Sentences with phrase «action group which»

In late 2016, she was one of the founders of the political collective HALT Action Group which began the anti-Trump «Dear Ivanka» campaign.

The Department of Trade and Industry was clearly stung by New Scientist's assertion: that it should «wake up and back an action group which will explain the potential of digital broadcasting and widescreen television and spare us more media misinformation» (Comment, 26 June).

Mr. Axworthy said that he'll be raising the issue in late September in New York with the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group which investigates human rights abuses in the 54 - nation group.

The co-operative effort in modern missions is significant precisely because it does bring together in common action groups which hold different doctrinal positions.

We are all from social action groups which are working in different fields with different techniques.

By 2010, the dark money amounted to $ 118m distributed to 102 thinktanks or action groups which have a record of denying the existence of a human factor in climate change, or opposing environmental regulations.

Not exact matches

Trump's inflammatory press conference on Tuesday — in which he walked back his previous comments condemning of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups by essentially conflating their actions at Charlottesville with those of the counter-protesters — accelerated the fallout.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

«Goldilocks Investment Company Ltd has filed legal action today in light of the continuing refusal by Noble Group Ltd to recognize legitimate legal rights of Goldilocks as a shareholder of Noble,» the investment fund, which holds an 8.1 percent stake in Singapore - listed Noble said in a statement.

Related: Privacy of Location - Based Services on FCC's Radar A trade group known as The Internet Association, which counts Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay among its members, said it would work with both the FCC and lawmakers on Capitol Hill to prevent «anticompetitive actions by gatekeepers.»

Some of the kinds of transactions that Bitcoin can support include so - called M of N transactions, which require agreement between a certain subset of a group, and can be used for escrow, mediation, or shared financial management; time - locked transactions, in which bitcoins are distributed on a strict schedule, useful for trusts or wills; and even data - conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real - world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substaction by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substAction Fund, which studies toxic substances.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

U.S. business groups, while uneasy about triggering Chinese retaliation, have increasingly pressed Washington to take action on Beijing's industrial policies, such as market access restrictions and the «Made in China 2025» plan, which aims to supplant foreign technologies with domestic ones.

«Problems of collective action» arise any time a group (of any size) tries to accomplish a common goal, in conditions under which all tend to benefit regardless of their contribution.

On August 2, 2005, CIBC paid US$ 2.4 billion to settle a class action lawsuit brought by a group of pension funds and investment managers, including the University of California, which claims that «systematic fraud by Enron and its officers led to the loss of billions and the collapse of the company.»

Van der Velde only has 116 connections and his work history includes Amos Ltd, Tuxia GmbH, and PAG Asia Inc — which appears to be Perpetual Action Group (Asia) Inc..

But on this issue and others, Republican lawmakers face counterpressures from conservative antigovernment groups including Heritage Action, Club for Growth and Charles and David Koch's Americans for Prosperity, which want to kill the Ex-Im Bank and are ready to finance campaigns against unsupportive Republicans.

On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established a blockchain working group, which will facilitate external coordination on enforcement actions among other responsibilities.

2) Because of this performance streak in small and mid-cap stocks (which make up the majority of stocks, but not the majority of market cap), breadth measures based solely on advance - decline statistics have not yet picked up the deterioration in sponsorship that's evident if we examine other market internals such as industry group action, interest - sensitive securities, and trading volume; and,

By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Abrahams Kiewitz and Richard Spoor Attorneys, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers, on Thursday reached a class action settlement with the Occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represents various South African gold mining companies.

And the ad industry already has an action force: an anonymous group called Sleeping Giants, which has been effective at getting advertisers to step away from Breitbart News and other outlets the group accuses of racist or sexist content.

That's a question Dryblower considered after his Fortescue Metals Group filed a disappointing March quarter report which included an update on a plan to diversity through exploration when a spot of takeover action could deliver a quicker result.

To achieve their aim, the groups target and kill Muslim opponents, justifying their actions by invoking takfir, a doctrine, dating back to the seventh century, that specifies conditions under which fellow Muslims can be declared unbelievers who can be killed.

