Sentences with phrase «view of political parties»

I copied and pasted this ignorant statement; I hope no one will mind, «The teachings of Jesus do not fit into the views of any political party.»

Not exact matches

«We have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's debt dynamics any time soon.»

While most lawmakers of both political parties typically equate helping community banks with apple pie and baseball in terms of their support, Warren signaled she has a different view.

Indeed, as part of the 2015 election, all political parties should be asked how they view the role of the federal government in the economy; what size of government (i.e. debt ratio) are they looking for; and how would they achieve it?

When it's not Facebook admitting it allowed data on as many as 87 million users to be sucked out by a developer on its platform who sold it to a political consultancy working for the Trump campaign, or dating app Grindr «fessing up to sharing its users» HIV status with third party A / B testers, some other ugly facet of the tech industry's love affair with tracking everything its users do slides into view.

As I imagine is similar in other faiths, it is hard for an active member of the LDS Church to publically maintain political views that fall more in line with the Democratic Party than the GOP.

I don't really trust anyone from the Republican party who is overly religious to keep their religious views out of their political decision making process.

It shows that although there is statistically significant evidence that individuals change their views to match those of the political party they support, the shift in attitudes is relatively slight.

Ball's view has become orthodoxy in both political parties, in the world of business and finance and in the universities.

Only 25 per cent claimed to love the enemies of their country and members of dangerous political parties, though in view of prevalent behavior even this seems a startling proportion!

The interest was primarily political, but the contending parties gave their views a religious coloring, and there was much persecution and bloodshed in the name of religion.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats and selfprofessed evangelical Christian Tim Farron has stepped down from leading the party, citing a clash between his faith and political views.

But when the Jamaat - e-Islami, an Islamist political party in Pakistan, began to push the country to a more orthodox view of Islam in the 1970s, the Ahmadis were cast out.

They support the political party (GOP) that ostensibly stands capitalism and stand for and promotes individual achievment whle eschewing collectivism, yet they really are collectivists — just for their own world view of a conservative fiscal policy coupled with «conservative social values.»

The party's documents say its «policies are based on the Christian view of Man and his responsibility before God,» but it rarely articulates that basis in political debate.

Thus a young instructor applying for a job in an elite university is well advised to hide «unsound» views such as political allegiance to the right wing of the Republican party (perhaps even to the left wing), opposition to abortion or to other causes of the feminist movement, or a strong commitment to the virtues of the corporation.

Despite calling the idea that we can know what the Founders really thought on religious issues «an illusion,» Kramnick and Moore criticize those who view the U.S. as a Christian state: «The principal framers of the American political system wanted no religious parties in national politics.

Domestically, defense spending was something that had bipartisan support during WWII and in the early days of the Cold War, and continued to be a signature issue of one of the two major political parties, the Republicans, whose members were much more likely to have been military veterans than Democrats, and who held a more antagonistic view of Communism which was nominally a politically left leaning ideology.

As a sidenote, while not actually judging by there supposed political views, the judges of the german correspondent, the constitutional court [Verfassungsgericht], are proposed by the parties of the parliament according to the number of their mandates.

Election coverage ordinarily incorporates a range of different commentators, offering their views on almost anything from the policy positions of political parties to speculation about the potential outcome of the election.

I remember also reflecting at the time that her speech was a more substantial political act than any from David Cameron a self - proclaimed moderniser who did not challenge his party's orthodox views on the role of the state and the provision of public services.

Firstly, it is only right to point out that UKIP, like almost all political parties, represents a coalition of different views.

Unlike Okudzeto Ablakwa who conveys the impression in his articles that constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law mandate that I should have protected the crimes and graft I exposed simply because of membership of a political party, I take the right and correct view that the constitution enjoins every citizen to uphold and defend it by exposing any activity of any person or group of persons who abuse Article 55 on political parties for criminal purposes.

From Lady Astor to our newest batch of female MPs from all parties, regardless of political views and differences of opinions, I am glad that so many more women are pushing through, fighting hard and serving on those green benches.

If you must know, I am registered NOP (No Official Party) and if you wish to label me: Utilitarian would be a more accurate assessment of my political views.

The most important thing is that analysing past elections & predicting future elections is ridiculous, since electoral reform will hopefully change the political parties and the political process anyway, to make them more responsive to the genuine majority view, instead of the tribal attitude we see when Paul suggests that we should keep FPTP as the best way of electing a Labour government.

