Sentences with phrase «conservatives out of power»

More than two - fifths, 42 %, supported a coalition after the next general election to keep the Conservatives out of power, but 36 % rejected the prospect.

The Scottish National party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru have signalled their willingness to work in a four - party «progressive» alliance keeping the Conservatives out of power.

Not exact matches

The more red meat the Conservatives dish out to their base, the more keeping their party out of power next year stands to become a bigger ballot box priority for voters than punishing Trudeau for whatever disappointment he may have inspired.

This awkward fact is exacerbated on the right right now because conservatives are currently out of power and typically tend away from tact.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

Often, «leave us alone» conservatives worry that meddling of this kind is pursued for its own sake, or out of the tyrant's love for simply beholding the exercise of his own power.

«[The elite] know that Muslims will never vote for a party with Christian roots, so with the huge volume of Muslims, the conservative parties will be crowded out of power.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

Speaking at Chongqing University, Mr Cameron said a Conservative government would fit all coal power stations with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and hit out at a lack of government progress in the field.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

Crucially, the type of conservatism preached by Glasman, Rutherford, Cruddas and co. is a «radical conservatism», which seeks to resist the disrupting and commodifying tendencies of markets: ``... conservative in valuing relationships, work, family and community... radical in defending the labour interest, and sharing out power, resources and opportunities between members of society.»

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

She came to power after David Cameron's resignation in July 2016, when her other rivals pulled out of the Conservative leadership race.

«(H) e's another example of a conservative that the GOP power structure is trying to run out, just like the Dede Scozzafava race, New York 23,» Limbaugh said.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

The lessons need to be learnt from that, not just from the point of the election result but also in terms of the continuing strengthening of the party, given Conservatives were out of power for effectively 13 years.»

The Fresh Start group of Conservative MPs is set to call for a renegotiation of Britain's powers and the EU's competencies in a pamphlet due out in the new year, however.

The Conservative party has ruled out the prospect of immediate tax cuts if it won power in the next parliamentary elections.

Labour is now the largest party, but remains out of power because of the solidity of a local coalition between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems which predates the national tie - up between the two parties by years.

Sir John was ousted from power in the massive 1997 landslide that swept Tony Blair and New Labour to power, leaving the Conservatives out of government for 13 years.

New Labour is above all else a mechanism for keeping the Conservative Party out of power and Brown is one of the architects of New Labour.

This probably flows from the fact that Labour has been in power for 13 years, and attitudes to the party are more fully worked out, while the opposition Conservative Party attracts a more general reaction of belief or disbelief to the promises put forward by David Cameron.

Pondiscio's piece, «The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform,» has triggered an important conversation about race, power, politics, and school reform.

The foundation of a sound retirement investing strategy is setting a diversified mix of stocks and bonds that's aggressive enough to generate returns that can grow your portfolio during your career and help maintain its purchasing power during retirement — yet conservative enough so you won't bail out of stocks every time the market heads south.

Landscape painting as a genre continues, and may well always retain its niche over the conservative mantelpiece, but the ways in which artists choose to represent the awesome power of the earth over its inhabitants, and indeed humanity's attempts to master its surroundings, have branched out far beyond the picturesque watercolour.

As we head into 2018 and the further political polarization likely to accompany the mid-term USA elections, we have quite a lot of ethical searching to do in order to figure out where indeed we do stand, and what we are willing, in the face of a conservative agenda to preserve oligarchic power at all costs, to do about our most bottom - line beliefs?

Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) spoke this morning at the release of a Greenpeace Energy [R] evolution report that lays out, using quite conservative estimates, how «the United States can meet the energy needs of a growing economy and achieve science - based cuts in global warming pollution — without nuclear power or coal.»

While acknowledging the dangers of a badly implemented tax, he suggested that his fellow conservatives recognize it as the best alternative, politically and economically, to the other polices being debated in Washington: the billions in subsidies being handed out to solar - power and wind - power companies, the cap - and - trade systems being promoted on Capitol Hill and by the presidential candidates.

Our Government regularly complains about activist out - of - touch judges meddling into Parliament's bailiwick by tossing out mandatory minimum sentences or invalidating Criminal Code amendments, yet over a decade in power it is that same Conservative Government that has appointed every Superior Court judge across the country.

It features a peak power delivery of 15W (5V / 3A) which is in line with other standards, but Samsung seems to be quite conservative with its charging times — this is particularly evident when charging under load, as the charging rate becomes nearly linear, and has the slowest charging rate out of all devices we've tested for this article.