Sentences with phrase «by liberal groups»

The current effort to regulate carbon dioxide, in fact, stemmed from a 1999 suit originally filed by liberal groups against EPA, which eventually led to a Supreme Court decision that EPA had to act since greenhouse gases fell under the purview of the Clean Air Act.

Brown can't dismiss the move as a stunt, in part, because the «day in the life» routine is championed by liberal groups and Democratic politicians.

A change.org petition called the gun - free zone inside the Quicken Loans Arena an «affront to the Second Amendment» and has been signed by over 55,000 people — although it was largely a satire by liberal groups to shed a spotlight on the issue of gun control.

She has been backed by liberal groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Justice Democrats, and the Working Families Party.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

Benjamin, elected to fill a vacant Harlem Senate seat, gave Democrats a 32nd enrolled member in the chamber, kicking of a sustained campaign by liberal groups to push the Independent Democratic Conference toward reconciliation with the mainline conference.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed they're «crisis actors» and that the students are being manipulated by liberal groups and Democratic billionaire George Soros.

He actually was inspired by a liberal group's description of the Family Research Council as a «hate group.»

«All options are on the table,» she said in the call, orchestrated by the liberal group Local Progress.

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 review process.

Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

The majority of those stem from a template put together by liberal consumer advocacy groups, though.

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

The liberal media monitoring group Media Matters said Mr. Lehrer had «lost the debate» by missing «repeated opportunities to press Mitt Romney into offering specifics on his policy proposals.»

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

Do you mean to say that the Liberals have irreversibly alieanated «the little people» (by which I assume you mean lower income and marginalised groups)?

I had been a supporter of the Liberal Party led by Kevin Taft in the 2000s and was part of the group that tried to build the Alberta Party before the 2012 election.

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.

The last time we had occasion to comment on the NCC, it had to do with the organization's being maintained on life support by liberal foundations and special - interest groups.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

This was the question asked by my initiation paper for a liberal arts discussion group that met more than fifty years ago.

In 1942 people from this group formed the National Association of Evangelicals — and found themselves attacked by the hardline fundamentalists just as they attacked the mainstream moderates and liberals.

«Protestant Christianity» is a pretty broad term, and it includes folks ranging from the Westboro Baptist Church fascists to churches pastored by Liberty University clones, to «mainstream» protestants, the various liberal denominations, thousands of small, basically non-Catholic independent churches and even groups like the Amish.

By labeling people groups (i.e., Christians) in negative ways, it makes it easier for one group (liberals?)

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

O'Malley is especially single - minded in eschewing the use of terminology such as «liberal» or «conservative», making the valid point that such broad groupings were not easily identifiable at the time and were often marked by a certain fluidity in connection with particular issues.

These sixties liberals look increasingly like a group of besieged Stalinists surrounded by a growing neo-orthodoxcoalition of priests and laity!

A recent study of Hispanic churches revealed a consistent pattern among this group (the largest of America's minority groups, one continually replenished by immigrants): Hispanics, whether Catholic or Protestant, tend to be conservative on issues of sexual morality but liberal on issues of the economy and minority rights.

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layLiberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layliberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

These groups unwittingly weaken the impact of the Christian message either as they try to alter the distinctive character of entire denominations, attempting to turn liberal churches into conservative churches, or as they undermine the consistency of image projected by liberal churches in areas important to their particular constituency.

The classic study in the 1980s by Robert and Linda Lichter and Stanley Rothman of the media elite (major reporters and executives at ABC, CBS, and NBC news, Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Washington Post) confirmed what everyone who pays attention to such things had already known: the men and women who give us the news are, as a group, politically more liberal, morally more permissive, and religiously more indifferent than the general public.

NewsBusters: CNN «Belief Blog» Hypes Ad by Liberal Christian Group Asking «What Would Jesus Cut?»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Under previous popes, liberal Catholic nuns, politicians and theologians were castigated by church leaders, said John Gehring, a writer and advocate at the group Faith in Public Life.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

If Change is working with Republicans, liberal groups could easily decide that their Change.org petitions are in effect be helping their rivals by stocking the pond.

The IDC has been pushing for votes on key liberal measures in the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans, amid pressure from left - leaning groups to rejoin the Democratic mainline conference in the chamber.

On the up side, theres an interesting statement by a group of progressive bloggers on the Liberal Conspiracy site, proposing what is almost a charter for leftish blogging.

Their view was backed by Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert, the chair of the all - party parliamentary group on cycling.

The motion was brought forward jointly by the Conservative (CDU / CSU), Social Democrat (SPD), Liberal (FDP) and Green groups.

The underlying legislation had been promoted by small religious groups that lack the constitutional stature of the Church of England, including Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

The Democratic senators opposing Trump's nominees could be reacting to pressure from liberal groups, angered by the unexpected loss of the White House.

That has outraged liberal groups, unions, and the New York Times, but Cuomo responds by warning that high taxes are a job - killer and would «just prolong the recessionary conditions in the state.»

As a member of the Liberal Democrat Action on Land Taxation and Economic Reform group (ALTER), I am delighted by this excellent start.

MARK HALPERIN: You're going to come under pressure from national liberal groups to join an attempt to block him by demanding 60 votes.

Israeli citizenship at this point is influenced by a much more prominent liberal discourse, which looks at the individual rather than the group.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».