Sentences with phrase «other liberal policy»

But top Democrats in the House of Representatives said Thursday they'll be back next year to press for an increase in the minimum wage, new protections for victims of sexual harassment and other liberal policy priorities.

Not exact matches

Carr says the Liberals are returning to «co-operative federalism» and a hands - on approach: «It's not possible to consider major national projects and a nation building policy if you don't have all levels of governments talking to each other.»

According to a registration with the office of Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, a lobbyist on behalf of Equifax Canada aims to engage «stakeholders» on a piece of credit - reporting - related legislation proposed by Ontario's Liberal government, in addition to any other relevant policies.

I would suggest that Daniel Burke and all the other liberals do some research and discover the evils of Marxism and the number of people killed for the sake of that failed policy.

The revelation that Quebec was chosen over other provinces to play host to Amazon's data cluster comes at a time when Kathleen Wynne's Ontario Liberal government is reeling from an energy policy that has sent electricity prices skyrocketing in recent years.

In other contexts, such as that of social action, we may want liberals to be more assertive about convictions that divide them from others; to be willing, for example, to call a social policy unchristian that they think is unchristian.

Academics can publish pseudo-scholarly essays excoriating «fundamentalism» and its role in public life, but scholars who criticize feminism or race - based policies or any other liberal piety make many professional enemies.

When liberal essayist Robert Reich summarizes a conservative policy in his collection of essays The Resurgent Liberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roliberal essayist Robert Reich summarizes a conservative policy in his collection of essays The Resurgent Liberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roLiberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roots....

A minority among the evangelicals — represented by such journals as Sojourners and the Other Side — is so radical in its criticism of the American economy and of our foreign policies that it gives up on liberal politics; nonetheless, its witness is an important corrective to what many of us regard as the Moral Majority's distortions of Christian faith.

Others favour the model set out most credibly by American foreign policy expert John Hulsman, who advocates an ambitious global free trade area with a security element — effectively tying the world's liberal democracies together, with Britain playing a significant new role within this new structure.

@Chad I was under the impression that civil rights, taxation, welfare, and the other things I listed were liberal policies.

D66 on the other hand is a (socially) liberal centrist party with many progressive policies, but more of a soft touch economically.

Other UKIP policies are also suggestive of an ultra-conservative agenda rather than a liberal one, including the promotion of grammar schools and tougher sentences for prisoners.

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.

[citation needed] On foreign policy, there is also a divide among liberal Democrats, with some being liberal internationalists while other are less in favor of interventionism.

Senator Gillibrand, on the other hand, campaigned for Congress as a conservative Democrat... now she supports every one of the those liberal policies....

The effect is to dump existing Liberal Democrat policy which seeks integrated education — in other words all young people to have opportunities to do vocational and academic study as part of a single curriculum..

Also a credit to the man was his glad - handing of other politicians at the G20 and EU summit, and not forgetting his brilliant crafting of a deal with the Liberal Democrats which has successfully placed all the criticism squarely upon them rather than the party whose policies are overwhelmingly being implemented.

The Liberal Democrats and UKIP both propose a form of PR for the UK (despite not agreeing on almost any other policy)

«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.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

The Liberal Democrats piggyback on other parties» policies, but their health manifesto is the best so far.

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).

SLF decided to table two separate amendments, one tailored to generating shorter - term economic growth this Parliament and the other looking to protect the distinctive and independent nature of Liberal Democrat economic policy into 2015 and beyond.

The Liberal Democrats, for example, have struggled to reconcile their localist impulses with other policy imperatives like housing.

to improve the understanding of and support for Land Value Taxation amongst members of the Liberal Democrats; to encourage all Liberal Democrats to promote and campaign for this policy as part of a more sustainable and just resource based economic system in which no one is enslaved by poverty; and to cooperate with other bodies, both inside and outside the Liberal Democrat Party, who share these objectives.

Cameron, on the other hand, had spent years wooing the Lib Dems — calling himself a Liberal Conservative; declaring that there was «not a cigarette paper» between many of their policies and praising Clegg for his campaign for Gurkha rights.

The son of a liberal icon who has cast himself as a centrist, Cuomo has treated New York's financial services sector with kid gloves, quietly pushing through favorable policies and, a bit more loudly, holding the line against others» calls for tax increases.

Despite the current problems of the Coalition it is certainly true that the PM's alliance with the Liberal Democrats has meant the Cameroonians at the head of the Conservative Party have been able to pursue their policies on tax, renewable energy, Europe and crime that would have been much harder if Brady, Carswell, Davis, Redwood and other members of the Conservative mainstream had held the balance of power.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have delivered more for communities than the other opposition parties put together, Kirsty Williams AM has said today highlighting her party's key policies featured in the Annual Budget.

Along with a range of education reforms, the Welsh Liberal Democrats secured a number of achievements in other policy areas.

But Labour and the Liberal Democrats have cast doubt on the sincerity of this pledge because other Tory policies, such as the increase in the inheritance tax threshold, seem specifically designed to help the rich, not the poor.

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.

On liberal political compliance and policy dexterity I read this the other day.

To king of zouk and all the other Republican apologists who think that Liberal policies don't work:

Beanie decides to form a fraternity with a liberal, open admissions policy so that every other thirty something male can get a piece of, well, you figure it out.

The district's 10 - year - old student - publications policy is considered to be among the most liberal in the nation in recognizing the rights and responsibilities of students to control school newspapers and other publications.

Shanker gained a hearing for his ideas from both liberals and conservatives, not by taking moderate positions that consistently split the difference, but by embracing a coherent philosophy that sometimes led to «liberal» policy conclusions, other times to «conservative» ones.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

What it is: The Center for American Progress, a liberal public policy think - tank, this week released a report titled «The State of Teacher Evaluation Reform,» which looks at new teacher - evaluation systems in New Jersey and five other states as they continue to evolve under new state and national mandates.

You might even want to look at some of their revenue recognition and other accounting policies to see if the earnings are perhaps somewhat liberal.

Citi has the most liberal policy, allowing transfers to any other TY member.

My Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/bztat/ The reason photo - sharing apps have liberal copyright policies is because they want to be able to interface with as many other apps as possible.

Obama also hired Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, to advise him on energy and climate policy, among other issues.

From his perspective, if Washington were to have a model policy that could be adopted by other states — including states less liberal than Washington, which includes most US states — then it could not, almost by definition, move forward only by uniting the left.

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

Whereas we imagine governments in liberal democracies largely to respond to people's wishes, under the rubric of climate change and other issues, government and its agencies increasingly seek to change behaviour and modify attitudes towards policies that have already been determined.

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

Their underwriting is very liberal and policy pricing falls in line with many of the other major carriers.

As shown below, the organization has liberal regulations for clients older than 70 years old, which is an age that other life insurance companies typically end offering life insurance policies.