Sentences with phrase «social conservative agenda»

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

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In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parConservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the parconservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

Now they blatantly take on the Republican and conservative voters of American with a purely Roman Catholic social agenda?

He makes a fool of the conservative social agenda, then embraces it in the end.

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

If the GOP allow their agenda to be dominated by the social conservatives they will just shoot themselves in the foot and give Obama 4 more years.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian agenda.

Having endured for half a century a Court that seized authority not confided to it to lay down as unalterable law a liberal social agenda nowhere to be found in the actual Constitution of the United States, conservatives must decide whether they want a Court that behaves in the same way but in the service of their agenda.

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

The letter dovetails with what the IDC has long asserted in the Senate: Even with a workable Democratic majority of 32 members, the passage of a left - leaning agenda is not a guarantee given the conservative social views of some lawmakers, including Felder and Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat.

Social conservatives have been outraged by legislation to recognise transgender people's new identities and to sanction homosexual partnerships, deemed by the Government as necessary under the HRA or the human rights agenda more widely.

Smith was advised by scientific experts not to reclassify the drug amid signs usage was falling, but many observers concluded Brown wanted to appeal to the Daily Mail with a conservative social agenda.

David Cameron today called for a «revolution in responsibility», as he set out the Conservatives» agenda for social responsibility.

A modern conservative agenda includes lower taxes, school choice, social insurance for all etc..

MELVILLE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted his party's nomination to run for re-election today at the State Democratic Party Convention, proclaiming that he had revived New York from a state of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agenda.

«Their view is an ultra conservative social agenda that sees society through a lens of fear and division.»

He must adopt a social democratic agenda to win an election, and he will certainly lose it if he embraces an old Conservative one.

For years, the Republican «Long Island Nine» in the State Senate stayed out of the way when Cuomo looked to pass liberal social policies like gay marriage and gun control, and supported his fiscally conservative agenda on taxes, education, public sector unions and regulation.

Progressive Conservatives are thrilled to see pay tariffs in the public sector on the agenda and pleased that free schools will be delivered in conjunction with a pupil premium to aid social mobility.

When it comes to developing a policy agenda that delivers fairness and social justice, the Conservative party is leading the political world away from the target - driven, top down, statist approach that Miliband pioneered when he ran the Downing Street policy unit.

WHEN the documentary film March of the Penguins came out in 2005, some Christians tried to exploit it to promote a conservative social agenda.

Action on the other proposals — which make up the so - called «social issues» agenda of legislation promoting greater family choice in education and Christian values for youth — is being pushed by Congressional conservatives and pro-family...

In 2000, social conservatives accepted Bush's ambitious education agenda because they wanted to win.

Four years later, with education near the top of voters» agendas in 2000, social conservatives calculated that they could live with their nominee offering an ambitious federal plan of his own.

DeVos and her ilk have succeeded in politicizing the education debate to such an extent that historically nonpartisan contests have seen clear divides between candidates who defend public education (and are often backed by Democrats, progressives and teacher unions) and candidates who align with the DeVos agenda (and who are often backed by Republicans, social conservatives and corporate interests that favor privatization).

OTOH when it comes to pseudo-Science, i.e. the use of «sciency sounding» terms and phrases to pursue a religious / social / ideological agenda, political ideology seems (to me) to make a big difference: religious types spout creationism (including «intelligent» design) or «divine providence», socialists spout environmentalism (including «global warming»), «conservatives» seem to usually resort to mis - understood, or at least mis - applied engineering formulas, and libertarians are all over the map.

IG Metall called on state premiers, particularly from northern German states, to put the issue high on the agenda during exploratory talks to form a government of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU / CSU block and the Social Democrats (SPD).