Sentences with phrase «of conservative organizations»

The Mercers» largesse has catapulted Rebekah Mercer onto the boards of conservative organizations across the country, including the venerable Heritage Foundation, which she joined as a trustee in 2014.

The combined program spending of environmental organizations ($ 1.4 billion) is almost twice as much as the combined program spending of conservative organizations and industry associations ($ 787 million).

Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.

Congressmen representing central and northern New York all agree that the recent IRS profiling of conservative organizations, including tea party groups, is wrong.

House conservatives are determined to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, saying he stonewalled and impeded congressional investigations into IRS targeting of conservative organizations.

That year, the group funneled $ 39.3 million from the anonymous donors to dozens of conservative organizations.

The problem it presents is that of a conservative organization which has not kept abreast of the times, which has remained medieval while the world was growing modern, dogmatic while civilization was becoming scientific; which is individualistic in a collectivist period and theological in a time of humanism.

Not exact matches

Breitbart is known for supporting what some refer to as the «alt right» movement in the United States, a loose affiliation of politically conservative groups that include overtly racist organizations such as Richard Spencer's National Policy Institute, which advocates for something it calls «white nationalism.»

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.

In the months and weeks leading up to the congressional debate, she's met with dozens of lawmakers, conservative advocacy organizations, and business groups to build consensus and support for a plan that adopts parts of a 2015 proposal by Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Mike Lee.

(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

Because boards tend to grow conservative over time, every year, the Amazon board gave a report of an organization that was diminished by the «institutional no» — doing more analysis and take fewer risks.

Big losers will include our cultural institutions, including the CBC and the Canada Council who will likely face further devastating cuts, as well as human rights, international development and arts organizations who were funded historically by the Canadian government (some of whom had already lost funding under the minority Conservative government).

The AIIB's willingness, for example, to fund projects the more conservative Asian development bank won't because of pressure from developed market non-governmental organizations is arguably good for future globalization.

But Comey's invective will now feed the crackpot conspiracy theory of Trump partisans who are convinced that an organization made up primarily of conservative, white, middle - aged male cops is out to get a Republican president.

The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a «do - over» after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

«Social media censorship and online restriction of conservatives and their organizations have reached a crisis level,» the statement read.

Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

A striking example is Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, who has spoken out forcefully and passionately against Bill C - 377, a discriminatory, anti-union piece of legislation that would swamp unions (but not corporations and other organizations) with paperwork, and violate the privacy of nearly everyone doing business with them.

At the same time, conservative pastors and parachurch organizations alike urge fathers not to relinquish their parental authority and to set rules (such as supervising children's television - viewing and monitoring their whereabouts) to counter the morally negative aspects of the secular culture.

Christian Zionists work closely with religious and secular Jewish Zionist organizations and the Israeli government, particularly during periods when the more conservative Likud Party is in control of the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

Vander Plaats is the president and CEO of The Family Leader in Iowa, a Christian organization that holds sway over many Iowa social conservatives — a crucial voting bloc in the state's January 3 caucus.

During the twentieth century, as denominationalism has lost its vitality, religious tribalism has taken the form of animosity and unco - operativeness among the conservative, liberal and radical wings of the ecclesiastical organizations, with the conservative wing being particularly militant.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

One of the consistent differences between the two is that the Boy Scouts have always been a much more conservative organization; even on moves that have widespread support, the Boy Scouts will often lag anywhere from ten to thirty years behind the Girl Scouts.

«The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) is the primary organization of synagogues practicing Conservative Judaism in North America.

The National Press Club event will mark the latest in the complicated dance of distance and embrace between the nation's premier conservative legal organization and a man who professionally benefited from his association with the group but then used his considerable cachet to further a cause opposed by many of its members.

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

It was inevitable that it should lead to conflict with the conservative elements in the powerful organization of the church.

Although most congregations decided to remain in the SBC, the success of the conservatives spawned at least two spinoff organizations: the moderately progressive Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) and the liberal Alliance of Baptists.

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

Our young conservative politicians, ambitious and studious «organization kids,» were raised in classrooms and Chamber of Commerce luncheons.

Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.

He joined an opposition organization (primarily made up of aristocratic and military conservatives) that planned to arrest Hitler and thereby transfer power to others in an orderly, Lutheran way.

The World Council had more success in bridging the gap between the Churches of a more conservative theological orientation and those of a more liberal orientation than had any previous pan-Protestant organization.

Most metropolitan councils in fact have been essentially conservative, white - dominated, establishment - run organizations that engaged in nothing more radical than sponsorship of the training of clergy in hospital visitation or publication of a hesitant statement on some controversial issue.

As a loose coalition of conservative Protestants, evangelicalism has always been a fragmented movement held together by a common mission, and by organizations such as the National Association of Evangelicals.

Having witnessed his performance today at the Values Voter Summit hosted by Family Research Council and several other conservative organizations, I can't help but feel that America has been missing a fantastic public speaker and master of political rhetoric.

At least part of the success of the new Right and the Religious Right, who often refer to themselves as «Movement Conservatives» and «Social Conservatives,» stems from their skillful use of technology and organization.

Whereas many of us know individual gays who are social conservatives, every LGBT organization without exception backs the sexual revolution in the culture wars.

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

His sermon was part of a national campaign by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal organization that has organized Pulpit Freedom Sunday since 2008, encouraging pastors to flout the Johnson Amendment with political endorsements from the pulpit.

The institutions of Conservative Judaism — its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men's organizations, its seminaries, its rabbinate — will live on.

Bill McMorris wrote a wonderful article that doubled as a straight news story and a satire of how the mainstream media would cover the Planned Parenthood controversy if the videos had depicted loathsome behavior at a conservative organization.

David Halivni Weiss, the JTS» most distinguished Talmudist, left the seminary for a position at Columbia University and became the guru of an organization of dissident rabbis called the Union for Traditional Conservative Judaism, which later became the Union for Traditional Judaism (note the dropping of the word «Conservative»).

But given Belichick's long - standing hatred of the Jets organization, it remains to be seen if he'll take a conservative approach to this week's game.

Unfortunately, I think most popular «newsertainment» programs approach issues from a fundamentally conservative point of view — whether it's Larry King looking at anti-vaccine activist Jenni McCarthy like she just landed from Mars or John Stossel and his pals at 20/20 turning their mustaches up at women making choices that haven't been approved — or made for them — by some male - dominated organization (like the AMA).

Even the right - wing conservative behemoth Focus on the Family, not exactly fans of any kind family other than a nuclear one, has a Blended Families page on its website, where the organization concedes that «with the right resources and the help from God, family, and friends, your step - family can find encouragement and hope.»

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).