Sentences with phrase «more liberal stance»

But Microsoft takes a more liberal stance towards supporting other platforms.

Agencies like Life Policy Shopper have partnered with insurance carriers who offer no medical exam life insurance and take a more liberal stance when it comes to COPD related illnesses.

Genworth tends to take a more liberal stance in regard to weight than most other companies do.

The push for drug liberalisation comes as part of a global trend toward a more liberal stance on narcotics, following half a century of expensive and broadly ineffective efforts to wipe out the drug trade.

Mr. Díaz has often complained that social conservatives like himself — he takes more liberal stances on fiscal issues — are alienated in the city political establishment.

It was recently where democrats took more liberal stances and republicans took more conservative stances.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

Moon, a liberal who has been forced into a more hawkish stance by a stream of North Korean weapons tests, has repeatedly declared that there can be no U.S. attack on the North without Seoul's approval, but many here worry that Washington may act without South Korean input.

More recently, Harper has tried to stake out the middle ground in the health care debate, advancing a policy that not only mimics the Liberals» stance, but goes beyond the governing party's plans in terms of expanding the publicly funded system.

The WA Liberal Dennis Jensen said Labor's change in stance on foreign investment was more to do with Rudd's preference deal with Katter in Queensland than policy.

Some on the liberal - left might be alienated by any move towards a left - wing populism that takes a more critical stance towards the EU or immigration, but they might just hold their noses and take the plunge if it also meant a more robust defence of the NHS and serious moves to rebalance and democratise the economy.

Yet, gun control politics (and other related issues of weapon ownership, self - defense, etc) are the opposite of this; liberal beliefs are about lowering the amount of weapons available to the individual and in overall society, while the conservative stance is about granting more freedom of ownership.

Wellstone was far more liberal than most Minnesotans, but won & retained the seat on his principled stances - you couldn't help but respect the guy.

As The New York Times noted in a news story, «the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters.»

They are more liberal than nonteachers, for example, when it comes to school prayer, a stance seemingly inconsistent with their strong religious turn.

The Treasury's stance has put the chancellor at loggerheads with the Liberal Democrat energy secretary Ed Davey, whose party strongly supports more renewable energy.