Sentences with phrase «from liberal politicians»

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Elizabeth May's recent embrace of Blair Wilson, a rejected and controversial Liberal MP from the Lower Mainland, as the party's first Member of Parliament should remind us that the most important quality of any politician is judgement.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

Public life is full of mandatory rituals in which every politician, artist, writer, celebrity, teacher or any public figure is willing to participate, all to prove that their liberal - democratic creed springs spontaneously from the depths of their hearts.»

This process took place in Congress, in think tanks, and at colleges — but also on the street, where liberal citizens took an interest in the issue and demanded answers from their politicians.

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

Among secularists, gay activists, liberal politicians, and the like, it is taken for granted that homosexual urgings are «natural,» in the sense of being innate (the word nature comes from the Latin natus, «to be born» as, in fact, does the word innate); and since the urges are natural in that sense (or so goes the claim), what's wrong with satisfying them?

«When we emerge victorious from the primary, Ms. Gillibrand will be unable to hide from her record as the Most Liberal Senator in Washington and voters will have a stark choice between a businessman who will address our nation's fiscal crisis and a politically - expedient politician.»

Politicians from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP all sang the praises of the Citizens» Assemblies and called for more public participation in politics.

Any Labour politician wanting to abandon the «old ways» would start embracing what they are saying, and if they did that they would be very unlikely to earn much ire from the liberals or the left.

And the danger of this «tabloid nationalism» may also meet with scepticism from market liberals, who tend to assume that newspapers and politicians just follow the preferences of their respective «consumers», rather than shifting society's political and moral landscape.

British politicians were unaccustomed to coalition politics, and the Liberal Democrats came under fire from Conservative and SNP opponents who claimed they had «sold out» their principles.

«Action by the Liberal Democrats within the UK Coalition killed off any suggestion of regional pay within the UK, but now Welsh public sector workers face a new threat to their pay and conditions from Labour politicians in our town halls.

Plaid Cymru, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians demanded this funding be made available solely from central government in addition to the block grant already paid to the Welsh Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the chief reporter for Wales on Sunday newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single - issue candidate demanding «Match Funding now».

«As New Yorkers are faced with a punishing economic climate fueled by Gov. Cuomo's special interest donors and liberal career politicians, Congressman Gibson's announcement of an exploratory committee for governor is a light at the end of the tunnel,» said Nojay, a conservative lawmaker from the Rochester area and a talk - radio host.

While Clegg declined to comment personally, a Liberal Democrat spokesperson said: «This is yet another a distraction tactic by a Labour politician attempting to shift the debate from the real issue.

Mr. Stringer, 55, is a down - the - line liberal from a political family, an ambitious but deliberative politician who climbed steadily from a State Assembly seat on Manhattan's Upper West Side into the offices of Manhattan borough president and then comptroller.

After a rousing musical number from the Mambo Legends, the politicians proclaimed their supposedly unified record of moving the state in a more liberal direction.

The email from MoveOn.org is the latest in a wave of electronic entreaties from politicians, politicos and other liberal leaders to help prevent the WFP from being superseded by the WEP and Howie Hawkins» Green Party.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.

«Given the strong links between Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat politicians and Scotland in Union, I am sure they will now make the same demands of «disclosure» from SiU that they have of others.

She says the fact that she is a liberal politician hasn't stopped her from discussing the issues with conservative party members.

Martin Charles Horwood (born 12 October 1962) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Member of Parliament for Cheltenham from 2005 to 2015.

Debating some of the key issues with local people are three cabinet - ranking politicians from the major parties: - Labour chief whip Geoff Hoon - Michael Gove, shadow secretary of state for children, schools and families, and - Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable.

«Because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the «mainstream» media, and liberal politicians say about global warming... The point is that believing in global warming is not «mainstream,» smart, or sophisticated.

Yet, like that other film, he chooses to focus not on the Chilean - born poet's early life, work or ascension to popularity among the country's liberals and intellects, but on his waning days as a politician in hiding from a changed government.

The actor plays the role of politician Jeremy Thorpe in the series, based on the true story of the former Liberal Party leader and his fall from grace after he was accused of plotting to murder his alleged gay lover Norman Scott.

by Craig Richardson, E&E Legal President As Appearing in The Daily Caller It used to be that responsible liberal politicians made at least a token effort to distance themselves from extremist environmentalists and their efforts to shutter America's energy industry manufacturing jobs.

For US politicians / regulators, even speaking of geoengineering presents large risks, and leaves one open to rebukes from liberals and conservatives alike.

Outspoken liberal politicians, including some aspiring Presidential candidates, like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, want to divest their respective public pension funds from fossil fuel companies for ideological reasons, while the vast majority of fund managers from both sides of the aisle disagree.

If we take the Politicians, Oil, Coal & Chemical companies out of the picture for a moment and just look at the people that they designed their Skeptical Anti-man induced Global Warming spins for... you clearly see a huge group of hateful and stupid people who don't care what the issue is about, as long as it deviates from what they consider a Liberal view... they're happy.

The institute chose to feature «some of the world's most notorious killers» on the billboards «because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the «mainstream» media and liberal politicians say about global warming,» Heartland said at its Web site.

Environmental extremist, notable politicians among them then teamed up with movie, media and other liberal, environmentalist journalists to create this wild «scientific» scenario of the civilization threatening environmental consequences from Global Warming unless we adhere to their radical agenda.

In the 1960s, Claude Wagner — the father of current Supreme Court justice Richard Wagner — was a judge, then a Quebec politician and cabinet minister, then after losing the Quebec Liberal leadership to Robert Bourassa in 1970, Wagner returned to the bench but then stepped down from the bench again to enter federal politics as a Conservative.