Andrea Miller says New York is one of
the more liberal states when it comes to abortion rights.
One of the US»
more liberal states, unfortunately the insurance laws are not as relaxed.
Even so, religiously conservative states Alabama and Arkansas have the second and third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year while New Jersey and Massachusetts,
more liberal states, are two of the lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year.
Not exact matches
This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault
liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but,
more broadly, on the
state's way of life.
The Virginia residents challenging their
state districting plan said the lower court ignored a 2015 Supreme Court decision about Alabama in which Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the four
more liberal justices to order a review of
state legislative districts.
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.
More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled
liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the United
States.
Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's
state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her
more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.
He spent
more than $ 60 million to win election in 2000 to the United
States Senate from New Jersey on a
liberal platform.
The head of the
Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Shinzo Abe,
stated that he wanted the Bank of Japan to change
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They are communitarians, that is, «if philosophical
liberals are those who believe that all our problems can be solved by autonomous individuals, a market economy, and a procedural
state, whereas communitarians believe that
more substantive ethical identities and a
more active participation in a democratic polity are necessary for the functioning of any decent society.»
Thus, it is no surprise when empirical research shows that Justin Bieber Blog people who are believers give
more of their time and resources to the needy than do unbelievers, and people who cherish limited government (conservatives) give
more than welfare -
state liberals.
The narrow Blaine Amendments bar
state money for any sectarian institution — «sectarian» being an old theologically -
liberal term of derision for the Catholic Church and,
more generally, for a church that acts on its own.
Having repeatedly refused to answer questions on his view of homosexuality,
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron eventually
stated: «I don't think gay sex...
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Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at
state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight,
liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right,
more of which are planned to be done soon enough.
We can also assume that clergymen in California are not a representative sample of clergymen all over the United
States, but are, if anything,
more liberal and vocal.
Nowhere have the weak social foundations of American
liberal institutions been
more evident than in the battered and tattered nature of the welfare
state, and in the cynicism with which it is viewed by nearly the entire populace — from the wealthy to the poor, for different reasons.
For example, even though the
liberal state has no right to require its citizens who are Christians to accept Locke's proposition that toleration and a respect for religious freedom are the marks of the correct understanding of the Gospels, it has every reason to hope that they do, and perhaps to do
more than hope — to educate and persuade, if not to coerce.
Greenawalt concedes that citizens of a secular
liberal state have a legal right to vote their religious convictions, but he is
more concerned with when and whether they ought to exercise self - restraint in the interests of good citizenship.
I know of no group of people in the United
States more reflexively
liberal than classical musicians, and none
more unanimous in the belief that abortion should remain legal and wholly unrestricted in its availability.
And then he does what all conservatives do,
state facts that are unreferenced and unverifiable by talking about supposed studies showing that conservatives give
more to charity than
liberals anyway, thereby elevating themselves even
more above the rest of us in their delusional hierarchy.
The United
States, with its private universities and seminaries and vigorous centers of
liberal Catholicism, has long provided a supportive climate for Küng, and it is possible that he will spend
more time on our side of the Atlantic.
It is at least conceivable that
liberal societies such as West Germany, Great Britain, France, and the United
States pay a
more just respect to the rights of persons on the one hand and, on the other hand, to the building up of intermediate social bodies through reflection and choice than do some existing Catholic countries.
The
Liberal Democrats and the home affairs committee have called for a royal commission on drug policy and for
more thorough assessments of experiments with legalisation overseas, including in various US
states.
Email blasts from the two
liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes
more of the controversial co-locations and hikes
state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.
«
Liberal» then started to mean what it means now in the United
States, meaning a preference for governmental involvement in things, et cetera (
more like the Labour Party in the United Kingdom).
There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are
more likely to be socially
liberal and less Eurosceptic than their
state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.
I think it has less to do with Republican / Democrat and
more with conservative /
liberal, and even these definitions are in a high
state of flux.
