Sentences with phrase «dominated by the conservative»

If these opposition parties do not step up to the plate, Albertans can once again expect a Senator - in - Waiting election dominated by conservative politicians.

Similarly she advocates Labour and Green supporters both vote Liberal Democrat in contests dominated by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

And in any case, the British political agenda will be dominated by the Conservative party for the next five years.

It's no longer a landscape dominated by Conservative and Labour — we now have to add in the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Greens, independents and, yes, even Ukip, although until they actually win a by - election their significance will remain overstated.

Another day dominated by Conservative claims that a Labour - SNP government would destroy the UK, while Labour attempts to shift the debate back on to the NHS, says Andrew Neil.

Meanwhile the Times front page was dominated by some Conservative party polling from the start of the September.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

A decade already inundated with political turmoil and dominated by conservative political policy would become marked by great loss, and the gay body politic marked by disease.

The Alberta government, which has been dominated by the Conservative's for the forty years, paid the New York Times 30,000 taxpayer dollars to run a misleading advertisementmeant to promote TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline that a recent New York Times editorial condemned as something U.S. President Barack Obama «can not in good conscience approve.»

Although it's often presumed that the group is dominated by Conservatives, a closer look shows that these positions do cross partisan lines.

Not exact matches

In this steady but unglamorous growth environment, two politically - driven events dominated the quarter in the UK: the decision by the Conservative government to call a referendum on 23 June to determine whether the UK will remain in the European Union (EU) or leave, and the Budget on 16 March.

One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful in more conservative portfolios that are dominated by traditional bonds.

And would I tremble to give the advice, because the logical result of such a start - new - conservative - colleges - because - the existing - ones - have - proven - hopelessly - dominated - by - leftists - and - technocrats strategy is an ideologically segregated system of higher education.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

They say that the Islamic state would be a theocratic state dominated by the Mullahs — the conservative religious leaders — and that the shari`a can not be enforced under modern conditions because the very attempt to enforce it would undermine the economic structure of the state based on modern finance and banking.

They take every opportunity to brag about Fox News's ratings and how conservatives dominate the radio waves but the second anyone points out something stupid or offensive said by one of the right's propaganda bullies, they scream «mainstream media bias» and «left wing conspiracy».

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

If the GOP allow their agenda to be dominated by the social conservatives they will just shoot themselves in the foot and give Obama 4 more years.

That Was the Church That Was (I think I can reveal without causing any grave difficulties to anyone) is dominated by factional differences between evangelical conservatives and liberal Catholics, by office politics, by money troubles, and by struggles over homosexuality and over the ordination of women.

Beginning with its origins in the forest primeval — so dense, people said, that a squirrel could run the length of Pennsylvania without ever touching ground — she leads us through its evolution: frontier fortification of the 18th century, industrial giant of Carnegie, Frick and Mellon, and «clean city» of the 1950s, dominated from the beginning by Scotch - Irish and Germans, political conservatives, and staunch Presbyterians, all driven by that «powerful Calvinist mix of piety and acquisitiveness.».

... Today's culture is dominated by the philosophy of mysticism (irrationalism)-- altruism — collectivism, the base from which only statism can be derived; the statists (of any brand: communist, fascist or welfare) are merely cashing in on it — while the «conservatives» are scurrying to ride on the enemy's premises and, somehow, to achieve political freedom by stealth.

Discredited by its association with a movement which had sought to eradicate Christianity itself, «progressive» Catholicism withered on the vine, while a newly confident «conservative» faith, characterised by rigorous orthodoxy and strict adherence to the Pope, would come to dominate Catholicism throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

Conservative Christian singer Fabricio Alvarado has won the first - round of Costa Rica's presidential election, which was dominated by the issue of same - sex marriage.

Auburn fans have a warranted reputation for being on the conservative side, but that doesn't mean fall Saturday parties are dominated by a bunch of teetotalers.

Unfortunately, I think most popular «newsertainment» programs approach issues from a fundamentally conservative point of view — whether it's Larry King looking at anti-vaccine activist Jenni McCarthy like she just landed from Mars or John Stossel and his pals at 20/20 turning their mustaches up at women making choices that haven't been approved — or made for them — by some male - dominated organization (like the AMA).

The exchanges were dominated by Ed Miliband's suggestions that the Conservatives» general election adviser Lynton Crosby, a tobacco lobbyist, had influenced the government's decision to drop its plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.

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.

The news that Patrick Mercer has resigned the Conservative whip in response to allegations made by the BBC programme Panorama about his relationship with lobbyists looks likely to dominate the weekend headlines.

Politics in Britain (and one could argue globally) has become dominated by neoliberal ideas, the so called «centre ground» is in fact neoliberalism, and conservatives tend to coalesce on the right side of this, Labour the left.

Many Republican members of Congress are dismissing Democrat Conor Lamb's apparent special election victory in a GOP - dominated Pennsylvania district as a one - off, giving a number of reasons for his strong performance — from a poor campaign run by his opponent to the Democrat's notably conservative views.

When I published the first phase of Project Blueprint in May 2011, David Cameron's first anniversary as Prime Minister, political comment was dominated by the relationship between Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs following the Alternative Vote referendum.

Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark «dead cat» strategy — a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: «There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table — and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.

Judging by the programme of the Conservative government, these issues will dominate the political agenda in the next five years and Labour should have something to say about them.

The coming months will be dominated by negotiations, arguments and uncertainty, regardless of the outcome for Britain and the Conservative Party.

«I sometimes really think that time is running out for us to get our act together and unless we can get consent from those political parties to work together and actually begin to make a difference then I'm afraid to say the next 10 to 20 years could be dominated not just by the Conservative party, but I feel we could see a breakthrough under the first - past - the - post system of a post-Brexit Ukip party in parts of this country.

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[43] Led by Reg Goodwin, the GLC was dominated by Labour, who controlled 57 seats, compared to 33 controlled by the Conservatives and 2 by the Liberal Party.

Many Democrats have expressed strong doubts that Ms. Gillibrand, a former congresswoman from a conservative district in upstate New York, could win the nomination of a party dominated by liberals.

The first day of Conservative conference was dominated by Theresa May's pledge to start the process by March next year, delighting Tory delegates at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham.

The Conservative Party conference will be like Labour's - dominated by bureaucrats, lobbyists and PR spivs with large expense accounts.

For WFP, Ms. Lynch's victory would mean another progressive vote in a City Council dominated by liberals, as well as a reliable pro-labor vote in a district that is traditionally more conservative.

The weekend was dominated by swirling rumours about Conservative MPs plotting to remove their leader with talk of plots of 50 MPs, (metaphorical) «stabbing in the front» and letters to the 1922 committee.

Conservative MPs have revelled in four - and - a-half hours of eurosceptic - dominated debate - culminating in the EU referendum bill passing its second reading by 304 votes to zero.

A Conservative government after 2015 dominated not by how we tackle the cos - of - living crisis, protect the National Health Service, get jobs for our young people.

I suspect relatively few voters today genuinely believe that the Conservative Party really is a party dominated by racists.

The clashes over women on the Conservative front bench which dominated PMQs are reviewed by the BBC's political editor and the Daily Politics panel.

The recent history of the Conservative party has been dominated by its inability to secure a parliamentary majority.

This is why the roster fielded by Vote Leave has been so spectacularly narrow: almost wholly Conservative and dominated by eccentric and other - worldly figures such as Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees Mogg.