Sentences with phrase «political right and left»

Reform - via - competition has origins on the political right and left.

I am copublisher of that survey, and the figure reflects the substantial discontent on the political right and left with Secretary Duncan's specific strategy in this case.

In the book, you said that talking about the influence of families on student success is hard for both the political right and left.

One such proposal, which has gained support from political right and left, is to increase personal federal income tax exemptions for dependent children.

Both the US political right and left will ask — well, who owns our debt?

Not exact matches

Not only do the political «left» and «right» have almost contradictory prognoses for the problems of stagnation or slow growth, but they also have to appeal to the almost randomly varying desires and priorities of the voters they represent.

Populist parties already made it into government in the early 2000s and coalition - forming has become more complicated due to the rise of populist parties on both the right and the left wing of the political spectrum,» Brzeski told CNBC.

Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble.

In 2003, she heard the channel was planning a new political program called SqueezePlay, built around O'Leary's right - wing free market cheerleading and the left - leaning views of Brian Tobin, the former Newfoundland premier and Liberal cabinet minister.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

«We believe the political pendulums are swinging — whether from the left or the right, as candidates embrace more populist positions and associate a move away from austerity with other anti-establishment and anti-incumbent rhetoric,» says Shalett.

Whether or not these groups accept credit for all the consequences of «changing the economic face of Canada» their opponents on the political left and centre can learn many lessons from how effective the political right machine has become in Canada.

They have been a traditional coalition partner, but you have the Greens who are on the left side of the political spectrum, you have the FDP on the right hand side of the political spectrum, and that's going to be quite a complicated coalition to put together.

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So while I agree with her that political life may help renew faith in human dignity and so make human rights believable, the politics of human rights is conducted through liberal language that is extremely partial, that leaves out at least half of the human experience.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Is it simply that the radicalism is expressed in an unholy synthesis of political and theological rhetoric (a perennial temptation, incidentally, upon which both the Religious Left and the Religious Right need to reflect)?

And you do seem political — you criticize anyone or anything on the left, but have not at all been critical of the right.

Political Correctness is frequently no more than an epithet that the right flings at opinions and postures of the left.

But while I agree such practices cut against political ideologies of both the Left and Right, it is less clear how they do so, or if they do so in the same way.

And I have to disagree that the gospel isn't political (although I fully acknowledge that it doesn't fit into our modern right - left spectrum).

Stephen H. Webb is right to debunk «the myth of Dylan as a man on the political and cultural left» («It Ain't Me, Babe,» August / September).

The Occupy movement broke this issue through the soundless barrier, and Americans from across the political spectrum have been waking up left and right.

Goldberg is a political journalist, not a historian, and readers more familiar with the ideological twists and turns of the modern era will be familiar with his thesis: While the left has long depicted the right as fascist, it is in fact the left — from Hegel to Hitler to Hillary and, yes, the politics of meaning, too — that follows the fascist formula most influentially articulated by Mussolini: «Everything within the state; nothing outside the state; nothing against the state.»

Pro-Life Lefties «Abortion», writes the political director of the Huffington Post UK, «is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right - wingers talk of equality, human rights and «defending the innocent», while left - wingers fetishise «choice», selfishness and unbridled individualism.»

He is cited by the left as a radical political liberal and by the right as neoconservative.

Fathers who leave families to make civil rights marches, politicians who sacrifice family life to the exigencies of political campaigns, wives who have to decide between a significant life in a public vocation and the demands of housekeeping, all should know the impossibility of any clear solution of this ethical problem.

He also writes very well» on jazz, civil liberties, and people who are ignored because they are of no political importance to the right or the left.

New Urbanism has aroused vocal opposition from both the political left and the political right.

I know this is a huge political issue right now as many on the political left are saying that it is the responsibility of the rich to «spread the wealth around and give their fair share» while those on the right are saying, «Stay out of my pocket so I can create jobs.»

They have let the family issue fall into the hands of reactionary political and religious forces to the right or radical cultural forces to the left.

Marty's insistence that «the political arena is not a place where everything will be absolute, neat and pleasing» challenges some basic assumptions in the political theologies of both the left and the right.

So many things can contribute to the political leanings of a person, that it is almost non-sensical to me to equate either atheism and left, or christianity and right.

We seem unable to move beyond ideology of the left and the right to find out what works, and our political lack of will is condemning yet another generation to hopelessness and poverty.

At times the debate about religious language seems like a pitched battle between political camps of the left and the right.

This picture of «tradition» versus «progress» fits our wider, modern political and cultural frameworks of «right» versus «left,» but it is grossly inadequate for understanding the history of modern Catholic theology.

If the left insists on the liberal interpretation of our constitutional and political institutions in an uncompromising effort to defend the ever - expanding role of the state to secure the practical liberty of individuals, the right defends the free - market system and uncompromisingly rejects any restraint on the unfettered economic choices of individuals.

The AofG has become increasingly political over the years and one reason that I left the church was all of the right - wing drivel coming from the pulpit.

The same difficulty is no doubt experienced by those Catholics accustomed to conceiving the Church and her ministers in terms of political categories: left, right, and center.

So those on the left are anxious that the culture sees us as championing political causes on the left, and the right is similarly anxious about championing social conservatism.

In Nicaragua seven political parties participated in the 1984 elections, including several to the left and to the right of the Sandinista party.

The public presence of much of contemporary evangelicalism, both left and right, is a decidedly political presence.

Nostalgia leads to the excesses of the politics of the right and longing to the excesses of the politics of the political left.

Pluralist societies tend to view persons as individuated selves with rights and duties, who may form or leave independent political, social, business or religious associations; but socialist societies incorporate the self into an organic whole that guides each self and controls independent groups and associations.

No social conservatism from the Right, and no political correctness from the Left.

The success of the Democratic coalition will be determined by events that are out of the easy control of any elected official, namely the ability of center - left political elites to work together effectively, and the ability of the center - right to adjust to the realities of present - day America (to say nothing of the course of the economy and developments in foreign countries).

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

A long - running battle between the so - called Catholic left and the so - called Catholic right concerns which political issues the Church should speak about and which ones she shouldn't.

For the institutional church, like the political left, justice for the lower orders consists only of rights and claims.

In American political rhetoric — stump speeches, newspaper editorials, party propaganda — the terms «left wing» and «right wing» are used as epithets.