Sentences with phrase «by modern conservatives»

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They are an insular people who refuse to be «Westerinzed» and stay away from others (including Conservative and Reformed Jews) They follow ancient and modern rules laid out by Rabbi's who are trying desperately to maintain control of their flock.

The first state run social service program in the modern era was created by a fairly conservative government.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

They say that the Islamic state would be a theocratic state dominated by the Mullahs — the conservative religious leaders — and that the shari`a can not be enforced under modern conditions because the very attempt to enforce it would undermine the economic structure of the state based on modern finance and banking.

Please note that the review article was a summary of the New Torah for Modern Minds written and published by 1.5 million Conservative Jews and their rabbis so your culture and its myths are well known.

But that objection to historicist conservatism was raised, as Muller notes, by Leo Strauss, certainly a conservative thinker, at least in the sense that classical political philosophy is a major source of modern conservatism.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

So here's a smart and uncritical (and therefore great) review of MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY by the postmodern conservative Richard Reinsch.

In most of the denominations there is still a considerable number of biblical literalists (self - styled conservatives but called fundamentalists by others) who refuse to accept the views of modern historical and textual scholarship as to the true meanings of the Bible.

Biblically conservative Christians today rightly reject recreational sex as a psychologizing of Scripture if undisciplined sexual behavior is justified by conclusions drawn from modern theories about sexual repression.

Sure, I am quite conservative in many of these areas, but in others, I would be considered «liberal» by some modern fundamentalists.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

Both «modern» and «conservative» theologies are dismissed as Cartesian by Thielicke.

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

It is in this sense that Modern American Conservatism is conservative to Americans: The tenants of the nation was that governments exist by consent of the govern, individualism, and that local governments should have more power to interfere with individuals than state governments, which should have more power than the national government (Jeffersonian Democracy).

Hence, its more natural that one would see more innovation by those who feel left out of the political system as that was a large part of the development of the machinery / tools of the modern conservative movement.

The book, to be published by Biteback in October, is the West Dorset MPs take on the central themes and ideas of the modern Conservative party from the time of his old boss Margaret Thatcher to Theresa May's tenure in Number 10.

He is (as far as we know) the first Chinese Parliamentary candidate selected by any of the major parties - showing the fact that the modern Conservative Party is truly an inclusive and meritocratic party.»

He seemed to delight in hoping to do Labour what its most successful modern leader, Tony Blair, had dreamed of doing to the Conservatives: that's to say, driving them to the margins of British politics by forming a semi-permanent coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

He was considered to be a «moderniser» and on the centre - left of the party, writing in The Daily Telegraph (24 June 2002), he said that the Conservative Party's electoral problems had been caused by its failure to «look and sound like modern Britain».

Once seen as one of the most conservative nations in Europe, modern Ireland is no longer dominated by the strict moral and social opinions

The main aim is to encourage marriage and give young Iranians from more conservative backgrounds the comfort they seek in using internet dating by adhering to the traditional concept but with a modern twist.

A smattering of more modern movie brutality aside, this is an old - fashioned war film, a conservative, overstuffed Oscar hopeful (which, judging by its inability to pick up any Golden Globe nominations, may have played it too safe).

One reason is that the modern political environment has become increasingly polarized, and conservative Republicans — propelled by Tea Party devotees, the fiscal crisis, and big gains in the 2010 election — have taken on the unions like never before.

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

They introduced us to bowling in our living rooms many years ago with the release of the Wii (while inadvertently launching the modern drone industry) and while the design of their latest hardware, the Nintendo Switch seems conservative by comparison, their latest news shows that they've still got plenty of tricks up their sleeve.

On November 30, 2010, administrators of the Smithsonian Institute ordered that Wojnarowicz's 1987 video, A Fire in My Belly, be removed from the exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, an exhibition which focuses on sexual difference in the making of modern portraiture.This decision was made in direct response to protests from conservative groups who were offended by an 11 - second segment of the video depicting ants crawling on a crucifix.

Thus, for example, a work of art produced as early as 1958 might be decidedly «postmodernist» (if the artist has a very avant - garde outlook - a good example is Yves Klein's Nouveau Realisme); while another work, created by a conservative artist in 1980, might be seen as a throw - back to the time of «Modern Art» rather than an example of «Contemporary Art».

However, many young artists, influenced by modern European developments, felt that the Academy's instruction was too conservative and unsympathetic to their new ideas about art.

A new study claiming renewable energy is the «most expensive policy disaster in modern British history» was written by climate sceptic Rupert Darwall and published by UK conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

They were unquestionably what would today be called conservatives, in that they sought to conserve the unalienable rights granted by our Creator that long predated modern governments.

To wit: Modern environmentalism and it's subsets ie: CAGW etc. is born out of a 19th century counter revolutionary push to industrialism by aristocracy, arch conservatives and reactionaries.

It has been recognized and documented by everyone from conservative economists like Richard Posner, to Rand's Institute for Civil Justice, to William L. Prosser, the father of modern tort law.

This eventually led to the fall in the Legislature of the thereafter much - diminished B.C. Liberals (who are really modern neoliberal conservatives), and the swearing in of an NDP government led by Premier John Horgan in July 2017.