Sentences with phrase «liberal side of»

«There is some level of dissatisfaction with Gov. Cuomo on the left — those among the more liberal side of the Democratic party,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg told 1010 WINS.

On some issues, he's more on the socially liberal side of the Tory party but on other issues he can be quite firm.»

[59][60] Political commentators identified Clegg's leadership as promoting a shift to the radical centre in the Liberal Democrats, bringing more emphasis to the economically liberal side of social liberalism.

The marginality of the American civil religion is closely connected with the liberal side of our heritage and its most important expression, the Constitution.

At the beginning of his years as a seminary professor» most of them spent at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC)» Braaten was on the liberal side of the American Lutheran political and theological spectrum.

Not exact matches

Fifty - four percent of self - identified liberals sided with Sanders, while the smaller group of self - identified moderate Democratic primary voters cast their ballots for Clinton.

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

The liberal side puts this in the same broad category of other social - welfare programs.

* It's telling of the modern Liberals» more leftward tilt that Trudeau refers to the anti-pipeline side, rather than the pro- side, as his friends.

Despite this attention and Canadians» convictions, both the Liberals and the Harper Conservatives are right where you would expect them to be: on the side of big business.

As for related reports that Carney indulged in private conversations with Liberals about seeking their party's leadership, back before his surprise announcement late last November that he would be leaving next spring to become governor of the Bank of England, his answer today indicated that those were one - sided discussions.

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

«Don McRae needs to answer to his constituents, many of whom strongly support the protection of farmland, whether or not he stands with British Columbian farmers, or if he sides with B.C. Liberal MLA Bill Bennett who wants to destroy the Agricultural Land Reserve,» said New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, who noted that McRae is himself a former agriculture minister.

In this he has been joined by Liberal Senator James Cowan, whose measured objections impressed Senators on both sides of the Upper House.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

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

So on the conservative estimate 99.5 % disagree with it's legalization and on the more liberal side — 95 % of the world doesn't like the practice.

Preaching to the zealous choir, Ms. Streisand presented herself as the last liberal: a woman on the side of the angels and George McGovern against the dark forces of Hitler, Stalin, and Newt Gingrich.

The willingness of liberals to look the other way when their own politicians did wrong made it easier for Trump to protest moral rules that only applied to one side.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

On the one hand, we have deleted the somber aspects of God, thereby ignoring the tart warning by that relentless opponent of liberal theology, J. Gresham Machen, that «religion can not be made joyful simply by looking on the bright side of God.»

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

It was disappointing, therefore, to see church agencies such as the United Church of Christ's Office for Church in Society side with unreconstructed liberals like Hawkins and oppose the bill's work provision.

And on the other side of the door, all the women (and «liberal» men) cheering her on, clapping for the proud strut and head held high as she gyrates away from all the B.S. and then turns and blows them all a sultry kiss.

Rebecca Solnit is frustrated that so many liberals are letting occasional policy disagreements blind them to the fact that Obama is the only candidate who's even trying to be on their side, which to her mind should earn him at least a little bit of loyalty and ideological slack - cutting.

They are absolutely certain that the «silent majority» of Americans are just like them, and that a punitive and judgemental God is on their side and against «the liberals,» and no electoral defeat or anything else will ever convince them otherwise.

The attribution of cause here is a little one - sided, as though the poor liberals were forced into their un - and anti-religious positions entirely by the conservatives» donning of the religious mantle.

Liberals on my side, we can be self - righteous, we can be condescending, we can be dismissive of anyone who doesn't agree with us.

The mistake many of his critics and most moralists — Christian, liberal or Marxist — make is that they have a one - sided understanding of what morality is all about.

(«Religious switching,» as Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney call it, goes both ways, but aside from the drift into secularity and out of active church life, the dominant one is from the conservative toward the moderate or liberal side.)

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

In this he takes the side of Oliver O'Donovan against the likes of Hauerwas and Yoder who are, for all their antiliberal rhetoric, good liberals.

The difficulty was, that to say so, even for a scientist with the factsat his fingertips, was to go against a powerful and intolerant conventional wisdom: «We liberals», he wrote, «who work in the fields of global HIV / AIDS and family planning take terrible professional risks if we side with the pope on a divisive topic such as this.

British scholar N. T. Wright, who has engaged in debates with liberal Jesus Seminar leaders, wrote in the August 2001 issue that the huge U.S. success of the «Left Behind» series «appears puzzling, even bizarre» on the other side of the Atlantic.

These two cataclysmic conflagrations of our century, which broke the back of the liberal Protestant faith in progress, do not appear to trouble the adherents of Divine Principle, by and large members of a generation conveniently undistressed by stark memories of those «triumphs» for the heavenly side.

Indeed, one must be impressed by the paucity of categories for describing the problem: on the one side, we Christians stand arrayed against the liberals on the other side.

On the other side are the liberal intelligencia (within the Church) that make the Bible over into an irrelevant book of an ancient era.

Now they have the rock music loving pro-capitalism neo-fundamentalists solidly on the pro-christmas side, liberal christians can now comfortably sit back and enjoy christmas and harry potter without being accused of being irrelevant to their religion.

Is this the dark side of the porcher worldview, a kind of The Road Is Our Future so people get ready, or is Patrick providing a clear, concise, and penetrating analysis of our teetering «market - based, liberal nation - state?»

The liberal religious community has felt helpless before the dramatically changing sexual mores of the final decade of the 20th century because we have allowed ourselves to remain trapped between the inflexible moralists on one side and the freedom - worshiping secularists on the other.

The day that Newt Gingrich starts siding with liberals will be the end of the world.

Much like Murdoch herself, they wish to retain the liberal tradition's belief in the worth of individual moral action, yet find it difficult to do so in an age in which the enlightened individual is threatened on one side by cynical despair and on the other by the totalitarian excesses of political hope.

The liberals sat on the left side of the room and the conservatives sat on the right side.

Pacilio leaned liberal, and making me research things like Kent State did have something to do with my becoming fascinated with 1960s radicalism during my high - school years, but he was scrupulously fair and like the great debate coach he was, typically made us aware of the best arguments either side had.

For example, when you have a LARGE GROUP of people (secular liberals in this example) who are staunchly for women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, etc; taking the side of Islamists over Christians; a lightbulb should be going off in your head saying, «hey, something ain't right here!»

The United States, with its private universities and seminaries and vigorous centers of liberal Catholicism, has long provided a supportive climate for Küng, and it is possible that he will spend more time on our side of the Atlantic.

A minority among the evangelicals — represented by such journals as Sojourners and the Other Side — is so radical in its criticism of the American economy and of our foreign policies that it gives up on liberal politics; nonetheless, its witness is an important corrective to what many of us regard as the Moral Majority's distortions of Christian faith.

Granting differences between traditions, there is still much that can be said by those who have learned to criticize the one - sided historical optimism of liberal Christianity.

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.