Sentences with phrase «which liberals used»

The ability to channel the wide - ranging frustrations expressed by speaker after speaker may determine whether beleaguered conservatives will be able to create a movement rivaling that which liberals used to help power Democrats back into the majority in the 2006 congressional elections and Barack Obama into the White House last year.

Not exact matches

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

In China, which accounted for 39 % of total issuance in 2016, the definition is more liberal; for example, issuers can use up to half of the proceeds to repay bank loans and invest in general working capital.

(And since we are entering an era in which conservatives may be forced into considering, at all levels of government, the use of more dramatically intransigent constitutional resistance options to various budget - destroying, Constitution - eroding, and religious - liberty threatening trends of liberal «governance,» a Lincoln - like precision about what we intend to do, and about what enormities we are constitutionally obliged to put up with, is all the more necessary.

But Mr. Hayward you use her article as a jumping off point for your own projections on how «religious» people see you SBNR types — liberal, educated, open minded, etc. which doesn't even come from her but from the Shambala Sun!

Perhaps the point can best be presented by noticing the divided sense in which Percy uses the term liberal in his interview.

Ravitch concludes by praising the «1000 schools [that] use the Core Knowledge Curriculum, which describes explicitly what shall be taught in the full range of liberal arts and sciences in each grade.»

The reconstruction of the biblical history which they produced is now commonly called the «liberal» view — though the term «liberal» is here used in a sense originally German rather than English, and should not be made a stick to beat those who are «liberal» in a different sense.

The liberal elite who occupy the positions of influence in deciding cases under human rights or equality laws tend to use them as a tool to achieve the results that conform to the fashionable values they have absorbed or which prevail in the social environments in which they live, are educated and work.

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.

When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

One reads November 1916 in the eerie awareness of what is to come, which makes all the more pitiful and ludicrous the liberal posturing of the politicians and the utopian dreams of the revolutionary terrorists, each of whom has a plan for using the bloody war with Germany to realize his ambitions.

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

While sectarian accurately describes «relations between religious groups» and implies «an intolerance of opposing views,» there are two more common terms which are never used in our PC liberal media.

Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.

Conventional liberal criticism has deemed the «prayer» of Habakkuk to be a later, and unauthentic, addition, We prefer the judgment of those who read here the report of the promised vision, which, in its use of brilliant images, reminds us of Judges 5 and Deuteronomy 33.

The standard paste, which she kept in the fridge, was made of blended onion, chile, ginger, and garlic — it is this paste, as well as liberal use of oil and long cooking times, that gives Indian curries their creamy consistency.

So far every pouch has been pronounced «yummy» and not «gucky» which is toddler for yucky, and in liberal use at our house.

While the document does not use the word «decriminalisation», senior Liberal Democrat sources told Politics.co.uk the pre-manifesto was adopting «the essence» of a policy document proposal which called on the UK to follow the approach used in Portugal.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats said the cut in the rate of VAT to 15 per cent, which cost taxpayers # 12.5 billion, should have been used to fund a green investment programme instead.

The opposition isn't simply to spending money on art and culture and news, it is to spending public funds on liberal art and culture and news, and there is something to that given the track record of how the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which sends some money to PBS and National Public Radio, have chosen to use their funds.

As well as challenges to the government, we could use more space to talk through some genuine difficulties around civil liberties and security issues in a way which is consistent with liberal principles.

The Liberal Democrat Home Office minister was speaking to Politics.co.uk after the publication of a government report on international drug laws which found no correlation between the severity of a country's policy and levels of drug use.

This is greatly exacerbated in the US, which shows a weird mix of misunderstanding and political posturing... we've already got an answer claiming all socialism is communism (same people that use «liberal» as a curseword), which makes a pretty good example for this.

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

But it's civil liberties which really fire her up, so while others have used every opportunity to snipe at the coalition, she tried to make it work to create a more liberal Britain.

A Liberal Democrat defeat, in a seat where they trailed Labour by only 103 votes last May, would inevitably increase the pressure on Mr Clegg from the doubters in his party, which is used to winning by - elections rather than losing them.

Rivera, one of the most liberal members of the State Legislature, has reprised his attacks from two years ago: namely that Cabrera — an evangelical pastor — used to be a registered Republican, maintains ties to conservative groups like the Family Research Council and has praised the government of Uganda, which subjects homosexuals to imprisonment.

Here is the image (click it to enlarge) which the Richmond and Twickenham Liberal Democrats have used on their website in the last week to accompany a story accusing both the local Conservatives and a local campaign group of lying about a development issue.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

«Liberal» in USA has several meanings, mainly, either (1) «classical liberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poLiberal» in USA has several meanings, mainly, either (1) «classical liberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poliberal» (which in USA is typically branded as «libertarianism» - although it's still called plain «liberalism» in Europe where the term originated); and, wholly independently, (2) «political liberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) poliberal» - which is a self - made late 20th century [1] rebrand of what used to be called «progressive» (and can be loosely branded «left wing» at times, but personally I absolutely abhore single - axis left / right positioning) position.

Andrew Stunell, the Liberal Democrat communities and local government spokesman, suggests innovative ways in which the government could increase the housing supply, including bringing empty homes back into use, converting commercial property and selling - off community land.

Together, the public handed the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats an overall majority which they are using to press ahead with their austerity drive.

Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded against the plans, including giving judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.

Many of the media outlets targeted by the Trump administration are labelled as liberal which is a term used in the USA a pejorative by non-liberal voters.

AV, which is commonly used to elect parliamentary officials and Liberal and Labour party leaders, will be offered to public on May 5th 2011.

William Powell AM, the Welsh Liberal Democrat Rural Affairs Spokesperson, has reiterated his call in the Senedd today for the Welsh Government to use the new Rural Development Plan (RDP) to deliver a dedicated Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) scheme which will target those farming in Moorland areas (defined as the Upland above 400m).

The operation, which is little - known even within the Koch network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as «competitive intelligence» that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify potential threats to the expansive network.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, has called on the Welsh Labour government to use the money which will come to Wales as a result of today's school meals announcement in England to be used to fund a similar scheme.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

The inquiry, the Liberal Democrats said, would look at reforms in Portugal which are said to have reduced problematic drug use through decriminalisation for personal use and investing in treatment centres.

Mr Balls predicted that the Tory - Liberal Democrat coalition will use an increase in the sales tax - which is paid by everyone, including the unemployed and pensioners - in order to pay for a pre-election income tax cut which benefits only those with earnings.

The goal was to use it as a wrecking amendment, which would draw in Labour and Liberal Democrat support and delay the gay marriage bill for up to two years.

The researchers also used two other measures to gauge the happiness of liberals and conservatives, neither of which indicated greater conservative happiness.

This use of nouns, rather than adjectives, is seen to preserve stability, familiarity and tradition — all of which appear to be valued more highly by conservatives than liberals.

I like spicy, but this was on the verge of being too much — the only way I could eat them was with very liberal amounts of sauce (which I used greek yogurt for because I couldn't find plain regular in anything less than like a giabt tub).

«To dig into this, we looked at words used on tens of thousands of OkCupid profiles to see which ones best distinguish liberals and conservatives, and then compared those words to OkCupid match questions.»

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

While it may not quite make it into the Gremlins strata of holiday horror classics, its liberal use of real performers in special make - up and costumes, as well as practical effects did warm my cold heart and gave me a bit of a nostalgic glow for those films with which I grew up.