Sentences with phrase «than the conservative first»

The new face is designed to look a bit more intimidating than the conservative first generation of the vehicle.

Not exact matches

«It is the first time the Libertarian ticket will have more government experience than the Republican ticket, and that is astonishing,» says Stan Veuger, a resident scholar and economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

Shares of Meet Group Inc (NASDAQ: MEET) plunged more than 12 percent on Wednesday in reaction to the company's first quarter report and an outlook that analysts at Loop Capital Markets described as conservative.

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years.

First, conservatives are made up mostly of the faithful and support the death penalty more than any other demographic.

Rather than sharing the room with a large elephant while he discusses whether BP is overpaying for its spill, I would like to see Olson first defend the mess he made of democracy in California while sharing the stage with conservative luminaries who have yet to embrace judicial activism.

The first thing to remember is that the use of the term «conservative» (as much as the use of «liberal») is a political act rather than an act of description.

MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.

That is a bigger number than you would get from just his very conservative, economic issues - first base.

For example, staunch conservative Rosario Marin, the former US Treasurer under George W. Bush, says that for the first time in more than two decades, she is not campaigning for the Republican presidential nominee.

Right - leaning non-whites and non-evangelical working class whites are closer to each other on economics than they are to either the business lobbies of the GOP establishment or to populist conservatives who think America has been morally lost ever since the FDR first became president.

When First Things was founded more than twenty years ago, movement conservatism was delighted by the unexpected, vigorous, and electorally significant entry of religiously conservative Christians into the public square.

Analysts welcomed the better than expected result, which beat consensus forecasts by around $ 10 million, and suggested that the full year guidance could be conservative given that the first tranche of cost savings will be weighted towards the second half.

His first huge hire was more conservative than bold — especially now that DeBord won't have nearly as many four - star guys — and you might need to be bold to win in Bloomington.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

A person who's a conservative / Republican politically and atheist faith wise, typically self - identifies far more as the former than the latter, and as such would be less inclined to discuss their religious views in the first place in public (even witout concern of their political ambitions).

But her first speech in the Commons and address introducing Theresa May at the Conservative party conference (which went somewhat more smoothly than the PM's efforts) garnered attention from a watching establishment always keen to anoint the next big thing.

First, it will lift the threat of possible by - elections that could be triggered by the ongoing police investigation into allegations that the Conservative Party systematically over-spent in the 2015 election and far exceeded legal restrictions on election expenses in more than 10 seats.

State Senator Joe Markley, a conservative Republican from Southington, won the convention endorsement for lieutenant governor on the first ballot with more than...

Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.

The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I think I am somewhat generous to the Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

Conservative MP Robin Walker is mistaken to think that voting systems other than first - past - the - post all give a leg - up to extremist parties (electoral system debate, TP, Nov).

If the SNP win Ayr, this would make it the first time a party other than the Conservatives have held it since the Scottish Parliament's first term.

Writing in a pamphlet published today and quoted by the Observer newspaper, Reeves stated: «For what it is worth, I think the coalition tightened a little more than necessary in the first two years; relied a bit too much on spending cuts rather than tax rises to fill the hole; and above all has taken a myopically conservative approach to borrowing for investment.»

He said: «The Conservative party in opposition has gone further than any opposition I can remember in my political lifetime of saying not just this is what we will do in the first year, in terms of taking out # 6bn of wasteful spending to stop the jobs tax.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

This would be the first time since World War I that a party other than Labour or the Conservatives has been the winner in a national electoral context.

Half of all Conservative MPs were elected for the first time at the last election, and Tory backbenchers have rebelled more since it took place than in any previous post-war Parliament.

Conservative attempts at tackling this have so far proven unsuccessful: Ukip has held steady in the polls, topped May's European Parliament elections, and on Thursday Douglas Carswell won the party's first (elected) seat in parliament by 35 points over his former party, and nearly 50 more than Labour.

It has been a good year electorally for UKIP, since it is the first party other than Labour and the Conservatives to come first in a national election — in this case for the European Parliament — since the Liberal landslide of 1906.

Regarding Scozzafava's ties to the WFP and the recent attacks from Hoffman and the Conservative Party, Burns and other Republicans in upstate New York reminded me that this is a «first,» that since 1998, more than eighty Republican candidates have sought office running with both the Conservative and WFP ballot lines.

UKIP became the first party in British politics other than Labour or the Conservatives to win a national election since 1906.

It is now almost nine years since David Cameron became leader of the Conservative party, and he is no closer to finding a route to victory than he was when he first started.

The Conservatives have regained some of their composure since Gordon Brown's first week in power progressed considerably better for the new prime minister than many of them had expected.

As a result of the divided vote, the Democrat in the race won the conservative district for the first time in more than a century.

We have already noted that for the first time the party will be fielding a full a set of candidates in Yorkshire and Humberside and a full slate in Liverpool for a second time, and Iain Dale has noted that the Welsh Conservatives are fielding 41 % more candidates than they did four years ago.

For all his enthusiasm for an «aspiration nation», the prime minister needs to build an aspiration Conservative Party first, rather than wallowing defensively in the incessant challenges it faces

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) came top of the poll — the first time a political party other than the Labour Party or Conservative Party had won the popular vote at a British election since the 1906 general election.

More than 19 out of 20 of those who said they would vote Labour or Conservative under FPTP named the same party as their first preference under AV, as did nine out of ten UKIP voters.

Kirsten Gillibrand, while nowhere near as conservative as Hochul describes herself to be, was definitely more conservative when she was first elected to Congress in NY - 20 than she is today.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

Those who named the Conservatives as their first choice under AV were more likely to give their second preference to UKIP (42 % of those naming a second party) than to anyone else — but notably, they were more likely to give it to the Lib Dems or Labour (53 % in total) than to UKIP.

[9][10] It was also the first time a party other than Labour or Conservative had won the largest number of seats in a national election since the December 1910 general election.

This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the vote in a nationwide election.

Conservatives are likely to draw attention to Labour's own commitment in government to creating a hostile environment, a phrase first used by Alan Johnson when he was home secretary in the last year of the Gordon Brown government, but campaigners insist that cracking down on illegal immigration could be done with better border checks rather than internal policing of status alone.

The Conservatives won more than two - thirds of the county council seats in the Anglia region and the icing on the cake was winning the first election for the new Metro Mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Looking at turnout first, ComRes found that Labour and Conservative voters said they were more likely to vote than UKIP voters.