Sentences with phrase «more liberal way»

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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.

This finding — that Liberal - and NDP - voting business owners are more on - board than not with changes to income sprinkling rules — suggests that this specific change may not be a crisis for the federal government in the way some have characterized these changes overall.

Every time I get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all I do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon I realize the propaganda and hate these clowns try and spread about their own political / religious views I revert back to supporting the more liberal viewpoint).

Somehow instead of doing this liberals want government to be more involved in helping the poor that way they can feel good about themselves without doing anything.

Even more shameful is the fact that the previous Liberal Party government went out of its way to encourage it as a vote catcher.

In many ways the differences in fundamental values between the Moral Majority and those of us of a more liberal persuasion are fewer than we think.

I devised the categories as a more adequate way to acknowledge variables of belief than a two - point liberal - conservative categorization permits.

Now, much more ambitious liberals hold that religion must be private in the extreme sense that it must not be allowed to engage, in its own way, with the society at large.

From Karl: Who do you feel you have more in common with, religiously - Christians who take a progressive / liberal theological approach to their faith similar to the way you approach Judaism, or Jews (conservative or Orthodox) who take a significantly more literal / conservative approach to the Jewish faith than you do?

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Well Rick, then I guess that, just as with modern people of African descent, liberals are way more genetically diverse than everyone else.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

What I don't understand is why Rush's panties are all up in a bunch again, considering that John Paul II was way more liberal, worldly, and embracing toward Islam then this new Pope.

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

What is often overlooked in the reaction against this doctrine is that the liberals formulated it in more than one way.

Most Helpful: Kathy Escobar with «8 ways those from more liberal - progressive and conservative - evangelical persuasions can better love each other»

Since the 1960s, and in new ways under this pope, Catholics are having an internal debate about how to adapt to liberal modernity, and in that debate there are conservatives who think we've had quite enough adaptation and liberals who think that more is needed.

Maybe it's because I take after him so much temperamentally (bookish hardcore introvert) and theologically (I absorbed a lot of that from his seminary student days when I was 10 - 13 years old, but I'm more radical in a lot of ways — for instance, he was a bit of a prude and I know I'm more «morally liberal»), but all that public heart - on - sleeve stuff just makes my skin crawl.

The general trend of Americans becoming more socially liberal has not translated to the abortion issue in the same way, and a major cause of that, it seems, is the emotivist objection to abortion.

There was also the undoubted fact that the «new movements» which the Pope supported — of which the Legion of Christ, with its lay wing Regnum Christi, was one of the mosteffective — were themselves deeply distrusted by those «liberals» who preferred, rather than living lives of holiness and self - denial, to live out their apostolates in the more congenial ways of the national and diocesan bureaucracies, the groves of academe and the haunts of the bienpensant media.

In fact, it might be the only way I can get more than the teabagger vote and pull in anything from Obama's liberal base.»

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.

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

In fact (and somewhat ironically), the missionary enthusiasm present in The Christian Message for the World — an enthusiasm engendered by liberal Christian expectations of the rapidly evolving «Kingdom of God» — is today represented more consistently by conservative and so - called «evangelical» Christians, who look to the twenty - first century in rather the same way the Liberals looked to the twentieth: as «The Christian Century.»

While at first glance this is a more liberal, gracious position, in another way of considering it, virtually any persistent sin could be considered an eternal sin, if not completely overcome by the end of one's life.

The only way they can hold the existing party together is to hope for an evolution in thought over the next 4 years, producing a more socially liberal base (possible... but won't happen quickly) or to have some other very large even occur which puts the dems in such a bad light as to lift the pressure (possible, but won't reverse the social trends).

In response to our reader's objection, Mr. Solomon writes: «While I would not wish to oversimplify the case, and though I recognize that there are many liberal Catholic thinkers who are tolerant on this subject, the Catholic Church as an institution remains singularly and aggressively antagonistic on the subject of euthanasia, and does more than any other organization in the world to stand in the way of death with dignity.»

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

Using status in this way is a pretty common campaigning technique in the UK, though what's become more popular here (at least in the Liberal Democrats) is changing your profile picture to a graphic that says you are backing / have voted for a particular candidate.

As well as challenges to the government, we could use more space to talk through some genuine difficulties around civil liberties and security issues in a way which is consistent with liberal principles.

Fortunately, the formation of the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition has now given Labour a chance to reinvent itself in a more fundamental way than any since the party's formation.

In a close three - way race, for example, a tactical Labour supporter may be more confident that their candidate can beat the Liberal Democrat than the Conservative candidate, and therefore vote for the Liberal Democrat to ensure he or she makes it into the final round.

It is understood Mr Duncan Smith has spent the month since his announcement consulting with ministerial colleagues, including Liberal Democrats opposed to the changes, to find a way to implement the reforms more sensitively.

He sees similarities between the push to legalize marijuana and what he called the «right to pain treatment» movement of the 1990s that paved the way for more liberal prescribing of hydrocodone and other highly addictive opioid prescription painkillers.

Oldham East and Saddleworth is a three way marginal, between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which makes for an even more interesting test of where the parties stand with the public.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

For Liberal Democrats, who seek a fairer, more sustainable future, what we want is to fundamentally change the way British politics works — not to become a pale imitation of the two old parties.

Cuomo is often described as representing a moderate, Clinton - oriented wing of the Democratic Party, which has declined in influence over the years as more liberal advocates reject the «third way» politics of the 1990s.

Liberal Democrats constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes also praised the proposals, saying: «Often lessons learnt from one tragedy can prevent another... These plans are a way of doing more to make sure loss and suffering are not in vain.»

«Liberal» and «Conservative» as applied to US politics are just labels, they don't mean anything, the same way Democrats and Republicans don't have any relation to supporting more democracy over representation or vice versa.

I always saw it more as liberals are fighting against the status quo (Obama and «change»), whereas conservatives are trying to keep things the the way they were (Trump making America great again).

But he subsequently failed to deliver in a significant way, leading to widespread speculation that he actually prefers to see the GOP in control, since that offers him a handy foil if things go wrong, and also provides a check to the more liberal policies pushed by the downstate Democrats.

In finding novel ways to commingle church and state, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclusive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries.

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

That is more likely to happen if long - term infrastructure investment in social housing — that will also help control the welfare budget — starts now in the way the Liberal Democrats have articulated before and which our amendment restates.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

However, only one in ten of those who did not vote Conservative or Liberal Democrat on 6 May said they were now more likely to vote for either party because of the way they have conducted themselves since the election.

On civil liberty and criminal justice, they have remained true to liberal values and human rights in ways that the other parties, Labour more than the Tories in some respects, have not.

The former Conservative Cabinet minister Ken Clarke has warned David Cameron that any attempt to imitate UKIP will «drive moderate people to stick with the Liberal Democrats», adding: «I can't think of a more certain way to lose the general election than to go for a lurch to the right.»