Sentences with phrase «liberal term of»

The narrow Blaine Amendments bar state money for any sectarian institution — «sectarian» being an old theologically - liberal term of derision for the Catholic Church and, more generally, for a church that acts on its own.

Not exact matches

The outcome isn't certain, but polls have been unencouraging about the possibility of the Liberals winning a fourth term.

But she said years of fiscal restraint are starting to pay dividends, as the second - term Liberals are starting to sprinkle some spending into a health system plagued by doctor shortages and lineups of ambulances outside crowded ERs.

TORONTO — Fitch Ratings downgraded Ontario's long - term debt rating Friday, highlighting «risks» on the path to the Liberal government's target of balancing the budget by 2017 - 18.

More recently, Harper has tried to stake out the middle ground in the health care debate, advancing a policy that not only mimics the Liberals» stance, but goes beyond the governing party's plans in terms of expanding the publicly funded system.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau unveiled the Liberals» second budget Wednesday, billing it as a long - term plan to lead job growth and give Canadians the «confidence and optimism» to «adapt and prosper in the face of change.»

And that colourful party has only one MLA, who supported the regressive — environmental endangering — BC Liberal budgets for the first two years of his 4 year term!

Moreover, Canada's ability to perform well in fiscal and banking sector terms was primarily the result of actions taken by the previous Liberal government.

If one is even a moderately fiscally conservative Ontario voter, the prospect of spending billions more in an already heavily indebted province, or rewarding the long - governing Liberals with another term is untenable.

With the Liberal plan, the federal government will have a modest short - term deficit of less than $ 10 billion in each of the next two fiscal years — less than half the average Harper deficit of over $ 20 billion per year.

At a time when the restaurant and tourism industries are still struggling under the uncertainty associated with the Liberals» HST mess, the premier had nothing to offer in terms of a quick and smooth transition back to the PST, and committed $ 0 toward the tourism sector in her jobs plan, one of British Columbia's most important industries.

While the Liberal recruits spoke of worrying long - term trends of aging and lagging growth and the PQ prepared for events to tout the party's integrity, the Coalition Avenir Quebec made a bold promise to balance the budget within a year.

In its inaugural budget, the federal Liberal government vowed to develop a bold, new innovation agenda as the centrepiece of its strategy to bolster long - term economic growth.

Had the Liberals, after 2000, held spending growth to a rate sufficient to cover increases in population and inflation — that is, had they held spending constant in real per capita terms — they would have left the Tories with a budget of $ 148 billion in fiscal 2006, instead of the $ 175 billion it turned out to be.

«As the leader of the Liberal Party noted, it was in fact this party, this government, that established the parliamentary budget office,» the Prime Minister congratulated himself, «so this government is more than familiar with its intention in terms of the mandate it set up.»

Three - term Edmonton city councillor Amarjeet Sohi is the nominated federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton - Mill Woods, former Edmonton councillor Kerry Diotte is the Conservative candidate in Edmonton - Griesbach, Hinton Town Councillor Ryan Maguhn is running for the Liberals in Yellowhead and City of Brooks Mayor Martin Shields is the Conservative candidate in Bow River.

6) Calgary - Varsity With the retirement of popular two - term Liberal MLA Harry Chase, the Liberals have nominated former carpenters» union official Bruce Payne, who ran for that party's leadership in 2011.

Seeking a sixth - term as MLA, Ms. Blakeman is running for re-election in Edmonton - Centre and has secured the nominations, or endorsements, of the Alberta Party and Green Party (and in Red Deer - North, Liberal candidate Michael Dawe has also secured the Green Party nomination).

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

Swedes are very liberal in terms of household duties: men and women share a lot of responsibilities, and there are no stay - at - home moms.

The Liberals embraced the recommendations of many economists, including ourselves, that with a sustainable fiscal situation, they could strengthen long - term economic growth by undertaking infrastructure spending financed by borrowing at historically low interest rates.

