Sentences with phrase «increasingly liberal city»

A protégé of State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the father of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Mr. Crespo is a social conservative in an increasingly liberal city.

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Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, the two Democrats locked in an increasingly personal battle over who will serve as New York City's next comptroller, brought their duel for progressive hearts and minds to The Tank, a performing arts space in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday evening, where liberal activists sipped beers as the two men were grilled in back - to - back policy discussions.

«Otherwise we are to find it increasingly difficult to sell the Liberal Democrat programme to black and ethnic minority communities in the cities.

Tracing their travels to Mecca, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Senegal, the photos seek to uncover and engage with the particular and unstable memories of each location — the birthplace of Islam in Mecca, inaccessible to most non-believers, and now paved over with parking lots and luxury hotel chains; the sacred sites of Jerusalem, fought over, destroyed and restored time and again for centuries; the ostensibly liberal cities of Western Europe, where paranoia, surveillance and religious profiling are becoming the new normal; and Dakar, where the legacies of slavery and colonialism gave rise to unique Islamic identities and practices, which are increasingly under assault by globalizing forces.