Sentences with phrase «of ideological opposition»

While there are more members who would object to Cameron on the right (17 %) than the left (7 %), there doesn't seem to be any large body of ideological opposition to him (indeed, amongst «clear blue» Tories there are more opponents of Fox (20 %) and Davis (20 %) than Cameron).

Not exact matches

The Wildrose was always a very effective opposition, perhaps too ideological to have been chosen as a government last time, but they are not stupid, they have mostly recovered from the debacle of last December and they are still well financed.

Alberta's struggling economy is in the hands of an ideological, inexperienced ruling party and a vociferously partisan official opposition.

Progressive legal theorists exploited this doctrinal disjunction to argue that the justices» opposition to economic reforms was fundamentally ideological and thus illegitimate: «If the public's evolving attitude towards liquor and lotteries had been sufficient to justify a rethinking of economic rights and federalism constraints, the argument went, then what else but the subjective policy preferences of the justices themselves could explain the Court's stubborn resistance to other, broadly popular forms of «social» legislation?»

Both in opposition and then in government Oliver's principal aim had been to help a succession of leaders to move the Conservative Party towards a particular ideological position — social and economic liberalism, tempered by a commitment to social justice and environmental stewardship, both globally and nationally.

We have a clear ideological direction on how this country should be run and to that extent we have always taken the consistent position against capitalist policies of privatization and deregulation and that explains our opposition to hike in fuel prices.

B. Ideological opposition: The right (and some elements of the centre - left) regard tax competition as a feature rather than a bug.

Her conference closing speech ranged across the political spectrum not simply because it could in the absence of any ideological or practical opposition right now.

Polarisation makes the opposition smaller, but more ideological - they're not part of the process.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

And while there is an ideological cast to the debate — charter schools are a favored cause of many high - profile free - marketeers, while labor unions provide much of the oomph for the opposition — the picture there, too, is fuzzy.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

What started out as a shared goal of improving academic standards to prepare students for college and the workforce has collided with ideological differences over states» rights and rigid opposition to President Obama.

Some have an ideological opposition to testing as the enemy of educational creativity.

«The NAACP's resolution is not inspired by ideological opposition to charter schools but by our historical support of public schools — as well as today's data and the present experience of NAACP branches in nearly every school district in the nation,» said Cornell William Brooks, NAACP president and CEO.

The vast majority of political and ideological support for school choice resides on the right side of the political spectrum, and the vast majority of opposition comes from the left.

The opposition of the two unions to performance - based pay and objective data - based teacher evaluations using student test score growth data is driven more by the realization that the teacher dismissal restrictions they support are inherently impediments to professionalism than by an ideological belief that standardized testing has no value in measuring teacher performance.

But Mariah, having been in her time both philosophy major and investigative journalist, sees oppositions as real; the Judge and his enemies, she would say, were playing out the great ideological debates of the era.

His drawings are detailed accounts of the traditions and rituals associated with the Frenglish leaders and culture, confronting issues of racism, power, greed, and ideological opposition within an invented period during the eighteenth century.

For some politicians, intellectuals and even artists, it's precisely in their ideological opposition that the two neighboring cultures define themselves in the late 19th Century and in the beginning of the 20th Century.

The exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso's work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso's work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West.

He was one of the main architects of the financial de-regulation that contributed to the asset price boom and the profligate lending (in his first stint as Treasurer) because of his purely ideological opposition to government and regulation.

Likewise, Democratic opposition was based largely upon ideological factors, with little or no apparent understanding of the real advantages or disadvantages of the various instruments.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

The imbroglio is a tiny facet of the ideological green movement's implacable opposition to carbon - based energy.

The right is rejecting empirical reality and adopting a stance of unshakeable ideological opposition to anything the non-right does, even policies they have supported in the past (see: individual mandate in health care, cap - and - trade in environmental policy).

In the face of potent opposition by ideological and financial interests, only mild initiatives were politically feasible in most of the leading nations, least of all the United States.

During his State of American Energy 2016 remarks this week, API President and CEO Jack Gerard warned that ideological opposition to infrastructure will hurt the United States:

I have little doubt that much of the «bird killing, bat mangling, fish destroying» accusations so often leveled against wind power — both offshore and onshore — are largely based on ideological prejudice and a blanket opposition to green energy.

Opposition to the proliferation of specific technologies, e.g. pesticides or commercial nuclear power, on the basis of their perceived dangers and harms, does not count one as an «ideological enemy of science».

The central question then remains: How can we overcome the deeply ingrained ideological opposition to the very concept of tax in the United States?

A judge who finds a man guilty of first degree murder and sentences him to life imprisonment has made a strong moral and ideological statement in opposition to murder and in favour of severely punishing murderers.

Astonishingly, Opposition Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, normally a harsh ideological foe of «picking winners and losers» with taxpayers» money, was apparently willing to make an exception for the oil industry.

The policy agendas of the incoming presidential administration and the next Congress are being shaped by leaders adamant in their ideological opposition to — and intent to dismantle — the network of providers and the funding streams on which they rely that have comprised this country's publicly funded family planning effort for decades.