Sentences with phrase «ideological fight over»

But while the public were convinced of the need for some cuts following a recession, they are far less likely to be convinced by the need for a protracted and ideological fight over restricting union rights.

The inclusion of extending high tax rates on wealthy earners in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2017 - 18 budget proposal has the potential to set up an ideological fight over economics with Republicans in the state Senate.

Not exact matches

Both locally and nationally, it has been taken over by the hard - left who are more interested in fighting internal ideological battles than standing up for the priorities of working men and women.»

«Washington needs to be focused on helping hardworking families like mine — not fighting ideological battles over Planned Parenthood.»

Or Ava DuVernay's «Selma,» with its ideological clashes, fights over the best approach and portraits of the diverse real - life figures involved: students, women, preachers, laymen.

As states and school districts across the United States continue to fight their battles over curriculum content, educators should not be satisfied — even if their state standards include the content they desire — unless schools make a commitment to also promote the values of ideological diversity and tolerance.

What I'm arguing is that the idea that we can win the climate fight without engaging in ideological battle over these core questions about the role of government has always been a fantasy.

So far the negotiations have not gone well, with fundamental ideological differences being masked over by procedural fights.

The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.

It is called close minded thinking, and it is very different, and it usually finds ways to substantiate itself — to convince itself it is using reason and perpetuate the pattern and persistence in a false belief or idea; only further enabled when so many others want to do the same, the issue produces a lot of passion, and there is massive information (often put out by ideological think tanks who are fighting possible ways of redress by instead sowing doubt over the issue itself.)

The liberal grass - roots movement gave birth to two huge stars over the last decade, one who rode a wave of anti-war support into the White House and the other who became the ideological standard - bearer in the fight against big banks and corporate...