Sentence examples for governing conservatives from inspiring English sources

FOR A party that trumpets the virtues of small government, the governing Conservatives of Canada have trouble practising what they preach.

In the Nov. 10 election here, in which governing conservatives won a third three-year term, the government and the rival union-backed Labor Party agreed on forcibly rejecting about 2,000 asylum seekers -- refugees escaping conflicts and poverty in the Middle East and other parts of Asia -- who had been ferried into Australian waters by smugglers.

An opposition Labor Party motion criticizing the governing Conservatives was defeated by 278-214278-214

Larry Miller, a legislator with Canada's governing conservatives, has apologised for saying Muslim women who do not want to remove their face-coverings when taking the citizenship oath should "stay the hell where (they) came from".

Both Britain's main parties, the governing Conservatives and the Labour opposition, are divided over what to do, leaving Parliament so factionalized that there may be no coherent plan most lawmakers would back.

The opposition stormed out of Parliament as the governing conservatives approved a bill intended to address conflicts of interest between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's public office and his business empire.

President Karolos Papoulias asked Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to form a government, after the governing conservative New Democracy Party won close weekend elections.

In May 1986, the party used this position to effectively throw the governing Conservative-led government after it had proposed to increase gas taxes.

The candidate of Ms. Kosor's governing conservative HDZ party failed to reach the runoff.

"The national power base for a governing conservative coalition in this country is the House," Norquist said.

The goal, he added, is to help the governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement party "conquer" new cities and towns.