Sentences with phrase «by conservatives in»

Yet, since 2011, it has been perennially pegged for elimination by conservatives in the House, and Congress has cut funding to Title X by 10 % since 2010, even as need for the family planning services Title X supports has increased by 5 % over the same period.1

Under sentencing reforms introduced by the Conservatives in 2009, a person denied bail because of a previous conviction is not eligible for enhanced credit.

Vociferously opposed by conservatives in the US, the prime minister called the EPA rules «sensible direct action steps» that he wished to emulate.

In the past Hinds has voted in favour of gay marriage (something that tripped up Nicky Morgan) and has always voted for education reforms made by the Conservatives in the past.

Based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling 2010 book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, the film was condemned by conservatives in Japan as racist and «anti-Japanese» for its depictions of sadistic prison guards torturing Zamperini and other POWs.

The Scottish party - backed by Conservatives in London - has decided against an early referendum as favoured by former Scottish Secretary Lord Forsyth and Scottish Labour leader, Wendy Alexander.

With the closure of the mines it has gradually moved away from Labour, being won by the Conservatives in 1979 and, after returning to Labour in their landslide years of 1997 and 2001, being won back by Mark Harper in 2005.

Earlsfield has generally been carried by the Conservatives in most elections since 1990 while Bedford has always been carried by Labour in parliamentary elections since then though quite narrowly in the last two general elections (but not in this year's by - election).

The vast majority of these target seats were held by the Conservatives in 1992, and many of them were reckoned to be very safe, prior to the 1997 defeat.

Gravesham (and its predecessor Gravesend) always used to be the classic example, but it was won by the Conservatives in 2005 despite Labour winning the election, so losing its crown.

The report from the Home Office, with contributions from Ian Duncan Smith's DWP, was one of the 32 Whitehall studies on the» balance of competences» between the UK and the EU insisted on by the Conservatives in the 2010 Coalition Agreement.

In a symbolic gesture aimed at further healing relations with the gay community and burying the Tories» «nasty party» image, Mr Cameron this week apologised for Section 28 - the controversial law brought in by the Conservatives in 1988 banning local authorities from portraying homosexuality in a positive light.

Salmond reiterated SNP policy not to enter a UK coalition government led by the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.

In Croydon, one of the tightest London boroughs which was won 37 seats to 33 by the Conservatives in 2010, turnout could be everything.

A former Welsh Labour adviser has said the party in Wales is «in denial» about the seriousness of its defeat by the Conservatives in the general election.

So the state would have paid for primaries very similar to those held by the Conservatives in Totnes and Gosport before the election, each of which cost the Tories around # 40,000.

The seat was regained by the Conservatives in 2010 under Laura Sandys, a Tory moderate and pro-European.

The Tories think they got the better of him at the Henley by - election and they are now delighted that Liberal Democrats are being beaten by Conservatives in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and North Yorkshire.

He previously was endorsed by Conservatives in 2013 and 2015.

The Spectator's Fraser Nelson (now a father - Congratulations Fraser) judged that his inheritance tax announcement was «the single most effective policy ever announced by the Conservatives in Opposition»!

That was precisely the argument made by the Conservatives in the 2015 election.

The MEP's internal appeal against expulsion was rejected by the Conservatives in December and further legal challenges have threatened to expose Tory divisions over Europe.

It was used with devastating effect by the Conservatives in the 1987 and 1992 elections, and they even tried it, without much conviction, in 1997.

Copeland, won by the Conservatives in a by - election earlier this year, has seen a significant rise in voters since 2015.

Responding to the statement, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox said many of the proposals had been put forward by the Conservatives in the past year.

Coulson was editor of News of The World before he was recruited by the Conservatives in 2007.

Stephen Crabb said it was «a much bigger scandal» than the NHS, which itself has been heavily criticised by the Conservatives in the run up to the general election.

Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North who has been one of the Labour leader's most vocal champions, is made a shadow fire services minister, having won back his seat, which was snatched by the Conservatives in 2015.

They agreed to speak in greater depth, but Long said he was «positive» that Paladino, who was initially spurned by Conservatives in 2010, could capture its line.

Add in the 11 seats won by the Conservatives in Wales, and the right would have taken 360 seats - an overall majority of 70, bigger than Blair's victory in 2005.

In 2015 Labour will be outspent by the Conservatives in the south, harried by the SNP and Ukip in its northern and Scottish heartlands and hampered by the ongoing disappointment that is its leader.

If internet video is biased it is a damned bad sign for the right and mighty strange considering the leading work done in the medium by the conservatives in the UK, France, and Germany.

(A popular meme posted by conservatives in response played off the Mean Girls line: «You can't march with us.»)

If you want to know the sources of Romney's 47 percent gaffe, and the Romney campaign's self - defeating obsession with the high - earners «who built that,» you should start with things said and written by some conservatives in the years prior to 2012.

That rebuttal will give you some of the basic arguments used by some conservatives in their rebuttals of much of Wink's writing.

Provinces and territories are particularly opposed to Kenney's plan to slice $ 300 million — about 60 per cent — from the so - called Labour Market Agreement implemented by the Conservatives in 2007.

It soon became clear, however, that implementing the various recommendations and agreements was being opposed by conservatives in the KMT, who feared these measures would dilute their party's control of the government, and by Nationalist generals, who objected to reducing the size of their armies.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

Every word uttered by a Conservative in the past five years is online, making accusations of hypocrisy and inconsistency trivially easy to stand up.

Having spent the first part of the campaign seeing the pro-Remain message they badly need voters to hear — that Brexit represents a risk the NHS can't afford to take, that a Leave vote would trigger further austerity — drowned out by Conservative in - fighting, Britain Stronger In Europe might decide, as David Lloyd George once quipped, that «a change of nuisance is as good as holiday».

Opponents like New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms Executive Director Jason McGuire say they have reason to be concerned at the polls, referencing a socially moderate Republican pushed out by a conservative in a recent congressional contest upstate.

Iain Dale's Diary - Surely the most popular personal blog written by a Conservative in the UK, the readership of Iain Dale's Diary has shot up since restarting after the David Davis leadership campaign.

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.

That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung told Factcheck.org that the number came from a report published by the conservative Heritage Foundation in April 2016.

The site was originally founded by Breitbart, a former Drudge Report editor, in 2007 and has become one of the leading conservative news and commentary outlets, with about 17 million unique visitors in December.

And while a more straightforward repeal bill may be able to win back some of the conservative defectors, moderates like Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito (in addition to Collins) have already expressed concerns that a repeal - only strategy without a replacement would wreak even more havoc on Obamacare's individual insurance marketplaces by creating long - lasting uncertainty.

Several different CPP expansion plans were developed by policy experts, but in December 2013 the Conservative government shut down any further discussion of expansion.

But the proffered legislation does something more remarkable: It incorporates provisions that outrage not only the so - called «moderate» Republicans in the Senate, but also infuriates a hard - line conservative faction led by Kentucky's Rand Paul.

Some Berkshire subsidiaries are run by deeply conservative families in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Waco, Texas, others by progressives in Boston and Seattle.