Sentences with phrase «with liberal groups»

Demonstrations are set to continue well into the evening, with liberal groups like the Working Families Party and the American Federation of Teachers urging supporters to join them at the airfield at 6 pm.

Terry Gipson, a former state legislator who served one term before losing reelection, has been talking with liberal groups across the state, and could also run for the top office in the state.

Not exact matches

The problem is it's exceedingly hard to do and there is no way to draw clear lines that won't be manipulated,» said Seth Hanlon with the Center for American Progress, a liberal group.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

Fifty - four percent of self - identified liberals sided with Sanders, while the smaller group of self - identified moderate Democratic primary voters cast their ballots for Clinton.

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

While I spent a considerable amount of time knocking on doors for candidates in Edmonton, I was also working with a group of MLAs, lawyers and former PC cabinet ministers on what would have been the plan to transition the Liberals into government if the party had won that election ten years ago today.

In the past, these groups have perceived conservatives to be suspect on racism, while on the other hand they worked with liberals in the fight for civil rights, and several of their theological heroes are crucial forerunners if not advocates of radicalism.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

Finally, while broader trends in American culture might seem closer to the ideals of liberal Protestants than their evangelical counterparts, I think both groups simply now find themselves on the margins of an American culture that seems out of synch with either brand of Protestant Christianity.

The last time we had occasion to comment on the NCC, it had to do with the organization's being maintained on life support by liberal foundations and special - interest groups.

The neoconservatives, Dorrien explains, are a group of originally liberal intellectuals who became disaffected with McGovernism.

I'd rather be proudly in the group called «libtards» before I share the label «liberal» with you.

The Roundtable project got its start with a meeting at Yale in March 2003 and a follow - up meeting the next July, to which Geoffrey Boisi invited a group of mainly liberal usual suspects to think and plan about the future of the Church in America.

The global market with «neo-liberal» developments have weakened liberal democratic subjecthood for individual persons, powerless groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, local communities.

Protestant groups» conservative and liberal» have forged respectful relationships with Jews and Judaism.

A number of radical and liberal groups were surprised to find a minister among their number and in accord with their views.

O'Malley is especially single - minded in eschewing the use of terminology such as «liberal» or «conservative», making the valid point that such broad groupings were not easily identifiable at the time and were often marked by a certain fluidity in connection with particular issues.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

With the assistance of a massive lobbying effort on the part of liberal interest groups, Bork's detractors prevailed and Judge Bork did not obtain the position for which he was so eminently qualified.

Remnant charismatic groups in mainline Protestant circles persist, sometimes identifying with socially conservative renewal groups that oppose progressive leaders in mainline denominations, attacking their liberal social stances.

It shares with other groups, such as Mothers» Prayers and Mary's Meals — both of which regularly end speakers to New Dawn — a genuine sense of connection with ordinary Catholics bypassing labels such as «traditionalist» or «liberal».

The global market with its «neo-liberal» developments has weakened the liberal democratic subjecthood of individual persons, powerless groups such as racial and ethnic minorities, and local communities.

Those in the latter group not infrequently break with their parents» theology to move to a more liberal outlook, but it is significant that they have something to move from.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layLiberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layliberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

A few days later three «film doctors» — Lois Anderson from the American Baptist Churches, John Bachman from Union Theological Seminary, and I — were ushered into a room filled with representatives of Protestant New York, forty - three people from religious organizations across the spectrum, including every group from rock - bound fundamentalists to far - out liberals.

For the most effective communication with the total population we need a variety of conservative and liberal churches, showing appreciation of each other at the same time that each group assumes responsibility for reaching its own unique constituency.

The only groups within Christian history that are not evangelical at bottom are those who deny apostolic Christianity or those who so thoroughly reinterpret it through their conceptual grid (i.e., Gnostics, anti-supernatural liberals) that it ceases to retain integrity with apostolic intent.

For many, this suspicion appeared to be confirmed in the following election year, when some of the broadcasters formed active coalitions with the «new right» politicians and political groups with a view to countering some of the liberals» moral and political advances of the 1960s.

the liberals >> >> > are slowing taking the freedoms away... groups taht disagree with them will be subject to tremendous discrimination..

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Dr Antonyia Parvonova, of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE) said: «I supported this important Resolution along with my Liberal Democrat colleagues on the Committee.

When faced with unplanned pregnancy there are pro-choice, liberal, secular women who have abortions and then there are pro-life, conservative, religious women who plan adoptions; both groups may parent, but this choice also comes with its fair share of stigmas and judgments if made under socially unacceptable circumstances, like being a young, single, or impoverished).

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

It has been a privilege to serve with you in the first group of Liberal ministers in a British government since 1945.

Meanwhile, liberal advocacy groups, including the state's Working Families Party, are siding with de Blasio.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

Astute observers of the digital political world will remember the furor over Change's pivot a year ago toward working with groups across the political spectrum (rather than just liberal / progressive or politically neutral campaigns), and here we see the new strategy in action.

If Change is working with Republicans, liberal groups could easily decide that their Change.org petitions are in effect be helping their rivals by stocking the pond.

Barely three months ago, the battle for tomorrow was being played out in disagreements between liberal and progressive groups aiming to come to terms with a bloody imperial past.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

Benjamin, elected to fill a vacant Harlem Senate seat, gave Democrats a 32nd enrolled member in the chamber, kicking of a sustained campaign by liberal groups to push the Independent Democratic Conference toward reconciliation with the mainline conference.

Liberals are increasingly frustrated with the group's alliance with Senate Republicans.

Still, the IDC remains an important bloc in the Senate and has gone through cycles of pressure campaigns from liberal groups to form an alliance with mainline Democrats.

The IDC, however, insisted the one - house budget resolution of its own should not be read as a break with the Senate GOP as liberal advocacy groups press for juvenile justice reform and other long - sought issues this session.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

It comes as liberal groups have pushed Democrats in the state Senate — most recently Sen. Simcha Felder of Brooklyn — to not work with Republicans in the chamber, citing Trump's presidency as a key factor in unifying the party.