Sentences with phrase «for social democrats»

There are three reasons for social democrats to be hopeful.

With the defeat of Cable it should be easier for the Social Democrats to come back to Labour, and for Labour to shed its portion of leftie looneys.

I'd agree completely with you about the necessity for social democrats to embrace a more participatory democracy - I'd go further and argue that the * only * thing that social democrats need to do is to argue for a more effective expression of democracy - everything else follows from that.

But life has been harder for the social democrats.

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

For social democrats, it means reflecting on how institutional forms can be entrenched within the fabric of society, rather than swept away immediately in the wake of electoral defeat as may be the fate of Labour's social reforms in the United Kingdom.

For most of the post-war period, electoral support for the Social Democrats hovered around 45 percent.

For social democrats, it will also mean becoming — for the very first time in their conformist history — a political force willing to be as radical as reality itself.

Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, who campaigns for the Social Democrats and backs Merkel's rival Martin Schulz, did a similar live interview streamed on Facebook, which has been clicked 33,000 times.

And crucially he could not convincingly make the case for a social democrat country, given that his own time in government was beset by the free market dogma which has poisoned Labour and Tory administrations since Thatcher.

Simply because most of what has been said in wrong and a cloak for social democrat values — doesn't mean that the converse is necessarily true.

Not exact matches

Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

I like his penny pinching, and I'm skeptical of the promises I heard from the other Democrats: free college for everyone, more Social Security, and subsidized health care and higher education, even for undocumented immigrants.

For Republicans, the timing provides crucial leverage to force Democrats and the president to cut spending in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, expensive benefit programs that Democrats have long protected, despite escalating costs.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

He said he was backing Clinton because Democrats» social policies, for example on marriage equality, resonated more with him than Republican ones.

So much for reinvention: It's grand coalition 3.0 for Germany's Social Democrats.

For a while these negotiations appeared to be making progress, with the President agreeing in principle to cut social programs (the Democrats» sacred cow) and Boehner showing a willingness to accept some measure of revenue increases (a Republican litmus test).

«Instead of helping some of the most disadvantaged children in our communities, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals spent $ 182 million on a computer mess,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

«If it wasn't for families stepping forward to share their struggles publicly, the Liberal government would have continued taking child support money that rightfully belonged to kids,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

British Columbians deserve so much better,» said New Democrat spokesperson for social development, Michelle Mungall.

«We need a plan to end poverty in B.C. Passing our Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act would be the first step down that path,» said New Democrat spokesperson for social development Michelle Mungall.

«The Wildrose was not founded on political principles, like the fiscal conservatism of the Progressive Conservatives, or the social democracy of the New Democrats — but rather it was created, out of nothing, for the sole purpose of exerting political pressure on the PC government.»

VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board which would report to policy makers about key indicators of economic, environmental and social progress.

The Social Democrats, who are part of the ruling «grand coalition», scored 23.5 percent, while the Alternative for Germany stood at 11 percent, the Left Party at 10.5 percent and the Greens at 6 percent.

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.

Im not a democrat, and will not usually vote for one, but dam these social conservatives challenge me to do so every day.

So, if a Gang of Eight - style bill passes, we will get political trench warfare in which the Democrats will treat those who get amnesty as future citizens of a social democratic America and Republicans will treat them as bipedal automatons for benefit of the entrepreneurs who «built that.»

And rightly so, for without a great deal of willingness from social conservatives to come out and vote in the national election, the Republican nominee has no chance of winning in November against the Democrats.

Ultimately, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick read portions of the letter and the Vatican response to it at a service for Kennedy in Washington, D.C. News reports called the Vatican letter pro forma, and its cited portions avoid mention of the social issues on which Kennedy not only defied his faith, but spearheaded defiance of his faith — a modus operandi that is still deployed (and was just deployed in the recent Lamb - Saccone special election in Pennsylvania) by pro-choice Catholic Democrats.

You know, there are an awful lot of us who a christian who vote democrat and who have been getting verbally and ideologically by our right wing bretheran for being «those social justice christians».

... even if, like Germany's Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 - 2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for your own political gain.

I've been a democrat for all of four months now, and what has surprised me the most is how passionately conservative evangelicals oppose social reforms that benefit the poor.

... even if, like Germany's Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor from 1998 - 2005, you are of the general social democrat mode, you rely on centralized government action too much, and you are not above stoking rabid denunciation of U.S. efforts to fight terrorism and WMD proliferation for....

No, we can not raise the age for Social Security to 69, say the Democrats, even if that change does not kick in until 2075.

Come election time in November, no democrats and very few independents are going to vote for Romney because he has been forced to endorse many of the far right's nutty social views.

It turned out that it makes a great deal of difference whether one is a democratic socialist or a social democrat, for the relative location of nouns, which convey the substance of things, and adjectives, which represent the modifiers, weights priorities time after time.

Democrats are pro-union, environmentalists, anti-gun, pro-choice, for social services, for criminal defendants, etc..

Do they really think the public will go into the polling booth thinking «oh well I would vote for Labour but they can't be trusted on the economy, and I would vote for the Conservatives but they might deliver the wrong kind of recovery, so I think I will marry economic efficiency and social justice and vote for the Liberal Democrats instead»?

For example, a common Democrat position is that spending cuts in defense should be used to pay for more social prograFor example, a common Democrat position is that spending cuts in defense should be used to pay for more social prografor more social programs.

We're starting to build a social network for Maryland Democrats on Ning and pretty soon we'll be launching our text campaign.

In an interview with Le Monde on the day of Hollande's Europe speech — at a gathering of some of the EU's centre - left leaders in Paris — Gabriel insisted that: «It is absolutely not naïve [to call for a renegotiation]... the pact is only half the route that Europe must go...... the [German] Social Democrats would add to the fiscal pact a growth and solidarity pact.»

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For example, although the SPD and CDU / CSU had equal votes in parliament, the Social Democrats failed to block an increase in the retirement age to 67.

Certainly, austerity has confronted social democrats with an urgent need to look beyond a reliance on social spending and distribution through taxation for the creation of a fairer society.

Criticizing federal inaction on Russian interference in U.S. elections, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat - led Assembly said they plan to try to pass a law in New York that would require social - media companies to disclose who paid for their ads.

The Democrats immediately swung into action after Wendy Long's big win Tuesday night, sending out a flurry of press releases deeming her positions on hot - button social issues like same - sex marriage, abortion rights and guns too extreme for Democrat - dominated New York.