Sentences with phrase «less than conservatives»

At the same time, they, no less than conservatives, have done virtually nothing to address the two most promising ways to boost classroom instruction.

And as a result, they divorce less than conservatives.

The Liberal Democrats propose to tackle the deficit in a way that means the country would cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour.

«I suppose, above all, the moment that my heart sank at the start of the campaign was when we were told to repeat the mantra that we will cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour, because it defines ourselves in relation to others and it says nothing about our purpose as liberals.»

Put simply: the Liberal Democrats will borrow less than Labour and cut less than the Conservatives - guaranteeing an economy that delivers for everyone across the UK.»

There is nothing precluding a high growth stock from trading materially less than a conservative estimate of its intrinsic worth, and thus becoming a value investment.

Not exact matches

Stewart aimed his barbs less at conservative pols than at the Fox News pundits who enabled them.

«They seem to be more conservative and less knowledgeable [about investing] than Generation X,» he said.

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

Sun TV News, though it has yet to launch, has already drawn comparisons to the Fox News Channel in the U.S. Roughly two - thirds of the respondents, however, believe Sun TV News will have less impact in Canada than Fox News has had in the U.S. «I'm as conservative as it gets in this country, but the Fox News network is designed for a constituency that is just not widespread in Canada.»

Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal equity and less debt than in businesses owned by men.

Since the popular vote for the Conservatives in 2011 was less than that, Mossop doesn't think Harper will pay any great political price for approving the pipeline.

The document said that improving racial and gender diversity is less important than making sure conservatives feel comfortable expressing themselves at work.

(It's still slightly less revenue than Wall Street analysts were anticipating, but Apple has a history of issuing conservative guidance and then blowing past it.)

So 150 of the biggest, fattest CEOs in Canada wield less clout in Ottawa than any 150 Conservative hotheads in my home riding of Edmonton Centre.

Less information is now provided to the public in budgets than under previous Liberal and Conservative governments; the authority of Parliament over government spending has been weakened; the understanding of Canadians as to what the government is actually planning to do in the budget has been eroded.

He praised the Conservative government's use of other tools, especially tightening mortgage insurance rules no less than four times, to encourage sensible borrowing.

While the overall equity - market volatility could impact sentiment and the valuations that investors are willing to pay, our small - and mid-cap forecasts already assume that multiples will revert to less than the historic median — so our outlook already is fairly conservative.

Be especially conservative with employees» salaries; don't expect to be able to hire people for less than market rates.

With less than four months until the general election, Ontario's Progressive Conservative party is leaderless, and would - be-leaders have already abandoned at least some of the commitments in the party's election campaign platform.

He went on to say that in his opinion «Canadians culturally are quite a bit more utilitarian, more conservative, more practical in some ways [than Americans]» which he points to as being the main reason why initial interactions with Tilt by Canadian users have been less robust than Tilt's experience with American users of the platform.

In the year since Scheer took over, the Conservatives have gradually reversed to the less - than - sunny tone that was a defining feature of their recent governments.

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

With the race for the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary - Signal Hill in less than 10 days, the Rob Anders campaign has broadcast a new robocall praising the incumbent MP for decreasing the federal Goods and Services Tax.

With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.

Opinion: Wynne is wrong when she claims the Conservative carbon tax plan will cost families more than cap and trade and do less to cut emissions

That in itself is new: interviews with several senior Conservatives suggest Harper's PMO is already less overbearing than the versions that endured constant minority government uncertainty, and that at least a few ministers have more latitude to take strong initiatives.

However the outrage, primarily by conservatives and their reliable media mouthpieces, does illustrate a couple of things that are less flattering of them than Trudeau.

Alan Williams, former head of the initiative at National Defence, says that the Conservatives» agreement will benefit Canada's industry far less than if there had been a public bidding process.

Here we go again — with less than two weeks to go before Canadians were to decide on their new government, the old Conservative government signed a tentative trade agreement that will (if ratified) have a profound impact on the future of Canada.

Bold, yes, but less dramatic than the path trod by Ontario Progressive Conservative Premiers John Robarts and Bill Davis, who quadrupled the minimum wage from 1961 to 1984.

Stelmach's leadership win came as a surprise considering his campaign for the PC leadership was less prominent than that of party insider Jim Dinning and the socially conservative Ted Morton.

If it is less than 5 years, you should save your money in a savings account, Money Market account or possibly a very conservative mutual fund.

This, despite the fact that conservative Protestant households are more gender - traditional in terms of duties than others, with husbands performing less housework than husbands in other categories.

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The center of American Protestantism may have moved toward more conservative denominations, but important parts of those denominations may be less conservative now than they were 20 years ago.

One major reason that institutions are inherently conservative is that continuing in existing ruts is far easier and less demanding than asking searching questions and allowing ourselves to be reshaped by the answers.

It was much less conservative than Deoband, because of the slight secular bias of its curriculum.

This broader understanding of what we seek to defend should make social conservatives both more and less political than we have tended to be: We should be more political in that we do more than occasionally resort to legal appeals to protect our own freedom of action.

Conservatives no less than progressives can traffic in paranoia and victim complexes, and were these impulses better chastened by the Right's most influential people and institutions, traditionalists would be much better off.

Surprisingly, mainline churches were also less likely than conservative churches to attract members from nontraditional households.

The religious ones are far less conservative than the southern schools.

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

The membership of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, for example, has shrunk to less than half of what it was even 30 years ago, and is much more conservative.

His removal has observers less concerned about his leadership shortcomings, which allegedly led to his removal, than about the widening gap between conservatives and the Orthodox Church.

(I feel some sympathy toward that diagnosis myself, but it's not as if «American» is any less an exercise in stitching and hemming than «conservative» is.)

Plus, talking up religious liberty is likely less of a turnoff for moderate voters than is talk about bans on abortion and gay marriage, traditionally the top concerns of religious conservatives.

I. David Pierce, in his doctoral dissertation on cognition and theology, found that a sample of theologically liberal women were less inclined to use polar dimensions — such as «human effort» versus «divine power» or «instrumental» versus «relational» «-- than either a sample of men or a sample of theologically moderate or conservative women.

Less than artful Democrats can accomplish a lot in the absence of any genuine conservative leadership and one myth being advertised by Democrats I actually wish was true is the existence of focused and organized opposition on the part of conservatives who demand, if nothing else, a transparent national debate.