Sentences with phrase «support more liberal»

In each of these places, as in most major American cities, a majority of residents support more liberal migration policies.

Every time I get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all I do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon I realize the propaganda and hate these clowns try and spread about their own political / religious views I revert back to supporting the more liberal viewpoint).

One faction of the party has sought to play up a broad economic message focused on jobs, while the left - wing, Sanders - boosting faction supports a more liberal economic justice message countering the Trump administration.

Not exact matches

I believe pet in cabin policies should be more liberal than they are currently, and that cost and restrictiveness have led to the explosion of using the claim of emotional support as a justification to avoid those rules.

The fact Canadian troops could end up supporting counter-terror operations nonetheless came as a shock to NDP defence critic Randall Garrison, who blasted the Liberals for not telling Canadians more about the Mali mission.

However, the Liberal victory with Quebec support in 1921 meant that French Canada would have a more prominent place in Canadian politics.

The Peterborough Examiner - Federal Liberal leadership contender Alex Burton searches for support in smaller centres B.C. lawyer Alex Burton stopped in Peterborough on Monday on the 10th day of a 40 - day cross-country tour in his bid to become the new... Read More

The Liberals have chosen to invest much more time in electioneering than governing and this is reflected in the lack of leadership we are seeing today in B.C. Everyone from students and families to seniors and skilled workers are facing real challenges with no meaningful support from the B.C. Liberal government.»

«She is living in poverty because the B.C. Liberal government is taking the money her dad pays to support her, and using it to pay for their misguided priorities, like spending more than a million dollars hiring failed B.C. Liberal candidates and giving insiders cushy appointments after the last election.»

There is wide spread support for this proposed law, but the B.C. Liberals have failed to take action since concluding a public consultation more than a year ago.

This attack can only intensify as black liberal leaders find it more and more difficult to pass the conservative litmus tests for pro-Americanism in foreign affairs: uncritical support for U.S. policy toward Israel and U.S. intervention in Central America.

As a more or less libertarian, I'm used to having tom explain economics 101 stuff to liberals, but lately it seems it's the conservatives who least understand the markets they claim to support.

I think the liberals would be more accepting while the Bible thumpers supporting this guy on this forum would probably tell him to «Go Home».

«Some of us just have a hard time supporting a person who said he was going to be more liberal on gay rights than Ted Kennedy,» said Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, referring to remarks Romney made in a 1994 letter.

Ironically, the «original intent» of the Framers, the hallmark of recent conservative jurisprudence, still has no more passionate advocates than secular liberals who (like Justices Black and Douglas before them) look to Jefferson and Madison to support their own separationist preferences.

There was also the undoubted fact that the «new movements» which the Pope supported — of which the Legion of Christ, with its lay wing Regnum Christi, was one of the mosteffective — were themselves deeply distrusted by those «liberals» who preferred, rather than living lives of holiness and self - denial, to live out their apostolates in the more congenial ways of the national and diocesan bureaucracies, the groves of academe and the haunts of the bienpensant media.

The liberal party, represented later by the Pharisees, accepted the new teaching and won to its credence and support the more religious Jews.

But the base of support of the expansionists of the British empire in India did not come from them, rather it was influenced by a more inclusive and liberal philosophical bent.

Polarization took over, and by the time the Democratic Party (with the almost unanimous support of mainline liberal churchpeople) had reformed itself enough to take the presidential nomination from traditional liberals and bestow it on a more radical candidate, the crusade's tactics had doomed the movement to minority status.

Because the Unitarian Congregationalists were usually the leaders in the community and appeared to stand for a more common - sense and liberal position, they had little difficulty in obtaining the support of the majority in the parish and so gained control of the church property.

Wow this is fun to watch... the extreme religious right is being forced to choose between either 4 more years of leftist liberal gay supporting Obama, or having to vote for a guy who they've been taught their whole lives in sunday school belongs to a polygamous satanic worshiping cult.

One major and legitimate reason for Christian support of liberalism is that liberal thought in this respect corresponds more closely with Christian belief.

The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization.

Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.

But what's more interesting to me is that, according to the Times article, the issue has cut across party lines, with some liberals supporting Ms. Bachmann's view, and some pro-breast-feeding conservatives taking issue with her comments.

Still, Cuomo sought to shore up support from business leaders that he won in 2010, despite concerns that he will be forced in to a more liberal agenda next year.

To your list of liberal philosophers who support progressive taxation, we can add Adam Smith, who wrote that, «It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion».

Hillary Clinton said she doesn't support abolishing the death penalty but would like to see it used more judiciously, another point of contrast with the most liberal members of her party and with her nearest rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

The liberal is more inclined to support more laws restricting personal freedoms where the individual may be empowered to harm, cause discord, or potentially encourage inequality.

Given that Scottish Labour, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens all support increasing tax in some form, the logic of that statement would be higher tax, but then the intent was more political: by tying the other parties (not, one suspects, the Scottish Tories) into the process, Sturgeon is heading off future battles.

So it is unsurprising that UKIP support in the polls comes much more from former Conservative voters than from Labour or the Liberal Democrats.

Given the huge changes in overall levels of party support for the Liberal Democrats, SNP and UKIP since the last election, voters are likely to be much more unsure of the parties relative standings in their constituency.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

As a matter of policy, many early Labour MPs such as Will Thorne and Herbert Morrison spurned the Liberal Party's support of free trade, «frankly recognising that control over imports represented a more logical policy for a socialist government than free trade» (Pugh 2010: 29).

He is attracting more support from urban and metro areas and looks to do better with a mix of both liberal and conservative segments including Close - in Couples (17 percent overall; 53 percent share of donors among Republicans), Cosmopolitans (15 percent overall; 48 percent of Republicans), and Second City Elite (20 percent overall; 39 percent of Republicans).

This includes fixed terms for five years (when average time between elections has been four); the vote to dissolve parliament before calling a general election requiring 55 per cent support in the House of Commons (meaning the Liberal Democrats can not withdraw their support from the Tories and cause a general election as the Lib - Dems, Labour and other parties altogether hold less than 55 per cent of the seats); and stuffing the House of Lords with many more Conservatives and Liberals to weaken opposition there.

A YouGov poll showing the Green Party has more support than the Liberal Democrats raises yet more questions as to why the party is being excluded from a planned series of debates ahead of next year's election...

Despite a sharp decline in support for the Liberal Democrats (their support currently averages 8 % according to four of the leading pollsters), smaller parties are knocking more loudly at the door of the Commons than ever before.

Lorigo criticizes Mike Long for supporting a «liberal» Republican for Governor, but he has no problem supporting Democrats for State Senate, which will merely ensure that more liberal policies are advanced in the Senate.

The liberal proponents of the proposal struggled for more than two years to push a 10 - cent surcharge, before cutting the toll in half and winning the support of Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

In addition, a donor to many liberal causes, Bill Samuels, has spent more than $ 100,000 to support a «yes» vote.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

Following a letter from more than 100 businesses to Downing Street urging the Prime Minister to approve the project as soon as possible, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have reiterated their support for the lagoon and demanded the project be given the go ahead in the budget.

Skelos said Cuomo, a Democrat, brokered the deal to garner more liberal support for his re-election, while liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a driving force behind helping Democrats flip the Senate, is seeking statewide influence.

Local success boosted the party's chances in Westminster elections as voters were more likely to support the Liberal Democrats where it had a chance of winning, thereby diluting concerns that voting for the party would be a wasted effort.

This surge in popular support may not translate into many seats for the Greens (it is likely to be three more at best), but the party has seen its membership swell by 60 % since September, which may cause serious harm to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.