Sentences with phrase «social liberals who»

«I don't think of them as social liberals who wanted to overthrow the government,» she added.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

For many of the rebels, business secretary Vince Cable remains the great hope: a Keynesian social liberal who has never troubled to hide his discomfort at serving in a Conservative - dominated cabinet.

Not exact matches

And don't get me wrong, we got a lot of white liberal votes, but they tended to be people who were involved in social justice.

Nevermind that B.C.'s Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, who was responsible for reviewing the environmental and social impacts of Woodfibre LNG, also has a mandate to develop an LNG export industry — and he's one of the BC Liberals» largest fundraisers.

On Friday, Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner gave notice of motion to have Kenney and «workers who have lost their jobs» to temporary foreign workers appear before the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities to address problems with the foreign workers program.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

I think it comes down to the reality that not only are most news reporters and producers liberals themselves, they are also embedded in social networks of people who are much more partisan liberals.

This habit is shared, not only by revolutionaries, but also by constitutionally - minded socialists, and even by many who would describe themselves as liberals, and who locate the instrument of social transformation not in violent confrontation, but in law.

I don't know, but I'll risk a guess that the editors thought it worth a momentary suspension of their liberal propensities to have someone take on with gusto, which Laurent certainly does, those terrible Catholic neoconservatives who construe Catholic social doctrine in a way supportive of a market economy and liberal polity.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

If the liberal definition of who Jefferson is is found to be faulty, it follows the foundation stones of much of the liberal political and social agendas are turned into sinking sand.

It flourished as a social phenomenon in Russia during the reign of Alexander II, one of the most liberal czars, who was ultimately killed in a terrorist act.

Where Wright is a liberal mainline Protestant, emphasizing liberation and social action, Obama's new circle of pastors includes theologically conservative evangelicals like Hunter and Jakes, who stress God's grace and personal transformation.

I'm a Kingdom of God focused woman, postmodern, liberal to the conservative and conservative to the liberal in matters of both religion and politics (not an easy task, I assure you), a social justice wanna - be trying to do some good, and a nondenominational charismatic recovering know - it - all who has unexpectedly fallen back in love with the Church.

This broad, liberal creed supported by a set of idealistic categories that never questioned seriously the progressive revelation of the mind of God in the existing personal and social relationships of man has been too much at home in this prosperous world to need to call out a rebellious Danish religious prophet who challenged the very categories of its thought.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

Here the defenders of the humanities fall into two camps: those who think the liberal arts promote the effective acquisition of wealth, and those who think they promote social and political goods.

This dynamic allows for social liberalism to take the offensive, while allowing socially liberal candidates to seem like reasonable people who only bring up social issues when they are forced to do so.

By taking the lead in pushing the (phony) contraception issue and the (real) abortion issue, Udall didn't just define himself as someone who is a social liberal.

Romney has struggled to win over many social conservatives who felt that his past positions on social issues were too liberal and many evangelicals who raised theological concerns over Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

The military isn't exactly on the leading edge as crusaders for the liberal agenda on social issues and even though atheists are finally getting recognition and not just rejection in the overall community, there are still many in the military who think differently and won't reccomend this soldier for a higher rank.

It becomes the mission of the liberal church to present the claims of the Christian faith to those who have been most impressed by the empirical approach of the sciences or by those critical social needs which call for rapid and thoroughgoing change.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

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.

I am agnostic will vote for Rom or who ever the republican is... I am a social liberal... religion has no business in politics

With the move, President Donald Trump — who indicated during his campaign that he might protect LGBT rights — has sided with social conservatives on a key issue at the center of a broader cultural battle between conservatives and liberals.

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Over the past two years, Nick Clegg and his advisers have been determinedly trying to focus the Lib Dem vote down to those who would vote for a European style social and economic liberal party, a triumphant strategy which has been reflected in the opinion polls.

The 73 - year - old financial information industry billionaire, who earned a reputation as a social liberal with strong Wall Street ties during his time as New York City mayor, has considered a White House run for years.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

Where Liberal Democrat ministers can argue for fairness and social justice directly against those who seek to curtail them.

Responding to the vote (by 314 to 270) of the Liberal Democrat Conference to reject a call from Shirley Williams to support the Health and Social Care, Dr Evan Harris — who proposed the deletion of the lines which...

Even better, they've broken us down into conservative and liberal buckets, which is perhaps more straightforward than it sounds, since someone who's a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney and the American Enterprise Institute is probably fairly conservative (this kind of «sentiment analysis» can be a real pain to automate when you're talking about individual social media posts, but I suspect it gets easier when you can figure in someone's overall pattern of social behavior, as Facebook can).

Yet the doubts persist, even among those who should be his natural allies on the left - leaning social liberal wing of the party.

It was after all the social liberal, William Beveridge who first outlined the Welfare State in 1942.

Anyone who is a member of the Social Liberal Forum is eligible to stand and membership of the SLF is free to all members of the Liberal Democrats.

[6] Correspondingly, classical liberals tended to favour cutting taxes for the poorest in order to increase opportunity, contrasting with social liberals, who would rather see higher spending on public services and the disadvantaged in order to reduce income inequality.

-LSB-...] UPDATE: The Social Liberal Forum, who proposed the motion, have written up the debate on their site.

-LSB-...] Evan Harris, the former Lib Dem MP who moved the amendment, issued the following statement on the Social Liberal Forum website, stating his view that conference had clearly called for further substantial amendments to be made -LSB-...]

Charles Kennedy, who had been elected as a Social Democrat, eventually became leader of the Liberal Democrats.

The comments earned Cuomo — who has pointedly refused to return the $ 64,000 Trump and his family have donated to his past campaigns — ire from liberal groups, and apparently prompted him to backpedal furiously on social media this morning.

For them, if the party wants to rebuild its message and appeal post-2015, it will need a more socially liberal candidate, such as Tim Farron, who can steer the party's identity back in a social democratic direction.

All British liberals are social liberals, even the ones who claim to be more «economically» liberal than others.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

He was elected in 2010 as a «new Democrat» who married centrist economic policies — a cap on property tax increases, business tax cuts, a reduction in pension benefits for new public employees — with liberal social policies like strict gun control and support for same - sex marriage.

The 23 year old who came from 4th place to gain Ross Cromarty and Skye, that same Charles Kennedy who inspired so many who had doubts to support the merger of Social Democrats and Liberals.