Sentences with phrase «liberal idea of»

As usual it is the liberal idea of subsidizing AGW and then proposing a carbon tax to shuffle the money around in a pointless tax and spend that can't possibly work, compared to an actual conservative approach of paying a fair price for a needed service in the open market that contrasts the two options available.

While watching this boring movie, I did begin to wonder about the mask in this movie being taken over by real life internet hackers — whatever happened to the liberal idea of how movies DO N'T influence people, especially how violent movies don't influence people?

He will step away from government by measurement and defend the liberal idea of individual human advancement.

We have a duty to scrutinize our modern day advantages, he avers, as the liberal idea of «social mobility» does not do enough to right past wrongs.

In «Two Concepts of Liberty,» Berlin mounted an extended defense of what he understood to be the liberal idea of freedom against its principal modern political competitors, fascism and communism.

Gee, I thought the real bigotry in this country was liberal idea of expecting less (especially academically) from non-whites.

This «eye of the heart» sees freedom in a quite different way from the typical liberal idea of unfettered choice.

Yet Lindbeck's approach posed great challenges to liberal ideas of religion as some «universal feeling about the ultimate.»

Not exact matches

One would think that these proposals would make Schultz a natural standard bearer of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

Yet, what he wants to be known for is simply his espousal of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

Some of our conservative citizens do not want non-Islamic Westerners coming and stirring up our people with liberal ideas.

Speaking with The Cincinnati Enquirer in February, Springer, who painted himself as a «populist, liberal progressive,» said the idea of his candidacy gained steam because of Trump's victory.

Walmart is nobody's idea of liberal, but the retailer has forced vendors like Koch's Georgia - Pacific unit, which makes paper products, to reduce packaging and optimize their truck deliveries to cut waste, CO2, and other pollution.

And so, what was tapped into and what we see is there's a large percentage of the population who is hurting, and that there is a conflict between the «haves» and the «have nots,» and liberal ideas and conservative ideas, and all of that.

The idea was to demonstrate that other polls showing Republican popularity tanking were wrong (or manifestations of the Liberal Media, take your pick).

«I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas,» he said after Mr. Cruz ticked off several examples of potential liberal bias on the social network.

This is an idea - allowing private delivery within the publicly funded health care system - that the Liberals have tolerated, and the Conservatives have a long list of quotations on their Web site designed to show that Harper's stance is the same as the Liberals».

Balsillie warned that the Liberals» plan to run budgetary deficits of up to $ 10 billion in each of the next three years could pale in comparison to what could be lost in the country's ideas economy because of the TPP.

The new platform will be out soon and denouncing ssp, Nafta, and many other Liberal supported ideas will be a part of it.

Back in 2014, it was a good idea for Trudeau and the Liberals to start thinking of Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

The Alberta Liberal Opposition looks to moderate the excesses of these extremes by offering ideas, not platitudes and consensus, not division.

Why does he not do his job for Montreal instead of doing his job for the Liberal caucus and the ideas of the Liberal leader, which are out of sync with Canada and Canadians?

So what Gerecht seems to be talking himself towards is the idea that now that the coup has occurred the slender opportunity for liberal democracy to take root and grow in Egypt, and perhaps even in the entire Islamic world, given the now - evident failure of the Ataturk project in Turkey, has passed.

Through their embrace of religious pluralism and more universal mystical religious experiences, liberal Protestants imperiled their own institutional strength but persuaded many Americans of the value of their ideas.

@DC so what are you saying you white liberals are sure talking about the past of Jim Crow you know that old Jimmy Crow was a Democract idea.

One stops to think of actual countries of sand, which include more than a few particularly violent locales, places where people are not as willing as Mary Oliver to concede the comfy and common received idea of liberal Christianity that we all worship the same deity by «whatever name.»

This is called «prophetic Judaism,» an idea that, as Sherwin and others note, mimics Enlightenment - driven reconstructions of liberal Protestantism.

You also have no idea what Liberal means or how our system works something someone outside of the U.S. would assume.

You're just the product of a more liberal time, and assume that your idea of what a proper Christian would believe has always been the case, but the times are still a» changing, and future Christians might point at some of your positions and cringe too, right?

Wolin has described how the liberal discontent with all forms of political authority led to a fascination with the idea that economic society could be a «self - adjusting order,» a «network of activities carried on by actors who knew no principle of authority.»

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

Protestant Christianity, by contrast, was initially able to accommodate liberal enlightenment ideas without jeopardizing the framework of a broad Christian consensus.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

The idea of Secular Nationalism and Secular State were the creation of cooperation between Gandhi's reformed religion and Nehru's liberal humanist secularism and they succeeded to establish itself in India against the idea of Hindu and Muslim communalism.

The idea of Q is too liberal of an argument for me.

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

Sadly, despite his clear rejection of «liberalism», Newman's ideas have been falsely labelled «liberal» by the ecclesial establishment of his time and of ours.

These materials may well have exposed large numbers of children (and their parents) to the ideas and values of religious liberals.

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

the fifth: women are narcissistic propagandists for protesting misogynist violence okay, the closest I've seen to this is when matt posts about the inconsistencies of many, many liberal agendas, the points out that certain groups have ideas which, logically, are completely opposed

What struck me, though, was the possibility that I have been missing something big: it is likely that many of those who denigrate religious beliefs aren't drawing just on secular, anti-Christian ideologies, but on liberal Christian ideas about God.

If the idea of prison abolition at first seems a bit impractical even to liberals, it becomes somewhat more plausible as the ideology is examined in juxtaposition with strategy and tactics.

So remind me: how exactly did you get all these young, liberal people to embrace the idea of a Jewish savior?

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

The attack has frequently been directed at the idea of liberal education itself, apart from its classical form.

Were Kimball's analysis to inform every discussion of the goals and strategies of liberal education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.

The idea of a Chosen People has usually seemed repugnant to the liberal spirit, particularly in a democratic society where the ideal of equality runs strong.

In the radically individualistic claims made for privacy by many liberal theorists, we see the introduction of a dangerous idea of autonomy or practical self - sufficiency into political discourse.