Sentences with phrase «against the conservatives in»

The Liberal Democrats experience mixed results, failing to breakthrough against the Conservatives in the south west of England but they saw a particularly marked boost in Hampshire.

The only way a split could be made to work would be for Corbyn's Labour and the progressive alliance to form a «non-compete» pact, allowing each a clean shot against the Conservatives in pre-determined seats.

The existing law is good at stopping Banksy from offering free prints to those voting against the Conservatives in the election but anything more subtle remains a challenge.

Labour has reversed a ten - point swing against the Conservatives in March, cutting the Tories» lead to five points in a new poll published today.

The release of the list comes as a number of backbenchers have been making high - profile interventions against the Conservatives in a bid to try to show Labour members that they are still active within the party.

Many veterans say they are ready to fight if the government doesn't live up to its promise, including on the hustings, as happened when the community turned against the Conservatives in the last election.

Banksy offers free print to non-Tory voters in Bristol Political graffiti artist Banksy has announced on his website the release of a free limited edition print, available to registered voters in six Bristol - area constituencies who vote against the Conservatives in Thursday's General Election and send Banksy a photo of their completed ballot paper.

Not exact matches

A counter-suit against conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren was filed Monday in a Texas court by Glenn Beck and his media outlet The Blaze, just over a week after she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against them.

The bill has shown divisions in the Republican party, which dominates Texas politics, pitting the pro-business establishment wing against the powerful socially conservative wing, which said it was a common - sense measure needed to protect privacy.

«It's difficult to ignore that this action comes during a period of heightened tension regarding Facebook's role in our elections, and its perceived bias against conservative voices,» Petersen wrote in an open letter to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Conservative donors and operatives who gathered on a mountain shrouded resort this past weekend for the Koch brothers» annual winter retreat know that they're up against a historical tide in this year's midterm elections.

Matthew Whitaker, a former US attorney and 2014 Republican primary candidate in Iowa's Senate race who is now the executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, told Business Insider in an email that Comey's testimony made it «clear» that «there is absolutely no criminal case to be made against President Trump for obstruction of justice.»

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

Pushing back against «political correctness,» in 1987, Thiel co-founded the Stanford Review, a journal of conservative and libertarian viewpoints, and was its first editor - in - chief.

(The Liberals have the added advantage of having campaigned in an election for the changes they now propose, whereas the Conservatives had campaigned against the changes Flaherty introduced.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Conservative pundits steeped in what George H. W. Bush, running against Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, famously called «voodoo economics,» have retorted that Buffett and his limousine - liberal ilk should instead voluntarily pay more to the federal treasury, pointing out the existence of such a provision in the tax code.

And Coulter pushed back against the vilification of Trump - boosters in the conservative press, characterizing many of those lobbing bombs as irrelevant players in the movement.

An issue like the Potash decision, Murphy says, «is where the two halves of Tony — the guy who believes in Conservative ideals and the Tony who loves politics and understands the team game — may be bumping up against one another.»

It does, however, represent an escalation in the war by leftist companies like Target and Allstate against conservative customers whose values propelled Donald Trump into the White House.

Our financials held up against their financials show no «pie in the sky» anomalies; indeed we have applied conservative adjustments to core objections reflecting the very real expectation that it will take us a few years to fully optimize our own marketing model.

At a vote to extend the previous bailout package in February, a record number of dissenters from the chancellor's conservative camp showed growing impatience with the anti-austerity government in Athens, with 29 voting against it.

Unlike the Greens in the U.S., who have a policy of not running against Democrats where they have a chance of winning, May and her party are fielding a complete slate, once again risking electing Harper Conservatives.

In the Conservative leadership race, O'Leary is up against a real murderers» row of political heavyweights.

Scheer, for those who missed it, edged out a narrow victory against Maxime Bernier in May in the contest for leader of the Conservative party.

Conservatives unfurled a series of «in over his head» ads against Justin Trudeau within 24 hours of his leadership win in 2013, though Canadians ultimately chose to define Trudeau as the charismatic idealistic prime ministerial type — after some handy corrective work from the Liberals» own messaging efforts.

One stereotypical knock against conservatives who speak in the language of economics, especially if they focus on deficits, debts and taxes, is that they couldn't care less about the poor.

Brat — like many of his conservative colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus who voted against the aid — said he wanted to see ways to offset the cost of these supplemental relief packages.

Sources say the Conservative government «will take action to end price discrimination against Canadians» in the months ahead.

Starting with a conservative withdrawal rate and adjusting later can help guard against market declines early in retirement.»

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Benoit and others said they had never been told how to vote in committees and on the floor but acknowledged there were some «genuine problems,» citing the committee that deemed Conservative MP Mark Warawa's motion against gender selection abortion non-votable.

Rosenstein's comments came at the end of a wide - ranging conversation at the Newseum in Washington to commemorate Law Day, which happened to fall a day after the Washington Post reported that conservative allies of President Trump had drafted impeachment articles against the Justice Department's No. 2 official.

Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Conservative Party members will gather in Manchester next week for the party's annual conference, against the backdrop of Mrs May having lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election and continued questions about cabinet unity over Brexit.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R - La., asked Zuckerberg about a report that found that a new algorithm Facebook uses to determine what appears in users» newsfeeds had a «tremendous bias against conservative news and content, and a favorable bias toward liberal content.»

First elected to the provincial assembly in 2008, Mr. Hehr will face off against Conservative incumbent Joan Crockatt.

First elected to the provincial assembly in 2008, Mr. Hehr will face off against Conservative incumbent

In re-electing the Conservatives, the population writ large has absolved the government of the contempts against Parliament and the sooner the Liberals stop insisting on such stuff, the better for them and all of us.

It was a shrewd move that could be a decisive win for Mr. Prentice in the Conservative Civil War that the two parties have waged against each other since the mid-2000s.

Maybe the most hard - edged social conservative in Ottawa, Mr. Anders is well - known for being the sole parliamentarian to vote against granting former South African president Nelson Mandela an honorary Canadian citizenship.

Includes an examination of a possible vote of non-confidence against the Conservative minority government; a request to the Governor General to allow a Liberal - New Democratic coalition to form a new government; and the immediate tasks facing a possible coalition government once in power.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

Nineteen Liberal, New Democrat, and Progressive Conservative MLAs voted in favour of the motion, but it failed after 31 PC and Wildrose MLAs stood up and voted against it.

Former Credit Suisse banker James Dunphy and pal Michael Rhodes started a campaign against the Company in March 2016, after they considered prior engagement attempts to have failed, arguing that the typically conservative Spark did not follow its acquisition strategy and lost discipline in purchasing the TransGrid stake.

Going further, it will be blamed on capitalism, and the backlash against conservative economic policies will be so severe that 2020 or 2024 could mark the beginning of full - blown socialism in America.

As a political survivor against political odds that should have seen him crushed, he remains standing as the Progressive Conservatives prepare to celebrate forty years as government in September.

And the conservative opposition has many right - wing allies in its fight against the new government spanning from the editorial pages of the Financial Post to the far corners of the internet.

Reminiscent of the federal Conservative Party attacks against former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Ms. Smith tried to plant the seed in Albertans» minds this week that Premier Redford is not a real Albertan.

Perhaps the most hard - edged social conservative in Ottawa, he is well - known for being the sole parliamentarian to vote against granting former South African president Nelson Mandela an honorary Canadian citizenship.