Sentences with phrase «highly conservative forces»

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Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

In a highly unusual development, Labour, the official opposition, joined forces with one arm of the coalition, the Lib Dems, to vote down a proposal (Dominic Raab's amendment) that was branded illegal and unworkable by the dominant Conservative arm of the coalition.

The Conservatives and Lib Dems have already been forced to issue control orders against al - Qaeda operatives Abid Nasser and Faraz Khan, despite being highly critical of them when out of government.