Sentences with phrase «by a liberal political»

The truth is that we now live in an age very different from that of the mid-twentieth century, one characterized by liberal political disenchantment, in which secularists aspire to create space for liberal freedoms, but no longer aspire to a deep form of social and philosophical unity.

It was obvious throughout that one was written by a conservative and the other by a liberal political scientist.

Not exact matches

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal reviewPolitical scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal reviewpolitical agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

The billionaire investor is scaling back his role in the tech industry because he feels alienated by the liberal - leaning political climate in the San Francisco area and fears the effects of increased regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

But if by taking a run at Mark Carney, these Liberals have initiated a never - ending cycle of speculation about the possible political ambitions of future Governors of the Bank of Canada, they will have weakened — perhaps fatally — the foundations of Canadian monetary policy.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

In the end, he told his caucus to vote for the Liberal motion, which was enough to get Scheer called a «backstabber» by Ezra Levant, whose Rebel Media more or less defines the far right end of the political mainstream in Canada.

Every time I get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all I do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon I realize the propaganda and hate these clowns try and spread about their own political / religious views I revert back to supporting the more liberal viewpoint).

Inspired by conservative political pundit Ezra Levant «s book by the same name, the Ethical Oil website purports to «encourage people, businesses and governments to choose Ethical Oil from Canada, its oil sands and other liberal democracies.»

I beleive that Liberal Socialists who feel threatened by Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists fear their political power so much, that even President Obama is a blind naive proponent of tollerance to Islamic Shariah Law as he funded the Great Iman of NYC.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

It would be easy to take shelter in the categories determined by cultural and political ideologies: so - called conservative Catholics are expected to reject or downplay the urgency of environmental protection, and so - called liberal or progressive Catholics are expected to downplay marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

From the liberal standpoint, the essential thing is that the new issue provokes opposition from the forces of reaction, who may then be conquered in a public and dramatic fashion by the political mobilization of liberal forces.

Wolin has described how the liberal discontent with all forms of political authority led to a fascination with the idea that economic society could be a «self - adjusting order,» a «network of activities carried on by actors who knew no principle of authority.»

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

He is cited by the left as a radical political liberal and by the right as neoconservative.

The problem is that a basic tenet of classical liberalism — a tenet generally accepted in the Western world by «liberals,» as well as by many «conservatives» — is that differences regarding fundamental principles of human nature and morality are not a threat to social and political life.

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

The dominant liberal utilitarian culture has been challenged many times but perhaps never by such an array of political and religious alternatives.

Owen, an assistant professor of political science at Emory, believes that liberal political institutions are poorly served by contemporary liberal theorists who speak in their defense.

The Canadian version of political correctness under the long - running Liberal regime makes the thought police in the U.S. appear libertarian by comparison.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

In the radically individualistic claims made for privacy by many liberal theorists, we see the introduction of a dangerous idea of autonomy or practical self - sufficiency into political discourse.

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

Maximilian's defeat in 1867, followed by the presidency of Juárez and the constitutionalization of the Lerdo Law, meant the liberal reformers had won the political battle.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

misappropriation of the term «liberal» by many social, cultural and political commentators of the day.»

I also on the flip - side don't want to play according to others rules and demand either, like by political correctness, dismissing some real facts and truth, or being told by what I call liberal fascist and others how I should think, live, eat, read, or believe.

Zeus a semi passive aggressive god who is mis understood by today political correct liberal media.

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.

Much like Murdoch herself, they wish to retain the liberal tradition's belief in the worth of individual moral action, yet find it difficult to do so in an age in which the enlightened individual is threatened on one side by cynical despair and on the other by the totalitarian excesses of political hope.

The citizen is neglected, and even exploited by a political class having ceded large sectors of sovereignty to an increasingly liberal and alienated market, while the spoilt consumer worries about his own well - being.

They believed that social and political activities were typical for a church dominated by liberal theology, so they thought purifying the gospel meant to stay away from public life.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

They're just using this as an excuse to fill liberals with a false guilt because of the liberal «racist - phobia», and the looney «political correctness» fiasco that liberals live by.

In a political crucible in which preferential treatment and race - based laws are advocated by the liberal establishment, a National Association for the Advancement of White People can look like an equal opportunity party.

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

That said, she will likely spin this as «standing up for Christian / Republican / Conservative values, which are under attack by the liberal elite» and turn it into some form of media and / or political gig, a la Sarah Palin.

Yet the laity often feel uninvolved in and even alienated by hierarchical forms of political Catholicism, even when, «ironically,» says Fowler, that laity is «much more liberal than pastors are.

By liberal culture I mean not only these values of modern American liberalism but also its practices in our political order, our schools, our media, and the major institutions (except, to some extent, or course, religious institutions) of our society.

An early work in political thought influenced by Whitehead's philosophy that stresses reason, individual freedom, and liberal democracy is Samuel H. Beers The City of Reason (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1949).

Even if he presents himself as a liberal and vocalizes this by making vocal political statements periodically during his QB tenure, does it mean he can not be effective as a QB?

A possible problem with this approach (not sure if this data compensates for that) is that political contributions might get very skewed by a few extra rich CEOs (and many software CEOs are liberal, so if that's the case they could easily dominate the data).

Of course, the numbers reflect a narrative that the Obama campaign would like to portray: that its donors are part of a broad - based movement representative of the country as a whole, not some kind of coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigs.

But their arguments generated a staunch liberal defence of the integrity of history, and a refusal to be reshaped by a radical political agenda.