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A moderate supporter of reform, from 1815 Brotherton was a member of a group of Nonconformist Liberals, meeting in the Manchester home of John Potter, termed the Little Circle.
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In 1948 and 1952 Reece was a leading supporter of Taft's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination ; however, Taft lost the nomination both times to moderate Republicans from New York.
DeVito is a staunch Democrat, and a supporter of the OneVoice Movement, a non-profit organization that strives to help moderate Israelis and Palestinians to take a more assertive role in resolving the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.
Bullock was a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party and his moderate social-democratic political views influenced his historical works.
As a supporter of the moderate party, he became a member of the " Club of 1789 ," which favoured making France into a constitutional monarchy.
As a party moderate, he was a supporter of the new leader, Billy Snedden.
As a pro-European moderate, Lord Deben was a supporter of Kenneth Clarke's leadership bids.
To history proper belongs the Song of the Albigensian Crusade, which, in its present state, is composed of two poems one tacked to the other: the first, containing the events from the beginning of the crusade till 1213, is the work of a cleric named William of Tudela, a moderate supporter of the crusaders ; the second, from 1213 to 1218, is by a vehement opponent of the enterprise.
Reagan was a moderate and a supporter of the Union, but resigned from Congress on January 15, 1861 and returned home when it became clear that Texas would secede.
Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party.
Though a moderate supporter of reform, he continued to support the patronage machine and dominance of the True Whig party.
He was a moderate liberal in politics and a supporter of German unity.
Although he initially labeled himself a moderate Republican and worked to support gay-friendly conservative groups, including Log Cabin Republicans, he eventually concluded that he could no longer self-identify as a fund raiser for or supporter of any conservative group because of the increasingly anti-gay rhetoric of the political right.
Bellevue was a key supporter of the conservative faction within the Southern Baptist Convention during the " conservative / moderate " controversy of the 1970s and 1980s ( Rogers served as SBC President for three terms ), and the church remains conservative today.
In December 1927 – September 1930, he was a candidate ( non-voting ) member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and a supporter of the moderate (" Rightist ") wing within the Party led by the Communist theoretician Nikolai Bukharin and prime minister Alexei Rykov.
Soon after its first meeting, many representatives supported Jaan Teemant, who was a keen supporter of the revolution, to be the chairman of the meeting instead of the more moderate Tõnisson.
At one time, Bourque was a moderate supporter of the sovereignist Parti Québécois.
A moderate supporter of the French Revolution, he was elected to the National Convention for the départment of Calvados in 1792, and became commissioner with the Army of the North during the French Revolutionary Wars.
moderate and reform
For instance, New Zealand's landmark reform in 1989, during which schools were granted substantial autonomy, funding was devolved to schools, and parents were given a free choice of which school their children would attend, led to moderate improvements in most schools.
In an attempt to win last minute votes from moderate pro-democracy lawmakers, the government amended its reform package on 19 December by proposing a gradual cut in the number of district council members appointed by the Chief Executive.
The moderate party, who followed Huss more closely, sought to conduct reform while leaving the whole hierarchical and liturgical order of the Church untouched.
The moderate tactics used by the CAM to obtain consideration of reform — petitions, newspaper editorials, and personal appeals to French officials — proved inadequate, and the tensions created in the CAM by the failure of the plan caused it to split.
However, the French revolution had encouraged the increasing calls for moderate constitutional reform.
In these circumstances, the Duke of Wellington had great difficulty in building support for his premiership, despite promising moderate reform.
The classical left-wing of the SPD claims that in recent years the welfare state has been curtailed through reform programs such as the Agenda 2010, Hartz IV and the more economic liberal stance of the SPD, which was endorsed by the moderate social democrats.
Balfour hoped that Chamberlain would moderate his espousal of tariff reform in order to satisfy the majority of the Cabinet, and particularly the other prominent Liberal Unionist, Devonshire.
Neoliberalism had not only become a term with negative connotations employed principally by critics of market reform, but it also had shifted in meaning from a moderate form of liberalism to a more radical and economically libertarian set of ideas.
