Sentences with phrase «seen by conservatives»

Though the voucher fight had been lost, charter schools, which receive government funding but operate independently of the public - school system (and are seen by conservative policy groups as a gateway drug to privatization) sprang up across the state.

Not exact matches

Another problem with claiming the CMHC's $ 600 - billion cap sounds the death knell is that no political party in Canada wants to see house prices plummet like they did in the U.S.. By reigning in the CMHC, the Conservatives are attempting to moderate the boom, not tip into it into a meltdown.

Another reason is that women tend to be more conservative in running their businesses, so you see generally stronger balance sheets with more personal equity and less debt than in businesses owned by men.

We've seen litigation by coastal communities, railway activists, tribal communities, and even conservatives who claim our state is not for the explotative profit by companies from outside our state.

The report authors also say they have seen significant new activity by political conservatives seeking to protect political free speech by companies, among other issues.

The Conservative government's tax relief measures have seen low - and middle - income Canadians receive proportionately greater relief, she said, with about one - third of the personal income tax relief provided by the government in 2013 going to Canadians with incomes in the first tax bracket (under $ 43,561).

Past Conservative voters who own small businesses view this proposal as unfair by nearly seven - to - one, and they are joined in this opinion by a plurality of Liberal - voting business owners (43 %), as seen in the following graph:

While the New Democrats continue to try to shame Conservative backbenchers — see Olivia Chow's statement on Monday and Niki Ashton's statement on Tuesday — the Conservatives have responded by finding new ways to lament for the prospect of a cap - and - trade system.

MP Richards adds that vote splitting between the two Conservative parties was the reason for last year's results; by uniting the parties we will once again see a Conservative majority in Alberta.

Politicians always follow the «look busy» rule: when bad things happen, they have to be seen to be responding, even if there is little likelihood their actions will have any effect. But in this case, Harper was motivated by an additional strategic judgment. Perversely, with his re-election campaign sidetracked by ongoing revelations in the Duffy / Wright case, the Prime Minister actually wants Canadians to worry about the economy. Conservative strategists hope that will undermine voters» willingness to consider an alternative government, playing into the traditional frame that Conservatives have the strongest economic «credentials.»

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, which was rejected by Canadians on Oct. 19, had arguably been the most pro-oil industry administration we have seen in decades.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

The strong connections between the federal Conservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the WilConservatives and the Wildrose Party is suspected to have driven away many moderate conservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wilconservatives, who support Alison Redford «s governing Progressive Conservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the WilConservatives and see the by - election campaign as too closely associated with the hard right - wing provincial party (including campaign manager, William McBeath, is also on staff with the Wildrose Party).

«I hope that the families that have been impacted by this, particularly those who see themselves as Republicans, see themselves as conservative in terms of their viewpoints,» Sen. Claire McCaskill (D - MO) told Vox last week.

But fired up as I was about porn culture and sexual violence, and questioning attitudes towards women in the Church, I felt bombarded by messages about conservative «biblical womanhood» that I couldn't identify with and that didn't seem to do anything to challenge the injustice I saw.

And so as you can see, which I have reason to fear you will not see in the film, the message of Coriolanus tends to be conservative: republican politics is beset from the get - go by tragic flaws, and the only programmatic political lessons one might take (which includes the lesson that conditions will seldom let you succeed at applying them) are aristocratic - republican ones.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

Then we see» The Cruz Way: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People» by Daniel Larison in The American Conservative.

Speaking of motherhood... Have you seen the over-the-top article in the Nation about Conservative Christian fears about demographic collapses and efforts to win the various culture wars by out - populating the enemies?

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.

Even some Democrats who opposed the law faced opposition by conservatives who saw the midterm election as a golden opportunity to put a more conservative Republican in office.

The moderates, called «liberals» by their opponents, see the conservative resurgence as an ecclesiastical coup d'état, a great power grab engineered by ruthless church politicians who neither understood nor cared about the great watchword of the Baptist tradition: freedom.

