Sentences with phrase «few conservative ones»

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Gerard Lyons — one of the few prominent economists to back leaving the EU, and a co-founder of the Economists for Brexit group — told an audience at the Brexit & Global Expansion Summit in London on Monday that by failing to prepare plans for what might happen in the event that Britain voted to leave, Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne left both the new Conservative government and the British people high and dry.

Peter Thiel, one of the few high - profile conservative figures in Silicon Valley, is packing his bags to leave.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

I will have a few more comments about the role of conservative scholars, especially Strauss - influenced ones, in an additional post, but let me finally wind up the main argument here.

One of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile.

In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

An exception is Walter C. Kaiser Jr., president of Gordon - Conwell Theological Seminary, one of the book's few conservative voices.

K — A few years back one of my employees and his wife attended the same church that my wife and I attended, a middle - of - the - road conservative church.

Such conservatives, estimated by pollster Daniel Yankelovich as one American in five, are actually somewhat marginal to the mainstream of national life, have few polished spokespersons, and are given to unsophisticated and vehement expression of their resentment about assaults on their convictions and values.

In Massie's telling, Thatcher was an economic liberal and a social conservative (in fact she was one of the few Conservative MPs to vote for decriminalizing homosexuality and also voted in favor of liberalizing abortion — but let us allow Massie his characconservative (in fact she was one of the few Conservative MPs to vote for decriminalizing homosexuality and also voted in favor of liberalizing abortion — but let us allow Massie his characConservative MPs to vote for decriminalizing homosexuality and also voted in favor of liberalizing abortion — but let us allow Massie his characterization).

Leading the campaign against will be a small number of cabinet ministers, UKIP, a fair number of Conservative MPs and few Labour ones.

The Conservatives and SNP called a vote of no - confidence in the Callaghan government, which lost by one vote, forcing (a few weeks early) the 1979 General Election that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, and killed Scottish devolution for 18 years.

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.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis marched in the Pulaski Day Parade Sunday, one of the few elected officials to participate.

In rising to deliver his maiden speech, Glyn Davies began by explaining why he is one of the last few of the new Conservative MPs to make his maiden speech (by my calculation, six of the 146 are still to do so - Fiona Bruce, Jonathan Lord, Stephen Metcalfe, Priti Patel, Dan Poulter and Julian Smith).

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.

Claudia Tenney, a conservative - leaning Republican who represents parts of central New York, said until the state overhauls its own tax codes, New Yorkers «can not afford» to lose their itemized deductions because the benefit offers state residents one of their few forms of tax relief.

Nor is there an obvious consensus «progressive» position to promote, beyond the one these groups were all touting in the last few weeks (along with many others, including some conservative organizations), which was the need to bring the question before Congress.

As one of the few major policies of today's Budget that had not been leaked, Labour backbenchers cheered the announcement as the Conservatives were heard to gasp in surprise.

In Kentucky, one of the few Southern states where Democrats still hold power, it's a tossup between a Republican businessman appealing to religious conservatives and a Democratic AG distancing himself from Obama.

Gavin Williamson may have a few enemies in Conservative circles, but at least one well - heeled Tory...

Few people listening to Angela Rayner would mistake her for a Conservative, but the shadow education secretary has revealed that at least one Tory MP thinks she is on the wrong side.

We should be proud that under a Conservative Government, this country is one of the few that is meeting its duty to some of the poorest people in our world.

Michael Gove has been one of few the conciliatory Conservative voices in the Brexit debate so far...

Gavin Williamson may have a few enemies in Conservative circles, but at least one well - heeled Tory is backing him to be the saviour of the party.

The Conservatives point out one in four offenders is currently released with only a warning or caution, while fewer than one in seven receives a prison sentence.

Mr. Hikind, an Orthodox Jew representing a relatively conservative district, is one of the few city Democrats who openly criticizes the president.

But this is New York — one of the few states that allows Democrats and Republicans to also gain the Conservative nod without belonging to the minor party.

However, the Conservatives ended up with three fewer wards after losing three to Labour, one to the Liberal Democrats and gaining one vacant ward.

