Sentences with phrase «strong liberal tradition»

The Dutch have done much soul - searching over why a country with such a strong liberal tradition has a socking great cuckoo in its political nest.

Of course the arguments for improving the world of work are rooted in strong liberal tradition.

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Given all that, it is perhaps surprising that 55 percent of the Protestant congregations we studied — slightly more among conservatives, slightly less among liberals — report that they consider themselves strong standard - bearers of their denominational tradition.

David L. Schindler criticizes the liberal view of the human person that he sees encoded into the American project in First Things, to which Richard John Neuhaus responded with a more positive view of our national heritage, in which religious faith and a strong tradition of civic associations moderate the excesses of liberal individualism.

I am an ordained minister (in the tradition that tried to deny me), the wife of an ordained minister turned coin dealer and stay at home dad, the mother of two (a feisty little girl and a strong - willed boy), and the chaplain at a women's liberal arts university.

In what is perhaps the most enigmatic statement of the article, Purnell comments that while Labour has «strong roots in the liberal tradition... we are not a liberal party».

There is much common ground, too, with the ideas for «community - wealth building» being developed very concretely by the Democracy Collaborative in the US, though there is a stronger emphasis in their work on the need to root capital in specific places than one usually finds in the alternative liberal tradition.

Albany needs a strong leader; a leader in the NY liberal tradition.