Sentences with phrase «act as an activist»

Does the doula sound like she is ready to fight, take over your birth, force her philosophies and act as an activist in your delivery room?

I have in the past, called for Dr. Hansen's firing after his arrest episodes where he acts as an activist and protestor.

Not exact matches

Industry experts say Elliott appears to be acting on a plan to open up a region that until recently was regarded as less fertile ground for activist funds.

But activists, she added, «can act as an important «check and balance» on management that has lost its way.»

Activists, said Michelle Edkins at BlackRock, «can act as an important «check and balance» on management that has lost its way.»

In 2015 the organization, Lesbians Who Tech, honored her work as a technologist and activist by naming a coding scholarship to recognize her work and her part in the Supreme Court striking down DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

The bill defines activist investors as anyone directly or indirectly seeking to propose a shareholder resolution or nominate a director to the board, or simply acting «broadly in concert with» a proponent.

The Texas Act would apply to any person who (i) beneficially owns any securities of a «Texas - based public company» (defined as a publicly traded company whose «headquarters» are located in Texas) and (ii) is an «activist investor» (defined as any person who directly or indirectly nominates or attempts to nominate directors or makes or attempts to make a shareholder proposal with respect to the company).

At least they would exclude the «activists»» those who are so impertinent as to act upon their convictions.

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

I will now pose the question: «What motivates pro-choice activists to think and act as they do?»

As the dust from the recent explosion over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act begins to settle, one thing is clear: Republicans and Christians lost, Democrats and gay activists won.

Desperate, angry, and galvanized pro-sod activists learned that if they could make a compelling case that they were born gay, they could become eligible for minority Status as a Suspect Class under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

A newly professional breed of intellectuals and activists — the «new clerks» — arose, who understood Christianity not as a community sustained by ritual acts, but as a teaching enforced by institutional structures.

«AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS — including a sizable number of American Jews — question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.»

But network broadcasts and activist videos act as if this treatment is somehow bad.

You act as if activists and narcissists are mutually exclusive groups.

Just as online astroturfing can hide a corporate agenda behind a faux network of local activists, digital channels can let a small group — or a single loud voice — act like a substantial movement.

We have to act together in any and all capacities that we can, whether as grassroots groups, community organizations, charities, unions, activists, universities and, most of all, as citizens, without asking for permission or waiting for public funding.

Indeed, the ad promises Spitzer will be a city comptroller — whose rather bland job description is to oversee the pension fund and audit agencies — who acts more like an attorney general as he takes an activist investor role.

The remarks will be interpreted as a calculated attack on the Liberal Democrats, after Nick Clegg told party activists in Birmingham that the Act «is here to stay».

Though there's no shortage of Lib Dem activists displeased with their leader, handing ammunition to the enemy is seen as an unpardonable act.

Clegg's act of defiance might not win many votes directly, but it will give activists a huge spring in their step as they plough through Tory shires, fighting to win county council seats in next week's local elections.

Other gay rights activists have defended the administration, while at the same time pushing Congress to act on broader issues such as passage of an employment non-discrimination act and an end to the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the Legal Aid Society, Queens Councilman Rory Lancman, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Courts and Legal Services, have all praised the move as a step in the right direction, though some groups like VOCAL - NY and mayoral candidate and activist Bob Gangi have approached the development with caution.

«As a mother and lifelong community activist, I'm determined to pass the Child Victims Act and stand up for families in Albany,» Alcantara said in a statement.

«As a lifelong community activist, I'm determined to pass the Child Victims Act and stand up for families in Albany,» Small said.

The activists said the act is cruel to the thousands of young people who stepped out of the shadows to identify themselves as having come to the country illegally.

Joining the Democrats was Ramon Jimenez, a Harvard - educated attorney who has long acted as an advocate and activist in the Bronx — and who is now challenging Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on the Green Party line.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun - Olu Adegboruwa, had urged the Court to forthwith, restrain Magu, from parading himself as acting chairman of the commission.

Constitutional Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome has querried the continued retention of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) saying it is an impeachable offence.

Helen Newlove, who was made a peer by David Cameron after the general election, will act as a «champion for active, safer communities», May will tell Conservative activists at their conference in Birmingham.

Funiciello, a bread company owner and political activist from Hudson Falls, criticized Stefanik for co-sponsoring the Farm Regulatory Certainty Act, legislation to clarify that livestock emissions should not be regulated as solid waste.

As Republicans set the wheels in motion to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, local activist are urging Congressman Chris Collins and his peers not to end the health care plan unless they've got a replacement ready to gAs Republicans set the wheels in motion to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, local activist are urging Congressman Chris Collins and his peers not to end the health care plan unless they've got a replacement ready to gas Obamacare, local activist are urging Congressman Chris Collins and his peers not to end the health care plan unless they've got a replacement ready to go.

Working in tandem with such groups as the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for a Safe Environment, along with the Teamsters and Longshoremen's unions and local activists like Martha Cota, they've done extensive lobbying in Sacramento and community organizing to push for enforcement of the California Environmental Quality Act and compel the Port of Los Angeles to initiate a suite of pollution - reduction strategies that have cleaned up the air.

Environmental activist Grace Sinden asks: Did you got to court or have a lawyer as an acting coach in preparation to play a prosecutor?

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

BPM, which draws on filmmaker Robin Campillo's own years as an activist, is a sprawling drama centered by the emotionally wrenching performance of newcomer Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, playing an ACT UP organizer in Paris.

Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movie...

«Nos batailles,» Guillaume Senez's follow - up to «Keeper,» toplines French star Romain Duris as a dedicated labor activist who is forced to start acting as a father when his wife deserts him.

When asked for steps on how students can enable their own agency as activists, Jackson highlighted the importance of taking education seriously, doing research to shine light onto issues, and taking necessary steps to act with intentionality.

Now Ritz, a former teacher and union activist, will get to back local control for the four IPS takeover schools as the Indianapolis mayor's office acts as an alternative to state intervention.

As Dropout Nation reported Friday, the demands are based on the Parent Power activists» interpretation of the state's Stull Act, which governs teacher evaluations.

The $ 300,000 NEA and AFT gave to Al Sharpton's National Action Network in 2014 - 2015, for example, hasn't stopped the controversial civil rights activist from being a strong supporter for expanding public charter schools, while outfits such as the Leadership Conference for Civil and Human Rights have sparred with the Big Two over federal accountability rules contained over the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act.

He is primarily a value investor and has acted only a few times as an activist.

This is as outrageous an act as I have ever witnessed imposed upon our community in 25 years as an activist.

artists pushing the boundaries to act as instigators, collaborators, activists and designers, bringing in a fresh point of view, working on a scale beyond the studio; connecting with communities and creating projects with a high level of functionality

ERforS tries to act as freely as possible, always putting the context and the idea before the medium, challenging the barriers between different disciplines (artistic, scientific or activist).

For any given project the artist may act as architect, as ethnographer, as archivist, as producer, as curator, as activist, as choreographer, and so on.

The newsprint also acts as a signifier of the handmade and make - do approach of the 20th century, which many of the activists depicted on its surface deployed during their occupations.