Sentences with phrase «of liberal positions»

Juicy Excerpt: I am a conservative (with sympathies for a good number of liberal positions).

What about all of his liberal positions on guns, gays, choice, etc?

Cuomo, who has raised his profile by increasing his travel, hiring a number of aides who worked for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and pushing a number of liberal positions, has not signaled that he is running for president but has also seemed happy to see the rumors float about.

For me, Hartford delineated what separated me from those to the «left» of the liberal position I espoused.

So is the conservative position supposed to be the opposite of the liberals position on economic freedom, or specifically against the positions stated above?

So that's where the basic contours of the liberal position emerge.

Not exact matches

Not the position of liberal economist Paul Krugman, who recently argued in his New York Times column that doing nothing would be better than preserving the Bush tax cuts for higher - income earners.

Last year, the program funded almost 66,000 jobs, but fell short of the 77,000 positions the Liberals had hoped to fill with the help of an extra $ 113 million annually last year, this year, and next.

On a host of issues normally instrumental to winning the support of the conservative media, he had famously taken liberal positions.

He says Trump campaigned on constant complaints about Mexico, not Canada, and Harper appears to suggest it was unwise of the Liberals to insist upon renegotiating a trilateral NAFTA: «How did we get ourselves in this position?

A small majority (54 %) of those who voted for the governing federal Liberals also take the position that B.C.'s government is in the wrong, while most — but far from all — past federal New Democrats support the party's provincial wing in B.C.:

Fitting NAFTA into that aspirational, elevated, internationalist, decidedly un-Trumpian frame conforms better with the self - image of Liberals, and many other Canadians, than the more familiar positioning of free trade as a priority of corporate lobbyists.

A new Liberal government will release a fall Economic and Fiscal Update so that Canadians can get a more accurate picture of the federal government's revised position since April.

His roll of the dice has cost the long esteemed LIBERAL PARTY its position in parliament and brought to the fore a more left - oriented NDP.

I understand that the WR rejection of any tax increases is inconsistent with the Liberal and the NDP positions, but the question all the opposition parties have been asked is «will you work with the other parties if there's a minority government».

As I am sure Dr. Sherman and Dr. Swann would attest, being leader of the Liberal Party in Alberta is probably one of the least rewarding positions in provincial politics.

We believe the BC Liberal policies on GHG emissions are in line with the stated positions of the GVBOT, especially their recommitment to revenue neutrality.

A 2011 Maclean's survey of historians on Canada's prime ministers ranked John A. Macdonald, of course, the top Conservative (in second spot, after Liberal Wilfrid Laurier) and pegged Borden as the next highest - rated Tory PM (in eighth position overall).

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.

Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular.

One can, in defense of the sacredness of life, be suddenly in the position of executing the program of the liberal Weimar doctors, which of course comes to pass under Nazi rule, under «national socialism.»

You're just the product of a more liberal time, and assume that your idea of what a proper Christian would believe has always been the case, but the times are still a» changing, and future Christians might point at some of your positions and cringe too, right?

Though not in the camp of liberal Protestantism, ELCA Lutheranism is so positioned in the American religious scene as to be deeply affected by all the movements, «theologies of,» and liberation forces of the past decades.

Unfortunately, though, with people being discouraged to pursue the liberal arts in the 21st century, openings for these positions are becoming few and far between, and people who have that philosophical blood running through their veins sometimes take on preacher positions as a way to make ends meat, which is wrong because it is the essence of living a lie.

The judge could find no support for the position of Ms Ladele in a «modern liberal democracy».

Early on, in the chapters on contraception, Wills appears to take the familiar «liberal» position that the popes and their apologists are guilty of thwarting authentic development of doctrine and of ignoring the sensus communis of the laity.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

Contemporary theology is indebted to this Christocentric emphasis as it has developed in the century and a half since Schleiermacher, Ritschl and other liberal theologians pressed further the position that the Christian knowledge of God is based upon the history of Jesus.

Although thrilled that the priesthood is no longer denied to black men, LDS liberals tend to feel uncomfortable as the leaders of the church articulate generally conservative positions.

Actually, there are a variety of religious positions, liberal as well as conservative.

The attribution of cause here is a little one - sided, as though the poor liberals were forced into their un - and anti-religious positions entirely by the conservatives» donning of the religious mantle.

Responding to this «religion is for private life only» position, Greenawalt argues that in some circumstances citizens of a liberal / modernist state may rely upon their personal religious values in casting votes or framing arguments.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Tim Farron resigned from his position as leader of the Liberal Democrats on Wednesday saying he was «torn between living as a faithful Christian... More

• Before the bishops adopted a program for implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the document aimed at renewing the Catholic identity of colleges and universities, Tim Unsworth of the National Catholic Reporter anticipated the move and outlined the liberal fallback position.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

The overriding aim of the new black conservatives is to undermine the position of black liberals and replace them with black Republicans, who downplay governmental regulation and stress market mechanisms and success - oriented values in black communities.

Week by week she fought for an evangelical view of scripture, in spite of the liberal disposition of her tutors, having to work harder than her fellow students in order to defend her position in one - to - one tutorials.

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

They stubbornly take the liberal position of granting to the Jews in principle the same status as to every German.»

One need not agree with NicholasWolterstorff's politics — for instance, his position on the Palestinian - Israeli conflict - to welcome his commitment to the liberal - democratic project that makes possible the engagement of disagreements, including disagreements over the merits of the liberal - democratic project.

White, affluent liberals should prioritize the interests of poorer, less secular Democrats, instead of maintaining their privileged position.

Romney has struggled to win over many social conservatives who felt that his past positions on social issues were too liberal and many evangelicals who raised theological concerns over Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

This, though, is a good example of why liberals should re-think their positions.

If there has been any change of positions, it is liberal Western societies that have changed.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

I sometimes find myself in the comic position of publicly debating liberal Catholics and suddenly realizing that they are consorting with the old liberal Protestant strumpets of my seedy past, while I am setting forth their own traditional arguments from their magisterium.

We need a return to the realistic and yet principled conservative pragmatism of Reagan who actually wanted to help people more than dogmatically stick to every single position and who was even willing to compromise with liberals like Tip O'neal at times in order to get something done that would actually solve problems and help the greatest number of people.

Among Catholic politicians, Cuomo is the most prominent proponent of the position described as «Personally opposed, but...» With the help of liberal theologian Richard McBrien of Notre Dame, he attempted a definitive articulation of that argument in 1984.