Sentences with phrase «conservative forces at»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

All of which is to say that not only is Trump somewhat idiosyncratically hostile to trade, but there are at least some deep structural forces indicating that Trump has the «right» stance for a conservative Republican on this and trade - friendly GOP congressional leaders have the «wrong» one.

(And since we are entering an era in which conservatives may be forced into considering, at all levels of government, the use of more dramatically intransigent constitutional resistance options to various budget - destroying, Constitution - eroding, and religious - liberty threatening trends of liberal «governance,» a Lincoln - like precision about what we intend to do, and about what enormities we are constitutionally obliged to put up with, is all the more necessary.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Over at the Jewish magazine the Tablet, David Goldman examines how America's conservative Jews blew it on Iraq and Iran: Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command and former commander of the multinational force in Iraq, next month will receive an award from the American Enterprise....

The chapter entitled «Waging Identity Wars» forced me to confront some of the reasons why I can be cruel and dismissive toward conservative evangelicals (``... when we're suffering an identity crisis, we take cheap shots at other groups in order to feel better about ourselves») and how to move forward (``... we must affirm who we really are as the people of God before we can begin to interact with each other as the people of God.»)

This sort of moralistic, communitarian conservatism, an important and growing force in American politics, is often at odds with the libertarianism that Brands calls conservative.

Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo, who managed to get himself onto the ballot to force a gubernatorial primary with former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, is having a fundraiser today at the home of Paladino's brother, Joseph, and is also being assisted by the father of Carl Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo.

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

Carl Paladino skipped the Conservative Party convention in Manhattan last Friday at which Lorigo conspired with the Long Island chairs (supporters of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, also a no - show) to get himself and John Andrew Kay nominated to force a primary with Rick Lazio and his running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards.

This appeared to be coming into fruition after his announcement at the Conservative party conference last month when he announced he would be changing the law to make it clearer that homeowners could defend their property against intruders — allowing the use of force which might «in the cold light of day appear disproportionate».

Lazio only received 53.96 percent of the vote at the Conservative convention, where many delegates expressed displeasure over Chairman Mike Long's decision to hold tonight's get - together prior to the GOP convention next week in hopes of forcing the issue for Lazio, his preferred candidate.

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.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

And Conservative Home's new poll shows that while Tory supporters do not want to see David Cameron and Menzies Campbell sitting together at the Cabinet table, there are areas — such as decentralisation — they could join forces on.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

More than 20 Conservatives could face charges from investigations by 14 police forces over their spending declarations at the 2015 election

That would at least force the Conservatives to tell voters what they would do with power instead.

Former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, the Conservative Party's designee, fell short of the 25 percent mark at the convention, but then successfully petitioned his way onto the ballot, forcing a three - way GOP primary for Row B.

Mr Hastilow - who has twice previously been forced to resign as a Conservative candidate - was one of the choices of the six South Staffs representatives who attended the obligatory shortlisting meeting at CCHQ.

But the absence of Conservative MPs at the final vote forced two Labour MPs into the strange scenario of having to act as tellers for the «no» vote against their own motion in order for the vote to be able to go ahead at all.

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

At the same time, serious forces inside the Conservative Party argue that they have no hope of winning in 2015.

Mr. Pataki's forces attempted, at the Conservative and Independence Party conventions, to keep Mr. Golisano from mounting primary challenges.

The letter has been sent as the commission and at least 16 police forces examine claims that the Conservatives failed to properly declare hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on accommodation and travel during the last election.

A dozen police forces have passed files to the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations that up to 20 Conservative MPs broke local spending limits at the last general election.

In a campaign speech for the Conservatives he claimed a minority Labour government would be forced to accept to SNP demands «favouring Scotland at the expense of the rest of the UK».

It may well be that Cameron himself was being conned by Nick Clegg, who was telling fibs to the Conservatives in order to force them to raise the stakes at a vital moment in the negotiations.

It is hard for anyone looking at these actions from the outside to dismiss the notion that inside deals were not the driving force behind the right wing Conservative Party endorsing a liberal Democrat for a Town Council seat.

Scientists, engineers, and policy analysts who are part of the nonprofit organization turned out in force Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, outside Washington.

Starting with the story of conservative Christian ideology being peddled at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs (where fliers for Mel Gibson's The Passion were handed out, and Ted Haggard's New Life ministries touted) and winding back in time, the movie follows author and former Roman Catholic priest James Carroll as he interweaves his own family history with a grander inquisition into faith, and in particular the nasty, tangled intersection between Christianity and Judaism.

On one hand you had acclaimed developer Omega Force and its popular Warriors franchise which, although divisive, enjoys a constant presence in the world of gaming, and on the other we had a less conservative Nintendo, breaking down the once impenetrable barrier built around its world - beating stable of classic series, with Zelda at the very forefront.

Both conservative and progressive forces at various moments in American history have been behind the move to turn schools into sites not only for informing minds but also for transforming lives.

Academies It was a flagship announcement at the budget but it was once again backbench Conservatives, combined with councils, who forced Downing Street to water down the proposal.

«U.S. schooling may be on a historic glide toward lower per - pupil resources and significant labor - force reductions,» James Guthrie and Elizabeth Ettema, researchers at the conservative George W. Bush Institute, recently wrote in an article for the Harvard journal Education Next.

However, it is important to remember that while widely viewed as conservative investments, munis are subject to risks and various market forces at play from state to state.

Crises lead to a failure of both ideas, together with a set of forced sellers driving down the price of assets being repo - ed, which sometimes leads to a cascade where repo terms get progressively tighter, and only those that were the most conservative at the start of the crisis survive.

On one hand you had acclaimed developer Omega Force and its popular Warriors franchise which, although divisive, enjoys a constant presence in the world of gaming, and on the other we had a less conservative Nintendo, breaking down the once impenetrable barrier built around its world - beating stable of classic series, with Zelda at the very forefront.

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».

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.

I was looking at a temperature anomaly graph (AccuWeather, who trend conservative) and found there was a direct correspondence between the lowering of water temp * near * the New Orleans coast and the short - term reduction in force of Gustav.

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

Since then, the Conservative MP David Davis has resigned his seat in order to force a by - election in protest at government policies.

They were able to mobilize injured workers in large enough numbers to force the Conservative government to listen to their concerns in public hearings at Queen's Park on June 1, 1983 (see the history of Injured Workers Day).

However, a conservative shift among the debt community is aimed primarily at non-investment grade tenants, who have been forced to accept finance terms at 70 % to 75 % loan - to - value vs. a more favorable 90 % loan - to - value ratio not so long ago.