Sentences with phrase «conservative elements»

Speaker Paul D. Ryan split from more conservative elements of his conference by continuing to back Rod Rosenstein, even though some of President Donald Trump's allies in the House have begun drafting articles of impeachment for the deputy attorney general.

Erguven's film, told from the perspective of a quintet of sisters forced to live under the repressive patriarchy of an isolated rural Turkish village, is a not just a moving condemnation of the more conservative elements in Turkish society and their oppression of women, but is also surprisingly funny, even breezy at times, as much a celebration of sisterhood as it is a lament at its suppression.

Asked about the opposition to the American Health Care Act from more conservative elements of the House Republican conference on the right - leaning Freedom Caucus, Faso said, «I do think we have to be pragmatic in how we approach this.»

That aligned him with Republican moderates and Democrats and against the most conservative elements in his party.

Xi has espoused old school Maoism as he seeks to court powerful conservative elements in the party.

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith could have been celebrating her first year as Premier had it not been for late election bozo - erruptions that exposed an offensive social conservative element in her party.

Speaking on Monday, Bishop Sarah admitted her appointment might be «difficult» news for conservative elements of the Church of England, but she pledges to be «respectful» of those opposed to female bishops for theological reasons.

Man has a strong conservative element in him, for it is his ability to conserve and hand on the heritage from the past that has made possible the evolution of man.

What's more, the reformers had to persuade conservative elements within the CGPM of the necessity of the changes.

I am not an emotions - driven environmentalist, nor do I believe the «debunking» of data that conservative elements constantly employ to cast doubt on scientific research that counters the needs of industry.

They rallied more conservative elements of the party to their cause, and even before the vote was taken began to threaten upstate senators who supported Flanagan with primaries.

Today in New York and Connecticut, the more conservative elements in the Democratic Party are trying to eliminate fusion voting, and it remains to be seen whether the WFP and its allies in community, labor, civil rights, environmental, student and feminist organizations can stop them.

Yet her message was quickly overshadowed: Her head scarf had slipped slightly during her speech — a cultural affront, however inadvertent, that riled the country's conservative elements and - dominated national headlines for days.

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but I am very sad that so many people are being hurt by the conservative element of the church who are so certain that we can change everyone with prayer, fasting and heteronormative porn (ha, plus encore).

It was inevitable that it should lead to conflict with the conservative elements in the powerful organization of the church.

Another source of pressure were the conservative elements among the new waves of Dutch immigrants who arrived in the late - l9th and early - 2Oth centuries.

More often than not, this will have a conservative element to it - the art of the possible is grounded in context.

If anything, it could help Long with the more conservative elements of the party upset with the Long Island Republican's compromises with a popular Democratic governor.

Cameron would have been under no obligation to set up the commission but he was unlikely to be tempted by a move which could cause a further rupture between liberal and conservative elements of his own party amid the fallout from his gay marriage policy.

But Carvin faced resistance from the conservative elements of the state Republican Party, with Franklin County GOP Chairman Jim Ellis writing an «anyone but Carvin» letter to fellow county leaders.

Kirk so far has not won the support of the more conservative elements of his party, including some Tea Party activists in the state.

Hence, like gay dating guy websites there are springing up sites offering resources for swingers sex, bdsm and dogging once considered bizarre and out of sync by the conservative elements in the society.

But others may prove a tougher sell to more conservative elements of the Republican party, including a pension reform gone sour and Christie's embrace of the Common Core State Standards that have become deeply unpopular on the right.

It seems that the short - term dean's politics were too left for the regents of the university, something they seem to have discovered only after the reaction by some conservative elements (donors?)

The idea would satisfy the more conservative elements of the Chinese government, which wanted to exercise the precautionary principle and keep the bulk of the country under tight control, but would also allow a high degree of freedom to those industries that needed it.