In the case of our largest authority - Birmingham - the answer is party control.
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It requires a consistent institutional commitment from Congress and the executive branch, across administrations and periodic shifts in party control.
Tony Hare (Independent) is a former Conservative councillor who has been proud to be free of party control for many years.
Among the custom-integration features included in all Denon "CI" models are a RS-232 for 3rd Party control and assignable high current DC trigger outputs.
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What is almost certain in 1998 is that Ohio and Indiana Senate seats will change party control (Ohio is a Democratic-held seat and Indiana is a Republican-held seat).
To be sure, having 60 members of either party control the Senate is a big deal--even more so when the White House and the House are on the same side of the aisle.
Since redistricting is right around the corner after the 2000 census and the state legislatures and governor control redrawing the district lines, the battle for party control in these states is particularly important in 1998.
The chances of a thorough investigation in the US increased after the Democratic Party took control of Congress last year.
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The probe is one of may undertaken by the panel since the Republican Party gained control of the House in 1994.
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Egypt is frustrated by Hamas's refusal to let Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and his Fatah party resume control over Gaza.
Now it's a Republican president with his party in control of Congress, and the goal is long-term majority status for the GOP.
Nine councillors have split from the Labour party in Harrow, north-west London, amid racism claims, leaving the council with no party in control.
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Some of the tea party-backed GOP freshmen who had helped their party secure control two years ago were given the heave-ho Tuesday by voters.
The Washington Post says the Republican party losing control of both houses is the equivalent in a parliamentary election of losing a vote of no-confidence.
The Michigan Republican has been the principal architect of House GOP tax plans since the party took control of the chamber after the 2010 elections.
Romney's camp distanced itself from the Missouri Republican, who is in a race viewed as crucial for determining which party will control the Senate next January.
The Democratic Party and its centre-left allies won a narrow victory in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Senate appears split with no party in control.
Obama and the Republicans have been fighting over federal spending since the opposition party regained control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections.
Today, de Klerk said, the ANC -- the party in control -- is too powerful, its leaders have lost their "moral compass, " and it needs to split.
With the near collapse of the financial system in 2008, the Bush administration, with the Republican party in control of both houses of Congress, took aggressive, unprecedented action.
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Elimination of the estate tax has remained on the House GOP leadership's agenda since the party took control of the chamber in the wake of the 1994 midterm elections.
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But history shows it will be an uphill battle for the Bush administration, because the party in control of the White House usually loses congressional seats in the mid-term elections.
Remember, the Republican party retained control of the House.
Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington.
So in the mid-term elections, voters decided to make another change, this time creating potential government gridlock, putting one party in control of the House, and leaving the other in control of the Senate.
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One was that they're trying to insulate themselves from any accusations that might come out of investigations that are likely to be launched into the conduct of the war, if and when the Democratic Party takes control of one or both houses of Congress.
Eight Independent Community and Health Concern candidates will be doing their best to keep alive the flame of people power which famously flared eight years ago at Wyre Forest, when opposition to the downgrading of Kidderminster Hospital led to the election of the Independent MP Richard Taylor and swept the party to control of the district council there.
The Conservative Party has retained control of Dorset County Council, while the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has won its first ever seat.
In 2010 the Lib Dems lost control of Sheffield - the city which includes their leader Nick Clegg's parliamentary constituency - leaving it with no party in overall control, though the Lib Dems had remained the largest party, with one councillor more than Labour.
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