Sentences with phrase «conservative critics of»

The Obama Administration, charitable foundations, conservative critics of teacher unions, and various others are encouraging state governments to revise teacher evaluation systems to consider the impact of individual teachers on their students» achievement.

Finally, there's the question of how conservative critics of Common Core will respond to these new developments.

He accused conservative critics of «hypocrisy» for not focusing on the Medicaid and welfare funds the state pays out to help subsidize people making the current $ 9 an hour minimum wage.

Conservative critics of Cameron need to accept that the voters will not believe the promise of tax cuts.

Conservative critics of Senate Republicans have long decried what they've seen as an alliance with Cuomo on key issues, most recently backing an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the New York City region.

There are still some hardy Conservative critics of conventional climate change wisdom in the House of Commons.

His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).

They do not accept, any more than do conservative critics of the Court, the claim of the majority Justices that «the Constitution made me do it.»

Observers are impressed, however, that Gorbachev's program of «liberalization» means bringing into his inner circle (similar to a presidential cabinet) some of the most outspoken conservative critics of both Communism and Western democracy.

In Response to Critics Some conservative critics of the mediating institutions argument, I should note as an aside, complain that it, too, falls into the ideologically liberal trap of defining society in terms of only two entities, the state and the solitary individual, with mediating institutions being a fragile buffer between them.

And yet many conservative critics of the law, both candidates and the rank - and - file, made mistakes in how they opposed Obamacare.

She sounds like a typical conservative critic of modern academia, except that she's complaining about this kind of thing in scholarly books on sexual «kink,» particularly bondage and sadomasochism.

Not exact matches

The «Shark Tank» judge, investor, and outspoken critic of net neutrality will be joined by conservative pundit Ann Coulter, who has been cast for the role of Vice President, Variety reports.

Conservative critics say the decision, which split between three Democrats and two Republicans, was imbalanced and overturned decades of legal precedent about joint ownership.

Trump supporters recently also have taken to assailing critics of the billionaire — including some conservative journalists — on Twitter as «cuckservatives,» a term that has white nationalist implications.

The Fed has been a target of some conservative critics in the U.S. Congress, who say the bank risked sparking inflation with its easy monetary policies in response to the global financial crisis.

Critics of the Conservative government's SOE policy say it was implemented without grounds or sufficient explanation to China, damaging relations.

On April 8, the Conservative Party of Canada named Alex Nuttall, the MP from Barrie — Springwater — Oro - Medonte, as the official Opposition critic for the New Sharing Economy.

White House officials tout the appointment of US Attorney John Huber as basically a second special counsel on the FBI investigation but some conservative critics say his appointment is nothing more than window - dressing, the Hill reports.

Critics also question whether Facebook had censored some conservative content in favor of content more favorable to liberals.

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.

Conservative infrastructure critic Michael Chong said the report reflected a pattern of mismanagement on the infrastructure file, with money not being spent or allocated on time.

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.

Inside the committee room, Morneau had been subjected to yet another round of rankling questions about his small - business tax proposals from Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative finance critic whose rare knack for getting under the skin of his political adversaries reminds me of the way Claude Lemieux used to drive his NHL opponents to rash retaliations.

The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.

Nonetheless, EPB's venture into fiber optics has drawn criticism from conservative critics and rivals wary of government - owned utilities competing against privately owned cable TV, telephone and internet business.

More conservative critics have likened him to Yanis Varoufakis, the motorbike - riding, confrontational former Finance minister of Greece.

Ms. Jansen responded that she is not a member of the federal Conservative Party and is under no obligation to support their candidates (her pragmatic reply is unlikely to appease her Wildrose critics).

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

While they have made some embarrassing political mistakes, enflaming conservative critics along the way (while also inheriting some of the old PC government's bad habits), Notley's NDP government has started to catch its stride.

«Since the 2015 Alberta election there has been significant discussion about the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and the Wildrose Party coming together to form a new political party,» he said, adding that the voting record «shows the two parties may have more in common than some critics have suggested.»

(For the conservative critics, that would be one more count against Rawls's general theory of justice and political morality.)

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Whether in Methodism, Catholicism, or numerous other communities, the bureaucratic defenders of platforms such as «Political Responsibility» routinely dismiss their critics as disgruntled «conservatives» who are unhappy about not getting their way.

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.

Although the courts strongest critics are often conservatives, the prospect of judicial activism should concern liberals and progressives too.

Or so the critics - from Bill Donohue of the Catholic League to Glenn Beck of Fox News to conservative Republicans such as the incoming House Speaker John Boehner - would have us believe.

One can imagine Campbell's appalled reaction to the kind of authority exercised by megachurch pastors or denominational executives today» or to the fact that Baptists not only continue to call their ministers «Reverend» and «Doctor» but also have de facto bishops and even a so «called «college of cardinals,» as some moderate critics have dubbed conservative SBC leaders.

Perhaps the widening of the split between black liberal leaders and black conservative critics will lead to a more principled and passionate political discourse in and about black America.

This negative reaction to black conservatives by most blacks partly explains the reluctance of the new black conservatives to engage in public debates in the black community, and their contrasting eagerness to do so in the mass media, where a few go so far as to portray themselves as courageous, embattled critics of a black liberal establishment — while their salaries, honorariums and travel expenses are paid by well - endowed conservative foundations and corporations.

Occasionally Barr mentions a scholar who breaks out of fundamentalism into a genuinely critical stance (though usually extremely conservative)-- but only to call into question the honesty of such shifts without frank recognition of the break and even apology to critics whose work had been dismissed and motives impugned.

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

Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

Why have many social critics and reformers, including both conservatives and liberals, found fault with the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Garry Wills, a harsh and sometimes caricaturing critic of those of us who are religious conservatives, once said that the failure of Evangelical political activism is that it is not Evangelical enough.

If he is right about the book, and he certainly seems to be — and West's response to his review, with its revealing use of the everyone - else - is - compromised mythology and supporting abuse (her conservative critics are «commissars» and «ossified totalitarians,» for example), supports this conclusion — one has to ask why it has so appealed to some conservatives.

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I have no interest in defending Jeffress, but I believe his conservative critics went too far in declaring off - limits any consideration of a candidate's religion.

Many of Jeffress» conservative critics are themselves traditionalists and religious conservatives, and they surely do not exclude religion as completely as their comments on Jeffress suggested.

It might come as a surprise to readers who know the work of Stanley Fish only by his reputation among conservative literary critics, but every sentence in his new book How Milton Works validates» indeed depends on» Hirsch's principles of interpretation.