Sentences with phrase «more liberal ideas»

If Mr. Klein's relationship with the Senate leadership of the mainstream Democrats is seemingly irreconcilable, the Independent Democratic Conference has usually worked well with the governor, a bulwark to more liberal ideas that pass the Democratic - dominated Assembly.

Not exact matches

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

Through their embrace of religious pluralism and more universal mystical religious experiences, liberal Protestants imperiled their own institutional strength but persuaded many Americans of the value of their ideas.

One stops to think of actual countries of sand, which include more than a few particularly violent locales, places where people are not as willing as Mary Oliver to concede the comfy and common received idea of liberal Christianity that we all worship the same deity by «whatever name.»

You're just the product of a more liberal time, and assume that your idea of what a proper Christian would believe has always been the case, but the times are still a» changing, and future Christians might point at some of your positions and cringe too, right?

But, if I am understanding Wright correctly, this idea has consequences for both uber - conservative Christians (who may tend to see God's presence and revelatory activity as limited the words printed in the Bible) and more liberal Christians (who may prefer to think of the words of Joshua and Jeremiah as entirely their own, and not the words of God).

If the idea of prison abolition at first seems a bit impractical even to liberals, it becomes somewhat more plausible as the ideology is examined in juxtaposition with strategy and tactics.

Were Kimball's analysis to inform every discussion of the goals and strategies of liberal education, the ideas and goals advanced by Boyer and Bok, and possibly even those by Bloom, would more readily be fulfilled.

If you want to believe in God, there's nothing wrong with that; it's no more wrong than choosing to believe in liberal or conservative ideas.

Anybody who thinks that the idea «love is the point of the Gospel» is nothing more than wishy - washy, liberal sentimentality needs to read this book.

Yet I can think of no more conformist message in liberal societies than the idea that students should learn to think for themselves.

Although liberal Christians quickly found ways of accommodating the idea of evolution, more conservative Christians reject Darwinism to this day.

I've always found that the more conservative AND the more liberal the church... the more they hate the idea of being challenged.

Liberals hate the idea that science is destined to be nothing more than a slave to the will.

With the general election - and another possible hung parliament - now due next year, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats are thinking more seriously about the idea of working with each other.

And influential think - tanks such as the Resolution Foundation and the Social Market Foundation are now giving credence to the idea that the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party may have more credible post-2015 deficit reduction strategies than a majority Conservative government.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

The IPPR report considers a wide range of other possible reforms, including the Liberal Democrat idea of a «mansion tax», reforms to Stamp Duty to make it more progressive, and an annual tax on net wealth (rather than just property wealth).

Social Liberal Forum Secretary James Graham and Chair of Compass Neal Lawson have an article in Tuesday's Guardian calling for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between social liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more Liberal Forum Secretary James Graham and Chair of Compass Neal Lawson have an article in Tuesday's Guardian calling for a «coalition of progressive ideas» between social liberals and liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more liberal socialists within the Liberal Democrats, Labour and more Liberal Democrats, Labour and more widely.

If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.

He also urged Labour to back the Liberal Democrat plan to take more of the low paid out of tax, but says he could see his former party backing the Labour idea of employer subsidies for the low paid as an additional policy response.

Ally was similarly obsessed with the more liberal ideals of American politics, but now she's ditching the idea of «bridge building» in favor of fortifying her home with steel bars, buying guns, and accidentally shooting the people she claims to care about so much.

As a final point, in today's generally more liberal society in Florida, the idea of a sugar momma of any age actively seeking her sugar baby is far more acceptable then even, say, 10 years ago.

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

On the other hand, a «liberal» is more likely to suscribe to the idea, a la John Stuart Mill, that people should be free to act as long as it doesn't harm to others.

I still would argue that cycling «drunk» would be a bad idea here too, but I'd probably be slightly more liberal about what actually constitutes that drunkenness.

Perhaps this supports Mooney's idea that liberals can be more easily persuaded away from their instinctive positions.

An overall result is definitely that liberals tend to be more flexible and open to new ideas — so that's a possible factor lying behind these data.

What the researchers found in the end, was that liberals» attitudes changed in a «statistically insignificant way,» while Republicans were more heavily influenced by exposure to liberal ideas: