In response, a coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations wrote a letter to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill, arguing that evolution is, in the scientific fields, regarded as fact and that the amendment creates the mis-perception that evolution is not fully accepted in the scientific community, and thus weakens science curricula.

As a response, a coalition of 96 scientific and educational organizations wrote a letter to the conference committee, urging that the amendment be stricken from the final bill.

The party formed the United People Alliance ( Portuguese: Aliança Povo Unido or APU ) in coalition with the Portuguese Democratic Movement ( Portuguese: Movimento Democrático Português or MDP / CDE ) and increased its vote to 18. 96 % and 47 seats.

It was the dominant party in two coalition governments in the Czech Republic in 1992 – 1997, a majority administration ( 1992 – 96 ) and a short-lived minority government ( 1996 – 97 ).

In the 2010 election, for which the number of deputies was reduced to 165, the PSUV won 96 seats, the opposition electoral coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática 65, and Patria Para Todos won 2.

The document demonstrated that " even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.

Green parties are often formed in a given jurisdiction by a coalition of scientific ecologists, community environmentalists, and local ( or national ) leftist groups or groups concerned with peace or citizens rights.

BAYAN is a coalition of many different organizations such as labor groups like the Kilusang Mayo Uno, peasant organizations such as Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, youth organizations such as the League of Filipino Students and Anakbayan, religious organizations such as the Student Christian Movement-Philippines, the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace and Promotion of Church People's Response ( PCPR ), feminist organizations such as GABRIELA, Kilusan ng Manggawang Kababaihan ( Women Workers ' Movement ), SAMAKANA ( Association of United and Free Women ) and AMIHAN ( National Federation of Peasant Women ), Health Workers ' organizations such as the Health Alliance for Democracy ( HEAD ), educational / scientific organizations such as the Alliance of Concerned Teachers and Scientists, Technologists, Engineers for the People ( STEP ), fisherfolk such as Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas ( PAMALAKAYA-National Federation of Fisherfolk Organizations ), cultural organizations such as BUGKOS, and indigenous people's organizations such as Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas ( KAMP-National Federation Of Indigenous Peoples ' Organizations ), MIGRANTE-Alliance of Filipino Migrants Organizations.

In 2004, whilst the Labour Party's coalition still led parliament, New Zealand's livestock farmers agreed to contribute to related scientific research, and to fund an unspecified portion of the costs of the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium.

Kirschner has been an advocate for federal biomedical research funding and served as first chair of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy, a coalition of scientific societies he helped create in 1993 to educate the U. S. Congress on biomedical research and lobby for public funding of it.

According to their website, " Founded in 1987 by an interfaith coalition of laity and clergy, the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies offers a variety of educational programs that highlight the distinctiveness of the Jewish and Christian traditions and confront the dangerous misunderstandings that have evolved in our two communities.

Temaru's coalition government program in 2004 included the gradual increase of the minimum wage to 150. 000 Fcfp, work days that don ’ t start before 9am, an improvement of social services, political decentralisation, educational reform, and a revision of the new autonomy statute after French Polynesia was declared a French Overseas Country ( pays d ' outre-mer ) in March 2004.

It is one of only eleven institutions of higher education chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to participate in a coalition for educational reform called " Teachers for a New Era.

n the early 1990s, an educational coalition was formed with Rochester Community College and Winona State University-Rochester to form the University Center Rochester – 3 institutions, 2 systems, 1 campus.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State was founded in 1947 as Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State ( POAU ) by a broad coalition of religious, educational and civic leaders in response to proposals pending in the U. S. Congress to extend government aid to private religious schools.

Oscar Temaru's coalition government program in 2004 included the gradual increase of the minimum wage to 150. 000 CFP Fcfp, work days that don ’ t start before 9am, an improvement of social services, political decentralisation, educational reform, and a revision of the new autonomy statute after French Polynesia was declared a French Overseas Country ( pays d ' outre-mer ) in March 2004.

The coalition is focused on campus-community organizing for LGBT equality in Pennsylvania and resource development for educational institutions.

