Sentences with phrase «liberal line on»

It was a discreet nod to Scots who don't much like the SNP's (generally) liberal line on immigration.

It's a place that fiddles with the liturgy to make it more «inclusive,» affirms gay couples, and takes a generally liberal line on social and political questions (with the exception of abortion).

First published in 1948 and running through many reprints, Christianity and Communism Today by the late John C. Bennett laid down the «moderate» liberal line on the subject, a line that dominated mainline Protestant thinking up until the fall of the Soviet Union.

Not exact matches

Images of the lucky chosen strolling in all their gender - balanced, ethnically diverse glory up Rideau Hall's tree - lined lane to be sworn in on Nov. 4, 2015, has lasted as the iconic, bucolic image of this Liberal government's beginnings.

In the wake of the PPF report, Liberal government sources were telling some reporters in Ottawa that election - law changes are on the way, quite likely in line with what's suggested in this latest report.

«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.

Zuckerberg confessed that the company constantly struggles to determine when someone crosses the line and he said Facebook gets criticism from both conservatives and liberals for its decisions on the subject.

We believe the BC Liberal policies on GHG emissions are in line with the stated positions of the GVBOT, especially their recommitment to revenue neutrality.

To help solve these problems, retirement experts on both sides of the liberal / conservative line support legislation creating private - sector, automatic IRAs.

Dalahäst So, like I said, you are actually a product of our modern, more liberal, egalitarian society, but you are insisting on giving credit for this to «Christianity», as if Christianity has always lined up with your beliefs.

To locate all beliefs on a single line between liberal and conservative poles is to succumb to a conceptual convenience that limits and flattens what people actually say they perceive and overlooks the larger symbolic struggle in which all people participate.

The most important fault line today, he argued, was between «conservationists,» who honor the Christ of the Bible and of the historic creeds and confessions, on the one hand, and the theological liberals and radicals who do not, on the other.

Yet these young social liberals are not attending the dozens of theologically liberal old line Protestant churches in DC whose beautiful sanctuaries are typically half or more empty with disproportionately old congregants on Sunday morning.

By the time Congress gets to a vote on the debt ceiling, the only option available to rational legislators» no matter how conservative or liberal» is to continue enabling the government shopaholic by increasing Uncle Sam's credit line.

Check out this very cool info - graphic breaking down America's eating habits on liberal vs. conservative political lines.

Just a preface... American line of thought on «Liberal» to the degree where it's almost a curse word in the population does not align with what liberalism is.

It is the latest in a line of increasingly liberal positions on drugs from the party, as it becomes more confident in demanding wholesale reform of Britain's drugs laws.

Andrew Cuomo, then running for governor in 2010, at the last minute agreed to run on the WFP's ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal Party.

The dividing lines for the upcoming battle between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats on human rights law were mapped out by the deputy prime minister today.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

But they take a strong general political line on this: it is probably stronger than the liberal critique I would back, but you can't complain about that.

Whereas at one time she might have called herself socially liberal, recent developments mean it is not that «clear cut» on which side of the dividing line you fall.

The now - defunct Progressive Media USA, a liberal activist group, had done polling on the potential line of attack and concluded that it alone would have little impact against McCain, whose «brand» as a maverick Republican has proved difficult to crack.

The party needs to debate whether in the absence of such further changes, and considering the substantial changes already underway on the NHS front - line, the Bill can retain Lib Dem support — the Social Liberal Forum will continue to support the likes of Graham Winyard, Charles West, Evan Harris and Shirley Williams as they seek to secure that debate.

The education secretary put a brave face on the announcement but it is one of the most significant U-turns in the coalition's already lengthy history of them and suggests a new fault - line between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives on education policy.

Although the Liberal Democrats also envisage the CC considering the question of English votes on English laws in the UK Parliament, the CC they propose sounds to me a lot like a tidying up exercise once the main lines of constitutional settlement have been determined.

Having replaced the more liberal minded Ken Clarke, there were fears among Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice liberal minded Ken Clarke, there were fears among Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice policy.

Zephyr Teachout's former campaign manager is urging liberals to send a message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo by vote for him on the Working Families Party line.

Clearly the Liberal Democrats failed totally to understand the dynamics of coalitions by presenting «no rise in tuition fees» as a «red line» issue and then renaging on it.

But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.

The email appeal comes as the WFP is making a concerted effort to have liberal voters vote on their ballot line.

But that lead shrinks to 37 - 24 if a more «liberal or progressive» candidate runs on the Working Families line, with said unnamed candidate receiving some 22 percent of the vote.

De Blasio, a liberal Democrat, had publicly and privately advocated on Cuomo's behalf for the WFP to grant him the ballot line.

GOP US Senate hopeful Bruce Blakeman was in Western NY yesterday, and spent some time during an editorial board meeting at The Buffalo News to attack his primary opponents, casting them as too liberal to run on the Republican and Conservative lines against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

But reports that Kennedy, under whose leadership the Liberal Democrats enjoyed record levels of support, is countenancing defection will fuel speculation that he — and perhaps others — could be offered positions on the Opposition front bench — and a return from relative obscurity to front - line British politics.

Lindsay eked out a victory on the Liberal Party line, besting Marchi and the conservative Bronx Democrat Mario Procaccino.

In 2014, he was still a new mayor, one who had ridden into City Hall on a hard progressive platform and a 73 percent electoral tsunami, who had installed the Council speaker of his choice and built a line of political credit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo by securing him support from liberal groups over the summer.

He said that it was «depressing» to see other Tory Commissioners fall into line with the liberal Commissioners but that he was not prepared to choose the «quiet life» on such an important issue.

Commenting on Tim Farron's Liberal Democrats on BBC Daily Politics on Monday, Kelvin MacKenzie claimed, «it's like that line about the Pope.

* DiNapoli also appeared on the Independence Party, Liberal Party, and Working Families Party lines; Galluscio also appeared on the Conservative Party and Right to Life Party lines.

* DiNapoli also appeared on the Independence Party, Liberal Party, and Working Families Party lines.

The poll also tested the likeliest reasons voters would decide not to vote for Cuomo, effectively trying out potential liberal lines of attack on the governor.

While there was a split among moderate and liberal Democrats on Social Security, expanding the program rather than cutting it is becoming the party line on the Hill and on the campaign trail.

* DiNapoli also appeared on the Independence Party and Liberal Party lines; Zampino also appeared on the Conservative Party line.

The Liberal Party, a group that once helped play kingmaker for Rudolph W. Giuliani in his runs for mayor, but has fallen on tough times of late, said it would support Mr. Catsimatidis and list him on its ballot line in the November general election.

The same is true of the Labour Party and even the Liberal Democrats to a lesser extent, so the divisions on the Committee are not along party lines and we have seen some unusual alliances!

This comes on the same day that Nick Clegg has said the Liberal Democrats in Government would issue guidance to public sector pay review bodies to ensure pay increases at least in line with inflation in 2016/17 and 2017/18.

Asked if he might decide to leave the Lib Dems in protest over the official party line on Gaza, he said: «I am not going to walk away from the Liberal Democrats.

Another unsuccessful primary challenger, Aaron Foldensuer, will also be on the general election ballot on the Liberal party line.