Sentences with phrase «political majority»

And if the polls are right, believing Protestants and Roman Catholics, generally socially conservative, represent a viable political majority in this country.

Their chairs are elected by political majorities.

Today liberalism is not, as it was for so long, America's default political position, and that transformation» effected so gradually that many people have missed it» means that Democrats are no longer the nation's natural political majority.

The Democrats must repudiate their decision to reconstitute themselves as «the other pro-business party» and become again the «party of Roosevelt,» taking up the class issues and rhetoric that FDR wielded to forge a long - term political majority.

While it would be misleading to maintain that the Framers were communitarians who believed that government could resolve all societal problems and eliminate all vices in pursuing the good life, it is simply wrong to assume, as Arthur does, that the Framers wanted to prevent political majorities from «imposing» any view of the good life at all.

The answer can thus only be the outcome of a negotiation process, which ultimately depends on the historical context, on the expectations placed on schools by society and on political majorities.»

Coming to the correct balance means neither empowering political majorities to regulate liberty in new ways nor excusing individuals from the consequences of their actions.

The issue is the theocratic - and cult - like (political majority of the) climatology profession.

Rather, they wanted to ensure that the political majority governed justly.

In combination those gave him a political majority.

The IDC splintered off seven years ago to work with Republicans to form the political majority in the Senate.

First of all, sooner or later there could be a political majority in Spain capable of reforming Title VIII of the Constitution.

The formation of the coalition has given the government a political majority in the Lords, reducing the need for cross-party consensus achieved through backroom talks.

«To defeat Buhari will require an exact repeat of what Bola Tinubu and others were able to do with the APC in 2014 by creating a broad platform encompassing the political majority in the country.

To judge by actions, not words, the carbon - warming view hasn't come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India.

Of course, the fact that whites constitute a political majority in our Nation does not necessarily mean that active judicial scrutiny of racial classifications that disadvantage whites is inappropriate.