Sentences with phrase «liberal activism in»

She was nominated in 2011 by President Barack Obama to serve as a federal judge, but that appointment was blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate who complained of excessive liberal activism in her previous legal work.

The surge of liberal activism in response to President Trump's election has transcended the divisions that some Democrats feared would cleave the party after its defeat in November.

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Regardless of the response, we view this kind of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative causes.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

Petty apartheid, the public facilities Jim Crow practices that are truly being phased out in the larger cities (where they matter), are trivial and largely irrelevant to the grander strategies of both apartheid and liberation: A point sometimes lost on American liberals who remember the U.S. civil rights activism of the sixties.

However, in the years before World War I activism was a largely elite movement appealing to the educated but bored sons of the bourgeoisie, eager for excitement and glory and disappointed in the Italietta, the «Little Italy» of the liberal politicians.

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.

Previous attempts at industrial activism failed because the British state was ill - equipped to actively shape and steer markets, having its roots in a 19th century liberal laissez - faire state that was inimical to public intervention.

«Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, New York City is the safest large city in America but liberal judicial activism and political interference threatens to turn back the clock putting people in danger and sacrificing the quality of life in the city,» Long said.

«Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly, New York City is the safest large city in America but liberal judicial activism and political interference threatens to turn back the clock putting people in danger and sacrificing the quality of life in the city,» Long said in a statement.

In his spring conference speech, Nick Clegg argued that it was this activism that would mean that at the General Election the Liberal Democrats would «defy the odds and win again this May» and «do so much better than anyone thinks».

Teachout may have long roots in liberal activism, but she was a newcomer to the W.F.P..

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Frank's sensitivity analysis parceled out whether variables comparable to a state's liberal or conservative leanings, political affiliation or number of women in the legislature, could be tipping the scales they were attributing to environmental activism.

At the same time, Ryan's marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own sense of conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona.