Sentences with phrase «for ideological conservatives»

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This is a warning shot across the bow of higher education, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives.

Just as Democrats could not target churches for leaning conservative and demand that they should pay extra taxes, right - wing Republicans can not target universities based on ideological beliefs.

The 2012 G.O.P. presidential nominee, running for an open Senate seat, faced conservatives who disliked his ideological swerving, and a fear among hard - right activists that they were losing power.

The reason for cutting spending in Budget 2012 was simply an ideological desire for smaller government and the need to placate Conservative supporters.

Will the sign of caucus support for Ms. Smith's leadership put an end to the Wildrose «civil war» between pragmatic and ideological conservatives that Mr. Anglin referred to in a Facebook post yesterday?

They are, and have been for years, a conservative party, with both ideological and personal links to the Harper Conservative governmenconservative party, with both ideological and personal links to the Harper Conservative governmenConservative government in Ottawa.

In their search for answers, experts contrasted conservative with nonconservative denominations and examined ideological and theological distinctions.

I've received a great many responses to my comment, pro and con, and to my surprise they seem to be breaking down (albeit not perfectly) along ideological lines, with conservatives (of various faiths) joining me in criticizing the ruling and liberals criticizing me for criticizing it.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

Donald T. Critchlow's impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly's political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers — her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies — that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

The government was under pressure from Outer London Conservatives to free them from the «tax high, spend high» council, and was keen to be rid of the GLC for ideological reasons.

The policy was massively popular, and served a number of ideological purposes for the Conservatives.

The coalition agreement, for example, seemed to reflect the Liberal Democrats» ideological position at least as much as it did the Conservatives».

The Republican Party is an ideological mix of social and fiscal conservatives once held together by eloquent intellectuals such as Bill Buckley; gone are the days of the Eisenhower Republican; here to stay is the Reagan Republican jumble, with a few vestiges of traditional conservatism tacked on for good measure.

«The Russian government made clear its support for the Conservative party in the 2017 UK general election, with the Russian embassy in London promoting their ideological «convergence» and Theresa May's «strong and stable» slogan on Twitter,» the spokesman said.

«When people consider the alternative... the dangers of giving the keys to Number 10 to David Cameron in a Conservative only government where they want to remorselessly cut, cut, cut public services for ideological reasons way beyond what is necessary or put the keys to Number 10 into the hands of Labour, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, who don't really want to deal with the task of balancing the books, actually they think the sensible thing to do is to stick to the course, finish the job, but finish it fairly.

I suspect that Obama will nominate a reasonable candidate, conservatives will throw hissy - fits (ignoring their previous cries for «up or down votes»), the candidate will be confirmed, and Republicans will just be further exposed as obstructionist ideological stooges.

Commenting on reports of an announcement by the Prime Minister on the Conservative Party's plans for free schools after the General Election 2015 and on the Secretary of State Nicky Morgan's comments on the Today programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is clear that if elected the Conservative Party will continue its obsessive ideological focus on structural change.

For policy - making offices, there's been talk of an unwritten rule that Democratic candidates can't also run on the Conservative line because of ideological differences between the political parties.

Asked if the party needs an ideological rethink, he says it needs to be clearer about what the party stands for in any general election and state whether it would go into a coalition with the Conservatives or Labour - not both.

The team mapped those political organizations to a 5 - point ideological scale — from — 2 for very conservative to +2 for very liberal — based on survey data.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

Other aspects of our news diet are out of whack, too: a nationally representative survey done in 2014 by the Pew Research Center found that conservatives are far more likely than other ideological groups to rely on a single outlet — Fox News — for political and government news coverage.

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

As with centrist and progressive counterparts, conservative reformers must decide if their greatest concern is with building brighter futures for all children (and working in the big tent that is the reform movement), or with adhering to first principles that may not always match up with the reality of the education crisis (as well as disturbing the relationships they have with their ideological counterparts).

The No campaign «successfully connected charter school expansion to dark money and to a market - based ideological agenda,» revealing the Wall Street businessmen, conservatives, and New Yorkers that they argued were pouring money to dictate what's best for Massachusetts.

The videos likely will entertain and energize the audiences each man is cultivating — in Hertsgaard's case communitarian activists hoping to build momentum for restrictions on greenhouse gases and in Inhofe's case a mix of ideological conservatives and free - marketeers.

Such intolerance of disagreement is something for which conservatives and Tea Party activists are often criticized, and is the type of ideological purity that has made our national politics a mess.

It's almost become a cliche to point out that Fox News is less a reliable news organization and more of an ideological agenda - setter for the American conservative movement.

Astonishingly, Opposition Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, normally a harsh ideological foe of «picking winners and losers» with taxpayers» money, was apparently willing to make an exception for the oil industry.

Despite these negative outcomes, the Trump administration and conservatives in Congress are pushing for funding increases for abstinence - only programs in an effort to promote an ideological and coercive agenda.

A conservative government «has just taken the bulldozer to one of its ideological cornerstones; that is, support for those who take responsibility and work hard to progress themselves and their family,» says Suzanne Plater, Course Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion, University of Sydney.