Sentences with phrase «struggles against the conservative»

She struggles against the conservative forces in court who have no tolerance for these ideas nor for her awakening sexuality and quest for knowledge.

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A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Both of the major camps of social conservative reaction to the challenges of the last few years are right in part: We have always had to struggle against the inclination of our liberal society to furiously pound itself into what Edmund Burke called «the dust and powder of individuality,» and to resist its elevation of choice above commitment.

As a conservative Christian I'm against perverse sexual acts of any kind, murder, gossip, abortion, and a whole gamut of immoral actions that we all struggle with and see others struggle with.

Certainly the conservatives learned an important lesson from the war and struggled thereafter to promote equality at home, to fight against the shortsightedness and personal greed polluting our air and rivers, to champion safer foods and medicines, to extend the promise of American freedom to a broader and broader cross-section of the population?

For Labour, the party's organisational and membership struggled against the weaknesses exposed in the 1930s against a very superior Conservative organisation.

If he is unsuccessful, Republicans and Conservatives will be unable to present a united front against Gillibrand, a Democratic appointee who has struggled to gain recognition in statewide polls.

Against Teachout's celebrity and impressive fundraising — she should be approaching $ 1.5 million while Yandik struggles for a third of that — was a troubling stat inside the Siena poll which suggested, as has Yandik, that a run from the left might not succeed in a moderate - to - conservative district in which Democrats and Republicans have almost equal enrollments.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)- Republican leaders meeting in Des Moines on Saturday were hoping to close the book on a bitter primary battle for governor that pitted conservative - against - conservative in a struggle for control of the Republican Party.

The standard narrative in 20th - century art history is that painters had to struggle against tradition and conservative institutions to forge a new language of abstraction.