Sentences with phrase «conservative principles which»

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I don't think now that they have a majority they're going to all of a sudden rock the boat with Conservative principles, which could mean any number of things in terms of cost - cutting and other policies.

As noted here previously, «polluter pay» is a principle to which the Conservatives — or at least Stephen Harper and John Baird — have pledged allegiance in the past.

He is a senior scholar at the school's conservative Mercatus Center, and has ties to the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian think tank, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is «dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.»

My last essay ended by noting that conservatives are told by many of their leading politicians and pundits that America's fundamental problem is that too many of their fellow citizens no longer understand its basic principles, of which liberty has pride of place.

And in this context the word «conservative» means in principle something quite positive, for it also includes the courage to affirm continuity, clear principles, detachment from ephemeral fashions, fidelity to the Word of God which endures for ever, respect for tradition, for what has organically developed, for the wisdom and experience of our ancestors.

In a press release, Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. described Beck as a «conservative leader» and «one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.»

It represents a devastating critique of the Scripture principle which I try to use and will have to be answered by conservatives.

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

Technological innovation is often the source of such situations, which is reason enough for some staunch conservatives to be opposed in principle to technology itself.

As conservatives, we challenge you only on your ideas, or lack thereof, none of which resemble any founding principle.

Mutualism has a rich history in the Labour movement and its principles are in many ways anathema to Conservatives, not least the notion of co-operative ownership of the means of production which represent a threat to universal property rights.

was an expression of a belief so deeply held, and so thoroughly validated in the circles in which Romney travels, that it required no fact - checking» -LSB-...] It is probably too much to hope for that Romney will reconnect with conservative principles.

«Ken Clarke might believe that applying traditional Conservative principles risk harming the party's brand, but it's actually the reverse which is true.

And last night the Tory Right was out in force for the sell - out summer reception of Conservative Way Forward, the organisation which seeks to, in its own words, «defend and build upon the achievements of the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher's leadership, and to adapt the principles of her era in government to modern concerns and challenges.»

These new principles were presented in the Tamworth Manifesto of 1834, which historians regard as the basic statement of the beliefs of the new Conservative Party.

Three weeks ago she wrote: «In the name of its own principles, UKIP should now feel morally obliged to withdraw its candidates from the general election — or at least from contesting any seat in which a Liberal Democrat might oust a Conservative.

This speech, the knife crime action plan and the measures on fuel duty really do underline the fact that it is the Conservatives who are coming up with the sensible ideas and principles on which policy detail will be built in the run - up to the election.

The Wall Street leader sits on the board of the American Principles Project and the Chiaroscuro Foundation, which have run various pro-life advertising campaigns, and he founded a new PAC in February to push conservative social values.

So whatever, Clegg has written, I don't think Tory candidates in Lib Dem seats should be thinking their task has somehow got easier overnight as I sense that the Lib Dems» first priority is still going to have to be to defend the seats they already have - most of which feature the Conservatives as their principle principal challengers, as the Times's Sam Coates points out in this commentary this morning.

Behind this incremental revolution — the charter school movement, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this fall — was a collection of principles that will be familiar to conservatives especially.

Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic republic.

Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Foundation published a list of principles for school finance which includes the fundamental point that the basis of the equity argument for increased education funding should be challenged, because educational equity is not the same as school funding equity.

Which your little collectivist, linear, groupthunk clique will have no part of despite claiming to be conservatives because ultimately you aren't really principled people who believe in the foundations of America.

Which conservative of note and principle stood up in public against Bush in anything but the most token and symbolic way?

The free market that liberaltarians love (which is the product of conservative principles and practice) has never existed, and will never exist, in an immoral society for any length of time.

In any event, courts are very familiar with the (conservative) reasonable expectation of privacy principle and I imagine they would be drawn to it in resolving monitoring disputes, which would make acceptable use policies front and centre.