Sentences with phrase «rather liberal people»

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But liberals wanted to emphasize meeting the recognized needs of other people rather than converting them to Christianity.

But the ordinary person had to keep fixed in mind that the Syllabus lists liberal theses rather than Catholic doctrines, and then had to go in search of just the right negation.

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.

Rather, the man who had first worked at the intersection of ideas and power during his World War II service at the British Embassy in Washington was a Russo - English exponent of classic American New Deal liberalism: a liberal who believed that government had an obligation to secure the economic, social, and educational conditions under which people could truly exercise their liberty.

«When it comes to a choice between taxing what people choose to buy and taxing work,» wrote the Deputy Prime Minister in the Independent on Sunday on 27 June, «it is liberal to come down on the side of consumption rather than payroll taxes.

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.

However, I'm always slightly wary of constituency polls in Liberal Democrat held seats — the effect of incumbency and tactical voting is far higher for Lib Dem MPs, and when you ask a generic voting intention I think many people give their national preference, rather than how they would actually vote in their own constituency.

«Our lack of self confidence and our willingness to be defined as being a party of timid centrists rather than bold liberals means people look at us and may be reassured that we will be a brake on the other two, but that's hardly a reason to vote for us,» he said.

My two preferred explanations are that people who did not vote claim they did (and tend to claim they voted Labour) and that Labour supporters who voted tactically for the Liberal Democrats in their own particular constituency claim they voted for the party that they actually supported, rather than the party they voted for.

As Chris Huhne has argued in Chapter 12, on climate change, Liberal Democrats do not argue that people should be prevented from flying or driving their cars, but rather that the true environmental costs of their actions should be reflected in the price that they pay when they fly or drive.

On Monday, Mandelson, a former business secretary and party adviser, said he preferred the Liberal Democrats» proposal to extend the council tax system, saying that would be better than «just sort of clobbering people with a rather sort of crude short - term mansion tax».

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.

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

Some people will recognize liberal lifting of ideas from such prison films as Cool Hand Luke and The Shawshank Redemption, but obviously the film would rather play for laughs than in any political commentary.

The marketplace model in higher education has, along with its benefits, also led lots of people to get narrow, skill - focused degrees rather than seek a broad liberal education.

The Art Party is not a formal political party but rather a pressure group and natural home for progressive liberal people to unite on issues of agreement.»

Robbed of being true journalists and fueled by an increasingly liberal, progressive university system producing people who want to influence the news rather then report it, we have today's MSM.

People who expected all along that global warming was junk science, that they would rather have good jobs and inexpensive energy than pursue some liberal dream of, you know, replacing all fossil fuel with wind and solar power.»