Sentences with phrase «higher than the liberal»

His results, published in the scientific journal Intelligence, demonstrated that Atheists scored an average of 1.95 IQ points higher than Agnostics, 3.82 points higher than Liberal persuasions, and 5.89 IQ points higher than Dogmatic persuasions.»

The party will also be encouraged by a finding that 25 % of all voters said they are «likely» to consider voting Green, higher than the Liberal Democrats on 23 % and just one point behind Ukip on 26 %.

Not exact matches

Not the position of liberal economist Paul Krugman, who recently argued in his New York Times column that doing nothing would be better than preserving the Bush tax cuts for higher - income earners.

It is unclear what level of financial support the Liberals and New Democrats would be willing to provide Chrysler, except that the amount is significantly higher than zero.

According to the Liberal's election platform, seniors face higher inflation than the general Canadian population and by non-senior families.

If oil prices continue to stay above the level assumed in the March 2011 Budget, and commodity prices continue to rise then corporate profits will be higher and the revenue savings resulting from keeping the rate at 18 % could actually be higher than in the Liberal platform.

Of course since they are both Democrats the same idiot right - wingers who make idiotic comments about liberals will bash Spitzer and Schumer both and say they are too stupid to score that high on the SAT even though clearly Schumer and Spitizer are orders of magnitude more intelligent than them and all their right - wing heroes

- Although liberal families» incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative - headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal - headed household ($ 1,600 per year vs. $ 1,227).

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

Most of the major cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have a much higher rate of gun violence than gun liberal cities.

Why do liberal states have higher unemployment and higher debts than conservative states?

In fact... hate crimes are higher in liberals states than southern ones.

By virtue of the fact that liberal democracy is an association of communities, each of which has its own vision of God and the good, rather than itself being the highest institutional expression of one such community, it does indeed operate without a common substantive conception of the good.

Episcopalians ranked salvation and forgiving higher than Jews, and Jews valued a world at peace, equality and pleasure more highly than Episcopalians did, implying that the Jews are somewhat more liberal, peace - loving and fun - loving than Episcopalians.

And there's less real «liberal education» than ever (as a percentage of the whole called «higher education,» at least).

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization.

Interestingly, households headed by a conservative gave 30 percent more dollars to charity in 2000 than households headed by a liberal, though liberal - headed households tend to have higher incomes.

In the days where games really did come thick and fast, rather than being a figment of manager and commentator imagination, high scoring matches were quite common; possibly due to players being more liberal in their festive celebrations at a time away when the possibility of twitter and facebook exposure was not a threat.

A few months after that conversation, Mexico City's liberal Democratic Revolution Party proposed legislation that would allow renewable marriage contracts of no fewer than two years, in part to stem the high divorce rate.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said violent, and in particular gun crime, is «still far higher» than ten years ago.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

The pre-tax and transfer poverty rates in Sweden (14.8 %) Norway (12.4 %) Denmark (17.2 %) and Finland (12.1 %) were really not so much higher in the social democratic welfare states than the liberal welfare states of Australia (16.2 %), Canada (17.1 %), UK (16.4 %) and USA (17.2 %).

In Scotland, dissolution of parliament requires a two - thirds majority — significantly higher than 55 % proposed for Westminster, and that threshold was set by Labour - Liberal coalition.

According to this article, «Overall, people living in countries with more liberal policies reported higher life satisfaction than...

-LSB-...] Graham's comments over at the Social Liberal Forum were typical: «The fact that raising the tax threshold helps people on higher incomes more than -LSB-...]

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

Their share of the vote was higher than any post-war election except 1983 when the Liberal - SDP Alliance had 27.6 %.

With the present erractic position in the polls though it is hard to say for sure — we will have another two polls in the week from ICM and ComRes which may shed some light, but it looks as though we can conclude little other than that the two main parties are close to one another in the high thirties and low fourties, with the leaderless Liberal Democrats languishing in the low teens.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

There are a number of local Liberal Democrats less than enamoured by the cuts agenda of the Coalition, and already there is talk of finding a high profile candidate to carry the banner for a more recognisable Liberal candidate, who local supporters with their long non conformist tradition might buy into.

The number of children and young people in Wales waiting over 14 weeks to access psychiatric services is nearly five times higher than two years ago, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have revealed today.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

The Liberal Democrat push for higher wealth taxes is getting stronger rather than weaker.

It could go any way — BNP and UKIP voters are presumably more likely to move to the Tories than elsewhere, or the other votes may drift towards the Liberal Democrats, the traditional repository for voters disillusioned with both main parties, or these may merely be protesting Labour voters who will return to voting Labour once Tony Blair himself is replaced (or, of course, things could be different this time and the high level of «other support could persist into the next election — it is impossible to tell).

For examples, men who major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM fields, and earning a bachelor's degree achieved roughly $ 700,000 to $ 800,000 higher 40 - year lifetime earnings from ages 20 to 59 than social science or liberal arts majors.

Over the years Haidt and his University of Virginia colleague Jesse Graham have surveyed the moral opinions of more than 110,000 people from dozens of countries and have found this consistent difference: self - reported liberals are high on 1 and 2 (harm / care and fairness / reciprocity) but are low on 3, 4 and 5 (ingroup / loyalty, authority / respect and purity / sanctity), whereas self - reported conservatives are roughly equal on all five dimensions, although they place slightly less emphasis on 1 and 2 than liberals do.

Also, other studies have found that students from less - educated families tend to flock more to STEM fields or others with higher earnings returns than students of educated parents, who might be more inclined to choose a liberal arts degree.

The new study found, for instance, that a much higher percentage of curious liberals and conservatives chose to read stories that ran counter to their political beliefs than did their non-curious peers.

The first step toward its defeat must be, as the Committee of Ten recognized more than 110 years ago, having all high - school students follow an intellectually rich liberal arts course of study.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

In terms of partisanship and ideology, support for using public funds for private schools is 15 points higher among Republicans than Democrats, and 17 points higher among conservatives than liberals.

On homosexuality and abortion, teachers tend to be more liberal than less educated Americans but more conservative than those with high levels of education.

The marketplace model in higher education has, along with its benefits, also led lots of people to get narrow, skill - focused degrees rather than seek a broad liberal education.

More than 50 % of college graduates attend more than one higher education institution before receiving a bachelor's degree (Ewell, Schild, & Paulson, 2003), and approximately 60 % of teacher education occurs in general liberal arts and sciences, and other academic departments outside of teacher education.

That theme has been carried over to the all - new version, with higher tech levels than ever, airtight fit and finish, rich materials and liberal space.

The Liberals also made good on their promise to introduce a new 33 % tax bracket for high net worth people who earn more than $ 200,000 each year.

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees result in higher paying jobs, while liberal arts, education and social work degrees earn little more than a high school diploma.

Ontario's Liberal Premier, Dalton McGuinty, might want to reflect on the British experience as he ponders NDP Leader Andrea Horwath's offer to swap New Democrat votes for a higher marginal tax rate for Ontarians with taxable incomes greater than $ 500,000.