It is a stark fact that Labour seats have fewer electors than Conservative ones — in 1997 5200 fewer, in 2001 6400 fewer and in 2005 6200 fewer.

In 2007 there was only one Liberal Democrat candidate and no Conservatives — other than a few independents, the only non-Labour councillor in the borough is one Respect councillor.

One of the few upsets of the night came in Ward 3, where 27 - year - old Nate Horowitz, running on the Independence and Conservative lines, beat incumbent Democrat Charlie Landi, who has served all but four of the past 24 years on the Common Council.

A couple of the participants were optimistic enough to predict an absolute majority for the Tories; only one was more downbeat than Grieve, who predicted that his beloved Conservative party would win 308 seats a few weeks later.

One source told Total Politics that «dozens» of MPs had expressed an interest in getting involved in the proposed group in the first few days of Conservative conference in Manchester.

What does the Tea Party or any conservative group have to gain by attacking New York WFP in one of the very few jurisdictions in the country a Tea Party candidate is going to lose in a walk?

One of the very few places in the country where the Lib Dems actually managed to improve their number of councillors was Poole, which saw the Conservatives lose control.

Claudia Tenney, a conservative leaning Republican who represents parts of Central New York, says until the state overhauls its own tax codes, New Yorkers «can not afford» to lose their itemized deductions, because the benefit offers state residents one of their few forms of tax relief.

The net outcome of all changes at the dissolution of Parliament resulted in four fewer Conservative MPs, two fewer Labour MPs, one fewer Liberal Democrat MP, four more independent MPs, the addition of one Respect MP and the addition of two UKIP MPs.

While Diaz Sr.'s more socially conservative views on issues like abortion and same - sex marriage sometimes pose a problem for fellow Democrats, his district is one of the few heavily Democratic areas of New York City where these positions are not a liability.

The country became more polarised between the two largest parties in 2015 than was the case at any previous post-1945 election: the Conservatives and Labour have more Very Safe seats than before, and are contesting fewer marginal ones — and of the 56 seats won by the SNP in 2015, 28 are classified as Very Safe and a further 18 as Safe.

Claudia Tenney, a conservative - leaning Republican who represents parts of central New York, says until the state overhauls its own tax codes, New Yorkers «can not afford» to lose their itemized deductions because the benefit offers state residents one of their few forms of tax relief.

Gainsborough MP Edward Leigh was one of the few Conservative MPs who voted to oppose the Iraq War.

As the man appointed late to mastermind the Conservative election campaign, he knows well how much trouble the proposed cut to Child Tax Credit — one of the very few benefit savings proposed in the Tory manifesto, and later confirmed in the Budget for families earning under # 40,000 a year — caused on the doorsteps.

Wimbledon is one of the few seats that provides ward by ward box counts for general elections and they show that the Conservatived led Labour 54 - 21 in Raynes Park 56 - 24 in Wimbledon Park and 49 - 23 in Dundonald (so which is therefore the ward that best mimics the seat as a whole).

at the present rate, I will not be able to vote conservative at the next election (i live in croydon central - where we won by 80 votes at the last election - so I am one of the lucky few that has a vote that counts).

With both Labour and the Conservatives committed to replacing Trident, the subject of Britain's nuclear deterrent was one of the few areas where David Cameron and Gordon Brown were in agreement.

A paper by Matt Singh, one of the few to predict the 2015 Conservative victory, and James Kanagasooriam of polling firm Populus, suggests that the lack of an explicit «don't know» option in phone polls could be boosting support for Remain, as undecided voters tend to fall towards the status quo.

As is the case with his last few books, Looker is a bully pulpit — albeit one not given to Crichton's insufferable conservative leanings of late — rendered transparent by its gratuitous cockteasing: it dovetails from one alarmist exposé to the next (extreme makeovers!

One of the few times conservatives have agreed with President Barack Obama is when he said that parents should «turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child.»

The Equinox is an interesting vehicle because despite its large appearance, it has the footprint of a much smaller vehicle making it one of the easiest big cars to park on the market, and despite the crossover's rather conservative appearance, the GM design team managed to sneak a few visually appealing touches into the mix.