Sentences with phrase «by a progressive who»

What we could use is a post analyzing the Orwelization of the language by progressives who think reframing a stupid, barbaric policy will make it more palatable.

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That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

In a tightly scripted campaign launch in which there were few surprises, the comments were unexpected, at least by progressives, who saw them as an early sign she may shift away from the centrist economic policies pursued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

That means the progressive denizens of This Town can't get distracted by the shiny object that is our ideological champion (who, it should be mentioned, hasn't visited Iowa once this campaign cycle, has repeatedly stated she will not run for President in 2016, and signed a letter encouraging Clinton to run) primarying the presumptive nominee.

In the Town of Stony Plain, newly elected Stony Plain Progressive Conservative MLA Ken Lemke has been replaced as Mayor by William Choy, who was chosen in a May 1 by - election.

The new Canada Child Benefit (CCB) unveiled in the 2016 federal Budget has been widely supported by progressives and anti poverty activists who have long favoured the expansion of income tested child tax credits.

In Fort McMurray - Wood Buffalo, four - term MLA Guy Boutilier, who crossed the floor to the Wildrose in 2010 after sitting for 12 years as a Progressive Conservative MLA, was unseated by municipal councillor Mike Allen.

The constituency is currently represented by MLA Jason Hale, a former Wildrose MLA who crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in December 2014.

They're surrounded by legions of rookie staffers who are assigned to populate the rookie ministers» social - media accounts with gigabytes of flattering photos and nonstop cheerleading about what a progressive, green, innovative bunch of things they're doing for the middle class!

This movement of Tories to the Greens in Calgary - Centre seems to be supported by Donal O'Beirne, the former president of the Conservative association in Calgary - North East, who has endorsed Mr. Turner, and the launch of a new Facebook Group, «Progressive Conservatives 4 Turner ``, which sprung up this week.

Mr. Lowther represented Calgary - Centre as the Reform Party / Canadian Alliance MP from 1997 until 2000, when he was defeated by former Prime Minister Joe Clark, who had returned to politics to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The strong connections between the federal Conservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wildrose Party).

And a progressive University integrates crowdfunding into a holistic support program that serves businesses in its community; it's powered by faculty and students of all backgrounds, who in return gain invaluable applied experience.

Likewise with China, the government might be thinking, if negotiating a trade agreement with China stirs up opposition from some Canadians who either fear being swamped by Chinese goods or capital, or don't like the way China treats its citizens, then let's add «progressive» elements to the agreement.

The way I see it — the terrorists who kill are perpetrating a killing which itself is in response to a much larger killing that is being perpetrated by civilized, clean - shaven, so - called progressive westerners like yourself.

The proposition of gambling by New York's most high profile progressives as a solution to economic challenges would be vexing to an earlier generation of progressives who, rather than seeing it as a solution to economic woes, perceived gambling as a primary cause of them.

The «discernment letter» written by the six of them that night in Dallas, Texas will go down as one of the most ungodly acts against a woman done by men who claim to be of God, progressive, pro-feminist, Christianity 21.

Often misogynist / partiarchal (even in progressive crowds), and always threatened by people who are not like them being heard.

And he who is begotten by a progressive dying away from self, of him it becomes increasingly clear that he can less and less be said to be begotten, since he only becomes more and more clearly reminded of his existence.

The discourse on human rights should not allow itself to be misappropriated by ventriloquists of the Establishment who are opponents of progressive forces branding them as terrorists when they demand statehood and power to the dalits, the women, the indigenous tribals.

My friend George Will, who finds me «normally wise and lucid,» mistakes, partly by presenting a quote out of its ironic context, my praise of the relational place called Downton Abbey as a progressive and paternalistic endorsement of the welfare state.

How can we who truly love the Church founded by Christ be divided into factionstraditional and liberal, conservative and progressive, loyal and dissenting!

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

Most Convicting (nominated by Alise Wright): David Nilsen with «Coping with Disappointment When Calvinists Refuse to Be Jerks» «I think one of the problems with most of us who consider ourselves progressive Christians is that we live in constant expectation of being judged by our fellow believers who are more conservative.

