Sentences with phrase «based liberal think»

«It was irresistible for state and local officials to say, «Let's pocket that money and use it to replace our contributions so everyone can feel good about it,»» said James Parrott, chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, a Manhattan - based liberal think tank.

Not exact matches

The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

«The point of my going was that I wanted to be a songwriter for a living, and I thought that it would make me a better songwriter to have a solid liberal arts and humanities basis,» he said.

But that is how many liberals think; based on assumptions; put there by liberal education.

Specifically, I will argue that Whitehead's perspective yields an understanding of happiness sufficiently different from the liberal view that Whitehead's thought can be the basis for a transcendence of the liberal tradition.

I think it is possible to make some calculated guesses based upon current tendencies within the liberal church.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

Based on your thinking, if we had 5 liberal justices the ruling would have went the other way because their morals are different.

The only way they can hold the existing party together is to hope for an evolution in thought over the next 4 years, producing a more socially liberal base (possible... but won't happen quickly) or to have some other very large even occur which puts the dems in such a bad light as to lift the pressure (possible, but won't reverse the social trends).

I think that with Obama there has been obviously a shift away from the kind of aggressive philosophically based approach of the Bush years to a liberal pragmatic one; and of course that is also opposed to what would be called conservative pragmatic approach, what Trevor might label «back to basics».

The «Yes on 8» campaign got attention, not only for taking a forward - thinking and integrated approach to using the Internet, but for demonstrating that having a younger, more liberal base doesn't necessitate Web prowess.

Indeed, when we find similar things advanced, they are organized by liberal elites (e.g. Bernie Sanders supporters) thinking to use the poor as a power base **.

«We think Bill de Blasio is vulnerable... We see him as particularly vulnerable when it comes to his liberal base.»

But when it came time to choose a keynote speaker for the San Francisco convention's opening night, Mondale thought of Cuomo right away: Who better to set the tone for the convention and shore up the party's traditional blue - collar base than the eloquent and emphatically liberal Italian - American governor of New York?

Good Piece, However i think your wrong, the liberals will pull out once the AV is defeated and allow a minority goverment to continue on a vote by vote basis and start the campaign to repair themselfes ahead of the next general election, only to find themselfes in the same position again, except this time it will end up a lib — lab pact.

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: «I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money, while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections, instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

When we have vegans out there eating these plant - based - saturated fats, in such liberal quantities, i think it is important for Dr. Gregor to address whether or not the detrimental effects of saturated fats talked about in this video, as well as other videos, applies to plant based saturated fats as well.

However, the Indian online dating scene has evolved to satisfy... based in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, at IndianCupid you'd think a more liberal society awaits, instead the site asks, «Are you manglik?»

However, the Indian online dating scene has evolved to satisfy... based in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, at IndianCupid you'd think a more liberal society...

With its # 44,700 base price inflated to # 59,475 with some rather liberal option box ticking, you'd think» our» RS3 would have a want - for - nothing spec.

In no particular order: Forecast; The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human; Investing: The Last Liberal Art; The Signal and the Noise; The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing; Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes; The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe; Risk; Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World; and Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order).

The school offered, at least initially, a fairly broad - based liberal arts program, with art itself, modernist in mood, at the center, available to all, not necessarily as a professional pursuit but as a means of unlocking creative thinking in students in every field.

Bard College seeks to realize the best features of American liberal arts education, enabling individuals to think critically and act creatively based on a knowledge and understanding of human history, society and the arts.

This Easter Bunny fable is the basis of «policy» thinking of many liberal politicians.

Many right wing newspapers allow a mostly liberal based editorial section to give the appearance of objectivity and fool readers that way into thinking that that actual articles in the paper are not right wing.

Brian Lee Crowley, managing director of the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, an Ottawa - based think tank, said the federal Liberals are in a «no - win» situation.

I find it difficult to comprehend Ralph Martire as the head of a Chicago - based (supposedly) bipartisan economic think tank when he is actually a well - known liberal expounding Keynesian policies.