Sentences with phrase «called social democrats»

President Akufo - Addo said «I continue to be puzzled as to the vehemence with which so - called social democrats oppose or attempt to undermine measures designed to address poverty.

Progressives are what Europeans would call social democrats, while liberals are center - left.

Hobhouse held out hope that Liberals and what would now be called the social democrat tendency in the nascent Labour party could form a grand progressive coalition.

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VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board which would report to policy makers about key indicators of economic, environmental and social progress.

Ultimately, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick read portions of the letter and the Vatican response to it at a service for Kennedy in Washington, D.C. News reports called the Vatican letter pro forma, and its cited portions avoid mention of the social issues on which Kennedy not only defied his faith, but spearheaded defiance of his faith — a modus operandi that is still deployed (and was just deployed in the recent Lamb - Saccone special election in Pennsylvania) by pro-choice Catholic Democrats.

In an interview with Le Monde on the day of Hollande's Europe speech — at a gathering of some of the EU's centre - left leaders in Paris — Gabriel insisted that: «It is absolutely not naïve [to call for a renegotiation]... the pact is only half the route that Europe must go...... the [German] Social Democrats would add to the fiscal pact a growth and solidarity pact.»

The Liberal Democrat president calls for «a new consensus» at the Social Liberal Forum conference.

Delegates voted for two separate motions yesterday — one calling on the government to drop the health and social care bill altogether and the other arguing enough amendments had been made for the Liberal Democrats to now support it.

I'd call myself a pro-European social democrat, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't acknowledge the front runners for the Labour leadership as such.

Responding to the vote (by 314 to 270) of the Liberal Democrat Conference to reject a call from Shirley Williams to support the Health and Social Care, Dr Evan Harris — who proposed the deletion of the lines which...

We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Former Chair of the Social Liberal Forum Richard Grayson writes: Check out an e-pamphlet I have written called The Liberal Democrat Journey to a Lib - Con Coalition — and Where Next?

Social Liberal Forum Secretary James Graham and Chair of Compass Neal Lawson have an article in Tuesday's Guardian calling for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between social liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more wSocial Liberal Forum Secretary James Graham and Chair of Compass Neal Lawson have an article in Tuesday's Guardian calling for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between social liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more wsocial liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more widely.

The Democrat calls himself an «activist - elected official» and has been outspoken about a number of social justice issues.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling for the implementation of the Social Services and Well - being (Wales) Act to be delayed, amid concerns by a legal expert that they're being rushed.

His predecessor, Paddy Ashdown, has described him as having moved the Liberal Democrats «to what you might call the right... The liberalism of the old Liberal party was a comfortable social liberalism, which didn't take into account economic liberty as well as social liberty.

In his first term Cuomo used his State of the State Addresses to build what observers call his version of «a new Democrat,» or his version of being (Bill) Clintonian - rolling out fairly moderate - to - conservative fiscal proposals, including some that targeted Western and Upstate New York for growth, and liberal social policies like marriage equality and gun control.

The Social Liberal Forum therefore calls on the Government to revive demand in the private economy by investing directly in skills training and small business development, as outlined by the recent Liberal Democrat conference motion Fairness in a time of Austerity.

The confederation's intervention comes amid intense government discussions involving David Cameron about how to improve the health and social care bill after the Liberal Democrat spring conference's call for major changes.

The Left - Greens have never been elected to office, but are expected to double their vote from 14 % to 28 % while Sigurdardottir's social democrats, who are calling for Iceland to join the EU and the euro, should comfortably win the vote with around 35 %, up six points on two years ago.

The new party was initially called the Social and Liberal Democrat Party, but was renamed the Liberal Democrat Party in the second half of 1989.

To control for this we repeated the experiment three times using different dummy names — we tried calling the Corbynite party the «Radicals», the «People's Party» and «Momentum», and calling his opponents» party «Progress», the «Moderates» and the «Social Democrats».

Their proposal also calls for sun - setting the corporate tax surcharge and exempting certain Social Security payments from income taxes, an idea legislative Democrats back as well.

The Social Liberal Forum now calls upon Dr. Cable, and all Liberal Democrat MPs, to continue to press for a system that ensures the abolition of student tuition fees, the reduction of student debt and their replacement with a graduate contribution, varying progressively with income and set at levels which do not deter students from taking less well paid, but socially beneficial, post-graduate employment.

So there is a consensus that while Sanders may call himself a socialist or a democratic socialist, social democrat is a more fitting description.

Democrat Rachel Barnhart is calling on her opponent, Assemblyman Harry Bronson, to disavow an onslaught of sexist social media and blog posts from his supporters.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Social Justice spokesperson, Peter Black AM, has called on Welsh Labour Government to do more to tackle fuel poverty after figures have shown that there were 640 more «excess winter deaths» last year compared to the previous year.

(CNN)-- It was sort of lost in the headlines but Democratic members of the so - called super committee proposed some major changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid spending — something Democrats in general strongly oppose.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats would call on the Welsh Government to direct additional resources to the NHS and social care services.

Local leaders will call on Nan Hayworth — who was upset in Tuesday's elections by Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney — to fight for a fair deal that protects jobs, protects social services, and ensures the wealthiest 2 % pay their fair share when she returns to Washington for the «Lame Duck» session.

Earlier in the day, Democrats called a press conference outside the federal building in Syracuse to protest Boehner on the topic of Social Security.

Put simply, contrary to the arguments of many White Democrats (as well as pundits such as Jonathan Chait of New York, Frank Bruni of the New York Times and academic Mark Lilla), focusing on the efforts of Black, Latino, immigrant, and low - income communities for economic, social and political equality (which has often been derisively called «identity politics»), is critical to Democrat success in winning elections as well as in winning support from younger voters who are also concerned about these matters.

IG Metall called on state premiers, particularly from northern German states, to put the issue high on the agenda during exploratory talks to form a government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU / CSU block and the Social Democrats (SPD).

The top - ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling Facebook's latest privacy scandal a «danger signal» and says it may be time for Congress to consider regulating social - media services.

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the highest - ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, which has been investigating Russia's use of social media to manipulate U.S. public opinion, has also called on Zuckerberg to testify.