Sentences with phrase «hold liberal views»

The results, which controlled for several variables, revealed that Americans who hold restrictive views on abortion are much less likely to hear of others» abortions than are Americans who hold liberal views on abortion.

The establishment's manager (William H. Macy) holds liberal views toward the many illegal Mexican immigrants populating the building's kitchen.

Years ago the life insurance companies did not hold a liberal view as they do now.

Not exact matches

Buffett is an agnostic Democrat with liberal leanings who often speaks out; Munger is a reticent Republican holding libertarian views.

This view is, I hold, more or less pervasively affirmed, explicitly or implicitly, throughout the liberal tradition, so that its absence would provide good reason to doubt whether the theory in question is a part of that tradition.

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

The author holds that the most unequivocal way in which Wesley was liberal was in his insistence on human participation in the process of salvation A second respect in which Wesley was clearly liberal in his own time was his attitude toward those with views differing from his own.

This view, which I have held for the last thirty years, encounters opposition from people of liberal outlook.

She says she has never had a drink or smoked a cigarette, but she holds thoroughly modern and mostly liberal views on the issues of the day.

The Roman Catholic and the fundamentalist Protestant positions, though with obvious differences, meet in holding to an authoritarian and traditionalist point of view as over against the liberal emphasis on free inquiry.

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.

American Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat, and polls show that most hold liberal political views, especially on domestic issues.

Item: Mr. Lowell believes that «while it is nice -LCB- sic] that Father John Courtney Murray holds «liberal views,» the fact is that they have never gained any official recognition at the Vatican.

If that view were not bizarre enough, Fish quotes another liberal who holds that Milton is not only the apostle of unrestrained freedom but is also «above all, a Humanist» the greatest representative in England of that movement which had abandoned the dogmatism of the Middle Ages and was seeking for a natural or empirical basis for its beliefs.»

«So the reality is that you don't become a liberal without understanding that whilst you might passionately hold your views, you must compromise — particularly if you haven't won the right to govern alone.»

The answer is for the left to win arguments with real people and stop is time honoured Fabian strategy of, manipulating the system to vastly exaggerate the power held by a small minority whilst simultaneously complaining about their inability to concentrate even more power with Left Liberal courtiers via PR What the left hate and what they can not admit is that their leaders despise the views of many of their voters, perhaps a majority.

[4] The newspaper's reputation as a platform for liberal and left - wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets «Guardian reader» and «Guardianista» for people holding such views, or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, earnest and politically correct.

It's impossible to know what their view would be of any proposal to re-form the Coalition with the Liberal Democrats, but my best guess is that David Cameron would find it impossible to drop the 2017 referendum (presuming he wished to)- because Tory MPs» views on holding it are not all that different from Party members».

A Siena College poll this week found 80 percent of liberal voters hold a favorable view of him.

In an online article for the i newspaper, Laws said: «You can not be a leader of a liberal party while holding fundamentally illiberal and prejudiced views, which fail to respect our party's great traditions of promoting equality for all our citizens.

He became the party's home affairs spokesman in 1999, using that position to articulate the same liberal views he has consistently held on such issues as penal and asylum policy.

They are Thatcherites who in spite of their Eurosceptism and economic liberalism, hold very socially liberal views.

Gillibrand, a still little - known former Albany - area congresswoman who once held strongly conservative views, has transformed herself into a model of liberal orthodoxy since being appointed a senator by then - Gov.

Former minister David Laws has issued a savage attack on Tim Farron, saying the Liberal Democrat leader was right to resign as he holds «outdated and offensive» views on social issues.

Tim Farron dramatically quit as Liberal Democrat leader tonight saying he found it «impossible» to be the boss of the party whilst holding his Christian views.

Environmental issues are typically framed in ideological and moral terms that hold greater appeal for people with liberal views.

Views across the two questions hold essentially stable among Republicans and conservatives, while opposition rises sharply among Democrats, independents, liberals, and moderates.

Some liberal members of Congress, like Sens. Paul Wellstone, D - Minn., and James M. Jeffords, I - Vt., even voted against the bill because they view the funding level as insufficient to help the reforms really take hold.

«The rank - and - file teachers that have liberal Democratic views are not going to vote for this Republican because the leadership of the teachers union wants to hold Steve Sweeney hostage.»