Sentences with phrase «conservative positions down»

Given that some other managers may have been more aggressive, your excess capital can disappear, as more aggressive mangers miss margin calls, and the pressure of their liquidations, forces your more conservative positions down, and you have to liquidate also.

Not exact matches

He did not see Spicer as particularly telegenic and preferred a woman for the position, asking Conway to do it and also considering conservative commentators Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley — who ultimately stepped down from an administration job because of charges of plagiarism — before settling on Spicer at the urging of Priebus and others.

Mr. Marciano recently stepped down from his position on the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada and served as Campaign Manager for Edmonton - Centre MP Laurie Hawn in 2004 and 2006, and for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in 2008.

Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.

James lends his masterful support as a conservative Jewish Christian to the same position by fortifying it with reference to the prophet Amos, who says that the Lord will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will gather therein all the gentiles (James in Acts) substitutes «Gentiles» for Amos's «heathen») who are called by God's name (Amos 9:11 - 12).

Andrew Percy, Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, also shot down the claim of colleague Mark Spencer, MP for Sherwood, that the prime minister had obtained a «special status» for the UK in Europe, saying: «There is no special position... it's all legally unenforceable, not a single power is returned and a new treaty handing more power over is being worked up.»

[277] In November 1999 Heseltine was invited by Hague to be the Conservative candidate for the new position of Mayor of London (in place of Jeffrey Archer who had had to stand down because of scandal), but he declined.

On the Conservative side of things, after the short - term honeymoon for Theresa May, it is inevitable that a clash will eventually occur between the proper Brexiteers who campaigned for Leave and those that hold a softer, watered - down Brexit position within the Conservative Party, and who would be quite happy for us to maintain open borders and remain in the single market.

Lord Ashcroft's findings in the marginal polls however have shown a slight weakening in the Labour position relative to the Conservatives, looking at just the 12 ultra-marginal seats the Conservatives are down by about 1.5 % on average, Labour down by about 2.7 %, UKIP up by about 4.5 %.

Unlike the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, his Labour Party is split down the middle on AV, so his position is trickier.

Political oddity Winston Churchill was the first choice of few — the conservative was unpopular with many in his own party — but both Lord Halifax (Stephen Dillane), who summarily turned down the position, and Chamberlain believed him to be the candidate who could unite the most political parties.

If that is not correct and there's a chance you may need to draw down on these monies in the coming years, I think you need to take a conservative position and consider a combination of savings accounts, GIC's, bonds and so on.

Hedge - fund billionaire and major conservative donor Robert Mercer is stepping down from his position as co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, he said Thursday.

The hedge - fund billionaire and major conservative donor Robert Mercer announced on Thursday he was stepping down from his position as co-CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and selling his stake in the right - wing website Breitbart News.