Sentences with phrase «campaign by conservative»

The lawsuit is the culmination of a decades - long, coordinated campaign by conservative groups to debilitate unions, one of the few strong advocates for workers.

It was banned by Tony Blair's government in 2004 but has been at the forefront of campaigns by Conservative - leaning pressure groups including the Countryside Alliance.

Abortion and other «faith» issues dominate American election campaigns and Mr Cameron's focus on the subject is the latest indication of the growing use of US - style campaigning by the Conservatives.

Less a new assault inspired by the Republican - led backlash against green energy under way in Washington, D.C., it's the continuation of campaigns by conservative groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity and the Heartland Institute with ties to the fossil fuel billionaires, the Koch brothers.

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.

WikiLeaks touched base with Trump Jr. again on October 3 and told him it would be «great» if the campaign pushed a story about Hillary Clinton published by «True Pundit,» a conservative - leaning outlet that's been known to spread junk news.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

Seventeen days later, by then in an election campaign, the Conservatives promised to return to balance in 2014 - 2015.

During the 2006 election campaign the Conservative party had promised to cut the GST by two points.

First, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak builds his whole campaign around a promise to create one million new jobs in Ontario over eight years, then one of his first campaign commitments threats  is to reduce the number of Ontario government employees by 100,000, together with a wage freeze for every -LSB-...]

OTTAWA — The bipartisan common front to defend Canadian interests in crucial NAFTA negotiations is being tested by a cross-border Conservative campaign savaging Justin Trudeau for making a generous federal payout to Omar Khadr.

Including Mr. Harper's vow in 2008 that a government led by him would «never» go into deficit, this is the second time in three years that the Conservatives have made a balanced - budget promise during an election campaign only to abandon it after being reelected.

Britain's main political parties, led by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour head Jeremy Corbyn, suspended campaigning after the terrorist attack late Saturday.

By comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grantBy comparison, in the dying days of the fall election campaign then Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promised to extend an existing auto industry fund by $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grantby $ 1 billion over 10 years, starting in 2017/18, with some of the money coming out as grants.

«As we prepare to come back to Ottawa for the fall session of Parliament, it is also important to ensure Canadian middle class families understand the threat posed by Thomas Mulcair's risky and dangerous economic plan,» said the memo, from Conservative national campaign manager Jenni Byrne.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

The pro-Trump social media sensations repeated disproven claims that they had never been paid by the Trump campaign and that they had been «blocked» by Facebook for being conservative.

His campaign spokesman downplayed concerns that some of the Tories» own elected MLAs might not join Kenney's United Conservatives by suggesting their relative insignificance in a party with tens of thousands of members.

However, a statement by the Conservative campaign spokesman last week about Novak has been contradicted by what's emerged from the Ottawa courthouse since then.

Trump's decision fits into a systematic effort by conservatives to harm special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, which, among other things, looks into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Some Progressive Conservative Party supporters are privately expressing frustration with the decision by Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet ministers to openly campaign and endorse incumbent PC MLAs and Wildrose floor crossers facing nomination challenges.

The firm that employed Steele was initially contracted by a conservative publication, the Washington Free Beacon, not any Democrat or Democratic political campaign.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

Mr. Kenney is reportedly backed by a cadre of federal Conservative strategists and insiders, including former Reform Party and Wildrose Party campaign strategist Tom Flanagan, who told CBC that the group discussed whether «he could win the PC leadership then negotiate a merger [with Wildrose].»

The strong connections between the federal Conservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the WilConservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wilconservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the WilConservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wildrose Party).

Fairness for All proponents have one state - level precedent on their side: the curious case of how conservative Utah was able to pass a comprehensive antidiscrimination measure endorsed by Mormon leaders and cheered on by LGBT groups like the Human Rights Campaign.

«Thirty percent of Republicans say Obama is Muslim, Pew found, about twice as many who said that during the 2008 campaign» This is an example of the distortions, lies, and disinformation advanced by the uber - conservatives, Tea Party, and racists.

