Sentences with phrase «conservative than it claims»

This town is way more conservative than it claims to be.

Not exact matches

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

Opinion: Wynne is wrong when she claims the Conservative carbon tax plan will cost families more than cap and trade and do less to cut emissions

And he could be serious about his faith, as well: In reply to Garry Wills» claim that «being Catholic always mattered more to him than being conservative,» Buckley responded, «If he meant he has a higher loyalty to God than to civil society, then the answer is obvious: God has to be preeminent.»

Furthermore, since its ultimate claim to existence is rooted more in the events of the past than in contemporary social problems, it has even a more conservative image than political and economic institutions.

At this moment, the Republican party, and the conservative cause with it, has a better than even chance of claiming an across the board supremacy in next November's election.

Two years ago, then Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb delivered the Conservative Christian Fellowship's Wilberforce Address and claimed that «it is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn, than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life».

They do not accept, any more than do conservative critics of the Court, the claim of the majority Justices that «the Constitution made me do it.»

, but the constitutional basis for these claims is elusive, even more so than the conservative bugbear right to privacy (famously derived by Justice Douglas from penumbras of emanations from constitutional rights).

It is probably fair to say that libertarianism is a term less familiar to British political culture than to that of the United States, but British conservatives (including members of the Conservative party) often like to claim the mantle of liberalism and individual liberty, usually relating these ideas to the promotion of free enterprise, reduced state intervention in the economy and individual responsibility.

These are not results consistent with the claim that liberals are better at rehabilitation than conservatives.

Abbott claimed that Labour values under Jeremy Corbyn are the «exact opposite» of the Conservative party in each policy area, and no more so than in field of immigration.

«Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party Chairman, has been rebuked for wrongly claiming that nearly one million people on disability benefits had dropped their claims rather than face medical checks.

The IDC claims to have a progressive, pro-women agenda, but that is nothing more than a facade built to keep them in good standing with their voters while rubbing elbows with conservative colleagues.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

The furore over expenses began last year when it emerged Conservative MP Derek Conway had claimed thousands of pounds for employing his two sons as researchers, although they had done far less work than reported by him.

The Conservatives, however, claim that anyone earning more than # 19,000 will be worse off.

The party claimed, with some legitimacy, to be the only party other than Labour or the Conservatives to win a UK - wide election since 1906.

When Liberals next claim that they care more than you, remind them that their party opposed almost every social reform introduced by those very same one nation conservatives.

But today the Conservatives revealed that just 871 of the 125,000 people who have lost pensions savings are being helped by the scheme, despite it being in operation for almost 18 months, and the FAS is taking more than six months to process a single claim.

Critics say her voting record belies her claims on women's health care, revealing her to be more in line with the conservatives controlling the House GOP than more moderate voters back home.

But he claimed Labour has actually had more money from non-doms like Lord Paul than the Conservatives.

Alan Milburn's core 2005 slogans «Forward not back» and «Your family better off» did not in themselves seem to contain anything to suggest «Labour» rather than «Conservative» or «Liberal Democrat» would be the party claiming them.

More than two in five hospital trusts had to turn away women in labour from the maternity services last year because they were full, the Conservatives have claimed.

He listed some of the party's plans to cut the deficit, and claimed «it was a hell of a lot more» than Labour or Conservatives could do.

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has strongly attacked Theresa May's claim to be the champion of Britain's struggling families, warning that the Conservative government's welfare cuts would leave more people in poverty than under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

Some Conservatives are pressing Cameron to expose Clegg's support for an earned amnesty for illegal immigrants, his willingness to keep anyone given a sentence of less than six months out of jail, and the credibility of the party's claim that it can raise # 4.8 bn a year from anti-tax avoidance measures.

The Conservative party refused to confirm the figure, which is similar to the membership figure of just under 180,000 claimed by the Labour party — fewer than half the number of members it attracted when it won a landslide victory in 1997.

Ed Miliband has denied SNP claims that he would rather work with a Conservative government than with the Scottish nationalists, if no party wins an overall majority at the election.

But it emerged that the activists had been campaigning on behalf of specific Conservative MPs, rather than the party generally, leading to claims that the spending should have been record as local expenditure.

Whenever you doubt that think of my list above or this simple fact: NYC has stayed in the black for twelve years (even though the mayor claimed otherwise more than once just to keep us fiscally conservative) and unlike many cities with far less social programs, NYC never had to entertain bankruptcy (e.g., Detroit goes under with $ 18 billion debt but NYC thrives with a $ 24 billion budget for DOE alone).

