Though it is a traditional Labour strength, Mr Hague thinks that health too can be turned to the Tories' advantage if the government fails to perform and his own party produces bold ideas for reform.
The pound's protracted strength while Labour has been in office reflected an exceptional decade of sustained growth and low inflation.
The strength of organised labour peaked in Europe in the 1970s, about the time that work hours started falling.
They were also helped by the relative strength of the labour market: both jobs and hours fell significantly during the recent recession, but not nearly as far as they did in the 1980s.
In the run-up to the vote on May 6th, in which the Liberals, Labour, and Greens increased their strength at the expense of the Christian Democrats, the Netherlands deployed a technique that did not prevent politicians from promising the moon, but at least forced them to come clean about the cost.
But it was also an era where strength was much more important in the labour market.
Tory MSP Mr Fergusson and Labour counterpart Dr Murray said the petition showed the strength of local feeling about the need for improvements.
The fate of other firms depends on a host of factors besides child labour, from the level of world demand to the strength of the rupee.
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For it was thanks to the strength of the local Liberal Democrat challenge that Labour did particularly badly in seats it was defending, whether the Tories or the Liberal Democrats were the challenger.
The worry is that France's recent relative economic strength will undermine its willingness to contemplate more radical labour-market reform.
Labour's rotten boroughs offer us obvious targets for developing our strength in local government, as we have recently done in Sheffield.
Labour stands virtually no chance of a list seat here because of its strength at constituency level.
The Bank of Scotland Labour Market Barometer gives the job market a single figure to indicate its strength each month.
MORI, a polling organisation, the strength of the economy is one of the main reasons for Labour's continuing lead in the polls.
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If Blair had only accepted the strength of support for Livingstone, accepted reality, and used Labour's best electoral asset in London, both the party, and Blair's reputation, would be in far better trim.
They tell you something about the strength of the economy, but they also tell you about the level of labour force participation at any given point in time: immigration, demographics - you name it.
He said a fitting end to New Labour's revolution would be a formal union of Liberalism and Labourism, but that Labour would need the generosity to reach out to a smaller party from a position of great strength.
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