Sentences with phrase «hard labour against»

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North Korea's supreme court sentenced American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labour for crimes against the state, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

If you watched the game against Boro, Boscielny seemed very confident and free, he was adventurous with the ball mainly becuz he knew the guy next to him is fast and agile, consequently we made Boro labour very hard.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

And it would present an open goal for the Conservatives against Labour (indeed, for the Liberal Democrats against Labour as well — why take the harder target?).

The benefits of incumbency mean that it is harder for either Labour or the Tories to win an overall majority, as they have to battle against incumbent MPs who have large amounts of state funding to bolster their campaigns.

She admits that holding on to the party's only parliamentary seat in Brighton Pavilion against Labour will be «a hard struggle» but is convinced Caroline Lucas can do it.

«If he's saying that we should start removing hard - working Labour MPs from office then I think that would be a mistake and would be a diversion from our ability to campaign against Tory austerity, which I assume Mr McCluskey wants Labour MPs to be doing.»

Dear Shaun — The refusal of people like you to re-join the Labour Party is what makes it harder for us to fight against this sort of activity

Most Labour voters voted Remain, therefore Labour should fight against hard Brexit - but Brexit isn't the key issue for most Remain voters, so Labour shouldn't worry about Brexit.

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

Tory rebel joins forces with Labour's Chuka Umunna to warn Theresa May against seeking a «hard Brexit».

In January 2016, McGovern resigned from Labour's policy review on child poverty and combating inequality, as a protest against Progress being described by shadow Chancellor John McDonnell as having «a hard right agenda».

Opinions for and against Brexit, or against a hard Brexit as apparently favoured by Mrs May, cut across traditional Tory - Labour...

And, more fundamentally, he must avoid being dragged down by the surprisingly narrow gap between New Labour's NHS reform ambitions and the Tories» ideas it is now fighting its hardest against.

And where we did achieve swings against the Tories, these were in safe Labour seats, rather than in the target marginals, in which we worked so hard.»

He said: «The overwhelming majority of Labour members and voters want the party to speak out clearly and unambiguously against the Government's plans for a hard and destructive Brexit.

Richard McKinnon.the idea the far left ago are still trying to save face that they nearly destroyed the party in the early 80's are only letting young student momentum types, takr over some Moribund areas, or ousting hard working councillors from positions by getting their mates to tun up, is more obvious, they're not doing it because not enough people want Blair at th Hague, in fact some blairites were dead against Iraq, some blue labour types want Blair at The Hague, the far left would have gone done their path, had nine of this happened, they waited for their chance 2010 we were bunt out, 2015 was the first time, after we'd lost power in history, where we didn't have a civil war, we showed loyalty to Ed M, and look what happened, the hard left are using tricks, on having their open meetings with motions, or getting George Galloway backers to turn up to meetings, momentum, even have kill Blair protests, via Socialist worker

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

«Labour may have made huge polling inroads against the Lib Dems since the coalition but converting this to vital gains in a general election might be challenging,» Smithson writes, adding: «Labour's task will be made much harder because in several they would be fighting popular and well - known incumbents,» including Simon Hughes, Sarah Teather and Lynne Featherstone.

Great news to hear Labour's fantastic Waheed Alli's amendment on #SingleMarket #EEA carried with cross-party support in Lords - taking strong stand against reckless hard #Brexit - unusually I went up to Lords to watch result in person!

It's clear why Labour peers fought so hard against this Bill.

«Top figures in the Labour party like Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell fought long and hard against the Iraq war, and have called for those who led us into the disastrous conflict to be held to account,» she said.

The ginger frontman launched a bitter tirade against the Labour leader on his Twitter page this afternoon, accusing him of not campaigning hard enough for a Remain vote in the EU referendum.