Sentences with phrase «more conservative agenda»

The Bush administration promises to drive change through the economic landscape by shuffling our nation's fiscal priorities toward a more conservative agenda than that of the Clinton administration.

The governor has so far declined to directly criticize the Senate GOP, no doubt recognizing he's going to need them as allies in the budget battle — particularly when it comes to his more conservative agenda items like the property tax cap.

Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in a radio interview on Friday called on Senate Republicans to not act like «Democrat - lite» and use their new majority in the chamber to push a more conservative agenda than in the last two years.

Not exact matches

No one has done more to create a modern conservative agenda than Yuval Levin, and not every conservative politician is as obtuse as Cruz.

If the GOP allow their agenda to be dominated by the social conservatives they will just shoot themselves in the foot and give Obama 4 more years.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

Hertzke acknowledges that Jackson's sympathy for the left's agenda on the family, gay rights, and abortion has generated tensions among culturally conservative black church leaders, but he argues that racial pride has proved a more potent appeal among Jackson's black constituents.

We, the more sensible, reasonable and un-radical atheist sector is very conservative and does NOT support LGBT agenda or their lifestyle choice and deviance on evolutionary and natural law, basis.

Suspicions he was more comfortable with implementing the Conservatives» agenda ignored the fact that two - thirds of the Lib Dems» manifesto was being implemented, too.

A solid GOP majority means Boehner can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed while Republicans would hold more committee seats to guide the party agenda.

The IDC claims to have a progressive, pro-women agenda, but that is nothing more than a facade built to keep them in good standing with their voters while rubbing elbows with conservative colleagues.

The point she was seeking to convey to the more ideologically zealous among them was that the Conservative Party could only hope to govern again if it remained in touch with mainstream society and was not seen to pursue the exclusive, narrow - minded agenda of a select few.

Seven moderate Republican incumbents were defeated by more conservative rivals in an effort to oust members of the Senate who were hostile to parts of Gov. Sam Brownback's agenda.

The Conservatives reverted back to a more traditional law and order agenda at their conference in Manchester today.

But before it folded, the committee spent millions of dollars — mostly on TV ads — to push the more fiscally conservative elements of Cuomo's agenda.

Social conservatives have been outraged by legislation to recognise transgender people's new identities and to sanction homosexual partnerships, deemed by the Government as necessary under the HRA or the human rights agenda more widely.

He has a different agenda and style to the newly appointed Andy Coulson, who is more sympathetic to traditional Conservative policies.

An upstate pro-business group is out with ratings for the New York Senate and Assembly, and finds, not surprisingly, that more liberal Democrats are at odds with the group's agenda than conservative leaning Republicans.

Many Conservatives thought that they had more or less killed off John Prescott's misguided and wasteful regional agenda with the defeat of plans to amalgamate police forces two years ago and the heavy defeat of proposals for a North East Assembly in a referendum held in November 2004.

Baroness Warsi tells Tom Bradby on tonight's edition of The Agenda that she wants to see the Tories return to the «very core conservative principles» of allowing people to keep more of what they earn.

An upstate pro business group is out with ratings for the Senate and Assembly, and finds, not surprisingly, that more liberal Democrats are at odds with the group's agenda than conservative leaning Republicans.

The French Green Party and the French left in general remain more attached to these distinctions, whereas in the German Green Party, the moderate Realo wing had already won over the hard - line Fundi wing, possible alliances with the Conservatives were no longer taboo, and third way policies under the center - left Gerhard Schröder government, such as Agenda 2010 and the Hartz I — IV laws, found considerable support.

Skelos has sided with Cuomo when it comes to his largely conservative fiscal agenda, especially on the so - called millionaires tax on those making $ 200,000 or more, due to expire at the end of the year.

He revealed he regretted the coalition had not been more ambitious and blamed his own party for having held back the Conservatives» agenda.

Yet we need to see it do more to support politics on the backbenches and an extended role for shaping Conservative policies at the next election, helping to deliver a Conservative majority in 2015 and dominating the Parliamentary agenda.»

The obvious conclusion is that there is a worry that should the new conservative policies prove popular and increase the party's poll ratings further, then their power to influence the direction of the party back to a more right wing agenda decreases.

I made this point repeatedly in the leadership election and made clear that changing this situation and getting more Conservative women into Parliament was top of my agenda.

Schreibman argues the Republican congressman's effort to cast himself as a pragmatic centrist is undercut by his voting record, in which he generally — but not always — sides with the House leadership, whose agenda is driven by the more conservative members of the conference.

«Ironically, we may be able to make more progress on a fairness agenda with the Conservatives than New Labour was willing to do,» he said.

Experts have pointed to surveys which suggest the Conservatives will gain a stronger footing after the general election, giving the party a mandate to push forward the Brexit agenda, which could provide more certainty for investors.

Since taking office, the governor's agenda has benefited from his negotiating with a divided Legislature — working with Assembly Democrats to push progressive items such as same - sex marriage and a higher minimum wage, and the Senate GOP on more fiscally conservative measures.

More than 700 Protestant and Jewish clergy members endorsed same - sex marriage Tuesday through the Empire State Pride Agenda advocacy group, an attempt to blunt the opposition by Catholic leaders, orthodox Jewish leaders, and conservative Protestant ministers.

Nonetheless, he is sure to attract votes aligned with conservative and Tea Party agendas, and he is more battle - tested than Carl P. Paladino, the Republican businessman whom Mr. Cuomo easily defeated in 2010.

Gordon Brown's conference speech contained one announcement which is perhaps more important than many people realise: the prime minister's commitment to legislate for the goal of ending child poverty offers an important example of how entrenching Labour's legacy, defining its future agenda and testing the Conservative claim to be «progressive» all go together.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

As much as it seemed traditional and conservative, the Academy was more liberal in comparison to the agenda of the authorities in East Germany.

Conservatives reject the slobbish anti-science which, for example, would dare to hijack a common English expression like «climate change» in order to push an all too familiar collectivist agenda and flog still more white elephants.

It's almost become a cliche to point out that Fox News is less a reliable news organization and more of an ideological agenda - setter for the American conservative movement.

Studies have previously been conducted to determine whether the existence of a so - called «Fox News Effect» — whether people who use Fox to get most of their news are more misinformed about world events and scientific truths, and whether that misinformation skews towards supporting a conservative political agenda.

Today, after more than two decades of seeing a steady procession of those people, whom he calls broken souls, in his courtroom, Justice Westman has become one of many in several provinces defying the spirit, and sometimes the letter, of the Conservative government's tough - on - crime agenda.