Sentences with phrase «conservative political agenda»

Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University, an evangelical college in Nashville, reports that students have responded with enthusiasm towards the notion of including climate concerns in the conservative political agenda.

Studies have previously been conducted to determine whether the existence of a so - called «Fox News Effect» — whether people who use Fox to get most of their news are more misinformed about world events and scientific truths, and whether that misinformation skews towards supporting a conservative political agenda.

The suggestion that the charge of double - standards is made only to support a conservative political agenda is as offensive to me as I dare say it is to those of different political stripe.

Many came to protest standards that they say advance a conservative political agenda and turn back the clock on educational advances the state has made.

«It is deeply concerning that the Government is spending millions of pounds of taxpayers» money to push the Conservative political agenda ahead of the local elections.

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At the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, he continued to define his agenda by focusing on fixing the immigration system and education.

The deal may also be a major political victory for the Harper Conservatives, who have made expanded trade a key plank of their economic agenda.

Conservative academics Tom Flanagan, Barry Cooper, Ranier Knopff, David Bercuson, and former Alberta Finance Minister Ted Morton at the «Calgary School» in the University of Calgary Political Science department long ago made it their mission to drive the Conservative agenda in Canada.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

Jesus did not teach hate and intolerance he did not reject health care he healed the sick he did not preach for profit and he did not deny anyone there rights he did not look down on others and he did not bear false witness the right wing conservatives have hijacked the word of god to fit their political agenda.

«44, Conservative and liberal Christian political agendas are equally mistaken (The Reformed Journal and Christianity Today are equally in error).

To me, it seems that progressives are doing the very thing that conservative Christians have been criticized for: pulling verses out of context to say that supporting a political party's agenda is supporting God's agenda.

The problems of teen - age sexuality and the fact that conservative political and religious groups have put these problems on their agendas suggest that it is urgent for mainline denominations and liberal churches to recover a credible voice in matters of human sexuality — both the ethical and the practical.

7) It is not enough for religious conservatives to simply baptize the conservative agenda; our political beliefs must be derived from our religious worldview.

The task now is not to adopt the Coalition political agenda as our own, because the agenda is overwhelmingly a Conservative agenda.

And in any case, the British political agenda will be dominated by the Conservative party for the next five years.

Judging by the programme of the Conservative government, these issues will dominate the political agenda in the next five years and Labour should have something to say about them.

The call features the voice of Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who surprised political observers last week by declaring his strong support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plans and announced a campaign of callers, mailers and, if money allows, even TV ads to support the Democratic governor's agenda.

One of the chief architects of David Cameron's political agenda is leaving Downing Street, in a move with major political ramification for the Conservative party.

With your help, the Conservative Party will continue its vital role in reshaping the political agenda of the State and Nation.

The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse (co-edited with Craig Berry)-- the first volume to critically assess the coalition and Conservative governments» Northern Powerhouse agenda since 2014 and associated efforts to devolve power to local authorities across the North.

Political analysts have said traditionalists within the Conservative party, already uneasy with their new leader's liberal - leaning agenda, disapprove of this incident.

MELVILLE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted his party's nomination to run for re-election today at the State Democratic Party Convention, proclaiming that he had revived New York from a state of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agenda.

But as the Common Core has been grouped with other controversial issues by opponents serving a variety of larger political agendas, the union has also been joined by libertarians and even conservative Republicans in opposition.

There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work.»

Conservative minister Ken Clarke will join ITV News Political Editor Tom Brady on The Agenda tonight.

Answering a question from ITV News Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship the Prime Minister said «I think the Conservative party is delighted that we've got a renegotiation reform and referendum agenda, there's complete unity about that.»

It is policy making on the hoof - the agenda «political survival of the Labour party» In only takes two or three Unions to realise that Labour will be out of office for the next few years and that they may as well save the millions of pounds they spend supporting Labour and instead engage in positive dialogue with the Conservatives «for free».

The polling is about public attitudes to tax, an issue firmly back on the political agenda after a rethink by the Conservative Party.

Labour is on the margins as the Liberal - Conservative coalition sets the political agenda at a cracking pace.

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

He set an aggressive, if less dramatic, agenda for his second year after a first year widely praised as both fiscally conservative and progressive in breaking years of political gridlock to legalize gay marriage.

When it comes to developing a policy agenda that delivers fairness and social justice, the Conservative party is leading the political world away from the target - driven, top down, statist approach that Miliband pioneered when he ran the Downing Street policy unit.

Political scholar Nicholas Laham aligns Reagan's conservative civil rights agenda with the moderate Republican elites.

Political films tend to be driven by a simplistic point, one that almost always supports a liberal or conservative agenda.

His remarks to an assembly at Wakefield High School just outside Washington, which were broadcast and carried online nationally, capped days of criticism, primarily from conservative opponents of the president, who asserted that Mr. Obama might use the address to persuade children to support his political agenda.

Through her family's fortune and conservative political connections, Betsy DeVos has targeted public education and pushed a right - wing school choice agenda for decades.

Quotes Uncovered: The Full Monty — ... when you hear a quote attributed to Lincoln or Jefferson, and it sounds too modern, and it accords with some political agenda, usually a conservative one, you can take it to the bank that it's phony.

As we head into 2018 and the further political polarization likely to accompany the mid-term USA elections, we have quite a lot of ethical searching to do in order to figure out where indeed we do stand, and what we are willing, in the face of a conservative agenda to preserve oligarchic power at all costs, to do about our most bottom - line beliefs?

Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and many other conservatives accepted what was presented as a scientific consensus on «global warming», until the political agenda of the advocates became clear at Kyooto, Copenhagen, and finally the release of the CAGW manfesto called the SPM of the AR4.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN)-- A sharp difference of opinion over which issues ought to top the political agenda of Christian conservatives spilled out into the open at this week's meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals.

The quotations from Greenpeace, Tony Juniper and Reuters are similarly distorted by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that also employs Milloy and that opposes action to address global warming, as well as by the Cybercast News Service (which used to call itself the «Conservative News Service» before changing its name, in an evident effort to disguise its political agenda).

E&E Legal sponsored (PDF) a session at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) titled «Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda — and What President Trump Plans To Do About It.»

Pruitt has lived his life in a conservative bubble, and much like Vice President Mike Pence, his intense religious convictions, his naked political ambition, and his industry - friendly policy agenda are in perfect alignment, with nary a hint of cognitive dissonance.

Now, it's not like Fox is some lone bad actor nefariously seeking to push an anti-climate change agenda — there are numerous interests that benefit from climate confusion, the richest and most powerful of whom also support climate - denying conservative political candidates and sponsor the think tanks that Fox draws much of its ideological substance from.

OTOH when it comes to pseudo-Science, i.e. the use of «sciency sounding» terms and phrases to pursue a religious / social / ideological agenda, political ideology seems (to me) to make a big difference: religious types spout creationism (including «intelligent» design) or «divine providence», socialists spout environmentalism (including «global warming»), «conservatives» seem to usually resort to mis - understood, or at least mis - applied engineering formulas, and libertarians are all over the map.

joined other conservatives in describing the report as part of a political agenda.

After Brooke Jeffrey's Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper's New Conservative Agenda and Michael Harris» Party of One, I grew tired of the anti-Harper political genre although I was pleasantly surprised by dissident former Tory MP Brent Rathgeber's Irresponsible Government: The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada.

And if the Conservatives win we may be looking at the whole political agenda being focused on a referendum on the EU.