Sentences with phrase «from liberal states»

With representation that spans the political spectrum, from liberal states to conservative ones, getting agreement on a best interest standard for annuity sales was always going to be tough for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

Not exact matches

WA Labor says it will spend $ 45.5 million to bring new services to Royal Perth Hospital if it wins the March state election, while the Liberals say they will use about $ 83 million from the partial sale of Western Power to build three new Tafe facilities.

He is the governor of a huge, liberal state and hails from a well - established political family.

What attracted me to the book was an interview I read with Vance in which he described how liberal whites went so far to ensure they never offended any people of color or people with different sexual orientations but were quick to pass judgment on people from flyover states.

They are increasingly concerned that, aside from the very liberal Bernie Sanders, who could be approaching his ceiling in the early states, there is no backup if something blows up — no Jimmy Garoppolo to step in while Brady is suspended for four games.

During the second half of the 1990s, the Liberal government was «blessed» with ever growing surpluses, largely because of rapid global economic growth, especially from the United States.

He spent more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United States Senate from New Jersey on a liberal platform.

In theory, there could be appetite in a number of liberal - dominated states, from New Jersey to Connecticut to Hawaii to New York (where Republicans control the State Senate, but only with the consent of a dissident faction of Democrats who might back this change).

Will the Liberals promise to roll back immigration legislation and regulations that will stop the formation of two classes of immigrants from becoming a reality in Canada that increasingly resembles that in the United States?

Far from being a simple matter of what the «neutral liberal state should do in public matters,» then, public law is for Sullivan the crucial tool of social transformation.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

Assuming these traits are fundamental to the American political mind, most political theorists see this as reflecting the classical liberal mind — distinct from the «modern liberal» view which accepts the legitimacy of the welfare state — not a conservative mind.

Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American liberal institutions been more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.

The religious denominational pluralism and the puritan desire to prevent the state from interfering with their religious freedom along with the forces of secular liberal thought brought into being the secular democratic polity with its clear separation between religion and state in the USA.

The way in which Virginia approached the question of religious liberty was very different from the path chosen by Massachusetts and other states, but the Virginia way has become the standard by which American liberals today measure the relations of church and state» and even of religion and society.

As I stated earlier, liberal Christianity is a middle road between Christ and culture in that it seeks to understand culture, not remove itself from modern science or the arts.

It may serve the purpose of clarity if having made this qualification I state bluntly my thesis that the utopianism in the liberal faith had a lasting value which it derived partly from the Christian faith and partly from what was valid in the world view of the Enlightenment.

Also is not saying from where the poll was taken a catholic state or liberal satiate, for me is a fake and fraud poll.

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.

A proponent of liberal - pluralist culture makes the separation of church and state into a foundational principle that bans religion from public life.

The liberal ideal for the welfare state is the relief effort for victims of natural disasters, in which we alleviate a plight that can in no way be blamed on the behavior of those who suffer from it.

To say that there is something central and something peripheral in the Bible is, of course, to state a liberal view of Scripture which elicits contempt from some evangelicals.

The reordering of life according to such principles of rationalization resulted from the tendency of corporate capitalism and the modern liberal state to expand their power, which they accomplished by means of a bureaucratic structure and paternalistic ethos.

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.

A third and final facet of the question relates to the possible forms that distributive justice can take in Catholic confessional states, which Dignitatis Humanae admits may differ legitimately from the shape that distributive justice typically assumes in liberal regimes.

Nothing, however — not the liberal state, the academy, or modern science — prevents the Church from reconstituting this particular truth in the face of the world.

Liberal democracy, humanism, even (ironically) the separation of church and state — all emerged from the matrix of a self - consciously Christian civilization.

At present, much evidence (including some from the kinds of opinion surveys I have just maligned) indicates that religious conservatives and religious liberals in the United States are deeply divided — on nearly everything.

Lots of folks consider Frisco to be a extremeley liberal city but this guy started in with the «we need to build a wall» stuff and it kiond of snowballed from there untill by the end of the ride he was educationg me about how Bernie Sanders is a pawn by the Jews to install one of there Elite banker friends as the head of the United States so they can take over the world.

The examples are from all across the United States, including even liberal Massachusetts.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with an emphasis on Spanish and a lifetime teaching credential from San Jose State University in 2000.

My concern is that in this era of draconian state education budget cuts (here in Texas, we rank second to last in per - student spending), state agencies, under pressure from cash - strapped districts, might be far too liberal in allowing these exempt — but often quite lucrative — fundraisers.

Well - versed in all things surrogacy, from legal contracts to health care to initial health screenings, and based in California, we benefit from the state's liberal attitude to the process.

Surrogacy in California is particularly special because, as one of the most advanced and liberal states concerning surrogacy law, it allows intended parents and surrogates to come together from all over the world in many unique ways.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

The IDC has been pushing for votes on key liberal measures in the state Senate, narrowly controlled by Republicans, amid pressure from left - leaning groups to rejoin the Democratic mainline conference in the chamber.

Dadey noted Gillibrand's recent most liberal ranking from The National Journal (she actually tied for first place with Oregon's Jeff Merkley) and borrowed a phrase from a state GOP press release that slammed the junior senator for undergoing a «liberal makeover taking her from Annie Oakley to Jane Fonda.»

The IDC is rebuffing calls for unity from Democrats and liberal pressure groups to re-join the mainline conference of Democrats in the state Senate — calls that have intensified after the election of Brian Benjamin, who gives Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

When I hear attacks on the big state from conservatives, I hear attacks on redistribution; when I hear them from liberals, I hear something much more like this.

In this context it is only to be expected that a consistent centrist would shift from advocating higher taxes and spending (sounding more like a social democrat) to advocating spending restraint and a smaller state (foregrounding the liberal tendancy).

Here are what Mother Jones (liberal) and the Daily Caller (conservative) had to say about what various donors got from the State Department.

Secondly, Nick Griffin is in the process of reforming his party, ditching all the old clause 4 style baggage of the past, and bringing together a party of black and white loyal British people, who will challenge the One - Party - State corrupt liberal elites, end multicultural balkanisation, Islamisation and mass immigration and bring Britain's sovereignty back from Europe.

Looking at US data, another blogger did scatter plot analysis using source data from the About.com US Liberal Politics page and the Gun violence in the United States Wikipedia page.

Cuomo, who faces re-election in 2018, has been under increasing pressure from liberals to bridge the divide in the state Senate between Democrats, giving the party power amid Republican control of Congress and the White House in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat and the most liberal member of the state's House delegation, tore into Trump's Syria strike, and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

Among the bills popular with the Democrats» liberal base that won passage this year was a ban on bump stocks, add - on devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to shoot at near full - automatic speed; a bill enshrining the women's health care provisions of the Affordable Care Act into state law; and a measure that prohibits employers from asking job candidates about their salary history.

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