Sentences with phrase «more conservative position»

For example, we might get aggressive on a transaction because we're comfortable with a borrower, business plan or market that others see as having higher risk and they take a more conservative position.

He echoed traditional Democratic themes about union rights and economic fairness, but took a more conservative position on the hot - button issue of guns.

As the front - runner in a House race far from the national media spotlight, Stefanik can take a more conservative position without attracting too much attention.

Thus their views as to the material's historicity ranged from the more conservative position of Albertz to the mediating position of Dibelius and the radical position of Bultmann.

It also tends to promote a more conservative position on moral issues such as sexuality, abortion and euthanasia.

I have noticed that as some women grow older, they tend to shift toward a more conservative position on the issue of abortion.

Cox says he expects Cuomo to swing back to more conservative positions in 2014 including cutting taxes and regulations.

It won't be «exciting», but it sounds luke you agree with me that this shouldn't be exciting and «market rate of return» (about 8 % annually, long term) is generally good enough, with more conservative positions as you approach the point of needing that money.

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.

The third - largest smartphone manufacturer in the world is rumored to be moving the goal posts to more conservative positions for the year.

A straight, «true» chronological format is rarely used; however, a version of it may be more appropriate for certain situations, such as more conservative positions, or when submitted in conjunction with more in - depth applications.

Not exact matches

Critics also charge that Gillibrand emphasized more centrist positions as a congresswoman from a somewhat conservative district than she does as a senator from a liberal state.

In recent weeks, Rubio has sought to spin his positions in a fashion more appealing to the state's conservatives, leaning rightward as the moderate lane remains deeply divided.

«For the most sophisticated investors and traders, inverse ETFs, put options or shorting individual stocks could be an appropriate strategy, while for the more conservative investor, positions in the defensive sectors could be a good choice, allowing overall exposure to equities while striving to limit potential downside risk,» he says.

Would not initiate a major position until they have more dividend growth history and improved conservative set of financials.

The tendency of contemporary evangelicals to appeal to tradition to support conservative positions would be checked by Wesley's far more selective use of tradition, and much greater openness to current evidence.

The UCC paper's inattention to the conservative position is more than a tactical error, however.

So a famous conservative who's been positioned to know more about Rick than most of this sent me this very probing question and real analysis: Question: Who's more electable against Obama?

They're supposed to have kept the conservative coalition together, but opinions vary as to whether they should have kept King Mob under wraps, or moved more quickly to the positions that King Mob rightly espouses.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

His critics, at least his conservative critics, are usually more concerned with whether his position does not entail some form of relativism.

Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.

We need a return to the realistic and yet principled conservative pragmatism of Reagan who actually wanted to help people more than dogmatically stick to every single position and who was even willing to compromise with liberals like Tip O'neal at times in order to get something done that would actually solve problems and help the greatest number of people.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

Alise, whose best friend is gay, is openly gay - affirming, and yet she continues to attend and serve a more conservative church where few of her fellow worshipers would agree with her position on homosexuality.

I don't share political and social positions with more conservative Christian, and have even had some tell me I simply can not be Christian and hold some of the positions I do.

Conservative Jews don't like to be described as the in - between group, but they inevitably are, because the best and simplest way to define the Conservative position is to say that it is more strict than Reform and less strict than Orthodoxy.

The survey bears out that the caliber of leadership is a far more determinative factor in church growth than questions of liberal - versus - conservative positions, or social action versus personal - individual religious experience and expression.

The oldline churches can join with more conservative groups in adopting the former position.

As a «conservative» (probably more like «libertarian»), my position is fairly simple: I am opposed to mandates — whether from government or private sources — which tend to compel people toward compliance with the «conventional wisdom» (which is oftentimes neither conventional nor wise.)

The challenger for the GOP nomination in the 51st District said he is looking to restore more traditional conservative voting to the state representative position.

It also represents a new confidence in the Lib Dems to push for a more centrist economic position and suggests a nervousness among Conservative ministers at the relentlessly depressing economic forecast.

The high level is that the typical conservative position is that big government is bad (for various reasons such as efficiency, cost, corruption, freedom and more) and we should strive towards a smaller government that gives more control to the people and the markets.

Of course, there has to be a lot more to the Huckster's rise than one email list: if he didn't walk the evangelical walk, people would see through his conservative talk just as fast as they do Romney's (whose positions are apparently held together with duct tape).

Some party leaders believe his increasingly conservative positions as he approached a presidential campaign turned off Massachusetts» more - moderate brand of Republicans.

He said the eurozone crisis gave the Conservative party an «opportunity» to set out its position on Europe more clearly.

The tax allowance also appeared in last week's «alternative Queen's Speech», a collection of dozens of firmly right - wing bills put forward by a small group of Conservative backbenchers as an attempt to drag the government towards a more classically Tory position.

Appearing at the commission meeting in a knee - length dress — a more conservative outfit than the short red miniskirt she wore with black pumps last week when she was photographed coming home with Lopez — Battaglia ducked several questions about Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver but was happy to discuss her $ 54,000 position on the planning board.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

The best estimates are that there will only be a handful of Conservative MPs willing to vote against the government's position while there will be significantly more Labour MPs willing to defy Jeremy Corbyn's position and vote for action in Syria.

I tend to believe that it's the conservative that are more fragile than the lib / dem, the tory right are outraged with Cameron and would have no problem going to the polls tommorrow just to end their position with the lib / dems.

But the Conservatives had three more seats - suggesting they would indeed take the position of the second biggest party.

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.

Andrew Percy, Conservative MP for Brigg and Goole, also shot down the claim of colleague Mark Spencer, MP for Sherwood, that the prime minister had obtained a «special status» for the UK in Europe, saying: «There is no special position... it's all legally unenforceable, not a single power is returned and a new treaty handing more power over is being worked up.»

Gillirband — who attended Dartmouth College and UCLA Law School before spending a decade as a litigator in Manhattan — attributed her more conservative prior positions to the conservative and overwhelmingly white demographic of the 20th Congressional District, which first elected her to the House in 2006.

Although Cabrera is a Democrat, his views on certain issues, including women's rights and gay rights, are more conservative than the party's mainline position.

Some of the other Conservative «rebels» on Lords reform are more generally opposed to Cameron's leadership and the coalition, blaming their leader for failing to win a clear majority in 2010 and failing to pursue the more populist eurosceptic and anti-immigrant positions of his predecessors (who were actually much less successful in general election terms).

A recent Gallup poll showed that only 51 percent of religious Jews, those more likely to take conservative positions on Israel, support Obama, as opposed to 71 percent of non-religious Jews (as defined by whether respondents attend synagogue frequently or rarely).

10 pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL WINS THIRD TERM: «Whether it's a CDU government or a grand coalition, Merkel's success probably gives her government more wiggle room in terms of any renegotiation with the UK... But there's a huge gap between CDU and Conservative positions on much of the EU issue.»

Assuming the recent trends observed for both Labour and the Conservatives are real, and assuming they continue more or less unchanged until the election (admittedly a big if, but bear with me) then the outcome is still likely to be a hung parliament, albeit with the Conservatives in a much stronger position.