Sentences with phrase «with conservative positions»

This has aggravated Democratic leaders, who have endorsed him in the past but now take issue with his conservative positions, including his anti-abortion stance.

Democrats with conservative positions on social issues such as abortion continue to disappear from Congress.

Not exact matches

While the pipelines have become intertwined with the Conservatives» «Economic Action Plan» (their branding of the federal budget), Oliver's natural resources file isn't the only thing that makes him suitable for the position of finance minister.

The Texas senator had carefully struck a balance between the various facets of the GOP, positioning himself as traditionally conservative on most issues, but one with a libertarian streak.

When Mr. Anglin failed to persuade the Wildrose officials to disallow Mr. Nixon's candidacy on the grounds the challenger didn't resign his constituency position soon enough to comply with party rules, he accused the party of being no different from the long - governing Progressive Conservatives.

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.

Our libertarian friends would argue that our inability to establish a stable conservative - but - not - libertarian position in the national culture is a sign of the incoherence of our principles, a sign that our attempt to reconcile freedom, an entrepreneurial economy, and human dignity with the safety net and the regulatory state is just an attempt to have our cake and eat it, too.

While there are some media outlets with a liberal slant just as there are with a conservative one, the majority craft their position to maximize their audience.

He is a Christian, and while I'm conservative and do nt particularly agree with the President he is still in a position of power and deserves respect.

Traditionally conservative theology has inherited liberalism's original position with regard to the historical Jesus.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

James lends his masterful support as a conservative Jewish Christian to the same position by fortifying it with reference to the prophet Amos, who says that the Lord will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down, and will gather therein all the gentiles (James in Acts) substitutes «Gentiles» for Amos's «heathen») who are called by God's name (Amos 9:11 - 12).

The overriding aim of the new black conservatives is to undermine the position of black liberals and replace them with black Republicans, who downplay governmental regulation and stress market mechanisms and success - oriented values in black communities.

Many evangelicals share conservative positions with us on such issues as abortion, the family, and marriage.

His critics, at least his conservative critics, are usually more concerned with whether his position does not entail some form of relativism.

Many people we know think it mostly has to do with religion, politics, conservative positions on «culture war» issues, and an odd assortment of other things.

For most people in America, all those not familiar with the complicated ideological positioning on the right end of the political spectrum, the term «conservative» evokes images of the board room, the country club, and the Episcopal church located not far from the latter.

We need a return to the realistic and yet principled conservative pragmatism of Reagan who actually wanted to help people more than dogmatically stick to every single position and who was even willing to compromise with liberals like Tip O'neal at times in order to get something done that would actually solve problems and help the greatest number of people.

Alise, whose best friend is gay, is openly gay - affirming, and yet she continues to attend and serve a more conservative church where few of her fellow worshipers would agree with her position on homosexuality.

I don't share political and social positions with more conservative Christian, and have even had some tell me I simply can not be Christian and hold some of the positions I do.

Smith largely did away with constitutionally - required accommodations for religious minorities, a position that, Robert says, appealed to many religious conservatives during the Reagan era.

The oldline churches can join with more conservative groups in adopting the former position.

While there are excellent and well - stated «conservative positions» with regard to certain biblical issues, there is, no such thing as an «evangelical body of scholarship» which constitutes anything like a rival «school» to mainstream scholarship.

Over the past couple of decades, Evangelical Christians have often been associated with the Religious Right and the most conservative positions of the Republican Party.

This question misstates my position slightly — I don't «encourage evangelicals» to do anything other than minister to other evangelicals — but it does exemplify the conservative Catholic mindset that I most wanted to disturb with my article.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

Aside from a touchdown drive that started with good field position thanks to Kyle Fuller, the Bears offense had trouble staying on the field with the predictable and conservative play - calling Bears fans have become all too accustomed to.

Pangloss With the greatest respect I accept that your position is a conservative one.

As a «conservative» (probably more like «libertarian»), my position is fairly simple: I am opposed to mandates — whether from government or private sources — which tend to compel people toward compliance with the «conventional wisdom» (which is oftentimes neither conventional nor wise.)

The spat was about the Conservative Party's position on Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying in education.

The opposition is 30 points ahead of the Tories on having the best healthcare policies according to Ipsos Mori, with the Conservatives currently on their lowest position since 2004.

Campaigning with conservative and national liberal positions on domestic, social and family policy, they have fared better in regional elections.

Of course, there has to be a lot more to the Huckster's rise than one email list: if he didn't walk the evangelical walk, people would see through his conservative talk just as fast as they do Romney's (whose positions are apparently held together with duct tape).

Cameron stuffing the place with fresh Tory peers to strengthen his party's position while axing 50 MPs under a boundary review is again intended strengthen the Conservatives.

The Kaminski focus reflects the fact that he is the leader of the group, rather than any member of it; but also, around Jewadbne, I think the particular nature of the language used about needing Jewish apologies first (and here I think I am somewhat generous to the Conservatives: they have stated that they disagree with Kaminski on Jewadbne, but have called it a position of that people of «goodwill» took.

The manifesto is carefully calibrated not only to dodge the hostages to fortune of 2010, but also to offer plenty of scope for the Lib Dems to cut a deal with whichever party, Labour or Conservatives, are in a position to offer a second coalition.

In 2015 we conducted an event at the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference at which we presented analysis of the Conservative's electoral position and prospects, we were invited to submit independent scholarly evidence to Labour's Learning the Lessons Review, chaired by Margaret Beckett, and we co-hosted a 2015 post-election event in June 2015 with cross-party attendance and participation by a broad political range of commentators, and also leading UK journalists.

Appearing at the commission meeting in a knee - length dress — a more conservative outfit than the short red miniskirt she wore with black pumps last week when she was photographed coming home with Lopez — Battaglia ducked several questions about Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver but was happy to discuss her $ 54,000 position on the planning board.

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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.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

With the polls showing the Conservatives and Labour firmly stuck in neck - and - neck position, they are playing on multiple chessboards in a desperate scramble for votes.

While May has announced herself as the prime minister of a minority government, with support from Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, her position is now so untenable that another general election, with a different Conservative leader, is extremely likely before the end of 2017.

Republican / Conservative mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis held a press conference this afternoon in Columbus Circle, calling on Mayor de Blasio to make clear his personal position on whether the statue of Christopher Columbus should be removed and condemning what she termed pay - to - play by the mayor with lobbyist and supporter James Capalino.

The prime minister is in the difficult position of not wanting to harm relations with his coalition partner while also desperately trying to avoid a Conservative defeat in Eastleigh, which goes to the polls today.

Over 100 Conservative backbenchers have again expressed their displeasure with the prime minister's position on Europe, in another setback for David Cameron's authority.

Interestingly, a similar effect was seen in the centre and centre - right, with normally quite conservative commentators noticeably hardening their position on the party.

I tend to believe that it's the conservative that are more fragile than the lib / dem, the tory right are outraged with Cameron and would have no problem going to the polls tommorrow just to end their position with the lib / dems.

A person familiar with Crist's firing said Meyer's supporters were concerned that Crist, who has been a powerful figure in county politics for many years, would use his connections to get the Independence and Conservative lines for McLaughlin, who controlled those voting lines in his Assembly position.

He relaunched the group along with the new vice chair Suella Fernandes MP, and it took off with a flourish, persuading, as Baker put it, «Sixty Conservatives plus colleagues from the DUP, Labour and UKIP» to sign a statement saying that ««The UK must leave the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Customs Union», the so - called «Single Market»» — the position we now know as hard Brexit.