Sentences with phrase «liberal thorn in the side»

Littlewood until now led the Orange Book pressure group Liberal Vision, a classical liberal thorn in the side of social democrats within the LibDems.

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Hauerwas is a painful thorn in any liberal's side, but Christian liberals are his special target.

And in Willie Rennie we have a constant thorn in Alex Salmond's side, and an enormous asset to our party, making a persuasive case for a liberal Scotland in a liberal United Kingdom.

So de Blasio, to the delight of liberals who've been a thorn in Cuomo's side, pushed his own — ultimately unsuccessful — campaign to defeat Republican legislators.

All it takes is the retirement of one blogger — namely, Andrew Sullivan, founder of The Daily Dish and long - time thorn in the side of the liberal blogosphere — and the social web explodes with a mixture of praise, recriminations, eulogies for the death of blogging as we know it, and righteous indignation about whether he was one of the first or not.