Sentences with phrase «more effective opposition»

Seriously, you could fill the Labour benches with geese and they'd be a more effective opposition.

Following on from my previous comment, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips and Richard Littlejohn combined, are a far more effective Opposition that the whole of the current Shadow Cabinet combined.

Not exact matches

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

The religious opposition to the Vietnam War was certainly more effective than the opposition of those who spelled America with a «k.» And if we have made some significant progress with respect to the place of racial minorities in our society in the last twenty years, it is due mostly to religious leadership.

The Jewish opposition to the Christian character of public education became more effective.

Players in his position like hazard and modric are more effective, more direct to opposition 18 yard, better in 50:50 challenges and actually do jump for aerial balls.

What we do learn anew from this poll is that Ruth Davidson has struck a chord with her claim that she would make a more effective leader of the opposition than her Labour counterpart, Kezia Dugdale.

Voting for Corbyn then becomes a free hit: if Labour can not become a party of government any time soon, why not make it a more effective party of opposition that takes on the Tories» austerity agenda and unite it on that basis?

The more effective the support or the opposition, the more compromised.

A benevolent dictator can be a lot more effective than popularly elected leaders as they can implement the best policies with little regard to what the opposition says.

More than 50 shadow ministers have resigned as part of the coup against Mr Corbyn, the most recent being Lyn Brown and Kevin Brennan, as the rebels try to make it impossible for the leader to operate an effective opposition.

She told ITV: «After the results of the referendum last week, now more than ever our country needs a strong and effective opposition to hold this government to account.

He is far more effective playing the understanding statesman, appearing to acknowledge opposition concerns without saying very much at all.

An effective, credible and principled opposition has never been needed more.

Labour as currently organised and funded is actually considerably more effective as an opposition than a government — its competencies and enthusiasms are well suited to holding an incumbent government to account, less so to the actual business of government.

More than 50 shadow ministers have resigned as part of the coup against Mr Corbyn - the most recent being Emma Lewell - Buck, Nick Smith and Ms Glass - as the rebels try to make it impossible for the leader to operate an effective opposition.

She told ITV's Peston on Sunday: «After the results of the referendum last week, now more than ever our country needs a strong and effective opposition to hold this government to account.

«More than ever, our country needs an effective opposition which can hold the Government to account and which is capable of developing a credible and inspiring alternative to an increasingly right - wing and backward looking Conservative Party.

Mr Corbyn wrote in this morning's Observer that his reshuffle would make Labour's opposition to the Government more effective.

By forming NYCEDF, MORE and its allies intend to increase grassroots support for a fair contract and to organize effective opposition to the new teacher evaluation system imposed on city teachers by State Education Commissioner John King and the high - stakes testing regime that has been so detrimental to the City's public schools and students.

... Throughout this long period, we have been repeatedly frustrated by the gulf between the clear and present need, the burning desire of parents to have more control over the schooling of their children, on the one hand, and the adamant and effective opposition of trade union leaders and educational administrators to any change that would in any way reduce their control of the educational system.

In opposition are animal advocates including the British singer Morrissey who are appalled at the rhetoric of a war on cats and promote nonlethal methods of controlling the negative effects of cats as being more effective and humane.

Serious opposition to cap and trade generally comes in two forms: an argument that more direct action — in particular, a ban on coal - fired power plants — would be more effective and an argument that an emissions tax would be better than emissions trading.

And I suspect that, done properly, such strategies would be more effective than the current clumsy and unprincipled approach — which merely provokes principled opposition.

By investing time with the client from the start, and discussing the specification they require, less objections are raised by examiners, less opposition, revocation and invalidation actions are encountered, and a more streamlined and cost effective filing strategy is created.

Describing its work in a Nigerian election, SCL Global said it had advised that «rather than trying to motivate swing voters to vote for our clients, a more effective strategy might be to persuade opposition voters not to vote at all».