Sentences with phrase «as public rhetoric»

This, it seems to me, is the heart of the matter when we consider religious discourse as public rhetoric.

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But in 2016 Seton Hall University Professor James Kimble published an article in the journal Rhetoric & Public Affairs, «Rosie's Secret Identity,» which debunked Doyle's claim and identified Fraley as the real Rosie.

Second, because there probably have been other times in our history — before and immediately after the Civil War, plus the Depression and New Deal — when political lines were drawn as sharply and public rhetoric was as combatively partisan.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

In response to the Rhetoric Society of America's inquiry — what are Pope Benedict's reasons for positioning the Catholic Church as an essential link between enterprise and justice, and as a significant voice in the public discussion of globalization — I suggest a «spiritual....

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

These interests, of course, are rarely, stated as such in public political rhetorics.

What I find disappointing about many studies of public rhetoric is (a) their tendency to focus only on content, rather than the form or structure of discourse, (b) their tendency to thematize this content, and (c) their tendency to regard these themes as reflections, or reinforcements, of collective values — which apparently lie hidden somewhere in the subjectivity of the collective conscience.

Campaigning was marked by fiery rhetoric but public speeches were largely free of the ethnic hatred that has married previous contests as the two men faced off for a second time.

This week, Mark Thompson, former Director General of the BBC, gave a series of three lectures as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion, in honour of Philip Gould.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

The real problem is that much «Wall of Separation» rhetoric implies there is a clear, impregnable line between church and state activity when in practice over the twentieth century the principle of church - state separation has become one of lively democratic contestation and a degree of flexibility, allowing Catholics and other religious organizations to enter the public sphere and participate on the same terms as any other group.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

Given the negative and selfish rhetoric we've heard from the leaders of the various public employee unions this year when Governor Paterson has asked them to share in the general belt - tightening that so many New Yorkers have been enduring as the result of the Great Recession, one might assume that if taxpayers knew that their gift was paying the salaries of state workers, they would not be so benevolently disposed toward our program.

Instead of rhetoric and hyperbole this is an honest and thoughtful system that treats teachers as the professionals they are and gives students the world - class public education they deserve,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

His Left - wing rhetoric will alarm many Conservatives and business leaders, who point out that the Coalition is asking the private sector to take the lead in hauling the economy out of recession as the public sector is cut back.

Will Cuomo 2 go light on the rhetoric as well and try to move boldly early on, or will we see a public unfolding of the campaign documents that many New Yorkers aren't aware exist.

Just as de Blasio was telling public radio listeners a proposal to shutter Rikers is a «noble» idea, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton was on a different radio station calling the concept «just political rhetoric, a lot of hot air basically» and something that is «not going to happen.»

Cuomo also appeared to soften his rhetoric substantially from last year on the causes of public schools that are deemed to be «failing» as learning centers for their students.

Just as Mayor Bill de Blasio was telling public radio listeners he thought a proposal to shutter Rikers Island was a «noble» idea, the New York City police commissioner was on a different radio station calling the concept «just political rhetoric, a lot of hot air basically» and something that is «not going to happen.»

Unfortunately, as we undertook the painful austerity measures I have described, all we heard from the leadership of our State's public employee unions was alarmist rhetoric, intransigence and excuses.

Yet even if his rhetoric were more restrained, Barron would still be the wrong choice, given his role as a tool of the public - sector unions — who, to their disgrace, are now backing his candidacy.

They described him as «strong» and «tough», praising his approach to crime, especially his pro-victim rhetoric - after Mr Blair promised to «rebalance our criminal justice system in favour of the victim» - saying it showed that he genuinely listened to the public.

«Voters should remember this fact as they weigh how much credibility to give the UFT's rhetoric on improving public schools: When given seven years to show New York how to craft a great school, it didn't even come close.»

But as Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon explains, the public rhetoric is not matched by conversation behind the scenes.

As for analysis, Mark Thompson wrote a brilliant column on public rhetoric, populism, and «authenticism» throughout history and how they were revealed in the 2016 campaign; David Fahrenthold did some stellar gritty, shoe - leather reporting on President - elect Trump's philanthropy; Maureen Dowd wrote on the campaign's «fear and insecurity»; and Molly Ball wrote on the principles and posturing of Ted Cruz.

