Sentences with phrase «rather conservative person»

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Or, they should have been American intellectuals rather than conservative ones, more concerned with people than with ideas.

In Judaism, despite the rather far - reaching differences between the orthodox, conservative, and liberal wings, and the existence of national variants, including pro- and anti-Zionists, there is a definite, overall consciousness among practically all Jews everywhere of being one (a qahal, or people), and this feeling is predominantly a religious feeling.

A person doesn't «have an abusive incident»; rather, a person commits a crime of abuse: a crime that many, including this conservative Catholic, would position just one or two steps below murder on the hierarchy of evil.

So if you want to label me this way go ahead I would rather be a conservative in politics than a person who has no convictions.

Most people remember that Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) won Champions Cup on penalties against Olympique Marseille in 1991 but what most people outside Yugoslavia don't know is that normally free - flowing attacking - minded Red Star took a rather conservative approach in ECC Final as they hoped their experience on penalties would give them advantage over Olympique.

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

Perhaps in the next two and a half months they will announce policies that radically change people's perceptions of the Conservative party rather than simply confirm them.

Eric Pickles, the new Chairman of the Conservative Party, talks of his desire for people to feel pride rather than embrassed or ashamed of voting ConservativeDaily Telegraph 02/03/2009

Labour frequently accused the Conservatives during the 1980s of moving unemployed people on to sickness benefits - classifying them as economically inactive rather than unemployed - as a strategy for cutting the unemployment figure.

Meanwhile from time to time some Conservative politicians would come out with speeches making it clear that they would rather people like me left the country, if necessary with the assistance of a repatriation grant.

«Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party Chairman, has been rebuked for wrongly claiming that nearly one million people on disability benefits had dropped their claims rather than face medical checks.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is out with a new attack ad that isn't actually a direct hit at GOP / Conservative opponent, Carl Paladino, but rather a sideswipe at the candidate for hiring people to work on his campaign who have, as the Times put it, «tainted pasts.»

The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I think I am somewhat generous to the Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.

If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.

While the Junior Imperial League's political education aimed to teach people why they should vote Conservative, rather than teaching them to make up their own minds, there is little doubt that then - Conservative leader, Stanley Baldwin, was sincere when he expressed a desire to «make democracy safe for the world» by educating young people.

There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work.»

53 per cent of voters believe the Conservative party is more interested in helping its own supporters, rather than people generally, compared to 41 per cent for Labour.

«Rather than seeing who can be toughest on people out of work, the government and the Conservatives need to talk about how they can create jobs and support those in most need.

From a Conservative policy perspective then, this means backing the people that get up and work every day, rather than those content to lie on the sofa watching daytime television.

There will also be a «substantial increase» in personal tax allowances for lower and middle - income people from April 2011 - rather than the Conservative plan to raise employees» NI thresholds

The first reason is that, almost three years after Gordon Brown left Downing Street, more people still blame Labour rather than the Conservatives for the state of the economy and the public spending cuts that Osborne has imposed.

This is mostly due to a sharp fall in the percentage of people who have faith in Labour's ability to run the economy (down 18 points since the election), rather than any great increase for the Conservatives (up 4 since the election).

Labour's David Miliband claims, in a recent Spectator article, that there is a contradiction between David Cameron's emphasis on people «turning to each other» rather than to the state, and the Conservative leader's call for state intervention on the environment.

They have observed, for instance, that many daters would rather admit to being fat than liberal or conservative, that white people are reluctant to date outside their race and that there are ways to detect liars.

The welcome effect is that people took it as a matter of course that stocks were real businesses bought for ownership, although stock buyers had the reputation of being slick and wily because their ownership positions were based on the current and future profitability of companies rather than secured bonds which had been the hallmark of traditional conservative investing accounts because property could be sold to return part of your principal in the event that the business failed.

While Trump may well take Iowa tomorrow, it's widely acknowledged that Ted Cruz has the strongest grass - roots level of organization among conservative evangelicals and other conservatives, in contrast to Marco Rubio's weak organization that relies on media rather than putting people in the field.

* «Old Labor» people in the more conservative unions and the Labor Party who take a narrowly economic view of workers» interests and have a dislike of environmentalists and other new social movement activists which is affective rather than intellectual — indeed, is anti-intellectual.

If you want to communicate, rather than wave tribal flags for your fellow «conservatives», you need to care what other people mean by those words.

The fact that monthly investment plans do not erode the capital makes them a good choice for conservative people looking for capital protection, rather than capital growth.