From the «I can't believe my eyes and ears» file: A group called Majority Action ¯ which describes itself as being «led by veteran Democratic activists and [having] a leadership board that consists of prominent political figures, including several former Members of Congress,....

and look if u can't differentiate between the actions of some militant groups which we all in the Arab region are suffering from and the actions of the military forces of a country that reflect the strategy of their country then i hope u start to contemplate at what i am saying.

Each person or group has a framework of understanding — a picture of how the world works — which guides both the actions that they take and the responses they make to incoming information.

For her, the three are the «entities» (objects, feeling states, situations, activities) that I would term the group's setting; the «directives» (actions to be done or avoided) I term its plot; and its «character» (qualities of personality approved or disapproved, rewarded or punished) to which I give the same name (Ethel Albert, «The Classification of Values,» American Anthropologist 58 [1956]: 251ff.).

A pastor will wish to read the basic AA books and pamphlets, which can be obtained from the local group, but no amount of reading is a substitute for the experience of observing AA in action.

From this I conclude that world views reflect and give a focus to group experience, providing a map within which words and actions make sense.

World views reflect and give a focus to group experience, providing a map within which words and actions make sense.

BAC was opposed by BAWA (Black and White Action), which also wanted money but wanted an integrated group to spend it for integrating purposes.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

The frequent presence of a «value vacuum» (Frankl) in the personality and relationship problems brought to counselors emphasizes Erich Fromm's conviction that every human being needs a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

Our actions are intended to make us feel like we belong somewhere; we «fit in» among one group by virtue of the snickers and wagging tongues through which we exclude others.

In recent years, all Christian groups have recovered an awareness of the way in which that memory includes, indeed is, the whole action in its integrity.

The point is not that the preaching is to be a discussion of moral issues, such as might be entirely appropriate in a lecture or discussion - group; rather, the preaching is both a challenge to and a demand for a response which will represent in act that requirement of love in action in the world.

When, speaking informally of two human beings, we say one thinks the other is God, and worships the ground he walks on, we are summing up many thoughts and actions, and although the cases are not quite parallel, to say that Christians believe in the divinity of Christ is to sum up beliefs, attitudes and practices which may vary slightly from one Christian or group of Christians to another.

It is a case of the lay mind versus the professional, the latter seeking a formula which means different things to different groups, as a basis of common action; the former saying that common action now calls for a more precise definition of principles.

Fortunately, several experimental programs in psychiatry are gradually developing action - oriented alternatives which have therapeutic promise for such groups.

State or local mental health associations can provide church social - action groups with current information concerning the problems and needs of their area, including mental health legislation which needs citizen support.

«In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group.»

We seek the Church which initiates actions for liberation and support the work of other liberating groups without calculating self - interest.

In Asia, we saw the PP XXI (People's Power for the 21st Century), which brought together social action groups and popular movements from all over Asia and went through a similar evolution.

In ending...@Frogist, it is through this kind of thinking process, (which is one of many different ones) of looking at and evaluating «groups» this way we can make some determinations as to the over-all basics as to who they are, what they are about, and what kinds of actions are they likely to take.

There are at least four channels through which the prophetic ministry can be implemented: (a) prophetic preaching, (b) study - discussion groups (and other educational programs), (c) social action groups, and (d) action by individual members through community social action projects.

The evangelist encouraged people to pray for Joshua Sutcliffe, who faced disciplinary action for saying «well done girls» to a group which included one pupil who was born female but now identifies as a boy.

By action, Arendt means a a group process, involving many men, a process which is the beginning of something new, the answer to futility, which results in the establishment or re-establishment of the public good.

A religious approach is the time - tested way of satisfying what Erich Fromm has called the universal human need for a «system of thought and action shared by a group which gives the individual a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.»

This is for two reasons: first, the minister by the detachment of his vocation knows less about the layman's problems than laymen do; and second, such groups too easily run into one more discourse to which by long conditioning it is customary to listen passively without being very much stirred to action.