Sentences with phrase «with liberal leanings»

Buffett is an agnostic Democrat with liberal leanings who often speaks out; Munger is a reticent Republican holding libertarian views.

Not exact matches

And while some viewers — and her co-host — occasionally accuse Lang of having left - leaning sympathies, she says it has more to do with counterbalancing O'Leary's conservatism than growing up in a Liberal household.

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

Get off your butt, Mr. Dix, not because the BC Liberals might win but because you might just lose, and forever be linked with Gordon Campbell as another man who leaned on his oars when he should have been rowing like hell.

Conservatives say there's too much influence from the left - leaning Silicon Valley, with its liberal leadership and employees.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

But this liberal - leaning bias also comes with a set of norms.

Moderate Protestants (along with Catholics) tend to «lean in a conservative direction on personal life - style issues and in a more liberal direction on matters of social justice.»

From the extreme left who argue that the decline of Catholic faith and practice is due to the reactionary and intransigent leadership of an over centralised Roman bureaucracy, to the extreme right who argue that the same phenomenon is caused by the left wing leanings and excessive tolerance of the same bureaucracy in the face of a liberal ideology at variance with the true faith.

Pacilio leaned liberal, and making me research things like Kent State did have something to do with my becoming fascinated with 1960s radicalism during my high - school years, but he was scrupulously fair and like the great debate coach he was, typically made us aware of the best arguments either side had.

It too has more or less liberal and conservative expressions, with the former leaning toward communitarianism (a kind of unlikely hybrid of socialism and capitalism that Alasdair MacIntyre once rather dryly called «going to bed with the phone company») and the latter stressing traditional morality and trying to resist the rationalizing trends of modern society.

That some of us are crazy ass liberals, who think that women should be able to make decisions for themselves, and some of us are more conservative with our beliefs (that might be a lie, I think we're all left - leaning hippies).

About two - thirds of atheists (69 %) identify as Democrats (or lean in that direction), and a majority (56 %) call themselves political liberals (compared with just one - in - ten who say they are conservatives).

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.

With an individual's blog it is possible that you can discern what the agenda is - Paul Staines» agenda is, I think, avowedly «anti-establishment» (at least in his own mind) and libertarian to a degree that is almost anarchistic - he will probably not agree in totality... With the blogs that have numerous contributors, the agenda may be less clear - Liberal Conspiracy for example is less easy to categorise - yes it is left leaning, but the inconsistency in positions can be quite provoking and interesting.

With many left leaning 2010 Liberal Democrat voters having switched to Labour, Greens and even UKIP, their voter base will also be much more right wing.

But the problem is more acute for Goldsmith because politically, London is a left - leaning city, with liberal values and a large ethnic minority population.

To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally by white nationalists in the liberal - leaning college town.

Accordingly we would be far better off with Cable leading the Liberal Democrats, as he would have minimal appeal to Conservative leaning voters, but strong appeal for Labour leaning voters.

The liberal - leaning research and advocacy group also asked businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals to stop doing business with the company.

As Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo successfully beat back a left - leaning challenge in Tuesday's primary, he's left with questions over whether the state's liberal base of supports will support him moving forward.

The left leaning organization sent out an email earlier today that cited a recent New York Times story laying out the unrest Cuomo is experiencing on his left and his efforts to mend fences with liberals ahead of the Working Families Party convention this coming weekend.

The party shares in the mission of many of the worldwide Green Parties and generally supports a left - leaning, liberal platform on the American political spectrum with an emphasis on the core tenets of environmental protection, social justice, grassroots democracy, and pacifism.

The leadership later won the vote, with amendments from the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum rejected.

An upstate pro-business group is out with ratings for the New York Senate and Assembly, and finds, not surprisingly, that more liberal Democrats are at odds with the group's agenda than conservative leaning Republicans.

An upstate pro business group is out with ratings for the Senate and Assembly, and finds, not surprisingly, that more liberal Democrats are at odds with the group's agenda than conservative leaning Republicans.

Schneiderman's liberal leanings would likely make him a tough sell with more conservative Democrats upstate, though he has strong ties to organized labor, which helps at the ballot box.

Talkingpointsmemo.com, a liberal - leaning blog, is chockablock with stories about robocalls sponsored by the National Republican Campaign Committee.

Political analysts have said traditionalists within the Conservative party, already uneasy with their new leader's liberal - leaning agenda, disapprove of this incident.

The Democrats (along with liberal - leaning media outlets) will rightfully boast of the benefits while the Republicans (along with conservative - leaning media outlets) will rightfully complain about the costs.

New York's liberal - leaning Working Families Party is working to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local, down - ballot races around the state.

None of the attacks have stuck with voters, leaving de Blasio poised to be the first Democrat elected mayor of the heavily liberal - leaning city in nearly a quarter century.

Kim Rueben, a senior fellow at the liberal - leaning Urban - Brookings Tax Policy Center, said it remains to be seen whether the IRS would allow deductions for that kind of contribution if it's rewarded with tax credits.

There is no point in complaining about Vince Cable's annual left - leaning speech to the Liberal Democrat conference - the crude jokes about bankers, the re-plugging of his beloved mansions tax, the way in which support for deficit reduction is wrapped up in the garnish of social democracy, with Bevin, Cripps and Roy Jenkins prayed in aid.

Roseanne needs to do more than acknowledge that a Trump - voting grandmother can get along with her liberal - leaning sister and adore her sparkle - riffic grandson.

In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal - leaning family detained and then executed, and the background of the disastrous Iran / Iraq war.

Lady Bird explores the plurality of this relationship from the first scene where tight - laced mother and liberal - leaning daughter share a tear over an audio book of «The Grapes of Wrath» before getting into an argument over culture and city college and jail, which leads Lady Bird, a nickname Marion uses mostly with distain, to chuck herself from the moving vehicle.

White House Down, the latest from disaster film director par excellence Roland Emmerich, performs such a dance of prevarication with all the outwardly liberal leanings of the 18 - 34 millennial demographic.

The state has one of the highest per - capita incomes in the country, and the average teacher makes $ 66,597, which even with benefits is on par with or slightly behind similarly educated private sector workers, according to Jeffrey H. Keefe, a Rutgers professor who studied the issue for the liberal - leaning Economic Policy Institute.

If you happen to have written a conservative political leaning book, you're more likely to be ranked lower and drop off the list faster than those books with a more liberal political slant.

My Uncle knows I'm a left - leaning Liberal youth, and whenever we meet, our conversations either turn to politics, or discussing how his business works and how the company I work for compares, analyzing the minutiae with all that he has learned through his years of experience.

«McKibben describes his arrival at college in 1978 as a liberal - leaning student with a suburban Protestant background.

[i] n 2002, many applicants who identified themselves as Democrats or were members of liberal - leaning organizations were rejected while GOP loyalists with fewer legal skills were hired, the report found.

The report found that many qualified candidates were rejected because their resumes were regarded as reflecting liberal leanings, such as membership in Greenpeace or previous employment with a Democratic Senator.