Sentences with phrase «socially liberal state»

Mr. Cuomo, who took the stage before Mr. Clinton, spoke in similarly sweeping terms about conservatives threatening the inclusive, socially liberal state he has been the steward of since 2011.

A secular liberal might argue that while Romney was a politician in a socially liberal state for part of his adult life, he has been a Mormon all of his life.

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There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

A more universal benefit system keeps the state out of the business of picking winners, which is both socially and economically more liberal.

If France owns a tradition of being socially liberal — and hails its leading role as the country of the 1789 Revolution and the Declaration on Human Rights — the workings of the state and its policies are not liberal.

Cuomo instead governed as a Clintonian centrist, pushing for a socially liberal agenda (same - sex marriage, abortion rights, gun control) that he hoped would balance out economic policies that prompted the state's highest - ranking GOP official to call him «a good, moderate Republican.»

Brodsky says if you look at Cuomo's policies, he's fiscally conservative on issues like curbing state spending and capping property taxes, but socially liberal on items like raising the minimum age, defending women's reproductive rights, and offering free tuition at public colleges, an idea first proposed by 2016 Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders.