Sentences with phrase «conservative person who»

It's fascinating since I've mostly been in that very world and am generally a traditional, conservative person who defers to authority figures.

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.

The divide extended into the Republican party itself, where it was mostly the more conservative people who held strongly to denial..

Not exact matches

But perhaps devolving most existing federal power to the state level will end up being the most mutually acceptable path forward for both conservatives and liberals who don't want to be dictated to by people who don't share their values.

«The thing about his appointment that I think has not been picked up on by a lot of people who've been reporting on this is when Clarke was under consideration to be chosen at sheriff, there was not any hint from anywhere that he was a conservative,» said Mark Belling, a conservative Wisconsin talk - show host.

The administration's directive enraged conservatives who say federal civil rights protections pertains to a person's gender assigned at birth, not someone's changing gender identity.

«Rand is one of the only people who can speak to libertarians, social conservatives, as well as your average mainstream Republican voter.»

Money aside, the people who live in these neighbourhoods aren't your average Canadians: They have stronger conservative views than the general population, they're more likely to be married and they have slightly larger families, according to detailed data provided by Environics Analytics.

«While Mr. MacManus has a career of service in the State Department, it is concerning that the Trump administration is considering nominating ambassadors that do not share the conservative values of the American people who voted for President Trump, and in this case, who helped then - Secretary Clinton clean up her Benghazi mess,» Lee told the Washington Free Beacon.

«I think since, really, I'm a conservative investor, that experience of being in debt and also the experience of seeing things happen to people who took too much financial risk and got hurt, led me to be pretty conservative — I'm a guy that looks for singles and not home runs,» Bach said.

Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender author who teaches at Barnard College in New York, said in an email that she fears conservatives will now seek to «isolate and marginalize transgender people» and make them feel separated from the broader gay rights movement.

Republican Senator Ted Cruz, a conservative firebrand who may run for president in 2016, told CNN: «The American people, they're frustrated with what's happening in Washington, but now the responsibility falls on us to lead.»

«Starting in 2017, we will have a friend in the White House who was clearly elected because the people of this country believe in the conservative principles that have guided the way we govern in Texas,» Patrick said in November.

Crucially these are exactly the sort of people who have the ear of both Conservative MPs and of course the editors of national newspapers.

But other issues, such as providing tax credits to encourage people to buy insurance (while not outright mandating coverage), have proved controversial to conservative lawmakers who have described the plan as «Obamacare Lite.»

«So many people who would be considered very conservative homebuyers with a 10 percent down payment are locked out of the marketplace,» Batterby said.

Top Republican insiders are not so quietly taking up Ryan as the one person who could unite the warring establishment and grassroots conservative wings of the party.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

«Considering they have a staff of, like, three people at headquarters, there's a lot of infighting,» one conservative who has been briefed on the situation told me.

The person who leads it will need to win an open leadership contest, just as Stephen Harper did in 2004 for the new federal Conservative party.

Senior Conservative sources said there is already growing concern that either Harper, or people who were close to him while he was Prime Minister, are seeking to organize his succession.

«If by a fiscal conservative, one means a person who wants to reduce the size of government through less government spending, lower taxes, balanced budgets and lower debt burdens, then Harper is clearly not a fiscal conservative.»

In this, as in so many things, people of conservative temperament look around for the person who will speak for them and find only an embarrassed silence.

Incidentally, women in traditional religions, or who are politically conservative, or members of minorities from both genders, tend to really not appreciate people who presume to be more enlightened throwing around «Stockholm Syndrome!»

The party ignores truly good and just conservatives like Huntsman and Paul (and Gerald Ford in his time) and go after people like Santorum, Palin, and Bachman who could never possibly win against the all - inclusive Democrats.

People who speak out about the excesses of large central authorities are called CONSERVATIVES, you git!

I love how liberals accuse the GOP (falsely) of racism, then accuse any black person who thinks for themselves and decides to be a conservative (actual racism).

Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give more than welfare - state liberals.

You implied that some people aren't worthy of making judgements or coming to their own decisions, a common tactic of accusing a conservative of being «judgemental» because it's assumed that conservatives are mostly bible - toters who will remember that their precious bible says «judge not, lest ye be judged» and they'll suddenly become ashamed of speaking out about their beliefs for fear of appearing «judgemental».

I don't consider the film liberal or conservative, and I didn't go to people who were liberal or conservative, but to people who had moved me in some way and helped to change my life.

However, there are certainly many Christian conservative evangelicals who seriously hate gay people.

If we had, pretty much the only people who wouldn't have condemned us as all as war criminals would have been Conservative Christians.

«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).

Supporters have praised the government for supporting the elderly, who are some of the most vulnerable in society, while critics have said increasing the state pension is a ploy to secure votes from older people, the majority of whom vote Conservative.

Although the people who say something nice are almost always religious and conservative, the people with the quickly furrowed brows are either religious or secular, and I've been surprised to find out how many seriously religious and politically very conservative people dislike homeschooling and jump to tell you so.

They are an insular people who refuse to be «Westerinzed» and stay away from others (including Conservative and Reformed Jews) They follow ancient and modern rules laid out by Rabbi's who are trying desperately to maintain control of their flock.

Sadly — I remember a time when it was conservative - minded people who stood up for decency, civility, and rationality.

We both were and I am a deeply committed conservative Christian who looks at all persons of value and importance to God.

The publisher thought the complaints were from people on the opposite ideological spectrum from Barton, a conservative political star who has long billed himself as an evangelical historian.

I don't understand gay conservatives ~ you support people who would have you executed if they could.

The church is located in a conservative part of the country (in a town that serves as the national headquarters for the Church of God and home to one of the largest Pentecostal universities in the country), so it attracts a lot of people who grew up Southern Baptist or Pentecostal or non-denominational.

The theological tendencies of such people run the gamut, from the likes of retired Episcopal Bishop John Spong, who rejects Christian orthodoxy root and branch, to certain types of conservative Protestants, who claim «no creed but the Bible.»

-- Exodus 13:17 For many decades now, America's political life has been divided between people who call themselves «conservatives» and people....

County clerks who cite their Christian values when refusing to issue marriage licenses to same - sex couples don't also refuse licenses to cohabitating couples, or divorcees, or interfaith couples (also frowned upon in conservative Christian circles), nor do the bakers and restaurant owners who refuse to serve LGBT people refuse to serve other perceived «sinners.»

The people who helping «emerging generations» usually can't simultaneously help the highly conservative / traditional folks.

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.»)

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

If I were not privileged to be in these relationships, it would be easy for me to demonize or belittle people who hold theological beliefs more conservative than my own.

You know the type... the ones who THINK Jesus would like them... the ultra conservative type that make business deals at church on Sundays, drive a Buick, gossip about the «bad» people on the other side of the tracks.

Futhermore, not everything that is worrying conservative Catholics after the Council is only the imagination of old - fashioned people who confuse traditional customs with ever - valid truths.