Sentences with phrase «big tent of»

Sure there is big tent of common scientific beliefs, but the real definition is discovered when you cross certain boundaries.

Hayes will need Jowell's capacity to build a big tent of support across different groups to keep the seat as safe as it has become.

Socialism is a big tent of ideas, from British socialism after the second world war to Soviet.

I will celebrate beauty where I find it, in a million faces uniquely handcrafted by a generous God with a big tent of glorious womanhood.

Not exact matches

A big bonus: Two of these tents can be linked together to house six people.

While «SXSW prides itself on being a big tent and marketplace of diverse people and diverse ideas,» he wrote, it was ultimately more important to preserve «the sanctity of the big tent.»

And into the big tent for the fifth edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists.

Despite pledging to build a big tent conservative party, Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the voice of social conservatism in Alberta.

The historical success of the PC Party in Alberta between 1971 and 2015 was not based on adherence to conservative ideology but on the ability of its leaders to build a big blue tent of conservative, moderate and liberal voters.

A Norfolk meadow and a big Catholic gathering: people are pouring out of a big tent, children are running about, everyone is starting to gather for a Rosary procession.

1) Abandon the Norquist Pledge 2) State a commitment to work towards bi-partisan debt reduction, which will include a mix of taxes and spending cuts 3) Realize the populace is evolving away from religion - based politics and that it is time to formulate policy under a much bigger tent

They want the benefits of a «big tent» until holes are poked in it.

I am a rag - tag Christian myself, I borrow heavily from other traditions than my own, I learn and appreciate and welcome many expressions of faith, and Brian McLaren writes about the big gorgeous wide - open tent of Christian spirituality, and how we can cross these boundaries and false demarcations boldly, with grace.

The Catholic Church is big on symbols and, sometimes, puts too much focus on those symbols and practices than on the core tents of its faith.

Without a strategic place in the big - tent of one of the two parties, or in both, this could never be.

For years, the conservative movement has been carried along by its «big tent» philosophy, which welcomes conservatives of various types.

The hard part is serving and loving those who are critical of our efforts, those who say our tent is a little too big for the Bible Belt.

Our primate (presiding bishop) in the Anglican Church of Canada has stated that Anglicanism is a big tent.

It refers to a group who had some different beliefs and practices than other groups within the big religious tent of Judaism.

KitchenAid was one of the major sponsors of the festival and had a big tent where they were able to showcase some great, new major and small appliances.

Not much later the biggest mountain - rescue operation in U.S. history was launched — a woman in one of the other parties was reported in distress from exhaustion at the same time, complicating the situation — and after four days of suffering in a tent Day was lifted off the mountain by a helicopter flying some 1,300 feet above its rated ceiling.

I agree that as it stands right now, the Democratic party is still very much a big tent with the levers of power being held by the centrists, i.e. the Clintons / Obamas.

We need BIG fortune to steal it from them, but I myself believe that the fortune will tent to come to the hand of the best hard workers.

During the fair and the big football weekend, however, so many people were in town that the club had to move from air - conditioned indoor quarters to a tent just outside of the Cotton Bowl.

The Maryland Hunt Cup is also the biggest event of the spring season, yet except for two small tents, the orange - and - green flag of the Maryland Hunt Cup, a row of yellow trash barrels, and temporary snow fencing marking off the paddock and home stretch, it leaves the estates of Gary Black and Daniel Brewster, over which the course is flagged, virtually undisturbed.

Since we have been back they wanted to set up one of our smaller tents in our living room but our smaller tent is too big for our lack of space.

For a very reasonable rate, you can rent one of their tents (a small tent holds 25 - ish people, a large tent is available for bigger parties).

Hat, sunscreen, bug repellent, warms clothes / pj's for chilly nights, smores makins» (yes this is a must have), sleeping bags & blankets to make one big family bed in your tent, life jacket that fits really well, diapers (we still cloth diaper if we are camping near laundry facilites), swim diapers (or we just use a pocket diaper without an insert and find that it works really well to contain what it needs to and doesn't bring on lots of water), first aid kit, flashlight, rain gear, a way to get clean water (filtering it yourself or access to water at the campground), snacks, and a good campsite.

So this big time developer of high rises that ruin views, skylines and neighborhoods can't figure out how to pitch a tent in his own yard?

«to achieve what Tony Blair had failed to achieve, a realignment of British politics, a big tent involving the full participation of two of the three national parties.

To foster a non-ideological «big tent» party of ideas which serves as a think tank for the solutions to the problems we face.

At recent Compass conferences, I have discussed the need for a more progressive, pluralist politics, based not on Blair's suffocating «big tent», but on a campsite of different parties and movements, sharing common values but maintaining their own identities.

«It was about the strength and energy of a big tent - Democratic Party where labor, Indivisibles, activists come together to fight for our shared values.

«He created that big tent and some of them have just exclude themselves from offering their services to the party and that's up to them.

Pat Barrett is the personification of moderate Republicans merging with a majority of the Democrats for a new centrist big tent party!

«He has laid out a bold agenda to reform and I am proud to stand with him and this diverse group of leaders to bring New Yorkers together — regardless of their party affiliation — under this big tent and behind this agenda for reform.»

The focus of this morning's breakfast at the big tent in the Doubletree parking lot is a celebration of marriage equality and passage of the same - sex marriage bill last summer in New York.

Sunder, while I might go along with you on whether or not Mandelson's interventions now and during the campaign are helpful or not, I can't help feeling your whole conception of the «big tent» is flawed.

Later, Kudlow reiterated his big tent point, saying: «We are not just the party of angry white men, no disrespect intended.»

He plans a «big tent» approach to ensure Labour does not miss out on votes in the south of England, saying the party has to «broaden its appeal».

He easily eclipsed Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee who had turned up to lend his support, suggesting that the Tory leader's big tent approach to candidate selection — particularly in a constituency where 62 per cent of voters are from ethnic minorities — may pay dividends.»

That's good, that's the symptom of a big - tent, inclusive party that I think is the party of youth, innovation — at least it should and could be, and I think it will be.»

As one of Tony Blair's closest lieutenants, Mandelson knows the attraction for prime ministers of creating a big tent by appointing political opponents to high profile jobs.

Everyone is invited to come together, in what Cuomo said was the «big - tent theory of this campaign.»

«To survive, we're going to have to become the big tent party that we always were,» says Torrey Shearer, a member of the leadership committee of Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, which, along with Log Cabin Republicans, took out a full - page ad in Wednesday's Tampa Tribune calling on the GOP to support gay - marriage rights.

It reveals the Prime Minister's cunning masterplan to put everything that he and his predecessor built to fire and the sword, making sure that the party is not simply dented but flattened for a generation, the big tent cut into pieces and burned, the centre ground abandoned to the enemy, and anything of value utterly destroyed.

While the eschewing of political honours exemplified by Keith Hill, Tessa's sometime neighbouring MP, is impressive, there was also a lot to admire in the big tent assembled for Tessa's party.

Castro, 41, makes for a striking tableau standing next to Clinton: a rising Latino star of the Democratic Party, paired with the older, experienced, first female major party nominee, gives the sense of a big tent party.

«You know, the Democratic Party, we have a big tent, we have a lot of people with a lot of opinions and everybody has a voice and everybody wants to use it.

If such a standard bearer from the old right - wing of the party is surplus to requirements, then Jeremy Corbyn's «big tent» has suddenly become a bivouac.