Example sentences of "[conj] [art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used an interview with Brian Walden on ITV to outline his terms for a coalition with either Labour or the Conservatives . |
| 2 | On those figures , neither the Liberal Democrats or any other single party would be able to sustain Labour or the Conservatives in office . |
| 3 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 4 | All the metropolitan dailies published in 1855 as well as in 1870 were committed to either the Liberals or the Conservatives ; the same was also broadly true of the English provincial daily press . |
| 5 | Because not everything was going to be compartmentalized as an issue exclusively for the liberals or the socialists or the conservatives , so there 's going to be a degree of cross party support on certain issues , and this indeed could be one of them . |
| 6 | These are exactly the sort of voters Labour needs in the South , where the Conservatives retain a 14-point mid-term lead . |
| 7 | Some 53 overseas voters registered in Bristol North-West , where the Conservatives had a majority of 45 . |
| 8 | In other words , one legacy of the regime of Councillor Pickles and his colleagues has been a city where the Conservatives have managed to stem the tide to Labour over the past decade . |
| 9 | Labour held Hemsworth , where the Conservatives were beaten into third place by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 10 | ( c ) 1923 Party Seats Conservative 258 Labour 191 Liberal 159 Others Several outcomes were theoretically possible , but neither Labour ( under MacDonald ) nor the Conservatives ( under Baldwin , who had played an important part in breaking up the Lloyd George coalition in 1922 ) would countenance a coalition . |
| 11 | Liberal Democrat Peter Allen has accused his fellow candidates of mud-slinging and claims neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a vision of the future . |
| 12 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |
| 13 | Mr Lawson declared that the Conservatives ‘ never have been and never will be the party of devaluation . ’ |
| 14 | At all times , almost everyone who had seen a poll noticed that the Conservatives were top , but perceptions of which party was in second place varied sharply . |
| 15 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 16 | As the election approached , perceptions about party chances became more homogeneous and the predictability of different perceptions of Conservative and Alliance chances sank to a very low level : most voters thought that the Conservatives ' chances were good and that Alliance chances were poor . |
| 17 | The overall expectation was that the Conservatives would win and in the event they did so with rather more comfort than the polls had tended to suggest . |
| 18 | It was widely believed that the Conservatives ' heavy defeat in the Vale of Glamorgan by-election in May 1989 was partly due to the campaign of local general practitioners against the government 's health plans . |
| 19 | None of these trends in social and economic structure and party identification mean that Labour can never win again , nor that the Conservatives are sure to win . |
| 20 | His Majesty told him that the Conservatives and Liberals would support him in restoring the confidence of foreigners in the financial stability of the country ’ . |
| 21 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 22 | In his zeal to demonstrate that the Conservatives were committed individualists Fforde refuses to accept that there may have been real disagreements within the party . |
| 23 | The initial result was that the Conservatives had sought to counter the collectivist strategy of progressivism with a collectivism of their own , while individualist arguments had been relegated to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 24 | By the late 1920 , following the General Strike and the problem of dealing with the Poor Law authorities , Baldwin decided that the Conservatives would fight the 1929 General Election on its past record rather than a future commitment to major social reform . |
| 25 | He said it correctly suspecting that the Conservatives were about to be pitched back into opposition by Lord Aberdeen 's coalition of Peelites , Whigs and Liberals . |
| 26 | An opinion poll conducted among passengers by driver Tony Norris proves beyond a shadow of doubt that the Conservatives will confound the nation on Thursday . |
| 27 | PRIVATE client stockbroker Adams & Nevile is hopeful that the Conservatives will remain in government following the Tory manifesto promise of a ‘ millenium fund ’ to promote British national pride . |
| 28 | He believes that at below 2400 points the downside of a hung parliament is limited and that there remains upside in the chance that the Conservatives ‘ could still sneak in ’ . |
| 29 | Not that the Conservatives — that is , the London government — are much better . |
| 30 | HOWEVER confident we pretend to be that the Conservatives will be returned with a majority of at least 25 , we must accept the possibility that this gesticulating Welsh oaf will hold centre-stage until such time as the economy , public order and constitution collapse about his ears . |