Sentences with phrase «which liberal groups»

Which liberal groups exactly?

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The second part of the Liberal plan is tweaking pipeline reviews, which has taken heavy fire from environmental groups and First Nations critics.

Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

Do you mean to say that the Liberals have irreversibly alieanated «the little people» (by which I assume you mean lower income and marginalised groups)?

There remain both «federal conservatives» and «federal liberals» (as the English Evangelical Graham Kings has put it), both groups of which, for all their doctrinal differences, share the belief that Anglicanism as a communion does not matter all that much.

This entire article bases the «diversity» of a group that is not based on the whole of American Society which is much more moderate having both liberal and conservative tendencies.

In an unfortunate liberal regime (which probably won't be liberal for long), the forms of group, family and associational life yield indifferent or even illiberal citizens.

The Roundtable project got its start with a meeting at Yale in March 2003 and a follow - up meeting the next July, to which Geoffrey Boisi invited a group of mainly liberal usual suspects to think and plan about the future of the Church in America.

Since, however, free riders make little contribution to what people are looking for in religion — in terms of inspiration, fellowship, strong conviction, and communal security — liberal groups tend to spawn apathy and a lack of direction, which is a sure formula for institutional decline.

the fifth: women are narcissistic propagandists for protesting misogynist violence okay, the closest I've seen to this is when matt posts about the inconsistencies of many, many liberal agendas, the points out that certain groups have ideas which, logically, are completely opposed

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

But the only groups in which majorities support gay marriage are Post-Moderns and Staunch Liberals — but they do so in such numbers that the overall picture is evenly divided.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

It shares with other groups, such as Mothers» Prayers and Mary's Meals — both of which regularly end speakers to New Dawn — a genuine sense of connection with ordinary Catholics bypassing labels such as «traditionalist» or «liberal».

While sectarian accurately describes «relations between religious groups» and implies «an intolerance of opposing views,» there are two more common terms which are never used in our PC liberal media.

That his concern is legitimate few will deny, and wholly apart from the theoretical issue noted above, this concern constitutes a strong practical argument for a liberal polity (which does no more than promote «some kind of equilibrium, necessarily unstable, between the different aspirations of different groups of human beings»).

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Rallying against the bill included groups like Citizen Action, which have sought to further push Cuomo to the left on a variety of issues (Cuomo continues to enjoy a strong approval rating from self - identified liberals, even as advocates have faulted him for not doing enough).

It was the full nature of this new group, announced after the last European elections in 2009, which led to my protest and eventually leaving the Tories (I had been Leader of their MEPs 1997 - 2001) and, as a lifelong pro-European, joining the Liberal Democrats in 2010.

Meanwhile, Sanders was plying the same progressive issues to capture voters under 35 years old and liberals, which are important groups in Democratic primary voting.

Liberal groups such as NDN and Media Matters had mounted a «Dump Dobbs» campaign, and Latino organizations challenged such Dobbs declarations as his 2006 statement that about one - third of the U.S. prison population «is estimated to be illegal aliens» — which the anchor later acknowledged was way too high.

The group, which includes liberal organizations such as MoveOn, Tax March and the Working Families Party, has already spent more than $ 1 million advertising in congressional districts across the country to urge lawmakers from both parties to oppose tax cuts for the rich, and it expects to become more active.

Israeli citizenship at this point is influenced by a much more prominent liberal discourse, which looks at the individual rather than the group.

The WFP, which is among a host of progressive and liberal groups that joined with protestors in recent weeks at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, says the plan announced yesterday by the mayor's office is merely an attempt to end the protests.

The investigation may also implicate one or more of the much - criticized nonprofits the mayor created to raise cash and advance his liberal agenda, which the group Citizens Union labeled a «shadow government» earlier this year.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

Robinson's campaign has gained momentum from liberal groups who opposed the Independent Democratic Conference, which Savino (D - North Shore / South Brooklyn) joined in 2011.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

Here is the image (click it to enlarge) which the Richmond and Twickenham Liberal Democrats have used on their website in the last week to accompany a story accusing both the local Conservatives and a local campaign group of lying about a development issue.

The group, along with CitizenLink and its coalition of state - based family policy councils, questioned Trump's stances on issues such as abortion and same - sex marriage (which tended in the past to be liberal) as well his gambling and casino interests.

Lord, a columnist for The American Spectator, has been harshly critical of the activist he tweeted at, Angelo Carusone, and the liberal group of which Carusone is president, Media Matters for America.

All of which has raised the stakes for Sampson and Duane, who are feeling the heat from their liberal colleagues and gay - rights groups, which themselves are grappling with the frustrations of their financial backers.

Add the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union to the list of labor groups not happy with the liberal Working Families Party, which suffered a big loss in New York last week after backing Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover and a member of the leftwing Campaign Group, which is especially opposed to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats, said: «The Liberals are the second biggest party in Sheffield and other towns.

That's just one of the many notable findings in data compiled by New Organizing Institute, a liberal group, which took a broad look at federal campaign staffers in their study.

Then there is Mr. Klein's group, which has pushed for liberal policies like paid family leave and the $ 15 minimum wage, but has worked with Republicans for several years.

Grayson was known for making inflammatory remarks both in Congress and to reporters, which earned him the support of many liberal groups but also the ire of many fellow Democratic members and leadership.

This is not the relationship which Liberal Democrat activists have come to expect with the parliamentary group, but current processes for decision - making may stretch the capacities of an eight - strong group.

Liberal groups have been hobbled by widespread reluctance among Democrats to support unlimited - spending groups, which have been criticized by President Obama and others as unhealthy for democracy.

On 2 October 2013, Lord McNally announced he would be stepping down as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords, saying it had been «an enormous privilege to serve as Leader of a Group which, by its discipline and cohesiveness has constantly punched above its weight».

The operation, which is little - known even within the Koch network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as «competitive intelligence» that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify potential threats to the expansive network.

On 10 November 2012, the party chose its current name of ALDE Party, taken from its European Parliament group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), which had been formed on 20 July 2004 in conjunction with the European Democratic Party (EDP).

The governor, a second - term Democrat facing re-election in the fall, has been aggressive in fending off Ms. Nixon's unexpectedly vigorous primary challenge, which was announced in mid-March, and has since garnered endorsements from a handful of liberal groups.

The group, which is backing third - party candidate Doug Hoffman, calls Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens «two liberals» in a new television spot set to hit airwaves in parts of New York's 23rd district on Tuesday.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

A former Labour MP and cabinet minister, Williams was one of the group known as the «Gang of Four» who broke away from the Labour party in 1981 to form the SDP, which later joined with the Liberals in 1988 to create the Liberal Democrats.

A leader for the group Indivisible, which has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Unlike GOP primaries, where a handful of big spending conservative groups can influence races, the Democratic grass roots — including liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which is pleading with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)