Sentences with phrase «more liberal minded»

Others may be more liberal minded when it comes to particular faith, but they still want to marry someone they feel comfortable with; another Jewish person.

The Ukrainian women are far more liberal minded, have their own opinions and are much more capable of operating with a lot more independence.

Having replaced the more liberal minded Ken Clarke, there were fears among Liberal Democrats in the coalition Grayling's appointment would indicate a more hard line on justice policy.

Not exact matches

If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would think the next line of attack would be to both make sure the liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.

With that in mind, the Elon Poll asked residents in these locations whether Amazon HQ2 would make their region more liberal, more conservative or have no impact.

I don't mind gays, that's their choice between them and God, but one thing I'm sure of: the more and more «Liberal» this world gets, everyone and every group is going to want apiece of God and history'til eventually someone is going to «Liberate» us FROM God (Already having some try) and when that happens....

«Generally, they're educated, liberal, and open - minded, with a deep sense of connection to the Earth and a belief that there's more to life than what appears on the surface.»

Ironically I went from what what most people would consider to be an extremely liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more conservative church, and find it more open to honest self examination.

Thus fundamentalists are not only at odds with the more liberal sections of their own religious or ethnic community but they disagree also with fundamentalists of other persuasions, although they share a similar mind set.

But by the late 20th century modern - minded liberals would find James more palatable than Niebuhr.

The Murjites — literally those who postpone; here, those who postpone judgment until it is pronounced by God on the Day of Judgment — were more tolerant than the others in their political views and more liberal - minded on theological questions.

you really have to dig thru some sh-t to get to the gems, modern christians who claim the founding fathers on their side should keep this in mind, these men where largely liberal intellectuals with a practical bent and where not the judeo / christian zealots that some try and make them out to be, jeffersons take on jesus is wonderful and it is useful in the modern world where we really need to focus more on the lessons of jesus than THE RULES in the entire bible, as jesus said ABOVE ALL ELSE love neighbor as yourself, jefferson had a great mind and his approach to spiritual matters like this is great

The liberals have been more conscious of the need of applying human intelligence to the quest for the truth of the gospel, and chastened by an awareness of the fallibility of the human mind, they have been less dogmatic in asserting that God has given to them the full and final disclosure of Christian truth.

Two hundred years after the adoption of the religion clauses, Kristol argues, the prevailing liberal mind - set is far more concerned with avoiding religious establishment than in encouraging religious expression.

Conversely there is far more Biblical knowledge and conviction in the liberal mind than ultraconservatism imagines.

It has often been observed that few people are more bigoted than «liberals» who feel themselves surrounded by closed minds.

To my mind, the modern, «nonauthoritarian,» «take - us - or - leave - us» style of pastoring owes more to the liberal world view — with its concept of the autonomous individual — than it does to any theological perspective.

led us to disdain the old - style liberals, who for all their declared intention to make the country a more expansive place were in our view too smug of spirit and too banal of mind to be truly open to the new.

«Instead of attracting a younger, more open - minded demographic with these changes,» Douthat wrote, «the Episcopal Church's dying has proceeded apace... Practically every denomination — Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian — that has tried to adapt itself to contemporary liberal values has seen an Episcopal - style plunge in church attendance.

Even Richard Rorty, who is not a great religious mind, thinks that the success of liberal democracies lies in the creative tensions between «the agents of love» and «the agents of justice,» explained more or less in this way.

Thus they are not the standard fare of either moral conservatism or more liberal attacks on the inanity of most of TV's mind - wasting exercises (Newton Minnow's «vast wasteland»).

There is a no more close minded and prejudicial individual than a liberal...

A liberal education has a wide range of interests, challenging the student to think, to express himself well, to organize his thoughts, and to see reality, in total, more clearly — unlike STEM education, which channels one's mind into a single area.

In fact, events such as the recent world youth gathering in Paris are organised by the local church, but more interesting is the reassurance that properly liberal Tablet types would not be caught dead attending, never mind helping to organise, such gatherings of the great unwashed.

But that very conservative Baptist decided DTS was too legalistic, fundamentalist and narrow - minded, and chose a more liberal seminary.

We have the Guardian, which is more liberal and open minded, but likes to knock Arsenal.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

Joiners, who say they would vote Tory tomorrow despite not having done so last time (two thirds of them having come from the Liberal Democrats), think similarly but are more likely to prefer coalition government and to say they may change their mind again before the election.

There are quirky complicating aspects to this event: Berkeley, the community surrounding the campus, is far more liberal and protest - minded than the student body, partially due to the campus's legacy from the Free Speech Movement of the mid-1960s.

However, Liberal Democrat movement on economic issues was more than offset, to my mind, by the party's outlook on a whole set of other ones.

Her broad - brush background and solid business experience have made her a more open - minded figure, ideally suited to the new Liberal Conservative coalition.

However it isn't difficult to imagine a situation in which both Labour and the Conservatives could gain a majority in coalition with the Liberal Democrats help, but the Conservatives — under pressure from the backbenches — have erected a greater number of «red lines» while Labour are more open minded.

This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

Prince Andrew will govern just like his father... who saw an annual 12 % increase in our state budget per year over his 12 years of RULE in New York... What NYS needs is less NYC liberals and more small govt minded people.

However, this overtly nationalist approach is likely to be constrained by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, who are far more European and internationally - minded.

All candidates were aware that they were speaking to a more conservative and fiscal - minded audience — more representative of the wider Central New York population than the more liberal concentration of Binghamton, NY, at the United Methodist event.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

Even though the TRC was more open - minded and liberal than most institutes in India, the bureaucratic behemoth made its presence felt in many seemingly ludicrous ways.

If you want to date Indian women, keep in mind that South India is still incredibly conservative whereas the North and West tend to be more liberal about Indian dating in society.

When you are dating online there are a few things that you should keep in mind — Firstly, you have to know that you are trying to date a girl from a different cultural background, for which you have to be more liberal with your thinking process.

But director / writer Richard Brooks has a little more on his mind than simply a horse race and those liberal causes are what the piece is really about.

Even when Julianne Moore's President Coin takes the podium, she sports a cloak that brings to mind a Sith Lord more than a liberal hero.

In other words, «The Square» suggests, empathy, charity and concern are qualities that the most enlightened and liberal - minded among us sometimes extol more than they practice.

Enter Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), coming from the much more liberal California, accepting a teaching gig to instruct art history to the young ladies.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

The liberal arts and fine arts offer students the ability to expand their minds and become valuable in more than just a single lane.

One observation that he makes is that, even though everyone has their prejudices and blind spots, liberals tend to be relatively more open - minded and more easily persuaded by new arguments.

«The narrative that Republicans are antiscience has been fed by well - publicized studies reporting that conservatives are more close - minded and dogmatic than liberals are.

There is some hope that if they keep up this kind of study, they will discover that liberal / democrat / progressives simply believe what they are told without any attempt at critical thinking and that more conservative thinkers use their existing knowledge, seek further knowledge when unsure, and then critically examine the issues and data and make up their own minds, being natively distrustful of self - appointed «authorities».