Example sentences of "that the labour " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I jumped in , eloquently I thought , to second Niall 's resolution , to be released to the press if agreed : that the Labour Party should make annual contributions to the IRA — Yes I did - I was in a wonderful whirl , you see , the whole ant-heap had suddenly become vivid , and , um , deconstructable ; I forgot Wat Tyler and Keir Hardie , and saw rich and poor as it all is today , internationally struggling , the classes — well , you could n't understand … |
| 2 | ‘ It is an absolute bloody shame that the Labour Party wo n't take this thing seriously , ’ David Morrison , 45 , a systems analyst and secretary of the campaign of 200-300 members , said . |
| 3 | If that sounded a bit like the result of an army medical board it was appropriate enough : the chief purpose of this year 's conference is to signal that the Labour Party is ready once more for active service . |
| 4 | It is a great tribute that the Labour Party , having done so much to destroy the climate in which industry is successful , is now having to listen to what we 're saying . |
| 5 | Mike Yarwood and the catchphrase ‘ Silly Billy ’ had a lot to do with it , but more important is the fact that the Labour Party now belongs to a younger generation . |
| 6 | What matters is that the Labour leader is suddenly there , reminding one how infrequently he has been there hitherto . |
| 7 | ‘ They do not want a fix but a resolution of the issues , that the Labour Party moves to becoming more democratic and an immediate resolution of the situation on Merseyside . |
| 8 | The two schools became closely associated with the Whig and Tory Parties , in much the same way that the Labour and Conservative Parties champion non-nuclear and nuclear policies today . |
| 9 | Hugh Gaitskell countered by promising that the Labour Party would make improvements in the Welfare State and increase pensions without increasing taxation . |
| 10 | It goes without saying that the Labour front bench supported all of the most reactionary arguments that could be found to oppose the management reforms . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that the Labour Party is standing aloof looks ominous . ’ |
| 12 | On top of this indefensible and increasingly absurd situation , it is also clear that the Labour Party is obliged by its own Constitution to organise in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | It is by no means clear that the Labour Party would receive little support in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | No one has ever argued that the Labour Party will be a panacea for Northern Ireland 's problems . |
| 15 | And even a quick glance at the SDLP 's history shows that the Labour interest is not its number one priority . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , many historians believe that the Labour Party had simply inherited working-class support from the Liberals owing to the fact that trade unions had changed their allegiance when it became obvious that only an independent Labour Party would act in their interests . |
| 17 | This second group of historians would therefore argue that the Labour Party was emerging before 1900 , and certainly not later than the famous Taff Vale case of 1900 and 1901 — when trade unions appeared to lose the right to strike without facing the threat of financial penalties . |
| 18 | The former view tends to ignore the fact that the Labour Party was deeply-rooted in trade-union politics before 1914 , while the latter overlooks the great potential which the war had for destroying old values and arrangements . |
| 19 | Although the two main explanations of Labour 's growth will remain irreconcilables , the fact remains that the Labour Party did emerge to become the second party in the political system by 1922 , and a party of government by 1924 . |
| 20 | It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life . |
| 21 | Ross McKibbin and Bernard Barker feel that the Labour Party was making determined efforts to improve both its national and local organization and that , despite some obvious difficulties , it succeeded in doing so . |
| 22 | The fact is that the Labour Party had a well-established base for the parliamentary success which it sought during the inter-war years . |
| 23 | The reluctance of some Labour leaders , most notably Ramsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden , to be too closely associated with the dispute gave the impression that the Labour Party was not fully behind the strikers — although the records of most local Labour parties deny such an impression . |
| 24 | By 1926 and 1927 local Liberal parties were beginning to note that the Labour Party was responsible for ‘ dark passages ’ in the history of Liberalism . |
| 25 | Michael Newman argues that the Labour party adopted the view that fascism only emerged where parliamentary democracy was not well established . |
| 26 | Yet , such a view argues that the Labour Party should have gone against its declared policies , on the assumption that they could not work , and maintains that it was dilatory in its attitudes towards and actions against British fascism . |
| 27 | Watkins comes to a similar conclusion , although he argues that the Labour Party 's hostility to working with the Communist Party was the reason for its failure to force the National government to abandon its non-intervention policy . |
| 28 | These criticisms are , in many respects , justified although it would seem a bit far-fetched for historians to believe that the Labour Party , even in alliance with the Communist Party , could have forced a National government with an overwhelming parliamentary majority , to have capitulated to external pressure . |
| 29 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 30 | The fact that the Labour Party did not lead public opinion as strongly as it might have done meant that the National government had an easier ride than it might otherwise have expected . |