Sentences with phrase «many moderate members»

Thus, while Republicans lost seats, liberals didn't really gain seats, although veteran radical liberals gained power, in the form of congressional control, made possible by the victories of the moderate members of their party.

«Many quiet, moderate members don't attend meetings at the best of times and are even more put off in the current climate,» a Labour MP told the New Statesman.

Hanna is one of the more moderate members of New York's Republican House delegation.

Militant's tactics were to take over moribund constituency parties by the simple expedient of joining the party, getting themselves elected to local committees and then boring and antagonising more moderate members into resigning.

Israel, D - Huntington, said on a conference call with reporters that Cantor's defeat should worry some of the more moderate members of the House Republican caucus.

Councilwoman Darlene Mealy, in particular, expressed reservations about backing Ms. Mark - Viverito and other conservative and moderate members were not immediately enthusiastic about the liberal firebrand's ascension, the source said.

These are three moderate members from Upstate New York, and they couldn't get the nomination today.

It makes no mention of his party affiliation, which is interesting, since he's one of the more moderate members of the GOP conference — a fact that surprised some attendees at a recent debate between the congressman and his Democratic opponent, Dan Lamb, a former aide to retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey.

Grisanti is typically considered one of the more moderate members of the Senate Republican conference — a reputation earned by «yes» votes on two bills pushed by Cuomo: same - sex marriage and the gun control measure known as the SAFE Act.

Cuomo doubled down on the ad with reporters Wednesday, saying he's campaigning like he's governing, which is to say drawing in moderate members of the other party.

Mr Benn and other moderate members of the shadow Cabinet who backed British action in Syria are tipped to be moved aside in the reshuffle as Mr Corbyn exerts his grip on the party.

Sources suggested to the Observer at the time that Cornegy was trying to contrast himself with Williams, in order to appeal to some of the Council's more moderate members.

But whether it's them, the New Democrat Coalition or another moderate Democratic group, there is a role for moderate members in a Democratic comeback — or in an extended Republican majority, for that matter.

Moderate members like me aren't prepared to allow Corbyn the luxury of leading Labour into the electoral abyss in the vain hope that this dose of real democracy will banish the hard left forever.

Sources the Observer spoke to saw the comments as an effort by Cornegy to impress moderate members of the Council — and to use Williams, who has struggled to get more of his colleagues to join in his genuflection, as a foil.

As a Texas Democrat, Johnson defied many moderate members of his own party to align himself with the Republican Party to pass the Civil Rights Act but there are only a few scenes here suggesting why he was so courageous to do so.

Elizabeth Warren is blasting fellow Democrats for their support of a Wall Street deregulation bill, but many of these moderate members are pushing back.

Not exact matches

He continued later: «If their priority is attacking the moderate opposition that might be future members of an inclusive Syrian government, Russia is not going to get the support of us or a range of other members of the coalition.»

ODESSA, Texas - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan participates in moderated question - and - answer session before an Odessa Chamber of Commerce Member Luncheon - 1700 GMT.

Manchin, a moderate Democrat who has been touted as a possible member of Trump's cabinet, is scheduled to see Trump in New York on Monday.

USA TODAY obtained a copy of a letter that the Republican Study Committee, which has more than 150 Republican House members, plans to send to McConnell warning him not to make the bill too moderate.

Aetna said it expects member medical spending to stay low this year, a trend that has benefited the health insurers and dragged down hospital revenues, and that the moderated spending would likely continue into 2018.

Kelly has spoken and moderated conversations on the power of your personal brand and sits on the Board for The Lola Melani Fund and the Advisory Board for The UN Human Rights Initiative, is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization, and a Nexus Global Delegate.

It was part of Cruz's broader questioning about whether or not Facebook is biased in the ways it moderates the posts and accounts of members — and in its staffing policies.

While the recent employment report has made market participants expect a somewhat earlier Fed move, my impression of the FOMC's members is that they will be extremely reluctant to «risk» a still fragile economic expansion on the basis of moderate employment strength.

A Jean political action committee simultaneously market - tested and marketed this approach with a push - poll question blasted out this week to every Wildrose member: would you rather have a moderate non-ideological leader, or an ideological leader who might lose in the next election?

On balance, Lighthizer looks like one of the Trump cabinet members who will seek to moderate the new president's more extreme rhetorical positions and channel them through the much - despised mechanisms of the Washington and global establishment.

In addition, Space Angels has a moderated Q&A process, aggregating questions from members (there are typically a number of common questions across members) and presenting them for answering in an efficient manner.

responsible for agenda - setting and moderating the discussion along with ICCR program staff and members who are all asked to actively participate in the dialogue.

But when the five - million - member National Association of Evangelicals, as moderate a part of the Religious Right as there is, invited Clinton to speak to its national convention in March, the President didn't acknowledge the invitation.»

So - called moderate Muslims talk a lot but never seem to do anything about the «un-Islamic» conduct of their members.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Indeed, moderates, the only white Protestant group to lose more members to other religious families than they gain, appear to be drained from both sides, supplying recruits to both the left and the right.

It's been reported local political analysts consider this type of incident «political warming,» targeting Christians and members of the largest and most moderate Muslim groups in the country, ahead of the upcoming elections in June.

Members can use the mailing list only for voting requests, to make sure the volume of emails will be moderate.

Based on various research studies, it could be estimated that approximately twenty - five of his members have been hospitalized for major mental illness in the past, twenty - four are alcoholics, another fifty are severely handicapped by neurotic conflicts, and another one hundred by moderate neurotic symptoms.

Hutchison and company present us with the moderate - liberal establishment, which holds «preferers» but loses active members and power.

The Birmingham Archdiocesan scheme How I Am, recently introduced to all its secondary schools, is praised as being especially moderate by Father John Fleming, an Australian bioethics professor and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

The moderates and Southerners combined before the triennial convention of 1841 to keep the slavery question off the floor and to replace a Northern abolitionist board member with a Southern proslavery man.

His church, the 1,000 - member Riverfront Baptist Church, partners with many groups, including the Fellowship, the moderate - led state conventions and the Willow Creek Association (created by Bill Hybels's Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago), to provide resources for evangelism and spiritual growth.

Looking ahead to 2013, members of the foodservice industry prepare to experience another period of moderate but real growth as operators will rely more heavily on technology and on their supply chain partners to drive their incremental success.

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In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

Specifically, I got the impression that the EC members were supposed to exercise some sort of double - check on the candidate's validity, character and legal qualifications (e.g. lack of conflicts - of - interest) and thereby moderate the influence of pure populism on the outcome, at least to some extent.

As he engages in his post-primary makeover and seeking to unite the moderate and fringe elements of the state GOP, Carl Paladino has tapped a former member of ex-Gov.

Like Mrs Thatcher, he despised the more «moderate» and «spineless» members (i.e. Jean - Pierre Raffarin, Dominique de Villepin, Alain Juppé) of his own Party, Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (Union for Popular Movement, UMP).

The White House stepped up its push to revive legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act by placating the most conservative House members, but the effort risked alienating more moderate Republicans whose votes President Trump needs just as much.

Collins also defended his amendment that would shift the counties» share of Medicaid to the state — a move designed to appeal to his fellow moderate upstate House members and would only apply to New York.

The second piece of the model was the percentage of the parliamentary votes represented by either extreme parties, or by extreme members of the moderate parties, E.

For instance, many members of the political and media establishments claim that they have no qualms with «moderate Muslims», yet the very term «moderate» is loosely defined, and almost exclusively by non-Muslims.