Sentences with phrase «last liberal ones»

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She also managed to pass one budget by tailoring it to satisfy the New Democrats, who helped to trigger the election last month by pulling their support for the Liberals.

Some academics see undeclared majors as the epitome of Deweyan education, the last vestiges of America's one - time liberal - arts sensibility.

Just why they supported the NPA is open to conjecture but one has to assume, reading these papers for the last 10 years, that they are so far up the Liberals» backside in this province that there is no safe return.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

So even if we can plausibly imagine that a slightly better Morsi and a slightly more disciplined opposition might have existed and could have made better choices over the course of the last year, and thus allowed the fragile shoot of democratic compromise to take hold, these choices weren't made, and so the chasm between the liberals and the faithful, and the dependence of the former upon the army, are now simply the facts of Egyptian situation, the ones that one must now work from, right?

Last month, as church halls and Mosques in North Kensington responded as one to the horrific disaster at the Grenfell flats, Tim Farron, ironically a leading liberal, stepped down from his post saying that he couldn't do his job because of the hostility to his faith.

The Liberal Media that is Obama's Protector were the ones who shamed him into disavowing and quitting «reverend» Wright's «church» of Hate and Bigotry last election.

Im afraid your in for a surprise, there are far more conservatives in this country then Liberals, One plus for Abortion, Liberals abort much more often the Conservatives, So your killing yourselves off... I guess you can make lemonade out of Lemons, But anyway those turn coats who voted for that Liar last time aren't about to do it again, Obama and Jimmy Carter are gonna have another thing in common other then being a tool for the Iranians.

Vote shares were Labour 33 % (down one point on last week), Conservatives 30 % (down two), Liberal Democrats 8 % (down one), UKIP 18 % (up four) and the Greens unchanged on 6 %.

But Steve Webb has lasted the course — in fact he's the longest serving pensions minister since the job was invented — and I caught up with him to discuss how it's been for the man whose other badge of honour is that he was one of the founders of the Social Liberal Forum.

Since last month's poll, in the constituency vote the SNP were up one per cent to 53, Labour were also up one to 22, the Tories remain on 16 and the Liberal Democrats down one on six.

Yet Liberal Democrat strategists, who had drafted a «confidence and supply» agreement for either Labour or the Tories before last year's election, admit the idea could be revived for the «decoupling phase» ahead of the next one.

With former Gov. Mario Cuomo's death, liberals have lost one of their last, best champions, a proud populist who represented an older breed of Democrat.

At the last election only two in three votes cast across the UK as a whole were expressions of support for one of the two largest parties, fewer than at any time since 1922 (the year that Labour first displaced the Liberals as Britain's principal party of the left).

The WFP, along with a range of liberal pressure organizations and Democrats have been trying to push the IDC back to the mainline Democratic fold over the last several weeks, following the election of a 32nd enrolled Democrat to the Senate, giving the party a numerical majority, but not a working one.

Cuomo last week touted his Democratic Party's brand has one that supports socially liberal policies such as same - sex marriage, but has also been inoculated against Republican charges of being bad for businesses by supporting tax increases.

I'm pretty sure a good number of upstaters have no idea who Bill de Blasio is, but the «we're your last line of defense against the liberals in NYC» argument is one they've certainly heard before from the Senate GOP.

We were surrounded on both sides by Liberal Democrat MPs and a Liberal Democrat party that one in eight people had voted for last time.

The Liberal Democrats spent more than # 1.5 m, # 400,000 more than in the last European election, but managed to get just one MEP elected and lost 11 seats.

Reducing infant class sizes was one of the Welsh Liberal Democrats» headline policies at the last Assembly Election so it's hugely encouraging to see the policy being delivered so successfully.

It was among one of the last results to be declared and was one of the most sensational - the Liberal Democrats overturning a Conservative majority of 15 and securing one of their own by a margin of 15 seats.

