Sentences with phrase «conservative position on»

Political scholar Steven F. Hayward recently presented in Issues the conservative position on global warming and climate change, including a look at measures that conservatives might accept as part of any action plan.
And the immediate outlook might be even bleaker given Gov. Sam Brownback's extremely conservative position on spending and taxation.
He echoed traditional Democratic themes about union rights and economic fairness, but took a more conservative position on the hot - button issue of guns.
It's a good read, and outlines the conservative position on the «crisis» facing our state.
Astorino has also staked out a conservative position on social issues.
Webb's conservative position on gun laws is well - known, but here he is on evolution: «This confrontation between religious and scientific theories is still unsettled even today, as creationists rationally argue that the living world could not have been fashioned without an «intelligent designer,» and that the theory of evolution as presented by the Darwinists still rests on scientific speculation that has yet to be proven.»
Now let me be clear: I believe the post exhibits homophobia, not because of the author's conservative position on same - sex marriage, and not because the author intended to be hateful, but because the post employs degrading, fear - based language to dehumanize gay and lesbian people.
I'm just not clear on the conservative position on these theological issues.
It also tends to promote a more conservative position on moral issues such as sexuality, abortion and euthanasia.
I have noticed that as some women grow older, they tend to shift toward a more conservative position on the issue of abortion.
To avoid being called a RINO (Republican in name only), a Republican would have to take a hardline conservative position on nearly every issue.
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.
Democrats with conservative positions on social issues such as abortion continue to disappear from Congress.
The sole exceptions are those church bodies which take conservative positions on abortion and genetic engineering.
Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.
Many people we know think it mostly has to do with religion, politics, conservative positions on «culture war» issues, and an odd assortment of other things.
If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.
Evangelicals are among the least likely of religious groups to support BLM, and the most likely to hold conservative positions on race, according to new research from Barna Group.
He also had made public statements during a 2012 run as a Republican for U.S. Senate, in which he staked out conservative positions on issues such as abortion, climate change and same - sex marriage.
A recent Gallup poll showed that only 51 percent of religious Jews, those more likely to take conservative positions on Israel, support Obama, as opposed to 71 percent of non-religious Jews (as defined by whether respondents attend synagogue frequently or rarely).
10 pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL WINS THIRD TERM: «Whether it's a CDU government or a grand coalition, Merkel's success probably gives her government more wiggle room in terms of any renegotiation with the UK... But there's a huge gap between CDU and Conservative positions on much of the EU issue.»
Remember: Grisanti used to be a Democrat, and he is fairly moderate (consider his «yes» vote on gay marriage), through he does hold conservative positions on some key matters, like, say, the DREAM Act.
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.
Well, there is one link: the conservative positions on both energy policy and on Europe's recession woes are both completely wrong.
The advertising statements regarding the science of climate change also echo Conservative positions on specific scientific issues, as seen in each of the «myths» described, and declared to be false, in the second FoS ad:
We keep hearing there is going to be an election in the next few months and the Conservatives position on climate change is a big negative.

Not exact matches

Both are Tory bastions which were flagship councils under Margaret Thatcher, but factors including the EU referendum have pushed up support for Labour, which advocates a softer position on Brexit than the Conservatives.
The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg reported a clear split among May's most senior colleagues over whether the Conservative government should reverse its position on public sector pay increases.
On a host of issues normally instrumental to winning the support of the conservative media, he had famously taken liberal positions.
The Texas senator had carefully struck a balance between the various facets of the GOP, positioning himself as traditionally conservative on most issues, but one with a libertarian streak.
Not running a deficit under any circumstances was the position that the Conservatives had run on in the 2008 election, and the other parties had made similar promises.
Trump's protectionist views on trade agreements are among his most divisive positions for conservatives in Congress, who have traditionally espoused a free trade agenda.
Senator Coburn, generally regarded as being very conservative, has yet to issue statements that are clearly indicative of his position on virtual currencies.
On Thursday, Trudeau did not directly link the two issues when asked if the Conservative campaign in the U.S. is hurting Canada's position as it prepares to enter NAFTA negotiations.
He lost his St. Catharines riding and subsequently became president of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, a position he resigned on Sunday night, two hours after he received an email from Maclean's outlining the allegations contained in this story.
Polls in the United Kingdom indicate the forthcoming election is likely to increase the majority of the ruling Conservative Party, an outcome that should strengthen Prime Minister May's position at home and on the international stage at a crucial time, and one we think would be welcomed by financial markets.
He did not see Spicer as particularly telegenic and preferred a woman for the position, asking Conway to do it and also considering conservative commentators Laura Ingraham and Monica Crowley — who ultimately stepped down from an administration job because of charges of plagiarism — before settling on Spicer at the urging of Priebus and others.
Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.
Last year I wrote on Suven Life Sciences, also I did some secondary level maths to get a sense of returns an investor could get buying the business at then market cap (~ 2000 INR Crores or 400 Million USD) and exiting in 2024 See Snap shot below The base case CAGR didn't excite but reading management commentary compelled me to take a tracking position in model portfolio Over to this year One thing in AR gave me a Jeff Bezos moment For the first time management was sounding optimistic (this is coming from a management which is very conservative on record) Emphasis mine Management views on past Despite having grown the business every single year across the last five years, our business sustainability has been consistently questioned.
This is interesting given the positions of Alberta's two principal political parties, the governing NDP and Opposition United Conservative Party, on both issues.
Consistent risk - controlled approach which includes conservative growth assumptions, position limits based on sectors and individual securities and an explicit sell discipline
Mr. Marciano recently stepped down from his position on the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada and served as Campaign Manager for Edmonton - Centre MP Laurie Hawn in 2004 and 2006, and for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in 2008.
When Mr. Anglin failed to persuade the Wildrose officials to disallow Mr. Nixon's candidacy on the grounds the challenger didn't resign his constituency position soon enough to comply with party rules, he accused the party of being no different from the long - governing Progressive Conservatives.
A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).
First of all, we probably shouldn't underestimate a Conservative government's ability to completely reverse its position on this subject.
It turns out that culturally conservative Protestants in Brazil (mostly Pentecostals, I suspect, though the author of this article calls them evangelicals) have forced the newly elected president, Catholic (and former Marxist guerilla) Dilma Rousseff, to move sharply rightward in her positions on....
In thinking through Jean - Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition and my position as a «conservative» Catholic sympathetic to our friends on the Porch, I'd like to throw this out there for some opinion.
Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.
«It barely had a Conservative logo on it all and if you make the entire election about yourself you'd better make sure you win because otherwise it really does make your position look really quite weak.
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.
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