It's effective, tub - thumping rhetoric, but it elides the myriad ways large and small in which charters are simply not the same as traditional public schools — at least those that deal with the hardest - to - educate students.

Although our education system is not as bad off as some would have the public believe, 16 the rhetoric of a failing education system has led to a series of initiatives that have transformed the role and function of the American public school system.

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educationRhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public educationrhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.»

Along with the shift in goals, the public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools, to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse» than traditional public schools.

«The public policy rhetoric changed from an emphasis on how charters could best serve as laboratory partners to public schools to whether charters as a group are «better» or «worse,»» the book argues.

Indeed, the rhetoric driving charter school advocacy has changed dramatically over the years as proponents of charter schools condition public perceptions to accept the expansion of these schools.

But regardless of the false information and rhetoric coming from the Malloy administration, parents not only have the fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair testing program, they should strongly consider doing just that as a way to protect their children, Connecticut's teachers and our state's historic commitment to local control of public education.

As David Berliner and Bruce Biddle did almost 20 years ago, she argues that the public rhetoric of school failure is a distortion of the record that underestimates the successes of public schools and misidentifies their problems.

As a graduate of the Bridgeport Public Schools, a parent of a recent graduate of the school system, a former Bridgeport Board of Education member, and an active unpaid advocate for the public schools in my hometown, I couldn't help but chuckle when I read the recent editorial «CEA rhetoric not helping kids, public schools are» by Jeremiah Public Schools, a parent of a recent graduate of the school system, a former Bridgeport Board of Education member, and an active unpaid advocate for the public schools in my hometown, I couldn't help but chuckle when I read the recent editorial «CEA rhetoric not helping kids, public schools are» by Jeremiah public schools in my hometown, I couldn't help but chuckle when I read the recent editorial «CEA rhetoric not helping kids, public schools are» by Jeremiah public schools are» by Jeremiah Grace.

The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.

Hosted in a building of symbolic historical charge — a former 1928 Trade Fair Palace which in 1939 — 1941 served as an assembly point for Jews before their deportation to the concentration camp in Terezín — it works as a site - specific parable, a form of (public) speech, carrying a transgressive power of cathartic experience, but also a rhetoric of failure, paradox and resignation...

Fraser's casual noblesse oblige is jarring, her distinction between the haves and have - nots blunt, but her tone differs dramatically from that of today's tycoons who tend to favor more inclusive and populist rhetoric while disinvesting in culture as a public benefit.

His rigorous background in rhetoric would serve him and the abstract expressionists well, as he was able to tour the country giving speeches that articulated to the public what it was that he and his friends were doing in New York.

The participating artists appropriate mass - media technologies towards various ends: Paper Tiger Television establishes independent public access television as a critique against the commercial media industry, Guillermo Gómez - Peña stars in a guerilla television performance piece in an act of electronic civil disobedience and Danielle Dean uses the language of over 50 years of water and toothpaste company advertisements to explore the rhetoric around purity and whiteness.

Tobacco Industry Use of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric in Public Relations and Litigation: Disguising Freedom to Blame as Freedom of Choice.

When scientists and advocates, motivated by these biased perceptions, take action by responding with tit - for - tat attacks on climate skeptics, it takes energy and effort away from offering a positive message and engagement campaign that builds public support for climate action and instead feeds a downward spiral of «war» and conflict rhetoric that appears as just more ideological rancor to the wider public.

As Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.&raquAs Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.&raquas is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.»

This reaction is substantially reinforced when, as often happens, the message is put across by public communicators who are unmistakably associated with particular cultural outlooks or styles — the more so if such advocates indulge in partisan rhetoric, ridiculing opponents as corrupt or devoid of reason.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

The shriller your rhetoric, the more skeptical the public will become about your bona fides as an honest broker of «the science.»

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Keeping in mind «ethics matter» and that professional duties to the court ought not be mere high - sounding rhetoric — here is an example of what the public and perhaps students might see as ethically and professionally problematic.

Your point, stripped of its rhetoric, amounts to the claim that the Benchers, because they are primarily lawyers, will prefer lawyers (as a group, or individually) over paralegals (as a group, or individually) regardless of the public interest.