Sentence examples for focus on bread from inspiring English sources

Dan Jarvis, a former major in the Parachute Regiment who was elected as the Labour MP for Barnsley Central at a byelection in March, has been trying hard to focus on bread and butter issues in his constituency.

The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has tried to hold off the new push to water down provisions of the RDA, urging colleagues to focus on "bread and butter" issues such as budget repair.

Malcolm Turnbull has urged non-government parliamentary participants to meet him in the "sensible centre" and focus on "bread and butter issues" as the federal parliament prepares to resume next week after the hiatus following the 2 July election.

"He had an absolute focus on bread and butter issues, and because of that was able to focus on visionary things, like building the Royal theatre, or fixing up the historic buildings at Macquarie street, saving the rainforests, introducing anti-discrimination laws, but above all I think saving the rainforest," Carr said.

David Cameron has told the first all-Tory cabinet meeting for 18 years that they must focus on "bread and butter" ways of improving people's lives.

They say a focus on bread-and-butter issues of tax and spend would play better on the doorstep.

They much prefer Mrs Clinton's focus on bread-and-butter issues such as health care and mortgage foreclosure.

Mr Blair came to be resented for his jet-setting; Mr Brown's focus on bread-and-butter issues at home will please voters.

The party should focus on bread-and-butter issues at a time when the Thai economy and others in the region are faltering, he said.

Mr. Halloran, who succeeds Tony Avella, an iconoclastic Democrat, prevailed with a focus on bread-and-butter issues like development and taxes.

— When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged to "bring this state together," and to focus on bread-and-butter issues amid an ailing economy.