Sentences with phrase «take conservative positions»

A recent Gallup poll showed that only 51 percent of religious Jews, those more likely to take conservative positions on Israel, support Obama, as opposed to 71 percent of non-religious Jews (as defined by whether respondents attend synagogue frequently or rarely).

Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.

The sole exceptions are those church bodies which take conservative positions on abortion and genetic engineering.

A Democratic former Tennessee congressman who often takes conservative positions argues that Obama should create additional corporate tax breaks and permit hydrofracking.

If that is not correct and there's a chance you may need to draw down on these monies in the coming years, I think you need to take a conservative position and consider a combination of savings accounts, GIC's, bonds and so on.

Not exact matches

On a host of issues normally instrumental to winning the support of the conservative media, he had famously taken liberal positions.

To avoid being called a RINO (Republican in name only), a Republican would have to take a hardline conservative position on nearly every issue.

Over the past few days, there have been any number of politicians, pundits and pollsters who have scolded the Conservative government for the position it has taken in Copenhagen.

As the Center reported, Donors Trust helps conservative foundations and individuals give money anonymously to nonprofits that may take controversial positions.

And when we do take the plunge, position sizing will be quite conservative.»

Last year I wrote on Suven Life Sciences, also I did some secondary level maths to get a sense of returns an investor could get buying the business at then market cap (~ 2000 INR Crores or 400 Million USD) and exiting in 2024 See Snap shot below The base case CAGR didn't excite but reading management commentary compelled me to take a tracking position in model portfolio Over to this year One thing in AR gave me a Jeff Bezos moment For the first time management was sounding optimistic (this is coming from a management which is very conservative on record) Emphasis mine Management views on past Despite having grown the business every single year across the last five years, our business sustainability has been consistently questioned.

The fact is that the conservatives who believe this nonsense, or even the moronic position taken by the personhood amendments, put them squarely in the same camp with other crazies like many PETA supporters who want to criminalize the killing and eating of any animals.

He has fought fights and very vocally taken positions that appeal to conservative Christians.

He might have taken a non-Fundamentalist conservative position.

So, (1) whatever position one takes on this matter, left or right, conservative or liberal, one should acknowledge that the law really does forbid homosexual sex between males but not between females.

In the process, Barr exposes other foibles of more recent efforts to maintain that tradition of interpretation: a tendency toward specialization in historical and linguistic cognate fields that avoids theological issues and ironically reduces them to matters archaeological and historical; a style of «maximal conservativism» that approximates earlier positions taken on dogmatic grounds by a current process of selectively appropriating the most conservative elements of a variety of more critical positions; a surprising (and again ironic) tendency to offer «naturalistic» reinterpretations of the miraculous within the highly supernaturalistic inerrancy framework; and so on.

A major shouting match, as we know, has also developed between religious liberals and religious conservatives, the two sides taking widely differing positions not only on theological orientations but also on social and political issues, and holding strongly negative views toward the other.

He's still pretty conservative and in a recent analysis, I've applied the model from The Constrained Court to estimate the policy preferences of justices and how they would map onto the vote on the health care legislation (it's all based on a statistical model that links the Court and Congress via positions members of one institution take on votes in the other).

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

If we take the average position of the general population on a scale ranging from (0) European Unification has gone too far, to (10) European Unification has not gone far enough, we find that the average position of the electorate is closest to the Conservative Party (measured by where survey respondents think the major parties» policies are on the same scale).

He has a chance in 2012 to take the position from whoever wins this race... but if he does back Davis, I suspect he will not get any backing from any of the REAL Conservatives or Republicans, not to mention REAL tea party people.

The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I think I am somewhat generous to the Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.

Overall, on tax and spend, Conservative voters take a consistently right - wing position, while Labour, Green and SNP voters take a consistently left - wing position.

[19] With no party having an overall majority, the Lib Dems agreed to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, with Clegg becoming Deputy Prime Minister and other party members taking up ministerial positions.

As the front - runner in a House race far from the national media spotlight, Stefanik can take a more conservative position without attracting too much attention.

