Sentences with phrase «embraced by conservative»

A big flap at a little scientific journal is raising questions about a study that has been embraced by conservative politicians for its rejection of widely held global - warming theories.

That's true in Britain as well, where it's been embraced by the Conservative Party.

Describing the president's immigration plan as «extremely generous» but a take - it - or - leave - it proposal, White House officials said they hoped it would be embraced by conservatives and centrists in Congress as the first step in an even broader effort to fix the nation's immigration system.

Worse, his teacher's union - bashing film was embraced by conservatives, one of whom said his Oscar snub is «the price a political apostate pays in Hollywood for straying off the liberal plantation.»

Not exact matches

First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

Moody's racial woes, as told by these students and faculty members, are about a historically conservative Bible college struggling to embrace equality and pluralism.

Rick Santorum is expressing a sentiment increasingly embraced by social conservatives: that the US is God's favorite child.

The National Press Club event will mark the latest in the complicated dance of distance and embrace between the nation's premier conservative legal organization and a man who professionally benefited from his association with the group but then used his considerable cachet to further a cause opposed by many of its members.

Conservative anxieties about embracing and entering culture — by which we mostly mean Hollywood — seem to have subsided in recent years.

Once the initial euphoria created by the council subsided, confusion set in, followed by disillusion among both conservatives, who missed the certainty and rituals of the pre-conciliar Church, and liberals, who embraced change, often for the sake of change itself.

This paper presents an approach to social and legal policy that would combine many concerns of both liberals and conservatives, that would work patiently toward long - range goals, that would embrace a dialogical notion of the common good, and that would seek to promote the general welfare by attending to the conditions under which individuals, families, and communities prosper.

It's «How can Conservatives be such hypocritical D - Bags that they claim to be «Christian» while embracing a woman who, BY HER OWN ADMISSION, absolutely loathed Christianity, and was diametrically opposed to every single precept of it?

Feminism will tell us that women are independent agents, which seems to be an idea embraced even by people who call themselves conservatives.

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»

One of the more noteworthy developments in the online politics world over the past six months has been the enthusiastic embrace of the micro-blogging tool Twitter by conservative activists, particularly after the «Dontgo» movement this past summer.

Many people, including long - term Conservative activists, are genuinely appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco display and its decision to embrace the culture of hyper - regulation that was a hallmark of the previous regime.

The war between Newt and Rush extends back to earlier this year, when Limbaugh said Gingrich was tearing apart the conservative movement by trying to embrace «better policy ideas.»

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The deal Democratic House leaders struck with a group of conservative Blue Dogs Democrats Wednesday was not embraced by one leading liberal House Democrat: Rep. Barbara Lee, D - California, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

Shanker gained a hearing for his ideas from both liberals and conservatives, not by taking moderate positions that consistently split the difference, but by embracing a coherent philosophy that sometimes led to «liberal» policy conclusions, other times to «conservative» ones.

While the administration's proposed cuts have been embraced by fiscal conservatives who argue that Education Department programs need to be trimmed or eliminated, some conservatives are also troubled by the administration's proposal to invest new money in school choice, saying that represents an unwelcome expansion of the federal footprint in education.

The fact that Common Core has been embraced by centrist Democrats and President Obama himself doesn't sit right with Malkin and her fellow movement conservatives, for them, the standards seem like little more than a Trojan horse for left - leaning ideas.

At the same time, conservative reformers are being challenged by their allies in the school reform movement on whether they will embrace the expansion of accountability regimes and other solutions that don't always square with movement conservative ideology.

So do those conservative reformers who oppose the move by states to embrace Common Core standards.

Finally embraced by museums that long considered him a pariah for his critiques of institutional power, Hans Haacke's critical eye remains unchanged: his new exhibition at Paula Cooper includes a new work about the Met's acceptance of donations from David H. Koch, the billionaire philanthropist who's financially supported conservative political campaigns.

That's because there has not been a decades - long corporate - funded effort to create a subculture of «liberals» who will obediently embrace, believe and obey whatever propaganda is branded «liberal» and spoon - fed to them by corporate media personalities, comparable to the subculture that is the eager audience for the so - called «conservative» media.

Even were that not the case, the risks imposed by climate change are real, and a policy of ignoring those risks and hoping for the best is inconsistent with risk management practices conservatives embrace in other, non-climate contexts.

Arguments that unilateral action by the United States produces little climate benefit, that a carbon tax will expand the size of government, that a carbon tax is a regressive, that adaptation and geo - engineering is preferable to emissions constraint, that economists can not confidently design a carbon tax that does more good than harm, that the legislative process can not deliver a carbon tax worth embracing, and that promoting a carbon tax puts conservatives on a slippery political slope are explored and found wanting.

For these and other reasons, conservative and libertarian intellectuals who embrace what is known as «free market environmentalism» have long argued that pollution is a trespass on private property that is best dealt with whenever possible by common law action — not by legislators acting to referee such trespasses via sweeping environmental laws with (heavily politicized) utilitarian calculations in mind.

A new generation of conservative pundits is cheerfully blurring the line between red and blue — by embracing smart growth and New Urbanism.

Just watch out, conservatives, if states rights include California, Illinois, New York — these places that, where people voted in a progressive fashion — watch out if all those places start to address climate change and then impose economic sanctions, either overtly or by default, on places that have not embraced the work that needs to be done.

Climate change had already become a partisan issue with nascent but promising bitterness, naturally embraced by liberals, generally dismissed summarily by conservatives.

San Francisco pols are ahead of the curve, proposing a gas tax — a close cousin of the carbon tax — to fight global warming... In policy circles, a carbon tax is a no brainer, embraced by lefties like Stark and conservatives like former Bush economic advisor Gregory Mankiw.

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