Sentences with phrase «held by liberal»

Of those 700 schemes, 57 per cent of the scrapped projects were in Labour constituencies, 37 per cent in Conservative held constituencies and six per cent in areas held by the Liberal Democrats.

The two seats with the lowest claimant count are West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine and Gordon — both held by Liberal Democrats.

Labour and the Conservatives have each taken one of the chairs previously held by the Liberal Democrats (Labour — International Development and the Conservatives — Justice).

Labour might lose their majority at the next election but it's going to be difficult for the Conservatives to gain a majority of their own unless they (we) can start winning a lot of the seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

Cuomo has appeared at rallies with students against gun violence and promoted an early voting rally that was held by the liberal Indivisible group.

However, they would not pick up any of the seats held by Liberal Democrats.

«Cheadle, currently held by Liberal Democrats with a majority of just under 4,000, is among seats no longer regarded as likely to fall despite a well - funded, two - year campaign to woo key groups of voters.

Conservatives are in third place in this seat held by Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes with a projected majority of 5,801.

Asked what he meant by «New York values,» Cruz defined the term as values held by liberal politicians who reject charter schools, school choice and support for fearless police officers.

Buckley's victory in 1970 for the U.S. Senate seat once held by liberal hero Robert Kennedy was a major coup for the then - fledgling Conservative Party.

In all six of the seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats, donations to the local party are far in excess of those which have reached their primary rival.

If voters believe Cameron's tendentious claim that his party has moved closer to Clegg's they might find it easier to vote Conservative in seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

William Wragg, 28, another Brexiteer, parked a career in teaching to stand in Hazel Grove, taking a seat held by the Liberal Democrats since 1997.

Defence secretary Michael Fallon's special adviser James Wild has been selected to fight North Norfolk, which is held by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb with a majority of 4,043.

Joyce has his eye on the threat that Pauline Hanson's resurgent One Nation party poses to the numbers of seats held by the Liberal National party in Queensland and has to tread carefully.

The party lost a by - election earlier this month to the Conservatives for a Toronto seat that had long been held by the Liberals.

Toronto Centre has been held by the Liberals since 1993, although the NDP surged to within 11 points of the Grits in the 2011 election.

If the old boundaries had been retained, this seat would probably have been continuously held by the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1974.

Not exact matches

I went to a town hall meeting on tax reform held recently by my local (Liberal) MP.

The commanding lead held last week by Prime Minister John Howard and the Liberal Party was not all froth and bubble, according to the latest results from the Miss Maud's Coffee Bean poll.

Since the by - election was called, I suspect more federal Liberal MPs have visited the riding since the party held their leadership convention at the Saddledome in 1990.

Buffalo is currently represented by Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, who is running for the federal Liberals in Calgary - Centre, and has elected Liberals in six of the eight elections held since 1986.

Currently held by former PC MLA and now Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman, the next vote will be a test of his personal popularity as he runs under his new party's banner.

VICTORIA — The Penelakut First Nation is being held hostage by soaring ferry fares and being ignored by the B.C. Liberal government, say the New Democrats.

Voter turnout ranged from a low of 20.4 % in the 2000 Red Deer - North by - election, held to replace PC MLA Stockwell Day who resigned to run for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance, to 45.5 % in the 1996 Redwater by - election, held to replace Liberal MLA Nick Taylor who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate.

By - elections were held in the same year, with Liberal Craig Cheffins winning Klein's former seat and PC Jack Hayden winning McClellan's.

Most of today's espousers of the liberal peace justify punishment, however, not by Kant's retributivism but through the later thought of utilitarians like Jeremy Bentham, who held that the purpose of punishment is to deter others from committing crimes and to rehabilitate the offender.

Doctrinal pluralism, despite its intellectual incoherence, will work so long as something akin to Liberal Protestantism is held by the leadership of the church and so long as those who are not Liberal Protestants acquiesce.

Never forget full applause for Clinton by his liberal posse in the Senate when walked with head held high and the trail of women he abused swept under the carpet.

Representatives from the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats spoke to Premier at a hustings held by the international Christian humanitarian charity, Tearfund on Wednesday night.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

Roe became so quickly institutionalized because it reflects a philosophy held by many in our society (whether «liberal» or «conservative») that the greatest right is the right to privacy and that the power of the state must regard itself as a means thereto.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

They have alluded to the time that Mr Turnbull's predecessor Tony Abbott asked the Senator to briefly stand aside while the Independent Commission against Corruption looked into donations to the Liberal Party from Australian Water Holdings - which the Senator was a former senior office holder of and was part - owned by corrupt former Labor kingpin Eddie Obeid.

The coalition will hold a one - off one - year spending review in the new year, which will reveal by the end of the first half of 2013 plans for the departmental cuts anticipated by Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the 2015/16 financial year.

The eight - member IDC is being pressured by liberals to rejoin or form an alliance with the mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate, where Republicans have a narrow hold on power.

Some on the liberal - left might be alienated by any move towards a left - wing populism that takes a more critical stance towards the EU or immigration, but they might just hold their noses and take the plunge if it also meant a more robust defence of the NHS and serious moves to rebalance and democratise the economy.

Four parties are likely to clear the 5 per cent hurdle to gain a portion of the 225 party - list seats: United Russia, the centrist «party of power,» which currently holds 238 seats in the Duma; the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), a leftist opposition party (92 seats); the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), a nationalist party dominated by its firebrand leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky (56 seats); and A Just Russia (JR), a leftist party engineered by the Kremlin to capture votes from the KPRF — but which also included a small number of liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 liberal legislators in the 2011 - 2016 Duma (64 seats).

The answer is for the left to win arguments with real people and stop is time honoured Fabian strategy of, manipulating the system to vastly exaggerate the power held by a small minority whilst simultaneously complaining about their inability to concentrate even more power with Left Liberal courtiers via PR What the left hate and what they can not admit is that their leaders despise the views of many of their voters, perhaps a majority.

Even the deal to unite the party, forged late last year, was criticized by liberals for holding a special election after the budget is meant to come due, effectively keeping Republicans at the bargaining table.

In 1987, Archy Kirkwood's Access to Personal Files Act was passed, giving the public access to manually held social work and housing records, which was followed by the Liberal MP's Access to Medical Reports Act in 1988, Chris Smith MP's Environment and Safety Information Act, giving the public access to environmental enforcement notices, and Doug Henderson MP's Access of Health Records Act 1990.

So the Liberal Democrats will be grateful that next week's by - election in Oldham East & Saddleworth is also being held for an unusual reason.

Gilmore has been held by retiring Liberal MP Joanna Gash since 1996.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

These ideas contrast with those social liberal principles held by Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, many party members and previous leaders such as Charles Kennedy.

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

The Deputy Prime Minister has reiterated his stance that the Liberal Democrats do not support David Cameron's plans to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

[71] In the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election, 2011 held on 13 January 2011, the Liberal Democrats gained 31.9 % of the vote, a 0.3 % increase despite losing to Labour.