Sentences with phrase «of a progressive agenda of»

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«Pelosi is already the most unpopular politician in America — something House Democratic candidates would agree with — and the prospect of her implementing an extremely progressive agenda will be a huge motivator for Republicans this fall,» National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Jesse Hunt wrote in an email to reporters.

As author of the excellent Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, she would probably approve Minister Freeland's pursuit of a «progressive trade agenda.»

The national public good calls for a balance between necessary diversification, continued ambition and inclusion of values (the progressive agenda) wherever possible.

They inform the Institute's research and policy agenda and contribute their knowledge and analysis to further the Institute's efforts to impact public debate in support of progressive change.

First, the unwillingness of some countries to swallow elements of the progressive agenda was at least partially responsible for the sudden postponement of an announcement around the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) last month in Vietnam.

Josh prides himself on his outreach a wide array of stakeholders to assist in the advancement of a progressive agenda.

If the government is to honour its commitment to a progressive trade agenda, a Canada - China FTA must ensure that human rights, labour rights, Indigenous sovereignty and environmental sustainability are protected (and prioritized) rather than jeopardized by the expansion of investor rights.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

The rest of our ambitious and progressive trade agenda depends on this critical first step.

All these considerations make elements of the «progressive» trade agenda controversial and problematic.

With the advancement of the progressive Obama agenda by legislative (as distinct from administrative) means halted, Obama, now the «conservative,» will be using every ounce of his powers to sustain the parts of his program that have been enacted, while the Republicans, as proponents of change, will be seeking to reverse many of them.

What we are supposed to be open to always fits a progressive moral - political agenda of ever more individual freedom and equality.

But in the dramatic opening sessions of the council in the fall of 1962, the assembled bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church, headed by those from Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, refused to follow the agenda set by the traditionalist Curia, repudiated their reactionary schemata, and unexpectedly showed themselves to be, in the majority, progressives open to John XXIII's agenda of sweeping pastoral renewal.

To me, it seems that progressives are doing the very thing that conservative Christians have been criticized for: pulling verses out of context to say that supporting a political party's agenda is supporting God's agenda.

That anyone should have bothered to defend so tenaciously the merits of a universally accessible gender orientation over another testifies to the incompatibility of the many strains of gender revisionism jockeying for position within the progressive agenda.

With regard to the production of knowledge it was driven by a twofold agenda: circulating forms of knowledge that «proved» the passive, irrational, traditional, immoral, backward and exotic nature of the Oriental (Eastern) world, and routinized the active, rational, modern, moral, progressive and realistic nature of the Occidental (Western) world.

In the first phase of Progressive reform, beginning in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the revisionist agenda focused on populist political and social legislation, diverse formulas for economic redistribution, and the establishment of a tutelary national government.

Of course not all progressive bioethicists hold to the eugenics agenda.

Good at last someone has said it - WE ARE AFRAID FOR THE COUNTRY after four years of this progressive agenda!!

As William Appleman Williams deliberately sought to reshape and radicalize U.S. foreign policy through a revisionist (and essentially Marxist) reading of the history of America's encounter with the world, so Jay Dolan has, with energy and imagination, sought to buttress the «progressive» agenda in contemporary American Catholicism and the cause of an «independent American Catholic Church» by a radical retelling of the story.

but basically a lot of «progressive» activists are trying to push an agenda that «hate speech» is incredibly harmful to the fabric of society and certain buzz words that could be interpreted as derogatory will land you in a lot of hot water with them (i.e. you can't say faggot because its offensive to gays).

A nonprofit launched by the mayor to push his progressive agenda nationally got all of its money ($ 480,000) from one source last year: another of his nonprofits, records show.

As Keynes foresaw in the 1920s, the debate about progressive capitalism concerns the «agenda» and «non-agenda» of government.

We believe that we could actually use progressive ideology to bring about change in Nigeria and in the last three and half years, we have done nothing in spite of difficulties but to try to advance the boundaries of this agenda.»

