Sentences with phrase «other liberal groups»

That discomfort left some uncertainty as to how closely the new White House - aligned mobilization in the states would coordinate its grass - roots efforts with those of unions and other liberal groups that are planning to mobilize their forces ahead of the negotiations.

«I think the main impact has been to solidify the alliances between the gay community and the other liberal groups in the Democratic Party,» Krasner said.

Not exact matches

Liberal legislation that received royal assent today means publicly traded companies are now required to disclose the number of women and others from equity - seeking groups, such as visible minorities, on their boards and in senior management.

In the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalism.

Yeah, Henry Rollins might provide a workable way (for sophomoric liberals) to protest LAPD heavy - handedness in the early 1980s, and other minor Western maladies, and maybe punk music really could strengthen your spine in the aughties if you're an alienated Egyptian liberal youth under the boot of Mubarak, but no, the example of Rollins and such sure can't find help you navigate your way to political effectiveness between the Egyptian military on one hand and popular Islamist groups on the other.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

I agree that freedom of speech is a wonderful blessing, and that many liberals are trying to silence various other groups.

It shares with other groups, such as Mothers» Prayers and Mary's Meals — both of which regularly end speakers to New Dawn — a genuine sense of connection with ordinary Catholics bypassing labels such as «traditionalist» or «liberal».

The difference between conservatives and liberals is not that one group is certain and the other is not; rather, it is that conservatives are certain of too much.

Other religious groups, such as Quakers and liberal Jewish groups, could choose to marry gays, but under the proposals no individual minister would be compelled to wed a same - sex couple.

For the most effective communication with the total population we need a variety of conservative and liberal churches, showing appreciation of each other at the same time that each group assumes responsibility for reaching its own unique constituency.

The conflict in the world today is between the fundamentalist and conservative Christians, Muslims, and other groups - not liberal and more moderate Muslim, Christian, or Jews.

The «liberal» stance can have a certain appeal, claiming to allow everyone to live as they please so long as no group imposes their will on others.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

But unlike other sciences, the liberal naming of threat actors and incidents causes a host of problems that confuses accurate data collection and determining whether a threat group still constitutes a threat.

The liberal special interest money machine is already rallying around their presumptive nominee... Big Labor, Trial Lawyers, MoveOn.org and other radical protest groups have pledged to spend at least $ 750 million to defeat Republicans and elect liberal Democrat Barack Obama president.

The IDC, however, insisted the one - house budget resolution of its own should not be read as a break with the Senate GOP as liberal advocacy groups press for juvenile justice reform and other long - sought issues this session.

The Social Liberal Forum (SLF), the biggest left of centre pressure group inside the party, is pressing Mr Clegg and other Lib Dem ministers to make changes after a wholesale review of the Coalition's approach to welfare.

While Kingson said he hopes his support for Social Security will allow him to make inroads with older voters and other groups, operatives on both sides said he might be too liberal for the district.

[174] Others can become Associated Organisations (AOs) as pressure groups in the party, such as Liberal Reform, [175] the Green Liberal Democrats, [176] Liberal Democrats Online, [177] the Liberal Democrat European Group (LDEG)[178] and the Liberal Democrat Disability Association.

Amazon is not without controversy, with the company being pushed by some to add union jobs while a coalition of liberal advocacy groups have called on elected officials to not offer tax breaks and other credits to the company in exchange for job creation.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

A coalition of liberal groups will start a pressure campaign designed to warn against providing tax benefits and other inducements to Amazon as state economic development officials seek to bring the online retailer's next headquarters to New York.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover and a member of the leftwing Campaign Group, which is especially opposed to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats, said: «The Liberals are the second biggest party in Sheffield and other towns.

There are numerous other groups, including communists, greens, regionalists, conservatives, liberals and eurosceptics.

Liberal groups have been hobbled by widespread reluctance among Democrats to support unlimited - spending groups, which have been criticized by President Obama and others as unhealthy for democracy.

On the other side of the aisle, a liberal campaign money watchdog group said removing the limits on donations would be no better than keeping Citizens United in place.

Liberal groups hoping to narrow the «enthusiasm gap» with the Tea Party and other conservative organizations before Election Day are mobilizing for a big rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

Other labor leaders aligned with the governor have threatened to create a competing new labor party of their own, as Mr. Cuomo has himself urged labor leaders to stop giving money to liberal community groups backing Ms. Nixon.

Other parties standing at the election include the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party, Green Party, Harmony Party, English Democrats, the BNP and a group called An Independence from Europe.

Liberal groups MoveOn.org, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo Action are pushing other Democratic senators to sign the letter as well.

A leader for the group Indivisible, which has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.

[7] This meant that before the 2007 election Labour had 22 seats, the Liberal Democrats 16, Conservatives 13, East Cleveland Independents 2, the Independent Group 5 and 1 independent, [8] with the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives and the 2 East Cleveland Independents forming the administration, while Labour and the other independents were in opposition.

He also caught flak from liberal groups that having Trump as president would be a «bonus not just for this state, but for other states also,» and later took to Facebook to clarify his remarks.

Wu has waged a surprisingly strong challenge, winning endorsements from the New York Times and others, and the Sunday rally was as much to lift Hochul's prospects of becoming the next lieutenant governor as it was to re-elect Klein, who led a group of breakaway Democrats that allied with Republicans, and is facing his own liberal primary challenger.

Norman Lamb's campaign to become leader of the Liberal Democrats has received a significant boost after another former party leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, and a large group of other former MPs, declared their backing for the Norfolk MP.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

However, political conservatives are slightly more likely than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to others.

Apart from the Liberal Democrats (FDP), who unanimously support import, all the other factions (SPD, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, CDU / CSU, and PDS) are split into «pro» and «anti» groups, making the overall vote impossible to call.

In his new book, The War on Science, Shawn Otto documents the modern clash between what he calls the «authoritarians» (governments, large corporations, and religious groups) and the «antiauthoritarians» (scientists and other liberal thinkers).

Moral stereotypes about «typical» liberals and conservatives held by both groups are generally correct, but exaggerated both for their own group and the other, according to new research published December 12 in the open access...

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But Tanya Clay, legislative director of People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group, said it is not clear if state legislatures will follow suit or if other black urban politicians will join them.

Whatever rank and file union members might think, the reality is that UFT and other unions like 1199SEIU have a long history of participating in the broader coalition of liberal urban interest groups.

Jenni Dye, research director for the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said Evers will appear to be less political than the other candidates after last week's controversy.

Herbert Spencer's extreme individualism and antistatism, and «social Darwinist» theory of all social «evolution» (identified with «progress»), glorifying the unmoderated competitive struggle among men and groups and societies as «nature's» method of producing progress through innovations, conflicts, and «survival of the fittest,» had a wide vogue among the successful and especially conservative, conservative = liberal businessmen and other people in this period.

For the project, the Tang will work with other institutions of higher education, such as the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium and area community colleges, as well as area school districts and community groups that serve racially diverse populations in the region.