Sentences with phrase «hold conservative positions»

Remember: Grisanti used to be a Democrat, and he is fairly moderate (consider his «yes» vote on gay marriage), through he does hold conservative positions on some key matters, like, say, the DREAM Act.

Evangelicals are among the least likely of religious groups to support BLM, and the most likely to hold conservative positions on race, according to new research from Barna Group.

If, say, they were to hold conservative positions on 90 % of the issues, the conservative press would focus on the 10 % where there was disagreement.

Not exact matches

During the Conservatives» decade - long reign, Jason Kenney held almost every key cabinet position, including minister of employment.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

Kenney, a conservative heavyweight who held several positions in former prime minister Stephen Harper's cabinet, officially launched his bid for the PC leadership in Calgary Wednesday.

Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.

I don't share political and social positions with more conservative Christian, and have even had some tell me I simply can not be Christian and hold some of the positions I do.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.

Of course, there has to be a lot more to the Huckster's rise than one email list: if he didn't walk the evangelical walk, people would see through his conservative talk just as fast as they do Romney's (whose positions are apparently held together with duct tape).

Skelos, who has endorsed fellow Republican Rick Lazio for governor, noted that all of the candidates — including Cuomo — have espoused fiscally conservative positions that the Senate GOP has long pushed, including a property tax cap, holding the line on taxes and a ban on borrowing to close the budget deficit.

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

He subsequently held the positions of Conservative Party Chairman and Shadow Secretary of State for the Office of Deputy Prime Minister.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis held a press conference this afternoon in Columbus Circle, calling on Mayor de Blasio to make clear his personal position on whether the statue of Christopher Columbus should be removed and condemning what she termed pay - to - play by the mayor with lobbyist and supporter James Capalino.

That had led to potential ambiguity about its significance and authority as a coalition document, as the Conservatives and Lib Dems hold completely different positions on Trident.

Labour has, however, supplanted the Conservatives as the main opposition party (albeit still 15 seats short of the Liberal Democrats) and the Greens continue to hold their own in Callowland ward, pushing the Conservatives into the smallest party position.

This might also explain why many Americans identify as conservative even as they hold traditionally «liberal» positions.

On the Conservative side of things, after the short - term honeymoon for Theresa May, it is inevitable that a clash will eventually occur between the proper Brexiteers who campaigned for Leave and those that hold a softer, watered - down Brexit position within the Conservative Party, and who would be quite happy for us to maintain open borders and remain in the single market.

Challenger Keith Johnson, who held the position four years ago, is running as a Conservative and on his own Advocate Party line.

He says it shows that the Conservatives will go into the 2015 election with a very different position from the one it held in 2010.

Despised by the far left, scorned by the far right, pushed aside by liberal progressives, mocked by tea party conservatives, we hold what may well be the most assaulted political position in America today.

First elected to the Legislature in 2011, Majority Leader Lorigo was the first Conservative Party member to hold the position when he was appointed by the Republican - aligned Majority Caucus in 2014.

Gummer was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture in Edward Heath's government, before being appointed Conservative Party Vice-Chairman — a position he held until the government's fall in 1974.

Unlike the often straightforward results of a General Election, the party political outcome from Thursday has been very much a mixed one, with Labour suffering severe losses in Scotland, and being pushed into third position by the Conservatives, but largely holding on to their councils in England, and also securing a morale boosting win in the London Mayoral race.

The Capital District GOP Women's Council PAC held its first fundraiser last week as it positions itself as a network to support conservative female candidates not just in Albany County but in 11 counties in and around the Capital Region.

Most likely at the General Election - Labour and the Liberal Democrats will lose every single seat in the South of England outside London and Labour will pickup seats from the Liberal Democrats in the rest of England, and will probably mostly hold their position in Scotland and Wales leaving a Conservative parliamentary party in the House of Commons with a similar number of seats to those Labour had in 1987 and Labour with a similar majority to now, and Nick Clegg probably just hanging on as leader because there is no obvious replacement.

This group, while holding to traditional conservative values, has positions on energy and the environment that are substantially in sync with those of many Democrats and independents.

His erstwhile progressive comrades were wrong now, but conservatives were also still wrong because they held the correct positions for the wrong reasons.

But some of Ryan's conservative allies are likely to hold key positions in 2013 should Republicans retain control of the House.