Sentences with phrase «as conservative forces»

At a time when gender roles are becoming ever more fluid, just as conservative forces redouble their efforts to control women's bodies, The Great Mother offered some much - needed perspective.

That I agree with, though in many cases, religion acts as the Conservative force within a society.

To apply evidence of where in the world and how religion has acted either as a conservative force or a force for social change.

Not exact matches

Dante Dallavalle: A lot of conservatives and liberals alike are touting the bill as supportive of small community banks and community development banks, because it no longer forces them to comply with regulations.

In the House, the newly elected conservative Republicans identified this as an opportunity to force the Administration to impose severe cuts in domestic spending as a pre-requisite to raising the ceiling.

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

As a result, anyone who sees the value of tradition is forced into a conscious role of being «conservative,» or to use Eliot's term, «orthodox.»

Even as they sound the trumpet for battle, many conservatives acknowledge that theirs is a holding action, and that the 1997 General Convention may force a decision about continuing membership in the Episcopal Church.

The chapter entitled «Waging Identity Wars» forced me to confront some of the reasons why I can be cruel and dismissive toward conservative evangelicals (``... when we're suffering an identity crisis, we take cheap shots at other groups in order to feel better about ourselves») and how to move forward (``... we must affirm who we really are as the people of God before we can begin to interact with each other as the people of God.»)

The attribution of cause here is a little one - sided, as though the poor liberals were forced into their un - and anti-religious positions entirely by the conservatives» donning of the religious mantle.

There is no conflict here... Conservative Christians want just as much as you to help the poor and needy and yes we do not want to be forced by the government to do so.

The absence of serious moral debate leaves conservative and even reactionary moral forces as the only voice on the subject of homosexuality.

He says conservatives like Dreher and Douthat are foolish to hail him as some kind of truth - teller to and about conservative elites, that the reality is he is an enabler of American personal irresponsibility and what's more, a force for political evil....

On the other hand, conservative anxiety about unbridled sexual appetites fails to appreciate the sheer delight of sexual union as a force for good.

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

However, liberals as well as conservatives will miss the full force of Coover's book if they see it merely as heavy - handed political satire.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.

The conservative methods were described by Roy Honeycutt, former president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as «unholy forces» threatening to destroy cherished Baptist traditions of soul liberty and priesthood of the believer.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

As a beneficiary of over 9 months of nurturing, selfless «ninny» (as my mother learned to call it) back in the still - repressed, conservative Catholic, Pentagon / Air Force - strict environment of Washington, DC where I spent my formative years, I can only imagine how many «stinky bathrooms» and private places like our Volkswagen Bug, etc. she must have had to find when it was time to eaAs a beneficiary of over 9 months of nurturing, selfless «ninny» (as my mother learned to call it) back in the still - repressed, conservative Catholic, Pentagon / Air Force - strict environment of Washington, DC where I spent my formative years, I can only imagine how many «stinky bathrooms» and private places like our Volkswagen Bug, etc. she must have had to find when it was time to eaas my mother learned to call it) back in the still - repressed, conservative Catholic, Pentagon / Air Force - strict environment of Washington, DC where I spent my formative years, I can only imagine how many «stinky bathrooms» and private places like our Volkswagen Bug, etc. she must have had to find when it was time to eat!

The Conservative party was being forced to engage in some vigorous soul - searching this morning, as it woke up to one of its most humiliating by - election results in memory.

After the state Conservative Party (as per usual) tried to force the issue with the GOP, announcing its early support for Turner, Cox intervened in that struggle on Turner's behalf.

When Britain's third party can put aside its differences on issues such as Europe and our nuclear deterrent to join forces with the Conservatives, it must make us question the relevance of dog - tagging parties with ideological values of old.

They want to weaken the forces that prevent them from shaping the future as they imagine it must be: the sentimental Left, the statist EU, the traditional Conservative party.

That negated the EU issue for UKIP and forced them to focus on more substantive issues such as immigration, but also the economy and the budget deficit where the Conservatives had a much stronger reputation.

For it is conservatives that most often distrust ideology as a force, thanks to a school of conservatism which believes conservatism itself to be a non-ideology or an anti-ideology.

I am of the opinion that in the event Paladino were to take another run for Governor and only were to seek the Conservative Line, that he would end up with the GOP Line as well if he were to collect signatures and force a primary.

Labour tried to outmanoeuvre the Conservatives on the issue of pornography today, as it threw its support behind plans to force internet users to «opt - in'to online sexual content.

This is unlikely to make them very receptive to accepting the need for more austerity - as the Lib Dems and Conservatives have been forced to - by offering joint spending plans to 2017/18.

Thus Conservative MPs - led by Claire Perry and backed by Labour - have forced the government to propose website blocking as part of the armoury for the regulator.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

But the pair then gave every indidcation that they wanted to join forces with Labour as they pledged to try to strike alliances with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.

The AfD could end up as the biggest opposition force in the national assembly if there is a re-run of the current coalition of Merkel's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD)-- one of the most likely scenarios.

Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.

And it won't make the Conservatives any less electable in five years time, who will be seen as the dominant force in the coalition.

Just as Cameron's conservatives sought to rebrand and realign themselves as a progressive force, so today leading thinkers on the left are reaching into conservative and communitarian traditions for inspiration and political renewal.

The incarnation of the Conservative Party as an anti-establishment force was, and perhaps remains, Norman Tebbit.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and HesslAs you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and Hesslas candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

And Conservative Home's new poll shows that while Tory supporters do not want to see David Cameron and Menzies Campbell sitting together at the Cabinet table, there are areas — such as decentralisation — they could join forces on.

The Conservatives would also fund schemes to get graduates to serve in schools, police forces, prisons, and social care and mental health organisations — so they can use «their talents to tackle entrenched social problems», as detailed in their manifesto.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

But later in the day, the Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock was given a rough ride by Eurosceptic Conservative MPs in the Commons, as he sought to justify the decision; and Heywood was forced to explain his thinking to MPs on the public administration committee.

Bohen, Democrats said, didn't just run as a matter of convenience on the GOP line, but he was actively aided by Republican and Conservative party forces in his run against Burke.

Electoral reform is viewed as a key policy goal for Liberal Democrat grassroots activists, who many Conservative ministers fear could force the premature collapse of the coalition if they do not succeed in making major policy gains.

The chief whip and former international development secretary apologised, met members of the Police Federation and avoided the Conservative party's autumn conference in Birmingham, but was finally forced to resign as public anger about his rant — and what it said about the ruling Conservatives — forced him to quit.

Many conservatives attempted to frame Mr. Hoffman's defeat as a victory, saying that despite Mr. Hoffman's loss, conservatives prevailed because the moderate Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, was forced out of the race.

Under New Labour, Ukip was subject to infiltration by members of the BNP (until, that is, the BNP started beating them regularly in local elections) and split between those who saw it as a group to exert pressure on the Conservatives, and those who wanted it to be an electoral force in its own right.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.