Sentences with phrase «on liberal hearts»

There is no figure in public life, with the possible exception of her husband, who has so strong a hold on liberal hearts and minds.

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According to their fundraising page, Swansea Unitarian Church is an open - minded, liberal and welcoming congregation on the High Street, in the heart of Swansea.

Maybe it's because I take after him so much temperamentally (bookish hardcore introvert) and theologically (I absorbed a lot of that from his seminary student days when I was 10 - 13 years old, but I'm more radical in a lot of ways — for instance, he was a bit of a prude and I know I'm more «morally liberal»), but all that public heart - on - sleeve stuff just makes my skin crawl.

It is not mainly the «bleeding heart liberals» on the attack.

The primary factors which bear on the question seem to me to be five: (1) the churchgoing habit in these churches is earlier and more persistently associated with religion; (2) the emotional accompaniments of worship are more vivid and dramatic; (3) greater demands — or at least, greater consciously recognized demands — are made on church members; (4) more concrete instruction is given in Christian doctrine; and (5) in spite of some false notes, other notes are struck which in certain great essentials lie closer to the heart of the Christian gospel than the usual liberal emphasis.

«I can imagine liberals choking on their bile as a white American stands on a podium with his or her hand on their heart with the flag rising and the national anthem playing.»

But now that I'm a bleeding - heart, politically - correct, question - everything liberal, God insists on using Bible - thumping, church - going, know - it - all Republicans to teach me to be human, to challenge my notions of who the enemy is.

On the other hand, however, many civilizations, especially the more liberal ones of the present epoch, have been painstakingly careful to acknowledge the possibility of a personal change of heart and to enable the person to escape the more painful consequences of his own past behavior provided he is genuinely repentant.

But since my bleeding - heart liberal appeals are likely to be lost on you, I'll instead appeal your pragmatism: More than 35 percent of Texas schoolchildren are overweight or obese.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

Now devolution is dear to the hearts of Plaid supporters, as it is to Liberals, and on this «core issue», Plaid could show that they had made a difference in government.

Such liberal hopes for foreign policy change are deeply embedded in the belief that individual and domestic factors have a major influence on the foreign policy behaviour of states — and Pakistan's India policy is at the very heart of its overall orientation in international relations.

His focus in a speech to City folk this morning was on winning over the wider public - a «hearts and minds» approach to public spending which, he said, had worked terribly well under Canada's Liberal government of the 1990s.

William Powell AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Energy and Environment, has called on the Welsh Government to ensure that the green sector is rooted at the heart of Wales» economic growth strategy.

At the same time, less than 12 miles south in the city's downtown sprawl, the heart of the online liberal community is on its second of four days at the Austin Convention Center for Netroots Nation.

«In his report on the financing of Higher Education (HE), Lord Browne has made several recommendations that, if implemented by the government, would put at risk the key principles in Higher Education — widening participation, fair access and financial equity — that must remain at the heart of Liberal Democrat policy.

Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, the two Democrats locked in an increasingly personal battle over who will serve as New York City's next comptroller, brought their duel for progressive hearts and minds to The Tank, a performing arts space in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday evening, where liberal activists sipped beers as the two men were grilled in back - to - back policy discussions.

The Liberal Democrats have put a pledge of a referendum on the UK's final deal with the EU at the heart of their pitch to voters, hoping to gain Remain supporters alienated by the two largest parties» stance on Brexit.

A new tax on wealth is «at the heart of Liberal Democrat thinking» delegates were told, as they backed a motion tabled by Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott.

The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by - election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign The Conservatives stopped losing on the economy but they didn't develop a strong or consistent economic message The Big Society agenda is an exciting governing philosophy but it should never have been put at the heart of the Tory election campaign No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics

There is a glaring paradox at the heart of the Liberal Democrat surge that has turned British politics on its head in a week.

And although religion continues to play a vital role in life and in the very conceptualization of marriage, today in a more liberal and tolerant society, the meaning of marriage is arguably more focused on the heart of the matter - love.

If you're on the opposite side, check out Liberal Hearts, where they claim to unite single Democrats, Progressives, Environment and Animal Rights Activists, or Democrat Singles, where you know that your political views will align, hopefully just like the stars in the sky.

Better than it should be for Thornton's remarkable ability to convey confusion and discomfort, The Badge is more an Issue movie than a whodunit — and like most movies erring on the liberal side, its strengths don't have a chance against the sloppiness of that bleeding heart on its sleeve.

Audiences concerned that «Rendition» errs on the side of bleeding - heart liberals can take solace in the film's willingness to cast blame for the origin of «extraordinary rendition,» as part of U.S. government policy, on former President Clinton.

In «Inner City,» Washington plays a liberal lawyer named Roman J. Israel who suddenly takes on the role of the law firm's frontman when his partner has a heart attack.

Founded in 2012, the Humanities and Liberal Arts Assessment project (HULA) research team has taken on the project of understanding the learning theories and related theories of human development that lie at the heart of the humanities.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

But last year the territory's new right - wing Country Liberal administration lifted the limit on two trial stretches of the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs in the heart of the outback to the territorial capital, Darwin, on the coast.

St James on Venice offers liberal lashings of elegance in the heart of Morningside.

John Madden football would be my guess on the # 1 American Game... for bleeding heart Liberals but for Conservatives it would be Call of Duty and then there is the Tea party who's all american game would be would be Border Patrol!

They were antigun liberals, bless their hearts, and they could not believe that I would have a target from the range right there smack on my door.