Example sentences of "and [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that both Labour and the Conservatives emerge more or less united — the former striking an attacking pose in the foreground , the latter stoutly closing defensive ranks behind . |
| 2 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 3 | Labour in the north of Britain and the Conservatives in the south have so many safe seats that they can suffer a loss of popular votes without this being translated into an equivalent loss of seats . |
| 4 | The rival , splinter organization which emerged as a result , the Imperial Maritime League ( IML ) , claimed that any serious Navalist had to support the Conservatives , irrespective of the fact that individual Liberal candidates were ‘ sound ’ on naval questions , on the grounds that collectively the Liberals were against and the Conservatives in favour of a big Navy . |
| 5 | If anything the Land Campaign and the Liberal plan to abolish plural voting before a possible 1915 general election offered the prospect of another Conservative defeat , and the Conservatives themselves were almost certain this would be the case . |
| 6 | The Edwardian ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ and the Conservatives ' wartime recovery offer the chance for a brief historical assessment of the ideological origins of the Thatcherite revolution . |
| 7 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 8 | He issued a passionate plea to Labour and the Conservatives to spell out what they would do in a hung Parliament . |
| 9 | The recent meeting of Ulster 's leaders at Downing Street , the granting of a Commons debate on security and the appointment of Mr Jonathan Caine as special adviser to Peter Brooke , Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , helped to improve relations between Unionist MPs and the Conservatives as the election loomed . |
| 10 | Even Judith Chaplin , the Conservative candidate for Newbury in Thursday 's General Election , accepted an invitation to attend , and commented : ‘ It sounds like a pretty good double to me — Party Politics wins the National and the Conservatives win the election . ’ |
| 11 | Gallup in yesterday 's Sunday Telegraph put Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck on 37.5 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on 22 . |
| 12 | Both Labour and the Conservatives ruled out a post-election pact with the Liberal Democrats , while Mr Ashdown appeared to soften his threat to vote down the legislative programme of a minority Government . |
| 13 | The three latest surveys — the third , by Audience Selection gave Labour 38 per cent , the Tories 35 and the Liberal Democrats 23 — give Mr Ashdown the support of more than 20 per cent of the electorate and suggest that his party is continuing to take support almost equally from Labour and the Conservatives , writes Anthony King . |
| 14 | The upshot is that there has indeed been a battle of ideas — and the Conservatives have won it . |
| 15 | IT MIGHT be fair to assume that the people who made the posters for both Labour and the Conservatives would be experts on the way the campaign has been run . |
| 16 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 17 | Asked to say who had ‘ campaigned most impressively ’ , 32 per cent named Mr Ashdown and the Liberal Democrats , 27 per cent Mr Kinnock and the Labour party and only 23 per cent Mr Major and the Conservatives . |
| 18 | The Conservative 's active citizen is essentially apolitical , doing service to the community in non-political ways , and the Conservatives sometimes give the impression that they are anxious to eliminate political activity from many aspects of community life . |
| 19 | They came first in 66 wards and emerged as the only national political party other than Labour and the Conservatives with any metropolitan councillors . |
| 20 | However , it should be pointed out that contests between Labour and the Conservatives took place in only 91 out of 165 wards in the capped authorities in both 1986 and 1990 . |
| 21 | Alan Bleasdale declined to contribute to NSS 's ‘ Look Forward in Anger ’ feature last week ( ‘ It 's 1997 and the Conservatives are going for their fifth election victory in a row … ’ ) because he says he is n't any good at foreseeing the future : ‘ I never thought cassette tapes would catch on . ’ |
| 22 | When Edward Heath and the Conservatives took the country into membership , the Foreign Office officials regarded it as their very own special triumph . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By subjecting voters to a combination of bribery , economic pressure and downright coercion , the Ministry of the Interior and , at local level , caciques — bigwigs and political ‘ bosses ’ — constructed pre-arranged governmental majorities for one or other of the two main ‘ oligarchic ’ parties , the Liberals and the Conservatives . |
| 25 | In 1951 , with the coal and steel discussions still going on , the British electorate returned Churchill and the Conservatives to power . |
| 26 | The opinion polls suggest a gap of less than one percentage point between the ruling Socialists and the conservatives of the opposition People 's Party . |
| 27 | Attacks on the Area Boards from the press and the Conservatives also strengthened the instinct to develop a defence of their position through consistency . |
| 28 | The Labour Party was influenced by the county boroughs and the Conservatives by the counties because that was where their current political strength rested in local government . |
| 29 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election the Alliance with 22.6% of the national vote won 3.4% of the seats ; Labour with 61.8% of the city vote won all of the eleven seats in Glasgow , and the Conservatives with 52.1% of the regional vote won all but one of the 20 seats in East Anglia . |
| 30 | Under the Commission 's system the region would have had 30 constituency seats of which , given similar hypothetical patterns of voting , the Liberals , Labour and the Conservatives might have been expected to win none , two and 28 respectively . |