Sentences with phrase «than a decade labour»

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Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

His international public health and development career spans five decades, including more than 30 years with agencies of the United Nations system (International Labour Office, United Nations Children's Fund, and the World Health Organization where he was the liaison officer (1990 — 2004) for LLLI), and seven years working in Turkey, Cameroon and Haiti.

, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.

In fact, it's hard to point to many enduring legacies of Cooper - or many of her Labour contemporaries - in more than a decade on the political frontline.

After more than a decade of retreat the time has come for the left wing of the labour movement to move forward.

Well, it took more than a decade for Labour to trusted on the economy again after 1979 (and perhaps more — the Tories were still favoured in the polling on the economy in 1997).

«And this is the next project for new Labour, our next generation project... The coming decade will provide the UK with more middle class jobs than ever before.»

But who — other than some bloke sitting in the House of Lords who left front - line Labour politics two decades ago — does he mean by this «Reassurance Labour tendency»?

Labour made a promise more than a decade ago to hold a referendum on the Jenkins proposals.

Rather than apologising for a mistake made by someone else over a decade ago, Jeremy could have told Labour members how he proposes to face up to his own leadership failures.

Kemi Badenoch has apologised for the «foolish prank» she carried out more than a decade ago, on Labour MP Harriet Harman's website.

Unemployment remained low and the economy remained strong with more than a decade of unbroken growth, and education and healthcare had changed for the better as a result of expenditure by Labour.

George Osborne has done more to cut fuel taxes in two years, than Labour did in a decade.

The former Labour man's political career spans more than three decades, but life inside parliament only began nine months ago.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union have voted to re-affiliate themselves to Labour - more than a decade after splitting from the party.

More than two decades after Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson created New Labour, they are demanding a return to its 1990s embrace of corporate power and a mythical «centre ground».

She added: «The Labour party is under new management, and part of that management is having a very different conversation on migration than we've had in the past decades.»

According to the Muslim Women's Network UK «It appears that over decades senior Labour politicians have deliberately turned a blind eye to the treatment of Muslim women because votes have been more important to them than women's rights.»

This seems an aptcharacterization for a Labour party leadership that has had more than two decades to face up toinevitability of constitutional change in the UK, and repeatedly refused to do so (outside a brief period from 1997 to 1999).

Against this terrific backdrop we should be ten points ahead of a Labour Party with zero economic credibility and a leader who was Gordon Brown's special adviser in the Treasury for more than a decade and a member of his catastrophic Government.

Interest rates in the eighties tended to be much higher than over the past decade, although it's worth remembering, when Labour boasts of kickstarting interest - rate stability, that the trend of decline from double - digit rates started in 1992, four - and - a-half years before the party came to power.

Blunkett said that a Conservative government that pursued that course of action would be threatening everything he has fought for in more than five decades as a Labour member.

[19] The New Statesman claimed that Labour had spent «decades treating Scotland as little more than a one - party state» and needed to» [make] itself relevant again for the people whom it was established to represent».

: They're a government endorsed (despite recent complaints) oligopoly (the top 4 airlines control over 80 % of the domestic market), their balance sheets & labour benefits have been restructured, and their current pricing power was unheard of little more than a decade ago.

For decades women had little choice about what was done to their bodies from the moment they entered the hospital, and clinicians» opinions of how a healthy woman's labour should go mattered far more than what the woman wanted for herself.

Over the past decade, Roper Greyell has grown from a core group of nine employment and labour lawyers to a complement of more than 31 lawyers who are nationally and internationally recognized in the field of workplace law.

Over more than three decades of practice, Vira Kammee has advocated on matters such as labour, administrative, intellectual property, civil and criminal laws.

This is a great time to be a Canadian labour and employment lawyer, but Canadian law schools now employ fewer full - time labour and employment professors than they have in decades.

Following the usual practice and custom of labour arbitrators in Canada for more than five decades, he ruled that there were no special circumstances justifying anonymity.

The Bureau of Labour Statistics puts the median salary at $ 30,590 per year, with a much faster than average growth outlook for the next decade.