Sentences with phrase «campaign against the conservative»

«We had public sector workers in the NHS using social media to campaign against the Conservative party.

«I think some of the members were upset that he campaigned against the Conservative Party candidate Jane Corwin,» Long said.

In the immediate term, Corbyn's acceptance speech pledged to launch a national campaign against Conservative proposals to revive grammar schools.

Ben Bradshaw «s 1997 victory came after a particularly bitter campaign against the Conservative candidate Adrian Rogers who was the head of the Conservative Family Institute and a vocal critic of homosexuality.

Labour supporters have been campaigning against Conservative taxes while the Tories claim Labour is exploiting the poor for «political football».

Mr Dugher added the briefings had been a «huge distraction» from Labour's work campaigning against the Conservatives.

I have been reassured, however, that no such undertakings have been given and that Nick Clegg shares the Tory determination to curtail the unions» ability to finance campaigns against Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates.

Other prominent examples include Theaster Gates, who repurposes Chicago's derelict buildings as arts and community venues, and Jeremy Deller, who co-ordinated a street - art campaign against the Conservative party's «strong and stable» slogan repeated throughout the UK general election by Theresa May.

Not exact matches

Both Grillo and Berlusconi campaigned against the austerity measures implemented by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti at the urging of Germany's conservative chancellor Merkel.

While the Obama campaign's attacks have not moved the national polls, Rove writes, Romney's weak and seemingly unprepared response has discouraged conservative activists, raising concerns that the former Massachusetts governor doesn't have the backbone to go up against the Obama machine.

(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.

But on this issue and others, Republican lawmakers face counterpressures from conservative antigovernment groups including Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Charles and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, which want to kill the Ex-Im Bank and are ready to finance campaigns against unsupportive Republicans.

Mr. Nanos said the Conservatives will exploit the payments once when the cheques are delivered, and then repeatedly throughout the rest of the campaign as a hammer against the opposition.

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.

With only two full days left before the May 5 provincial election, the 43 - year long governing Progressive Conservatives and its supporters are waging a thick fear campaign against its electoral challengers.

CNN: Top Catholic defends Obama invite against conservative criticism Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's most prominent Catholic official, defended on Wednesday the decision to invite President Barack Obama to a major Catholic dinner in the face of criticism from conservatives, saying the event is an opportunity for «friendship, civility and patriotism» amid a heated political campaign.

You can keep campaigning against social conservatives forcing their views on you.

The conservative campaign against self - described «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers has spurred a handful of relatively new left - leaning faith groups to come to their defense.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

While Assini, who also ran against Slaughter in 2014, coming closer to ousting her than many expected despite his shoestring campaign, is not backing away from his conservative values, he believes Slaughter has violated the Fair Campaign Pledge she signed in Secampaign, is not backing away from his conservative values, he believes Slaughter has violated the Fair Campaign Pledge she signed in SeCampaign Pledge she signed in September.

The Welsh Conservatives today launched a nationwide health campaign against Labour's planned NHS «cuts».

DioGuardi landed the Conservative line in what was widely viewed as a «thank you» for his willingness to step aside in 2000 and clear the way for Lazio to run his (failed) US Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Leading the campaign against will be a small number of cabinet ministers, UKIP, a fair number of Conservative MPs and few Labour ones.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

The Conservatives fought their campaign warning against the dangers of a Labour - SNP government.

The Sussex Against Privatisation Campaign originally sought support from the existing union branches on campus — Unite, Unison and UCU — but were rebuffed by what they see as a conservative leadership presiding over an ossified system.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand can expect a strong political assault in her re-election campaign against Republican, Conservative and Reform candidate Chele Farley, The challenger made her first visit locally Thursday.

Her proposal was withdrawn when the Conservative Party said they would vote against, and an online campaign by mySociety.

Bush had alienated many of the conservatives in his party by breaking his 1988 campaign pledge against raising taxes, but he fended off a primary challenge from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan.

The Conservatives campaigned against «Labour's death tax» and against «Labour's jobs tax».

It would probably be a Conservative / Labour marginal but in 2001 it was won by an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, Dr Richard Taylor, on the back of a campaign against the closure of the casualty unit at Kidderminister hospital.

In many respects, Pence's conservative rallying cry against tobacco regulation is similar to more recent conservative hobby horses: campaigns against energy - efficient lightbulbs and against attempts by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban some vendors from selling large sodas.

Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.

Carl Paladino's campaign is trumpeting a new Rasmussen poll that shows the Buffalo businessman peforming slightly better against Democratic gubernatorial designee Andrew Cuomo than the GOP / Conservative designee Rick Lazio.

«You have an extreme conservative group running a campaign against my father's name, which personally is hurtful.»

The Crown Prosecution Service has ruled that no charges will be brought against Conservative Party candidates following an investigation into how 2015 campaign spending was reported.

Mr Miliband expressed sympathy with those Lib Dems - including former leader Paddy Ashdown and business secretary Vince Cable - who were incensed by the tactics employed by the Conservatives against them during the AV referendum campaign.

The state PAC, created so the national PAC can comply with California's campaign finance regulations, is being advised by Chuck DeVore, the conservative state Assemblyman who came up short in his GOP Senate primary bid earlier this year against Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell.

Brooklyn State Senator Marty Golden may be a conservative Republican, but he can still rack up influential union endorsements as he campaigns for reelection against Democrat Andrew Gounardes.

In the summer of 1974 Heseltine put together a team of over 20 Conservative MPs, each a specialist in a particular industry, to campaign against Benn's plans.

The party leadership has to demonstrate that it can work with the Conservatives and campaign against them at the same time.

The Conservative attacks on Gordon Brown are entirely justified and justifiable (whereas Labour's personal poster campaign against George Osborne is not)

Later in the campaign Populus asked Lib Dem supporters in 12 Lab / Con marginal seats how would would vote, bearing in mind that their seat was likely to be a close race between Labour and the Conservatives; in nearly every seat Lib Dem supporters were as likely to vote tactically against Labour as they were against the Conservatives.

Catsimatidis, who describes himself as a «liberal conservative,» has also spent close to $ 4 million in the primary against Lhota and Doe Fund founder George McDonald, according to the latest campaign finance filings.

[5] Conservatives Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan, and Dominic Grieve cut their ties with Open Britain in April 2017 after it began to campaign against the re-election of anti-EU members of parliament, mostly Conservatives.

Tenney, R - New Hartford, a conservative who has received Tea Party support, sent out campaign mailers over the past month accusing Hanna of voting against Second Amendment rights.

«When you have Conservative councillors bringing a case against Conservative ministers in a Conservative - led government, you know that we are very confident that there are huge flaws in the HS2 project,» said StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Ruskin.

«The Conservatives are so desperate they're reduced to trying to set one part of the country against another... they've given up on the central issues of this campaign.»

Senate Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris was clearly pleased to see Sen. Mark Grisanti lose his Tuesday primary against the more conservative, less - well - known Kevin Stocker.

The Conservative Party said as much in a press release, labelling the proposal a response to the «spread of militant divestment campaigns against UK defence and Israeli firms.»