Sentences with phrase «rather than a conservative»

Their principles seems to us more libertarian rather than conservative.

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

Populist conservatives would also need to show that while Huckabee can talk with some eloquence about the struggles of a single mother, he'll follow that with meandering, bizarre stories about students and their desks rather than conservative policy solutions.

The press styles John Kasich as a moderate rather than a conservative Republican.

The reaction to Martin Luther King's murder — He brought it on himself, for example — is a calloused, uncompassionate response rather than a conservative response.

Most Liberal Democrat activists want the party to support Labour rather than the Conservatives in government after the next general election, a poll has found.

Most voters in Labour - held constituencies want the SNP to help Labour rather than the Conservatives in the event of a hung parliament.

The fact that David Cameron leads a coalition rather than a Conservative administration has given the group a rare freedom to criticise government policy and suggest alternatives.

Nick Clegg should make clear that he still supports a fully elected second house rather than another Conservative - inspired compromise.

Labour now thinks that it was too easily diverted earlier in the Parliament into attacking Clegg's party rather than the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband concentrated his fire on the banks rather than the Conservatives on the opening day of the Labour party conference in Manchester, with a threat to split them apart if he made it to Downing Street.

I have absolutely no knowledge of what is the truth here; the problem is that Caroline Spelman has become the story, rather than Conservative politics.

Any righteous pretence that it was really about him being political, rather than Conservative, was immediately put into question when Labour (unsuccessfully) tried to get Deputy Leader of the Board Lorna Reith appointed to replace Cooke straightaway.

More importantly: how were the Conservatives convinced that it was the Liberal rather than Conservative candidate they should throw their weight behind?

Tim Farron MP is asked whether he and his party would prefer to be in coalition with Labour rather than the Conservatives.

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.

He's a liberal Tory rather than a Conservative.

Indeed, the vast majority of seats that have chosen candidates to date have been target seats, rather than Conservative seats, for the very sensible reason that they wish to have candidates in place at an early stage.

In other words, voting for the sitting Lib Dem MP rather than the Conservative candidate will only serve to lessen the chances of a new Government being formed by David Cameron.

I know that sounds weird, but I prefer seeing young girls in wilder styles rather than conservative ones.

Baumbach salts his supposed urbanity with liberal rather than conservative trimmings, however.

The more traditionally European style crank helps the engine rev higher; it has a redline of 8250rpm rather than the conservative 6500rpm limit of the standard car.

Its focus on jumping and all its variations is bold and visionary rather than conservative and safe, and it manages to make the familiar new again and again.

Not exact matches

That's because, rather than handing the capital over to any one of 17 government agencies with a finger in the innovation pie, or giving the money to the Business Development Bank of Canada, which deployed just $ 408 million of its $ 18.4 billion balance sheet to the venture capital industry, the Conservatives have decided to invest that money directly in entrepreneurs.

As its name suggests, the blog is focused largely on dividend paying stocks rather than value or growth stocks, which makes it better suited for conservative income investors.

I support the NDP government's decision continue investing in public services and much - needed public infrastructure projects rather than slashing - and - burning, as the opposition conservative would do.

It is likely that the marauding band of conservatives were coveting the party's brand name rather than its moderate - conservative platform.

I also used very conservative assumptions where appropriate since I'd much rather be wrong on the low side than wrong on the high side when estimating net worth.

As I wrote earlier this month, the NDP subtly shifted their messaging over the past few months, focusing on launching new programs and projects that they argue will «make lives better for Albertans,» rather than trying to out - flank the conservatives on economic issues.

Despite Trump's complaints during the presidential race that the Fed was aiding Democrats in keeping rates ultra-low under President Barack Obama, his choices for a chairman and for other slots on the Fed's board have been moderates rather than hard - core conservatives who would favor a faster tightening of credit.

The Conservatives also recommend that the Government focus on the annual deficit as its fiscal anchor rather than the debt - to - GDP ratio.

On the right, the conservative hermeneutic prefers a silent pope because, from the conservative perspective, we already have enough doctrine and it will always stay the same, like a petrified forest rather than a living body.

I listened to two local conservative radio talk shows today and Cruz was definitely the man of the hour, but I think that Cruz's support among talk radio listeners, etc (if he can keep it) can form a floor rather than a ceiling for his support.

In Harris» narrative, it's hard to see exactly how she comes to the conclusion that concerns for «the poor's rights» demand aligning with liberal politics rather than those of Christian conservatives, but by the end, Harris finds herself on the opposite side of the political spectrum, voting with those she had envisioned as the manifestation of evil while growing up.

«From the standpoint of conservative Republicans, the fact that Paul Ryan is down - the - line pro-life is much more important than the fact that he's a Catholic rather than a Protestant,» he said.

It should also be noted that Bachmann, who marketed herself as real conservative fighter with a «titanium spine» preferred to attack Romney's more conservative opponents rather than the establishment favorite.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

Reno's argument strikes me as an argument more for resurrecting a conservative society, or a generically «religious» society, rather than a distinctly Christian society.

Rather than sharing the room with a large elephant while he discusses whether BP is overpaying for its spill, I would like to see Olson first defend the mess he made of democracy in California while sharing the stage with conservative luminaries who have yet to embrace judicial activism.

The new black conservatives assume that without affirmative action programs, white Americans will make choices on merit rather than on race.

However, a more conservative interpretation of the Matthew text, taken for example by Mark A Yarhouse, author of Understanding Gender Dysphoria (IVP), is that «those who make themselves eunuchs» in this text «almost certainly refers to those who choose not to marry (rather than suggesting they were castrating themselves).»

Thus, most black Americans view the new black conservative assault on the black liberal leadership as a step backward rather than forward.

«Moving - space»» also is conservative since its movement results from provincial rather than intercultural considerations.

A compassionate - conservative approach to governing would result in a different and smaller federal role — using free - market ideas to strengthen families and communities, rather than constructing centralized bureaucracies.

That is, conservatives would rather execute criminals than the innocent, and liberals would rather execute the innocent than criminals.

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

Organized around the political careers of Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Newt Gingrich, the story opts to explain how conservatives took over the Republican party rather than explain why.

The first thing to remember is that the use of the term «conservative» (as much as the use of «liberal») is a political act rather than an act of description.

In the future, conservatives should try to appeal to both groups by focusing on the economic priorities of those groups rather than ethnic gamesmanship.In the 2012 campaign, Romney's combination of economic priorities and immigration messaging proved especially toxic.