The Greens and Sinn Fein are furthest to the left; the SNP and Plaid Cymru occupy the same position to the left of Labour; the SDLP adopts the same position as Labour (its MPs informally take the Labour whip in the House of Commons); the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland adopts the same position as its sister party, the Liberal Democrats; the Conservatives are on the centre - right, followed by the DUP and the independent Unionist MP, with UKIP furthest right.

On cutting government spending, SNP, Green and Labour voters take a left position by opposing further cuts (particularly vehemently in the case of SNP voters), while Conservative voters take the opposite position.

If a new leader is elected and a bold radical policy programme is formulated, and integrity among politicians is established the Labour Party will be in a unique and highly rewarding position of taking on and resoundingly defeating the Conservatives.

But the Conservatives had three more seats - suggesting they would indeed take the position of the second biggest party.

As was the position before Tony Blair resigned, we once again have a known unknown ahead of us — we know that in mid-December the Liberal Democrats will have a new leader, but we can't know until then what effect it will have on people's voting intentions — it may have none, it may see the Lib Dems taking support back off Labour, or off the Conservatives.

In fact, it's the ghosts of the 2014 Democratic primary that are more likely to come back to haunt him in 2020 for two reasons: First, because criticisms from the left on his attempts to appease rural conservatives are largely accurate; second, the exposure of his vulnerability from the left forced him into taking positions which may cost him in a general election.

@ John I don't think the Conservative negotiating team can take a position without Camaeron's approval.

In 2010, the negotiating team allowed the Conservatives to dominate key ministries while taking a significant number of positions on the peripheries.

, Conservative members took a range of considered and serious positions in reaction to news of the scandal.

He relaunched the group along with the new vice chair Suella Fernandes MP, and it took off with a flourish, persuading, as Baker put it, «Sixty Conservatives plus colleagues from the DUP, Labour and UKIP» to sign a statement saying that ««The UK must leave the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Customs Union», the so - called «Single Market»» — the position we now know as hard Brexit.

This is the one issue where I believe the party leaders of the Conservative Party take the wrong position.

Just know that none of these Conservative candidates nor Ms. Gillibrand have significantly taken a line drawn in the sand on 1) writing their own jobs bill for national consequence 2) Fracking position definitively 3) Major student loan reform 4) Raising minimum wage 5) Single Payer Health Care, or bringing back Glass - Steagall.

Taking aim at Farage and his allies, the former Conservative MP says that Ukip should «take positions on things like immigration and Europe, but not bang on about them obsessively».

Ms. Hochul has a record of pro-choice positions, but has also historically taken conservative stances on gun control and immigration issues — which served as fodder for her liberal Democratic primary opponent Tim Wu.

Of course, this may be partly due to our sample; voting app users tend to be younger and better educated than the norm, so even Conservative voters in our sample make take a more «cosmopolitan» position than older, less well - educated Tories.

When it comes to political parties, the consensus in Britain is that UKIP, followed by the Conservatives, take the most right - wing position, while the Greens, SNP and Labour adopt a position furthest to the left.

UUP voters tend to take a similar, if slightly more communitarian position to Conservative voters.

The Conservatives» only MP for a Scottish constituency, David Mundell, who served as a minister in the department from 2010 - 15, takes this position.

The positions she took were arguably necessary as a means of getting elected in a conservative - voting district.

He echoed traditional Democratic themes about union rights and economic fairness, but took a more conservative position on the hot - button issue of guns.

He said he ultimately rejected Maragos because of conservative positions he took in a 2012 campaign for U.S. Senate.

This has aggravated Democratic leaders, who have endorsed him in the past but now take issue with his conservative positions, including his anti-abortion stance.

Mike Long of the Conservative Party believes Senator Malcolm Smith, before his arrest, was positioning himself to take advantage of New York City's Fair Elections Law.

Polltroll — they're in a rather awkward position at the nomen between Scottish Labour surging up back to where they were in 2011, the Conservatives certainly back in play in the vast majority of seats they took in 1979, and the Lib Dems ahead in some key heartland constituencies.