Sentences with phrase «better than liberal»

e.g. Progressives, has little to do with progress, but it sounds better than liberal:) So looking for a logical reason why phrases mean what they do can just be chalked up to colloquialisms.

To recall the set of propositions that opened this article, one can make justifiable judgments here: Some people were advancing causes of racial minorities and women better than liberal Protestants or Christians in general.

They've been no better than liberals.

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.

There is a great debate to be had on whether a corporate tax cut would be better for Ontarians than, say, the Liberal pension plan (which has its own problems).

They also said he'd do a better job than Liberals» Justin Trudeau and the NDP's Tom Mulcair in leading a trade mission or offering the best ideas for investing.

Not the position of liberal economist Paul Krugman, who recently argued in his New York Times column that doing nothing would be better than preserving the Bush tax cuts for higher - income earners.

Though in some ways, the Liberals are doing a better job than their predecessors.

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

Fitting NAFTA into that aspirational, elevated, internationalist, decidedly un-Trumpian frame conforms better with the self - image of Liberals, and many other Canadians, than the more familiar positioning of free trade as a priority of corporate lobbyists.

«Boston University» is better than «liberal arts college.»

The Liberals also made good on their promise to introduce a new 33 % tax bracket for people who earn more than $ 200,000 each year.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

«The Liberal government has done more harm than good to B.C.'s mining industry, from cuts leading to disasters to failing on the promise to open eight mines and expand nine by 2015,» said Conroy.

However, Layton was better able to unify the moderates and policy hawks — «Jack had the aura of being an activist,» Kopyto said — than was Mulcair, who came to the NDP fold after quitting the Quebec Liberal cabinet.

@Ben What is your basis for concluding that people in the fields of math, medicine, and engineering are «better educated» than those who pursue liberal arts?

Do you or Obama, or any other liberal, know more or better than God?

The liberal that takes happy meals away is somehow better in your eyes than the conservative that wants to limit $ exualization of our society by corporate interests.

He clearly bested Al Gore in the debates in 2000, though this was more the result of Gore's own implosion than Bush's skill; and he held his own against John Kerry, whom the liberal media had built up as an intellectual giant.

So even in the category where liberals gain members, they end up losing: the members they lose are «better» than the ones they attract.

Following Murray, he credits a Calvinist influence with tempering the founders» own liberal impulses, allowing them to build «better than they knew.»

In a clip (see above) for CNN's «Crossfire,» she argues that conservative atheists are «better» than liberal nonbelievers.

It's good that you are more liberal than many Christians, but that is certainly not applicable to the VAST MAJORITY of them.

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

Liberal Wesleyans decided that an emphasis on the Second Blessing as an immediate possibility for all believers did more harm than good.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

The new liberal church will not forget its heritage; indeed, the hope is that it will do a better job of remembering that heritage than did the old liberal church.

Fidesz in Hungary is more threatening than the Saudi monarchy, even though the latter is far less liberal, because Fidesz represents a retrogression — a deliberate rejection of liberalism by a nation that was previously a member in good standing of the liberal order.

Well Rick, then I guess that, just as with modern people of African descent, liberals are way more genetically diverse than everyone else.

In thus embracing a status that will be closer to «sectarian» than these churches are accustomed to, I would hope that liberal Protestantism might become less timid and less grudging in its commitment to religious pluralism — or better, in its religious commitment to pluralism.

With such major centers of the new evangelicalism as Fuller Seminary now showing a good deal more affinity to neo-orthodoxy than to fundamentalism (see Gerald T. Sheppard, «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review 32 [Winter 1977, pp. 81 - 94]-RRB-, surely we must be cautious both about assuming flatly a «decline» of classic liberalism and about implying a one - to - one relation between the liberal ideologies, whatever their current condition, and the oldline denominational structures.

Universality of religious experience, liberals claim, is a better guide than historical particularity.

I make this extended autobiographical introduction to indicate how in the liberal Methodist tradition I first encountered the guilt complex about missions which I have since come to know so well after living more than two decades in the West.

However, I credit this to his postmodern education, as well as his insular existence as a favored son of an elite liberal culture that rewards irony and critique rather than conviction.

At less than their best, however, liberals have been too certain of uncertainty.

His evaluation of politics is shaped by the conviction that Christianity has understood human possibilities and limitations better than its Marxist and liberal competitors, so that the prospects for the future depend greatly on recovering Christian insights, understanding them and using them to shape our political expectations.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

I am a liberal chrisian, but this article expresses my views better than anything l have read.

Religion looks more complicated today than it did some 50 years ago, when a tolerant liberal Protestantism shorn of the irrational and the pagan seemed to fit well with a liberal political regime.

Ask mainliners and they will say that liberal Protestant men are certainly better husbands and fathers than are the conservatives who follow the blatant patriarchy of a James Dobson or Jerry Falwell.

By virtue of the fact that liberal democracy is an association of communities, each of which has its own vision of God and the good, rather than itself being the highest institutional expression of one such community, it does indeed operate without a common substantive conception of the good.

Yes, Jesus a Liberal... and Ken you are a frightened human being... let it go... I'm not pushing anything on anyone... Christ loves everyone... man was made in God's image so deal with it... and me2 you and I both know it was the conservatives who wanted slavery... Abe Lincoln would be sickened by what has happened to his party... he was a man who stood on principle and believed in good for the common man... way different than the party you are tied to... Price... I agree with you in that there are many good Christians... unfortunately, there are many who are very ignorant and use Christ / God as a convenient excuse to denounce what they don't accept...

Actually, I incline to think it would be a better education for this purpose than the liberal arts one.

Again... being conservative does not make one evil no more than being liberal makes one good.

But now here is where we must attend to Hauerwas» position carefully, for he does have a strong answer to the question about the wrongs of separatism — but it is an essentially theological one rather than the one we might expect from a liberal trained in the insipid virtue of «tolerance» we moderns love so well.

I am certainly no «bleeding - heart liberal» but the Republican party advocates a far too invasive government, and currently it is run by criminals who care more for personal profits than for what is best for the nation.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

Liberals go out of their way to twist the 1st Amendment to cover all sorts of «freedoms» in the name of free speech, yet the clear wording in the 2nd isn't good enough... There are bigger issues here than ARs and magazine capacity people...

The Christian church does more good for the poor than any and every liberal on the planet, its just not reported on.

Discussing his opposition to same - sex marriage, Liberal MP Kevin Andrews said children who are brought up with a mother and father are «better off than those who are not».