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Controversy over this policy created political pressure to amend the policy, with socially liberal efforts seeking a repeal of the ban and socially conservative groups wishing to reinforce it by statute.
In Belgium, Spain, and Italy, Bismarck exerted strong and sustained political pressure to support the election or appointment of liberal, anticlerical governments.
The twenty-nine could not get the thirtieth vote they needed to override Washington's veto ; African American, Latino and white liberal aldermen supported Washington despite pressure from the Eddies.
The < span lang =" fr "> Villèle </ span > cabinet faced increasing pressure in 1827 from the liberal press, including the < span lang =" fr "> Journal des débats </ span >, which hosted < span lang =" fr "> Chateaubriand </ span >' s articles.
Yet, Rousseau fails to consider that the state is not a total institution within the liberal democracies, and that the freedom of the citizen in between the elections is the freedom of the citizen to live their life in pursuit of their own happiness, subject to the law made by their elected representatives, who are, in turn, subject to popular pressure, public protest, petition, recall, referendum, initiative, and ultimately, electoral defeat if they fail to heed the views of those they represent.
This group rejects what they see as left-wing appeasement of Palestinian terrorism by leftist groups ; they reach out to moderate liberal and centrist Israelis who want to advance the peace process ; they reach out to Palestinian moderates who reject terrorism and suicide-bombings ; they work to cultivate a moderate political leadership on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and are trying to pressure both the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority into reaching a just peace.
Given that France and Britain had been at war since early 1793, administering or making such oaths turned the society into something more than a liberal pressure group.
In 2004, following several years of pressure from a coalition of U. S. conservatives and liberal human rights activists, the U. S. government reversed a policy of denying immigration to Hmong who had fled Laos for refugee camps in Thailand in the 1990s.
His impressive speech, however, received wide coverage by the press, and due to strong pressure from the liberal elements both in Netherlands and Dutch East Indies, Sukarno was released early on 31 December 1931.
James W. Silver, a liberal Ole Miss history professor who was to publish a bestseller book condemning Mississippi's segregated society and who would soon leave the state under pressure would say however:
In the 1820s, pressure from the liberal wing of the Commons and the rise of the Catholic Association in Ireland revived the controversy.
Under such pressure, the individual princes recalled the existing conservative governments and replaced them with more liberal committees, the so-called " March Governments " ( Märzregierungen ).
In 1928 — because of the pressure of liberal capital and League of Nations — a less explicit version of the act was passed.
A constitution, the Statuto Albertino, was enacted in the year of revolutions, 1848, under liberal pressure, and under the same pressure Charles Albert declared war on Austria.
In a November 4, 1999, Time magazine article, Jonathan Gregg opined that accusations of liberal media bias were not justified because the two cases varied with the Dirkhising murder offering " no lessons ," whereas the Shepard murder " touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons.
Before the 2009 election, he said that his most important issues was to " fight for our basic democratic, liberal and human society values against external pressure, mainly from Islamic societies ".
He published many writings promoting liberal, rational interpretations of In face of pressure from religious Muslims, Sir Syed avoided discussing religious subjects in his writings, focusing instead on promoting education.
As a result of this pressure and the apparent failure of liberal reforms in Tibet to quell separatist sentiment, hardliners within the Chinese government gained in power.
The only close to wholesale implementations of the liberal viewpoint being carried out is by smaller developing nations, often with some degree of coercion by actors such as the U. S. treasury or IMF, who have been able to apply financial pressure when the developing nations faced various crises.
In 1993, she founded the liberal pressure group " United Ants " with other pro-democracy political activists.
He also carried on the negotiations with the Pope concerning the repeal of the concordat, and in this matter also did much by a liberal policy to relieve Austria from the pressure of institutions which had checked the development of the country.
Cowling challenged the traditional liberal assumptions over the reform crisis of the 1860s by claiming that the Liberal Party was not the straightforward progressive party that wanted to hand political power to the working-class and that the Conservatives did not promote reform in reaction to working-class pressure.
Islamists also prevented the enactment of a more liberal family code despite pressure from feminist groups and associations.

