Sentences with phrase «liberal circles»

He's also well known in liberal circles for founding the Mayday Political Action Committee in 2014, which backed candidates who endorsed campaign finance reform, and is now run by former NY State Governor candidate Zephyr Teachout.

Known for his connections to both Bay Street and establishment Liberal circles, Prichard as head of U of T was credited with talking Paul Martin into rewriting the tax rules to allow gifts of stock to be eligible for charitable credits — a game - changing move that unlocked untold millions of philanthropic donations.

Kinsella would be seen in Liberal circles as the «rainmaker,» he said, the person who holds the keys to victory.»

However, if «we» deny them the building of a single Mosque within the U.S., we are mocked as racist, intolerant, xenophobic, uneducated, unsophisticated, and my favorite: Christian conservative (interchangeable with Republican in most liberal circles).

Within liberal circles the reaction is to blend more adequately with the surrounding culture by adapting «the new authority» to ecclesial purposes.

Whilst in liberal circles loyalty to the magisterium is often regarded as slavish and uncritical, in neo-orthodox company it is not uncommon to hear not only the need for a «new» synthesis questioned, but the need for any «synthesis» at all.

It has become fashionable in certain liberal circles to rehabilitate both as courageous warriors against the calamity of Brexit.

It may be fashionable in liberal circles to scorn money, but «it drives the world for better or for worse,» says Palihapitiya.

Talk about Melania Trump, at least in liberal circles, often comes back to the same question: What does she think about all this?

I have spent time in both evangelical and liberal circles in the church and encountered fundamentalist liberals who were just as militant in their views as Phelps (ok, maybe not quite as extreme).

Paradoxically, the most sympathetic response to Spinoza among Jewish intellectuals was not in the liberal circles of Germany but in the traditional areas of Eastern Europe.

This column has several times commented on the extended honeymoon the present Holy Father has enjoyed in liberal circles; as Piers Paul Read commented in The Spectator, traditionalist Catholics had begun to be «dismayed» at this: «Had Pope Benedict forgotten what he had said in his address at the funeral of his predecessor... about the danger posed by moral relativism?

The clarification was necessary presumably because he had become painfully aware that the other kind of liberalism — the «muscular» one that has a much clearer idea of the right way to act, speak and even think — was a powerful, increasingly hegemonic force in the liberal circles in which he moved.

Bertha Lewis, the president of the Black Institute and a prominent activist in liberal circles, boasted that Ms. Teachout had put «heat» on the centrist governor.

While he's won praise in liberal circles, Schneiderman isn't scoring points with the governor.

«Those on the left and in liberal circles that have questions about Andrew will certainly be watching for any kind of signal from Schneiderman,» the Reverend Al Sharpton says.