Sentences with phrase «conservative position»

«In this environment, I think it is problematic for a candidate to have a more conservative position on guns for the Democratic primary,» the strategist said.

It also tends to promote a more conservative position on moral issues such as sexuality, abortion and euthanasia.

I remain a Conservative supporter, but anyone who listens to my show knows that I am often very critical of Conservative positions.

The sole exceptions are those church bodies which take conservative positions on abortion and genetic engineering.

The third - largest smartphone manufacturer in the world is rumored to be moving the goal posts to more conservative positions for the year.

If, say, they were to hold conservative positions on 90 % of the issues, the conservative press would focus on the 10 % where there was disagreement.

We have to take the most conservative position, which is that the liability is real and a «true liability» and must therefore be deducted at its face amount.

Many evangelicals share conservative positions with us on such issues as abortion, the family, and marriage.

I continue to stand that the true conservative position is government not involved in relationships of people, heterosexual or homosexual.

I have noticed that as some women grow older, they tend to shift toward a more conservative position on the issue of abortion.

It won't be «exciting», but it sounds luke you agree with me that this shouldn't be exciting and «market rate of return» (about 8 % annually, long term) is generally good enough, with more conservative positions as you approach the point of needing that money.

(Tea Party challengers won enough Republican primaries in 2010 that «mainstream» conservative candidates took radically conservative positions in 2014 to keep their seats.)

Although thrilled that the priesthood is no longer denied to black men, LDS liberals tend to feel uncomfortable as the leaders of the church articulate generally conservative positions.

After reciting the list of socially conservative positions the Tea Party seems to espouse, Lindsey concludes that it is not useful for libertarian purposes, provoking his co-contributor Jonah Goldberg to note: «Lindsey is supposed to be making the case for freedom, and yet so much of his uncharacteristically intemperate essay simply reads like he has chosen sides in the culture war and thinks that a host of political and policy questions should therefore be settled.»

The get - together went as well as can be expected for a guy who has a very conservative position about immigration, sent out racist e-mails and made a number of controversial statements about various ethnic groups.

Democrats with conservative positions on social issues such as abortion continue to disappear from Congress.

Skelos, who has endorsed fellow Republican Rick Lazio for governor, noted that all of the candidates — including Cuomo — have espoused fiscally conservative positions that the Senate GOP has long pushed, including a property tax cap, holding the line on taxes and a ban on borrowing to close the budget deficit.

As part of what seems to be a coordinated attack strategy against Carl Paladino and his extremely conservative position on abortion rights, NARAL Pro-Choice New York is poised to endorse AG Andrew Cuomo for governor later today, according to sources inside the campaign.

And most importantly, she can argue conservative positions without sounding like an ideologue, and is ready to develop and champion viable, sensible urban policies that challenge liberal orthodoxy.

As the front - runner in a House race far from the national media spotlight, Stefanik can take a more conservative position without attracting too much attention.

«This is a radically conservative position,» said Cuomo.

To avoid being called a RINO (Republican in name only), a Republican would have to take a hardline conservative position on nearly every issue.

Mr. Cooper is known in political circles for his hard - line conservative positions and has been involved in politics since he was a teenaged national director of the Canadian Alliance Party.

Brad Trost The Saskatchewan Tory is one of the foremost advocates for socially conservative positions within his party.

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

He might have taken a non-Fundamentalist conservative position.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

That's one of the most fundamental differences, I think, between a deeply conservative position and a strictly libertarian one: conservatives think that for all its merits, the right we have to choose in the marketplace needs to be shaped by virtue and ordered by a moral order (I never tire of pointing out that Adam Smith thought himself a moral philosopher).

He presses for Bible instruction in public schools, school prayer, public displays of the Ten Commandments, impeachment of «activist» judges, antiabortion statutes, prohibition of gay marriage and a host of other conservative positions.

While young people hold nuanced opinions on taxes, abortion, and immigration policy (with sometimes plurality support for a somewhat conservative position on those issues), Obama overwhelmingly won young voters.

The high level is that the typical conservative position is that big government is bad (for various reasons such as efficiency, cost, corruption, freedom and more) and we should strive towards a smaller government that gives more control to the people and the markets.

Some party leaders believe his increasingly conservative positions as he approached a presidential campaign turned off Massachusetts» more - moderate brand of Republicans.

Nick Clegg reversed the real Conservative position: the HRA will not be repealed, and there will be no proper reform of our position towards the Act, which incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into UK law.

I don't think that's the mainstream Conservative position.»

Wu says he subscribes to the theory that Hochul is keeping a low profile until the September primary because of her past conservative positions.

And during the Democratic primary, de Blasio stumped for Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, whose conservative positions on gun control and immigration made her a target for liberal criticisms.

But she does have the support of the state Conservative Party (albeit not its ballot line, due to her failure to file a sufficient number of signatures), and has been railing against Hanna for what she says are his insufficiently conservative positions on a host of policy issues.

A telephone call with John McCain helped produce a very assertive Conservative position - overturning an even - handed immediate reaction from a very cautious William Hague.

For instance, we find that people who believe that school funding is sufficient (a typically conservative position) and who support more local control of funding (also typically conservative, though passed in California by the Democratic governor) are more likely to oppose the standards.

Forman, for example, believes per - pupil amounts for many voucher and tax credit scholarship programs are too low for the low - income students they're intended to help, reflecting conservative positions that education funding as a whole is bloated.

Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long - term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell.

Given that some other managers may have been more aggressive, your excess capital can disappear, as more aggressive mangers miss margin calls, and the pressure of their liquidations, forces your more conservative positions down, and you have to liquidate also.

These are the formally articulated «things» of importance to the firm, like aggressive vs. conservative positions, lowest relative fee structures, mandatory vacations, the establishment of executive committees, the prohibition of GPAs below 3.3, etc..