Sentences with phrase «for liberal values»

For some Muslims, Western secular culture and the conspicuous consumption that often goes along with it are seen as undermining their faith; others acknowledge the democratic systems of the West but struggle to balance that appreciation against a religion that they feel leaves little room for liberal values.

And because the Pacific Northwest's cool capital is known for its liberal values and counterculture, its unofficial slogan is «Keep Portland Weird».

After all, research suggests that support for liberal values is already strong among young people — including those from ethnic minorities.

With just a week to go until the Assembly elections, Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron has said that now is the time to stand up for Liberal values of fairness.

But rest assured, we are fighting for Liberal values every day.

This may be a winning season for democrats, but it might be a bittersweet victory for liberal values.

Nixon on Tuesday unveiled a blistering attack on Cuomo's record, taking him to task for wealthy donors and failing to push for liberal values in Albany.

«He has stood up for liberal values; he put forward a vision for the important role that France plays in Europe and around the world; and he is committed to a better future for the French people.

He stood up for liberal values,» Obama said.

Not exact matches

But perhaps devolving most existing federal power to the state level will end up being the most mutually acceptable path forward for both conservatives and liberals who don't want to be dictated to by people who don't share their values.

There's no election for leadership of the «liberal world order» — the U.S. - constructed system of laws and values underpinning American prosperity since World War II.

He has said he values his liberal - arts education for the communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills it afforded him.

As for the value of the assets, it's difficult to assess the accuracy of the Liberals» numbers, because they have not released a full list of the assets they might unload.

And lest the liberal - minded fall into despair, Zakaria noted that the under - 30's voted for Hillary Clinton — that is, for multilateralism, multiculturalism, and associated values.

In this context, it may not be the case that support for the Democrats would translate into support for the Liberals or the New Democrats, parties that share similar values and approaches.

The point I was making about liberals is that many of you understand that the bible can not be taken at face - value, but do so when it is convenient for you.

You mean the same republican who was an advocate for big government, liberal values like freeing slaves and was from the North?

The article was called «The Secular Saint» and made a case for a kind of heroic existentialism, beyond the then prevalent value - free liberal realism.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

I think it's important that we should stand up for those liberal centre ground values.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

America need to stand up for our values and eliminate the liberal «new thinking» mentality that is set to ruin us all...

Liberal feminism, known for valuing androgyny, seeks reform through education, equal political rights and economic opportunities, and exploring terminology and values.

Along with Anthony Appiah and other current writers about the university, she acknowledges the intrinsic value of study (her most recent book on the topic is titled Not for Profit), while ultimately defending the value of liberal arts as essential for social and political progress.

Jesus Christ, this poor guy is going to jail for you people, for your sins, to preserve, to save our Christian values, to clean the world of these Islamoids, to reject all other rot morals from the liberal pest (see the new NY f..

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).

It has welcomed, naturally enough, the warmth and the poetry of Deus est Caritas; but it is now hoping that the Pope's first encyclical signals that there will be no more uncomfortable demands for the renunciation of relativist moral values, indeed, that thePope will now bask in his new popularity and become a mellow and liberal guru to the modern world, that his life story will be rather like that of Pius IX but in reverse.

The offering of a special version of liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue for contemporary human rights and values discourse in East Asia.

For example, there is a growing awareness that if the claim is correct that some political values are universally right, then why should liberals be hesitant to declare that some spiritual values are universally true?

While Ogden argues to the existence of an ontic whole as the condition of the possibility of our valuing, it not only can be, but also has been argued with similar care that such a reality, understood as the supreme instance» of that «comprehensive moral principle» required to account fully for human evaluation is thereby likewise necessarily presupposed by such evaluation (Franklin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984], chap.

Nor is it to be found in most of the discussions about the virtue and value of public service for America's young people, discussions that have been going on for some years now» for convenience call them «post-Vietnam»» among both liberals and conservatives.

Liberal Protestants and secularists furthermore agreed that the scientific age bad brought with it higher - level moral principles that could form the basis for a consensus of values that would benefit all humanity.

By accepting the humanists» standards of subjectivity and the relativity of values as a given — that is, as a premise and not as a problem — the liberal religionist has gone a long way toward betraying the grounds for public order.

Another basic point, one directly related to the liberal Christians» compulsive search for relevance, is the lack of a firm faith in objective values.

While Hentoff objected, rightly, in his book to the censoriousness of conservatives, he called out his fellow leftists for similar impulses, finding such behavior contradictory to liberal values.

The priority of particular group loyalties has protected the Italians from the worst extremes of ideological passion of the twentieth century — even fascism never went very deep — but it has also operated to undermine a genuine commitment to democratic and liberal values when these did not seem to pay off for particular groups.

Admittedly, I am a liberal Mormon, but the way I think about my faith, I would not see any value in fasting for a political candidate.

That said, she will likely spin this as «standing up for Christian / Republican / Conservative values, which are under attack by the liberal elite» and turn it into some form of media and / or political gig, a la Sarah Palin.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

In the second part, I will offer a special version of liberal constitutionalism as a proper domestic venue for contemporary human rights and values discourse in East Asia.

The politics that follows from this vision is one of tolerance and the welcoming of diversity, not because, as in some liberal traditions, tolerance and diversity are valued for their own sake, but because, given the dimness of our individual perceptions, one can not be sure which of the paths we are urged to go down is the right one.

Western communitarians have ultimately had to commit to some liberal values to preserve their discourse, while the Asian neo-conservative variety has also had to deal with increased demands for liberalization.

As for point 2... is there data that republicans value money more than liberals?

Wilson's currently attempting to capitalize on his new - found heroic status among some conservatives, but he's lagging far behind the Democratic blitzkrieg (of course, considering that most of the liberal money is coming from outside his district, he's set up for an anti-carpetbagger message during the general election, but I doubt that'll offset the value of Miller's actual cash).

The ostentatious and indiscriminate attacks by Trump on liberal values are therefore completely predictable and necessary for his strategy to work.

But different varieties of capitalism generate comparative advantages for different high value added sectors: as we have seen, high risk high innovation financial sectors are located in Liberal Market Economies (as well as many other business service sectors, commercial law, and also biotech, blockbuster software, and radical innovation in electronics).

As David Howarth, the former Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge, has argued, the party also needs to start talking more explicitly about its values:

France's revolutionary tradition would at first seem to offer ripe soil for liberal - minded thinkers to stand up to a system perceived as falling short of the Universal Rights and values enshrined in the Declaration of Human Rights.

Felder, an observant Jew whose district includes many Orthodox Jewish voters, said his constituents «don't agree» with a lot of what two of the state's top Democrats — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — have been saying in the wake of Donald Trump's election, pledging to fight on behalf of liberal values and maintain a sort of safe haven for the left in New York.