• "One more heave" was a slogan used by British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe during the October 1974 general election and a phrase used (sometimes...
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    In sailing, heaving to (to heave to and to be hove to) is a way of slowing a sailing vessel's forward progress, as well as fixing the helm and sail positions...
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    it with "one member, one vote" at the 1993 party conference. However, his overall cautious approach to reform, which was dubbed "one more heave", sought...
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    Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards...
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    Prime Minister Tony Blair would use to successfully promote the Labour Party more than a decade later) but eventually "Social Democratic" was settled on because...
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  • alienated the more orthodox Whigs. By the early twentieth century "Whiggery" was largely irrelevant and without a natural political home. One of the last...
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    place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world. [...] It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate...
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  • Gladstone, Herbert, Cardwell, and Newcastle, but notably not Graham, who was one of the driving forces behind the coalition) accepted cabinet posts in this...
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  • Conference the right to speak in debates and vote on party policy, under a one member, one vote system. The party also allows its members to vote online for its...
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  • turning point in the Liberals' fortunes and campaigned under the slogan "one more heave", aiming for a complete breakthrough with entering a coalition a last...
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