Sentences with phrase «conservative tradition»

This is true in newly independent states and in older colonial offspring where conservative traditions have dominated.

Cameron's version of the Conservatives had more in common with Blair's Labour than with the more socially conservative tradition of his own party.

The primary contests, in significant respects, reflect the ongoing battle between newer progressive forces and old school social conservative traditions in -LSB-...]

Before you write off an entire denomination, you have to recognize that even among the leadership of some more conservative traditions (read «evangelical» if you like), there are active support groups and organized churches openly affirming, welcoming and engaging LGBT people and those who would see themselves as allies.

They seem to put robes, chalices, ceremonies, and conservative traditions well above simply talking and teaching about Jesus.

In some parts of the Muslim world the most conservative traditions have become dominant and have created in the West an unfairly rigorist view of Islam.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

He has explicitly aligned himself with the liberal Conservative tradition which the Thatcherites so despised during their long domination of the party.

The chancellor's spending review this week was the work of a minister who, in his own flashy way, is an authentic modern incarnation of the one - nation Conservative tradition of Harold Macmillan and Iain Macleod, not a latterday acolyte of the ailing Tory individualist icon Margaret Thatcher.

The overwhelming evidence is, however, that David Cameron is comfortable with all of the great conservative traditions:

The depressingly well - established Conservative tradition of saying nothing of interest about waste and the circular economy continues.

Always penetrating and provocative, my good friend Patrick Deneen has, once again penetrated and provoked, this time in a brief essay entitled» Is There a Conservative Tradition in America?»

In short Pietism had become a conservative tradition whose emphasis on experience was often not authentic.

And don't miss Professor Livingston's article about David Hume and the conservative tradition.

Harold Ockenga has suggested that in the conservative tradition there has been a movement from fundamentalism to neo-evangelicalism and ultimately to evangelicalism.

Yet today, as the center of gravity of the Christian world moves ever southward, the conservative traditions prevailing in the global South matter ever more.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

The third group, the «Holiness» churches, is the one least noticed or understood by those outside the conservative tradition.

There is undoubtedly a strand within the conservative tradition that is essentially pragmatic, seeing the job of the ruler as being to guide the ship of state wisely through whatever waters it may pass, rather than setting about, as Cameron himself put it «great schemes to remake the world».

From Benjamin Disraeli to Winston Churchill, some of its most famous leaders have come from outside the Conservative tradition; and it has always been an eclectic mix of free traders, protectionists, little Englanders and global traders.

A conservative tradition may be intellectually inspiring but can not achieve results; the conservative mobilization after 1964 which accelerated in the 1970s and was further boosted by the Reagan victory produced a movement which reinforced, though was sometimes at odds with, the Republican Party and was able to elect candidates and project itself in the political arena.

One could, of course, ask whether the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke, Samuel Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli, Quintin Hogg, Rab Butler, Keith Joseph and Michael Oakeshott has truly found its quietus in the person of David Cameron.

Greg Clark MP's Letter from a Treasury Minister: Help to Buy is part of a Conservative tradition of prudent support to achieve home ownership

> Yesterday: Greg Clark MP's Letter from a Treasury Minister: Help to Buy is part of a Conservative tradition of prudent support to achieve home ownership

Thus, in melding sports and luxury, Buick never completely broke away from its conservative tradition.

The C70 is actually the second car to break with Volvo's conservative tradition.

It is a place of conservative tradition, of exacting conformity, stifling to some but a comfort to those who have come to feel that Hartsville is their true home.

In that sense, they represent a conservative tradition that rags like the WSJ and the Financial Post seem to have abandoned utterly.