When Sunny Hundal told me he personally was thinking of pulling out of it, and in fact I suggested that it was worth taking a bit of time and that getting a sense of what the independent civic society / journalists on the panel thought would be important as I didn't feel it should be a partisan or Labour party political response, and wanted to get a broader view.

State Chairman Frank MacKay made the following statement following the convention, «The members of the Independence Party represent a cross-section of political views, but we are firmly united in our beliefs that our growing dysfunctional governing bodies in NYS and Washington, DC are deeply in need of reform from the bottom up and the top down.

However, in campaign coverage so far, people's party political perspectives have often been conveyed in vox pops without necessarily balancing a range of voters» views.

It has often been viewed as a «single issue» environmentalist party, but while it still maintains its environmental policies and political ecology, it also has a history of support for communitarian economic policies, including well - funded, locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady state economy, and it supports proportional representation.

«The new leader was also elected with an overwhelming mandate on a political programme that seeks to take the party in a direction that reflects the current views of party members,» he writes.

He conceded that the moderator is a citizen of Ghana and has the right to join any political party and also express his views on any national issues, but «his views should be differentiated from that of the Presby Church because not all members are towing his line».

Brown's thesis is a strong rebuttal to a commonly held point of view, arguing that a «strong» leader — defined as someone who «concentrates a lot of power in [their] hands, dominates both a wide swath of public policy and the political party to which [they] belong, and takes the big decisions» (p. 1)-- is ultimately an undesirable leader.

Ahead of the US presidential election on 8 November, The House magazine spoke to 50 MPs, weighted to reflect the make - up of different political parties, to ask their views on the Republican and Democratic candidates.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

He also spoke against partisanship which he said made it difficult to prosecute corrupt politicians, noting that members of some political parties view such criminal prosecutions as political persecution.

The EC, a month ago organized a two - day forum for political parties, Civil Society organisations and individuals to collate views on the credibility or otherwise of the register.

Since then, Conservative grassroots members» views on Europe appear only to have hardened — and, as a new report from the Project published yesterday by the Mile End Institute shows, they are one of the many things that set the Tory rank and file apart from the members of other political parties.

The way in which the manifesto is able to exploit much of the racist rhetoric about «bogus» refugees used by government and mainstream party political spokespeople during the debates on the Asylum and Immigration Act illustrates the impact of such debate in legitimising the views of fascist and far right groups.

For the record, while the politically powerful Nehru - Gandhi family has shown that concession was not a bad venture as some may think, the incommodious confusion of political party action with family matters by some particularly petty politicians, in my view, runs against the grain of human values.

We were fighting someone who had no right, in our view, to a position of trust in our party, who would have brought it to political extinction.

«If we say you can not foster children because you're a member of a mainstream political party or because you have views on multiculturalism then that's utterly wrong.»

This a desperately sad moment for British democracy and sovereignty - a moment when the great majority of voters have been disenfranchised and left with no serious political party to represent their views.

Its Wednesday article, which was bylined «Telegraph Comment Desk», read: «A lot of people, both in the Labour Party and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's ConservatParty and outside it, think [Corbyn's leadership] would be dreadful for Labour, the sort of political disaster the party last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatparty last suffered in 1983 when Michael Foot's Left - wing views saw the party lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatparty lose by a landslide to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, on Thursday, 4th January, 2018, met with leaders of the various political parties in the country to seek their views on some governance - enhancing measures his administration intends to take.

Labour's national executive committee will meet for the first time since the election in the next fortnight and one source close to the NEC said they believed Lavery's comments would be a controversial topic of discussion — particularly on narrowing the spectrum of political views in the party.

It's a subject of discussion between broadcasters, who will have their own views and the political parties.»

The middle of the electorate is disgusted with corrupt political party insiders; and partially voted for Obama based on their view he was «clean»... a view largely promoted by a media that ignored or glossed over a lot of evidence to the contrary.

According to the Electoral Commission, the setting up of the panel follows petitions it received and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters» register, with others calling for an audit of the register instead, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters» register for 2016 and beyond.

In my experience in recent years, the number of Labour Party members locally who hold similar political views to me outnumber all of the smaller parties combined.