Sentence examples for conservative reckoning from inspiring English sources

A conservative reckoning of the number of books ever published is thirty-two million; Google believes that there could be as many as a hundred million.

"By conservative reckoning," Scott Weidensaul writes in his compelling new book, "the planet loses 3 or 4 species an hour, 80 or more a day, 30,000 a year -- the highest extinction rate in 65 million years".

Kohl rejects suicide Daylight jobbery Chechnya's chop-chop justice ReprintsSome conservatives reckon that, far from reducing unemployment, the money needed to pay for the scheme will put up taxes and in the end lead to fewer jobs overall.

Widespread criticism of the party's spoiling role in the Selangor crisis has pushed PAS's leader, Abdul Hadi Awang, closer to the conservatives, reckons Wan Saiful of IDEAS Malaysia, a think-tank.

If taxes are insufficiently burdensome, conservatives reckon, then they will be too easy to raise.

The Conservatives reckon they could eradicate the deficit - and even have a surplus - by 2018.

While Conservatives reckon the Labour policy could see eurosceptics warm to them.

Behind the wheel "A very sensible and conservative driver," reckons Dave Evans – the examiner who gave the 17-year-old Button his driving licence (at the second attempt, mind you).

It would be funnier if the inefficiency of Italy's 3.5m-strong public sector were not such a drag on the economy.Renato Brunetta, the public-administration minister in Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government, reckons that reforms to the public sector could add as much as 0.5% a year to economic growth.

The last time that Labour lost a general election, in 1992, The Sun's continuing support for the Conservatives was reckoned to be decisive, both by the defeated Labour leader Neil Kinnock and by the paper itself, which boasted in a famous headline: "It was The Sun wot won it".

E.J. McMahon, an analyst at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think-tank, reckons the new property tax will cost the city 62,000 jobs, 2% of the total.