liberal and bloc
Although Hungary enjoyed one of the most liberal and economically advanced economies of the former Eastern bloc, both agriculture and industry began to suffer from a lack of investment in the 1970s, and Hungary's net foreign debt rose significantly — from $ 1 billion in 1973 to $ 15 billion in 1993 — due largely to consumer subsidies and unprofitable state enterprises.
While the French economy faltered, a series of elections brought a relatively powerful liberal bloc into the Chamber of Deputies.
The 17-strong liberal bloc of 1824 grew to 180 in 1827, and 274 in 1830.
Also, the growth of the liberal bloc within the Chamber of Deputies corresponded roughly with the rise of a liberal press within France.
The response of the Duma, urged on by the liberal bloc, was to establish a Temporary Committee to restore law and order ; meanwhile, the socialist parties establish the Petrograd Soviet to represent workers and soldiers.
Kefauver was unique in Tennessee politics in his outspoken liberal views, a stand that established a permanent bloc of opposition to him in the state.
Based on this voter profile, Law and Justice form the core of the conservative post-Solidarity bloc, along with the League of Polish Families and Solidarity Electoral Action, as opposed to liberal conservative post-Solidarity bloc of Civic Platform.
Novodvorskaya stood as a candidate for the radical liberal party Democratic Union in the 1993 Russian legislative election in a single-mandate district as part of the Russia's Choice bloc, and she also contested the 1995 Russian legislative election on the list of the Party of Economic Freedom.
In May 1954, as a member of the Senate's " liberal bloc ," he proposed rules for Senate committees designed to eliminate some of Senator McCarthy's tactics.
Following the 2003 elections, according to Al-Dustoor ( a Kuwaiti newspaper published by the National Assembly, July 20, 2003 ) 16 deputies joined the Islamist bloc ; 6 joined the Popular Bloc ( a populist group that includes both bedouin and Shi ' i deputies ); 4 joined the liberal bloc.
Coalition of People's Accord (, KNS ) was the bloc of mostly moderate nationalist and liberal parties formed on the eve of first multi-party elections in Croatia in 1990.
This phenomenon ( on a satirical newspaper, the Premier was depicted as a chameleon ), called in Italian as trasformismo ( roughly translated in English as " transformism "), cancelled the political differences in the Parliament, which was dominated by an undistinguished liberal bloc with a landslide majority until after World War I.

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As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.
And yet the elements which capture his liberal and humanistic imagination are those which make the English story worth telling and worth remembering.
This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).
This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.
Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;
And even this 1. 5 % will be reduced to 1 %, if we take out India and China, which have not pursued liberal trade and industrial policies recommended by the developed countries.
Sometimes the group criticized Gianfranco Fini for his liberal views on abortion, artificial insemination and stem-cell research, which led some notable ex-DC members as Publio Fiori to leave the party.
The Spanish Constitution of 1812, and the legislation passed by the Cádiz Cortes after it was set up in 1808, created a number of liberal political and commercial policies, which were welcomed in Cuba but also curtailed a number of previous political and commercial liberties.
Iona College, a small Catholic liberal arts college in New Rochelle, NY is named after the island on which Columba established his first monastery in Scotland.
The liberal conservative tradition in the United States combines the economic individualism of the classical liberals with a Burkean form of conservatism ( which has also become part of the American conservative tradition, such as in the writings of Russell Kirk ).
Both conservative and liberal parties tend to favor private ownership of property, in opposition to communist, socialist and green parties, which favor communal ownership or laws requiring social responsibility on the part of property owners.
This belief led classical liberal politicians to pass the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, which limited the provision of social assistance.
Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Alan Wolfe summarises this viewpoint, which reject ( s ) any such distinction and argue ( s ) instead for the existence of a continuous liberal understanding that includes both Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes ...
" Cannon's ministry takes a unique approach quite distinct from modern liberal Christians, yet which still supports homosexual relations.
Other significant contrasts were seen in regards to " liberal " versus " conservative " social positions, as well as in one ’ s understanding of God, with 43 % of homosexual participants sharing the " orthodox, biblical " understanding of God which 71 % of heterosexual participants indicate they do.
The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.
In the era after the Congress of Vienna, which was influenced by Prince Metternich and his secret police, Hoffmann's text had a distinctly revolutionary, and at the same time liberal, connotation, since the demand for a united Germany was most often made in connection with demands for freedom of the press and other liberal rights.
They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of its beliefs and ideas.
or B. M ) are four-year programs that include individual bass lessons, amateur orchestra experience, and a sequence of courses in music history, music theory, and liberal arts courses ( e. g., English literature ), which give the student a more well-rounded education.

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