Sentences with phrase «old liberal left»

Among those who had always been wary of the «project» was Simon Hughes, a campaigner who has held inner city Bermondsey for nearly 20 years, and who represents the party's old Liberal left.

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Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).

Quite apart from the proof this ought to offer the Republicans that even the pro-abortion chorus recognizes which way the wind is blowing, we are still left with the question of why liberals seem suddenly to recognize the need for new justifications — especially since they got such mileage from their old ones.

With Kennedy dead, there were no answers left in the old pragmatic liberalism» hence the New Left's loathing of two of the last standing pragmatic liberals, Hubert Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson (not to mention the New Left's rabid hatred of the most legislatively successful liberal president in history, Lyndon Johnsleft in the old pragmatic liberalism» hence the New Left's loathing of two of the last standing pragmatic liberals, Hubert Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson (not to mention the New Left's rabid hatred of the most legislatively successful liberal president in history, Lyndon JohnsLeft's loathing of two of the last standing pragmatic liberals, Hubert Humphrey and Henry M. Jackson (not to mention the New Left's rabid hatred of the most legislatively successful liberal president in history, Lyndon JohnsLeft's rabid hatred of the most legislatively successful liberal president in history, Lyndon Johnson).

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

At the same time, attempting to fill the ideological vacuum left by the decline of the old liberal - Protestant consensus is aggressive pluralistic secularism, growing out of the 1960s and flourishing as students of the 1960s become the tenured scholars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Nick, But when do ex-jihadis (about 29 years old), who have written of how they were close associates of the jailed Glasgow bomber, and who have never contacted the Fabians or IPPR, become experts on liberal - left think - tanks in the view of columnists for a major liberal newspaper?

Any Labour politician wanting to abandon the «old ways» would start embracing what they are saying, and if they did that they would be very unlikely to earn much ire from the liberals or the left.

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

«Silver is of that tired old left - wing liberal club that arrogantly believes they know more than we do.

The coalitionist liberals and the left - liberals sound alike when they are criticising the Brown and Blair years; they almost all hated the Iraq war, the suspension of old liberties and the over-centralisation of policy - making.

The 42 - year - old Northavon MP is currently charged with drawing up the Liberal Democrat manifesto and is seen as a popular figure, particularly on the left of the party.

Rounding out the clan are three members from an older generation: the opinionated liberal mom Nora (Sally Field), her brother Saul (Ron Rifkin) the shady uncle, and paterfamilias William Walker (Tom Skerritt) who dies in the very first episode, leaving behind a trail of flaws which produces enough secrets and problems to fuel a fair amount of this season.

The race pits Mr. Fields, a 32 - year - old liberal Democrat who is black, against Mr. Foster, a 65 - year - old white multimillionaire who recently left the Democratic Party to run as a Republican.