Sentences with phrase «many liberal leanings»

Buffett is an agnostic Democrat with liberal leanings who often speaks out; Munger is a reticent Republican holding libertarian views.

Thiel said the reaction from Silicon Valley, which he knew to be liberal leaning, had made him realize the industry was «more polarized than I realized.»

The group is trying to push for less regulation and smaller government in an industry known for its liberal leanings.

And have always been a liberal leaning moderate.

Given my more liberal leanings, some friends have suggested I'd be happier living up North, where I wouldn't have to worry about getting shot at for boasting an Obama 08 bumper sticker, and where I'd perhaps enjoy a broader selection of diverse faith communities.

Maybe my liberal leanings run too deep, but I'll just never understand this disconnect.

All too often readers will try to pigeon hole a blog's author as Democrat, Republican, conservative or liberal leaning, and so on and so forth.

Schneiderman's liberal leanings would likely make him a tough sell with more conservative Democrats upstate, though he has strong ties to organized labor, which helps at the ballot box.

Late - night host Samanatha Bee claimed in a new Time article about late - night political humorists that former Daily Show host Jon Stewart «worked really hard to try to be nonpartisan,» in spite of the show's reported liberal leanings.

The March for Science was clearly on the liberal end of the political spectrum, he finds, nearly matching the partisan flavor of the Women's March and the Tax March and exceeding the liberal leanings of those in the People's Climate March.

White House Down, the latest from disaster film director par excellence Roland Emmerich, performs such a dance of prevarication with all the outwardly liberal leanings of the 18 - 34 millennial demographic.

The film clearly (at least to me) has something to say, but I wasn't totally sold as it frequently stepped up to my liberal leaning taste line, and crossed it.

Santa Cruz is known for its moderate climate, natural environment, coastline, redwood forests, alternative community lifestyles, and socially liberal leanings.

Because of this persona, you never know what Colbert is going to say to the guests on his show, especially those that have liberal leanings.

The report found that many qualified candidates were rejected because their resumes were regarded as reflecting liberal leanings, such as membership in Greenpeace or previous employment with a Democratic Senator.

Despite my liberal leanings, reading their Initiative tells me what's above is a Bad Idea.

Not exact matches

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

«A VAT won't happen under this President and this Congress, but its stock will rise,» says William Gale, an economist at the liberal - leaning Brookings Institution.

Deutsche Bank has already conducted a «close internal examination» of President Trump's personal account and found no evidence of suspicious dealing, according to the London - based liberal - leaning publication.

«The TPP literally replicates and expands on the same model as NAFTA,» says Lori Wallach, a trade expert at Public Citizen, a liberal - leaning advocacy group.

Founded in 1971 on an abandoned military base in Copenhagen, Denmark, this micronation is a haven for liberal - leaning squatters, anarchists, and hippies.

Scarborough, a former GOP representative, is meant to be the conservative counter to Brzezinski's more liberal - leaning persona.

But the Liberals already played their card, and even the centre - right runner - up Coalition Avenir Québec shares most of the PQ's interventionist leanings.

In 2003, she heard the channel was planning a new political program called SqueezePlay, built around O'Leary's right - wing free market cheerleading and the left - leaning views of Brian Tobin, the former Newfoundland premier and Liberal cabinet minister.

And while some viewers — and her co-host — occasionally accuse Lang of having left - leaning sympathies, she says it has more to do with counterbalancing O'Leary's conservatism than growing up in a Liberal household.

His London mayoral election campaign, where he was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.

The billionaire investor is scaling back his role in the tech industry because he feels alienated by the liberal - leaning political climate in the San Francisco area and fears the effects of increased regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Austin's up - and - coming technology startup scene and liberal - leaning, laid back vibe has drawn comparisons to Seattle.

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

Get off your butt, Mr. Dix, not because the BC Liberals might win but because you might just lose, and forever be linked with Gordon Campbell as another man who leaned on his oars when he should have been rowing like hell.

A middling stance on pipelines can at best help prevent some soft Liberals, either left - leaning or right - leaning, from leaving his fold; but it won't attract people.

So the latest policy proposal from the liberal - leaning Roosevelt Institute deserves special attention.

Conservatives say there's too much influence from the left - leaning Silicon Valley, with its liberal leadership and employees.

«We should be seeing some serious upticks in orders if the tax cut is going to lead to the promised jump in investment,» Dean Baker, an economist from the liberal - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said in an email.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

I do think that how liberal - leaning journalists interpret events is powerfully and often unconsciously shaped by their social networks and that this influences their coverage choices.

Why is Rand Paul standing up for liberal - leaning organizations who are boosters of Clinton?

Fox hates liberal - leaning people, so may I now claim that Fox persecutes me?

What was more interesting was what the Politico story tells us about the norms of the liberal - leaning, but - not - explicitly - liberal media.

But this liberal - leaning bias also comes with a set of norms.

If you tend to read more liberal - leaning news, Google factors that into your searches, and Facebook actively prefers that information for you.

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

«Most of these cases involving Christian business owners have arisen on the West Coast and more liberal - leaning areas of the country.

If the early church could hold together communities made up of Jews and Greeks, slaves and free, men and women, circumcised and uncircumcised, tax collectors and zealots, prostitutes and Pharisees, kosher believers and non-kosher believers, those who ate food sacrificed to idols and those who refused, I guess this evolution - accepting, hell - questioning, liberal - leaning feminist can worship Jesus alongside a Tea Party complementarian who thinks the earth is 6,000 years old and that Ghandi and Anne Frank are in hell.

I think that is a sign that quite a few liberal - leaning elites who don't think of themselves as professional liberal partisans are starting to have second thoughts.

Here is my read on journalists who work at liberal - leaning - but - not - explicitly - liberal news outlets: they want Obama to win very badly, but they also want to feel like they are doing their jobs of providing «news.»

Contrary to the oft parroted «liberal media bias,» mainstream media is subordinated to a bias filtered toward the corporate interests of its private media owners, of which many are right leaning.

Those liberal - leaning outlets determine the terms of debate and — if we are lucky — a spokesman for our causes will get (almost) equal time for a debate where the ground has been chosen by the opposition.

The liberal - leaning media will still be picking the ground on which campaigns are contested, and conservative candidates will still be the ones responding.