Sentences with phrase «conservative agenda of»

Astorino just wants to debate Cuomo about which one of them would be better at implementing the conservative agenda of tax cuts for the 1 % to be paid for by spending cuts for the 99 %.»

Supporting wealthy «outside - the - district» candidates is the Democratic party allowing themselves to be sucked in by the conservative agenda of «might makes right.»

Alongside the traditional conservative agenda of (relatively) lower taxes and spending, we should also have a work - and - family agenda that encourages (or at least doesn't discourage) marriage and work.

Not exact matches

The two conservative senators this week expressed deep concern that MacManus was too close to Clinton during her tenure, doesn't share Trump's «America First» agenda and other conservative foreign - policy goals, and, as one of Clinton's closest advisers, was deeply involved in the State Department's initial response to the Benghazi attack.

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parConservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parconservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

The death of the $ 38.6 - billion Potash purchase will have its own repercussions, particularly spurred by a principled Conservative in a government with a free trade agenda.

The deal may also be a major political victory for the Harper Conservatives, who have made expanded trade a key plank of their economic agenda.

Also, they have chosen a cheap populist theme, attacking cell phone, bank and credit - card charges instead of hammering the Conservatives on their dangerous, right - wing deregulation agenda — even though people are still dying as a result of Harper's «self - regulation» changes to food safety.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

The NDP can learn from some of the major communications mistakes made by the PC Party and respond promptly to the Wildrose attacks, otherwise the opposition and its conservative allies will set the agenda.

There could be debates, ideas, arguments, rallies, denunciations, even protests, that could denounce the corporate agenda, as well as the complicit Conservative aiding and abetting of said agenda.

But with conservatives tilting hard against the FBI, it's not too far of a leap to suggest that Hogg is just a patsy for the FBI's nefarious agenda.

Conservative academics Tom Flanagan, Barry Cooper, Ranier Knopff, David Bercuson, and former Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton at the «Calgary School» in the University of Calgary Political Science department long ago made it their mission to drive the Conservative agenda in Canada.

These are just a few of the groups that are pushing the conservative agenda in this country.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

The left's entire agenda is go after Conservatives on the misinterrupted grounds of spearation of church and state.

So an «indisciplinary research agenda» has been developing among postmodern conservatives over the last couple of years.

Slice of Laodicea — oh man is that site ever biased — they booted me for asking questions that did not line up with their conservative agenda.

Just as conservatives denounce the Westboro baptist church and their tactics, I hope that «liberals» everywhere denounce those who use hateful threats of violence, death, and damnation as tactics for furthering the liberal agenda (or ANY agenda at that)

With a handful of other states adopting their own anti-abortion measures earlier this year, Perkins says his conservative Christian agenda «has been accelerated forward» in recent months.

Now they blatantly take on the Republican and conservative voters of American with a purely Roman Catholic social agenda?

He makes a fool of the conservative social agenda, then embraces it in the end.

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its agenda.

Jesus did not teach hate and intolerance he did not reject health care he healed the sick he did not preach for profit and he did not deny anyone there rights he did not look down on others and he did not bear false witness the right wing conservatives have hijacked the word of god to fit their political agenda.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

The task of correlating the theological and cultural / philosophical agendas must be characterized by patience and tentativeness — qualities which have not always been highly prized among conservative evangelicals.

Having endured for half a century a Court that seized authority not confided to it to lay down as unalterable law a liberal social agenda nowhere to be found in the actual Constitution of the United States, conservatives must decide whether they want a Court that behaves in the same way but in the service of their agenda.

You start off by accusing conservative Christians of uncritically baptizing the Republican agenda, and you claim to offer a biblical outlook that «transcends party politics.»

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

The freedom agenda, whether the liberal one in culture or the conservative one in economics, has dissolved much of what gave the postwar era its stability.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

To me, it seems that progressives are doing the very thing that conservative Christians have been criticized for: pulling verses out of context to say that supporting a political party's agenda is supporting God's agenda.

My correspondents raise important questions about exactly what conservatives should be defending, in response to the massive expansion in recent decades of the powers, the agenda, and the budget of central government.

The problems of teen - age sexuality and the fact that conservative political and religious groups have put these problems on their agendas suggest that it is urgent for mainline denominations and liberal churches to recover a credible voice in matters of human sexuality — both the ethical and the practical.

Familiar also are a pair of widespread responses to the mainline's statistical decline: an increasing adaptation to conservative agendas and a growing enthusiasm for what some call the church growth movement.

Ms. Bachman is one of those conservatives that doesn't care what anyone else thinks or says unless it's in agreement with her ideas and agenda.

Clarke, a champion of class struggle who has been enamored of almost every lefty cause that has come down the pike, exults in the fact that, with the help of a few friendly bishops, he was a very successful «mole» in undermining a conservative hierarchy that is captive to the «corporate agenda.»

Although it may seem obvious that the values of the «family pew» still set the agenda for conservative congregations today, those values retain considerable power in shaping the agendas of all congregations.

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey led attacks against the Conservatives at the start of the Brighton conference, telling the Observer newspaper «tea - party Tories» were threatening his environmental agenda.

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.

Cuomo, who has garnered the support of the state's business community with his fiscal agenda that leans conservative on taxes, has said he's studying the issue before committing to the specific bill.

Suspicions he was more comfortable with implementing the Conservatives» agenda ignored the fact that two - thirds of the Lib Dems» manifesto was being implemented, too.

Less than a year ago the Tory Right collaborated on a book, After the Coalition: A Conservative Agenda for Britain, which was broadly complementary to the Cameronite vision of Britain.

The letter dovetails with what the IDC has long asserted in the Senate: Even with a workable Democratic majority of 32 members, the passage of a left - leaning agenda is not a guarantee given the conservative social views of some lawmakers, including Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat.

Responding to criticism that she has not publicly denounced parts of her father's conservative agenda, Ivanka Trump insisted that when she disagrees with the president, «he knows it, and I express myself with total candor.»

David Cameron and Nick Clegg have unveiled a raft of policies reflecting the Conservatives» «big society» agenda.

Yes, plenty of conservative activists will still be fired up about Obama's «socialist» agenda, but with health care reform passed into law, they've lost the main focus of their ire.