It has become the term of choice for the Trudeau government, a branding exercise that seeks to distinguish the Liberals from the Harper government.

«hadn't seen any of that but I have seen a lot of liberals demanding «tolerance» which in liberal terms means; accept everything we demand regardless of your own beliefs and don't expect us to do the same» HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

I can't imagine he's ignorant of the fact that «liberal» is a standard term in theology, and that «conservative,» while lacking the same pedigree, has an obvious theological meaning as well.

The term «liberal» has a long history of use in theology.

I recall one of my colleagues in our liberal seminary storming out of chapel because the guest preacher used the term «Kingdom» too many times instead of «kindom,» «realm of God,» «ground of our being» or some other more progressive / liberal designation.

In terms of a secret agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.

Mainline liberals tend to define overseas mission exclusively in terms of partnership with overseas churches (or ecumenical agencies).

In any case, I wish to make clear that both terms are used here in a broader sense, such that the liberal view of interest (or self - interest, or happiness) is simply one of the alternatives.2 In speaking of a private view of self - interest, I mean that human community is thought to be solely instrumental to, i.e., not constitutive of, happiness.

The feeling is mutual if not quite the term, which reflects the liberal tendency to think of these matters fundamentally in political terms.

That is not the fault of liberal academics who correct the grammar in black students» term papers, and eventually the liberal establishment will call off the witch - hunt.

The reconstruction of the biblical history which they produced is now commonly called the «liberal» view — though the term «liberal» is here used in a sense originally German rather than English, and should not be made a stick to beat those who are «liberal» in a different sense.

The meaning of «liberal» in economic terms is quite similar.

«Protestant Christianity» is a pretty broad term, and it includes folks ranging from the Westboro Baptist Church fascists to churches pastored by Liberty University clones, to «mainstream» protestants, the various liberal denominations, thousands of small, basically non-Catholic independent churches and even groups like the Amish.

He here offers a persuasive practical, as well as unabashedly moral, argument that personal merit and competition are in the short and long term interests of minorities, drawing on his own rise from poverty, which he describes as an escape from «the liberal plantation.»

And, he has appointed a number of liberal judges to the courts in Massachusetts — consider the next POTUS may appoint as many as three in the next term.

There are many Christians across the world who view the Danteist (sorry) vision of hell as a misnomer; and they far outnumber those I've seen, often less than graciously, termed «progressive» or «liberal».

What we have termed «bureaucratic theology» has dominated much of the UUA's theological education and political organization until recently, giving outsiders the impression that the movement was simply a very liberal continuation of Protestant impulses.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Unlike Rorty and Fish, he neither denies nor affirms the tenets of rationalist foundationalism, but he has decided that liberal institutions are best defended not in terms of their truth, but as part of our historical inheritance.

Recent defenses of the Greek ideal of liberal education are couched in terms of «forms of knowledge» or publicly distinguishable ways of understanding and organizing experience that are structured around distinctive sets of concepts, statements, and tests against experience (LE 113 - 118).

Since, however, free riders make little contribution to what people are looking for in religion — in terms of inspiration, fellowship, strong conviction, and communal security — liberal groups tend to spawn apathy and a lack of direction, which is a sure formula for institutional decline.

This is a far cry from liberal theology's effort to adapt Christianity to the modern world and make sense of culture on terms relevant to a rather confident secular and scientific age.

But to accuse it of being «seriously false» is to fail to come to terms with the very real truth behind its hyperbole and, innocently or not, to pander to liberal sensibilities.

So, the real question for conservatives (like me) and liberals is what do we deliver and how do we deliver it in terms of welfare services.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

Liberal education — in contrast to vocational education, in the usual sense of that term — is fundamental in that it is concerned with the ends of all living, toward which both labor and leisure are aimed.

It's ironic, given I am at a fairly liberal college in terms of the academic staff, and a lot of the people who have done theology here have gone the reverse to me.

This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).