A
more universal benefit system keeps the
state out of the business of picking winners, which is both socially and economically
more liberal.
Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known
state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed
more to voters» rejection of the
liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.
When I hear attacks on the big
state from conservatives, I hear attacks on redistribution; when I hear them from
liberals, I hear something much
more like this.
In this context it is only to be expected that a consistent centrist would shift from advocating higher taxes and spending (sounding
more like a social democrat) to advocating spending restraint and a smaller
state (foregrounding the
liberal tendancy).
Liberal Republicans (Centre Republicans): Alan Milburn, Anthony Giddens (to a large extent), Richard Reeves, Philip Collins Democratic Republicans (Left Republicans): Gordon Brown, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Jim Knight, The Co-operative Party, Scientists for Labour, James Purnell has flirted with
Liberal Republicanism, but may well have shifted to Democratic republicanism, as he proved in his resignation letter in the Times, calling for a
more open democracy, a
more active
state and greater regulation.
It's a
more modest fundraising figure for the pro-business group that so far this year has remained dormant as Cuomo has sought a decidedly
liberal agenda that included a raise in the
state's minimum wage and an extension of a tax surcharge on the wealthy.
For all the
liberal victories 1199 has racked up in New York, there's the inescapable fact that most of them, and probably a lot
more, would have been possible with a fully Democratic
state legislature.
A coalition of
liberal groups and organizations is forming a new campaign to push for a «true» millionaires tax, the same day Wall Street Journal's report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering a reshuffling of the
state's tax code in order to achieve a
more progressive system,
Robert Page asks: Instead of skirmishing with the Conservatives and
Liberals over «ownership» of the «progressive» label do you think that that the Labour Party should define itself unambiguously as a socialist party which believes that the
state has a positive and active role to play in creating a
more equal society?
And if the result of this revolt from the right is
more Democrats in the
state Senate — or even a Democrat - controlled chamber that will undoubtedly pass all sorts of
liberal legislation McGuire and his allies abhor... well, he's OK with that.
Indeed,
Liberal Democrats should anticipate
more bending of the Coalition's publicly
stated commitment to fiscal rectitude.
Liberal advocates have long pushed Cuomo to do
more on key issues and have expressed dismay at what they see as his willingness in the past to compromise with Republicans in the narrowly divided
state Senate.
Then Juan Carlos I became Head of
State, and he chose as Prime Minister one of the
more liberal members of the old regime, Adolfo Suárez.
Lorigo criticizes Mike Long for supporting a «
liberal» Republican for Governor, but he has no problem supporting Democrats for
State Senate, which will merely ensure that
more liberal policies are advanced in the Senate.
The political ideology of the people who sat on the left were
more liberal which at the time tended to mean anti monarchy, pro democracy, pro free trade and in America it meant smaller federal government and stronger
states rights.
Ms. Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan / Bronx) used her first
State of the City address as an opportunity to align herself and the
liberal Council she leads with progressive ideals as well as a range of initiatives intended to make the city
more just and inclusive.
Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering
state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make
more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by
liberals.
Zaino said the New York battle is the latest between party outsiders who are
more liberal (think Barack Obama and Sanders) against establishment figures who are
more pragmatic (Clinton, Cuomo), playing out on a
state level.
And no matter who is chosen, the Court of Appeals will likely remain a uniquely New York institution,
more liberal than numerous other
states such as, say, Alabama, Bonventre said.
Raymond Harding, the former chairman of the
state Liberal Party, admitted he received
more than $ 800,000 in exchange for doing political favors, including opening up a Queens
state Assembly seat for former
state Comptroller Alan Hevesi's son, Andrew, the
state attorney general said last week.
The power - sharing agreement is a win for Mr. de Blasio, who is likely to be able to implement
more of his
liberal agenda in the next
state legislative session.
Her position is cheered by her
liberal base — which plays an important role in a Democratic primary — because it has long sought
more state and local funding for public schools and for progressive
state programs.