCA also controls five other significant media press companies, i. e., The Star, being Malaysia's best-selling English language newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, and China Press, being three of the best-selling Chinese newspapers in Kuala Lumpur and Central Region of West Malaysia ; and Guang Ming Daily being a smaller press in northern West Malaysia as the owner of these four presses are owned by media tycoon Tiong Hiew King where his family members are the major party of the ruling coalition in Sarawak.

Between 1998 and 2002, he led a wide coalition against gas companies in Quebec.

World Vision is a leading member of the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a Washington D. C .- based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for a larger International Affairs Budget, which funds American diplomatic and development efforts abroad.

The merger has been notably opposed by a coalition formed by competing cable companies Cogeco, Québecor Média ( Vidéotron ), and Eastlink in August 2012.

Berman told The Washington Post that CCF is now funded by a coalition of restaurant and food companies as well as some individuals ; according to the group's website it is supported by over 100 companies and thousands of individual consumers.

Astana () is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Astana group, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana.

The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant industry trade group which opposes many anti-drunk-driving measures, and the Center for Consumer Freedom, a coalition of restaurant and food companies ( quoting the American Beverage Institute ), have labeled RWJF as anti-alcohol or neo-prohibitionist.

Leoni made an attempt at reforming tax structure, but was restrained by a coalition of left and right that openly served the interests of oil companies.

A Washington, D. C .- based nonprofit coalition of 16 of the largest Hispanic organizations in the nation, HACR worked with Fortune 500 companies to increase Hispanic representation in employment, procurement, philanthropy, and governance.

In the late 1960s, a diverse coalition of business leaders, construction companies, civil rights activists, reformers and the media wanted to open up opportunities for minorities.

Hurd is a member of the Technology CEO Council, a coalition of chairmen and chief executive officers of IT companies, which develops and advocates public policy positions on technology and trade.

Vinokourov leads which is supported by a coalition of Kazakh companies.

In December 1918, he had proposed to the coalition government the creation of a " Transport Authority " which would be composed of the representatives of railway and dock companies, the Board of Trade, trade unions and agricultural and industrial bodies.

As of December 2010, The Climate Group coalition included 80 of the world's largest companies and governments ( including, for example, the City of New York, Miami, Los Angeles, the State of California, most Canadian and Australian provinces and the City of London ).

It is a member of the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a Washington D. C .- based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for a larger International Affairs Budget, which funds American diplomatic and development efforts abroad.

* Online Privacy Alliance, a coalition of Internet companies

Catholic Relief Services serves as a leading member of the U. S. Global Leadership Coalition, a Washington D. C .- based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for increased funding of American diplomatic and development efforts abroad.