Sentences with phrase «as illiberal»

I'm still unconvinced that Will has taken the full measure of the criticisms of «open primaries» as illiberal and bad for democracy.

And I would not regard that equalities and anti-discrimination legislation as illiberal

Not exact matches

Finally, illiberal leaders can utilize China as rhetorical alternative to Brussels and the liberal values underpinning the EU.

Politically pragmatic liberalism may be practically necessary in pluralistic societies, but as an individualistic secular ideology it is no more viable in the long run than its illiberal counterparts.

And let us be aware of the price that Christians are asked to pay as they are increasingly targeted by the illiberal secular thought police.

But though I would never cease to harbor the altogether illiberal belief in the existence of unmitigated evil, something else, which continued as always to lie in wait for American intellectuals, was also lying in wait for me.

When I'm out speaking to churches and other organizations, I can use your article as a prime example of all that's wrong and illiberal in liberal thinking and how unfair it is to those who don't agree with the totalizing claims of sexual liberation.

The piece (which truly is, in the words of the Italian blog quoted above «un odioso articolo») begins as it means to go on, in a tone of open ridicule (and incidentally, why, when these people are so utterly illiberal in their undisguised contempt for those trying to be faithful to the Magisterium, do we continue to call them «liberals»?).

Either way, homophobia is classed as other: an illiberal force from outside our society, or a twisted psychological seed from within an evil individual.

Clarke's Green Paper on sentencing policy reform, while not by any means ideal, is easily the best thing we can hope for on several fronts, including especially the national scandal of IPPs; and Clarke, with LibDem help, is an essential brake on illiberal proposals, instincts and policies elsewhere in government, especially the home office (as usual).

Critical scholars can not ignore such voices for they underline the necessity of moving beyond interpretations that view the politics of building peace as driven by a Manichean split between liberal and illiberal political epistemologies.

These statements come from a Minister who in the past has attacked secularism as «intolerant and illiberal», has said that religious people contribute more to society than the non-religious, has championed religious groups as being at the heart of the «Big Society», and even tried to amend the Equality Bill in a way which would leave humanists unprotected against discrimination and unequal treatment in the provision of, and access to, public services, employment, education, funding, and elsewhere.

«As well as being illiberal and unworkable, it's flawed in that it spreads resource too thin,» says DavidsoAs well as being illiberal and unworkable, it's flawed in that it spreads resource too thin,» says Davidsoas being illiberal and unworkable, it's flawed in that it spreads resource too thin,» says Davidson.

They denounced the moves — designed to make it difficult for youngsters to access explicit sites — as «illiberal» and overwhelmingly demanded a rethink by the Coalition.»

«And so if I have one message for you this afternoon, my friends, it is that this illiberal analysis is deeply and dangerously wrong and that these social and political freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom to practice whatever religion you want and to live your life as you please - these freedoms are not inimical to prosperity — they are in fact essential to sustained growth.»

While martial law can be justifiable in certain contexts, the way it has been deployed as cover for extrajudicial killings, mistreatment of alleged suspects, and created an atmosphere of fear highlights the illiberal tendencies of Duterte's presidency, and, is reason for concern.

''... unless the government re-thinks its proposals, then a number of bodies — such as Conservative Home — are going to be caught up in misconceived and illiberal legal regime.»

The last thing the UK's centre - left wants and Labour needs, is an avuncular illiberal paternalist such as Ed Balls.

The best way to combat illiberal government policy is not to blame the Remainers for it: most of us loathe such policies, and Remainers as a group are hardly in charge of the political agenda anyway.

For too long and on too many issues, the party's leadership has set out its stall as a function of what other parties might find acceptable — the ugliest example being secret courts, where conference was told explicitly that Liberal Democrats shouldn't oppose the illiberal use of secret evidence, because both Tories and Labour support it.

The shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, said he was appalled by the home secretary's comments, which he described as «so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided», while the Tory MP and former attorney general Dominic Grieve said he was disappointed by the intervention.

Yet as Princeton University economist Thomas Leonard documents in his book Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press, 2016) and former New York Times editor Adam Cohen reminds us in his book Imbeciles (Penguin, 2016), eugenics fever swept America in the early 20th century, culminating in the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, in which the justices legalized sterilization of «undesirable» citizens.

Several studies found white men prefer Asian women because they are seen as «homely» — obedient and faithful — as compared to Asian men, who are possibly unappealing because of their reputation for being domineering, hierarchical and illiberal.

Everett (Dermot Mulroney) has arrived with a brittle, stuck - up, illiberal, and overly ambitious fiancée, Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker); and despite the family's assurances that they like her very much, they don't like her a bit — especially when she wrecks Christmas Eve dinner by suggesting that a gay child (as opposed to a «normal» one) might be something that a parent wouldn't wholeheartedly welcome (because, you know, it's such a tough life).

Or as Zakaria notes, «Illiberal democracies gain legitimacy, and thus strength, from the fact that they are reasonably democratic.»

This model has been labeled as «illiberal democracy» or «electoral authoritarianism» in the past, yet regardless of the title these regimes comprise almost one - third of all existing governments found across the globe.

Some cats which have consumed canned fish merchandise meant for humans have developed potentially critical neurological issues Milk will not be typically really helpful as a treat for cats, as many cats are lactose - illiberal and can develop gastrointestinal problems if fed dairy merchandise.

It then identifies how this form of cognitive decisionmaking bias generates «cognitive illiberalism,» a legal and political decisionmaking bias that poses the same threat to constitutional freedoms as consciously illiberal forms of state action.

When, suddenly, thanks to a whistle - blower (whom the prominent Illiberals in Congress want prosecuted [thehill.com], BTW), we learn of the massive prosecutorial misconduct (some of it, such as deleting files after receiving Freedom of Information requests, outright criminal), that affects a substantial amount of evidence against us, we move for the «court» to dismiss the entire case.

Although the Court of Appeal shared the sympathies which Mr Justice McCombe had previously expressed for police officers «who have to confront day in and day out the realities of life rather than the black letter law which this court has to apply» (see Bonner v DPP [2004] EWHC 2415 (Admin), [2004] All ER (D) 74 (Oct)-RRB-, it recognised, as indeed it must, that if the law were to be changed, it was to be achieved by Parliament using the legislative process rather than by the courts according the statutory provision a «liberal» (or illiberal) interpretation.

The contrary result would be, as the Court notes, intolerant and illiberal.

Misleading: This proposition significantly understates the involvement of lawyers, individually and as a group, in events and activities that have sometimes been regressive, illiberal and elitist.

A multimillionaire, he's presented himself as the standard - bearer for Hungary's Christian identity and an architect of what he describes as an «illiberal democracy.»