Sentences with phrase «take liberal leave»

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Years after he left provincial politics behind, he'd offer acerbic assessments of Ontario's governing Liberals — partly, it seemed, for the fun of it (The fact his wife, Christine Elliot, took his provincial seat likely contributed to his interest).

Each week, USA TODAY's OnPolitics blog takes a look at how media from the left and the right reacted to a political news story, giving liberals and conservatives a peek into the other's media bubble.

Under the Liberal plan, parents would have a year and a half to take unpaid parental leave but they wouldn't see an overall increase in any benefits from employment insurance.

Liberal Tonight Show viewers were left incensed after host Jimmy Fallon did not try to take down Donald Trump or attempt to trip him up with «gotcha» questions during the pair's interview on the NBC program Thursday night.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

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.

Churches ASK for 10 % but don't DEMAND 10 % nor do they kick you out of church for paying 0 %... however, the federal government TAKES 30 % + and threatens jail... geez... love love love the new liberal ANTI CHARITY... just so incredibly insightful to the hate on the left...

To my mind, the modern, «nonauthoritarian,» «take - us - or - leave - us» style of pastoring owes more to the liberal world view — with its concept of the autonomous individual — than it does to any theological perspective.

The modern, «nonauthoritarian,» «take - us - or - leave - us» style of pastoring owes more to the liberal world view — with its concept of the autonomous individual — than it does to any theological perspective.

When I asked about women who where married or who were taking birth control for medial reasons she flipped out and started ranting about how liberals are turning us into a socialist country and there will be no money left for anyone in 10 years.

Liberals inclined to minimize the significance of a leftward inclination among the media elite might test themselves on the point by asking how they would react if the situation were reversed — if, in fact, the world taken for granted by the nation's leading reporters and news executives tilted to the right rather than the left.

In retrospect, we could argue that the liberal's attempt to take over the Italian left was flawed for two distinct but related reasons.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

Some on the liberal - left might be alienated by any move towards a left - wing populism that takes a more critical stance towards the EU or immigration, but they might just hold their noses and take the plunge if it also meant a more robust defence of the NHS and serious moves to rebalance and democratise the economy.

on the face of it the American left are socially liberal but the bottom line is the more control they take over the economy and the redistribution of wealth, the more power they will gain over society at large and the more power they will have to implement social engineering projects.

The Liberal Democrat peer is taking a leave of absence from the Lords and resigning from the party, but is he the «busted flush» some think?

Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, left to right, Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne and Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath take part in the second of three leaders» debates in Parry Sound, Ont., on May 11, 2018.

I have no doubt that Labour will oppose the coalition's cuts from the left, but I don't see how there can be any hope that Labour takes a more liberal position than the coalition, which will disappoint Sunny.

Now Oakeshott, 67, has derailed coverage of Clegg's speech by dramatically resigning his membership of the Liberal Democrats and taking a leave of absence from the Lords «to concentrate on running my business and my charity».

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.

At that time, the one - time liberal darling who took on Lieberman over the Iraq War drew the wrath of labor unions for his reservations about a bill mandating employers provide paid sick leave.

He had the courage to defy his party's left - leaning majority and take the Liberals into government for the first time since the Second World War.

Liberal activists have been unhappy with Cuomo's business - friendly election - year budget, but no obvious candidate has emerged to take the governor on from his left.

If the Liberal Democrats move to the left, he believes it will only encourage the Conservatives to try and take back some of the centre ground.

Bridget Harris, who announced she would leave the Liberal Democrat party, told Newsnight: «I'm quite happy to accept on a personal level his apology if he is willing to take responsibility for his actions.»

Mr Blair took the unusual step of briefing the media about his concern that the Liberal Democrats would get nowhere if they moved to the left of Labour, demanded higher taxes and attacked his social exclusion initiatives.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

The government is not alone in looking for ways to help reconcile the challenges facing working families with young children, with the Liberal Democrats proposing 19 months of more generous parental leave (able to be taken by any parent) and the Conservative Party proposing flexible parental leave to help make Britain more family friendly.

