Sentences with phrase «as social progressives»

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He characterizes the social climate under President Trump as «hostile,» and adds that even in Seattle, a famously progressive area of the country, he now hears the occasional racial slur on the street.

Alberta's Progressive Conservative tent is a broad one, including constituencies such as small - town social conservatives, fiscally conservative suburbanites and Calgary's white - collar oilpatch.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

As mentioned, these will likely take the shape of new and progressive social policies that will vastly address the income and social inequalities plaguing the country.

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long - term partner in Berkshire - Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), usually offers a counter to Buffett's social democrat policy recommendations, such as higher progressive taxes.

But translate them into our red vs. blue political sphere --- as orthodox believers usually prioritize abortion over other issues, while progressives prioritize social justice --- and the result is an absolute wreck.

These efforts gathered steam in the early years of the last century as the Progressive Movement sought at once to break the power of the old party bosses and to bring the insights of the social sciences to bear on public life.

Thus, even though actual occasions are «the final real things of which the world is made up» (PR 18/27), societies as the progressive «layers of social order» into which they are organized are clearly of equal importance for the self - constitution of the universe from moment to moment.

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the banning of bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»

The political and social attitudes of its members and the message of its pulpit have not been particularly progressive, but the tolerance for diversity carries over to these areas as well.

The Progressive view is that our understanding of ourselves and government has evolved for the better, and so we can trust BIG GOVERNMENT to do more for us as social or even somewhat organic beings.

As we see the growth of a progressive spiritual vision, the more rigid elements will feel threatened as they lose social ground and dig in their heels, becoming more aggressivAs we see the growth of a progressive spiritual vision, the more rigid elements will feel threatened as they lose social ground and dig in their heels, becoming more aggressivas they lose social ground and dig in their heels, becoming more aggressive.

Insofar as the Progressives were Darwinians, we see another similarity: Darwinian conservative Larry Arnhart is one of the defenders of the goodness of our social natures in service to the species against this self - obsessed liberationism.

The difference lies mainly in the fact that the earlier exponents of the social gospel thought of the coming of the kingdom of God as progressive growth toward a better world through the conquest of these social evils.

Balmer wrote his book, however, as an evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and progressive social activism around the poor, women, and ethnic minorities.

Today, that is largely forgotten, as all three recognize his greatness: progressives, as an activist for peace and social justice; conservatives, as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government, as a symbol of national unity and American principles.

Our country's experience (as well as that of other progressive nations) has taught us that social solutions can be found to serve the health and welfare needs of people, enabling them to live better lives.

As he and others busy themselves with providing proof of Merrick's humanity — in order to shore up their own secular faith in a progressive social Darwinism and in their own decadent moral order — they expose their hollow theatricality and the futility of their «progress.»

Progressives clearly realize that parents are using religious schools as a sanctuary, hoping to shield their children from the materialistic culture and anti-traditional social agenda that have overwhelmed the public schools.

The social context is where we usually spend our time as we deal with progressives.

Whereas the old left, from the Progressive Era to the Depression, openly asserted the interests of the «working man» and organized labor, advocates of feminism, diversity, and gender identity, and neoliberal economics, too, justify their positions as a generic social justice or economic freedom.

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

Recent economic and social developments have led thoughtful people to question the progressive paradigm as never before.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) is a collective of progressive palm oil companies and brands together with environmental and social NGOs that are working to build on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil standards and commitments by both demonstrating innovation to implement RSPO existing standards as well as additional critical issues.

«They know it is madness that so - called progressive, liberal, human - rights, or social - justice people of any race or culture have remained mightily silent as these police shootings have been going down coast to coast.»

Always more pleased with itself than its record would warrant, social democracy must now make a true reckoning with that history if it is to emerge from the current crisis as a continuing force for progressive change.

Progressives saw it as an instrument of social equity and international understanding.

The reason is because the left, and a certain portion of the progressive right believe that is is the governments job to pro-actively address social problems of those classes seen as vulnerable.

Having served billions of targeted voter - matched digital ads online, social media, and mobile devices over the past five years and helping to elect scores of Democrats up and down the ballot for offices ranging from senator and governor to state legislator and school board member, DSPolitical has earned a reputation as a progressive ally and committed innovator.

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

There are indications that the camp of the Social Democratic Party is in disarray as the news of the resolution of the crisis in the All Progressives Congress broke on Monday.

It also takes a progressive approach to social policies such as animal rights, LGBTIQ rights and drug policy reform, and believes strongly in nonviolence, basic material security, and democratic participation.

CFD serves the political needs of the Upper West Side by promoting and organizing progressive opinion on local, state and national issues, as well as supporting Democratic candidates dedicated to peace, progress and social justice.

Ironically, as the trade union movement recognises, the EU's progressive policies to soften market competition through social policy contrast with the market - oriented Anglo - Saxon economic model.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

(CNN)- Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley championed a series of progressive causes during a policy speech in Washington Thursday, touting his state's economic record as evidence that encouraging liberal social issues can lead to prosperity.

Let's see how Laurie Cumbo's colleagues in the Progressive Caucus respond to her blatantly anti-Semitic comments... should be an interesting test of where the Council is heading and what kind of leeway they will grant to stupidity disguised as social justice.

As we showed immediately after the Budget, the Chancellor's claim that the spending changes he announced were «progressive» has always been contentious — significantly the Treasury's modelling did not include a third of social security changes, including cuts to Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance, and only changes up until 2012/13 were considered.

The W.F.P. challenge is the most tangible manifestation of the frustration expressed by progressives toward Cuomo, and their displeasure that he has governed as a fiscal moderate, choosing to burnish his liberal credentials with social issues, like a push to legalize same - sex marriage and a new gun control law passed after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Those terms as I stated in the first paragraph however are too simplistic for a modern world where libertarians are often very progressive (left) on social issues such as gay marriage but are fiscally very conservative (right).

Over the next decade, a wide range of progressive social reforms were enacted, [68][69] with millions lifted out of poverty during Labour's time in office largely as a result of various tax and benefit reforms.

Kingson, a professor of social work at SU, launched his campaign as a progressive alternative to Deacon.

All progressives must work as hard as possible with the remaining social liberal wing — whether they take back their party or break away — it is essential that a centre - right coalition doesn't become the default option in British politics.

But the Reeves - inspired letter was highly misleading in trying to present the Lib Dems as being also progressive (relative to others) on tax and social policy.

Europeans were excited by him, as he seemed to reflect the progressive social and intellectual ideals Europe aspires to.

Also listed as parties with candidates are the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Social Democratic Party (SDP) and United Progressive Party (UPP).

The only problem is that such a beastie does NOT quite exist in USA as a political party - a vast majority of US left wing parties, Communist included, tend to have much more progressive social policies (# 2)- see below.