Sentences with phrase «into liberal ones»

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately for B.C. the Liberals have put all their economic eggs into one basket, at the expense of the rest of the economy, and their failure to create employment is hurting British Columbia.»

I'm not talking about a media cynic like Chris Matthews who tries to turn liberal self - congratulation into ratings or Jimmy Carter in one of his pharisaical moods.

One reason, I suspect, is a reflexive hostility to fundamentalists and socially conservative Catholics whose religious way of life is most likely to come into conflict with the dominant strains of our liberal secular culture.

As far as I'm concerned, one hippie liberal in a man - dress CAN walk on water with bare feet, instantly turn that water into wine, give sight to the blind and walking to the lame with but a touch.

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

The attribution of cause here is a little one - sided, as though the poor liberals were forced into their un - and anti-religious positions entirely by the conservatives» donning of the religious mantle.

The Liberal Media that is Obama's Protector were the ones who shamed him into disavowing and quitting «reverend» Wright's «church» of Hate and Bigotry last election.

(«Religious switching,» as Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney call it, goes both ways, but aside from the drift into secularity and out of active church life, the dominant one is from the conservative toward the moderate or liberal side.)

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Did our pastor invite one of those unsaved liberal Bible scholars we've heard rumors about into our pulpit today?»

Thus to bring the inner realm of man's freedom and the whole outward task of human culture and social advance into one religious unity, with a clear ethical imperative and sustaining hope, was the supreme achievement of the liberal Christian mind.

«One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he can not communicate with us, can not reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so and that religion is our own sweet invention» (p. 479).

But by caving into this pressure one can sense that even the Liberals have headed down the increasingly totalitarian thought - police route of our culture.

Most people today categorize political divisions into the binary categories of liberal and conservative (another one of those jejune, digital pigeonholes that function more to preclude thought than to promote it).

A liberal education has a wide range of interests, challenging the student to think, to express himself well, to organize his thoughts, and to see reality, in total, more clearly — unlike STEM education, which channels one's mind into a single area.

«By refuge,» he makes it clear, «I mean a retreat in a religious sense, a place where one escapes liberal society or its costs and enters into another... realm.»

My list of the «uses» of liberal studies was not intended as exhaustive, but was a set of gestures, clumsy ones perhaps, toward the conclusion (explicitly stated in the article) that «liberal studies can be shaped into instruments of worship.»

One is not seeking to put anybody into a «sheep mould» in defending those principles of liberal autonomy.

Asked whether he had an «Ed Miliband problem» he replied: «I have only one preoccupation... that Liberal Democrats get back into government.»

Therefore, this convulsion will see the reconfiguration of the classical left - right political axis into one composed of liberal cosmopolitanism versus anti-liberal populism.

Given that Scottish Labour, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens all support increasing tax in some form, the logic of that statement would be higher tax, but then the intent was more political: by tying the other parties (not, one suspects, the Scottish Tories) into the process, Sturgeon is heading off future battles.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

-LSB-...] force George Osborne into the centre of the election campaign — as has been discussed over at Liberal Conspiracy he's widely seen to be one of the weakest members of the Shadow Cabinet.

And the distillation of the whole campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.

And I, for one, will be mourning the passing of the Liberal Democrats into government.

(Party officials remember the fate of the Liberal Party, which went into political oblivion after its 2002 nominee for governor — one Andrew Cuomo — pulled out of the race.)

The final paragraph, under the heading Education, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

The Working Families Party enters 2015 as its relationship with centrist Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to be a complicated one after he was coaxed into agreeing to a package of liberal goals in exchange for the party's ballot line.

One of the original sponsors of the proposal, the liberal academic noted how disposable sacks clutter parks, cling to trees, accrue into islands in the world's oceans and strangle marine life.

In 2014, he was still a new mayor, one who had ridden into City Hall on a hard progressive platform and a 73 percent electoral tsunami, who had installed the Council speaker of his choice and built a line of political credit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo by securing him support from liberal groups over the summer.

A former adviser to Nick Clegg, who was one of four party activists to make allegations against Lord Rennard, has said the row has now developed into a question of whether women matter to the Liberal Democrats.

It will be one of the most important for the party, even taking into account its old guise as the Liberal Party.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

'' (Cuomo's) using this fund - raising tool for the party, so he doesn't have to dip into his own campaign account while trying to enhance his standing among the party's liberal wing that still may be wary of what he's done the first two years,» one insider said.

The joint appearance by both men sharing the stage was a mutually beneficial one: Cuomo needs to bolster his liberal credentials with skeptics on the left, while Sanders has been working overtime at the Democratic National Convention to nudge his supporters into backing Hillary Clinton for president.

Though there are any number of reasons for people across the political spectrum to lament the entry of Clegg's Liberal Democrats into Coalition with the Conservatives, Clegg has been vindicated in one key respect; that of transforming the public's perceptions of coalition government.

It is obvious where the Labour ones are, and I think there are damn few Liberals who are ready for being poured into the Tory mould.»

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

A fiscal conservative and social liberal rolled into one will do much better after» 08.

However, Lib Dem peer and former MP Lord Carlile told the BBC World at One programme: «Nick Clegg is in a very strong position as leader of the Liberal Democrats, expected to lead us strongly into the election, so I don't believe any of the speculation about the threats to Nick Clegg's future.»

SLF decided to table two separate amendments, one tailored to generating shorter - term economic growth this Parliament and the other looking to protect the distinctive and independent nature of Liberal Democrat economic policy into 2015 and beyond.

The longtime Congresswoman, who died March 16 at the age of 88, was remembered for her leadership advancing liberal causes but, as one of the speakers put it, «didn't get into politics to make a name for herself but to make a difference.»

Deputy Liberal Democrat leader Simon Hughes went distinctly off - message during BBC One's Question Time last night when he suggested an independent inquiry into Mr Hunt.

But last month, several weeks into her campaign for mayor in one of the world's most liberal cities, she changed her mind.

He managed to bind Liberals and Social Democrats into one body, so much so that no - one can now «see the join».

Less than one voter in three agrees that «by entering the Coalition, the Lib Dems have managed to get real liberal policies put into action» — and most of these are either already Lib Dem supporters or pro-Coalition Tory voters.

ALBANY — Here's one way to interpret Senator Jeff Klein's loud advocacy this season for the Dream Act, paid sick leave, campaign finance reform and other pieces of the liberal agenda that failed to make it into the budget this year:

The novelist Lord (Michael) Dobbs was one of many Tories to lay into their coalition partner, accusing Clegg of «a great political sulk», after the Liberal Democrats withdrew support in retribution for the failure to complete a deal to reform the House of Lords last year.

Webb built it into one of the Liberal Democrats «most solid seats, but was unable to withstand the swing against them in 2015.