Sentences with phrase «from liberal policies»

But the divided Legislature, with Democrats holding a large majority in the Assembly, has also served a political function for Mr. Cuomo, allowing him to shelter himself from liberal policies that do not jibe with his centrist approach.

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The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, the Liberals are suggesting bring back a policy from the 1990s, one that avoided the unintended consequences of the current government proposal where firms receive benefits by firing workers.

A new report from the liberal Institute for Policy Studies finds that such tax cuts serve to enrich CEOs and shareholders.

Long suggested his own frustration is a symptom of a much wider problem — an unhealthy gap between Liberal backbenchers» political instincts and the sort of policy thinking that emanates from the well - staffed offices of the Prime Minister and top cabinet ministers.

Without a doubt, government policies (Conservative, Liberal, B.C. Liberal, and B.C. NDP) have impacted the timelines, risks and potential future returns from LNG facilities on the B.C. coast.

Last week, Olive Garden's parent company Darden Restaurants got heat from New York hedge fund Starboard Value, which charged that an overly liberal breadstick policy was costing the company as much as $ 5 million a year.

A report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal think tank in Washington, found that if Trump is successful in lowering the top marginal tax rate to 33 %, Fortune 500 CEOs would stand to save $ 196 million on income taxes they would otherwise owe if they withdrew from their nearly $ 3 billion in special tax - deferred accounts.

• What the Liberals need now is nerve, a more detailed defence of their policy and faith that average Canadians will stand with them, despite the noise coming from a well - heeled minority, and their well - paid lobbyists, who are loudly protesting this unexpected attack on their long - standing privileges.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

Simon Fraser University's Sustainable Transportation Research Team and Clean Energy Canada have prepared a comparison of EV policies from the B.C. Liberals, B.C. Greens and B.C. NDP.

So the latest policy proposal from the liberal - leaning Roosevelt Institute deserves special attention.

Some of my peers came from liberal arts background, teaching backgrounds, government / political policy backgrounds, sports backgrounds and science backgrounds just to name a few.

BURNABY — A New Democrat government would end a B.C. Liberal policy that has stopped post-secondary institutions from building student housing, and made the search for housing increasingly desperate for B.C. students and non-students alike, says B.C. New Democrat leader John...

«We should be seeing some serious upticks in orders if the tax cut is going to lead to the promised jump in investment,» Dean Baker, an economist from the liberal - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said in an email.

The Liberals have offered three anchors to their fiscal policy from the election through to recent days.

Mr. Dion is well versed in environmental policy after serving as environment minister from 2004 to 2006 and spearheading the Green Shift policy while leading the Liberal opposition in the 2008 election.

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

The revelation that Quebec was chosen over other provinces to play host to Amazon's data cluster comes at a time when Kathleen Wynne's Ontario Liberal government is reeling from an energy policy that has sent electricity prices skyrocketing in recent years.

Democratic politicians and liberal activists went to work, learning from the political and policy mistakes of the Clintons and preparing for the next opportunity.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

that liberal policies have been acting to stem an earlier flow from liberal churches to conservative ones.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Here in Dayton, I've developed a bit of a reputation for being both a political and theological «liberal,» and have thus found myself in some spirited conversations about everything from Barack Obama's foreign policy to the eternal destiny of Buddhists and Hindus and, well... Barack Obama himself.

Many want movement on the married couples» tax breaks, although the introduction of the policy would further distance the Tories from their Liberal Democrat colleagues.

Russian policy since the mid-2000s has also demonstrated great sensitivity to the potential threat to Russia's authoritarian domestic arrangements from the extension of liberal - democratic forms of governance and the economy into the region.

On the BBC's Sunday Politics programme this week, former Defence Secretary and darling of the Tory Right, Liam Fox, suggested that «it is a game for academics» to discern as to whether a Cameron Government policy (i.e. without Liberal Democrat restraint) would be that different from a Coalition Government policy.

His shadow team aims to raise # 1.2 billion every year from the mansion tax, building on a policy originally championed by the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal policy for the last eight years has been on the ascendancy — gaining successes on issues ranging from climate change to health care reforms.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

One year has passed since Donald Trump's inauguration as president and his promise to reorient American foreign policy away from a liberal internationalist agenda to putting «America First.»

Liberals, who have dominated American foreign policy thought, have maintained a positive - sum view of world politics: through the impact of free trade, institutions, and the effort of a benign hegemon, the world is becoming more and more prosperous, and everybody — especially the US — is gaining from this endeavour.

Or, they can be happy with morsels from the Conservative table and be gratified from time to time, even ecstatic, to see bits of Liberal Democrat policy implemented.

Like all Liberal Democrats, the Social Liberal Forum is very proud of our party's uniquely democratic approach to policy making and as we enter the run up to the 2014 and 2015 elections, we look forward to further statements from our ministers in government that set out clear ideological differences between us and the Tory Party.

Cuomo's business - friendly policies have angered some liberal Democrats, but praise from the mayor of New York City may help blunt that criticism.

This pamphlet draws together social liberal thinking from past and present, advocating policies that would lead to sustainable prosperity and good jobs for all.

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By focusing on these well - meaning policy areas, the Liberal Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the record of the most toxic policies implemented by the coalition government.

The joint statement is unusual from the leaders of two states that have frequently competed to be on the forefront of liberal policy advancements.

Prior to this act, drugs policy in the UK was relatively liberal but was reformed under pressure from the US, who pushed for the global criminalisation of drugs.

-LSB-...] finally, a cautious welcome from the Social Liberal Forum: Social liberals should apply same test to this budget as to all government economic policy ---LSB-...]

In a coalition by contrast many of the policies and much of the influence comes from the progressive Liberal Democrat tradition.

It sets out the Social Liberal Forum's proposals for the economy, which we hope to see adopted by the Liberal Democrats as a distinct policy from both...

Blair and Mandelson know that their political project — to eliminate trade union and rank and file influence from the Labour Party and move it towards coalition with the Liberals — and the government's economic policies, notably the goal of cutting social spending, will collide with successive layers of the labour movement.

Mr. de Blasio has, at times, stumbled in prior attempts to make himself into a national figure championing liberal policies, but his appearances this week have made it clear that on matters of race, he speaks from a firmer, more familiar ground.

The key Welsh Liberal Democrat policy of reducing infant class sizes continues to be implemented by Kirsty Williams in Government as schools across Wales are set to benefit from 80 new teachers to reduce class sizes.

De Blasio has also faced criticism from his liberal base that some of his policies, such as his support of «broken windows» policing and his plan to rezone 15 city neighborhoods, do not jibe with his campaign promises to end what he called «a tale of two cities» in New York.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

The Welsh Labour Government has received over # 64m in funding as a result of this policy in England, but despite numerous calls from the Welsh Liberal Democrats they have refused to use it to replicate the policy here in Wales.