Sentences with phrase «on ideological issues»

The Cohn - Navarro showdown illustrates how Trump oversees an administration sharply divided on ideological issues that are close to his heart — a dynamic that can produce incoherence and dysfunction when it comes to actually making policy.

Not exact matches

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

As with the Potash issue, the government's position on copyright feels at odds with its ideological home turf.

But theologically and ecclesiastically, on one level, of course, it was a humanitarian issue the one Bonhoeffer had raised in his 1933 essay on the church and the Jewish question: What was the mission of Christianity in an ideological society?

This focus on the social functions of language has drawn together literary and social criticism toward something of a convergence on what might be termed ideological criticism, an issue also central to the third methodological movement to be discussed, cultural hermeneutics.

A final word should be said on the relation of judging under the Constitution to larger political or ideological issues.

Michael Dukakis was so concerned about fitting within the ideological mainstream that he chose Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate even though they disagreed on nearly every major policy issue.

The issues here are perhaps most apparent in the Churches of Christ, where emphasis on restoration of New Testament Christianity has placed ideological purity at a premium.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

When Britain's third party can put aside its differences on issues such as Europe and our nuclear deterrent to join forces with the Conservatives, it must make us question the relevance of dog - tagging parties with ideological values of old.

I don't think it would be appropriate for a serious leader of his calibre to consult somebody who has supervised the disintegration of his party, sacked persons who hold contrary views to his, supervised bloodshed in his party and breeded experts in insults, on serious national issues.Ideologically you come from different dispositions but matured politicians bury ideological inclinations when it comes to deciding on certain sensitive issues.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Speaking at a press conference in Whitehall, Nick Clegg referred to Tory plans to make a further # 25bn of cuts to the welfare budget as a «monumental mistake» and went on to outline ideological differences between the two coalition parties on issues like fairer taxation.

While many Conservative Party members admire Massey's business success, they have profound ideological differences with him on social issues, however.

In the aftermath of the 2012 American elections, some Tea Party activists have taken up more traditionally populist ideological viewpoints on issues that are distinct from general conservative views.

On Wednesday, Cuomo acknowledged that 421a wasn't yet resolved, saying it was an «ideological [and] philosophical» issue that was holding up a final budget resolution, along with the Raise the Age bill.

Albanese is known as an independent - minded reformer who doesn't easily fit an ideological label, while Gangi flanks de Blasio's left on almost every issue.

He's also hoping that his record on constituent services and issues important to local voters, like support for Lyme disease research, will help allay any ideological misgivings among more liberal voters.

On several key issues questions, independents also moved to the ideological right — most intriguingly when asked whether there was too much government regulation.

Nothing illustrates better the ideological and policy differences at all levels of the Labour Party than the contradictory opinions being offered on the issue of free movement.

Elsewhere, a lawmaker's profile online would refer to his or her electoral history, committee assignments and ideological positions on key national issues.

Mr. Pataki said he was running against Mrs. Goodhue, for whom he once worked, because of ideological differences on issues like fiscal policy.

«There's a danger in overstating the extent of the ideological shift because the range of issues that we tackle at the municipal level are much narrower than those that are tackled at the state and federal level and I find that there's a broad based consensus on most of the subjects that come before the City Council,» he said.

Some conservative intellectuals, finding Mr. Trump evasive and inconsistent on key issues, have sought to recruit a more ideological candidate to run as an independent.

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

I take issue with his ideological selective bias, it creates an echo chamber on this web site that is more like a religion then science.

The Summer, 1985 issue of The Velvet Light Trap featured essays on technical, economic, aesthetic, and ideological aspects of Hollywood widescreen filmmaking, and included English translations of some of Bazin's articles, where he integrated widescreen with his theories of filmic ontology.

Both program supporters and opponents cite evidence from an ongoing congressionally mandated Institute of Education Sciences (IES) evaluation of the program, for which I am principal investigator, to buttress their positions, rendering the evaluation a Rorschach test for one's ideological position on this fiercely debated issue.

«The problem is that we have not been addressing this issue on the theological front and on the ideological front.

Despite their significant ideological differences on many education reform issues, Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA) and top committee Republican Lamar Alexander (TN) introduced a bipartisan bill to improve mental health services for children.

When elite opinion on an issue is polarized along ideological lines, mass opinion tends to move along similar lines.

While the recent upsurge of feminist activity in this country has indeed been a liberating one, its force has been chiefly emotional — personal, psychological and subjective — centered, like the other radical movements to which it is related, on the present and its immediate needs, rather than on historical analysis of the basic intellectual issues which the feminist attack on the status quo automatically raises.1 Like any revolution, however, the feminist one ultimately must come to grips with the intellectual and ideological basis of the various intellectual or scholarly disciplines — history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, etc. — in the same way that it questions the ideologies of present social institutions.

