Sentences with phrase «dominated by progressives»

The jury is still out on whether Ms. Mark - Viverito and her Council, dominated by progressives, can serve as an adequate check on the mayor.

Historically, atheism was dominated by progressives / left wing; and they mounted an extremely effective campaign to associate Republicans / conservatives / «right wing» with anti - science / anti-intellectuallism and as incompatible with atheism.

At the launch former home secretary Charles Clarke said his ambition was for the 21st Century to be dominated by progressive Labour governments.

Don, I should have been clearer — I was referring to the leaders we currently have in Australia, who are not dominated by progressive thinking, but amongst whom there are many who have, at one time or another, bought into the CAGW group - think, and remain, to varying degrees, in its grip.

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He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

Discredited by its association with a movement which had sought to eradicate Christianity itself, «progressive» Catholicism withered on the vine, while a newly confident «conservative» faith, characterised by rigorous orthodoxy and strict adherence to the Pope, would come to dominate Catholicism throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Since the emergence of Populism in the 1890s, thinking about American public policy has been dominated by what might be called the progressive paradigm.

Wales were dominating possession by the simple expedient of passing the ball around the back four, but had never threatened to construct anything progressive; Ramsey and Ledley were disappointing in midfield, the Arsenal man in particular lacking sharpness.

A series of articles in the radical Jacobin magazine also point to the failure of other progressive champions such as George McGovern and Howard Dean to make much headway inside a party dominated by the Washington establishment.

When the progressive Democratic mayor makes a bill a top priority, it usually passes a City Council now dominated by de Blasio allies.

The Tories have some progressive offerings in their manifesto, though their economic policies continue to be punitive to women and the gendered impact of austerity continues to be imposed by a male - dominated cabinet.

But the mere fact that Cuomo is facing a challenge at all has been interpreted as a weakness by the national media, especially when it comes to 1) his usefulness to potential 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton in the brave new world of progressive - dominated Democratic politics, (NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is poised to rise even higher there), and 2) his own White House aspirations.

For WFP, Ms. Lynch's victory would mean another progressive vote in a City Council dominated by liberals, as well as a reliable pro-labor vote in a district that is traditionally more conservative.

If you want to understand the anger of Vince Cable and Chris Huhne you have to understand that their great hope of a new British politics dominated by them in alliance with left - wing parties has been defeated, defeated for a generation and defeated in large part by the Labour party that they had hoped would be their partners in building a progressive majority.

ICYMI: Allies of the Senate Democrats, who are anxious to see a Democrat - controlled upper house in order to more easily pass what they have deemed a «progressive» agenda, are now injecting race into the equation, noting a coalition between the Republicans and Independent Democratic Conference will be dominated by white men.

Democrats have three terrific, progressive candidates in key districts in Long Island's Nassau County, which has long been dominated by GOP elected officials far out of touch with today's constituencies:

But while Democrats say a convention could lead to the dismantling of labor and environmental protections by conservative interests, Republicans say they are concerned that New York City's progressive interest groups would dominate the convention.

Today, progressives dominate education reform, and progressivism is stirred by calls for «social justice» and transfixed by economic inequality.

This was not just a bureaucratic imperative; it also followed the thinking of progressive educators, who viewed the 19th - century high school as elitist, dominated by the wishes of college officials.

Since the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, public education has been dominated by what the historian Raymond Callahan (1962) described as a «cult of efficiency,» an almost religious faith in the power of rational, «scientific» management to tame the complexities of life in schools (also see Rose, 2016; Mehta, 2015).

She acknowledges that the coalition is dominated by schools like Bricolage, schools that embrace progressive teaching approaches that tend to rely much more on projects and much less on testing than traditional schools.

And, where the sculpture of the current Lincoln Navigator is dominated by hard, straight lines and angles, this concept introduces more curvature throughout, with gentle bulges around both the front and rear wheels, and a more swooping, progressive hood slope.

Oregon's car insurance market, like Minnesota's, is heavily dominated by a few companies: State Farm (21 % market share), Farmers (13 %), Progressive (11 %) and Liberty Mutual (10 %), according to SNL Financial and the Insurance Information Institute.

As it turns out, the cheap car insurance market is dominated by three main providers: GEICO, State Farm, and Progressive.