Sentences with phrase «liberal lines of»

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.

But the charge puts me in mind of the colloquium discussion in the January issue of First Things which treated the debate between so - called «liberal» and «radical» Catholics, perhaps because my contribution to that discussion has elicited similar accusations of political irresponsibility or moral cowardice from people sympathetic to the liberal line of thought.

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The couple — she was a social worker, he was an engineer — took out a second mortgage to set up a brewing operation and made liberal use of several $ 10,000 - limit credit lines.

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.

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

In the Khadr case, he felt accused — the Liberals» line is that the Harper government screwed up the handling of Khadr's case and exposed taxpayers to damage settlement — and he hit back hard.

While the 2012 election gave the Liberal Party its worst electoral showing in decades, including the loss of Official Opposition status to the Wildrose Party, many Liberal partisans are lining up to reaffirm Dr. Sherman's leadership.

«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.

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.

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.

This is in line with the liberal Catholic penchant of sharply distinguishing, if not separating and opposing, the «institutional» Church from the Catholic people who are the Church, and for whom people like Father Reese modestly claim to speak.

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.

Consequently, a theory of politics requires an ordering principle of final causation, i.e., a principle of value, which alone allows one to describe the relations among choices.6 Perhaps enough has been said, then, to indicate a line of argument through which the liberal view of happiness may be challenged and attention to an alternative provoked.

The latter in particular appears to have been designed not to explicate ancient texts but to force the Jewish religion into line with his own entirely philosophical preference for a liberal order supportive of individual freedom.

Christian does not equal Republican; frankly social liberals are more in line with the Gospel in regard to social equality and treatment of the poor and widowed.

** eagerly awaiting Liberal Response along the lines of «oh yea... well the three things Conservatives love are blah, blah, and blah».

OR, maybe some, even just a few, will start to recognize that Progressives / Liberals are more in line w / the teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the Four Gospels & that their Religous / Political leaders are Modern Day Pharisees.

I've received a great many responses to my comment, pro and con, and to my surprise they seem to be breaking down (albeit not perfectly) along ideological lines, with conservatives (of various faiths) joining me in criticizing the ruling and liberals criticizing me for criticizing it.

In this line of reasoning, which has the most liberal, even antinomian, consequences, «justification by faith alone» is the only article of faith that matters.

Most African Americans and hispanics hold conservative religious values and although outwardly due to undue pressure might toe the liberal line, will certainly choose the lesser of the two evils.

Liberals are like Christmas lights, they all line up together, half of them don't work and the other half aren't very bright.

I think the bottom line is that if liberals want to give women (and others) the right to choose what to do with «their body» and «in their bedrooms» I think it would only be consistent to allow the rest of us the right to choose what to do with our bodies, our wallets, and in our houses.

Yet most of those same observers, when pressed for an opinion as to where the vital juices are flowing in contemporary American religion, will call our attention not only to born - again conservative evangelicalism, but also to movements and tendencies that stand in a direct line of succession to the liberal traditions.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

Both old - line liberals and conservatives will object strongly to many of Patterson's claims, and few who are seriously interested in the problems he confronts will be entirely comfortable with what he says.

His independence of mind plus his affinity for Barth's theology made him suspect among the old - line theological liberals.

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.

But Nixon is right in suggesting that the liberal Catholic project, framed along the lines of what has happened in mainline / oldline Protestantism, is exhausted.

It's certainly more in line with a lot of modern liberal thought than modern conservative thought.

They have not offered ideas; rather they remain in a very dated liberal, statist view concerning economic problems and injustice, following the line of thinking of the late John A. Ryan, «The Right Reverend New Dealer.»

Important as it is, however, this change has been along lines familiar to me from my background in liberal theology, including the tradition of the social gospel, and thus is a matter of deepening and broadening my thinking more than of substantially revising it.

Earlier this month, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida attempted to walk the line between science and faith - based creationism in remarks that that provoked the ire of liberal blogs and left the door open to creationism.

The divides generally follow; the lines of what are described as liberal and conservative dispositions.

At Our Lady of the Lake College, where I teach, piles of clothes, bleach, working gloves, and pry bars lined the halls of the liberal arts building.

Liberals could neither adhere to this line of argument, nor, having delivered innumerable admonitions about blaming the victim and treating the «root causes» of crime, could they easily repudiate it.

President Trump drew the line clearly in his citation of three Polish figures whom you might find in a Western Civ syllabus at a liberal arts college: Copernicus, Chopin, John Paul.

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).

Both views are embedded in our national history — the republican view more in the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson in its opening lines refers to «the laws of nature and of nature «s God» that stand above and judge the laws of men; and the liberal view more in the Constitution, where there is no reference to God at all, and the emphasis is upon the balancing of powers.6.

Washington (CNN)-- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio attempted to walk the line between science and faith - based creationism in remarks that that have provoked the ire of liberal blogs, leaving the door open to creationism in responding to a recent question about the age of the Earth.

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

They are simply parroting the liberal secular line because it will impress readers of the NYT.

Great episcopal figures of the antebellum period — for example, the Irish liberal John England of Charleston, and the pugnacious John Hughes of New York — were «fitted» into the Carrollingian story line (if I may be pardoned the neologism) even as their distinctive styles and the accomplishments of their episcopates stretched the boundaries of the «Carroll Church.»

The other element that is very important in the environment for the development of Catholicism along the lines that I have suggested is the presence of a liberal, democratic political tradition.

Indeed, Segal suggests, the «distinct line» that divides conservative believers from liberal ones is «the big story in American religion at the beginning of the twenty - first century.»

Or at least in this author's mind, it seems he wants to redefine or redraw the lines of evangelicalism to exclude liberals.

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.