Sentences with phrase «at best a conservative»

Christine is therefore at best a conservative, pedestrian biopic desperate to make sense of something incomprehensible.

Not exact matches

The New Democratic Party and the Liberals, therefore, would do no better at boosting economic growth than the Conservative Party is right now.

Trudeau has emerged as a pipeline champion, with a good shot at seeing construction on two projects, Energy East and Trans Mountain, start during his first term in power — something his Conservative predecessor, Stephen Harper, didn't achieve in nine years.

But while the RNC's new recommendations may not be directly aimed at quashing another Paul's White House run, conservative activists argue that the changes to the primary process would inevitably benefit candidates who are well - funded and have high - name recognition, to the detriment of those who draw their support from the GOP's activist base.

Among the many well - known Canadians scheduled as «participants» were Stephen Harper's Conservative cabinet ministers Stockwell Day (who at first denied attending) and the then - defence minister Gordon O'Connor, deputy ministers (Defence) Ward Elcock, Peter Harder (Foreign Affairs), Associate Deputy Minister William Elliott (Public Security), Liberal continentalist Anne McLellan, Canada's former deputy prime minister and a defender of the oil patch, the Alberta minister of energy, Greg Melchin, General Rick Hillier, Canada's chief of defence staff, former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty, now president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the infamous continentalist Thomas d'Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, Rear Admiral Roger Girouard, Maj. - Gen.

At one time governments, both Liberal and Conservative, asked their public servants to provide their best advice, regardless of disagreement, wanted policy options costed, and were even willing to publish reports and analysis and defend them in public.

The bill looks tenuous at best, beset by criticism from moderate and conservative Republicans alike, but Trump promised a happy ending.

A 3 % return is a good conservative dividend yield at market prices but over time, if you are carefully choosing your dividend investments, you can grow that dividends.

There is a lack of leadership in the (Conservative party) at the moment and John Walsh is filling the void, for better or worse.»

«At this Conservative Party conference, we'll be setting out very clearly how, as Conservatives in government, we will build the road for a better future for people.»

«Father Conroy is a good man and I am grateful for his many years of service to the House,» the Wisconsin Republican said at the Weekly Standard's Midwest Conservative Summit in Milwaukee.

Investors are well advised to make only conservative projections and then invest only at a substantial discount from valuations derived there from.»

Investors are well advised to make only conservative projections and then invest only at a substantial discount from the valuations derived therefrom» Seth Klarman

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

While it may not feel like it every quarter or year, we are building what we believe is a truly conservative global portfolio of our best ideas, one company at a time, to maximize returns over a multi-year period.

At this point, the stock is best suited for conservative accounts seeking income and dividend growth potential.

The urge to merge the right has become something of a mania in Calgary, where weâ $ ™ ve heard of at least four groups working on schemes to bring conservatives together into some sort of, well, call it...

It doesn't do Paul, Bachmann, and Santorum any good to attack Romney as not conservative enough at this point because the votes that Romney loses will tend to go to Perry.

That is the best single sentence summary I can give after three exhausting and sometimes mind - numbing days at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Back in the 80s I think it was, when there was a war going on between the fundamentalist wing of the church and those who were merely conservative (and the few who were moderate), one of the fundamentalist leaders gave a speech or sermon in which he said, «If the Southern Baptist Convention votes that pickles are divine, then the professors at our seminaries had better start teaching that indeed pickles are divine.»

I myself am wary» not merely out of conservative instincts, I hope, but for good theological reasons at which I have at least hinted.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

The best known effort was a college course (t itled «Renewing American Civilization») at a third - rate college that Gingrich nakedly used to recruit and organize conservative candidates, and to feed them his carefully constructed ideology and political slogans.

Not the socially conservative, servant of feel good capitalism that is so prevalent in the U. S. And let's look at it this way, if that mysoginist, drug addicted coward, Rush Limbaugh thinks what the Pope is doing is socialism, then the Pope must be doing something right.

If you don't like how conservative evangelicals proselytize, then preach the gospel better, but don't not preach it at all.

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.»)

-- what you are saying is that people on the margins making outrageous statements are representative of Conservative and Christian conservatives - that is not so, I can't get you to admit that what you are doing is irresponsible and represents a swipe at a lot of good people.

True, there has also been much pettiness at the Council as well as exaggerated caution in some respects and hesitations between conservative and progressive attitudes.

I now understand better the conservative character and structure of the church, having been working within it (or at its edges) as a priest for about 16 years.

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

Conservative candidate for Aylesbury, David Lidington, said: «Whether you look at Ebola and our response to that, whether you look at the # 2.3 billion that was allocated to humanitarian relief in the Syrian refugee crisis, I think the Conservative Party can say that we've got a good track record on delivering practical policies with that clear ethical foundation.»

At the time this sounded like a good, conservative, law - and - order response to crime.

At this moment, the Republican party, and the conservative cause with it, has a better than even chance of claiming an across the board supremacy in next November's election.

You can look at the Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ and find some congregations that are doing very well, but they tend to be more conservative theologically.»

He finds current expressions of both to be internally divisive as well as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.

He's well known for being theologically Reformed and regularly preaches at the heartland of the conservative evangelical, the Keswick Convention.

At first this criticism was limited to fundamentalism's conservative culture and its conservative political leanings; but the criticism has gradually, one is tempted to say inexorably, been extended to include conservative Protestant theology as well.

So we've read the studies, often written in the spirit of Tocqueville, that American conservative Christians are distinguished by their philanthropic generosity and their voluntary care giving, and their churches, at their best at least, are attentive to the whole lives of particular persons.

Hey Don... you better take a closer look at things because many many conservative right wingers don't want Romney either.

Conservative Christians are very good at it.

Well, at least we can depend on them to act with a high degree of fiscal responsibility... my god, you mean to tell me that the conservatives have tanked the economy every time they've been in office since the Nixon administration?

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

If you are going to spout utter nonsense then it would be better to condemn the ev (il) angelicans that tell their congregations that murdering people is OK and demanding justice for the thousands of child brides and spousal ra - pe and abuse that conservative ev (il) angelicans seem to excel at.

I earned my master's and doctoral degrees at a conservative biblical seminary to better equip myself to «rightly divide the word of truth.»

At the same time, I want to make a plea for radical conservatives — conservatives who are ready to critique and abandon what is not good in the past.

P.O.D. is good at it, though the group has received little support from the Christian music industry and quite a bit of criticism when it toured each year as part of the «Ozzfest,» a raucous rock festival headlined by one of conservative Christianity's worst nightmares, Ozzy Osbourne.

Realism generally turns out to be very conservative, positing at best a grudging contentment with things as they are.

The Americanists supported, even celebrated, the American arrangement, while the conservatives (like most senior Roman officials of the day) found it tolerable at best.