The exhibition seeks to open a dialogue on apparently different issues as the absurd and the absolute and searches for ways to return art onto life, without shutting itself into religious or ideological positions...

A historian of South Asian and Himalayan art, with secondary areas of interest relating to issues of gender and identity in South Asian contemporary art and film, her interests are in the early modern period focus on the ritual and ideological functions of Buddhist art in South Asia, including theories of ritual performance and politics of identity.

Perhaps if you spent more time thinking about all of the issues that people are putting in front of you, instead of knee - jerk, ideological responding on this blog, you might begin to understand that some of us do feel responsibility and seek actions that are responsible even if we have to forgo some previously held belief that we have the freedom to act in certain ways.

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

Lawson stated that his difference with Nurse did not arise from «ideological» reasons, but on the issue of the effectiveness of policy responses.

The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, for instance, has sometimes made conclusions based upon the «balance of the evidence» The ideological climate skeptics, (to be distinguished from reasonable skepticism) often publicizes what is not known about these issues and ignores what is known and at the same time has accused those who have identified plausible but unproven risks as doing «bad science.»

Often justified largely on the basis of junk science they have come up with such wonderful policy prescriptions as using only unreliable sources of energy because they are «sustainable,» keeping natural resources in the ground rather than using them to meet human needs, having government tell manufacturers what requirements their products must meet to use less energy rather than encouraging manufacturers to meet the needs of their customers, all in the name of «energy efficiency,» substituting government dictates for market solutions on any issue related to energy use, and teaching school children junk science that happens to meet «environmentalists» ideological beliefs in hopes of perpetuating these beliefs to future generations even though they do not conform to the scientific method, the basis of science.

(See, for example, Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies, The original organizations that sought to undermine public support on climate policies by exaggerating scientific uncertainty have expanded to include ideological think tanks, front groups, Astroturf groups (i.e., groups organized by industry that pretend to be a legitimate grassroots organization), and PR firm led campaigns.

Maybe you're smarter than the predominant opinion among experts — but two questions need to be asked: (1) to what degree is your view of the evidenced biased by your ideological identity (you clearly have a very strong ideological identity on this issue) and, (2) how could you possibly state a certainty about such a counterfactual in such a highly uncertain context?

Such as those scientists who allow their ideological beliefs to dictate their views on what should be scientific issues?

In light of the growing ideological divide on the issue [12](paired with people's tendency to selectively process information), some scholars have argued that merely educating the public about the scientific consensus is unlikely to be a helpful approach [13, 14].

The issue of whether Peter Gleick's actions should or should not be prosecuted based upon the notion that the crime itself was not meeting some certain threshold of «seriousness» should be considered in the context that that Gleick was a high ranking member of an organization that was a recipient of significant federal grant monies — not merely the administrator of a private blog out to exact revenge on his [perceived] ideological foes.

And which, at its core, if seemingly complicated on this issue (and highly colored by non recognized bias, ideological belief, conflation of the topic with fear of redress, and a remarkable sea of misinformation) is about as basic a mistake as can be made.

Taking a neutral stance at this point on rehashed work from «NIPCC» (Fred Singer and friends), well known for serial, serious errors in overall interpretation, analysis and communication of the science and transparent but largely unexamined ideological bias at play in their playground «reports» — never mind suggesting that this kind of effort «competes» with the work of the world's climate scientists and the 2,500 multidisciplinary specialists contributing to IPCC reports combined with the tens of thousands of additional scientists and many others who raise real questions that result from reading, reviewing, evaluating and evolving the information in both IPCC summaries and domestic science and discussion of the science, knowledgeably and in good faith and with open identification of the nature of the social and political issues — is just not credible.

Even, if you can not judge the technical arguments, you can follow, how various people present their arguments and, how willing they appear to be in basing their views on specifics of each issue details rather than an overwhelming ideological view that makes the conclusions fully predictable and apparently independent of the quality of supporting arguments.

But other groups advocate for nuclear and they have interest on the ideological level and the financial level on these issues and you can't make generalizations and they are complicated and there are situations where there might be a clear conflict of interest.

Also, this «paper» has nothing to do with refuting the «greenhouse effect», but part on an on - going ideological war on Mann et al. designed to distract us from the pressing issue at hand.

It would appear that you yourself are the one with ideological beliefs on this issue as is apparent from your describing my comment as pernicious.