While remaining sharply critical of Glen Clark's NDP government, Parker spearheaded highly controversial negotiations to form municipal electoral alliances with NDP-affiliated parties in 1998 after vote-splitting all but wiped out leftist representation at the local level in Vancouver and Victoria in 1996.

While the NDP did better in elections than its CCF predecessor, the party did not experience the breakthrough it had hoped for and did not recognize his abilities until later in the days.

While in office, he brought forward a number of initiatives that were unpopular with many traditional NDP supporters, such as the Social Contract.

While the NDP polled considerably better in northern Ontario than it did in 1990, it lost much of its support in rest of the province, especially the 905 region where they had won many seats five years earlier.

While the NDP only outpolled the Liberals by a narrow six-point margin, they managed to unseat many Liberal incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area.

While this modification is still used by some provincial sections of the NDP, the federal NDP now uses a pure OMOV process without a carve out for labour affiliates.

While she was the only NDP member of the legislature elected in 1981, and had at most a caucus of three Members of the Legislative Assembly ( MLAs ), she raised the party's profile and become a well known advocate for the poor and disadvantaged.

While in Parliament, Earle was the NDP critic of Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Immigration, Indian Affairs and Northern Development, National Defence, and Veterans Affairs.

While the Liberals increased their caucus from 20 to 35 seats, however, the NDP caucus increased from 19 to 38 seats, and became the Official Opposition for the first time since 1951.

While the Liberals had had first the Progressives and later the NDP to support them in minority situations, the Progressive Conservatives had little experience attracting support as a minority government.

While not officially endorsing the New Democratic Party, Ed stated that the " NDP has become the FU vote " and as such withdrew from the race.

While the election did grant the NDP a record number of seats in Parliament, actual voter turnout was not much higher than in 2008, which helped the governing Conservative Party to win the majority of seats.

While his riding was re-aligned to create Victoria-Swan Lake, Fleming easily won re-election facing no opposition for the NDP nomination and receiving 61 % of the votes in the May 2009 general election.

While Prime Minister Martin had committed in April 2005 to dissolve Parliament within a month of the tabling of the second Gomery Report ( which was released on schedule on February 1, 2006 ), all three opposition parties — the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois, and New Democratic Party ( NDP ) — and three of the four independents decided that the issue at hand was how to correct the Liberal corruption, and the motion of non-confidence passed 171-133.

While he did not leave the NDP, he expressed his disapproval of the party's leftward turn under Pawley at several public forums.

While Juba was usually an ally of NDP Premier Edward Schreyer in the 1970s, he also frequently clashed with ministers such as Russell Doern over the allocation of provincial resources.

While the Ontario NDP lost much of its rural support between 1990 and 1995, Buchanan remained personally popular within rural Ontario and with the agricultural community.

While none of the Liberal leadership candidates ran, NDP leader Cardy was acclaimed by his party.

While the district is currently a stronghold for Progressive Conservatives its antecedents have seen representation from the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP in the recent past.

While the NDP failed to gain any seats under his leadership, neither did they lose any ( Social Credit won 47 seats to the NDP's 22 in the newly enlarged BC Legislative Assembly ).

While members of the NDP co-operate on city council and on the Toronto District School Board, there is no longer an official NDP caucus.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

While the claim that he had been made a dux under the emperor Probus is probably a fabrication, he certainly attained the rank of tribunus within the army, and during the reign of Carus he was raised to the position of Praeses, or governor, of the province of Dalmatia.

While it had attained nominal independence from Russia, its presidents maintained close ties with their neighbours.

While Campion had attained a considerable reputation in his own day, in the years that followed his death his works sank into complete oblivion.

While serving in Glina, he attained the rank of Captain, and became proficient in playing the piano, being taught by the military kapelnik of Glina.

While Basava understood shatsthala as a process with various stages to be attained in succession, Channabasavanna, Basava's nephew, differed radically from his uncle and held that a soul can reach its salvation in any stage.

While this might be understood as a declaration of independence, it can also be understood as an acknowledgement that Australia was already independent, leaving open the question of when independence had been attained.

While in Manti, the Cutlerite church attained its highest membership figure: 183 persons.

While its singles attained moderate success, the album performed better on music charts than Eric B.

While in the Marines, he attained the rank of Sergeant, and was a decorated combat veteran, earning three battle stars and the Expert Rifleman's medal while serving with the famed 1st Marine Division in Korea.

While the other two stars of the series, Rob Newman and David Baddiel became major celebrities-playing to sell out audiences at Wembley Arena-Punt and Dennis never attained the same level of prominence as a double act.

While the historical definition of child has varied, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child asserts that " A child is any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.

While living in Illinois, he attained his first elected office as Sheriff of McLean County, Illinois.

While its singles attained moderate success, the album performed better on music charts than Eric B.

While 620 miles ( 1000 km ) east-southeast of St. Croix, Gloria attained hurricane status.

While the function of these was unclear, Whatley argued that they might provide a useful evolutionary example, indicating the " ways in which a bacterial mitochondrial transformation might have been attained.

While a student at that university he published his first work, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse ( 1857 ), which at once attained to great popularity.

Throughout the agonized internal monologue, represented through letters to his old tutor, he repeatedly comments on all of the affective ties that he has formed in his domestic life —“ the chains heart forged for itself ” As he begins to recover from the shock, the reader is led to believe that these “ chains ” are not worth the price of possible pain —“ By renouncing my attachments to a single spot, I extended them to the whole earth, and, while I ceased to be a citizen, became truly a man .” While in La Nouvelle Héloïse, the ideal is domestic, rural happiness ( if not bliss ), in Emile and its sequel, the ideal is “ emotional self-sufficiency which was the natural state of primitive, pre-social man, but which for modern man can be attained only by the suppression of his natural inclinations .”

While Suerbeer ’ s proselytisation and power policy eventually yielded little success, the competing Teutonic Order attained papal support more easily than the archbishop, thanks to its supraregional presence and comparative wealth.

While Theravada Buddhists view the Buddha as a human being who attained nirvana or Buddhahood, through human efforts, some Mahayana Buddhists consider him an embodiment of the cosmic Dharmakaya, born for the benefit of others.

While not an immediate success, over the succeeding decades and especially in the post-World War II period, the. 270 Winchester attained great popularity among gun owners and hunters, ranking it among the most popular and widely used cartridges worldwide.

While named a " trucker's tan ," such a tan line is not exclusive to truck drivers and can be attained by driving most motor vehicles.

While having great success hitting minor league pitching, Meulens never attained a permanent spot on the New York lineup, despite spending the entire 1991 season on the Yankees roster.

While playing for the Harvard Crimson, he attained All-Ivy League, All-New England and Division I-AA All-ECAC first team football honors.