Sentences with phrase «liberal social ideas»

As a senator, he promoted liberal social ideas, including family allowances.

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«I am very committed to making sure that Facebook is a platform for all ideas,» he said after Mr. Cruz ticked off several examples of potential liberal bias on the social network.

For liberal Christians, such victories embody the justice of the social gospel, the idea that believers should do God's work — even aid the Second Coming - by improving society.

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.

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

Rather, the man who had first worked at the intersection of ideas and power during his World War II service at the British Embassy in Washington was a Russo - English exponent of classic American New Deal liberalism: a liberal who believed that government had an obligation to secure the economic, social, and educational conditions under which people could truly exercise their liberty.

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.

He emphasizes that leading classical liberals and libertarians — even Ayn Rand — have implicitly or explicitly invoked something like the Rawlsian idea that the social system ought to work to everyone's benefit.

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.

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.

In developing ideas, social liberals should be arguing for a new political economy that puts issues of power in the workplace and the ownership of assets back on the political agenda in the way that the old Liberal Party once did.

Throughout his political career, Mr Clarke has been an economic and social liberal, an internationalist and a strong supporter of the European idea.

I am very happy that Social Liberal ideas are being argued for, instead of being mixed in with the Tories» ideas and lost completely.

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At the launch of the Social Liberal Forum in Harrogate, there was considerable enthusiasm among those attending for talking to people outside the Liberal Democrats where there is scope for developing policy ideas together.

We believe that Social Liberal ideas are strong enough to attract consensus across government — and indeed across parliament — and we will continue to argue for them.

This democratic fight, must engage people with a social liberal vision for the future to replace the Thatcherite consensus and the broken ideas of the right.

Jointly published by Soundings, Social Liberal Forum and Compass, After the Crash is a call to arms for a coalition of ideas and action on the centre left, working together to find common ground for change.

So the researchers, headed by Douglas Oxley of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, decided to test the idea that liberal and conservative (or «protective») social beliefs are related to individuals» sensitivity to threat.

Bruinius's account, enlivened with many novelistic touches, is backed up by well - documented hard data, including the legislative records that show how 30 states implemented forced sterilization programs; and how many individuals and groups including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, Ivy League scholars, temperance advocates, suffragists, and liberal American churches and synagogues all got behind the campaign, inspired by the idea that America could be a place where moral purity and social harmony reigned.

For example, he treats «social justice» and «environmental sustainability» as descriptive categories of research, along with mental health and intergroup relations, where «the best scientific minds have found liberal ideas closer to the mark.»

Historically, Canada's political culture was a mix of «liberal» and «non-liberal» (partly «Tory» and partly «social - demoratic») ideas, which were bound together by a belief in Parliament and the legislatures as the arbiters of social conflict and makers of common rules for the common weal.