Example sentences of "from [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his address to the party conference at Brighton , Mr Kinnock said Labour was now ready , eager and able to take power from the Conservatives at the next election , and his confidence won him one of the most prolonged and enthusiastic ovations received by a Labour leader for many years . |
| 2 | Traders are anxiously waiting for further cues from the Conservatives at Blackpool and the next set of economic statistics . |
| 3 | The radicalism of the campaign came wholly from the Conservatives , redolent of the shift in the political and intellectual climate of the period generally since 1974 . |
| 4 | True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted . |
| 5 | The Labour Party , dominated by the free trade philosophy of Philip Snowden , offered more of the same and was barely distinguishable from the Conservatives in the economic policies they offered — except for the Conservative Party 's references to ‘ safe-guarding of industry , ’ a code-phrase for selective protectionism . |
| 6 | What distinguished Labour from the Conservatives was the prospect that an overall parliamentary majority would signify the end of capitalism and the beginning of socialism — even if the commitment to the gold standard , free trade and balanced budgets remained . |
| 7 | It shows a seven per cent swing from the Conservatives to Labour overall , and in some areas the swing is as high as 10.5 per cent . |
| 8 | More surprising was the victory in Kincardine and Deesside which Nicol Stephen won from the Conservatives in a by-election last year . |
| 9 | The swing from the Conservatives here of 5.21 per cent was less than in either nearby Gloucester ( 5.34 ) or Stroud ( 6.22 ) , where sitting members were candidates , and only a little more than Bath , where 4.95 per cent defeated a Cabinet minister . |
| 10 | In Croydon North West , alone among the Croydon constituencies , Malcolm Wicks won the seat for Labour from the Conservatives . |
| 11 | This important six-part television series was shown for the first time in June 1988 , and in itself was an indication that freedom of intellectual debate had indeed been extended , but it also forewarned of the type of strong criticism to be expected from the conservatives in the party . |
| 12 | Nevertheless he had to move cautiously , aware of the considerable prospective opposition from the remaining Gladstonians on his own backbenches , from the Conservatives , and from the Lords . |
| 13 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 14 | The winter and early spring brought bad by-election results from the Conservatives , but the earlier date was nevertheless decided upon . |
| 15 | In 1970 the Child Poverty Action Group attacked the Labour government 's failure to deal effectively with family poverty and secured a pledge from the Conservatives that family allowances would be increased . |
| 16 | The by-election swing from Conservative to Labour of 21 per cent was the largest such since 1935 , and the result represented only the 13th Labour by-election gain from the Conservatives since 1945 ( the most recent being the Vale of Glamorgan in May 1989 — see p. 36740 ) . |
| 17 | The Liberal Democrats won Kincardine and Deeside with an 11.4 per cent swing from the Conservatives ; this gave the Liberal Democrats their 10th seat in Scotland , overtaking the Conservatives ( nine ) . |
| 18 | Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar . |
| 19 | I 'm going to say a word about the efficiency savings on school meals and the proposal from the Conservatives bringing this alternative meal system . |
| 20 | from the Conservatives saying that they believed in nursery education . |
| 21 | The only hope of forming an alternative government lay in the combination of these diverse elements with the Labour Party and with a body of defectors from the Conservatives . |
| 22 | Labour knows to win power it must take Swindon from the Conservatives . |
| 23 | The Liberal Deomocrats hope to take several thousand votes from the Conservatives to win . |
| 24 | The Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown has predicted his party will take both Hereford and Cheltenham from the Conservatives . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrat Leader , Paddy Ashdown , joined in the celebrations with the new MP , David Rendel , seizing power from the Conservatives . |
| 26 | The Liberal Democrat Leader , Paddy Ashdown , joined in the celebrations with the new MP , David Rendel , seizing power from the Conservatives . |
| 27 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |
| 28 | He resigned from the Conservatives after they threatened legal action over the loan . |
| 29 | Labour MP Miss Hilary Armstrong and the Liberal Mr Matthew Taylor have already agreed to speak , but a reply is still awaited from the Conservatives , says Mrs Robinson , who wants to put Darlington 's political contenders in the hot seat with a similar local meeting . |
| 30 | When SDP Mike Potter first stood , he took votes from the Conservatives , Labour and Liberals and made the seat a marginal , for the first time in many Parliamentary elections . |