While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

Legislators who last year opposed placing aged-care under the social security system criticized the President's plan.

Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

Derivatively, the adjective continental refers to the social practices or fashion of continental Europe, as opposed to those in Britain.

Despite greater toleration, extreme sects were opposed by the upper classes as they were seen as a threat to social order and property rights.

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

Most Black legislators were small holders or merchants who held economic and social views diametrically opposed to the interests of the small, wealthy English planter class.

While evolutionarily speaking, as opposed to culturally, humans are omnivores, religion and social constructs such as morality, activism, or environmentalism will often affect which foods they will consume.

Adolf Hitler was opposed to egalitarian and universal social welfare because, in his view, it encouraged the preservation of the degenerate and feeble.

Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being advocated by Robespierre.

It opposed King Zog's return and called for the creation of a republic and the introduction of some economic and social reforms.

Hence, the social constructionism and role-taking theory of hypnosis suggests that individuals are enacting ( as opposed to merely playing ) a role and that really there is no such thing as a hypnotic trance.

In contrast to other branches of Christianity, Mormon theology considers God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to be three separate gods united in will and purpose, ( see social trinitarianism ) as opposed to the orthodox view of three hypostases sharing in one Divine nature or essence ( ousia ), with the three members of the Godhead co-eternal and co-equal, together adored ( worshiped, given latria ) and glorified.

Libertarian socialism is opposed to all coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of government and opposes what it sees as the coercive social relations of capitalism, such as wage labor.

Hitler, whose dislike of working class militancy reflected his social origins in the small-town lower middle class, was thoroughly opposed to this line.

Along with the belief in liberty — as opposed to, for example, the European belief in equality, the Muslim belief in theocracy, and the Eastern belief in social conformity — Judeo-Christian values are what distinguish America from all other countries.

Dejacque " rejected Blanquism, which was based on a division between the ‘ disciples of the great people ’ s Architect ’ and ‘ the people, or vulgar herd ,’ and was equally opposed to all the variants of social republicanism, to the dictatorship of one man and to ‘ the dictatorship of the little prodigies of the proletariat .’ With regard to the last of these, he wrote that: ‘ a dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the most conceited and incompetent, and hence the most anti-revolutionary, thing that can be found ...( It is better to have doubtful enemies in power than dubious friends )’.

Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization.

Marxists such as Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai however, though supporters of radical social equality for women, opposed feminism on the grounds that it was a bourgeois ideology.

Both cultural and educational policy in Marxist-Leninist states have emphasized the development of a " New Man " – a class conscious, knowledgeable, heroic proletarian person devoted to work and social cohesion as opposed to the antithetic " bourgeois individualist " associated with cultural backwardness and social atomisation.

* Meritocratic ( as opposed to cultural or social attributes );

He was blacklisted, and to his financial and social detriment, he refused to rescind his stand on his beliefs and remained opposed to the direction of US policies.

They are vehemently opposed to environmental regulations, corporate welfare, subsidies, and other areas of economic intervention.

On the subject of welfare, the Friedmans argue that current welfare practices are creating " wards of the state " as opposed to " self-reliant individuals " and suggest a negative income tax as a less harmful alternative.

Darman also opposed Kemp's proposed welfare adjustment of government offsets.

Female circumcision used to be practised but is opposed by Christian beliefs, government legislation and international medical practitioners and welfare groups.

A secondary concern was trumping the Socialists, who had no welfare proposals of their own and opposed Bismarck's.

The coalition was committed to free trade ( as opposed to the high tariffs the Conservatives sought ), free collective bargaining for trades unions ( which Conservatives opposed ), an active social policy that was forging the welfare state, and constitutional reform to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

As a right-wing political movement, the Christian right is strongly opposed to left-wing ideologies such as socialism and the welfare state.

However rodeo is opposed by a number of animal welfare organizations in the United States and Canada.

While still opposed to full-scale Keynesian employment policies or an extensive welfare state German neoliberals ’ theory was marked by their willingness to place humanistic and social values on par with economic efficiency.

Pelosi opposed the welfare reform proposed by then-President Bush as well as reforms proposed and passed under President Clinton.

Indeed, he almost seemed to take a turn to the political Right during his final two years in the Senate, as witnessed by his opposition to President Richard Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, a form of " reverse income tax " to help the poor get off of welfare and a program similar to a plan he had proposed several years earlier — though it should be noted that many liberal senators and representatives also opposed the plan.

Depend upon it that in fighting for our open ports and for the cheap food and material upon which the welfare of the people and the prosperity of our commerce depend we are fighting against those powers, privileges, injustices, and monopolies which are unalterably opposed to the triumph of democratic principles.

The Reform Party's success in 1993 was related to the mobilization of people who were opposed to the welfare state, but this represents only one dimension of the party's appeal.

On an intellectual level it concerned whether any science ( as opposed to only history ) could explain the dynamics of human action ; politically, it reflected conflict between the minarchism of the early Austrian School and the welfare state advocated by the Historical School.

While the paper was known as a generally conservative voice of the business establishment in the postwar decades, historian David Hayes, in a review of its positions, has noted that the Globe's editorials in this period " took a benign view of hippies and homosexuals ; championed most aspects of the welfare state ; opposed, after some deliberation, the Vietnam War ; and supported legalizing marijuana.

Generally they were anti-communist Democrats and opposed to the welfare programs of the Great Society.

The League actively opposed welfare reform legislation proposed in the 104th Congress.

During the 1990s, Simon opposed both the Republicans Contract with America, and President Bill Clinton's welfare reforms.

Congresswoman Watson supports withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, opposes media consolidation, supports expanding welfare coverage and opposed President Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security.

Other services provided include pension administration, health & welfare administration, stock plan administration as well as payroll and other record-keeping services as opposed to all other American companies registered with Amrek.

On economic issues Thatcher's government was classically liberal, and Thatcher often clashed with the federal Liberal governments of Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau over agricultural policy, social welfare policies ( which the federal party supported and Thatcher opposed ) and constitutional reform as well as the federal party's attempts to form a federal political organization in the province separate from Thatcher's party.