Sentences with phrase «social democrats made»

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Germany's Social Democrat party (SPD) just made history, electing its first female leader in 154 years, Andrea Nahles.

Merkel's vice chancellor, Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, told a news conference, «If Greece wants to stay in the euro, the Greek government must quickly make a substantive offer that goes beyond its willingness thus far.»

For a while these negotiations appeared to be making progress, with the President agreeing in principle to cut social programs (the Democrats» sacred cow) and Boehner showing a willingness to accept some measure of revenue increases (a Republican litmus test).

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

The bottom line here is that the Republicans» fascination with an unfettered free market and their lack of faith in the government's ability to provide any benefits to our common life (except to assist business in making money) is no more consistent with Catholic teaching than the Democrats» emphasis on individual freedom in social questions and their faith in human perfectibility through government action.

It turned out that it makes a great deal of difference whether one is a democratic socialist or a social democrat, for the relative location of nouns, which convey the substance of things, and adjectives, which represent the modifiers, weights priorities time after time.

With the Words «peace and justice» he hoped to make himself understandable to his brother, a social democrat.

She is not short on prescriptions, either, and would like to see the government make a «big, bold offer» by asking Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former health minister, to chair a commission on funding the NHS and social care.

Time will tell if the Swedish Social Democrats are able to adapt to the social and economic changes that made the distinction between insiders and outsiders so salient in the 1990s and Social Democrats are able to adapt to the social and economic changes that made the distinction between insiders and outsiders so salient in the 1990s and social and economic changes that made the distinction between insiders and outsiders so salient in the 1990s and 2000s.

In both 2006 and 2010, the center - right parties, and especially the Moderate Party, made a targeted electoral appeal to insiders, whereas the Social Democrats were seen to protect the interests of outsiders.

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

Like all Liberal Democrats, the Social Liberal Forum is very proud of our party's uniquely democratic approach to policy making and as we enter the run up to the 2014 and 2015 elections, we look forward to further statements from our ministers in government that set out clear ideological differences between us and the Tory Party.

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This type of remark makes me even more concerned the social liberal democrats are showing increasing signs of behaving like a «party within a party».

The story of the Social Democrats — and indeed the Common Wealth Party — shows how difficult it is for a break away party to make it big in Britain but it also suggests that these small parties can shape politics in other ways.

David Willetts» unfortunate comment last week about higher education being a «burden on the taxpayer» suggests that not only will Liberal Democrat ministers have to continue to remind their Conservative colleagues of the importance of social mobility, but they will have to make the economic case for building a learning economy as well.

And crucially he could not convincingly make the case for a social democrat country, given that his own time in government was beset by the free market dogma which has poisoned Labour and Tory administrations since Thatcher.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

Partly because of that, it makes old - style social democrats, and even some old - style liberals, twitchy.

This past Wednesday afternoon, during a panel discussion on social media and the 2012 elections at The Century Foundation in New York City, Nicco Mele, a lecturer at Harvard University who was Howard Dean's webmaster and whose company, EchoDitto, worked on Barack Obama's web campaign for U.S. Senate, made a startling statement: it's not too late for a national Democrat to put together a 2012 primary challenge.

The Social Liberal Forum made clear earlier this week that we favoured a progressive alliance between the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties as the basis for a government.

I do not propose to speak about what the NDC stands for, save to make the point that the Party had been in power for eight years and it was when they had lost power and were in opposition that they met and decided they were Social Democrats.

Which makes those who put their social democrat principles above their liberal principles uncomfortable at times.

While often presenting himself as a «socialist» and making an appeal to deep anger over growing social inequality, Sanders has long functioned as a run - of - the - mill Democrat, caucusing with the party in Congress and backing the U.S. military war machine, says Hawkins.

It's possible Tenney made her original comments based on a debunked online list that has been shared on social media, claiming that assassins and mass shooters are more likely to be Democrats.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have criticised the Tory UK Government for delaying a cap on care costs secured by former Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb, following an announcement by the Welsh Government that no decision can be made about reform of arrangements for paying for social care and support in Wales.

Still, political rivals made hay on social media of the fact that a number of signatories are backers of the left - leaning New Democrats (NDP), including politicians like former Ontario provincial NDP leader Stephen Lewis, artists like film - maker Sarah Polley, and trade union members like Canadian Union of Public Employees president Paul Moist.

The reforms had begun under the Social Democrats in 1989, when controversial legislation «made local municipalities the main employers» of teachers.

«It will be very difficult for Democrats to make the case that they are on the side of civil rights and social justice if they are defending unconstitutional laws that objectively harm poor kids and children of color,» said Austin, who serves on the board of Students Matter, the organization that brought the lawsuit.

Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI) in India is making a collaboration with social entrepreneur and the treasurer for Democrats Abroad India, Dr. Tausif Malik, to launch a bitcoin mining training program in 30 cities across India.