Sentences with phrase «supported by both liberal»

The last time we had occasion to comment on the NCC, it had to do with the organization's being maintained on life support by liberal foundations and special - interest groups.

On suggestion out there, originated from a supply - side economist at the American Enterprise Inst,, and given support by liberal Nation editor William Grieder, is to have the Feds.

And they are also of course exercised at the fact that it will only be possible for this rise to be enacted if it is supported by Liberal Democrat MPs who all promised prior to the election to oppose any rise in fees.

An amendment on the customs union (supported by the Liberal Democrats and some Crossbenchers, Labour and Conservative peers) was passed by 348 votes to 225.

The WFP is supported by liberal organizations as well as the labor movement.

That, as business leaders rightly argue, would be a ridiculous and highly economically damaging policy, albeit one potentially supported by the Liberal Democrats.

«Given the devastating impact the Tory education policies, which are supported by the Liberal Democrats, will have on state education, the leader should have the confidence to face up to the profession and argue the case.»

But Cuomo this year has yoked the proposal to the DREAM Act, which is generally supported by liberals and has stalled in the Senate.

Linking both the DREAM Act — a measure supported by liberals in the Legislature — with the education tax credit has been floated in the Capitol in recent budget negotiations, but lawmakers have insisted the two should be kept as separate issues.

Unfortunately, unlike today, in their long battle our predecessors did not always have the good fortune of being supported by the Liberals.

Both of them conflate the kinds of reforms supported by liberal reforms (regulated charters) with those supported by conservatives (vouchers, loosely or unregulated charters).

The heinous crimes of slander from the House of UnAmerican Activities was supported by liberal notables like John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey amongst others.

Despite Shared Parenting being equally supported by Liberals and Conservatives in the populace, in continuation of the trend of 2016, a partisan divide emerges when Shared Parenting enters the political realm.

The decision to ask the Auditor General to investigate was initiated by the Conservatives, but supported by Liberal Walt Lastewka.

Not exact matches

Yet the risk of a spill from the pipeline itself or from tankers offshore is overwhelmingly borne by B.C. Short of sharing royalty revenues with B.C. — note how both the B.C. Liberals and their NDP opponents support plans for liquefied natural gas terminals, which would boost gas revenues in B.C. — there's no way for Alberta or an Albertan prime minister to bring B.C. onside.

She also managed to pass one budget by tailoring it to satisfy the New Democrats, who helped to trigger the election last month by pulling their support for the Liberals.

If you look at the actual money raised, less money by far than Joe Khan [who placed second and was the frontrunner at the beginning of the race], less institutional support than Joe Khan, who in many ways was the mainstream liberal candidate.

Soros was a teenage Jewish refugee who barely escaped persecution by the Nazis, and he is now a philanthropist supporting the cause of refugees and a liberal world order.

Trudeau's minority lasted as long as it did thanks to support from the New Democratic Party (in return for the implementation of some NDP policies), while Harper's was aided by disarray in the opposition Liberal Party — Paul Martin's resignation, a lengthy and divisive leadership convention, and the unwillingness of the new leader, Stephane Dion, to defeat Harper until the Grits had begun to reduce their party and personal debts, and developed new policies (notably the Green Shift).

After all, the Federal Liberals had already stepped on the scale to try to support Clark, when, in mid-campaign, they sent out a public letter suggesting they would consider her suggestion of retaliating against the U.S. by slapping counter tariff on American thermal coal.

«The Canadian Cancer Society supports federal action to implement tobacco plain packaging, as proposed today by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.»

Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.

Moore has oft repeated his mantra that supporting the arts makes good economic sense, in a statement perceived by some as criticism of the B.C. Liberal government's cuts to arts funding.

Does he stand by his statements now that the B.C. Liberals support the same policies?

VANCOUVER — B.C. New Democrats are marking Homelessness Action Week by calling on the B.C. Liberal government to take real action to help the homeless by passing poverty reduction legislation and providing real support to communities.

The B.C. Liberals» child support clawbacks hurt B.C.'s poorest kids, and have been widely panned by the media and general public as callous.

Under this agreement, the Liberals and NDP agreed to form a coalition government, which would be supported by the Bloc.

That trading mentality is shared by the Liberal government, who has a history of supporting trade through the negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the World Trade Organization negotiations and is committed to debating the merits of the Trans - Pacific Partnership, the details of which were released in early November.

A motion supporting Gay - Straight Alliances introduced by Liberal Party MLA Kent Hehr was defeated in April 2014 and a private members» bill introduced by Liberal Laurie Blakeman in November 2014 derailed the PC agenda for the fall sitting.

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).

Mr. Ford is running again and the Liberals and NDP, represented by Rick Szostak and Mike Scott, are expected to play minor supporting roles in this contest.

Meanwhile, a poll of Calgary - Centre voters conducted by Forum Research for the Huffington Post showed the Conservatives with 44 % support, the Liberals with 21 %, the New Democrats with 14 % and the Green Party with 12 %.

Mr. Ceci supported the Liberal Party when it was led by Kevin Taft and endorsed Mr. Swann when he ran for the party's leadership in 2008.

Opponents of Bill C - 51 claimed that new spy laws passed by the former Conservative government with support from the Liberals could target Canadian citizens who oppose the expansion of oil pipelines.

He is hoping to build on the support earned by Liberal Harvey Locke in the 2012 by - election.

O'Leary say his chief goal is to find a way to bring down the current Liberal government, and he feels he can use his considerable social media and television presence to do that as party leader or by supporting another candidate.

· B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger expressed his support for the plant by saying «I know that various people are saying very emotional things about it, but we trust scientists and engineers when we get on airplanes.

Economic devastation and neglect — Changes by the B.C. Liberals to the Forest Act resulted in the concentration of ownership in the forest industry, reducing competition in many regions and ultimately killing tens of thousands of well - paying, family - supporting jobs.

As a result, I don't just disagree with liberal Catholics about the problem of poverty in twenty - first - century America; I think they contribute to the problem by supporting programs that are ill designed and have many negative consequences.

The association with the Religious Right has cost Grey some support among liberals, who believe that by working with the right, Grey legitimates their position on other issues, such as abortion and gay rights.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

Just as being an evangelical does not make Wesley entirely supportive of all contemporary evangelicals; so being a liberal certainly does not mean that Wesley would support everything that is said and done by contemporary religious liberals.

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.

Liberal opposition to the 1998 act and the campaign for religious freedom was solidified by the sure sign of great evil afoot, namely, the support of the cause by the «religious right.»

In my view, once you start going down the WWJD Road, you're now on the same road used by both Latin American and Black Liberation Theology which takes Jesus out of context to justify socialism which in the United States is supported by progressive liberals.

Soviet spies were of the left generally, they supported liberal causes, they defended the Soviet Union in all circumstances, they were often secret members of the Communist Party, they were uniformly suspicious of American initiatives throughout the world, they could be contemptuous of American democracy, society, and culture, and, above all, their offenses were often minimized or explained away by apologists who felt that no man should be called traitor who did what he did for the cause of humanity.

Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is true, except on a wholly subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.

It looks like retreat to liberals because it denies certain notions by which liberalism supported social action.

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.