Sentences with phrase «like hard labour»

Not exact matches

Jesus» teaching fits together in a similar way: «eternal punishment» consists of torment followed by destruction — like a combined sentence of hard labour followed by execution.

Of course, when a doctor is the one attending your birth, they sometimes like to think that you need to be assisted through your birth with their help, not the other way around, and thus they will deliver your baby to you once they've saved you from your strong contractions and prevented you from labouring too hard with all of their tools.

I want to try to stay strong, just keep an eye on the baby and let him do his own thing, but I'm so scared that my body just might never go into labour on it's own — it's hard to make a decision when I feel like I don't have all the information.

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

Which is why Gavin Barwell, the PM's chief of staff, is laser - like focused on activity that it's hard for Labour to oppose in the Division Lobby.

The point is that Labour - > UKIP switchers hit us harder than many of us (including myself) expected, especially in places like Southampton Itchen.

Britain's membership of the EU is a complicated issue and this writer genuinely has no hard view — but it's little wonder when Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems all vociferously share the same view that Britain must remain in the EU that its Ukip looking like they'll make serious headway in the European elections in May.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

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

In the 2005 election, the Tories found that although voters liked their punitive rhetoric on immigration, it validated Labour's broader charges that the Tories were a hard - right party who would merrily privatise the NHS and cut benefits for pensioners.

[161] Blair and his supporters sought to reform the party by further expunging leftist elements and taking it to the centre ground, thus creating «New Labour», with Blairite Peter Mandelson asserting that hard left figures like Livingstone represented «the enemy» of reform.

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

With Ed Miliband left to continue rebuilding Labour's reputation when it comes to manufacturing, and the aviation lobby STILL pushing hard for a third runway at Heathrow, this definitely felt like Budget buildup season.

He sounds like an MP already, banging out lines about «one nation» Labour and hard - working families.

An unnamed attendee sniped to The Times that Corbyn does not look like «a man thinking hard about why Labour lost the last election».

Like many in my family before me I thought that the Labour Party believed in representing the hard working people of our country.

Like John Mann MP who yesterday also called for Brown to go, she said it was hard on the doorsteps persuading people to vote Labour whilst he was the leader.

The changes in England and Wales result in the Conservatives losing 10 seats, Labour losing 28 seats, the Liberal Democrats losing 4 and the Greens losing Brighton Pavilion (though notional calculations like these risk underestimating the performance of parties with isolated pockets of support like the Greens and Lib Dems, so it may not hit them as hard as these suggest).

Tory lite policies in 2010 and 2015 (lol) Even if this was true we still did better in those elections that when we had hard left manifestos like 1983 (27.2 % Tory MJority of 144) and it wasn't just the SDP or the Falklands, as if the SDP didn't exist, those people would just have voted liberal, who as a party were around before labour were, so had a right to stand

With barely 10 % of all departmental spending cuts implemented we will get many more hard case stories like this from Labour in the years to come.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

And he has worked harder than David Miliband, though perhaps not than Ed, at convincing his fellow Labour MPs to like him.

As its National Policy Forum starts today, Labour should try very, very hard to envisage what its worst case scenario now looks like.»

Moderate members like me aren't prepared to allow Corbyn the luxury of leading Labour into the electoral abyss in the vain hope that this dose of real democracy will banish the hard left forever.

I would also like to pay tribute to the hard work and professionalism of Labour Party staff who have had to deal with this case and many others, often in the face of vicious criticism.

«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.

Whilst it's not hard to see why Labour have made in roads in places like Hastings and Brighton & Hove, in the latter's case it is somewhat curious, given that Brighton & Hove is a far more desirable, prosperous and not to mention expensive place now than it was all those years ago when it was reliably Conservative

Suggestions by senior hard left figures like Len McCluskey, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone that there could be a reckoning for the leadership if Labour's poll ratings haven't improved within a year have given the Conservatives much more cause for concern than any fumbled policy announcement from the Opposition frontbench.

«Just like the Labour party, all they have done is undermine the hard work of classroom teachers, which has seen a million more pupils in good or outstanding schools since 2010, a 71 % increase in students taking rigorous academic subjects and 100,000 six year olds reading more confidently,» said Mr Gibb.

Make no mistake about it; this is a labour of love by Remedy and they obviously worked really hard on Quantum Break, taking risks and striving to commit to their vision but ultimately, it all breaks down like a cheap Rolex you bought for the price of a box of staples at a car boot sale.

The Harvest Moon games project a fairly Japanese mentality that work — successful labour day in and day out — is its own zen - like reward, hard lives lived well.

How else to make sense of the sage - like status assumed by the worthy Theaster Gates, who has laboured to channel art - world resources to Chicago's hard - pressed South Side and was fêted in 2013 by the fashionable set from Basel to São Paulo?

Dubord estimates that he saves on average $ 1.65 a file as he has no hard costs like toner, paper, labour and storage.

This meant energy was not expended like most prisoners who worked at hard labour with a pick and axe.

Hard to find another job that lets you swear like a trooper, drink a bottle of wine over lunch, tell people who are dickheads that they're dickheads and avoid manual labour.