* Tax reform – broadening the tax base and adopting moderate marginal tax rates to encourage innovation and efficiency ;
The more moderate critics believe that the defects can be rectified by a " reform of the reform " rather than by a wholesale return to the Tridentine Mass.
During the interwar period, public fear of extremist ideologies ( communism and Fascism ) restored the Conservative Party to one nationism as it defined itself as the party of national unity and began to support moderate reform.
He did not desire revolution, but reform ; and thus he became the leader of a moderate party, and the steady opponent not only of despotism but of democracy.
He was, however, anxious for moderate parliamentary reform, and, unlike Flood, he favoured Catholic emancipation.
** Following the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising " forty acres and a mule " to newly freed blacks in the South, which was ultimately rejected by moderate elements as " socialistic.
It attacked Catholicism and orthodox Protestantism but was initially politically moderate, taking the line that Prussia was the embodiment of historical reason, which required that it evolve by peaceful reform towards a bourgeois egalitarian state with a constitutional monarchy, Protestant religion ( though without a dominating state church ) and freedom of speech.
Many ILP members viewed the Labour Party as being too timid and moderate in their attempts at social reform, detached as it was from the socialist objective during its first years.
( 3 ) More moderate political reform movements had for years been sabotaged and suppressed by local ruling oligarchies, with complicity by representatives of the Crown ;
Neither his radical reform movement nor Baldwin's moderate reform movement were very successful, and Baldwin resigned from the Executive Council of the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Francis Bond Head.
In response to increasing segregation and discrimination against blacks, Randolph shunned moderate reform and racial integration, as advocated by W. E. B.
Hoeven has walked a conservative line as a politician on some issues and a moderate one on others including increasing education funding, ethics reform, compensation for teachers, as well as increased funding on infrastructure.
The Provisional Government was dominated mainly by liberals and moderate socialists who wanted to instigate political reform, creating a democracy with elections for an executive and a constituent assembly.
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But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
A dour, gangling man with a choppy gait, Colmer looks younger than his 70 years, has gradually swung from a moderate, internationalist position to that of a diehard conservative.
Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination.
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.
All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.
The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.
A review of major longitudinal studies in North America found that a moderate number of patients with schizophrenia were seen to recover over time from their symptoms, raising the possibility that some patients may not require maintenance medication.
Colour can range from deep gold to light amber with a large, creamy, persistent white head, and moderate to moderately high carbonation, while alcohol content ranges from 6. 3 % to 7. 4 % by volume.
In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.
The Prophet Mohammed told them that, despite this being good, it is also a blessing to raise a family, to remain moderate and not to concentrate too much on one aspect as not only can this be unhealthy for an individual as well as upon society, it may also take one away from God.
The war lasted from 1991 to 2001, although most of the hostilities ended when the moderate factions of FRUD signed a peace treaty with the government after suffering an extensive military setback when the government forces captured most of the rebel-held territory.
It has made some efforts to moderate its tone since passing its Anti-Secession Law in 2005 to prevent a popular backlash from Taiwan's voters.
A more moderate position such as J. L. Mackie's error theory suggests that false beliefs should be stripped away from a mental concept without eliminating the concept itself, the legitimate core meaning being left intact.
The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.
Estimé, politically the most moderate of the three, drew support from the black population in the north, as well as from the emerging black middle class.
The reformist but moderate document, accused by detractors of French Revolution sympathies, soon generated strong opposition coming from the Commonwealth's upper nobility conservative circles and Catherine II, determined to prevent a rebirth of the strong Commonwealth.
The period from 1879 to 1899 saw power in the hands of moderate republicans and former " radicals " ( around Léon Gambetta ); these were called the " Opportunists ".
But above all they clung to Wycliffe's doctrine of the Lord's Supper, denying transubstantiation, and this is the principal point by which they are distinguished from the moderate party.
Winds are moderate and generally predictable, with monsoons usually blowing in from the south and east in June through October and from the northwest in November through March.
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