Of course the liberals and progressives on the left, who are comfortable calling people «Nazis, Racists and Haters», took great offense to the term «pond scum».

The latest missive from the Hudson Valley Republican mentions the left's new standard bearer — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — and raises the specter of the state Senate being taken over by like - minded downstate liberals.

That left the Liberal Democrats, who through a spokesperson for their leader Nick Clegg reiterated their lack of appetite to take on the wrath of public opinion by proposing more money for political parties in the current climate.

Recycling chants from past protests like «No justice, no peace, no racist police» and «Shut it down, shut it down, Eric Garner, Mike Brown,» the left - wing crowd even took aim at Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal Democrat, briefly crying «This Bill de Blasio has got to go» in Foley Square.

Chancellor Merkel has tried to ignore the AfD which takes its support from disillusioned conservatives, estranged liberal Free Democrat party supporters as well as former Left Party and neo-Nazi National Democratic Party voters.

The former «Sex and the City» star has come far from Governor Cuomo's left to challenge him in the Democratic primary, but she said her campaign isn't just about pushing him to take more liberal positions.

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Losses in Wales are nothing new for the Liberal Democrats — last year, the party was left with just one seat after the Welsh Assembly election when its four others were taken.

However, the government won't increase the actual value of employment insurance benefits for anyone who takes the extended parental leave: instead, the Liberals are sticking with their 2015 election promise to spread 12 months» worth of benefits over 18 months.

Liberals: Create a flexible parental benefits plan allowing parents to receive benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month — and make it possible for parents to take a longer leave — up to 18 months when combined with maternity benefits, although at a lower benefit level; scrap the Universal Child Care Benefit for the wealthiest families, and instead introduce the Canada Child Benefit that will give the majority of families up to $ 2,500 more, tax - free, every year (typically for a family of four).

The Liberal party has also touted a flexible parental benefits plan allowing parents to receive benefits in smaller blocks of time — for example, once every two weeks rather than once per month — and make it possible for parents to take a longer leave — up to 18 months when combined with maternity benefits, although at a lower benefit level.

He knew better, because the people who really counted (donors to his Liberal party for the next election) like billionairess miner Gina (Hancock) Reinhardt bluntly kept telling him it was all bullshit and radical greeies trying to institute a left wing take over of global govts like his.

Joe Romm, the former Energy Department official who now blogs on climate and works for the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan / liberal / progressive (depending on who's choosing the adjective) research group in Washington, has again taken issue with something I've written, partly because I left out a link to supporting sources for my statement that the world could face a tripled demand for energy by midcentury.

It will take years to flush a society of worthless turds and their offspring through a dented - up political and economic system that has been so severely corrupted by lies, superstition and envy that hatred has become the only medium of exchange in the Left's blame game cash for chaos and clunkers liberal Utopia.

Global warming is a movement that has been taken over by the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in America with its collectivist creed: deny the existence of personal responsibility and employ any means to bring about the Left's imaginary Utopian ends.

This is how the liberal fascists of the Left, who first took over the environmental movement, then began to use global warming to take over the civil discourse, even if it meant destroying science.

Taking the standard BBC / Guardian / Independent line on AGW (and related eco-threats) is a very safe thing to do if your target audience is young and hip and instinctively green / liberal - left.

I would strongly favour both major parties taking on - board key GREEN ecological policies so that they could marginalise GREEN Left - liberals.

Fang also takes a bite out of the media, particularly the left - leaning, liberal eastern giants such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, which opened their front pages to Glaciergate.

In the following graph, taken from my own research into public perceptions of consensus, the horizontal axis is a measure of political ideology, with liberals to the left and conservatives to the right.

All over, bar the shouting: Shawn Graham's Liberal party will form a majority government in New Brunswick after taking 29 out of 55 constituencies and leaving the Tories with 26 seats.