Sentences with phrase «good conservative policies»

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The Conservatives» wireless policy is rooted in noble intent: fostering competition and eliminating undue restrictions on investment are good things.

If your customers are in «soft» industries such as construction or computers, for example, you would do well to use a conservative policy.

Cuban, who identifies as a libertarian, also said that he strongly opposes Trump's socially conservative policies and added that he could do a better job than Trump in the Oval Office.

Liberal and Conservative governments in the 1980s and 1990s, wanted their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of whether that disagreed with the government; they wanted policy options costed; and, they were even willing to defend research in public.

It's conceivable that by sending the Obamacare markets into a quasi-death spiral, the policy will significantly drive up the costs to the federal government through bigger subsidies — which is, funnily enough, a good thing for conservatives as far as the Byrd Rule is concerned.

The current Conservative government does not seem to understand good economic policy, reducing the GST and littering the income tax system with costly tax preferences.

At one time governments, both Liberal and Conservative, asked their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of disagreement, wanted policy options costed, and were even willing to publish reports and analysis and defend them in public.

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

Stelmach said in a press conference shortly after the announcement his new cabinet is «better prepared to communicate the policies and objectives» of the Progressive Conservative government.

We must be prudent, measured, and persistent in making the case for why socially conservative policies will lead to a better America.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

Conservative candidate for Aylesbury, David Lidington, said: «Whether you look at Ebola and our response to that, whether you look at the # 2.3 billion that was allocated to humanitarian relief in the Syrian refugee crisis, I think the Conservative Party can say that we've got a good track record on delivering practical policies with that clear ethical foundation.»

The religious controversies that occupied Rembrandt's Dutch contemporaries were internal debates among Calvinist factions — the conservative Reformed establishment against the more liberal Arminian or Remonstrant sect that favored free will over predestination, and peace — a policy also good for business — over continued war against Catholic Spain.

Gardner's success, however, reveals problems in the establishment conservative platform and shows what it would take for a populist conservative with better policy ideas to get elected.

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

It is that in responding to the excesses of contemporary liberalism and progressivism, as well as to Rationalism when it appears among conservatives, we ought not to compete on Rationalist terms, as if yet another mission statement or manifesto or policy could save us.

It's as if they can't imagine (or refuse to imagine) any reasons for conservative economic policy based on a cogent political philosophy or a vision of the common good.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

To the millions who voted Conservative at the last general election, the good news is we will deliver our policies.

As none of these policies were put to voters before the election, this could well be the year that the country starts to say «no» to government in a way that they have not since middle Britain made a previous Conservative government abolish the poll tax.

The opposition is 30 points ahead of the Tories on having the best healthcare policies according to Ipsos Mori, with the Conservatives currently on their lowest position since 2004.

Campaigning with conservative and national liberal positions on domestic, social and family policy, they have fared better in regional elections.

This is interesting: there's a tricky editorial decision about whether it's better for the BBC to be perceived as failing to give enough coverage to an important Conservative policy announcement, or to be perceived as ignoring a story which involves major criticism of the BBC itself.

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.

[60] In an interview in The Daily Telegraph in October 2007, Burnham said: «I think it's better when children are in a home where their parents are married» and «it's not wrong that the tax system should recognise commitment and marriage», creating controversy because his views replicated the policies of the Conservative Party.

As the only non-politician, Wendy Long is best positioned for November to reach women, Republicans, Conservatives, independents, disaffected blue collar democrats and the growing cross section of voters who want a real alternative to the Gillibrand - Obama radical policies of government intrusion.»

«However, we are concerned that the Conservative party does not have the best interests of the network at heart, as its policy effectively calls for it to be dismantled.»

There is a good reason for this: most of the current Conservative policies have their antecedents in the policies of the last Labour government and the Labour Party is just as tied - up with private interests as are the Conservatives.

It also divided the electorate into segments according to their characteristics — including how they voted in 2010, their views of the party leaders, which party has the best policies on different issues, and their opinion of each party's attributes — and identified each segment's propensity to vote Conservative.

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

As well as working alongside George Osborne on developing Conservative economic policy, Theresa led the Opposition scrutiny of the Finance Bills in 2006 and 2007.

«J P Floru: Winning a majority with good policies for drivers Main Alex Fergusson MSP: Why Conservatives should support Devo Plus»

When another former Conservative, well - heeled knight founded the Referendum Party, he had a very simple message on one policy which was easily articulated.

It's fair to say that I did embellish a serious point about an immigration loophole with a certain choice description, reflecting the frustration many Conservative MPs feel at their Coalition colleague's «differentiation» strategy - or put simply - rubbishing the Tories at every opportunity and taking the credit for «good» policies and distancing themselves from the less popular but invariably courageous and right ones.

His article is the second in a seven part series of articles by Conservative MPs, each discussing the Coalition's policies to get more people into good homes.

Following a poorly received Budget, when six in ten people said it would be bad for them personally, the Conservatives and Labour are neck - and - neck on being seen as having the best policies to manage the economy.

«It is not a manifesto because it is not for a political party — it is for people whether they are in the Labour party, Conservative party, Liberal Democrats, wherever, who can see the way politics is developing in the country and who think there must be a better set of policy ideas for the future.»

«When it comes to the best education policies we should look at the evidence and we've got some very good evidence close to home: look at the transformation of schools in London,» the Conservative peer continued.

«It doesn't set a very good example,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

«Labour will only win another election with a policy approach that wins back people who have moved to voting Conservative and Ukip, as well as to Greens and SNP.

The PM has repeatedly declared equal marriage a great Conservative reform; the Chancellor can't stop telling us about the «thoroughly Conservative» policy of cutting income tax for the least well - paid by raising the base - rate threshold at which it is collected.

When considering who has the best policies for the country, the Conservatives were backed by 35 per cent of voters, against 25 per cent for Labour.

In most cases, it appears that laws and policies which grant personal freedoms and ease restrictions are seen as liberal, while the opposing viewpoint of asserting heavier restrictions for some intended good is conservative.

Thirty - seven per cent said the opposition had the best policies on the NHS, compared to only 19 % for the Conservatives.

Pataki managed to find well - paying government jobs for Long's daughter — which I guess was fortuitous, since Pataki wasn't able to pay tribute to Long's policy views on pretty much any area of stated prioty for the Conservative Party.

«However, since being in government and overseeing the start of major reforms to the NHS, this has been reversed as Labour have once again extended their lead over the Conservatives among the public on having the best health policies,» he explained.

Perhaps the parliamentary party will be in better contact with membership; they have not appreciated how the whip has often imposed voting in support of Conservative policies.

anyone else notice that a good number of the most competitive house and senate races are only so because the democrats in those races have adopted much more conservative social policy stances (ex.

Ideas were distributed, and those attending were expected to turn up with notes, not just on party policy but, inevitably, on the Conservatives as well.