Sentences with phrase «conservative side of this government»

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On the positive side, if the Conservative Government does table its proposed legislative aid mandate, it will afford an opportunity for a more open public debate, in which we will have a chance to address the fundamental purposes of the aid program, and how those purposes may be best achieved.

«Mr. Speaker, one of the commitments the Conservative Party made in 2006 was to create an independent parliamentary budget authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament,» Bob Rae offered with his third intervention, stepping forward and jabbing his index finger at the government side.

Just before Question Period this afternoon, Costas Menegakis, the Conservative MP for Richmond Hill, stood in his spot along the back row of the government side and lamented for the NDP's quibbles with a piece of government legislation.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

And before you jump all over me, know that there are plenty of issues I side with conservatives on such as crime and wasteful government spending.

Whether the issue is size of government, or taxes, or abortion, a larger fraction of nonwhite voters are (moderately) on the conservative side of the issue than voted for Romney.

Voters were courted by political institutions from all sides — the government, all the political parties apart from UKIP, the Bank of England, international organizations, foreign governments, the US President himself and the «Remain» or StrongerIn campaign convened by Conservative, Labour and the smaller parties.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Conservative Central Office have clearly decided that, as the government has failed so spectacularly on the economy, welfare is now their only hope of getting the public back on side.

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

The Coalition's programme needed, he said, to recognise, that five - sixths of the MPs on the government side were elected as Conservatives.

Press regulation campaigns said there was anger at how the government won Wednesday's vote in the Commons owing to a strong whipping operation and the support of the Democratic Unionist party, who were promised their own inquiry into the activities of the Northern Irish media in return for siding with Conservative ministers.

With both sides said to be bruised by the row, John Redwood, a former Conservative Cabinet minister, rejected angrily suggestions that the role of the Liberal Democrats in government was to «bridle the instincts» of the Conservatives.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «There is a sense within the Home Office — and it is sensed around the rest of government, both sides of the coalition — Theresa May behaves as though the Conservatives won the last election.

Lord Ashcroft: «It is only in government that the Conservative Party can complete the rehabilitation of its brand — that it can show doubtful voters that it really is on the side of ordinary people, that it is competent to run the economy, and that it can be trusted with public services like the NHS.

Neither side is wholly satisfied: liberals complain that not every needy kid has equal access to charter options and that not every charter is good at meeting every kid's needs, while conservatives lament that the hand of government still weighs upon these schools and the marketplace is constrained in multiple ways.

-- A growing number of affordable, long - range electric vehicles coming on the market — Ongoing policy - making commitment to those vehicles, even from a post-Brexit conservative UK government (the future is a little less certain on this side of the pond)-- Low cost, large - scale renewables and wide - spread energy storage — A wider range of non-car transportation options, including affordable, high - quality e-bikes — Internal combustion engines shall henceforth forever be known as the Suck - Squeeze - Bang - Fart engine

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

The conservative group presented Inhofe with an award for standing up to political pressure to from both sides of the aisle to give the federal government the power to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.