Sentences with phrase «conservative stance»

However, others take a more conservative stance and argue that a balanced diet can provide all the iodine the body needs.

As he explained: «taking a cautiously conservative stance — that is, waiting for more information before acting — is actually taking a very radical risk».

Davis has taken more conservative stances on some other civil liberties issues, having repeatedly voted to restrict abortion, fertility treatment, embryo research and LGBT rights.

As The New York Times noted in a news story, «the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters.»

Ms. Hochul has a record of pro-choice positions, but has also historically taken conservative stances on gun control and immigration issues — which served as fodder for her liberal Democratic primary opponent Tim Wu.

In their first joint appearance of the campaign, the two leading Republican candidates for governor Saturday night outlined a series of conservative stances on abortion, gun rights and education

Bianca went for a more conservative stance in a Dolce & Gabbana black gown that oozed of old Hollywood glamour when styled with finger waves, statement jewels, and Gianvito Rossi shoes.

And it has long been known that Smith has some pretty conservative stances when it comes to unions and education (he's pro-charter schools, and even once owned a for - profit charter school company).

The wilfully ignorant Conservative stance towards Michael Ashcroft's tax affairs was becoming as familiar as it was contemptuous.

Anyone who still thinks that is true should look at Fox News, with its edgy conservative stances.

While normally we might expect Facebook to present its case more strongly, it too is opting for a quieter, more conservative stance because the more it makes a legitimate defence of its systems the less sympathetic it becomes, and the more negative PR about the company and its unparalleled data it generates.

On the contrary, if our world of information is opposed to a certain conservative stance, such as lower refugee admissions, we likely discount some genuine concerns people may have about security, which can actually be used as an opportunity to share valid information about vetting and what a refugee goes through to get here.

Pope Benedict XVI, who announced his resignation Monday after eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church, will leave a legacy of strong theology, cooperation with evangelicals and a hardline conservative stance on social issues, evangelical leaders and observers say.

I knew that Republican politicians are very much in favor of big government (arguably more than Democrats) but I didn't think that was a particularly conservative stance.

In making the argument in favor of same - sex marriage to the court's conservative majority, the Republican signatories take up an inherently conservative stance: Two parents are better than one to raise a child and that a hands - off government shouldn't be in the business of deciding who one marries.

The opposition believes the prime minister has abandoned the centre ground in recent months to adopt a more orthodox conservative stance on issues such as law and order, immigration and welfare.

As for any prognosis or meaning from the match ups, which can't be examined by voting district until official results are released by the county Board of Elections in the coming weeks, it seems that the town has shifted back into a more conservative stance since electing a full Democratic slate nearly a decade ago.

yes, being conservative here... my advice is to plug the figures into an excel sheet and mess with them... the main point is that even if you take a fairly conservative stance you can come up with some pretty nice risk / reward tradeoffs... especially if stock drifts back below.5 again...

Which is why once you've build your broadly diversified portfolio with a mix of stock and bond index funds that jibe with your tolerance for risk, you pretty much should leave it alone, except to periodically rebalance your holdings (and perhaps gradually shift to a more conservative stance as you age).

Whether you're simply being prudent by doing some advance planning or you're concerned that the recent market volatility is a prelude to an imminent crash, you're right to start thinking about how to transition your portfolio to a more conservative stance well before you actually retire.

For those who are fearful of this and may wish to begin by taking a very conservative stance in the market, it is a fine thing to do especially if you have limited experience in investing.

NH: When it comes to adding depth to things, we took a rather conservative stance when we were working on 3D Space Harrier.

Democratic Sen. Tobby Ann Stavisky this week released a fundraising email appealing to contributors after her primary opponent signal he held socially conservative stances on abortion and LGBT rights.

It is a mistake to think that the 2012 election results were primarily the result of conservative stances on social issues articulated by the candidates.

An active feminist she was part of the suffragette movement and also overtly critical to the Salon's conservative stance towards female artists.

Although Heath suggests Biner should adopt a more conservative stance in any investments he has outside of his TFSA.

Indeed, Astorino, a Republican who is playing up his economic agenda (and not socially conservative stances on abortion and same - sex marriage) prefers illustrating an economic outlook for New York that is far different from Cuomo's.

It was recently where democrats took more liberal stances and republicans took more conservative stances.

Many in corporate America are still trying to work out how to deal with a new government that takes a more conservative stance on some social issues and has an anti-globalisation platform.

That's looking very unlikely at this point, but without government leadership or prodding, Canadian companies are probably going to maintain their conservative stances.

Despite having a more conservative stance than Gingrich on immigration policy, Romney is outpolling him with Latino voters in Florida, according to a new Univision / ABC News poll.

Tip for novices: Until you learn to finesse the complexities of foreign markets, take a conservative stance.

Then I retract to this pose back and all of the sudden I'm back into the more conservative stance.

For example, in the immigration debate, if we allow a conservative stance on family - based migration to be our initial subscription because we live in the information world of conservatism, then we struggle to give credence to the value of family structure and other intricacies involved in such a complex issue.

The Church's conservative stances on sexuality and abortion, and its rejection of the democracy movements in Russia and Ukraine, have angered liberally minded Russians, while Orthodox fundamentalists have attacked Kirill for not pressing Putin to forbid pornography and criminalize public belittlement of Orthodox moral values.

But this is more because evangelicals have adopted a conservative stance than because of their evangelical heritage from Wesley.

But it does appear to be true that, as Dias wrote, InterVarsity will maintain doctrinal accountability by asking any staff who disagree with IVCF's conservative stance on homosexuality, same - sex relationships, and gender to inform their leadership, triggering a process of «involuntary termination.»

However, American evangelicals will benefit from Francis's conservative stance on issues such as abortion and gay marriage, said Anderson.

It's clearly understood that the message of the gospels is non-violence, turning the other cheek, not denying an evil man, etc.; how this plays into the conservative stance on the pro-gun lobby is beyond me.

Burgess's careful, even guarded, treatment of people and themes is shaped by his sense of a struggle between progressive and conservative stances.

If, as I recently argued in the Century («The Suffering God: The Rise of a New Orthodoxy,» April 16), belief in the suffering of God is the most basic revolutionary development of 20th - century theology, then Paul Tillich and others were wrong in contending that, in his movement from Romans to the Dogmatics, Barth went from a revolutionary to a conservative stance.

In theory, they can have their own married priests, parishes and bishops - and they will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance.

He was wrong about married bishops, but dead right to home in on the fact that those within the ordinariates «will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance».

I like the idea of not passing judgment while also not placing stumbling blocks in the way of fellow Christians who may take a more conservative stance.

Since May, Cuomo's state Democratic Committee has served as the conduit for all things anti-Astorino: His fight with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over affordable housing, his conservative stance on abortion and a lawsuit filed against him stemming from the obscure battles within the Independence Party in Westchester County.