Sentences with phrase «by traditional conservatives»

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One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful in more conservative portfolios that are dominated by traditional bonds.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

Due to a lack of traditional organized conservative political opposition outside the PC Party, it has been an odd and sometimes humorous sight to watch rookie Wildrose MLA's stand side - by - side with New Democratic Party MLAs at protest rallies over the course of the summer.

New relationships lessons planned by the Government may «stigmatise» traditional marriage, two leading conservative Christian figures have warned.

Such reasons have also existed against ancient and traditional decisions, even if they were not expressed in so many words and were not felt to be important by conservative people.

The GOP is fragmented by conflicting requirements from traditional Goldwater conservatives (now best represented by Libertarians) neocons, social conservatives, fiscal conservative (including the Randists), tea party nutters and the American Taliban.

There is ample reason for democratic suspicion of manners, since customary codes of behavior are by nature traditional and conservative.

It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»

According to Larry Arnhart, «Most of the opposition to Darwinian theory among conservatives is motivated not by a purely intellectual concern for the truth or falsity of the theory, but by a deep fear that Darwinism denies the foundations of traditional morality by denying any appeal to the transcendent norms of God's moral law.»

These extracts from Simpson show how far he had moved from the traditional (or what he called the Latin) view of resurrection, even though his study appears conservative by today's standards.

When secular America openly broke away from traditional Christian values in the sixties and seventies, political involvement by conservative Christians became, in retrospect, inevitable.»

This angers and frightens conservatives because the good of government and the good of other traditional institutions are crumbling before their very eyes under an assault by a corrupt and rootless governmental system.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

Biblical / theological considerations put forth by gay - affirming churches and biblical / theological considerations put forth by more traditional, conservative churches.

Such churches are simply postponing the crisis of support which has already been felt by liberal churches — unless conservatives modify their traditional emphases.

But in her traditional - what she calls «orthodox» - Mormon home, she was only exposed to pamphlets on women's rights penned by Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative stalwart who railed against the ERA push.

I hear «heresy» used in a joking manner more than a serious one, as most younger Christians have been so inundated by the word to refer to any deviation from «traditional» (read: conservative) Christianity that they are inoculated from the possibility that heresy is a real and dangerous thing to avoid.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»

I believe that some Jewish conservatives, or neoconservatives, have been influenced by the 1980s rhetoric of Christian conservatives calling for the return to traditional values.

By way of a quick ideological sketch, the Conservatives (or Tories) are on the right of the traditional political spectrum.

For me, I think an underdiscussed point about Mack Brown is that he is both by nature and training an extremely conservative / «traditional» football coach.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

The Republican Party is an ideological mix of social and fiscal conservatives once held together by eloquent intellectuals such as Bill Buckley; gone are the days of the Eisenhower Republican; here to stay is the Reagan Republican jumble, with a few vestiges of traditional conservatism tacked on for good measure.

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

Brooks's accusation that traditional Republican principles have been corrupted in favour of libertarian ones harkens back to the conservative values of community and custom, defended by the likes of Burke and Russell Kirk.

State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long (pictured) said the executive committee wanted lawmakers to know, despite the arguments to the contrary by some, that it is serious on the issue: «The party has made it very clear that traditional marriage is a line in the sand and a very important issue,» Long said.

Cameron continues to be an electoral asset to the Conservative party; on the «forced choice» question of a Cameron - led or Miliband - led government, the Conservative leader pulls ahead by five per cent points — well ahead of his party's traditional polling.

Prime Minister David Cameron is being backed by senior Tories including Education Secretary Michael Gove and London Mayor Boris Johnson, but many backbenchers including Mr Davies fear the proposal will drive away traditional Conservative voters.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

This is a stark reminder that the party's traditional attitude towards the UK's nuclear deterrent distinguished them from both the Conservatives and Labour, labelled «dinosaur parties» for their «Cold War» attitude to the prospect of nuclear disarmament by chair of the policy working group Dr Julie Smith, who moved the motion today.

And Lorigo said the erosion of the traditional alliance of past years between many Democrats and the Conservative Party now shunned by most Democrats has exacted a price.

Such a move could see the replacement for Mr Johnson increase the Tory majority in traditional Conservative heartlands, further increasing the party's momentum after it overturned Labour's hold over Crewe and Nantwich in yesterday's by - election.

David Cameron is acting in a «hurtful» way towards traditional Tory voters by imposing social change through «diktat», a former Conservative frontbencher warned as the party embarked on an inquest into its poor showing in the Eastleigh byelection.

Both results were good news for Theresa May's Conservative party, which has made a deliberate pitch for traditional Labour voters by focusing on «just about managing» families, and sought to see off Ukip by promising a «red, white and blue Brexit», prioritising immigration control.

Over 30 current and former chairs of Conservative associations have written to Cameron telling him to drop the gay marriage proposals, saying it was making it virtually impossible to win the election by alienating traditional Tory voters.

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.

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

This likely means even fewer investigations into overuses of out - of - school suspensions and other forms of harsh traditional school discipline — especially since the Obama Administration's guidance is now being considered by a White House committee led by DeVos on supposedly improving school safety in the aftermath of the Parkland Massacre (and has become the target of Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and conservatives who want to conveniently blame anything other than lax gun laws).

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.

Traditional publishing tends to have better editing, PR, distribution, and marketing but makes up for it by being slower, less flexible, and extremely conservative.

Having just self - published my own book this week (after being disillusioned by the world of conservative and traditional publishing), I say ding - dong the witch is almost dead.

At a conservative estimate I'd say that 9 out of 10 authors published by traditional publishing in the last 10 years are left wing, and often overtly so.

One of the counterintuitive implications is that unconstrained funds can actually be most useful in more conservative portfolios that are dominated by traditional bonds.

He persuaded the college to liberate part of its endowment from its traditional, highly conservative strictures, and it is this «Discretionary Portfolio» which has been tracked by David Chambers and Elroy Dimson of Cambridge's Judge Business School.

Ironically, the show's second - most - common criticism by conservative critics was that the biennial needed more works in traditional mediums like painting.

A style of post-1960s art which rejected the traditional values and politically conservative assumptions of its predecessors, in favour of a wider, more entertaining concept of art, using new artistic forms enriched by video and computer - based technology.

Munich Secession Withdrawal in 1892 of German artists in Munich from the traditional institutions; it remained relatively conservative, and was followed by the Vienna Secession (1897) and the Berlin Secession (1908).

The very cloth of traditional societal structures are being torn to shreds without a moment's thought and it's being led by so - called «conservatives» and «traditionalists» — yeah right.

The states adopting an RES are not limited to traditional first - movers like California, but include more conservative states like Colorado (30 % by 2020), 3 Utah (20 % by 2025), and even Texas (5,880 MW by 2015).