Sentences with phrase «including liberal groups»

Unlike GOP primaries, where a handful of big spending conservative groups can influence races, the Democratic grass roots — including liberal groups like the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, which is pleading with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Mass.)

Legal and political experts, including liberal groups themselves, say a female nominee is a pretty good bet.

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However, that won't stop conservative groups, including Trump and his supporters, from arguing that it proves liberal bias.

Quebec's Liberal government adopted the requirement in 2011 that boards of state - owned enterprises include an equal number of women and men, thereby legislating «gender parity» for that group.

That group grew out of what some have said are liberal Christian activist groups but in recent weeks has grown to include a broad scope of Protestant, Catholic and evangelical leaders.

To map that landscape, Roof and McKinney divide Americans into eight religious families: liberal Protestants (Presbyterians, Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ), roughly 9 per cent of the population; moderate Protestants (United Methodists, Lutherans, Disciples, American Baptists, Reformed), 24 per cent; conservative Protestants (including Southern Baptists, Churches of Christ, Nazarenes, Pentecostal and holiness groups, and evangelicals and fundamentalists), 16 per cent; black Protestants, 16 per cent; Catholics.

«Protestant Christianity» is a pretty broad term, and it includes folks ranging from the Westboro Baptist Church fascists to churches pastored by Liberty University clones, to «mainstream» protestants, the various liberal denominations, thousands of small, basically non-Catholic independent churches and even groups like the Amish.

A few days later three «film doctors» — Lois Anderson from the American Baptist Churches, John Bachman from Union Theological Seminary, and I — were ushered into a room filled with representatives of Protestant New York, forty - three people from religious organizations across the spectrum, including every group from rock - bound fundamentalists to far - out liberals.

Meanwhile, liberal advocacy groups, including the state's Working Families Party, are siding with de Blasio.

Rallying against the bill included groups like Citizen Action, which have sought to further push Cuomo to the left on a variety of issues (Cuomo continues to enjoy a strong approval rating from self - identified liberals, even as advocates have faulted him for not doing enough).

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.

The underlying legislation had been promoted by small religious groups that lack the constitutional stature of the Church of England, including Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews.

It's a more modest fundraising figure for the pro-business group that so far this year has remained dormant as Cuomo has sought a decidedly liberal agenda that included a raise in the state's minimum wage and an extension of a tax surcharge on the wealthy.

The group, which includes liberal organizations such as MoveOn, Tax March and the Working Families Party, has already spent more than $ 1 million advertising in congressional districts across the country to urge lawmakers from both parties to oppose tax cuts for the rich, and it expects to become more active.

Groups may be based around a single European political party (e.g. the European People's Party, the Party of European Socialists) or they can include more than one European party as well as national parties and independents [7](e.g. the Liberal Group).

From my conversations with people across the House of Commons, including the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Caroline Lucas of the Greens and Conservatives such as Nick Hurd and Graham Stuart (chair of Globe, the international parliamentarians group on climate change), it is clear there is cross-party support.

Specified Associated Organisations (SAOs) review and input policies, representing groups including: ethnic minorities (EMLD), [169] women (WLD), [170] the LGBT community (LGBT + Liberal Democrats), [171] youth and students (Young Liberals), engineers and scientists (ALDES), [172] parliamentary candidates (PCA)[173] and local councillors (ALDC).

The endorsement comes after 1199's political director, Kevin Finnegan, announced his group was committed to swinging the State Senate into the Democratic column, in order to pass its liberal statewide initiatives — including college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, a locally set minimum wage and taxpayer - funded elections.

Fair Elections is a coalition of mostly liberal and union - aligned groups backing a bill that would publicly finance campaigns, including the WFP.

Liberal groups and voices have for years painted the IDC as a block against progressive priorities, including public campaign finance and extending college tuition subsidies to undocumented immigrants.

The evening protest outside the Koch estate was organized by a coalition of liberal groups, including MoveOn.org, the Occupy movement and the Long Island Progressive Coalition, a Massapequa - based nonprofit.

