Sentences with phrase «liberals sided with»

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.

That argument has resonated with the liberal side with evident satisfaction, but it may deliver more than the liberal justices or their allies on the Left seem to recognize.

Not exact matches

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

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.

Past CPC voters again overwhelmingly side with Alberta and against B.C., while past Liberals are divided and past New Democrats find British Columbia's argument more persuasive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The upshot: The conservative justices tend to side with conservative causes; the liberals with liberal ones.

Until we ditch this whole «liberal» and «conservative» word war we will never progress as a society, or at least it will take us much much longer to actually fix the problems both sides have with the current system.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

But in other writings, Zweig's liberal, romantic side competes with his traditional instincts.

If Kristof denounces me with such abandon, how can the liberal culture he represents function peacefully in a world that includes conservative Muslims who, though by no means proponents of Jihadist radicalism, also get categorized with me as bigots, fundamentalists, and «on the wrong side history»?

Add brussel sprouts, cut side down along with a pinch of salt and liberal sprinkling of pepper.

Try this: take some prepared yellow mustard and squirt a liberal amount on both sides of the brisket, then rub it well into the surface with your hands.

Meanwhile, liberal advocacy groups, including the state's Working Families Party, are siding with de Blasio.

With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberWith the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberwith social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberals.

Chief Judge Roberts decision to side with the four liberals on the court was blasted by conservative blogs.

More frequently, it was Bruno siding with his fellow Republican, former Gov. George Pataki, against the speaker, who saw it as it duty as the lone Democrat in the room to hold out as long as possible on all manner of liberal and downstate priorities.

It's also worth noting that while the most controversial decisions are often decided 5 - 4 with conservatives on one side and liberals on the other, that most decisions have different balances.

When it comes to our Second Amendment rights, Brindisi will side with liberal gun - grabbers in Washington like Nancy Pelosi,» said Raychel Renna, Campaign Manager for Claudia Tenney for Congress.

Such a government might occasionally or even frequently depend on the Liberal Democrats not siding with Tories to vote them out.

While Kingson said he hopes his support for Social Security will allow him to make inroads with older voters and other groups, operatives on both sides said he might be too liberal for the district.

And the distillation of the whole campaign into a personal contest between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling has framed the choice as one between the SNP's catch - all brand of civic nationalism and a Unionism with New Labour characteristics — at the expense of putting into play the ideological diversity on both sides, from the environmentalist republican nationalism of the Scottish Socialists and Greens, to the federalist vision of the Liberal Democrats, and the cautious sovereigntism of the Conservatives.

He will curse the free will of Rabbi Silver who refuses the property tax cap unless there are landlord concessions of biblical proportions, but the Godvernor, with the Prodigal Republican, St. Paul Skelos at his side, will smite the liberals of Lower Manhattan...

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

The Liberal Democrat review will sit «side - by - side» with ongoing design and development work, the prime minister's spokesperson said.

The court voted 5 - 4 to uphold the law including the controversial individual mandate, with Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of President George W. Bush, sided with the liberal wing.

First of all, probably each side could have followed a wiser political strategy: Remainers spent their energies arguing for the unlikely Second Coming of the EU referendum, while liberal Leavers spent much of their time arguing with Remainers.

He's a narcissist and a huckster, an opportunist who not only failed to join conservatives in the big fights about the size and scope of government over the past several decades but, to the extent he was even aware of such battles, was often funding the other side, with a long list of contributions to the liberals most responsible for the dire state of affairs in the country, including likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, the newest conservative on the bench at the Supreme Court, sided with its liberal wing on a recent immigration ruling.

Yes never sufficiently attacked First Past The Post, says Robert Read at Liberal Conspiracy: «The problem began with the failure of the YES side to establish that there was a profound problem with FPTP.

The day before the primary, Long had called Paladino a sure loser in the general election and «a dangerous candidate» for Republicans — a comment that Long amended slightly Wednesday as he answered press questions with Paladino at his side: The candidate was dangerous, Long said, «to the liberals of this state and to the dysfunction of Albany.»

«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.

And 22 per cent believed that the Conservative leadership «should compromise with the Liberal Democrats to produce a version of the Bill that both sides can broadly agree with».

The same has happened recently with Kennedy (he frequently sides with the conservatives but on the fundamental or most important issues he has started siding with the liberals).

Leader Tim Farron said the election was «a «chance to change the direction of Britain», with the debate split between Mrs May, UKIP and Labour on one side, and the Liberal Democrats on the other.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a liberal Democrat from the Lower East Side, aligned himself with de Blasio in December, but has treated Cuomo's proposal with similar weight in the context of ongoing budget negotiations.

If the liberal wing of Britain's establishment concludes that Brexit happened because the other side cheated, it will never come to terms with the real reasons why so many people voted Leave.