Sentences with phrase «radical policies like»

Unlike Ken Livingstone, who was elected on radical policies like the congestion charge, Khan has stuck carefully to a largely uncontroversial set of proposals.

Not exact matches

Even someone like former Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, who leans right on topics like monetary policy, was a vocal advocate for radical regulatory moves, including forcibly breaking up America's largest banks.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

If we consult Amos as our classical type of radical nonconformist religion, we find that he like his contemporary Isaiah, was critical of all religion that was not creative in seeking a just social policy.

Political activists like William Lloyd Garrison and elected officials from safe constituencies like Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner adopted more radical tones and policies.

Failed GOP / Conservative gubernatorial contender Carl Paladino is inserting himself into the NY - 26 race, slamming independent candidate Jack Davis for «claiming to be a Tea Party candidate, while supporting Nancy Pelosi, endorsing Barack Obama and supporting radical liberal policies like partial birth abortion.»

The 2020 «is trying to do the longer - term thinking... setting out a compelling, radical and progressive vision of where conservatism is going», and its key policy aim is to find the answer to the question: «What would the country look like after a successful majority Conservative government» - i.e. in 2020.

He then used this positioning to adopt more radical Labour policies like the minimum wage and the New Deal.

«Our state is under attack like never before and the radical policies coming from Washington are threatening nearly every aspect of our lives,» he said.

This strikes me as a far better analogy than the earlier elections you cite — Like Wilson, Cameron could have cannily used every day to illustrate that while he was doing his best to govern with a minority, the radical changes the economic crisis demanded were being blocked at every turn and that he deserved to be given a real chance to put his policies into effect.

Like Corbyn before him, he can promote radical policies with the credibility of having always genuinely and passionately believed in them.

Six feet tall and rangy, with a big Texas smile, Hrdy, 56, doesn't look like a radical who wants to upset the mom - and - apple - pie order of our cultural norms and public policies.

The C E Ferulic is perhaps their most - loved product; it's an antioxidant serum that you put on clean skin to protect against free radicals and build up your collagen (kind of like a skin insurance policy, if you will).

The Tempered Radical This award - winning blog discusses topics like education policy, classroom technology tools, and teaching quality.

But like crash dieting, the one - child policy employed radical means and aimed for quick results, causing a rash of negative side effects.

He criticized policies like granting carbon credits to polluters as a «ploy» that would «provide a quick and easy solution under the guise of a certain commitment to the environment,» but would not «allow for the radical change which present circumstances require.»

-- Anthony Watts, webmaster of WattsUpWithThat.com, September 30, 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- «Having observed how the EPA has functioned for more than three decades, Carlin warns that its current «environmental policy has been hijacked by radicals intent on imposing their ideology by government fiat on the rest of us whether we like it or not... If environmental policy is based on government fiat or «green» policy prescriptions the results have been and are very likely to continue to be disastrous.»

He began by mocking the degree to which carbon dioxide was treated like a toxic gas by proponents of radical policies on climate change.

In such matters as a radical change of fundamental policy or purpose, amendments to the Articles of Incorporation, dissolution or merger of the corp., or matters of like importance, the power of decision usually rests with the voting members.