With Democrats holding the presidency and running Congress, you'd expect progressive interests to be having a field day, but a combination of the economic crisis and Barack Obama's ambitious agenda could bury much other legislation in the months and years ahead.

And I can't see that using «the new progressive politics of the family» to «take on the right's agenda» amounts to very much more than stealing «education, education, education» from Romano Prodi in 1997 or Obama's dog whistle use of «change» in 2009.

[in support of a more progressive agenda that will protect women's rights, safeguard the environment and ensure that those who can most easily afford it pay their fair share.]

«New York has a legacy of progressive activism that extends all the way back to its founding and we can not allow Republicans in the State Senate to use such heavy - handed, draconian measures as they work to push an agenda completely out of touch with the mainstream,» Gillibrand writes.

Brian has proven himself to be one of the most effective legislators in Albany, and we need someone who knows how to get things done in the Senate and will fight to grow the progressive majority we need to resist the Trump Republican agenda.»

The Democratic Convention ended in Philadelphia having integrated much of Sanders» progressive agenda into the Democratic Party Platform of 2016, and solidified a more than ninety percent rate of support from those who had voted for Sanders in the primaries.

Amid calls for passing the progressive agenda that ranges from protections for health care, abortion rights and the public financing of campaigns, Klein and company reiterated on Monday votes should be indeed be held.

Is determined to push Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos right of center, in order to make the Republican Party as irrelevant as the Conservative Party; or at the very least unable to support Cuomo's Progressive legislation agenda.

In 2011, people from all over New York came forward to help us raise over $ 2 million in support of a more progressive agenda that will protect women's rights, safeguard the environment and ensure that those who can most easily afford it pay their fair share.

If those of us on the left wish to see the a truly progressive agenda, then the introduction of AV (though, of course, not a panacea) will assist.

Cuomo's speech seemed intended to prove his progressive credentials, from making «advancing the women's agenda» the first topic of his address — an effort to perhaps capitalize on the #MeToo movement — to his numerous proposals to protect the environment.

Officials were already pitching the plan as a continuation of Cuomo's «progressive» agenda for New York, which the governor counts as including a sharp rise in the minimum wage, the marriage equality law and stronger gun control provisions known as the SAFE Act.

When Sen. Jose Peralta announced on his Facebook page that he was joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a growing group of breakaway Democrats in the Senate who form a governing coalition with the Republicans, he said he wanted to «deliver a progressive agenda.»

«We will not settle for a few token bills to create the illusion of Democratic leadership — we demand passage of this full progressive legislative agenda:

He talks about leveraging that power to drive a progressive agenda, from getting big business out of political lobbying to reining in «imperial CEOs.»

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

As the deeper thinkers of the centre - left — for example, Jon Cruddas — have recognised, this agenda of progressive Conservatism poses new challenges and changes the terms of trade in British politics.

says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

Use the austerity agenda to re-engineer government towards a progressive state designed for the challenges of the 21st century.

And the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party is unhappy with the coalition, saying it makes it harder to move ahead a more progressive agenda.

Its mission is to cultivate and lift up a grassroots movement of local groups to defeat the Trump agenda, elect progressive leaders, and realize bold progressive policies.

George Albro of New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) says, «While we applaud the good faith attempts of the loyal Dems and the progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end progressive labor leader, Hector Figueroa, to unify their party, wrest control of the Senate from the joint control of the Party of Trump and the IDC / Trump Dems, all in order to advance the people's agenda, and while we would support an honest and fair deal for an immediate rapprochement, we must object to this cynical and calculated ploy which unnecessarily perpetuates the disgraceful status quo until effectively the end of the budget process and possibly even the end of session.

Another insider said the breakaway Dems won't help control the agenda like they did the past two years, but they do expect to be able to get some bills to the floor — though not contentious ones like the public financing of campaigns that are being pushed by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

Chaired by Yvette Cooper this will look at how we can create a progressive agenda in the modern world of work — one that has the interests of workers at its heart.

Governor Cuomo's 2018 agenda builds on the promise of progressive government, advancing critical social & economic policies to improve the lives of NY'ers.