Sentences with phrase «liberal progressives in»

Liberal progressives in Ohio have filed a lawsuit attempting to remove «In God We Trust» from our nation's currency.

Evan: You being a «liberal progressive in many ways», does that mean you believe in ``... [supporting] large - scale (government and NGO) efforts to address the pressing problems of today.»

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That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

Speaking with The Cincinnati Enquirer in February, Springer, who painted himself as a «populist, liberal progressive,» said the idea of his candidacy gained steam because of Trump's victory.

Third, he criticizes the Liberals for pursuing their progressive trade policies in these talks: «Did anyone really think that the Liberals could somehow force the Trump administration into enacting their agenda — union power, climate change, aboriginal claims, gender issues?

Lester Pearson headed two Liberal minorities: the first after he defeated Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government in 1963, and the second after he bested the former prime minister in a rematch two years later.

The Liberal government have promised to make progressive changes to the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) in next week's budget.

Over the last little while, some of my compadres here at Relentlessly Progressive Economics have intuited and sometimes even insisted that while Stà © phane Dion's socially liberal bona fides are not in question, his economic policy proposals place him well to the right of centre.

In my opinion, Edmonton - Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman was the only candidate who left the impression that she would define the Liberal Party as more than just a softer version of the Progressive Conservatives.

TORONTO — Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak announced his resignation after the Liberals won a majority in Thursday's provincial election.

Dr. Sherman was first elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008, became Liberal leader in 2011 and was re-elected as MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in the recent vote.

Calgary Signal Hill: The Liberals have nominated lawyer Katherine Kowalchuk to challenge former Progressive Conservative Finance Minister Ron Liepert in this west Calgary riding.

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.

A recent debate on strategic voting between Erin Weir and Matthew Bergbusch prompts me to wonder the extent to which liberals are more progressive than conservatives in the federal political arena.

Martin, Pablo Rodriguez, Ignatieff, Coderre, John Manley and the business liberals as a whole are indistinguishable from the centre of the Conservative Party, and clearly to the right of the old red - Tories in the former Progressive Conservative Party.

Canada and Alberta needs a Progressive Conservative Party and a Liberal Party to keep democracy stable in Canada as well as in Alberta.

Nineteen Liberal, New Democrat, and Progressive Conservative MLAs voted in favour of the motion, but it failed after 31 PC and Wildrose MLAs stood up and voted against it.

Like the Wildrose Party, who lost leader Danielle Smith and 10 other MLAs when they crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in the final months of 2014, the Liberals will now need to find someone to lead them into the next election.

A public opinion poll conducted in May 2003 found the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives neck and neck in public support, with the New Democrats trailing.

A historical irony is that had Speaker Zwozdesky, who was first elected as a Liberal in 1993, not crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in 1998, he would now own this new record.

Even Dr. Sherman was a member of the federal Liberals before he was elected as a Progressive Conservative MLA in 2008 (he supported Gerard Kennedy in the 2006 federal Liberal leadership contest).

With the exception of the 1989 election, when Liberal Bill Code placed second, only the conservative Reform Party, Progressive Conservative, Alberta Alliance, Social Credit and Wildrose Party, and the environmentalist Evergreen Party have participated in the elections.

What if the Progressive Conservatives win the upcoming election in Ontario (or the one after that) and ultimately keep their campaign promise to repeal the provincial Liberals» cap - and - trade regime and reject a pan-Canadian carbon price?

The Alberta Liberal is the only real progressive alternative considering total vote plurality in the last election and considering the number of constituencies that were second place for ALP.

In 2011, he challenged Matt Jeneroux for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the provincial riding of Edmonton - South West and in 2008 he unsuccessfully sought the federal Liberal Party nomination in Edmonton - StrathconIn 2011, he challenged Matt Jeneroux for the Progressive Conservative nomination in the provincial riding of Edmonton - South West and in 2008 he unsuccessfully sought the federal Liberal Party nomination in Edmonton - Strathconin the provincial riding of Edmonton - South West and in 2008 he unsuccessfully sought the federal Liberal Party nomination in Edmonton - Strathconin 2008 he unsuccessfully sought the federal Liberal Party nomination in Edmonton - Strathconin Edmonton - Strathcona.

The allegations first came to light when Progressive Conservative Leader Paul Davis raised questions in the house of assembly about whether the premier had received complaints of bullying or harassing behaviour in the Liberal ranks.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Klein declared «miracle on the Prairies» on election night in 1993, after he secured the Alberta Progressive Conservative dynasty's seventh straight majority despite a bruising provincial deficit and a strong challenge (and erstwhile poll lead) by the Alberta Liberals.

Mulcair made a colossal blunder in ceding the progressive wing to the Liberals.

LinCA: Of course liberal and progressive mean the same, so why the need for progressive, unless you're trying to portray yourselves in another light, which can only mean you're not exactly comfortable with who you are.

I am just as confident that its unabashed Catholic orthodoxy will merit the usual criticism from those Catholic progressives who somehow manage to combine liberal Protestantism's distaste for dogma with a newly - minted ultramontanism that would even make Cardinal Manning turn in his grave.

It would be easy to take shelter in the categories determined by cultural and political ideologies: so - called conservative Catholics are expected to reject or downplay the urgency of environmental protection, and so - called liberal or progressive Catholics are expected to downplay marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

I recall one of my colleagues in our liberal seminary storming out of chapel because the guest preacher used the term «Kingdom» too many times instead of «kindom,» «realm of God,» «ground of our being» or some other more progressive / liberal designation.

Christianity has played a larger role in the recognition and acceptance of women and minorities than ALL you progressive liberals wrapped together.

Progressives have learned much from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theologies, but we have not given up the liberal quest for truth in light of all the evidence.

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

I spoke originally of liberal and progressive Protestants as facing the question I am addressing in these lectures.

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

From Karl: Who do you feel you have more in common with, religiously - Christians who take a progressive / liberal theological approach to their faith similar to the way you approach Judaism, or Jews (conservative or Orthodox) who take a significantly more literal / conservative approach to the Jewish faith than you do?

OR, maybe some, even just a few, will start to recognize that Progressives / Liberals are more in line w / the teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the Four Gospels & that their Religous / Political leaders are Modern Day Pharisees.

By the way I think the progressive liberal experiment in modern social values is going extremely well [sic]... what do you think?

«Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one progressive, liberal — in Israel; and the other cruel, injurious — in the occupied territories.

You've got to give as much airtime to conservative views as liberal ones, equal time in debate to secular and religious views, the same column width to progressive and traditional opinion.

When, in the end, God allows Satan to tear the arms and legs off progressive liberals, I only hope I can watch from above, with a smug grin on my face which I hope those same tools will be able to see, and not be rid of, during their eternal stay.

In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberalIn my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberalin the United States is supported by progressive liberals.

The first classes in pastoral psychology were taught in those more progressive and liberal seminaries where both the professors and the students espoused middle - class attitudes and values.

Although most congregations decided to remain in the SBC, the success of the conservatives spawned at least two spinoff organizations: the moderately progressive Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) and the liberal Alliance of Baptists.

They range from horse - and - buggy conservatives to modern, theologically - liberal progressives, and everything in between.

It was a surprise for me that, when I left a liberal - progressive mainline denomination and became Orthodox, my scope of ministry in the church became much larger.