Sentences with phrase «moderate groups in»

Moderates now are in a kind of wilderness, Sherman contends, and need to take steps to utilize energies provided by powerful moderates who run state conventions in Texas and Virginia, plus other new moderate groups in Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Illinois.

Not exact matches

I had the opportunity to moderate a panel on improving efficiency at a customer service summit hosted by the Incite Group here in New York last week.

Putin claimed that while the Syrian regime was «fully abiding» by the cease - fire, rebel groups (some of which the US backs) were using it merely as an opportunity to regroup, and he accused Washington of being more concerned with retaining its military capacity in the area than with trying to weed out the extremist rebel groups from the more «moderate» ones.

«U.S. growth of 0.6 million barrels a day in 2017 beat all expectations, even with a moderate price response to the output deal as the shale industry bounced back — profiting from cost cuts, stepped up drilling activity and efficiency measures enforced during the downturn,» the group said.

Kind is part of the New Democrat Coalition (NDC), a group of younger, moderate Democrats in the House.

Four in five women hope to grow their businesses «substantially» or «at least a moderate amount» by 2013, according to a survey of some 700 female business owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.

In an unusual move, the House proposed providing the Senate flexibility to offer more help to that age group, which may need a larger tax credit to help cover their healthcare costs — a move aimed at winning over more moderate Republicans.

That's why I wanted to create a group that would only allow top - tier talent in the social media space, and carefully moderate it to make sure the average post quality and engagement remained high.

According to a recent NBC News / Wall Street Journal poll, the NRA's popularity with key groups took a hit after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, in February, including among white married women, seniors and more moderate Republicans.

Along with imposing strict Sunni ideology, the group has executed hundreds of people in cold blood, and this weekend, is said to have publicly crucified eight fellow Muslims for being «too moderate»...

I'm the only moderate in my group of Christian friends, and you know what I hear a lot of when I stand up and back up my own personal stance?

In fact, as Elizabeth O'Bagy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, «Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,» but they won't be there for long without helIn fact, as Elizabeth O'Bagy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, «Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,» but they won't be there for long without helin the Wall Street Journal, «Moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces,» but they won't be there for long without help.

Most of the older moderate groups defeated in the long Baptist wars gave up on the Southern Baptist Convention some years ago and established their own groups outside» or, at best, on the margins of» the denomination.

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.

Thus the many groups of fundamentalist Muslims not only differ from one another, but are also at variance with the more moderate or secular Muslim governments in whose territory they operate.

In 1942 people from this group formed the National Association of Evangelicals — and found themselves attacked by the hardline fundamentalists just as they attacked the mainstream moderates and liberals.

I can understand the idea of a party as a unifier and people can group together, but the way parties are set up now, it just fuels fringe elements who don't speak for the moderates who are forced to affiliate with one of two parties in order to feel at least sort of relevant.

A group of the Wahhabis who went to great lengths in enforcing these doctrines and in standing adamant against any innovation, even including useful contributions of modern civilization, were suppressed by King Abul Aziz Ibn Sa`ud who believed in a wise, moderate policy of modernization.

That might be true in some abstract sense, but it misses the reality that ISIS and the Assad regime are fighting relatively moderate rebel groups rather than each other.

Some hardlining evangelicals may suspect that Outler is here subverting groups that might otherwise engage in some political takeovers, but have instead stayed around to speak and to listen to the moderate - to - liberal camps.

In the Puritan case, for example, several radical Separatist groups emerged alongside the more moderate Puritan clergy.

Notwithstanding the persistence of these attitudes, especially among certain groups, altered conditions of life in Palestine soon began their moderating influence.

The conflict in the world today is between the fundamentalist and conservative Christians, Muslims, and other groups - not liberal and more moderate Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

Some blame the apathy of moderate pastors who want to steer clear of denominational controversy; some say the moderate groups have failed to clearly articulate their beliefs in ways that capture the imagination of Baptists.

«Moderates in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship made some major mistakes in its early stages by not being more aggressive,» contends David Currie, director of Texas Baptists Committed, a highly political moderates support group which has helped keep the Baptist General Convention of Texas in the moderModerates in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship made some major mistakes in its early stages by not being more aggressive,» contends David Currie, director of Texas Baptists Committed, a highly political moderates support group which has helped keep the Baptist General Convention of Texas in the modermoderates support group which has helped keep the Baptist General Convention of Texas in the moderate camp.

