• So Malaysia is wrestling with the dilemma almost daily -- how to stay on the Internet highway on over-drive while catering to an innately conservative system.

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  • Throughout the presidential campaign, Moussavi labored hard to portray his proposals on social policy and foreign affairs as an extension of the Islamic system in order to disarm conservative critics, even denying that he is a mainstream reformist candidate in the hope of winning the support of reformers and moderate conservatives.

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  • Although there are problems with the new system, Bill Manwaring, a Conservative politician who works with the jobless on the Shankill Road in Belfast, said reform is necessary.

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  • In contrast, the macroprudential supervisor would recognize that, for the system as a whole, excessively conservative lending policies could prove counterproductive if they contribute to a weaker economic and credit environment.

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  • Under the supplementary voting system, Fraser Pithie's (Conservative) 20, 571 votes were counted again to allocate his voters' second choices.

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  • Instead, the Conservative leader imagines a welfare system where ministers in Whitehall pull fiscal strings which encourage people towards his party's core values of hard work, saving, marriage and having children (when you can afford to).

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  • Conservative welfare reform would replace a system designed to subsidize idleness and dysfunction with a combination of opportunity and credit.

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  • Unemployment benefits could be cut for people who fail to get work over long periods of time, under Conservative plans to change the welfare system.

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  • Saudi Arabia is Islam's birthplace and the ultra-conservative clerics who controlled the education system in the 1980s and 1990s preached a message of intolerance towards other religious groups and what they saw as heretical Muslim sects, a message they have since reformed.

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  • In the last one its share of the vote was only three points higher than the Tories', but the first-past-the-post system, and the less-even distribution of Conservative voters, translated this slender preference into 356 seats in the 646-member House of Commons.

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  • The Liberal Democrats have courted the support of young people with promises to scrap tuition fees - and defeated Conservative leadership candidate Kenneth Clarke attacked the funding system.

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  • First Minister Carwyn Jones announced the new award in the Senedd after a Welsh Conservative motion called for a new Welsh honours system and for St David's Day to be made a bank holiday.

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  • Worried about losing votes, some conservative politicians are already promising to defend the current system's basic structure against the FDP's agenda.

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  • Conservative and Labour ministers alike were trained in the system, learned how to use it, and were disinclined to change it.

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  • Following the incident, Laura Sandys, Conservative MP for South Thanet, said the sewerage system was not "fit for purpose" and she would be meeting Southern Water and Thanet District Council.

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  • But if you are a low-skilled immigration pessimist, especially if you are conservative, then this seems like a far preferable system to points systems or other command and control government handouts that are usually proposed.

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  • And third, whether many Republicans realize it or not, there is a strong conservative case to be made for fixing our immigration system by encouraging the free flow of labor and saving illegal immigrants from heavy-handed enforcement tactics.

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  • What makes the study's conclusions more plausible is that the authors used very conservative assumptions, only counting the direct costs to the health system and lost workdays of a pandemic.

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  • In Sydney, Australia's commercial hub, frustration over the dearth of investment in the congested transport system helped deliver swathes of suburban seats in former Labor strongholds to the conservative Liberal-National coalition.

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  • For the conservative side, Justice Antonon Scalia said that he thought the Michigan system amounted to a quota, and questioned whether it furthered racial harmony if it upset many people who fell foul of its provisions.

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  • That is why so many conservative leaders came out this week for efforts to fix our broken immigration system.

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  • The Labour Party has attacked Conservative plans to allow young people to opt out of the National Insurance system.

    BBC: Portillo calls for tax cuts

  • We see that in many conservative pastors who are helping lead the way to fix our broken immigration system.

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  • Rather than just freezing all pay, Sherk and other conservative analysts would like to see a complete overhaul of the federal pay system and a permanent reduction in what they claim are excessive federal pay rates.

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  • However Conservative Educations Spokesperson Angela Burns attacked the government on their attitude to the education system.

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  • The British political system counts against a newcomer like Mr Obama bursting on to the scene, says black Conservative MP Adam Afriyie.

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  • The Conservative leader has previously spoken in favour of open primaries - based on the system used in some US states for selecting party candidates.

    BBC: Tories to stage 'open primary'

  • Conservative plans to scrap the so-called couple penalty in the tax credit system also appear to have been watered down, with the government document saying it will bring forward plans to "reduce" rather than "end" it, as the Tory manifesto promised.

    BBC: Cameron and Clegg set out 'radical' policy programme

  • Shadow chancellor George Osborne revealed on Saturday a Conservative government would also seek to stop the payment of large bonuses across the banking system.

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  • The Conservative answer is to offer younger people the opportunity to opt out of the state system, and to build up a fully private pension.

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