As one former minister pointed out at the meeting last night, most Liberal Democrat MPs are aware of the inconsistency of their position.

In a State of the State address in Manhattan last week — one of six he gave around the state — Mr. Cuomo appeared to be positioning himself, and the state, as a liberal bulwark against Mr. Trump's planned policies.

The Liberal Democrats only gained one of these three points after their party conference speech in Birmingham last week, moving up to 12 %.

In one poll on voting intention last week the Tory lead was trimmed to 7 % with Labour up two to 32 %, the Conservatives on 39 % and the Liberal Democrats on 18 %, leaving the Tories 25 seats short of a Commons» majority.

It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»

State Senator Gustavo Rivera and Assemblyman Michael Blake joined liberal activist groups outside One Police Plaza today to object to the NYPD's handling of demonstrations last night.

Last but not least, it is an open secret that the one party which is most likely to do well out of AV are the Liberal Democrats (if you look at the devolved assemblies in Scotland, Wales and London, the Lib Dems have consistently failed to adapt their campaign tactics to suit a PR ballot).

... Indeed, the whole of the last Parliament — covering five years - saw just 39 divisions in which at least one Liberal Democrat voted against their party line; in just over five months, the total for the 2010 Parliament has already reached 31.

Deputy Liberal Democrat leader Simon Hughes went distinctly off - message during BBC One's Question Time last night when he suggested an independent inquiry into Mr Hunt.

The Lib Dem MP John Leech told a Fabian Society meeting in Manchester last night that he was one of three Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain on the setting up of the coalition.

But last month, several weeks into her campaign for mayor in one of the world's most liberal cities, she changed her mind.

One - third of the council was up for election plus a by - election in the Queensgate ward following the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Bill Bennett (last elected in 2008).

After the last election in 2014 the Conservatives controlled the council with 40 councillors, while Labour had five seats, the Liberal Democrats had three seats and there was one independent.

Mr Clegg is understood to be particularly keen to see the return of one of his party's few heavy hitters as the Liberal Democrats have been slumping in the polls, falling as low as 10 per cent in one YouGov survey last week.

The survey puts the Tories on 44 per cent (down two points on the last monthly ComRes poll), Labour on 25 per cent (up one point), the Liberal Democrats on 17 per (down one point) and other parties on 14 per cent (up two points).

Part of the group's role is to enforce a kind of message discipline, and one topic of discussion there, sources said, was a campaign launched last month by some of the more liberal members of the coalition — the Campaign for America's Future, USAction, and liberal blogger Jane Hamsher — under the rubric «Dog the Blue Dogs.»

After the last election in 2004 the Conservatives controlled the council with 29 councillors, while the Liberal Democrats had 13 seats, independents had six and the Labour party had one seat.

After the last election in 2011 the Conservatives controlled the council with 44 councillors, while the Liberal Democrats had four seats and Labour had one seat.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown compares the Windrush scandal to how the citizens of Hong Kong were treated twenty one years ago when the last British colony was handed over to «a burgeoning post-communist China».

After the last election in 2011 the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 21 seats, while independents had two seats and there was one Liberal Democrat.

I well remember Ashdown turning to me in the office late one evening, speaking of his secret nightmare: that he would go down in history as the last ever Liberal leader.

A leader for the group Indivisible, which has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

The ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph sees the Conservative lead narrowing since last month with David Cameron's party down one point on 39 per cent, Labour unchanged on 30 per cent and the Liberal Democrats up two on 20 per cent.

Losses in Wales are nothing new for the Liberal Democrats — last year, the party was left with just one seat after the Welsh Assembly election when its four others were taken.

Schneiderman had positioned himself as a leader of the liberal resistance to Trump and had warned in a tweet last year that no one was above the law.

One of the biggest political pollsters is conducting a survey of voters to establish the best lines of attack on the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg in the wake of his meteoric rise since last week's leadership debate.

The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of «a great political sulk», after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.