Sentences with phrase «conservative movement over»

Donors Trust is a so - called «donor - advised fund,» a breed apart from a family foundation like, say, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which helped build the conservative movement over decades with donations totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Not exact matches

The conflicts between liberal and conservative movements can be clearly traced over the past three centuries.

Chatting over lunch, we talk about the upcoming elections or Sarah Palin's significance for the conservative movement or the effects of the Chinese trade surplus.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

As a nonbeliever, there was a bit of a struggle over including covenant marriages — a type of marriage born out of the conservative evangelical movement that makes marriage harder to get into and out of — into The New I Do.

One of the more noteworthy developments in the online politics world over the past six months has been the enthusiastic embrace of the micro-blogging tool Twitter by conservative activists, particularly after the «Dontgo» movement this past summer.

I joined the morning shows today to talk about our win in last night's #GOPDebate and how we are not going to turn over the conservative movement to a con artist.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

FreedomWorks, which has provided much of the organizational heft behind the Tea Party movement, clashed with the RNC last fall when they endorsed an independent conservative in a New York congressional race over the GOP - backed candidate.

The row highlights a major split within the Labour movement over what should happen if the opinion polls are correct and the Conservatives win a comfortable majority.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

Washington (CNN)-- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, told conservative activists Thursday that the Republican Party should not try to take over the Tea Party movement, but rather work closely with these grassroots activists.

They pointed to peculiar movement in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's poll numbers in the two Siena polls — the percentage of likely voters in the district viewing him favorably plummeted from 57 to 46 percent over a month — as evidence that the latter might have oversampled more conservative voters.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

Seuss was quite unhappy when the anti-abortion movement latched onto the book's line of «a person's a person, no matter how small,» but this movie has touches of politics all over it that weren't in the book, including a town council more concerned with PR than safety and the injection of conservative culture - war rhetoric into the book's sour kangaroo (who now «pouch - schools» her joey.)

Over time, ethnic distinctiveness has subsided, and some conservative Protestant religious traditions in schooling have diffused throughout the movement — partly through the growth and consolidation of Christian - schooling organizations and of publishers of Christian school materials.

In late May 2016 that tension within the school reform movement boiled over with the Fordham Institute's publishing of an essay by Robert Pondiscio: «The Left's drive to push conservatives out of the school reform movement.»

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

The recriminations over the excesses, perceived and otherwise, of George W. Bush's tenure as president (as well as the defeat of Republican nominee John McCain by Obama seven years ago) even extend to education policy as movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy are accusing conservative reform outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute of being apostates.

This is a very disturbing article because it is extremely one sided and only tells half the story of how the charter school movement is being taken over by a very conservative and narrowly focused side of the Charter School world.

There's the battle over implementing Common Core reading and math standards will continue apace, especially in states where Republican - controlled legislatures are under pressure to halt that work from movement conservatives opposed to them.

More - importantly, the movement must address its own divides, especially between centrist Democrat, civil rights - oriented, and conservative reformers who disagree over such basic fundamentals as whether the achievement gaps that trap half of our children into poverty and prison should be addressed in policy and practice.

They haven't won over suburban congressional Republicans such as House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline, movement conservatives such as Victor Davis Hanson, hard - core progressives like Dana Goldstein and even suburban parents.

This should be one of the «planks» of the Teaparty reform movement in the U.S. that includes Conservatives, Independents, Libertarians, and former Democrats (if one of those groups does not try to take it over, e.g.,, make if only a «Conservative» movement).