Sentences with phrase «conservative positions as»

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.

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

Not exact matches

«I don't see that the risk - reward today is outrageously attractive, so you may as well have conservative positioning,» he says.

Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

In recent weeks, Rubio has sought to spin his positions in a fashion more appealing to the state's conservatives, leaning rightward as the moderate lane remains deeply divided.

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.

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.

I'm a conservative Republican out of Michigan (and working to better understand that conservative position) and would want to know as much as possible about who or what moves or influences my elected or unelected leaders to make the decisions they make.

As the Center reported, Donors Trust helps conservative foundations and individuals give money anonymously to nonprofits that may take controversial positions.

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.

He was widely expected to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans underConservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans underconservative partisans under one banner.

The Liberals hope their candidate Mary MacDonald can regain the support they lost in the last election and maintain their position as the de facto alternative to the Conservatives in this riding.

Brian Jean is positioning himself as Alberta's next premier, but the real threat comes from the Progressive Conservatives, not the Wildrose.

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.

Beyond that, I use that to inform what I label as my conservative and aggressive max attainable positions — you can pretty confidently say you're not going to outrank Amex for «amex small business credit card», etc..

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).

They key is to create the political incentives for Republican office holders and candidates who want to position themselves as conservatives to adopt Yuval Levin - style immigration reform.

The urgings of the legal academy to assume an exalted position as national moral tutor appear to have been heeded, even by a purportedly conservative Supreme Court.

While there are some media outlets with a liberal slant just as there are with a conservative one, the majority craft their position to maximize their audience.

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.

So, all in all, I'm pretty confident in my position as an atheist, whereas some conservative Christians probably are being disobedient to this law, right?

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.

Afterward, many conservatives realized they could show compassion in recognizing the human side and could support the antidiscrimination ordinance without compromising their theological position (viz., that the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin from which persons need to be redeemed).

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

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

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.

Actually, there are a variety of religious positions, liberal as well as conservative.

The attribution of cause here is a little one - sided, as though the poor liberals were forced into their un - and anti-religious positions entirely by the conservatives» donning of the religious mantle.

James lends his masterful support as a conservative Jewish Christian to the same position by fortifying it with reference to the prophet Amos, who says that the Lord will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will gather therein all the gentiles (James in Acts) substitutes «Gentiles» for Amos's «heathen») who are called by God's name (Amos 9:11 - 12).

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

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

Over the last several decades, the SBC's public profile has increased significantly due to the actions of its leaders and as a result of the media scrutiny that has come from solidly positioning itself on the conservative wing of American evangelicalism.

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

They're supposed to have kept the conservative coalition together, but opinions vary as to whether they should have kept King Mob under wraps, or moved more quickly to the positions that King Mob rightly espouses.

If the latter party positioned itself as moderately conservative on fiscal issues it would have potential to be very influential.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

Thus their views as to the material's historicity ranged from the more conservative position of Albertz to the mediating position of Dibelius and the radical position of Bultmann.

He has generally failed to articulate a coherence behind his policy positions — and I do believe there is a deep coherence — thereby allowing the media, and many GOP primary voters, to write off this deeply conservative candidate as a «moderate.»

We stated our position on this in a little book published in 1970, Movement and Revolution, billed as a conversation between a conservative and a radical.

Conservative Jews don't like to be described as the in - between group, but they inevitably are, because the best and simplest way to define the Conservative position is to say that it is more strict than Reform and less strict than Orthodoxy.

Similarly, severe racial discrimination was once the position of the conservative majority, but today it is coming to be seen as a reactionary stance.

Indeed, the alternate opinion may be as rooted in Biblical and conservative principles as I believe my own position to be.

While there are excellent and well - stated «conservative positions» with regard to certain biblical issues, there is, no such thing as an «evangelical body of scholarship» which constitutes anything like a rival «school» to mainstream scholarship.

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.

As I understand the conservative position, health care is not a God given right and the true sin is those without, or unable to afford, health insurance depending on emergency care services to provide health care to themselves and their children adding to the insurance and health costs of those that can afford it.

In the end, conservatives were always going to arrive at this position; whether the catalyst turned out to be Roe v. Wade, as popular belief has it, or the political allure of appealing to electorally useful social blocs, as Ziegler suggests.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

As a «conservative» (probably more like «libertarian»), my position is fairly simple: I am opposed to mandates — whether from government or private sources — which tend to compel people toward compliance with the «conventional wisdom» (which is oftentimes neither conventional nor wise.)

And its relatively liberal readership suggests that it's not as conservative as its editorial positions might suggest.