Sentences with phrase «in liberal reforms»

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He has made himself a highly visible nuisance to Liberal leadership, particularly by voting in favour of a Conservative motion in the House to extend consultations on the small - business tax reforms, and they kicked him off a couple of House committees as punishment.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

Perhaps when liberals were in power and had greater ability to influence the press, they might have considered reforming themselves and their use of language.

«The Liberal government has once again demonstrated that they are more interested in their public image than meaningful and measured criminal law reform.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»;...

Clocking in at more than 200 pages, the Liberals» latest attempt at democratic reform might be a case of too much too late.

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

In December 2013, when the Liberal Democratic Party returned to leadership with Abe as its minister, the LDP campaigned on renewed fiscal stimulus, aggressive monetary easing from the BOJ, structural reforms to boost competitiveness and eventual fiscal consolidation.

With the exception of the 1989 election, when Liberal Bill Code placed second, only the conservative Reform Party, Progressive Conservative, Alberta Alliance, Social Credit and Wildrose Party, and the environmentalist Evergreen Party have participated in the elections.

In the 2000 election, Mr. Anders defeated both former Calgary - North West Liberal MLA Frank Bruseker and PC candidate Jim Silye (a Reform Party MP for Calgary - Centre from 1993 to 1997).

So eventually they came up with a reform, with liberal laws based on lay - off and dismissal system was agreed in the first commission of the assembly.

The idea of Secular Nationalism and Secular State were the creation of cooperation between Gandhi's reformed religion and Nehru's liberal humanist secularism and they succeeded to establish itself in India against the idea of Hindu and Muslim communalism.

As a result, Mormonism can not be neatly placed in any one of the Catholic - Protestant - Reform categories or along the liberal - conservative - fundamentalist continuum developed to deal with the diversity of normative Christianity.

The same is true of many media reform efforts: by attempting to get people excited about liberal bias in the news, or nudity or profanity in a particular program, or the ideological bent of a certain series, or whether a network is «Christian,» concerned leaders have diverted the attention of viewers from the most important problem, the basic point, namely, that the whole process - of - television is providing us with a worldview which not only determines what we think, but also how we think and who we are.

In 1906 the newly elected Liberal government proposed an Education Bill which sought a dramatic reform of English schooling.

Messiah College, an evangelical liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System of American Protestantism.»

As Levin says «They can't run on a liberal platform, so they have chosen to have no platform and no agenda at all in the hope of just running against Republican Medicare reforms next year.»

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

Judaism shows the same divisions, with Orthodox Jews huddled in self «created ghettos and rejecting much (though not all) of the modern world, while Reform and secular Jews follow the same tack as liberal Protestantism, embracing secularity.

Reform Judaism (known in Europe as Liberal Judaism) seeks to preserve the basic moral precepts of the Torah and other ethical aspects of Jewish tradition — including a passionate concern for social justice.

The Rev. Gomes again: «The victims would have themselves a victim; the lawyers would be able to proceed without credible opposition in the search for compensation; liberal voices for reform in the Church would see a nemesis removed; and the press would have brought down a mighty figure in a near - Watergate victory with Pulitzers all around.»

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

Perhaps it may be right to say, that in general the politically conscious educated middle class of India were guided more by the Liberal and Marxian ideologies than the Gandhian or other versions of reformed Hindu thought.

Such were the expectations of liturgical liberals of the late «50s and early «60s, progressive Catholic intellectuals who encouraged reform and were involved in liturgical experimentation.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

SA's Liberal government will continue the planning reforms set in place by the previous Labor government to curb urban sprawl.

The Labour Manifesto discusses political reform in the fourth section, out of five substantive sections; the Liberal Democrats place it tenth out of eleven — and the Conservatives have no section on political reform at all.

It is the latest in a line of increasingly liberal positions on drugs from the party, as it becomes more confident in demanding wholesale reform of Britain's drugs laws.

Later in the early twentieth century, further reforms, especially to reserve forces, were enacted by the then - liberal administration's giant intellect JBS Haldane.

The thinking from liberal groups and Democratic lawmakers is that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda in 2013 — including a minimum wage increase, stop and frisk reform — won't be achieved even under a power - sharing agreement.

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 198reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 198reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 198Reform 1983: 1).

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

Clegg claimed on Monday that Lords reform was the Tory offering in exchange for Liberal Democrat support over the constituency boundaries review, but Cameron is now insisting the actual deal was over the AV referendum.

Only three years ago, pundits and political scientists saw the 2008 American presidential election as the beginning of a new era in Washington: the rise of President Obama and a strong Democratic majority in both houses of Congress meant that after eight years away from Pennsylvania Avenue, liberals could again implement political programmes and reforms free from Republican meddling.

The charity Rethink Mental Illness is calling on Liberal Democrats to vote in favor of a motion opposing aspects of the Welfare Reform Bill at their party conference tomorrow (Saturday 17 September).

Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been wrestling each other for months over House of Lords reform, with the Liberal Democrat leader very publicly pulling the plug on his pet project in August 2012 after the prime minister admitted he would not be able to guarantee the support of his backbenches for the far - reaching reform.

At a partisan level, also during the Thatcher era, the cause of constitutional reform was taken up by the SDP - Liberal Alliance made up of the Social Democratic Party, which had split off from the Labour Party in 1981, and the more established Liberal Party.

Secondly, Nick Griffin is in the process of reforming his party, ditching all the old clause 4 style baggage of the past, and bringing together a party of black and white loyal British people, who will challenge the One - Party - State corrupt liberal elites, end multicultural balkanisation, Islamisation and mass immigration and bring Britain's sovereignty back from Europe.

The paper, whose authoritarian instinct on issues of crime has long explained MPs» aversion to drug law reform, is now unashamedly liberal in its approach.

Cuomo has faced increasing pressure from the left to unite the party in the Senate, which liberals have blamed for blocking or helping to dilute reform legislation.

Maintaining a balance between the need for liberal reforms and the demands of the deeply conservative and reactionary forces which exist in the country has long been the backbone of Saudi stability.

She is a true liberal and this was reflected in the stands she took on race and immigration in the 1960s, capital punishment, prison reform and, later, the civil libertarian values of the Liberal Demliberal and this was reflected in the stands she took on race and immigration in the 1960s, capital punishment, prison reform and, later, the civil libertarian values of the Liberal DemLiberal Democrats.

-LSB-...] member and pensions expert Janice Turner, before many of Steve's pensions reforms — supported by the Social Liberal Forum — were announced in last week's Queen's -LSB-...]

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

And having clearly defeated the Left, which is expected to retain only about 10 % of the seats in the lower chamber of Parliament, he can also expect little political opposition to his liberal - leaning reforms.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

Starting in the 1960s, liberal Democrats began pushing for immigration reform and gun control.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equalitIn the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equalitin the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

The Liberal Democrats lost the referendum on the alternative vote electoral system and proposals for House of Lords reform were defeated in the House of Commons.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).