Sentences with phrase «conservative forces in»

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

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

But a vote to Leave would almost certainly force a change of leadership in the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister, given Cameron's leading of the Remain campaign.

The roots of the conservative news media industrial complex came in the 1990s with the rise of three key forces: Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Matt Drudge.

Although the new Conservatives are stuck in the low - to mid-20 per cent range in national polls, voter discontent and the prospect of a Liberal minority government have made Harper a force to be taken seriously.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

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

In the House, the newly elected conservative Republicans identified this as an opportunity to force the Administration to impose severe cuts in domestic spending as a pre-requisite to raising the ceilinIn the House, the newly elected conservative Republicans identified this as an opportunity to force the Administration to impose severe cuts in domestic spending as a pre-requisite to raising the ceilinin domestic spending as a pre-requisite to raising the ceiling.

In a first of what we expect to be a regular feature, I have joined forces with conservative political commentator Ryan Hastman in launching the Daveberta PodcasIn a first of what we expect to be a regular feature, I have joined forces with conservative political commentator Ryan Hastman in launching the Daveberta Podcasin launching the Daveberta Podcast.

Facebook invited a number of conservative think tanks and free market groups to a secretive meeting in Washington, D.C., where they were forced to sign strict legal agreements to prevent discussion of the event.

In many ways, Pence was on the same doomed trajectory as the conservative - Christian movement he'd long championed — once a political force to be reckoned with, now a battered relic of the culture wars.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

(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.

For many «communion conservatives» who still remain within the Episcopal Church, this will amount to a deep crisis of conscience, since in effect their church seems bent upon forcing them to choose between the Anglican communion and the Episcopal Church.

«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).

It turns out that culturally conservative Protestants in Brazil (mostly Pentecostals, I suspect, though the author of this article calls them evangelicals) have forced the newly elected president, Catholic (and former Marxist guerilla) Dilma Rousseff, to move sharply rightward in her positions on....

Now in Africa, most people are rural, religious, and fairly conservative when it comes to sexual behavior, despite lurid stereotypes of oversexed African men forcing themselves on women and girls without a thought.

Even as they sound the trumpet for battle, many conservatives acknowledge that theirs is a holding action, and that the 1997 General Convention may force a decision about continuing membership in the Episcopal Church.

It is conservative Christianity that is trying to force Biblical creationism, or its nasty offspring, intelligent design, down the throats of the American public in public school science and biology classes.

If Christians / conservatives had been of a mind to force their fellow citizens in this Country to «convert or else», then non-believers would long since have been driven into hiding their non-belief.

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 various labor party governments surpass the conservative right forces in the application of radical neo-liberal programs.

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.»)

Some «conservative» religious forces recognize that something precious has been lost, although their responses to the loss are often constrictive and, in some cases, dangerous.

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.

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.

Conservatives say: «Not only will I shout my prayers from the rooftops to be seen and heard by EVERYBODY, but I will demand that forced prayer be reinstated in the schools, and that any child, regardless of their religion, who doesn't say Christian prayers will be severely punished!

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

The challenge of conservative theology does not lie in its commitment to the evangelical mandate; indeed, to the extent that it is rooted in the gospel and the quest for true religion found in all Christian communities, that theology will always be a strong and positive force.

Were Burtchaell's proposals followed, he suggests, Catholic schools would not be «centers of excellence» but «backwaters, curious reminders of a conservative critique of the 1990s American Catholic Church and of some aggressively secularizing forces in American society.»

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country clubIn fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country clubin the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country clubin MY country club!)

But this generalization is true only when paternal engagement, emotional expressiveness, warmth and praise are figured into the equation, Conservative Protestant men have a way to go in demonstrating fairness with their wives, who increasingly choose to be in the paid work force.

-- Barry Goldwater, (1909 — 1998), five - term US Senator, Republican Party nominee for President in 1964 *, Maj. Gen., US Air Force Reserves, author of The Conscience of a Conservative.

As the demographic cotinues to change and these people die off, the conservative far right will be either irrelevant or forced to embrace those true Christian ideals of loving and accepting their neighbors in a country not founded upon Christian beliefs but tolerance for all faiths.

But I think some try to force me into a predetermined category — i.e., liberal or conservative, in theology or politics — when in fact I am trying to challenge the very presuppositions that have created those categories.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

That I agree with, though in many cases, religion acts as the Conservative force within a society.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

As a beneficiary of over 9 months of nurturing, selfless «ninny» (as my mother learned to call it) back in the still - repressed, conservative Catholic, Pentagon / Air Force - strict environment of Washington, DC where I spent my formative years, I can only imagine how many «stinky bathrooms» and private places like our Volkswagen Bug, etc. she must have had to find when it was time to eat!

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».

But now many powerful forces are aligned against school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of school food reform, which has politicized the issue for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»

In those few states where homebirth midwives have been forced to reveal their safety statistics, it is has been found that babies are (by a conservative estimate) 2 - 6 times more likely to die than those born in hospitaIn those few states where homebirth midwives have been forced to reveal their safety statistics, it is has been found that babies are (by a conservative estimate) 2 - 6 times more likely to die than those born in hospitain hospital.

David Cameron was forced to square up to the grassroots in June after his former education spokesman David Willetts said the Conservative party would not support the building of any new grammar schools.

However, the majority of the court (the 5 more conservative justices) rejected that interpretation, ruling that the Commerce Clause can't be used to force someone to unwillingly engage in commerce, but rather only to regulate existing commerce.

In TP November, Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, his Conservative shadow Liam Fox, and Lib Dem defence spokesman Nick Harvey, all responded to eight of the Legion's questions regarding the welfare of armed forces personnel and their families.

The proposal that English votes determine English laws (EVEL) was part of the Conservative manifesto in 2005 (pp. 21 - 22), 2010 (p. 84) and again in 2015 (p. 70), although this policy's time may now have been forced upon them by increased Scottish and Welsh devolution.

Zac Goldsmith forced a by - election in Richmond Park in apparent principled protest against the Conservative government's support for expanding Heathrow.

The Conservative party was being forced to engage in some vigorous soul - searching this morning, as it woke up to one of its most humiliating by - election results in memory.

The most chilling moment on election night was hearing Theresa May, when asked what she now wanted a Conservative government to do that it had been prevented from doing by having to work with the Lib Dems in coalition, answer that her first priority was to pass legislation that would empower the security forces and the police to conduct surveillance on the scale needed to keep the country safe.