Sentences with phrase «progressive side»

Part of the problem for participatory fathers, though, is that their role in the family is essentially a revocable parole, in that courts that have not adapted to the new realities: judges can — and all too frequently do — turn them into Mr. Every - Other - Weekend, no matter how extensive their former role in the family, results which seem to be coming from both the traditionalist and modern progressive sides of the bench.

However, she also previously displayed a less progressive side by voting against repealing section 28 and against reducing the age of consent for gay sex.

But lawmakers — during legislative budget hearing on taxes — as well as advocates on the fiscally conservative as well as progressive sides questioned the credit's usefulness.

Yet unlike its nearest counterpart on the progressive side, the Tides Foundation, a bogeyman of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, Donors Trust has mostly avoided any real scrutiny.

Science is the progressive side.

One commenter, representing the progressive side, asked if the post meant that Hatmaker had come around to an affirming position since 2014, when Hatmaker stated her traditionalist position amid the World Vision story.

They tend to fall on the progressive side of the theological continuum, but there is diversity of theology as well (Methodists, as a whole, are probably most conservative, for example).

«I hope that will strengthen the progressive side of politics and in due course maybe promote some new forms of Lib - Lab partnership.»

So on Thursday, Susan Sarandon (aka, a celebrity activist who often ends up on the progressive side of things) tweeted this:

Do they want to be on the Conservative side, backing the Conservative - led government, or on the progressive side?

«It will be encouraging to those of us on the progressive side of politics that Liberal Democrats are continuing to rein in the worst excesses of the Tory right.»

«I hope to get a little action on the Democratic, Liberal and Progressive side and get out the vote.

When I noted that there's been plenty of pragmatism on the progressive side, too, (I was thinking specifically of some unions that fought Mayor Bloomberg's eventually successful push to extend term limits and then turned around and endorsed him during the campaign), he replied:

But if the Greens haven't captured the whole of the progressive side, it is because they are seen to answer only half the problem.

Cuomo was never going to engage in this fight on the progressive side and is now even moving to weaken that side as much as possible going forward.

A much wider and deeper malaise afflicts those who identify with the progressive side of politics in Britain.

On the progressive side of politics, there is an assumption that fiscal retrenchment is, by definition, a regressive and right - wing activity.

The artistic community may not always err on the liberal or progressive side, but very little is off - limits rhetorical discussion.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.