Sentences with phrase «conservative critics at»

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Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year from the national economy by 2022.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

At its core, Mueller's conservative critics point to Uranium One to bolster their case that the former FBI chief has his own complicated history with the Clintons and Russia, making him too biased to fairly and impartially investigate the man who defeated Hillary Clinton for the presidency.

The critics found themselves so alarmed, of course, because now politically, culturally, and religiously conservative parents were educating their children at home and rejecting the influence of a system in which the critics — so many of them former countercultural types themselves — were heavily invested, and from which, as a Marxist would note, so many of them drew their salaries.

His critics, at least his conservative critics, are usually more concerned with whether his position does not entail some form of relativism.

Still fresh and revived from his triumph at the general election - and to wipe out the Conservatives» majority at an election called suddenly and unexpectedly by a prime minister who was twenty five points ahead in the polls was a genuine triumph - Jeremy Corbyn's words will be received by renewed adulation from his admirers and a new respect from critics who he proved to be wrong in many of their outdated assumptions.

15th January 2016, Conservative Home: Corbyn's critics are starting to hit at the hard left's most sensitive spot — its poshness

The outspoken Conservative MP Philip Davies today stuck two fingers up at his critics by snapping...

(CNN)- The controversial pastor who called Mormonism a «cult» after introducing Rick Perry at a conservative conference is firing back at his critics, saying religion has an important place in presidential politics.

The party was a longtime critic of the governor's conservative fiscal policies, but voted at its convention in May to endorse the him for a second time in exchange for his promise to help flip the State Senate into Democratic hands.

After conservatives won a majority on the state board in 2004, they quickly moved to adopt standards that critics say were tainted with creationist ideology, including a definition of science aimed at allowing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.

An expensive political football Critics of throwing billions of dollars at the technology, including Australia's Green Party and some conservative coalition members, argue it will be developed too late to address climate change and is too expensive.

But the Conservatives took much longer to put forward members, in a move some critics said was aimed at holding up the committee's work.

McCallum, math department chair at the University of Arizona, had some of the same concerns about the problem as the conservative critics.

But Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has put school discipline back on the table by telling reporters she is «looking closely» at whether to change the 2014 federal guidance, which some conservative critics have blamed for sowing «classroom chaos.»

«We're looking at zero growth,» NDP critic Nathan Cullen groused Monday, adding it's time the Conservatives changed their budgetary playbook.

Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video - game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings like the recent attack at a high school in Parkland, Fla..

Fairfield Porter reared in Winnetka, educated at Harvard, art developed in New York City.F.Porter although known as a conservative carries weight as a critic.

«In fashionable art - world circles the paintings of David Bates are considered conservative if not reactionary or, at best, guilty pleasures, if they are considered at all,» wrote the New York Times» co-chief art critic, Roberta Smith, in 2006.

The relationship between accuracy and political advantage is tenuous at best.The most vociferous critics of global warming advocates — far - right conservatives — understand this viscerally, instinctively, if not consciously.

Conservative supporters of the Bush Administration have expressed a particular contempt for the United Nations and its various institutions, reflecting both a frustration at the unwillingness of the UN to be stampeded into decisions and a shift away from traditional diplomacy to the wilful assertion of power, perhaps best illustrated by the appointment of America's most hostile critic of the UN, John Bolton, as US Ambassador to the world body.

And yes, I say their agenda since, according to NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison, Conservative Party members voted a few years ago at their annual convention in favour of a resolution to eliminate the human rights commission's authority to «regulate, receive, investigate or adjudicate complaints» dealing with hate speech on the Internet.

Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video - game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings like the recent attack at a high school in Parkland, Fla..