Sentences with phrase «seen by liberals»

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Germany's car sector is anxiously waiting to see what transport and environmental policies will be adopted by the new government, which is set to include both pro-business liberals and hard - line environmentalists.

Milrad said he saw the populist rhetoric as a sign that Clinton «has been listening» to backers such as himself who want her to embrace some of the economic policies pushed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a hero of liberal Democrats.

These are not views shared by the Liberal Democrats, who see last night's result as their biggest chance of recovery since their electoral wipe out last year.

By 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rateBy 2017, B.C. families and industries will have seen their power costs increase by 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rateby 80 per cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.

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:

«Although promising to take immediate action on the recommendations made by the Missing Women's Inquiry, we've seen little substantive action from the B.C. Liberal government,» said New Democrat women's critic Maurine Karagianis.

If God himself came down from heaven to see the Reverend on this issue he would back Obama because he gets paid by the liberal agenda.

Gay rights are favored by rich liberals in large part because they're seen as a cost - free way toward greater equality.

The other theme, regularly expressed by those on the right in our politics, is to blame everything on the failures of «Great Society liberals,» to chalk the situation up to the follies of big government and big spending, to see the problem as the legacy of a tragically misconceived welfare state.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

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.

To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.

These countries which had seen exceptional growth rates, were presented by the defenders of the liberal order as development models which demonstrated the benefits of the globalisation of the world economy.

We have seen that the liberal state can not really limit itself; its act of self - abnegation is the very act by which it refuses integration into an order of nature or grace that precedes and exceeds it.

Surely the liberal christian communities would come to see the rightness of the theologies of liberation being generated globally by christians and others struggling for bread and dignity.

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.

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.

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

In the radically individualistic claims made for privacy by many liberal theorists, we see the introduction of a dangerous idea of autonomy or practical self - sufficiency into political discourse.

Having seen where the vaunted liberal pride in human independence and self - salvation had led theology, Barth was convinced that only by absolutizing the grasping, seizing management of God could human presumption and pride be curbed.

If my own experience is anything to go by, by bringing him up a Catholic I may be condemning him to fights in the playground, bullying in the classroom, being endlessly baited at parties / lectures / social gatherings [always by self - professed open - minded liberals] and to seeing his faith lied about and depicted in wholly negative terms by every possible media outlet.

Well let's see... abstinence is preached / taught mostly in the Bible Belt and the Bible Belt has BY FAR the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the country (while the liberal NorthEast... see Massachusetts above has the lowest rates of teen pregnancy).

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.

Believe it or not but Jesus, by the current ideology of the TEA Party, would be considered a «liberal» today and castigated as a lazy, homeless bum by the GOP (I am not saying this to be mean, think deep about this and you will see the truth of this statement.

@Patrick Williams «Believe it or not but Jesus, by the current ideology of the TEA Party, would be considered a «liberal» today and castigated as a lazy, homeless bum by the GOP (I am not saying this to be mean, think deep about this and you will see the truth of this statement.

This was a difficult thing to do and was made doubly difficult by those liberals who saw no need for a change.

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

The church was ideologically still locked in an encounter with the French Revolution, which it saw as the work of a liberal sect spawned ultimately by the Protestant Reformation and inimical to the principles of true religion.

In these days of rampant atheism and relativism among critical elites in Western societies, of genteel nihilism and «liberal irony» a la Richard Rorty, it is not difficult to see that both Judaism and Christianity are being slated for disappearance by a number of our most «advanced» thinkers.

(See N. Perrin, Kingdom, pp. 37 - 57) The Jesus of the older liberal faith - image has to be transformed precisely because he was, in some fundamental respects, inconsistent with the historical Jesus revealed to us as a result of the work set in motion by konsequente Eschatologie.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

You see whatever you want to see, and you want to be outraged by liberals.

Fbook is a culturally liberal organization led by a dude who people see as possibly running as Dem for Prez down the road (GOP mad), 2.

She is not short on prescriptions, either, and would like to see the government make a «big, bold offer» by asking Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former health minister, to chair a commission on funding the NHS and social care.

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

Research by ICM for the Guardian newspaper saw both the Tories and Liberal Democrats suffer as an outright majority of public opinion turned against the government's controversial changes to the health service.

Like Reeves (and for that matter like Clegg), most of today's liberals see individuals as free - floating, untethered social atoms, quite unlike the rooted, flesh and blood individuals presupposed by the social liberals of yesteryear.

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.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

Last week's Liberal Democrat conference saw Treasury chief secretary Danny Alexander announce the latest government strategy aimed at closing the tax gap - the difference between the tax that should have been collected by HMRC and what is actually collected.

The party in government is therefore seen by many critics to be advancing an ideological agenda divorced from the socially liberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat suppliberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat suppLiberal Democrat supporters.

In Bromley and Enfield, Labour candidates fell short by a margin of less than the Women's Equality party votes, while in Richmond the Liberal Democrat / Green alliance saw off the Tory challenge for a second time.

But I have seen similar views expressed by Liberal Democrat members who align themselves with Mr Clegg's agenda.

Democrats supporting Mayer see the race as the next chapter in a narrative in which liberals mobilize an unprecedented amount of energy and involvement driven by a desire to combat President Donald Trump's agenda.

What I see much less of — though perhaps I have just missed it — is a similar degree of self - criticism by social liberal Lib Dems.

The sudden, synthetic fury we're seeing from the Labour party is nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the most important change coming into effect: the tax cut for ordinary working people delivered by the Liberal Democrats.

«As you know Labour are now in formal talks with the Liberal Democrats to see if we can agree a stable government to secure the economic recovery and change our politics,» the letter, signed by the joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson, said.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.