In the future, conservatives should try to appeal to both groups by focusing on the economic priorities of those groups rather than ethnic gamesmanship.In the 2012 campaign, Romney's combination of economic priorities and immigration messaging proved especially toxic.

That's the question posed by a provocative media campaign that claims that some prominent conservative leaders can not serve two masters: Jesus and the controversial author of «Atlas Shrugged,» Ayn Rand.

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.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

Maybe it has, but social conservatives should be careful to distinguish between Mark Udall's war on women campaign, and the more effective (though still overrated) war on women campaign run by Barack Obama in 2012.

They have, with success in some countries, campaigned to replace legal codes, which they inherited from Western imperialist rulers, by the introduction of Shari'a — often in its harshest and most conservative form.

Trump has largely stood by his pro-life campaign promises, appointing conservative justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, signing a law allowing states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood, and reinstating a ban on federal funds for organizations that perform abortions overseas.

His sermon was part of a national campaign by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization that has organized Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2008, encouraging pastors to flout the Johnson Amendment with political endorsements from the pulpit.

Even by the standards of general election campaigns, the Conservatives continue to act in a highly disreputable manner.

Coffey's campaign shot back that there is «reason to doubt» Kennedy's support for marriage because he has been endorsed by the Conservative Party.

Historically, atheism was dominated by progressives / left wing; and they mounted an extremely effective campaign to associate Republicans / conservatives / «right wing» with anti - science / anti-intellectuallism and as incompatible with atheism.

A National Obesity Forum campaign, backed by a parliamentary reception and early day motion, has cross-party support, led by Justin Tomlinson (Conservative), Rt Hon. Kevin Barron (Labour), and Dr John Pugh (Liberal Democrats).

An anti-shooting campaign group has been ordered to stop attempting to affiliate itself with the Conservative Party following a complaint by BASC

There, Republicans voted Tuesday to re-nominate Speaker Paul Ryan., after recalcitrant conservatives and Trump backers upset by Ryan's frigid campaign - season treatment of Trump fell into line.

In a statement released by Stefanik's campaign, state Conservative Chairman Mike Long praised her «energy» and «enthusiasm» and said she has «the principles to bring about the changes necessary in the halls of Congress.»

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today sought to curry favor with conservatives (not to mention the DN and Post editorial pages) by issuing a statement from his campaign spokesman announcing he won't be seeking the Working Families Party line this year, and doesn't think AG Andrew Cuomo — or anyone else for that matter — should, either.

But Romney will just have to grind his teeth and grind his rivals down, week after week, state after state, driving away independent and alienating party activists simply by not being as conservative as they are, while President Obama and his people built his re-election campaign and prepares for the final showdown in the fall.

The conservative campaign — energised by such high - profile incidents as the arrest and imprisonment of the Pussy Riot punk rock feminists for their performance of an anti-Putin stunt in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour — succeeded in keeping Putin's core support mobilised and, crucially, it reconnected Putin with conservatively - inclined citizens who had threatened to join with the opposition.

However, the Conservatives opted not to stand a candidate in this by - election and have instead allowed their members to campaign on Goldsmith's behalf.

It was utterly predictable that Trident renewal would be used by the Conservatives to question Labour's credibility and trustworthiness, and by the smaller anti-nuclear parties to distinguish themselves, but the profile of the issue in this election campaign has been far greater than anybody predicted.

And just a year before, Johnson and Gove had been key players in a moderate Conservative General Election campaign that secured a majority for a moderate Conservative Government led by a moderate Prime Minister.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

Hashtag hijacks are nothing new (liberals and conservatives do it to each other all the time), but this one was prominent enough that it attracted media attention and led to claims that Obama has lost his online mojo (something helped by the fact that Attackwatch.com's design is harsh on the eyes and on the campaign's potential opponents — not exactly happy - friendly - hopey Obama» 08).