It may be enough to make Mr Howard go to the country in October.
But how will it play if he decides, after all, to go to the country at large?
Two years after Saltley Gate, Ted Heath was forced by another miners' strike to go to the country and ask electors who ruled Britain.
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Now is the moment to go to the country, they say: the polls are edging the right way and hints of economic recovery are in the air.
And if the prime minister does go to the country next spring, he will have to campaign on Labour's plans to invest in better public services rather than on its record.
If he is to go to the country on 3 May - which most believe has always been his plan - he has only a matter of days to make up his mind.
But even this failure was not without honour: his reluctance to go to the country earlier had largely reflected his desire to avoid an election fought, as he saw it, along class-warfare lines.
We could lose a lot of people who won't even get to the emergency room if we don't do it, so I do want you to know that I hope the message will go across the country to the places I've visited and the other places that we know this is going to be a problem, and we're going to deal with it.
In the absence of a green light to go into the country, the team has been analysing information and trying to collect what it can from outside the country.
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So again, our thoughts and prayers go out to the country of Haiti.
Perhaps we should go out to the country for a bit.
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And so the SBA does not have the infrastructure to go all across the country in every region and process loans to small businesses directly because they don't have enough people.
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Even if an immigrant agrees to go, the country he says he comes from may refuse to accept him.
In the end, Americans go to the polls to make a choice about which direction they want the country to go in.
This is not why Americans across the country go to the ballot box every other November to elect members of the House.
In Russia, for example, there were worries that if the government was able to use the courts to go after Yukos, one of the country's biggest oil companies, then no one was safe.
There are many who think that strengthening the value of China's currency won't mean American jobs lost to China in the past decade return to US shores - the jobs will simply go to the next low-cost country like Vietnam or India.
So it's really a beautiful thing to be able to go throughout the country and play music and have people there just with you.
But he said he would continue to go around the country explaining why "difficult decisions" were being taken "in the long term interests of everyone in our country".
She didn't go back to the African country before turning 18, but now she returns three or four times a year to visit her mother and oversee the progress of the foundation's projects.
The Iraqi government yesterday urged some refugees not to go back to their homes yet, saying the country is still unprepared to deal with their return.
During the weekend, rumors that Germany's fourth-largest bank was about to go under dominated the country's news coverage.
It is the primary prerogative of the American people to pick the direction in which they want the country to go and then insist that our elected leaders take us there.
Listen to this: He is fighting for responsible young people who came to this country as children, through no fault of their own, and were raised as Americans -- the only country they know -- because he believes that these young people also deserve the chance to go to college, to contribute to our economy, to serve the country they know and love.
Say, just as an example, that I was importing the neodymium oxide which was going to be used to make the magnets to go into one of those windmills which the Greens want to festoon the country with.
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