David Kennedy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who has taught at Stanford for more than forty years, credits the university with helping needy students and spawning talent in engineering and business, but he worries that many students uncritically incorporate the excesses of Silicon Valley, and that there are not nearly enough students devoted to the liberal arts and to the idea of pure learning.
The shadow chancellor Ed Balls told me on a visit to the West Midlands that he will support a tax on expensive properties if the chancellor decides to back the idea promoted by the Liberal Democrats.
During debate on the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill on 26 January 2010, Mr Tyrie's plan to create "term peers" was backed by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, with shadow justice minister Eleanor Laing saying the idea was "helpful and illuminating".
David Cameron and most of the cabinet support the idea, as do senior figures in Labour and Liberal Democrats.
Liberal Democrat Alison McInnes raised the idea of tax breaks for those who have the most energy efficient homes.
But the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott dismissed that idea entirely.
But those five justices--all appointed by liberal governors--disliked the idea.
Liberal critics are horrified at the idea of Charles Koch being able to buy his ink by the barrel, but both the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune have histories steeped in conservative politics.
Unlike the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats aren't too keen on the UK Government's council tax freeze idea.
In some ways The Grateful Graduates Index is a vindication of the old fashioned idea of getting a good liberal arts education.
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But liberal Democrats won't like the idea of extending cuts so far up the income scale, and conservative Democrats don't want to raise any taxes right now, so that approach might fail as well.
But a prominent Democratic liberal said the buy-in plan was an idea whose time had come.
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The one big idea that looms is that of electoral reform, but it is hardly new: the Liberal Democrats, the keenest advocates (and principal beneficiaries) of a change in the voting system, have been complaining about Britain's first-past-the-post system for years.
But the main thing which sank the EBC was the opposition to the idea of an exam which would not be suitable for all, most crucially, from the Liberal Democrats.
RPR, which has discussed the idea of a common conservative candidate with the Liberal Democrats and the Union for French Democracy, will promote a second Tiberi term.
Mr Cairns wanted to know if the (Liberal Democrat) Scottish Secretary, Michael Moore shared his "disappointment" that the Scottish government had rejected the idea of new nuclear power stations there.
The idea of an Islamist takeover terrifies Tunisia's liberal-minded middle-class, which eschews veils and beards and suchlike.
Gary Hopkins, a Liberal Democrat councillor in Knowle, said the plans went against the idea of localism.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has also come round to the idea of minimum pricing, which the SNP previously wanted to set at 45p per unit.
The very idea of cultural rights (by definition, group rights) represents a radicalization of liberal social theory and moves significantly beyond the ideas of tolerance and recognition.
Liberal Democrat candidate David Stephen said it was a good idea to bring different services within the city under one administration.
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