Sentences with phrase «against conservatives point»

Those who believe that the episode epitomizes journalism's bias against conservatives point to the willingness of a prestige publication and a respected editor to embarrass themselves out of deference to progressive feelings.

Not exact matches

Conservative pundits steeped in what George H. W. Bush, running against Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, famously called «voodoo economics,» have retorted that Buffett and his limousine - liberal ilk should instead voluntarily pay more to the federal treasury, pointing out the existence of such a provision in the tax code.

Some conservatives tried to fight back against Trump, pleading with their audiences to see what they contended to be the rational point of view, but their arguments seemed to go unheard.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

As such, she adds, it «is a crucial issue for a metaphorical theology» against conservatives «who absolutize Scripture, refusing to admit its metaphorical quality,» and against «liberation theologies, especially radical feminist theologies» which «relativize Scripture to the point of undercutting the relevance of its basic images.»

Croatia's conservative opposition and the Catholic Church - the organisers of the protest - said they support combating violence against women and domestic violence, which is the main point of the convention, but are against its alleged introduction of «a third gender» into society.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

WRT your point about the MIC, I'm a conservative Christian and am quite willing to see our military capability reduced to a level consistent with what the founders envisioned as our international role (that is, a military that is capable of defending the United States against any foe, including taking the fight to the enemy, not running around being the world's cop).

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

As Long pointed out, that's sort of a dangerous game, because the GOP and Conservatives could end up spreading themselves very thin indeed, with three candidates who were supposed to be on the same team all competing against one another for the same pool of voters against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who already has the Democratic enrollment edge working for her.

It suggests the party is pulling its punches against the Conservatives — but maybe activists can embrace the hidden meaning of the figures and point out that the Lib Dems are becoming the party of tax rises.

The failure to fulfil the Tory pledge for automatic jail sentences for carrying a knife illegally and the fact the Human Rights Act still has not been replaced by a British Bill of Rights are certainly points against the Conservatives, but they were respectively scored by Ken Clarke and a Commission set up by the Prime Minister, so count as own goals.

Last night's meeting of local party members voted 108 - 84 against a motion which pointed out the demonstration was also attended by some Conservative and DUP MPs, as well as Tory peer Norman Tebbit.

The party is polling at 45 % (an increase of one point), against the Conservatives» 37 % (a decrease of one point).

The Queens Republican told me he thinks that's a moot point because he believes Rick Lazio will lose the GOP primary and get off the Conservative line (assuming he wins the primary for Row D against Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo).

A YouGov poll in January 2012 also howed Ken Livingstone with a small two point lead against then then Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, only for the Labour candidate to go on to lose.

The Conservatives tried to go on the offensive against Mr Balls yesterday, pointing out that he disagreed with the plan drawn up by the former Labour Chancellor, Alistair Darling, to halve the deficit in four years.

Their still unofficial favorite to challenge Schumer is little - known conservative lawyer Wendy Long, who was crushed by a record 46 percentage points in 2012 when she was the GOP candidate against US Sen Kirsten Gillibrand.

certainly not in sufficient numbers to stand a chance in 2020, once the Conservatives have finished loading the deck against Labour, with everything from individual electoral registration and boundary changes, through to the financing of the opposition front bench, sharpened to a fine point in order to stab the Labour party to death.

On the «forced choice» question, asking people to chose between a Brown - led Labour government and a Cameron - led Conservative one the Tories now have a seven point lead, but Cameron managed a nine - point lead in the same question against Tony Blair back in June 2006.

Up to this point, Edwards has been able to run as a culturally conservative Democrat with a limited number of negative ads against him.

The Rivera campaign in particular is pointing to contributions of $ 7,000 and $ 11,000 from businessman Roger Hertog, a conservative philanthropist who has been bankrolling efforts against Democratic legislative incumbents this year.

Labour has reversed a ten - point swing against the Conservatives in March, cutting the Tories» lead to five points in a new poll published today.

At one point, he backed Liberal Democrat local council candidates against Labour in Hull, to the anger of local Conservatives.

According to the analysis in the Telegraph, an eighteen point lead would only translate into a relatively modest majority of fifty seats, which highlights the extent to which the electoral system currently works against the Conservatives.

Meanwhile, in an article for the Mail on Sunday, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries called on MPs to vote against the re-election of Mr Bercow on Tuesday, and pointed to Tory Edward Leigh and Liberal Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell as «excellent candidates».

Bronx State Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr., 74, a conservative Democrat who briefly served in Council in 2002, won the primary and the general election against a slate of young, progressive first - time candidates for his seat, which covers Soundview, Castle Hill, Parkchester, Clason Point and Harding Park.

Ossorio recalled that Sessions voted against reauthorizing VAWA, and pointed out Trump has embraced a conservative political think tank Heritage Foundation plan that calls for cuts to VAWA.

In the 11th District, which covers a large piece of northeast Queens, including College Point, Whitestone, some of Flushing, Bayside, Fresh Meadows, Hollis Hills and the neighborhoods bordering Nassau County, Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) is running for re-election against Conservative and Republican party - backed Joseph Concannon.

But whatever the details and the fine print, history will judge yesterday was the turning point when Labour unfurled its old battle banner for social justice and the Conservatives chose to ride full tilt against it.

It's worth point out that the map in the Telegraph does seem to take into account either the potential for SNP gains in Scotland or for Conservative gains against the LibDems — in fact the map doesn't seem to show a single Conservative gain from the LibDems, which seems a little odd, as (at the very least) some «churn» between the parties is almost a given.

Dhogoza, I don't think you can point the finger at religion — conservative or otherwise — but I have noticed a tendency of many advocates of Intelligent Design to adopt a strong version of the Anthropic Principle in arguments against climate change.

The public's «sustained backlash» against the Conservative Clean Air Act suggests that Canadians have passed the tipping point when it comes to climate change, said Price.

While this point might strike some conservatives as a suspicious attempt to smuggle in the «precautionary principle» (a principle my friend Indur Goklany once railed against in a book I commissioned and edited when I was at the Cato Institute), it is intuitively correct once you think about it.

Progressive Conservative Leadership candidate Jason Kenney did them one better, accusing those who have pointed to these inconsistencies in the CAODC - Wildrose - CPC - Rebel Media narrative about Bernard the Roughneck of mounting «personal attacks» against Hancock.