Sentences with phrase «thatcherite nostrums»

The companies in the FTSE 350 with all - male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.

As we have seen in the recent past, this is not good enough; the changes resulting from deregulation caught many in the industry napping, and there was a tendency to hold collectively to various nostrums that proved to be unwise.

LendingCrowd has appointed Nostrum Group as its standby servicing partner to oversee the repayment of loans should this situation arise.

The IMF, and its partners in the troika, first proposed its standard nostrum for a highly indebted sovereign: incur more debt.

Just give me a few pithy aphorisms, some polite nostrums... and be sure to wake me before the sermon is over.

Will the challenge be taken up, or will we continue to be dished out the tired old nostrums of the permissive society with little to back them up?

Still, the «von Nostrum» bit is amusing, so I assume the «Dr.» is equally in jest.

Among other points, Gioia argued that poetry had become obscure, self - referential, and detached from common experience through the influence of university writing programs and trendy ideological nostrums.

We can't sell even ourselves on God's participation in the cross of Christ by resorting to what Bonhoeffer called «clerical tricks» — stressing the wretchedness of the human condition so that people will be driven to resort to the church's theological nostrums.

Similarly, Boulding offers this translation of the famous phrase with which Augustine introduces his project of confession: «Our heart is unquiet until it rests in you» (in quietus est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te).

As ideas are «diluted» for popular consumption they also change until, perhaps, like 19th - century homeopathic nostrums, they lose their potency.

Nor did I find it helpful to be asked if I had tried or if I knew about someone's favorite anticancer nostrum, from beverages to alternative healers.

Tu fecisti nos ad te, domine, et inquietum cor nostrum donec requiescat in te — so Augustine said, in words I quoted in English earlier, I have given the Latin here because I wish to correct the usual and mistaken translation so often found, which makes Augustine say we are made «for God.»

Kaufman indicts two popular Christian nostrums for nuclear fears: the claim that a holocaust is inevitable because of biblical prophecy and the claim that God somehow would never permit the worst to happen.

Roosevelt never accepted the Dewey - Beard - Tugwell nostrum, but at least it had a very wide currency.

Since most people in the world are neither prosperous nor Christian, is belief in the universal love of Jesus but a cheap nostrum for the troubled consciences of prosperous Christians?

Witness to the collapse of an empire and the rise and fall of two brutal totalitarianisms, he was at the vortex of world - historical events; in part because of what he had observed, he could never credit the nostrums by which so much of modern opinion is sustained.

Today, anyone who defies the politically correct nostrums currently in fashion risks being attacked on radio, television, and in all of the major newspapers.

Virtually the entire Bill of Rights has now been applied against the states, achieving three revolutionary results at once: 1) The original understanding of federalism has been obliterated, so that the states exercise their power now largely at the sufferance of the Supreme Court; 2) The Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of Section 1 have become a kind of witches» cauldron from which an exotic brew of postmodern nostrums has been fed into the bloodstream of the political culture; 3) The Supreme Court has successfully arrogated to itself more or less exclusive powers of constitutional interpretation.

In his Confessions he wrote: Fecisti nos ad te et cor nostrum inquietum est donee requiescat in te.

Some will choose to head back to the comforts of well - defined boundaries and soothing nostrums.

To make matters worse, he was a leading champion of the good sense of the citizenry as against the nostrums of bureaucrats and so - called experts.

For the fact is that I have such a relationship to the question about God, a truth to which St. Augustine gave classical expression in the words: «Tu nos fecisti ad te, et cor nostrum inquietum est, donec requiescat in te.»

When Christianity is reduced to moralistic nostrums, It becomes boring.

Lasch seeks not programs but principles; not nostrums but necessity; not causes but character; not rallies but reverence.

The funding decision came at the end of Italy's sea operation, Mare Nostrum, which was not restarted.

But without funding, Italy's Mare Nostrum operation came to an end and was not replaced.

Certainly Mare Nostrum may have played its part in giving smugglers the confidence to clear a backlog of persons waiting to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing, but given most young Eritreans I meet tell me they will «die trying», it is not the only reason for the rise in numbers last year.

Yet the response of nations is too often reactionary and punitive towards individuals making the move, causing policies like Mare Nostrum to be cut short.

News reports in the past six months have regularly commented upon the rising number of persons disembarking on Italy's coastline — benefiting from its search and rescue operation Mare Nostrum.

those who knew the Tories were wrong «uns but had no real political consciousness and following the media zeitgeist were settling into taking on the dominant Thatcherite nostrums as obvious common sense assumptions.

Blair did nothing to challenge those nostrums and following that lead, neither did the more left - wing (or less right - wing) sections of the media.

Lennon's Imagine is a simple tune, evoking new age nostrums..

He will be on nightly this week, with daily shows preaching his libertarian nostrums and advocating state nullification of Obamacare.

In a paper being published today, he writes: «The traditional Conservative vision of welfare as a safety net encompasses another outdated Tory nostrum - that poverty is absolute, not relative.

McDonnell is not arguing for «nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy» or other nostrums from the 1980s, but for a «mixed economy of public and social enterprise... a private sector with a long - term private business commitment» and a national investment bank channeling # 500 million into the productive economy.

«This has always been a policy nostrum of the elites, sort of a big lab test in which the lab rats — the regular people — wanted no part of it,» he said.

The Progress people would scheme for a palace coup and failing that would consider taking their nasty little right - wing nostrums elsewhere.

The Moment The Mare - Nostrum supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center takes center stage in a former chapel, which proved the perfect size to accommodate the 44 - ton data cruncher.

But whereas some, or perhaps many, nostrums are no more likely to improve longevity, alertness and athletic performance than the cure - alls of old were to ward off dropsy or nervous agitation, not all can be so easily dismissed.

It may well force us to rethink other nostrums among even our most thoroughly understood phenomena.

The U.S. has a decidedly ambivalent relationship with alternative medicine, though large numbers of Americans routinely ingest nostrums from ginkgo to garlic.

Has any nostrum been huckstered with greater promises than these?

The first is many people want results NOW, results that they think they'll get with pills and other nostrums.

Common values and references have gotten hard to find in an atomized society, and vague new - age nostrums can't fill the vacuum.

Common values and references have gotten hard to find in an atomized society, and vague new age nostrums can't fill the vacuum.

Visionary Irish director of the silent screen Rex Ingram to be celebrated at the IFI on 9th Dec with screening of «Mare Nostrum», with live musical accompaniment from 3epkano

Not surprisingly, the professionals» recommendations included such nostrums as paying employees (themselves) more and giving them less work to do (reducing class size).

Some assign responsibility for this disconnect to zealous reformers who are more interested in peddling their nostrums than in evaluating them, or to vested interests that aggressively protect the status quo instead of welcoming evidence about alternatives.

More to the point, Zhao does a wonderful job of challenging the lazy nostrums peddled by those suffused with China envy.