There are numerous other groups, including communists, greens, regionalists, conservatives, liberals and eurosceptics.

The yacht exemption, along with a sales tax break for those who own private airplanes, was quickly pounced on by liberal watchdog groups like the Fiscal Policy Institute and Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Cameron's liberal position on drugs changed once he entered Downing Street and he has shot down subsequent demands for a more liberal approach to the issue, including one from the group he used to be a member of.

13 councillors sought re-election, with the councillors who stood down at the election including the Conservative former council chairman Tony Walker from Kingham, Rollright and Enstone ward, the Liberal Democrat group leader Stuart Brooks of Freeland and Hanborough ward, and independent Derrick Millard of Stonesfield and Tackley ward.

[9] The 15 seats lost by the Liberal Democrats included the group leader Paul Lorber in Sudbury and meant Helen Carr in Mapesbury was the only Liberal Democrat remaining on the council.

Its critics, including the legal reform group Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, argue that Scottish ministers are free to extend the franchise in a referendum to any group they wish.

Several liberal groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, MoveOn and the National Organization of Women, have come out strongly against Boggs.

As liberal groups and Democratic voters angry about Trump's election victory press him to lead the loyal opposition, he must also be mindful of 23 Democrats and two independents up for re-election in 2018, including 10 in states won by Trump.

Other parties standing at the election include the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party, Green Party, Harmony Party, English Democrats, the BNP and a group called An Independence from Europe.

Sir Menzies may also find himself arbitrating in an internal party dispute when a group of social liberals, including David Laws and Nick Clegg, contribute to a book of essays on the future of the party this autumn.

The Lib - Dems are not liberals but Fabian social therapists The Conservatives have long been the main home of British liberalism and some Tory MPs are looking hopefully to the «Orange Book», published in 2004 by a group of liberals including Nick Clegg, David Laws and Vince Cable to «reclaim» liberalism for the Lib - Dems.

Some 49 Labour MPs joined a group including the SNP and Liberal Democrats in voting in support of the amendment tabled by former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna.

Among those on hand at the Rivera victory party were a group from the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City ---- which like the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club endorsed the incumbent senator ---- that included Richard Allman, Robert Atterbury, Andy Praschak, and the club's president, Eunic Ortiz.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

Over the past thirty years, I served as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives under a Democratic Governor and a Republican / Independent Governor and worked with a variety of progressive and liberal groups, including unions, as we advocated for policy changes under two different Republican governors.

Bruinius's account, enlivened with many novelistic touches, is backed up by well - documented hard data, including the legislative records that show how 30 states implemented forced sterilization programs; and how many individuals and groups including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, Ivy League scholars, temperance advocates, suffragists, and liberal American churches and synagogues all got behind the campaign, inspired by the idea that America could be a place where moral purity and social harmony reigned.

In 1936, a group of artists that included Josef Albers, Burgoyne Diller, Werner Drewes, Carl Holty, Ibram Lassaw, and Charles Shaw founded the American Abstract Artists as an «organization of all artists in this country who have produced work which is sufficiently in character with [a] liberal conception of the word «abstract.

In 1911 he joined Das Junge Rheinland, a group of liberal minded painters including August Macke, an early pioneer of German Expressionism.

The Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit group with strong ties to the Obama administration, organized a telephone conference call, including two of the scientists embroiled in the fracas over the disclosed e-mails, that it said was aimed at «setting the record straight on global warming.»

Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided.

In recent years, the denial movement has been joined by some hard - line conservative Christian groups, including the notorious Catch the Fire Ministries and its witchhunting pastor Danny Nalliah.14 These groups were heavily involved in the lobbying to have Tony Abbott elected as Liberal Party leader.15

Instead, it solicits contributions from millionaires and billionaires and serves as a «pass through» between those donors and top liberal advocacy groups, including the Center for American Progress, Media Matters for America, and Democratic super PAC Priorities USA.