Sentences with phrase «liberal elements»

So, as Sunder suggests, the left comunitarian approach might have strong liberal elements in view of the specific communitarian thinkers it looks to.

As a Jewish commentator observed in 1875, «this issue will unite the whole Liberal element in this country with the anti-Catholic element, and these two elements form a vast majority all over the land.»

«So at this point, traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics have more in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»

Alternately, it has made secularism to mean keeping as vote - banks a federation of fundamentalist / conservative religious communities each resisting any social change towards equality in its traditionally sanctioned social structure and showing indifference to the reforming liberal elements working in these communities.

Furthermore, I can't see people taking very well to the Liberal Democrats supporting a Labour government (not that that would work, since there is still liberal elements in the Liberal Democrats, notably Nick Clegg) if as seems likely less than a quarter of the population votes for Labour.

Post 1971, the party became more populist, although some conservative liberal elements remain.

The idea of a third way was intrinsic to mid-19th-century German «mediating theology,» which blended confessional, pietistic and liberal elements.

We are now calling on the Liberal Democrat leadership to withdraw support for the Bill, while preserving those liberal elements that do not require legislation.

This applied to the entire student political spectrum, not just the liberal elements that drove the Free Speech Movement.

Labour and the Tories have liberal elements in their ranks but the Lib Dems could plausibly make the case that neither big party can be trusted to have liberalism as its core purpose.

Jon Sopel put it to him that Mr Cameron seemed rather keener on the liberal element of being tough on the causes of crime.