Sentences with phrase «most conservative forces»

In practice, they end up becoming allies for the most conservative forces in this debate: what I call the «Ming Vase» monarchists: those ardent supporters of the monarchy whose belief in it turns out to be so fragile that they believe small and sensible reforms will shatter it.

Not exact matches

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

If forced to choose between banning guns or banning the Bible, most Conservatives would say, «Oh, hell, I never read the Bible, but I use my gun all the time.»

The Conservative party was being forced to engage in some vigorous soul - searching this morning, as it woke up to one of its most humiliating by - election results in memory.

The most chilling moment on election night was hearing Theresa May, when asked what she now wanted a Conservative government to do that it had been prevented from doing by having to work with the Lib Dems in coalition, answer that her first priority was to pass legislation that would empower the security forces and the police to conduct surveillance on the scale needed to keep the country safe.

For it is conservatives that most often distrust ideology as a force, thanks to a school of conservatism which believes conservatism itself to be a non-ideology or an anti-ideology.

The AfD could end up as the biggest opposition force in the national assembly if there is a re-run of the current coalition of Merkel's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD)-- one of the most likely scenarios.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

If it does nt, the Conservative Party will either reverse it or be forced to continue with some, most or all of the decisions announced today.

Saying the conservative grassroots movement is «now the most potent force in Republican politics» and pointing out Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, and Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, are both members of the new House Tea Party Caucus, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said «the Republican Party agenda has become the Tea Party agenda and vice versa.»

And this April, most spectacularly, he forced the resignation of Damian McBride, one of Gordon Brown's key aides, after obtaining an email correspondence between McBride and the Labour blogger and activist Derek Draper proposing a campaign of unfounded personal smears against senior Conservatives.

The most encouraging finding for the Conservatives is that voters prefer the Tories to Labour by 44 % to 36 % when asked to make a forced choice.

This is most recently exemplified by concern about the future of HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark, over whose fate Conservative MP Johnny Mercer and Labour MP Luke Pollard have joined forces.

Crises lead to a failure of both ideas, together with a set of forced sellers driving down the price of assets being repo - ed, which sometimes leads to a cascade where repo terms get progressively tighter, and only those that were the most conservative at the start of the crisis survive.

The most significant driving force behind climate change denial among CWM is not any ineffable psychological mystery but simply the increasing intensity and radicalization of the American conservative movement.

But it was a guest without a formal role in the campaign, a conservative philanthropist named Rebekah Mercer, who has now become one of its most potent forces.

Among the Basel III proposed standards that are troubling are finely detailed risk - weighting requirements that would force banks to hold more capital for all but the most conservative loans.

Among the most worrisome proposed Basel III standards are detailed risk - weighting requirements that would force banks to hold more capital for all but the most conservative loans, making them more costly for consumers as well as harder to get, Trepeta added.