Sentences with phrase «conservative ideas like»

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While it may not feel like it every quarter or year, we are building what we believe is a truly conservative global portfolio of our best ideas, one company at a time, to maximize returns over a multi-year period.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

I come from a similar conservative background, and several of the ideas and thoughts I grew up with have been shaken down around me within the last few years (mostly thanks to writers like Donald Miller, Jen Hatmaker, and Rachel, of course).

Bravest: Matt Appling with «Honk if You Hate Social Justice» Conservative Christians: The way some of you talk about social justice makes you all look like a bunch of cynical, selfish jerks... It sounds like you find the idea of social justice more abhorrant than poverty itself.

I'd like to explore the idea that the way the Bible is being used in modern Christian circles, particularly among conservative evangelicals, may in fact border on idolatry.

Conservative apologists of old (and their current imitators, like Strobel) operated on the basis of evidentialism — the idea that we can and should believe only what can be supported by empirical evidence.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

It is probably fair to say that libertarianism is a term less familiar to British political culture than to that of the United States, but British conservatives (including members of the Conservative party) often like to claim the mantle of liberalism and individual liberty, usually relating these ideas to the promotion of free enterprise, reduced state intervention in the economy and individual responsibility.

Most Erie County Democratic voters are hard - working, ethnic, traditional, conservative people who believe in common sense ideas like: taxes are too high; criminals belong in jail; police should be respected; law abiding gun owners are not the root of our crime problem; plastic bags should be legal and that life is sacred.

Mrs Thatcher and her Conservatives were able to translate, like the utilitarians in the 1830s, ideas into policies and actions.

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

Rather, we would like to see Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposing their own ideas separately — as Nick Clegg did last week, with his welcome call for a further and faster rise in the income tax threshold.

The real danger for Mr Cameron then is not becoming embroiled in a controversy, such as the one Policy Exchange's report threatened, but the emergence of a decent rival, like David Miliband perhaps, who can offer the electorate real policies and ideas, sweeping the political rug from underneath the Conservative Party's feet.

(Conservative politics, alas, are a different matter: — LRB --RRB- Since they can see that extreme redistributionist ideas like the one under discussion didn't actually help the poor, why would they try to enact them, if not to increase their political power?

«I like having other people in the Conservative party who are popular, who get out there, who talk our message and explain our ideas and values.

It sounds like an idea that would warm a conservative Republican's heart: Kill funding of a regional environmental cleanup that has lasted seven years and cost the federal government more than $ 2 billion, with no end in sight.

For the Conservatives, the idea that David Cameron likes to «chillax» is not good news.

Like Howard Dean's effective use of the internet for campaign fundraising, progressive conservatives around the world have been coming together on forums and blogs to share ideas and plan the return of values - based politics.

It might be a liberal idea — but like the mansion tax, it is an idea that Conservatives should take seriously.

Core Conservatives won't like the idea of an aircraft carrier that carries no aircraft.

Like Labour and the Conservatives, the Lib Dems believe DevoManc is a «good idea» before it's even got underway.

So far, it looks like neither Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - an ally of the WFP - nor Senate GOP leader Dean Skelos, protector of the Conservatives - are willing to go along with the governor's Wilson - Pakula idea.

The current edition of the FT's Weekend Magazine has a special feature, in which leading Tories - big beasts like Lord Tebbit, John Redwood, and David Davis, new intake MPs like Jo Johnson, Sajid Javid and Nick Boles, and perhaps less conventional Conservative figures like the artist, Tracey Emin - give their «Five Ideas For David».

On borrowing to cut taxes, Labour voters like the idea, while Conservative and Lib Dem voters generally against.

Already Conservative contributions like a fixed term parliament, an idea floated by Mr Cameron at the height of the expenses crisis last year sit high at number four on the leaderboard as a step towards a mature rule - bound democracy — all that remains is for the Conservative party to catch up.

So, how does an idea like investing in rural broadband, how does that square with the conservative notion of a smaller federal government?

Brodsky says if you look at Cuomo's policies, he's fiscally conservative on issues like curbing state spending and capping property taxes, but socially liberal on items like raising the minimum age, defending women's reproductive rights, and offering free tuition at public colleges, an idea first proposed by 2016 Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders.

It sounds like a great idea, and the Conservatives are urging Gordon Brown to support it - but is this technology all that it seems?

This will make for «interesting times» if the Conservative government is caught like a rabbit in car headlights with few policies and no clear idea of how to govern the country.

And while I like the idea of the black and white outfit, you took each element of the first outfit and made it more conservative for the second, so this one looks a lot older.

I really like the idea of the alterable height shoes, but I don't much like the look of them (v. conservative).

Hot on the heels of global dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, Saleh is trying to bring the idea of phone - based relationships to a more conservative crowd.

Well, we really can't blame anyone on this, after all this is the present - day and although many conservative people do not like the idea of online dating or mixed race dating websites, it will continue to inspire people who are looking for a date or people who are seeking mixed race dating tips.

But it's also far easier to envision something like Get Out or Lady Bird, both critically acclaimed box office hits, having the sort of broad popularity with these younger voters than it would be with the older voters, who tend toward more artistically conservative ideas of what an Oscar - worthy movie is.

Quaid's little science teacher that could may seen like a boring idea for a movie — and I can not really disagree that the character bares a boring movie — but a warm, fuzzy, and terribly conservative performance grounds the character into a Disney mold.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

I'd eventually learn, though, that conservatives, like Friedman, were not the only ones trying to advance the idea of vouchers.

The fact that Common Core has been embraced by centrist Democrats and President Obama himself doesn't sit right with Malkin and her fellow movement conservatives, for them, the standards seem like little more than a Trojan horse for left - leaning ideas.

The idea has powerful backers, including conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-- best known for «stand your ground» self - defense laws — and the Heartland Institute, famous for challenging climate science.

Indeed, Conservative backbenchers and the media seem to be increasingly interested in the lack of vision and ideas across Whitehall as Brexit, just like before, takes centre stage at the expense of virtually all domestic policy issues.

I like the idea that you stay conservative on your leverage.

I don't like the idea of eliminating FDIC insurance, giving the conservative savers who have suffered from many years of low interest rates another kick in the pants.

Whether you chose to be more aggressive and hold 120 minus your age in stocks, follow the more conservative recommendation of your age in bonds, or create your own interpretation of allocation, you should now have an idea of what your portfolio should look like at the end of your planning process.

If you listen to people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck you can not really find any traditionalist conservative ideas in their world view.

But the idea that I was in cahoots with one side or the other isn't well borne out by my coverage, which has been attacked routinely by liberals and conservatives alike as not to their liking.

As long as Democratic politicians like Obama are okay with a carbon tax and Republican politicians hate it, few conservatives are going to see this idea as a «market - friendly solution.»

John Carter wrote: > For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change...

For libertarian conservatives, there is a chance to learn and grow about the issue, but only if they don't use as their source blogs like this (and many others that are far worse) that continue to post clever philosophical musings to chip away at the basic idea of climate change, rather assess what those actual facts of the issue are, and more importantly, why they are relevant.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.

When combined with some of the good ideas from Obama's speech, like greater reliance on clean, cheap hydro - power and increased energy development on public lands such a structure would constitute a substantive and authentically conservative alternative that has been lacking in recent years.