Sentences with phrase «liberal ideas as»

They are fed secular, liberal ideas as if they are facts.

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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.

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».

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.

If a merger with the NDP, Alberta Party, and Greens, as has been suggested by Calgary - Buffalo Liberal MLA Kent Hehr, is unpalatable to Dr. Sherman, perhaps he could be convinced a merger with his party's federal namesake would not be a bad 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.

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).

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.

Though it is not quite true that Gustafson and other liberals «never enter into argument against Barth,» there is a pronounced tendency in liberal theology to dismiss Barth's idea of truth as the self - authenticating word of God.

The idea of neoconservatism as a liberal plot to highjack conservatism for the left might seem hopelessly dated» the social democratic wing of neoconservatism disappeared long ago» but it remains vibrantly alive in the pages of journals like Chronicles and in the imaginations of ideologues attracted to the candidacy of Pat Buchanan.

Such economics had no place for freedom either in the formulation of economic ideas — the liberal faith was a dogma as absolute as that of the most orthodox religion — or in the control of economic affairs.

But the liberal hope of a reconciliation between the present age and Christian faith remains a powerful idea, as does the (entirely laudable) impulse to free Christian faith from the snarls of a partisan political conservatism.

The Promise of Christian Humanism: Thomas Aquinas on Hope by Dominic F. Doyle Crossroad, 248 pages, $ 34.95 Dominic F. Doyle offers a creative defense of the Christian humanism of Gaudium et Spes, which seeks to blend two ideas that critics such as the liberal theologian Gordon Kaufman have not....

Here, it would have helped for Miller to articulate in greater depth, as he does for Rawls's liberal ideas, the positive principles behind the Republicans» voluntaristic, market - centered approach.

Similarly, Obama wasn't cast as a social - fiscal liberal with another set of ideas for creating prosperity.

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

As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.&raquAs a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.&raquas purely personal «sentiment.»

Here we can not go into the analyses of each of these trends or the adequacy of Ferré's interpretation of the recent trends in American theology, except to say that theologians of different persuasions, with the possible exception of the so - called liberals, while recognizing the usefulness of the history of religions, nevertheless agree with Professor Hendrik Kraemer in stating that only theology «is able to produce that attitude of freedom of the spirit and of impartial understanding, combined with a criticism and evaluation transcending all imprisonment in preconceived ideas and principles as ultimate standards of reference.»

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

I applaud people who have chosen that path and stick to it, and I must say I find it intensely tedious to listen to those cynical «vegan - bashers» who think they are amusing as they snark away at vegans without having any idea why they are even doing so, other than being threatened by something they don't understand, or by some vague aversion they have to any spiritual - sounding practice or «liberal - hippie - sounding» philosophy.

QS: The idea that there is no problem with surveillance as long as you have nothing to hide simply points to the complacency of the liberal view of freedom by contrast with the republican one.

A crisis that is bringing into question not only the principles of asylum and of free movement within the European Union but Europe's very idea of itself as a space of liberal values, freedom, moral equality and human rights.

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.

The idea of plurinationalism implies an ethno - cultural conception of nation (s) that prevails over the idea of the nation as a political community founded on the principle of liberal citizenship.

It is going to take a month or two to ensure the entire party is happy with the ideas; and Politics.co.uk understands the senior Tories debating their options are still unclear about whether they might choose to incorporate some elements of Ken Clarke's ideas involving a «grand committee», as favoured by the Liberal Democrats.

After the attacks on the twin towers, liberals dusted off his ideas on a measured foreign policy as an antidote to the Bush administration's use of «preventative war».

Inspired by the Khatami experiment and the AKP model, the idea of an Islamist - led democratic order became attractive not only to the Islamists, but to many liberals as well.

But the idea that the way to revive the Labour Party or social democracy is by attacking a «metropolitan secular liberal elite», as he does in several places in his speech, is utterly daft.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

These ideas contrast with those social liberal principles held by Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, many party members and previous leaders such as Charles Kennedy.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

So I tend to discount the idea of the «Lib - Lab» pact so fondly fantasised about around here, as it would be politically suicidal for the Liberal Democrats («we're a new direction... oh hang on, we're supporting the very unpopular previous government»)

As a result he has put Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the spot - they now will have to say whether they do support the idea of a referendum on the European Union and Britain's membership of it when a bill comes back to Parliament.

One idea that played a part in Liberal debates in the 1960s — though it was never formally adopted as party policy — was to use labour's profit share to invest in firms» assets so that, over time, workers would build up their own share in firms» wealth.

The Liberal Democrats are said to oppose the «Boris Island» idea and environmental groups have warned it would be «a disaster for the climate, and, as a result, for people and wildlife in this country and globally.»

I read somewhere that the word «liberal» became associated with communism, which is extremely hated in the US (I have no idea if this is really why it changed, but it's as good a reason as any).

Donald Trump Jr. fired back at liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, who questioned whether Mar - a-Lago had opened as a shelter when Hurricane Irma hit the state, noting it's located on an island and in a mandatory evacuation zone, «probably not the best idea, but you know, narrative!»

Rather, we would like to see Conservatives and Liberal Democrats proposing their own ideas separately — as Nick Clegg did last week, with his welcome call for a further and faster rise in the income tax threshold.

The proposal has attracted criticism as elitist: Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino derided the idea on her Facebook page as a «half - assed, feel - good limousine liberal approach.»

Fifty - six percent of voters who identify as liberals and 60 percent of New Yorkers who say they are conservative are against the idea.

As I wrote in my article Beating the Welfare Bigots published on Liberal Left, the whole idea of «unemployed» people «working for their benefits» is dangerous double - think, creating a sub-category of community servants that are excluded from the minimum wage.

Tony Blair is really a closet liberal, but has «an infuriatingly imperfect, even muddled idea of what it means», Paddy Ashdown today warns the seven Liberal Democrat MPs who want to succeed him as party liberal, but has «an infuriatingly imperfect, even muddled idea of what it means», Paddy Ashdown today warns the seven Liberal Democrat MPs who want to succeed him as party Liberal Democrat MPs who want to succeed him as party leader.

Hague and Miller spoke out after Gerald Howarth, the defence minister, called on the government to abandon liberal ideas such as legalising gay marriage and reform of the House of Lords.

Its ideas seemed as liberal as the offerings of prawn - slathered canapés and hearty glasses of red wine available on every surface alongside copies of the glossy new booklet by the 2020 Group — led by Barker, Nadhim Zawahi MP and George Freeman MP, with at least 24 authoring and supporting Tory MPs.

The idea that liberals in government could sit by and watch as the state took over regulation of a device meant to scrutinise it is appalling to me.

Ideas which are hostile to basic liberal values such as democracy, freedom and sexual equality.

The Liberal Democrats would be likely to oppose it and even some Tory MPs, such as Matt Hancock, would be likely to resist the idea.

As the polls continue to point to an electoral deadlock, are Labour types warming towards the idea of a deal with the Liberal Democrats?