His concern was shared by many other progressive denominational leaders, who saw the usual education in confessional theology as too narrow for the demands of modern ministry.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

There are both conservative and progressive «simplifiers» who would decide the question what is best to be done here and now by eternal principles instead of by prudent practical considerations.

A few weeks earlier, a speech by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, a Catholic, attracted opposition from dozens of campus progressives, who said his proposed federal budget violates Catholic teachings about helping the poor.

Wilson, the minister's son, who led prayers as soon as he took office, made it promptly clear that Princeton was not religious by dint of any continuing bond with a church: «Princeton... is a Presbyterian college only because the Presbyterians of New Jersey were wise and progressive enough to found it.»

Many modern marriages run a downhill course from the high romance and ecstatic satisfaction of newly - weds, through the progressive frustrations and disappointments of people who measure one another by benefits received, to the divorce court.

This was taken a stage further in America in an address given in 1909 by a progressive educationalist, Charles Eliot (1834 - 1926), who had been President of Harvard University for 40 years.

And he appears disinclined to credit the contribution to liberal democracy made — starting with the provision of a counterweight to progressive excesses — by those who cherish tradition.

At the same time, many whose sensibilities align with Miss California's are culturally or intellectually intimidated by our «progressive» judges of culture, the arbiters of perceived «elite» opinion, who they sense are scrutinizing their prejudices.

How can the Christian know the living Christ who is immediately present to us, a Christ who is the consequence of the continual forward movement and self - negation of the divine process, if he is bound to a long - distant epiphany of Christ which has been emptied and left behind by the progressive movement of the Word's becoming flesh?

FTF is a grassroots initiative founded by Monáe and led by progressive millennials to advance awareness, inclusion, and opportunities for women and those who identify as women through music, arts, mentorship and education, with the platform message, «We are here, and we are ready for our collective voices to be heard.»

«The Premier League has been created by people who had a progressive mind and wanted to be in front of the rest in Europe.

In addition to medication (Zoloft and very occasionally 1/2 of a Xanax), the laundry list of things that are helping me recover (in no particular order) includes: sleep, finding more time for myself, yoga, exercise, abdominal breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, educating myself by reading books and web sites about anxiety disorder — what causes it, who it often affects, how to deal with it, etc., seeing a therapist on a regular basis, reiki, taking vitamins and supplements, and reducing my commitments.

I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S

I feel fortunate to be at a good place in life — financially secure in an established career, living in a well - educated, progressive town, and surrounded by a strong network of family and friends who are cheering me on in my journey to motherhood.

Potty Chair can be reasonable for guardians who take the tyke situated, progressive approach of beginning moderate by first presenting the potty.

Paul's revolution is a conservative one, by his own account — and thus all the more noteworthy for Democrats, who until now comfortably assumed that progressive bloggers, YouTubers, and ex-Deaniacs would give them, and only them, an edge online.

Sorry if it hurts but George Latimer is a big tax and spend liberal who's whole heartedly supported by Bill DeBlasio and the progressive machine he runs.

Still, progressives have faulted Cuomo for compromises with Republicans in the state Senate, who they say have been allowed to remain in power by Cuomo.

However, those who imagine a utopia of a world led by women are influenced by another, supposedly progressive, form of differentialism: the alleged natural differences between the sexes can be used to improve not just female condition but also strive towards a more just society.

With Cynthia Nixon, the proudly progressive state of New York finally has the chance to have a governor in Albany who shares their values in the battle for racial and economic justice — and DFA members across the state and nationwide will stand side by side with her in this fight.»

The release is littered with the words «lifelong progressive» and «independent,» which is mean to highlight the difference between Schneiderman and the candidate viewed as his top competitor, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, who used to be a Republican and is widely believed to be preferred by AG Andrew Cuomo (although he walked that back recently).

«We are proud to give our endorsement to a progressive activist who we know will fight side by side with us in the state Legislature.»