Sentences with phrase «conservative forces»

When they occurred, battles for intellectual freedom were generally fought against intellectually conservative forces, frequently embodied in, if not confined to, the senior authorities of the universities themselves.

You can keep campaigning against social conservatives forcing their views on you.

But conservative forces usually win spring elections, according to those seeking a later recall effort.

«Yesterday we secured the failure of the plan by conservative forces in Greece and abroad to asphyxiate our country and we showed that Europe is a space for negotiation and mutually beneficial compromises and not a space for extermination, subservience and punishment,» Tsipras said.

Moreover, this return to national rhetoric, reinforced by the strength of conservative forces, has to be put into historical perspective: far from being a new phenomenon, euroscepticism has been mounting among European citizens for almost three decades.

Cairns's close encounter with fundamentalist conservative forces at SPU clearly left its mark on his poetry and on his faith; not long after, he joined the Orthodox Church.

At a time when gender roles are becoming ever more fluid, just as conservative forces redouble their efforts to control women's bodies, The Great Mother offered some much - needed perspective.

This inheritance now includes a post-revolutionary creative tension between highly conservative forces, on the one hand, notably the family and Church, and, on the other hand, the individual freed to resist by liberal political and economic innovations, as well as by a national tradition of critique and mockery.

In Wilhelmine Germany, too, Catholic groups felt closer to democratic socialism than to the rigidly Prussian and Protestant conservative forces.

The members, in his view, «represented conservative forces who were upholding the best values they saw around them while, at the same time, giving permission to people who were going to be more renegade, so that by and large, the church people I was around growing up were not models of radical social action.»

In practice, they end up becoming allies for the most conservative forces in this debate: what I call the «Ming Vase» monarchists: those ardent supporters of the monarchy whose belief in it turns out to be so fragile that they believe small and sensible reforms will shatter it.

The Republican Party, for example, is currently engaged in a battle between its more moderate and more conservative forces.

There was also a goal of the NE GOP Rockefeller network to defeat the Southern / SW cowboy conservative forces, led by Goldwater.

[67] Conservatives forced the government to drop House of Lords reforms, and the Liberal Democrats said they would refuse to support changes to the boundaries of constituencies, as they believed such changes favoured the Conservatives.

As the national political bandwagon moves on from west London my sympathies lie with the dedicated local Conservative association and our ruling Group on Ealing Council who are now left with the unenviable task of sorting out a divided and demoralised local Conservative force.

There, against the backdrop of McCarthyism and the Korean War, he comes up against the Christian conservative forces of the college whilst also trying to handle his feelings for Olivia.

«Parents are a very conservative force,» said Schleicher.

since we are facing such incredible conservative forces).

The increasing influence of conservative forces and ideas in Europe has certainly created a favourable atmosphere for opposition against the EU.

This merger feels unlikely, considering the conservative forces pushing for the PCs to merge with the Wildrose Party.

Some comic theorists have argued that comedy and clowning have no transforming possibilities, but rather are a conservative force, reinforcing the status quo in the act of providing temporary relief from it.

Over the next three centuries the conservative forces at one strategic point after another were forced to surrender something which previously they had claimed to be essential to the Christian scheme of things.

When devising social policy, especially in a time of great social change, there is always the danger that social policy becomes a conservative force — that designing it to reflect «what we do now», while meeting short - term needs and providing short - term satisfaction, hinders positive development towards «what we may become».

Finally, I full accept that maybe some long held political assumptions should be re-assessed but I hold to one clear principle — there are conservative forces and progressive forces in society which are in conflict.

Cuomo's advisers see someone moving at the pace of the people he was elected to represent, and point out that liberals are naive if they think the conservative forces, even in this blue state, from financial titans to the vast stretches of the Rust Belt upstate, can be steamrolled.

The conservative forces are in battle formation, led by Rupert Murdoch, and now the dangerous Comcast / NBCUniversal colossus.

Conservatives forced to clarify intentions after Ken Clarke said the party's plan to raise the threshold to # 1m was only an aspiration

Even though the open - source movement has a stinging countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force.

In other words, love is a conservative force.

She struggles against the conservative forces in court who have no tolerance for these ideas nor for her awakening sexuality and quest for knowledge.

To apply evidence of where in the world and how religion has acted either as a conservative force or a force for social change.

Similarly, religious and conservative forces have become more prominent in the Israeli military.

Learning outcomes: To outline and evaluate the theories which claim that religion is a conservative force, preventing social change.

Censorship in this case was the sign of the hardening of Brazilian politics following Dilma Rousseff's impeachment last year, and of the rise of conservative forces...

It also addresses his position as a painter working within an international discourse, at a time when contemporary practice in his chosen media was coming under attack from both conservative forces and from the champions of more experimental art forms, giving rise to widespread predictions of «the death of painting».

The Turnbull government has slammed the door shut on an emissions intensity scheme for the electricity sector, in a demonstration of the power of the conservative forces in the Coalition.