Conservatives say: «Not only will I shout my prayers from the rooftops to be seen and heard by EVERYBODY, but I will demand that forced prayer be reinstated in the schools, and that any child, regardless of their religion, who doesn't say Christian prayers will be severely punished!

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

CNN's Candy Crowley, who moderated Tuesday night's presidential debate, is being called out by Conservatives for what they see as a left bias.

Why hasn't this piece been put on the main CNN web page for all to see how violence is not only being committed by conservatives as the media pretends but also by the gay rights proponents who hate others that disagree with their political views!

Conservative Protestant theology — especially those elements influenced by fundamentalism — is seen as suffering a kind of hubris with regard to truth - claims.

By contrast, conservatives see the failure of Marxian socialism as confirming the warnings of Ludwig von Mises in 1922 in his book Socialism.

It's perhaps the best illustration I've seen of how many unnecessary and potentially dangerous positions have been tacked on to Christianity by conservative evangelicals.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

By seeing this rub for what it is, a permanent problem for a nation which would live under its own laws (not to speak of the laws of nature's God), we are all made into conservatives — and liberals.

Black and Hispanic religious conservatives will expect their white allies to address issues too often seen as «Democratic» by their constituencies — such as racial bias in sentencing.

Scalia's opinion in Brown may then be seen as prescient by conservatives and the solid 7 - 2 decision that left many of us disappointed may yet be seen as a blessing in disguise.

As the seminar returned to the original briefs in Roe v. Wade, seeing them now through the lens of our concern about conservative jurisprudence, something now sprang out: The lawyers for the state of Texas had set forth in their brief an even richer form of the essay produced earlier by Paul Ramsey.

Just read the words of Jesus from a New Testament where his words are in red letters and you'll see that Jesus by today's standards was an ultra-Liberal who would not be allowed on the floor of the Republican Convention, or allowed to be a member of most Conservative Christian churches.

Even Bagby, a University of Kentucky scholar once labeled a «dangerous professor» by conservative author David Horowitiz, recently said in a newspaper interview that Muslims in Kentucky have been spared from popular backlash seen in other states.

Catholics have not used the language of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their views about origins of episcopacy and papacy, and contemporary moderates often try to settle things by going back to biblical accounts of early ministry and communal life.

Sitting through the film on Friday, I saw that the Bears were growing into their identity on offense, where play calling was more of an issue than execution, and the Cowboys were trying to tread water on offense where the lack of execution was dooming their reasonable, conservative play calling by Jason Garret.

However, by the end things had unsurprisingly become a little stale, with Nishino increasingly seen as becoming overly conservative.

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

Whitmill was seen as the favourite after making it on to the final three - person shortlist approved by Conservative HQ, along with Courts and fellow councillor John Cotton.

The conservative nature of the French legal establishment can be seen by her description of finding leftover notepaper in 1964 headed, «The French State, Vichy.»

Not only is he seen as untrustworthy on Europe, for example by reneging on his promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, his whole modernisation strategy since taking over the party leadership in 2005 has been seen by some as an essential betrayal of the party's core, conservative values.

Such a position would be seen quite liberal in the 1960's but would be considered by many as conservative today.

His comments, and the report compiled by Tory MP David Burrowes, will be seen as a direct challenge to Mr Cameron's A-list of parliamentary candidates, which has been designed to improve the overall make up of the Conservative party.

Elements in the platform of the SGP include that the government should be based on the word of God, the Belgic Confession, that «false religion» should be actively averted by the government, and that women can not be part of government (Note: this is a selection of some of the more unusual elements from their platform, which includes many more traditionally conservative points seen in platforms of other conservative parties and less orthodox christian - based parties in The Netherlands and other countries).

«I think it's very interesting that one of the comments that was made yesterday by a senior Hungarian Conservative MP, he said that watching the migrants come into Hungary, seeing the cellphones they had and some of the clothes they were wearing and knowing how much money they had paid to the traffickers to get them there, he made the observation that actually they were better off than the people living in rural Hungary and that is an interesting point.»

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.