Sentences with phrase «more conservative forces»

The Republican Party, for example, is currently engaged in a battle between its more moderate and more conservative forces.

Not exact matches

This forces them to be more conservative and follow the sales manual word for word.

That will likely force Najib to court more conservatives and hardline Islamists to prevent another electoral embarrassment.

The changes also will force some public pension funds to calculate retirement benefits using more conservative assumptions.

This forced me to a more conservative view on Christianity than ever.

(And since we are entering an era in which conservatives may be forced into considering, at all levels of government, the use of more dramatically intransigent constitutional resistance options to various budget - destroying, Constitution - eroding, and religious - liberty threatening trends of liberal «governance,» a Lincoln - like precision about what we intend to do, and about what enormities we are constitutionally obliged to put up with, is all the more necessary.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Up to now the society has often seemed a more conservative than innovative force in American hymnody, issuing pamphlets of «new» hymns redolent of a bygone era.

He says conservatives like Dreher and Douthat are foolish to hail him as some kind of truth - teller to and about conservative elites, that the reality is he is an enabler of American personal irresponsibility and what's more, a force for political evil....

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In those few states where homebirth midwives have been forced to reveal their safety statistics, it is has been found that babies are (by a conservative estimate) 2 - 6 times more likely to die than those born in hospital.

However, the majority of the court (the 5 more conservative justices) rejected that interpretation, ruling that the Commerce Clause can't be used to force someone to unwillingly engage in commerce, but rather only to regulate existing commerce.

That negated the EU issue for UKIP and forced them to focus on more substantive issues such as immigration, but also the economy and the budget deficit where the Conservatives had a much stronger reputation.

This is unlikely to make them very receptive to accepting the need for more austerity - as the Lib Dems and Conservatives have been forced to - by offering joint spending plans to 2017/18.

It includes a cap on welfare which Conservatives in government hope will force Labour to accept spending on benefits must be more closely controlled in the future.

More than 20 Conservatives could face charges from investigations by 14 police forces over their spending declarations at the 2015 election

In fact, it's the ghosts of the 2014 Democratic primary that are more likely to come back to haunt him in 2020 for two reasons: First, because criticisms from the left on his attempts to appease rural conservatives are largely accurate; second, the exposure of his vulnerability from the left forced him into taking positions which may cost him in a general election.

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.

But, perhaps more importantly, he needs to defend his other flank against a resurgent Conservative Party which is determined to move its tanks firmly onto the centre ground, forcing the third party once again to the fringes.

The Conservatives would also be limited in their actions by the Fixed - Term Parliaments Act, making it more difficult to bring governments down and force a second general election.

Commenting on the Conservative Party's proposals to force local authorities to hold a referendum each time they increase council tax by more than a central government controlled level, Director of Unlock Democracy, Peter Facey said:

Even more ridiculous is the spectacle of Conservative MPs and Conservative - leaning think - tankers trying to use the riots to back up the case for elected police commissioners — just like they did with the scandal over the Met's links to News International — without realising that the Met is precisely the one police force which is already very close to the elected commissioner model.

While technically her goal is to win the Democratic primary, her director, de Blasio, has charged his star with a secondary and probably more important missive: force Cuomo so far to the left in the primary that he becomes unappealing to the state's moderate conservatives in the general election.

The Conservatives are keen to force Labour MPs to spend as much time as possible defending their own backyards and distract them from more strategic campaigning.

While Cornyn and Sessions easily beat back conservative challengers, other more establishment lawmakers were forced into May runoffs by challengers backed by Cruz.

Root - and - branch overhaul of procurement projects and more burden - sharing by NATO allies are also necessary but # 3bn extra in the defence budget should be part of a Conservative commitment to our nation's armed forces.

«On the one hand you have a district that is slightly more conservative than the national vote, on the other hand I think the forces are shaping up in this particular election to move it a little bit in the direction of the Democrats, so you're going to have a really close, hard - fought race in November,» Klinkner said.

Undoubtedly the Conservatives will appear united for a short while but this will not last, the backbenchers will not be placated for long by the referendum pledge and will soon ramp up the pressure, creating a more divided party than ever and forcing Cameron's hand.

«Lib Dems defeating Tories» is, therefore a curious situation; a situation made all the more curious when Lib Dem MPs (in government) join forces with Labour MPs (in opposition) to «defeat» Conservatives (in government) who on the whole voted against the amendment.

«It delighted the Conservative troops and resonated more broadly, forcing a Labour retreat.

More importantly, the news highlights both Labour's failures in defence and also the scope for the Conservatives to offer a much better thought out defence policy that would support our armed forces as they deserve, despite intense spending pressures.

The variance in the estimates depended on the use of a conservative versus a more conventional definition of habitable zone (Kasting et al, 1993; and ExoPlanet Task Force, 2008 report in pdf, pp. 102 - 103).

As a dyed - in - the - wool conservative and a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Sebring was more than happy to step up to the plate and formulate this product to help the men and women in our military.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

Right now, Republican hypocrisy is becoming a glaring limitation as a Republican dominated House is forced to square its votes against conservative drives of wanting less bureaucracy and more local control.

The Gulen movement is not mentioned in this MSNBC piece, but the movement is widely known to be a major force behind the rise of the more religiously conservative ruling party in Turkey.

But the idea is to gradually shift to a more conservative portfolio, so you don't find yourself with such a large exposure to stocks as you enter retirement that a market downturn would require you to dramatically scale back your retirement plans or even force you to postpone retirement altogether.

Given that some other managers may have been more aggressive, your excess capital can disappear, as more aggressive mangers miss margin calls, and the pressure of their liquidations, forces your more conservative positions down, and you have to liquidate also.

While the agencies push to regain their credit ratings, they may be forced to be even more conservative with lending practices, and that would make credit or loans for people with bad credit almost out of reach.

As humans, we rely heavily on sound, but the deaf dog can force you to be more creative in your methods and more conservative with your communication.

There are those who think that the recent techno - economic disruption and displacement happening in the Bay Area is a force moving SF towards more conservative baselines (by displacing progressives for libertarian techies).

It also addresses his position as a painter working within an international discourse, at a time when contemporary practice in his chosen media was coming under attack from both conservative forces and from the champions of more experimental art forms, giving rise to widespread predictions of «the death of painting».

At a time when gender roles are becoming ever more fluid, just as conservative forces redouble their efforts to control women's bodies, The Great Mother offered some much - needed perspective.

There are many values of the conservative which appeal to me more than those of the socialists; yet for a liberal the importance he personally attaches to specific goals is no sufficient justification for forcing others to serve them.

So if more forcing means more feedback, even the harsh Paleoclimate evidence is too conservative a measure.

On a more serious note, I think we need to not consider the apparent ~ 60 year cycle in the temperature history, and instead accept that a conservative case is for all warming since the mid 19th century was due to human forcing.

GCMs often play a conservative role as a counterpoint to speculation or idealized modeling regarding «tipping points» or abrupt climate change, in favor of gradual, more linear climate response to external forcing.

Students are forced to take on tremendous public and private debt to finance their education, and as a result are pushed to be more conservative and corporate than they otherwise would.

The Deluxe looks a little flashier while the Z Force takes on a more conservative look.