Sentence examples for conservative mandate from inspiring English sources

Had Romney won, he would have no conservative mandate.

It has taken less than a month for the newly sworn in Republicans to show their determination to overreach their falsely perceived conservative mandate.

In 2000, he came to office after losing the popular vote, but behaved as if the country had handed him a resounding conservative mandate.

Although David Cameron and George Osborne are likely to be kept far busier with new austerity measures, it is clearly the BBC which has most to worry about from the Conservative mandate.

They must have the vote in this referendum | Angus Robertson Describing the Conservative mandate north of the border as dubious after the party held only one seat in the general election this month, Robertson adds that the SNP will also seek to amend the legislation to ensure that no constituent part of the UK can be taken out of the EU against its will.

Packwood said he and his colleagues have serious reservations about House decisions to replace "liberal mandates" with "conservative mandates," such as requiring states to withhold cash assistance from teen-age mothers.

Then, a profound aversion to Thatcherism, industrial closures and the hated poll tax, fuelled opposition to the Conservatives' "mandate to rule" north of the border.

For Egypt's new president, the dilemma quickly became an early test of the Brotherhood's ability to balance domestic political pressures, international commitments and its conservative religious mandate now that it is also effectively governing in a new democracy.

With similar guile, the G.O.P. majority quietly changed a more recent rule championed by fiscal conservatives that mandated a direct vote in order to raise the national debt.

He is a genuine 'antigovernment mandate' conservative who happens to be an African-American.

American women may not be handmaids, but we are still living in a country where conservative politicians would mandate forced pregnancy.