Sentences with phrase «liberal end»

Part of its narrowness and — I think — the lack of its appeal to the wider electorate is the way that Labour exchanged the work of achieving greater dignity and material equality for ordinary working people, for a narrower liberal end of identity equality, giving the impression that equal legal rights, not better social or economic outcomes, are the chief ends of progressive politics.
Acknowledging that Niebuhr was a bold Cold Warrior, Lemert pauses to wonder how a good liberal ended up writing a book defending him.
I think he was saying radical liberal ends are best achieved through modernized social democratic means... which may refer to democratic republicanism.
Firmly on the more liberal end of the Conservative spectrum, he caused consternation in Tory ranks and considerable bemusement in the media when he called on the party to pay less attention to Winston Churchill and more to left - wing Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.
There may be a conservative and also an uncomfortable pragmatic utilitarian defence of the status quo — where liberal ends are often achieved by these undemocratic means — but the Lords» increasing influence makes the question democratic legitimacy, whether by election or other means, can not simply be ducked.
The grassroots left, powering Sen. Bernie Sanders» campaign, is ascendant, and the centrist Schumer has never had a very comfortable relationship with the most liberal end of the Democratic Party.
She taught me the importance of ideology — crucially, in the context of this debate, that politics is in its essence counter-intuitive, and that Conservative means deliver liberal ends.
For all that's said to the contrary, for the most part, both conservative and liberal ends of the Church treat the Bible in exactly the same «pick»n' mix» way.
But sadly they are also the ones who prop up the liberal end of the spectrum and undergird the «self - actualization» end of the evangelical (small - «e» intended) spectrum, and they do so with gusto.
The books that sell in quantity to lay people are on a spectrum of which conservative evangelicals are the liberal end.
There are only a few liberal denominations with the potential to communicate persuasively with the growing subgroups at the liberal end of the social spectrum, and liberal churches which turn in a more conservative direction become disqualified for their indispensable and unique task.
A fifth, Justice Kennedy, is a Republican appointee on the liberal end of the Republicans in Congress.
In a certain sense, everything else is secondary: as long as we stay north of 40 per cent, it won't matter to the party leadership - in the short - term, anyway - if the Liberals end up with 30 and Labour with 20, or vice-versa (though it will matter a great deal to individual candidates).
The March for Science was clearly on the liberal end of the political spectrum, he finds, nearly matching the partisan flavor of the Women's March and the Tax March and exceeding the liberal leanings of those in the People's Climate March.
It is, by and large, invoked not by the liberal end of the political spectrum (which is Meier's natural home in other matters) but by conservatives, even the radical right.
In addition to the rate changes, the Liberals ended the controversial income - splitting scheme for families plan put in place by the Conservatives that will see taxes rise for families where one parent earns significantly more than the other.
On the policy side, from the liberal end of the spectrum, check out the Hot and Bothered climate podcast, focused on the interplay of politics, economics and climate and hosted for Dissent Magazine by Daniel Aldana Cohen and Kate Aronoff, who, among other things, is a co-founder of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network.
As you may have guessed by now, I tend to lean toward the liberal end of the spectrum much more than you seem to do and yet we can both appreciate that «People can be pretty decent...» and that we can «encourage speech without fear...» and that we can ``... learn from one another.»
A heack of a lot means: 15,000 (conservative end) to 40,000 a year (liberal end)» — 417
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