Smaller parties like the Quebec nationalist Bloc Québécois and the Green Party of Canada can exert their own influence over the political process.

* Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada

A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

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The EFA and European Green Party operate together to form The Greens – European Free Alliance political grouping in the European Parliament.

Following the 1999 European Parliament election EFA members formed a common European parliamentary group with the European Green Party called The Greens – European Free Alliance.

The European Conservatives and Reformists group, typified by centre-right parties such as the British Conservative Party, along with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left which is an alliance of the left-wing parties in the European Parliament, is soft eurosceptic.

The Green Party of England and Wales, which has one seat in Parliament in the House of Commons, also rejects the term " eurosceptic "; however it opposes the Euro and is critical of the current direction and structure of the EU.

Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.

Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Fianna Fáil has led governments including parties of the centre-left ( Labour and the Green Party ) and of the centre-right ( the now-defunct Progressive Democrats ) and is often seen as a pragmatic party of the establishment.

* Four Pillars of the Green Party

Alliance ' 90 / The Greens () is a green political party in Germany, formed from the merger of the German Green Party ( founded in West Germany in 1980 ) and Alliance 90 ( founded during the Revolution of 1989 – 1990 in East Germany ) in 1993.

The Hamburg state branch of the Green Party was called Grün-Alternative Liste Hamburg ( GAL ; green-alternative list ) from its foundation in 1982 until 2012.

It was at this congress, that the Greens lay their ideological foundations, proclaiming the famous Four Pillars of the Green Party:

The 1990 GDR's Green Party logo

The Greens gained a record 13 of Germany's 99 seats in these elections, mainly due to the perceived competence of Green ministers in the federal government and the unpopularity of the Social Democratic Party.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

The next three most popular parties were the SVP ( 19. 92 %), the Green Party ( 17. 96 %) and the LPS Party ( 13. 43 %).

* European Green Party

Mohajerani is " a vocal supporter of the pro-democracy Green Movement ," and opposes violence against the Iranian regime saying

The Party opposes what it calls " extreme Green policies " and the " left leaning social reconstructive agenda " of the Greens.

* Green politics: We reject green ideology because it opposes rapid development, fears change and romanticises pre-industrial life.

It opposes Green policies like catching and sterilizing feral animals as impractical, and their influence in matters like the reserve rules around Lake Mokoan, where " children cannot throw stones and you are not even allowed to put up an umbrella.

" Ballad of the Green Berets " is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the Green Berets, an elite special force in the U. S. Army.

* Ernest Green ( U. S. Assistant Secretary of Labor )

The Greens founded the first international chapter of a German political party in the U. S. on April 13, 2008 at the Goethe-Institut in Washington D. C. Its main goal is " to provide a platform for politically active and green-oriented German citizens, in and beyond Washington D. C., to discuss and actively participate in German Green politics.

The Conference Center & Hotel is LEED-certified Gold by the U. S. Green Building Council, and is the only full-service, upscale hotel in Fairfax and near George Mason University.

Two rural-style comedians, already well known in their native Canada, gained their first major U. S. exposure — Gordie Tapp and Don Harron ( whose KORN Radio character, newscaster Charlie Farquharson, had been a fixture of Canadian television since 1952 and later appeared on The Red Green Show ).

Modern May Day ceremonies in the U. S. vary greatly from region to region and many unite both the holiday's " Green Root " ( pagan ) and " Red Root " ( labor ) traditions.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

The U. S. Green Building Council has developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) program to encourage the design of high-performance buildings that will help protect our environment.

Due to the efforts of Merrill Swan, W6AEE, of the " The RTTY Society of Southern California " publisher of RTTY and Wayne Green, W2NSD, of CQ Magazine, Amateur Radio operators successfully petitioned the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to amend Part 12 of the Regulations, which was effective on February 20, 1953.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

The compromise agreement subsequently collapsed and two Green Party organizations have co-existed in the United States since the mid-1990s, now operating independently as The Green Party USA and the U. S. Green Party.

Malik Rahim, former Black Panther Party activist, ran for the U. S. Congress in 2008 with the Green Party.

A related improvement is rubber isolation between the wheel disc and the rim, as used on Boston ( Massachusetts, U. S .) Green Line 3400 and 3600 series cars.

In the U. S., third parties include older ones such as the Libertarian Party and the Green Party and newer ones such as the Pirate Party.

* Red, White, and Green: Transforming U. S. Biofuels

** In London at the Wood Green Empire, Chung Ling Soo ( William E Robinson, U. S .- born magician ) dies during his trick where he is supposed to " catch " two separate bullets – but one of them perforates his lung.

For instance, the use of boundary layer wind tunnel modeling can be used as a credit for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) certification through the U. S. Green Building Council.

The Vermont Army version of the Green Mountain Boys faded away after Vermont joined the United States as the 14th U. S. state in 1791, although the Green Mountain Boys mustered for the War of 1812, The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and following World War I as the Vermont National Guard.

Under propositions A and AA, a new water reclamation facility is also being planned, and the new facilities will meet rigorous Silver-level guidelines set by the U. S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

In the U. S. submarine fleet, an adhesive cloth tape is called " EB Green ," as the duct tape used by Electric Boat was green.

* Green, Matthew N. The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership ( Yale University Press ; 2010 ) 292 pages ; Examines partisan pressures and other factors that shaped the leadership of the speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives ; focuses on the period since 1940.