Example sentences of "[art] conservatives ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The public conflicts of recent years have involved confrontations between different political ideologies : the resistance from the Clay Cross Urban District to the Conservative Housing Finance Act ; the rejection by Merthyr County Borough of the Conservatives ' withdrawal of free milk for schoolchildren ; the resistance of a number of Conservative education authorities to the Labour commitment to the introduction of comprehensive secondary education ; the resistance of Labour local authorities to the Conservative government 's legislation on the sale of council houses ; and the forms of creative accounting developed in the mid-1980s by some local authorities to evade expenditure restraints . |
| 32 | Since then , the Conservatives ' system for electing a leader has effectively removed this power from the monarch , and providing each election produces an outright winning party , her actions are pretty well preordained . |
| 33 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 34 | However , the debate and the reception accorded to Mr Lawson 's speech was a striking demonstration of the Conservatives ' capacity to close ranks : proof , if proof were needed , of their party 's most formidable political resource . |
| 35 | WEST : New voices and opinions will be vying to be heard in Westminster now the Conservatives ' grip on the region has been eased slightly , especially by the defeat of the Tory chairman , Mr Patten , in Bath , writes Paul Stokes . |
| 36 | Russia , preoccupied with economic crisis and political in-fighting , seemed hardly to notice the Conservatives ' victory . |
| 37 | We will also launch a new programme to invest £60 million in the modernisation of Britain 's cancer services , using the resources we will save by scrapping the Conservatives ' tax handout on private medical insurance . |
| 38 | We will stop the Conservatives ' adult education cuts and encourage local authorities to develop adult and community education and access courses , particularly for mature students . |
| 39 | ‘ Down with the KGB ’ and ‘ Down with Ligachev ’ ( Yegor Ligachev , the conservatives ' leader on the party 's politburo ) were among the milder slogans carried by the demonstrators . |
| 40 | By overcoming old divisions , and filling a leadership gap created by the death last month of Andries Treurnicht , the Conservatives ' leader , the Volksfront has stiffened nerves on the right . |
| 41 | Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make . |
| 42 | Because the polls , and therefore the program , are likely to shortchange the minor parties , and because the minor parties are most likely to make gains at the Conservatives ' expense , the program is liable to project somewhat too high a level of Tory parliamentary support . |
| 43 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 44 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 45 | If the Conservatives ' list vote were no more than 50% , the system would still work smoothly : they would have in addition to their 53 constituency seats just one list seat , giving them their due total of 54 . |
| 46 | Yet this does not really speak to the conservatives ' point . |
| 47 | The scenes I witnessed and conversations I had with students supported the idea that the graduates were the ‘ victims ’ of the conservatives ' anger . |
| 48 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 49 | In contrast to the increasing emphasis in child welfare on parental responsibility rather than rights , the Conservatives ' policy since 1980 of making the education system far more responsive to parental demands has involved an extension of parental rights . |
| 50 | Critics of the Conservatives ' policy on health point to the decline in the number of people having eye tests since the introduction of a fixed charge for the service . |
| 51 | Unemployment was less easily ignored ; it reached a peak in the winter of 1902–03 and remained high , especially in the winter months , throughout the Conservatives ' period in office . |
| 52 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 53 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 54 | Unemployment and the poverty it brings can never justify criminal behaviour but it does , very often , explain it and the Conservatives ' refusal to accept the fact undermines their entire approach to law and order . |