Sentences with phrase «taken by conservatives»

The note, which has been seen by the Daily Telegraph, was taken by the Conservatives to imply Mr Vaz was offered deals in exchange for his support.

Elections should not be shutting - down operations, but that is the approach taken by the Conservatives and Labour.

Following the 2010 general election, the post was taken by Conservative MP David Gauke.

Blaming the con con is at odds with the stance taken by Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who said in an interview last week the convention referendum turnout had little impact on the corruption issues in Nassau County.

The seat held by the party was not defended by them for the election, and the space was taken by a Conservative.

Not exact matches

That figure is expected to grow by $ 31 billion by 2015 - 16, handing the Progressive Conservatives ammunition in their assault on the Liberals, who've doubled the province's debt since they took office nine years ago.

In 2008, Anita Bell took a job with O'Leary Funds Management, the investment firm co-founded by businessman, television star and now Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary.

By contrast, measures that come down hard on public sector workers — a primarily Conservative preoccupation — took up almost an entire page.

Prime Minister Harper and the Conservatives will hopefully take these risks into account when they shortly announce their stance on the takeover bids submitted by Petronas and CNOOC, for Progress Energy Resources and Nexen, respectively..

On the weekend Redford was taken to task by Progressive Conservative party executive in a closed - door meeting.

Despite the move, she angered fiscal conservatives, taking Alberta back into long - term debt expected to reach $ 21 billion by 2017 to pay for new schools and health clinics.

Tim Hortons has brewed up controversy for its decision to yank ads by pipeline giant Enbridge from its in - store screens and Calgary Conservative MPs Jason Kenney, Michelle Rempel and Joan Crockatt took the chain to task on Twitter.

If Trump does decide to take a risk and lead the charge on an issue that would require tough votes by conservative lawmakers — perhaps on strengthening background checks for gun purchases — it would be a departure for his presidency

While the party has now taken the name of the Conservative Party don't be fooled by the name and the moderate gloss Mr Harper hopes it will provide.

Because boards tend to grow conservative over time, every year, the Amazon board gave a report of an organization that was diminished by the «institutional no» — doing more analysis and take fewer risks.

And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per cent, Liberals 24 per cent and NDP 19 per cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.

The front page of Fridayâ $ ™ s National Post reported, «The Conservatives will encourage the five provinces that do not have harmonized sales taxes — Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, P.E.I. and Manitoba — to take part by setting up a $ 5 - billion trust fund that would compensate them for lost revenue over the phase - in period.»

In a recent article in National Review, the conservative news magazine founded by William F. Buckley in 1955, columnist Kevin D. Williamson takes a hardline stance, arguing that Trump's 15 percent tax is «about 15 points too high.»

A joint statement this week from more than 60 conservatives, including former attorney general Edwin Meese and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, demanded that Facebook and other tech giants «rectify their credibility with the conservative movement» by explaining why content is taken down and accounts deleted and by including more conservative groups on its list of advisers.

The steps taken by the party over the coming weeks could determine whether it can actually recover or whether it will join the list of conservative fringe parties after the next election.

Having been consigned to the political wilderness in the province, the Conservatives might seek to bolster their free - trade credentials by taking the steps needed to satisfy EU negotiators.

The Saskatchewan Party had that problem until Brad Wall threw the extremists under the bus!!!! He has governed two terms by focusing on conservative libertarian ideas such as regulation and taxes (although he has benefited from an economy that the NDP left that was doing pretty well when he took over, but the Sask Party won't admit to that).

Kenney explicitly laid out that the direction the United Conservative Party takes will be determined by its members with his Grassroots Policy Guarantee;

The conservatives and their beloved drug war are taking a clear social problem and making it vastly worse by felonizing even small time dealing, throwing so many people into prison till the «land of the free» has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world and making those people all but unemployable when they get out.

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.

Do the conservative Protestants who were influenced by religion choose to earn less by becoming pastors or teachers at Christian schools or by taking jobs that allow them to spend more time with their family?

The «federal conservatives» ¯ represented by Bishop Duncan's new Anglican church (ACNA) ¯ have, it would seem, taken a step back for the time being.

