Sentences with phrase «written by a conservative»

Written by conservative, recognized scholars, many from Baptist colleges, and Seminaries.

If you want to know the sources of Romney's 47 percent gaffe, and the Romney campaign's self - defeating obsession with the high - earners «who built that,» you should start with things said and written by some conservatives in the years prior to 2012.

These were written by Conservative Sajid Javid, Liberal Democrat Vince Cable and former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

It's based on the dignity of humankind and defending rights... We can remember that the European convention on human rights was written by Conservative lawyers in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Iain Dale's Diary - Surely the most popular personal blog written by a Conservative in the UK, the readership of Iain Dale's Diary has shot up since restarting after the David Davis leadership campaign.

It was obvious throughout that one was written by a conservative and the other by a liberal political scientist.

Not exact matches

«In the tough economic times ahead, we need a Conservative majority led by Harper to make the difficult decisions without the inevitable bickering from the Liberals and NDP,» wrote one CEO.

After heading to Asia for year - end client meetings, Levkovich wrote: «A 10 % total return in the next 13 - 14 months was perceived as being too conservative by many even as our year - end target is in line with mean and median top - down forecasts... Interestingly, several clients suggested that our outlook was far below the bullishness expressed by other even when our numbers are pretty much well within the Street's consensus.»

A study published in the journal Science and written by three members of the Facebook data science team found that the News Feed algorithm suppresses what they called «diverse content» by 8 percent for self - identified liberals and 5 percent for self - identified conservatives.

We would like the session here to place by 24 May,» the committee writes in its latest letter to the company, signed by its chair, Conservative MP Damian Collins.

Trudeau acknowledged that none of these measures would have prevented the kind of controversy that has been boiling over the past few weeks, stemming from a $ 90,172 cheque written by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright, to repay wrongful expenses by Sen. Mike Duffy, who has since quit the Conservative caucus.

The Conservative leader skipped a recent leaders debate organized by the Black community, Royson James writes, even as Premier Kathleen Wynne and others attended.

The organization is known for helping to advance corporate interests by writing and then pushing to pass conservative legislation at the state level.

The Conservative government is looking at softening Canada's marijuana laws by allowing police to write tickets for small - scale possession cases instead of laying charges.

On access to information requests by me, they uncovered a truth from the secretive Conservative government: a plan written by DND called for a competitive process that would run in 2010.

Recently, the UK Daily Telegraph ran a remarkable Op - Ed written by William Hague, the just - retired Conservative politician and former UK Foreign Secretary.

The monopoly of the overwhelmingly liberal establishment media is in the process of being broken, writes Brian Anderson of the Manhattan Institute, by conservative talk shows, bloggers, and irreverent television programs such as «South Park.»

«Anyone who does just a little digging on Bethke's YouTube channel or on Google will quickly learn that this young poet is a conservative Christian and member of the Mars Hill Church led by controversial pastor Mark Driscoll,» writes Patheos blogger Brian Kirk, a Missouri - based pastor.

But it does appear to be true that, as Dias wrote, InterVarsity will maintain doctrinal accountability by asking any staff who disagree with IVCF's conservative stance on homosexuality, same - sex relationships, and gender to inform their leadership, triggering a process of «involuntary termination.»

I thought that most conservative Christians, including Reformed Christians, believed that the Bible was written by human beings and had a human touch.

Please note that the review article was a summary of the New Torah for Modern Minds written and published by 1.5 million Conservative Jews and their rabbis so your culture and its myths are well known.

Joseph Bottum writes: After six years of President Bush» thought by nearly every observer to be the most socially conservative president of recent decades» where does social conservatism stand?

In a remarkable review of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics in the English journal Philosophy (January 1965) that ought to be read by all self - described conservatives, Kolnai wrote:

So clearly written in the Bible, so obvious, so always blatantly censored by the religious conservatives.

I took these words from a response to a fine post by Carl Scott, and decided to make them into a not so fine post of mine here — A long time ago Peter Lawler mentioned doing the most unconservative thing, i.e., writing some kind of postmodern conservative manifesto.

Those taken aback by such rhetoric must ask whether neo-orthodox Protestants, for example, write with the same polemics and hostility against liberals, Catholics, conservatives or secularists.

Tumminio said she wrote God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom, to explore the contention by conservative Christians that Harry Potter is akin to heresy.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

At the same time, she writes in a later blog that the main point she wished to make in her earlier article is that atheists like her don't need belief in the biblical God in order to maintain certain ethical principles by reason alone, in the light of experience, and thus in a «conservative» manner.

That rebuttal will give you some of the basic arguments used by some conservatives in their rebuttals of much of Wink's writing.

So we've read the studies, often written in the spirit of Tocqueville, that American conservative Christians are distinguished by their philanthropic generosity and their voluntary care giving, and their churches, at their best at least, are attentive to the whole lives of particular persons.

Changing Our Mind by David Gushee:: I have had this book by one of evangelicalism's leading conservative ethicisits (he wrote the best - selling text Kingdom Ethics) and his shift on GLBTQ theology for a while but just finally read it.

Free - market conservatives, such as those who often write for the Wall Street Journal, make the error of saying that all we need to do is cut taxes and deregulate and the growth stimulated by «job creators» will somehow obliterate all our pesky relational issues — those connected with pathological families, the exploding number of single moms, seeming superfluous men, and so forth.

There were almost no books written for college educated conservative evangelicals by Americans back then, so you had to read British authors.

Like many social conservatives, especially Christian ones, I spend a lot of my time reading and writing about religious freedom, especially how it might be affected by the legalization of same - sex marriage and the campaign for «gay rights» more generally.Yet at the same time, I harbor doubts about the position we are staking out.You see, I sometimes think that Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith may have been correct.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

Along more conservative lines, a distinguished German scholar, Martin Noth, has recently proposed and presented evidence for a more ancient source than J (he does not commit himself as to whether it was an oral or written source) underlying both J and E and utilized by both.

«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative....

«Conspiratorial theories of history are easy to create once you are prepared to ignore the realities on the ground, or regard those who do take them into account as part of the conspiracy too,» writes Ronald Radosh in a review of a new book called American Betrayal, by a conservative writer named Diana West.

Opposition was aroused in conservative circles, but so much of what was written was obviously from reverent scholars, constructive rather than negative, completely devoted to Christ and His Church, that in time general assent was given by the majority of thoughtful churchmen to the more moderate conclusions.

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I hope we can get back to the rich analysis by Jonathan Rutherford and others on the role of conservative philosophy in Labour thinking that I have written about on this website and others.

The stock market's roller - coaster ride (as illustrated, uh, ably by The New York Post yesterday) shows there's a real need for pension reform, writes EJ McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center.

When Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, he was immediately written off and ridiculed by Conservative - supporting public affairs professionals, while the industry's hefty contingent of diehard Blairites were often even more scathing.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratcBy avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratcby making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

So where does that leave us - is it really indicative of Conservative grassroots thought what is written by a number of popular bloggers on a particular topic that they don't write about very often?

Tory high command believes Labour is trying to «switch channels» and write off the economic legacy it left, and it's felt that by accepting Conservative budgets in the future, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls hope they can escape the blame for the past mess.

The Conservatives are insisting Baker's comments reflect only his own party's views and that they remain committed to a tough approach to drugs, but the report was signed off by Theresa May and written by civil servants.

«Unhindered by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives will now seek to widen mass surveillance and data retention,» founder Aral Balkan wrote in a farewell blog.