Sentences with phrase «favored by liberals»

The schools were part of an experiment in «community control,» an approach to school reform then favored by liberals and black activists.

The speaker came under fire from members of the audience at one point, with advocates attacking her for supporting the hiring of 1,300 new NYPD officers in 2015 and her ongoing parliamentary obstruction of several controversial police reform bills favored by liberals.

On Tuesday, Cuomo went on the offensive against state Senate Republicans, blaming them for blocking policy measures favored by liberals and calling for their ouster after two key special elections later this month.

During a fundraiser for Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer's Senate campaign, Cuomo went on the offensive against state Senate Republicans, blaming them for blocking policy measures favored by liberals and calling for their ouster after two key special elections later this month.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

Most observers have considered the public option - an idea long favored by liberal Democrats - to be a non-starter since it was dropped from a Senate reform bill passed in December.

Not exact matches

Gay rights are favored by rich liberals in large part because they're seen as a cost - free way toward greater equality.

(10) This highly provocative study is criticized by Gregory Baum as overly schematic and as favoring a liberal reformist (vs. prophetic) position.

But it is also possible that it may presage the development of an American third way between the harsh and unrealistic hands - off approach to social problems espoused by many conservatives, and the rigorously secular governmental programs favored by many liberals.

While the classic liberal approach concentrates on the physical event and, in explaining what «really happened», ignores any deeper meaning involved in the miracle account, the approach developed by Rudolf Bultmann does just the opposite by ignoring the event in favor of the meaning.

Nevertheless, Cuomo has been criticized by liberals advocates for not being more forcefully in favor of a Democratic takeover of the chamber this year, which came to a head this week when the governor knocked public schools as a «monopoly» he wants to break by strengthening charter schools.

In the first two years of his term, his priority items have included fiscally conservative measures favored by Republicans, as well as more liberal items like same sex marriage, which was approved mostly by Democratic senators, with the help of just four GOP votes.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

Teachout, of course, was favored by some in the WFP to take the labor - backed party's line last month as a liberal alternative to Cuomo.

Mr. Peralta's defection does more than siphon power from the Democratic conference; it puts the independent group in position to expand its sphere of influence, pulling Republicans toward the political middle and offering John J. Flanagan, the Senate's Republican leader, an unbreachable bulwark against liberal policies favored by the Democrats who dominate the State Assembly.

«Among registered Democrats (not likely primary voters) Cuomo is favored over Nixon by a huge 66 - 19 percent margin, including among self - identified liberals, 63 - 18 percent.

They first clashed over de Blasio's plan to raise taxes to fund universal pre-kindergarten, but later that year, de Blasio did a huge favor for Cuomo by helping to coax the liberal wing of the Working Families Party into letting him have its nomination.

Based on these findings, the research team hypothesized that the bombings would cause liberals to shift moral perspectives in favor of protecting the in - group, akin to the values typically reported by political conservatives.

In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 2010.

(«Neoliberal» is a term used by the Left to denigrate liberals who favor aspects of free - market capitalism.)

CONSERVATIVES SAY EPA FAVORS GREENS IN FEE DISPUTE: Conservatives are hoping to throw another piece of kindling on the scandals currently burning the Obama administration by asserting that the EPA denies requests to waive fees for conservative groups while routinely waiving the costs for liberal groups like the Sierra Club.