Sentences with phrase «even by the conservative»

Black Gospel found a limited — and mostly secular — audience among white listeners, but southern white Gospel was routinely panned as vulgar,» «hillbilly» and «western» style music, even by conservative evangelicals in the North.

Even by conservative estimates, the carnation's bloom outpaced the fastest - branching families of plants and flowers from New Zealand, the Cape of South Africa, and even the Andes, one of the most biologically diverse spots on the planet, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Even by the conservative 50 % figure, learning professionals can easily demonstrate the urgency of mitigating turnover.

«Even by conservative estimates, cats kill millions of mammals and birds each year in Florida.»

Not exact matches

Its representatives are supported by even more industry and conservative funding of elections, or face opposition from others if they don't comply.

And while a more straightforward repeal bill may be able to win back some of the conservative defectors, moderates like Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito (in addition to Collins) have already expressed concerns that a repeal - only strategy without a replacement would wreak even more havoc on Obamacare's individual insurance marketplaces by creating long - lasting uncertainty.

«You have to maintain your competitive edge over the long term, and we look forward to resuming reductions when they are affordable,» he says, noting even the Conservatives admit the cuts will reduce revenue by billions, at least in the short term.

Notwithstanding a black swan or two, even the most conservative forecasts show that China and India are set to be the No. 1 and No. 3 economy in the world by 2050 — larger together than the entire G7.

After heading to Asia for year - end client meetings, Levkovich wrote: «A 10 % total return in the next 13 - 14 months was perceived as being too conservative by many even as our year - end target is in line with mean and median top - down forecasts... Interestingly, several clients suggested that our outlook was far below the bullishness expressed by other even when our numbers are pretty much well within the Street's consensus.»

Given that fundamental aspects of how the Internet works are being decided by the PMO, Shade and Moll say it's up to the public to get Canadian politicians «up to speed» on net neutrality the way the American public did in the U.S. To date, there is scarce indication that any of the major parties are thinking about the issue; McArthur says a letter to his Conservative MP in Edmonton didn't even generate a standard response letter.

We've seen litigation by coastal communities, railway activists, tribal communities, and even conservatives who claim our state is not for the explotative profit by companies from outside our state.

The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.

Conservative investors can reduce the risk in the core segment of their bond portfolio even further by shortening its average maturity.

«The Conservatives have the nerve to accuse Kevin Page of breaking his legal mandate, even though it is the Conservatives that are breaking their own law by withholding information.»

Even the new Progressive Conservative government of Brian Pallister in Manitoba, elected last year on opposition to a sales tax increase by the previous government, is toying with new taxes, including a carbon tax and higher taxes on insurance products.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

Even if he is a Conservative doesn't he have to play by the rules eventually.

Even after apologizing to anti-gun activist David Hogg, the corporate media and the organized left, with a lot of help from gutless corporations, are still determined to dismantle Ingraham's entire professional life — to shut a conservative woman up by removing her platform, all because she accused a teenager of «whining.»

If you manage to save just 1.5 MM by the time you retire after a career pinnacle of $ 125k / year, even a conservative investment return of 5 % will earn 75k / annually without even reducing the principle balance.

The six - month combat mission against the Islamic State expires by late March and Kenny, who was appointed this week to the portfolio, says the Conservative government hasn't made up its mind whether to extend it, ask Parliament for a different mandate, or even if an extension would be put before MPs.

However, even more important is the REIT's very conservative AFFO payout ratio (dividend dividend by AFFO per share).

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

The fact is that the conservatives who believe this nonsense, or even the moronic position taken by the personhood amendments, put them squarely in the same camp with other crazies like many PETA supporters who want to criminalize the killing and eating of any animals.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatiEven when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatieven introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

The urgings of the legal academy to assume an exalted position as national moral tutor appear to have been heeded, even by a purportedly conservative Supreme Court.

Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?

From what we know today he was probably an unshaven long haired homeless black Jew who even today would likekly be considered a nuisance by the establishment, especially the Christian right wing conservatives and Tea Partyists would probably condemn him to being a Socialist Liberal or something they all revile.

In the wake of Obama's re-election, conservatives are deeply depressed and increasingly feel estranged from contemporary America, even though vote-wise, it remains a «50 - 50 nation,» and even though many of them live in areas in which conservatism is the dominant political creed by far.

Christian Zionism has been denounced as unbiblical and even unchristian by some Christian groups, including the National Council of Churches, but it has become an orthodoxy of sorts among Republican social conservatives.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Now, only 60 years later, even by the most conservative estimates, there are hundreds of millions of Christians.

Coolidge by Amity Shlaes HarperCollins, 576 pages, $ 35 Walter Lippmann might have captured the conservative greatness of Coolidge even as his words dripped with irony.

Even some Democrats who opposed the law faced opposition by conservatives who saw the midterm election as a golden opportunity to put a more conservative Republican in office.

Such reasons have also existed against ancient and traditional decisions, even if they were not expressed in so many words and were not felt to be important by conservative people.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

The verse 2 Thessalonians 3:10 «For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat» is mostly used by conservatives as the explanation of their anti-Christian behavior, however this was common practice among communists, and the real sense was that the bourgeoisie should not exploit the poor.

The other is a man more conservative by nature but possessed of an unbounded need for grand display that has already led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain, and that as president would leave him in constant search of the out - of - box experience — the confoundedly brilliant Nixon - to - China flipperoo regarding his fancy of the day, be it health care, taxes, energy, foreign policy, whatever.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make «a preferential option for the poor.

Nowadays even the most conservative defenders of the «bodily resurrection» of Jesus do not hesitate to support their case by arguments resting on an historical or literary basis.

It was that by the definition of conservative and liberals today Jesus was a liberal, even though most conservatives say it is the other way around.

These extracts from Simpson show how far he had moved from the traditional (or what he called the Latin) view of resurrection, even though his study appears conservative by today's standards.

And then he does what all conservatives do, state facts that are unreferenced and unverifiable by talking about supposed studies showing that conservatives give more to charity than liberals anyway, thereby elevating themselves even more above the rest of us in their delusional hierarchy.

His preaching can even be considered conservative in the sense that he dared to return to the notion of good and evil, to invoke the concept of a human nature, and to believe that God in Jesus Christ is the final arbiter of history — concepts long dismissed and derided by secular minds.

Yet the church growth «theology» of liturgy has taken some sectors of conservative Presbyterianism by storm and is making hesitant inroads even into the strictest of the Lutheran denominations.

Feminism will tell us that women are independent agents, which seems to be an idea embraced even by people who call themselves conservatives.

By the conservative standards of his day, he seemed almost an infidel, refusing to attend a church or even to avow Christian faith.

(Read here) Gays and lesbians are still stigmatised and demonised by fundamentalist religious fraternity and right - wing conservatives, which have driven some of them to leave families and communities and even attempt suicide.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.