Sentences with phrase «other liberal issues»

They say the minimum wage deal could have been stronger if the Dems were in charge of the Senate and argue a host of other liberal issues that have been blocked could move forward.

President Obama better not appoint anyone whose credentials on Roe v Wade or other liberal issues is questionable or he will face problems from his own party - you will hear loud and clear if he does the mantra - «who won this election?»

Not exact matches

Surely the WR, the Liberals and the NDP can cooperate on other issues, just like they did when they took to the steps of the Legislature to protest Bills 45 and 46, the draconian anti-labour bills.

The association with the Religious Right has cost Grey some support among liberals, who believe that by working with the right, Grey legitimates their position on other issues, such as abortion and gay rights.

On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestants.

But as he matured, he realized there are OTHER issues he cares about which are more typically considered liberal causes, such as the fight against poverty.

You are conservative on some issues and liberal on others, and sometimes you grow weary of trendy «alt - Christianity.»

British scholar N. T. Wright, who has engaged in debates with liberal Jesus Seminar leaders, wrote in the August 2001 issue that the huge U.S. success of the «Left Behind» series «appears puzzling, even bizarre» on the other side of the Atlantic.

It was only after I started to look into how controversial issues like abortion and divorce were handled in other liberal democracies that I realized how my dean's slogan has been used not only to silence religiously grounded views, but to silence all opposition to abortion.

And in many cases these dimensions are not related to each other — that is, those who are «liberals» on one set of issues are not necessarily «liberals» on the other set of issues.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

On the other hand, my more liberal evangelical friends bring scripture to bear on issues of economic, political and environmental justice.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

«The Liberal Democrats will continue to work with other parties on issues where we have common ground and can work together in the national interest,» he said.

And who knows, a liberal push on the Obamacare messaging front might take some of the edge off the issue by 2014 — it sure beats the hell out of lying down and letting the other side roll over you.

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.

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.

Because of the issues raised by David Davis in the by - election, many parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour, Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and British National Party (BNP) chose not to stand.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

The Liberal Democrats like every other party issued expense claim rules to its members.

On economic issues, liberal Democrats vary, with some supporting neo-liberal economics while others support Keynesian economics or a mixed economic system.

It is the welfare budget, and other issues dear to Liberal Democrat hearts, that are in this Defence Secretary's sights.

As the dust settled, Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were issuing explicit threats to each other on television, the prime minister was shouting at his own MPs in public and Tory rebels were being ordered to go home to avoid their furious whips.

He said that it was «depressing» to see other Tory Commissioners fall into line with the liberal Commissioners but that he was not prepared to choose the «quiet life» on such an important issue.

However, Liberal Democrat movement on economic issues was more than offset, to my mind, by the party's outlook on a whole set of other ones.

Likewise, in the council, his voting record showed he supported liberal, Democratic positions on immigration and other issues.

On some issues, he's more on the socially liberal side of the Tory party but on other issues he can be quite firm.»

Yet, gun control politics (and other related issues of weapon ownership, self - defense, etc) are the opposite of this; liberal beliefs are about lowering the amount of weapons available to the individual and in overall society, while the conservative stance is about granting more freedom of ownership.

«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.

Making the end - game targeted message taxes, terror, gay marriage, other social issues galore, liberal Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, and would - be Democratic committee chairs who happen to be liberal African - Americans.

He also had a warning for progressive voters who may «vote Liberal Democrat or Green because they think they can have a free hit at the government, because they may be upset over Iraq or some other issue».

But if the RNC — officially neutral — tilted toward Lazio, the officially neutral Republican Governors Association seems to be tilting the other way, brushing off concerns about Levy's Democratic past and liberal views on abortion and other issues, and buying the impression among many New York observers that Levy might have a real shot against Andrew Cuomo.

Unlike other Senate Democrats who expect Cuomo to come home to them because of their mutual support on key, liberal issues, Avella's attitude is that it's solely up to the governor as to whether he wants to keep Republicans in charge.

For too long and on too many issues, the party's leadership has set out its stall as a function of what other parties might find acceptable — the ugliest example being secret courts, where conference was told explicitly that Liberal Democrats shouldn't oppose the illiberal use of secret evidence, because both Tories and Labour support it.

These and other issues will be critical yardsticks by which the Liberal Democrats can show the public how a coalition government is far better than an unfettered Conservative administration would have been.

From my point of view the main embarrassment has been and continues to be Liberal Democrat support for Osborne's economic policies: others may be concerned about other issues (support for the restructuring of the NHS, or the creation of «free» schools and extension of the academy programme, for example).

If progressives, liberals and actual Democrats were to elect Teachout in the primary, the entire focus of New York's legislative and regulatory operations would have to shift to dealing with the sudden swarms of flying pigs, and this would hamper their ability to address other issues.

Two of the top candidates for City Council Speaker pressed the flesh Monday night, when the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club honored Alan Cumming and «Kinky Boots» star Billy Porter for their support of gay marriage and other issues.

The positions of Conservative voters are for all issues roughly equidistant from UKIP on the one hand, and the seven left - liberal parties on the other.

And whilst it is welcome to have Liberal Democrat support on spending cuts and on certain civil liberties issues, and whilst we could well have compromised with the Liberal Democrats on a number of other issues, we didn't need a coalition and if a referendum on AV was the price of formal coalition we should never have agreed to it.

But the liberal Democrat said that he has stayed in contact with Trump and members of his team, and that he is open to working with them if they are serious about solving New York's infrastructure challenges and other issues facing New Yorkers.

Zimet did attack Cahill's stand on sales - tax policy, but on other issues, including school aid, women's reproductive rights, ethics and legislative misfeasance, gay rights, local hospitals and campaign finance reform, there wasn't much difference between these two liberal Democrats.

They note that while some major liberal issues have passed the Senate under Republican and IDC control, like a minimum wage increase and paid family leave, other major issues like criminal justice reform, the DREAM Act and ethics reform have foundered.

As much as Mr. de Blasio wants to pivot to big picture aspirations — implementing his universal prekindergarten expansion and erecting enough cheap housing to offset surging rents — the horse - carriage issue threatens to consume precious media oxygen the liberal mayor needs to reserve for other issues.

For Mr. Cuomo, calling for wholesale change at Rikers has been in keeping with several other forays he has made into criminal justice reform over the past year, part of a reinvigorated emphasis on liberal issues.

The 57 Liberal Democrats will be voting with Labour, a move that has infuriated Conservatives, and also bled into other coalition discussions on unrelated issues such as reform of press regulation and even childcare.

For nearly a half - century in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, and a powerful liberal voice on health care, civil rights, and other issues, as well as education.