Sentences with phrase «liberal social activists»

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This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.

If activists persist in supporting policies on the basis that they are infused with social liberal values and principles, rather than their popularity with the swing voter in the centre ground, then that is oh so endearingly and impractically childlike.

Disgruntled Lib Dem activists, mainly based around the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum (SLF), were ready to register their concerns just over a week later at the Lib Dem spring conference, which began on 8 March 2013.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

Buerkle was meeting with voters in this central New York town while, outside, liberal activists were distributing flyers that accused her of voting to cut funding to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, «to give more tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.»