Sentences with phrase «while social conservative»

The president of the Club for Growth, an influential group promoting tax cuts, issued a statement Tuesday saying parts of the House bill «fails the pro-growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

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While Snap's IPO will by no means be cheap, that more conservative price - to - sales valuation puts it in line with Twitter (twtr) when that social media company went public.

While I think it will be there, I go very conservative and don't factor any social security payments into my long - term plans.

On abortion, another key topic for social conservatives, Harper said while running against Day that the Alliance could not afford to focus on the issue.

And while the New Democrats are rightly celebrating the historic results that led to their first - ever chance at being official opposition and the hope that a social democratic government is within reach, the reality is that Canada will suffer four years of Conservative rule — at a minimum.

While it's precisely this sort of understanding that can help ground traditional social conservative arguments, Wehner and Gerson refuse to go there.

«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).

While I wouldn't choose to use it (and rarely use Facebook), it appears as though this system would better allow some conservatives to use social media.

One of the biggest fallouts (to oversimplify) then was that conservatives cared about personal morality and not involvement in social ethics / issues of evil, while liberals cared about social ethics / issues but were seen as lax about morality.

As for the Church's social justice views — Allen mentions conservative criticism of Caritas in Veritate (while overlooking the many conservatives who applauded it)-- I wrote two separate columns for the Times of London online a) praising the essentials of that specific encyclical, and Benedict's economic and social justice teachings in general; and b) saluting Archbishop Oscar Romero, who I believe will one day be declared a saint, precisely as a champion of Catholic social justice.

We suspect that when the conservative clergy preach on such topics it is to denounce such individual action — when they preach on crime they emphasize «Thou shalt not steal,» while the more liberal clergy emphasize the social causes of crime.

Religious conservatives complained about voters» indifference toward abortion and President Clinton's evident character flaws, while religious liberals lamented public apathy toward social injustice and Speaker Gingrich's ethical lapses.

According to popular assumptions, liberal approaches to the Bible emphasize messages of social action and downplay supernatural intervention, while conservative or traditionalist views accept the miraculous and advocate quietist or reactionary politics.

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

When devising social policy, especially in a time of great social change, there is always the danger that social policy becomes a conservative force — that designing it to reflect «what we do now», while meeting short - term needs and providing short - term satisfaction, hinders positive development towards «what we may become».

While the early days of Cameron's leadership were all about reaching out to new groups and voters beyond the traditional Tory core, since taking power his agenda has been very much in line with that of Conservative leaders and governments since 1979, being characterised by cuts to social expenditure and the privatisation of public services.

While it is true that the conservatives are in a majority at the moment we do have eight socialist and social democratic PMs in Europe — in Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the UK.

While many Conservative Party members admire Massey's business success, they have profound ideological differences with him on social issues, however.

Even after a decade in power Labour fears this is an essentially conservative country, where the centre left are interlopers in power, while it is the Tory leadership which knows that the reality is that of a social democratic Britain, to which they must persuade their party to adapt.

A wise third party (and the Libertarians are not wise) would seek to claim the fiscal conservative mantle while redefining «social conservatism» as a form of liberalism and embracing what we now call «social liberalism».

Cuomo is seeking a second term this year, and the speech gave him a high - profile forum to promote his first three years while unveiling a series of proposals intended to please both social progressives and fiscal conservatives.

While Lhota painted himself as a fiscal conservative, he sought distance from national Republicans on social issues by reiterating his support of abortion rights and same - sex marriage.

Cuomo, while pushing progressive social issues, also has been a fiscal conservative during his tenure in office.

While Labour attempted to get one up on the Conservatives by claiming that it could put in place a «social contract» with the unions and bring the seemingly endless strife to an end.

The Conservatives also invested # 1.2 million in Facebook advertising in the run - up to May's general election, while Labour spent just # 16,454.67 on the social media platform.

Governor Cuomo, while pushing progressive social issues, has also been a fiscal conservative during his tenure in office.

Cuomo won a landslide victory last month running on a fiscally conservative platform that unequivocally promised no tax increases while fellow liberal Democrat Silver has long supported higher taxes and increased social spending.

Gyory says that is because many voters in the nation and New York, while ideologically conservative, can be operationally liberal, when it comes to entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.

The pair also say that correlations with attitudes towards social issues like gender or racial equality could explain the differences, with those interviewed on the phone seemingly more socially liberal than average, while those polled online are more socially conservative.

This stands in contrast to the U.S. Congress, where from the 1930s through the 1960s, many Southern legislators voted for progressive - minded economic legislation such as Social Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rSocial Security and other New Deal laws that expanded the role of government, while maintaining a much more conservative outlook on social issues, most prominently civil rsocial issues, most prominently civil rights.

While the Tea Party says it doesn't take a stance on religious and social issues, many of its supporters are conservative Christians.

First, while vouchers are a means favored by conservatives to diminish publicly guaranteed social rights, and to advance principles of privatization and marketization, they are among the few remaining means that offer the inner - city poor the possibility of a decent education.

Mr Bush is married to a Latina, Mr Sandoval and Ms Martinez are Hispanic themselves, and all realise that Hispanic voters, while often conservative on social issues, care deeply about public schools.

While this may be old news to some, it can't be said enough: In our polarized times, education reform is the only truly bipartisan issue, whereas with other matters things invariably break down into Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative, libertarian vs. conservative (social issues), libertarian vs. liberal (fiscal issues), etc..

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

In an essay entitled The Clinton Crew: Privileged White Art, Ho tries to articulate how the social and political climate of the late 90's produced such a relatively conservative group of artists interested in autonomous, formal artistic practices, while being fundamentally decent people.

While I may not be unbiased, since the author draws upon work Aaron McCright and I have done, I think this is a very insightful use and extension of social science research that is packaged in a manner that is likely to be effective in reaching a crucial audience — presumably a heavily conservative, white male one.

The blog bills itself as «stakeholder communication meets social networking» and is seeking to walk a fine line, catching the essence of a hipster web 2.0 application while still managing the professional conservative face expected of a Government legal entity.

I might suggest that while I am, at my core, conservative, my sense is that as we've seen in the U.S. and international banking industry, expanded corporatization has its problems — and one might, fairly, question whether issues of legal ethics will also diminish as lawyers increasingly see themselves as little more than «commodity brokers» as opposed to what has been, at least in theory, a profession which sees itself as more than simply factory workers doing a job... and in fact which many of us still feel is both a great honor and a great social responsibility.

While these claims have no basis, they spread quickly in conservative circles on social media and among popular right - wing commentators.