Sherman said a moderate denomination, to be successful, must focus on bedrock Baptist issues and warned against what he called «elitist» moderate groups that focus on single issues, like women in ministry or gay rights.

Allen believes «a new breed of denomination» which will allow broad freedoms will arise in the next eight to ten years, centered on the moderate state conventions and other groups.

«The ones most likely to lead us out of the wilderness,» said Sherman, are Charles Wade and John Upton, executive directors of the moderate state groups in Texas and Virginia, respectively; David Currie, director of Texas Baptists Committed and Mainstream Baptists; and Daniel Vestal, chief executive of the Fellowship, who took over from Sherman in 1996.

Whatever our philosophy, we had better use it to moderate the tendency that is in all of us to look to violence to settle issues between groups in a world whose technology makes violence against groups ever more likely to destroy all who participate in it, or advocate it, along perhaps with nearly everyone else.

Dr. Mellanby was quick to point out that diet 3 was not low in carbohydrate or even sugar: «Although [diet 3] contained no bread, porridge or other cereals, it included a moderate amount of carbohydrates, for plenty of milk, jam, sugar, potatoes and vegetables were eaten by this group of children.»

In addition, at least 2 days per week of moderate to high intensity muscle strengthening activity involving all major muscle groups can provide further health benefits.

The opinions and voices of the minorities in the group were mocked and belittled and unfortunately, we had to make the decision to moderate the mob as this post (and a number of others) devolved into ugliness.

Variables such as socioeconomic status, the inclusion of children in the parenting programme, maternal mental health and individual versus group approaches to delivery moderated effectiveness although these effects tended to be modest.

No association between vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean delivery group at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced at 3 — 8 days after vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean delivery.6

In a blog for moderate Labour group Progress she compared good media management to good underwear.

Partly this is because moderate voices in the Remain movement have been overruled by «fundamentalist» groups like Best for Britain, but it's also because a vague, catch - all call for the people «to have a place at the table» was necessary to unite a rag - tag coalition of anti-Brexit groups.

It symbolised the great Ukipisation of No. 10, the rejection of moderate government in the name of a right - wing identity politics in which the imagined victimhood of the dominant group is relentlessly promoted.

All four members of the group are moderates in their politics, representing districts filled with upper - middle - income suburbanites.

The regular Senate Democrats and their traditional progressive allies (women's rights and LGBTQ rights groups, in particular) would no doubt very much like to see someone more moderate in Diaz's seat.

The conservative House Freedom Caucus and Republican moderates in the Tuesday Group came up with a revised bill that allows states to opt out of certain Affordable Care Act protections for consumers known as «essential health benefits.»

Katko is co-chair of the Tuesday Group, a coalition of moderate Republicans in Congress.

At the European level, the party allied itself with moderate Eurosceptics such as the British Conservative Party, the Czech Civic Democrats and the Polish Law and Justice, and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.

«I am not an extremist; in fact, I am a moderate Muslim following the moderate limits of Islam... extremism represented by those groups on one hand are those who have rejected bits and pieces of Islam.»

Republican groups had spent heavily against Nelson early in the race, but the moderate Democrat was a prolific fundraiser with wide appeal among Democrats and some Republicans in the Panhandle.

A shakeup in the leadership of the Tuesday Group, a moderate collection of House Republicans, has helped elevate Rep. Elise Stefanik's role.

The New Jersey Republican who had co-chaired the moderate Tuesday Group has resigned from the post after his roll in passing the American Health Care Act in the House caused an uproar within the bloc of lawmakers.

During the «Four Women in a Room» panel discussion, hosted by activist groups True Blue New York and Empire State Indivisible and moderated by POLITICO politics reporter Gloria Pazmino, Williams noted that New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country and addressed comments made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, in which she said that most of the panelists do not have state government experience.

Nor will the FSA, which includes a wide range of groups few would regard as moderate - and mostly operates in other parts of the country.

Stefanik co-chairs the Tuesday Group of GOP moderates who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but improve and keep in place some of its popular benefits.

In the run - up to Sunday's vote, officials close to Corbyn and the Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard, had accused the pro-EU grouping of using the issue to mount a proxy war by Labour's moderates against the party's leadership — a charge they deny.