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls claimed in the Guardian that the Conservatives were planning much deeper spending cuts than needed by the deficit.

Labour's David Miliband claims, in a recent Spectator article, that there is a contradiction between David Cameron's emphasis on people «turning to each other» rather than to the state, and the Conservative leader's call for state intervention on the environment.

Gordon Brown's conference speech contained one announcement which is perhaps more important than many people realise: the prime minister's commitment to legislate for the goal of ending child poverty offers an important example of how entrenching Labour's legacy, defining its future agenda and testing the Conservative claim to be «progressive» all go together.

He appealed more to discontented Labour voters, on public services, Iraq and civil liberties, than to Conservatives turning against their leader's claim to modernity.

Oliver Letwin Mr Letwin, who is in charge of drawing up the Conservative general election manifesto, claimed more than # 2,000 to replace a leaking pipe under his tennis court.

Despite self - reported claims to the contrary, liberals exhibited more happiness than their more conservative counterparts.

He also maintains that Western science is more than simply Western, because it is universal, but this is precisely the claim which conservatives have made a point of rejecting: they do not see a tradition so obviously tied to the history of the West as a system of objective, neutral or universal truth.

For someone such as your editor, who can claim more than his fair share of conservative and libertarian bona fides, Malkin's screeds read more like something written by the notoriously solipsistic traditionalist Susan Ohanian (and worse, one of Kennedy assassination conspiracy - theorist Mark Lane's execrable books) than something written by one of the conservative movement's leading polemicists.

«Going where the evidence points,» as one conservative journal claims it does in its editorial mission statement, requires more sifting for bias than ever.

More than likely because our «conservative» friends have gotten far too much mileage for far too many years by claiming that inadequate teachers can't be moved out of the profession after they're tenured and, thereby, successfully convinced the unwary, the unwise, and the ignorant that the teacher's professional organizations are what's «wrong» with our educational system,...

The Conservatives estimate free breakfasts will cost # 60 million a year, and claim that they have listened to both the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Association of School and College Leaders, both of which have suggested that breakfasts could be a better investment than free lunches.

Brushed chrome switchgear, speaker covers and buttons blend with flowing wood veneer and leather to bring the C - class far closer to the brand's flagship than we'd expect; in fact, E-class intenders wandering the showroom might wonder why they're paying so much extra for more conservative trimmings (when asked, Mercedes spokespeople claim E-class buyers are a very loyal bunch, and they don't anticipate much «downgrading»).

Those who believe it's more about the drive than it is about bragging rights at the drag strip should opt for Porsche's easy - shifting 6 — speed manual gearbox (which comes standard)-- you see, PDK outperforms the 3 - pedal manual (partly due to Launch Control), with conservative claims of 0 — 100 km / h (62 mph) in 3.4 sec.

Those in favor of his suspension generally point out that America's 1st Amendment guarantee of free speech only protects you from government interference regarding political speech (and does not prevent employers from exercising their rights to discipline employees), whereas those defending Robertson have been quick to lament the knee - jerk reaction to those expressing counter-progressive cultural beliefs in a very clumsy fashion, and claim there is a double standard in which politically unpopular conservative viewpoints are quicker to result in job terminations than politically unpopular liberal viewpoints that are also clumsily expressed.

The Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, says the deduction is a giveaway for those with high incomes and big houses, because they are more likely to itemize their deductions rather than claim the standard deduction on their tax returns.

In examining the claim justifying a disproportionate ration of liberals to conservative, the claim being conservatives are less interested in becoming professors than liberal students because they seek out higher paying jobs where liberal students are more likely to seek out community or service oriented, of which they believe higher education to such a thing; the survey found, however, while conservative students were more likely to complain about the price of higher education they were just as likely to express an interest in higher education and it was liberal respondents who ranked salary more highly than conservatives.

Are you claiming your politics are «conservative» with something more exact than labeling David Brooks of NYTimes as such?

Even though Media Matters claims that my article titled «Radical Judicial Nominee Jack McConnell's Disturbing ACORN Connections» is «nothing new» and the connections I drew in the article «between ACORN and progressives» are «even weaker than previous conservative attacks,» Media Matters apparently felt a need to try to refute it.