Sentences with phrase «most liberal group»

And the law professors have another favorite, the same judge most liberal groups quietly say they'd prefer:

Not exact matches

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

In fact one of the most interesting features of the revisionist position is that it can harbor both liberals and radicals, a feat of significant proportions given the tension between these two groups.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

The one group within his own Christian community that seems to irritate him most are those he calls «wooly liberals.»

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

For the most effective communication with the total population we need a variety of conservative and liberal churches, showing appreciation of each other at the same time that each group assumes responsibility for reaching its own unique constituency.

My husband and I are 68 and 65, and the most passionate, committed liberals we know are in our age group.

In particular, things have looked up for the most talented members of the Osbornites, the group of pro-market Conservative MPs who share the chancellor's broadly liberal and metropolitan instincts and have been happy to do his bidding, either in the Commons or on the TV.

Liberal groups are organizing hard in part because they took such a beating in the 2009 congressional recess (most notably in «town hall» meetings that turned into viral - video - ready Tea Party rallies), but both sides are cranking up their efforts to reach congressmembers while they're home in their districts: witness Heritage Action's nine - stop rally tour, featuring Ted Cruz.

It comes as liberal groups have pushed Democrats in the state Senate — most recently Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn — to not work with Republicans in the chamber, citing Trump's presidency as a key factor in unifying the party.

The state committee and the county committees regularly endorse the most disgustingly liberal Democrat political candidates every single election, then have the audacity to whine about a group that wants to call themselves the Reform Party.

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.

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

«Plans by the Liberal Democrats to halve the Trident nuclear deterrent are a «reckless gamble with the UK's national security», a cross-party group of Britain's most senior military and defence figures warn today.

Ithaca, Hastings in northern New York and Rosendale, a small town in rural Ulster County, made a group's list of most liberal cities in the U.S. based on political donations.

While most countries in the eurozone seek to bolster their competitiveness, Mr Cameron will lead a group of northern countries seeking to encourage liberal reform of the EU.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

During most of the 1950s he was one of a tiny group of only five or six Liberal MPs left at Westminster.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Insofar as a social movement is «an organized, sustained, self - conscious challenge to existing authorities» (Tilly, 1984), the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions included a multiplicity of informal and formal institutions and alliances: students, unions, professionals, religious groups, etc.And while the master frames calling for the ouster of Mubarak and Ben Ali were no doubt unifying discursive devices that were readily supported by most if not all of the protestors, secondary frames — calls for democracy, social justice, freedom, and dignity — presented significant points of divergence not only in and between Islamist and non-Islamist groups, but between the secular - liberal youth who are credited with initiating the mass protests in the first place.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

The most liberal of these groups is probably David Kelley's Atlas Society.

Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are Liberals.

According to the survey, only 55 % of «Liberal Democrats» — a group 79 % of whom accept human - caused climate change is occurring — believe that climate scientists «research findings... are influenced by» the «best available evidence... most of the time...»

The Democratic Party, community - of - color groups, organized labor, big liberal donors, and even most big environmental groups have come out against it.

The CBCL scores are about one - third of a SD above the T - score mean of 50 established for the norm group; but below the T - score of 60 most often used to identify clinically relevant cases or the more liberal cut off of 55 suggested by Hudziak and colleagues (2004).