Participation in the coalition is open to all sectors including commercial, cultural heritage, educational, governmental, and research bodies.

Main supporters of the approval include the President's PLN, which has established a coalition with PUSC and ML in Congress to approve the implementation laws in Congress, as well as different business chambers, while the main opposition to CAFTA comes from PAC, labor unions, environmental organizations and public universities.

The elections, the first for 33 years without the presence of Syrian military forces, were won by the Quadripartite alliance, which was part the Rafik Hariri Martyr List, a coalition of several parties and organizations newly opposed to Syrian domination of Lebanese politics.

The coalition was founded in May 1998 by six international non-governmental organizations to promote shared human rights objectives.

In 1888 Britain's first nationwide coalition of groups advocating women's right to vote, the National Society for Women's Suffrage ( NSWS ), split after a majority of members decided to accept organizations affiliated with political parties.

Franklin D. Roosevelt forged a coalition that included the Democratic state party organizations, city machines, labor unions and blue collar workers, minorities ( racial, ethnic and religious ), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals.

Clubs and civic organizations in town include a Newcomers Club, League of Women Voters, Kiwanis Club, The Wilton Kiwanis youth coalition, senior meal delivery, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, the Wilton Land Conservation Trust, the Wilton Family Y and the Moms Club of Wilton.

His bi-partisan government was supported both by the left and centrist wing of the dissolved DEMOS coalition ( the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia, the Democratic Party and the Greens of Slovenia ) and by three parties that derived from organizations of the former Communist regime ( the Liberal Democratic Party, the Party of Democratic Reform and the Socialist Party of Slovenia ).

The party was formed in 1933 as the British Columbia section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) by a coalition of the Socialist Party of Canada ( BC ), the League for Social Reconstruction, and affiliated organizations.

Ōkuma organized his supporters, together with the Rikken Dōshikai and Chūseikai organizations, into a coalition cabinet.

Debt relief for heavily indebted and underdeveloped developing countries was the subject in the 1990s of a campaign by a broad coalition of development NGOs, Christian organizations and others, under the banner of Jubilee 2000.

* March 17, 2003 letter in opposition to DSEA from a coalition of organizations from the Center for Democracy and Technology

The Spanish Civil War began in 1936 and ended on 1 April 1939 with the victory of General Francisco Franco and his coalition of allied organizations commonly referred to as the Nationalists.

However, without a king on the throne, he ruled through a coalition of allied organizations from the Spanish Civil War including, but not limited to, the fascist Falange political party, the supporters of the Borbon royal family, and the Carlists, until his death in 1975.

* Species Survival Network: a coalition of conservation organizations committed to the enforcement and enhancement of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

* August 2005: EPIC and a coalition of open government organizations filed an amicus brief in Gonzales v. Doe, a lawsuit concerning the FBI's authority to issue national security letters without judicial approval and under a permanent gag order that bans the recipient from telling anyone about the demand.

Midler led a coalition of greening organizations to save them.

The United Way of America, based in Alexandria, Virginia, is a non-profit organization that works with nearly 1, 300 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support.

* Leadership 18 a coalition which represents long-established charities, faith-based organizations, and social and health groups that support and promote the safety, health, well-being and social and economic development of people across America.

With more than 50 coalition partners and over 100 supporting organizations representing thousands of consenting adults who engage in alternative lifestyles, NCSF is the only organization in the United States with a dedicated mission to advance the cause of tolerance, non-discrimination and education for adults involved in alternative lifestyles.

* Genetic Alliance, a coalition of more than 600 advocacy organizations

The plan received broad support from a coalition of civic, business, environmental, labor, community and public health organizations and the City Council voted for the measure but also received significant opposition.

The Apollo Alliance, a coalition of businesses, strategists, labor unions, and environmental organizations is advocating a ten-point plan for energy independence.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

1984 — The country's first coalition government, between Sir Thomas and Geoffrey Henry, is signed in the lead up to hosting regional Mini Games in 1985.

Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement that the coalition under Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British Government of Margaret Thatcher.

British Prime Minister William Pitt spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards forming a new coalition against France, and by April 1805, Britain and Russia had signed an alliance.

On December 1, 2008, the three opposition leaders signed an accord that laid down the basis for an agreement on a coalition government.

Continuing the coalition ’ s free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

After one month of minority government, Morgan signed a coalition agreement ( One Wales ) with Ieuan Wyn Jones, leader of Plaid Cymru, on 27 June 2007.

During the Napoleonic War of the Sixth Coalition, Teplice in August 1813 was the site where Emperor Francis I of Austria, Emperor Alexander I of Russia and King Frederick William III of Prussia first signed the triple alliance against Napoleon I of France that led to the coalition victory at the nearby Battle of Kulm.

The Left SR party became the coalition partner of the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Government, although they resigned their positions after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed.

The Popular Front () in Spain's Second Republic was an electoral coalition and pact signed in January 1936 by various left-wing political organisations, instigated by Manuel Azaña for the purpose of contesting that year's election.

In 1984, the Progressive Conservative Party's electoral fortunes made a massive upturn under its new leader, Brian Mulroney, an anglophone Quebecer and former president of the Iron Ore Company of Canada, who mustered a large coalition of westerners aggravated over the National Energy Program of the Liberal government and Quebeckers who were angered over Quebec not having distinct status in the Constitution of Canada signed in 1982.

The Treaty of Greenville was signed at Fort Greenville ( now Greenville, Ohio ), on August 3, 1795, between a coalition of American Indian tribes, known as the Western Confederacy, and frontiermen of the United States ; it followed the American Indian loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers the previous year.

A powerful coalition of Australian directors and actors have signed teamed up to promote Aussie films and talent in Hollywood.

In August 1998 Račan and Budiša signed a coalition agreement and later won the 2000 elections, dislodging HDZ from power after a decade.

In August 1998 SDP and HSLS leaders Ivica Račan and Dražen Budiša signed a coalition agreement and proceeded to run together in the January 2000 parliamentary elections.

In 2003, as a result of negotiations, the three political forces supporting RA President Robert Kocharyan — the Republican Party of Armenia, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Rule of Law Party ( Orinats Yerkir )— formed a parliamentary coalition and confirmed it with a Memorandum signed by the leaders of the three parties.

The Republican Party signed a coalition memorandum with the Prosperous Armenia Party, and a memorandum of cooperation with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

The Republican Party of Armenia, the Prosperous Armenia Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Rule of Law Party signed a coalition agreement, and based thereon was formed the Government led by Tigran Sargsyan.

Finally, on March 1, 1956, the two socialist parties ( Socialist Party of Chile and Socialist Popular Party ), the Party of the Workers ( communist outlawed ), Democratic Party of the People and the Democratic Party all signed the minutes of constitution of the Front of Popular Action ( FRAP ) with Salvador Allende Gossens as the president of the coalition, which participated successfully in the municipal elections of April 1956.

On 18 May 2005, the PDCI and the Rally of the Republicans ( RDR ), despite a history of hostility towards one another, signed an agreement to form a coalition, the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace, along with two smaller parties, the Union for Democracy and Peace in Côte d ' Ivoire ( UDPCI ) and the Movement of the Forces of the Future ( MFA ), ahead of the presidential election then planned for October 2005.

On 9 March 2008 in a press conference held in Muree, Punjab, conservatives under Nawaz Sharif and socialists led by Asif Ali Zardari officially signed an agreement to form a coalition government.

Supporters expressed concern in September 2010 that the scheme would be cancelled as part of the coalition government's comprehensive spending review noting that the report from the public inquiry had not yet been signed off by the Department for Transport.

For the Liberal Democrats in particular it was predicted that the review would cause deep political divisions both within their own party and within the coalition government as many had signed a pledge promising not to vote for any increase in tuition fees prior to the election.

On 11 November 2005, the largest German political parties SPD and CDU signed a coalition.