And so as you can see, which I have reason to fear you will not see in the film, the message of Coriolanus tends to be conservative: republican politics is beset from the get - go by tragic flaws, and the only programmatic political lessons one might take (which includes the lesson that conditions will seldom let you succeed at applying them) are aristocratic - republican ones.

The liberal that takes happy meals away is somehow better in your eyes than the conservative that wants to limit $ exualization of our society by corporate interests.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Sir Gerald Howarth, the Conservative MP for Aldershot, was speaking after David Cameron pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 - approximately 4,000 a year.

It would be easy to take shelter in the categories determined by cultural and political ideologies: so - called conservative Catholics are expected to reject or downplay the urgency of environmental protection, and so - called liberal or progressive Catholics are expected to downplay marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

And, of course, it is conservatives who are pressing for the basic justice of parental choice in education, a choice taken for granted by the affluent.

My question is this: what would it take for the American church at large (American church in this case meaning mainline denominations, other individual sects like the Mennonites with their huge variety of conservative to liberal congregations, nondenominational churches of all sizes mega and not, etc.) to make a concerted effort to call out abuse demonstrated by clergy in both church, public, and private settings?

Reading this book, a church insider is struck by the lack of attention the author gives to the enormous resistance within the churches, liberal and conservative, to taking our own teaching seriously.

They take every opportunity to brag about Fox News's ratings and how conservatives dominate the radio waves but the second anyone points out something stupid or offensive said by one of the right's propaganda bullies, they scream «mainstream media bias» and «left wing conspiracy».

Once upon a time, I thought that the Christian faith, or at least the purest version of it, had started with Jesus and his disciples, taken a hiatus for about a thousand years during the reign of Roman Catholicism, returned with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, and gotten properly explained again by the 1895 Bible Conference of Conservative Protestants.

They create fear in the lower class by saying the conservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but shouldconservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but shouldConservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but should be reformed.

Wills began this book in the wake of the Republican triumph in the congressional elections of 1994, in which conservatives apparently rode to power on a wave of antigovernment sentiment, sentiment they promised to honor by taking out a contract on the national state which they labeled a Contract with America.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

However, a more conservative interpretation of the Matthew text, taken for example by Mark A Yarhouse, author of Understanding Gender Dysphoria (IVP), is that «those who make themselves eunuchs» in this text «almost certainly refers to those who choose not to marry (rather than suggesting they were castrating themselves).»

I took these words from a response to a fine post by Carl Scott, and decided to make them into a not so fine post of mine here — A long time ago Peter Lawler mentioned doing the most unconservative thing, i.e., writing some kind of postmodern conservative manifesto.

In a poll taken by Christianity Today in 1957, for example, among members of the Protestant clergy who chose to call themselves conservative or fundamental, 48 % affirmed that belief in Scripture's inspiration also demanded a commitment to its inerrancy, while 52 % said they were either unsure of the doctrine of inerrancy or rejected it outright.1 Discussion within evangelicalism concerning the inspiration of Scripture has usually focused on this point: whether or not Scripture is inerrant.

Those taken aback by such rhetoric must ask whether neo-orthodox Protestants, for example, write with the same polemics and hostility against liberals, Catholics, conservatives or secularists.

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.

Yet the church growth «theology» of liturgy has taken some sectors of conservative Presbyterianism by storm and is making hesitant inroads even into the strictest of the Lutheran denominations.

Those speculations are undermined by the fact that the amendment was added to bring some hesitant conservative Democrats on board, but it took Christian progressives by surprise as much as anyone.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

By not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesBy not taking on the guest worker program, by not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesby not focusing on internal enforcement, and by coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification procesby coming out for increased low - skill immigration, Jindal basically agrees with the Chamber 0f Commerce - Chuck Schumer Axis that produced the Gang of Eight plan while offering conservative opponents a border certification process.

Lindbeck observed that in their emphasis upon the function of religious language as propositional information about objective realities, conservative theologians tend to confirm the approach to religion taken by most Anglo - American analytic philosophers.