Sentences with phrase «like david»

Like David, Veronica has taken part in bodybuilding competitions and and says her husband pursuit of beauty keeps her motivated to always look her best.

Beckwith replies it's almost a battle between climate modelers, like David Archer, and researchers with observations on the ground, like Shakhova and here Russian counterparts.

«The IRACDA program provides transformational experiences to outstanding post-doctoral researchers, like David, who want to combine training in research with training in teaching at institutions serving under - represented minorities.»

Like many of the Old Guard, it is okay to let a dangerous man like David Carlucci remain on Albany because Janis happened to marry the woman she loves?

Apparently, 22 per cent of those Conservative supporters who expressed a preference would like David Cameron to sack George Osborne and replace him with Vince Cable.

Equally, although Tim Farron had been assiduously courting the Lib Dems» activists, his non-service in government meant it was just as likely someone who had been blooded in office like David Laws or Danny Alexander would have succeeded Nick Clegg.

«It was like David versus Goliath,» said Willsboro Town Supervisor Shaun Gillilland, an early Stefanik booster who acted as one of her Essex County point - people.

«Astorino is fighting like David with rocks against Goliath with spears and chariots,» Levy said.

This is becoming a part of a broad trend for the Conservative party — people do like David Cameron, his approval ratings are still impressively positive (especially by the disasterous standards of Conservative leaders), but it doesn't seem to be rubbing off at all on the Conservative party yet.

Thank goodness the party still has some honorable people left; folk like David Davis who was prepared to risk all for something he believes in.

Plenty of Lib Dems are watching the current Labour leadership race, hoping that someone congenial like David Miliband carries the day, so that they can forge a nice, progressive Lib - Lab coalition at the next election.

A middle - class politician like David Davis or William Hague would never have done that.

He has given an interview to Laura Kuenssberg for a BBC News profile and, like Ed Balls, he is using it to stress the fact that he did not grow up in a family of London leftwing intellectuals (like David and Ed Miliband).

Grant is not a full member of shadow cabinet Mike although like David Lidington he attends.

After Hoon and Hewitt called for a leadership election in January 2010, several senior ministers, like David Miliband, waited several hours before issuing statements rejecting the idea.

Others in Labour, like David Miliband, are very keen on primaries.)

Many of those who moved through the SDP in those years, though united in a period of upheaval, were in fact, it transpires, moving in different directions, most settling into new tribes, a few like David Owen not.

The Tory Party isn't now far from a solid and winning position on Europe but a final, unifying step towards bringing the party together on the European question (at least until the election) would be to put someone like David Davis in charge of preparations for renegotiations.

«While I personally like David Valesky, I have serious concerns that the deal his Independent Democratic Conference has struck will hand over the keys of state government to the New York City Democrats and the radical Working Families Party,» Dadey said in a statement this morning.

After that, backbench critics of Brown decided that they could not rely on the cabinet to act for them - either because they lacked the courage or because, for those like David Miliband and Alan Johnson, resignation would destroy their chance of leading.

For these voters, the EU is a passing dog which, like David Cameron and George Osborne, deserves a good kicking.

Readers of ConHome who enjoy a bet might also place some money on Lord Trimble playing a role and also a LibDem like David Laws.

But he sounded almost exactly like David Cameron.

Senior backbenchers like David Lammy, and senior frontbenchers like Yvette Cooper are both taking a very different line from him.

In 2015, the Liberal Democrats must stand on a distinct, radical platform like David Lloyd George did in 1929 with «We Can Conquer Unemployment.»

And like David Miliband, he has seen a little more of the world than the East Midlands.

At the cabinet table, young Turks like David Miliband and Mr Purnell urge the Prime Minister to seize the chance to transform our ailing democracy by embracing a «big bang» reform.

New Labour were also hampered with the theory of the «Third Way» mantra, meaning that even intellectuals like David Milliband were reduced to abandoning big ideas which could have a real impact, and instead being forced to concentrate on administrative details - hence the awful targets system he dreamed up to improve the performance of public services like education, policing and health.

Like David Miliband, the Yes campaign has the same air of presumption about the outcome.

The Conservative Party needs men like David Davis - a true champion of justice, and Liam Fox is an example of exactly why the party needs such a champion.

Unfortunately for Labour, my impression is that if you do seriously analyse the requirements for a good prime Minister, I suspect that one answer comes up very much like David Cameron (but not Nick Clegg).

Democrats who represent marginal districts, like David Valesky, Bill Stachowski, Brian Foley, Darrel Aubertine, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. (the primary beneficiaries of gay - rights fund - raising), have tried to put off the vote out of fear it would jeopardize their seats.

«Only a career politician like David Weprin would use 9/11 Healthcare money to try to get votes.

He is for localism and «bottom - up politics», as opposed to top - down Whitehall diktat — and if that sounds a bit like David Cameron it is meant to.

The film starred four characters looking a bit like David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, all singing the same tune.

It looks like David Cameron won't be in the chamber for the Fox section by the way, because Ken Clarke has been propped up to lead on the justice and security green paper in between PMQs and the Fox statement.

And I was at Oxford at the same time as people like David Cameron.

«I like David a lot but the final deciding factor was when he momentarily thought he could also be leader of the Labour Party.

I knew people like David Miliband very well — we were JCR presidents at the same time at different colleges.

We've got a lot of skilled working class voters and small business, self employed voters and they don't much like David Cameron.

She would be really good.JA: I'd have someone from the sporting world like David Beckham.MN: But it doesn't matter who you have as they all make these cock - ups.

As How Parliament Works, a textbook on parliamentary procedure puts it, it can help an MP «feel a little less like David pitted against Goliath».

It then entered a more stable but still highly volatile period where it seemed to track the statements made by ministers like David Davis - as if Britain were some sort of tinpot dictatorship where huge economic changes could be discerned by the comments of senior generals.

«And I do think that, like David Cameron, he needs to shoulder his share of the responsibility and for the sake of the party and the country, step down.»

You're starting to sound like David Marquand.

Conservative MPs like David Heathcoat - Amory reacted angrily, saying it would be «outrageous» if this «constitutional bill» was being treated like an emergency one.

At 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Maffei announces legislation aimed at preventing a case like David Renz's from happening in New York, outside Syracuse Federal Probation Office, 100 S. Clinton St., Syracuse.

Adam Walker, Griffin's successor as leader, said: «Far from being the «saviours of the nation», coming to the aid of postwar Britain — as race hustlers like David Lammy, Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott would have us think — these migrants travelled to Britain to seize for themselves opportunities at the expense of the British people.»

Locals like David Friend said the response only came after «blowback he is getting for endorsing the virulently anti-LGBT and anti-choice Ruben Diaz Sr.»

Gordon Brown, like David Cameron, was in Southampton today.