Sentences with phrase «building society movement»

The building society movement has lasted over 230 years thanks to the core pillars of fairness for customers, prudence on behalf of customers and the trust of customers: I believe these are now more important than ever.»

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This excellent book on why unions and a strong labour movement are essential building blocks of a sound economy and of a just and democratic society deserves to be widely circulated.

We have strengthened our liberalism and rediscovered our Conservatism building a movement that isn't just about the individual, but about the community not just about the «me», but the «we» not just about the market, but about society too.

The research, which was supported by the National Science Foundation and reported October 11th in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, involved building a computer model to simulate the interaction between the two facets of a folded sheet, including how easily and how far the folds would bend and how much the flat planes would deform during movement.

Altogether, these tests suggest that the electrical fields that build up on bees due to their flight or movement are stimuli that could be used in social communication, the researchers report online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Her goal is to build a global movement that inspires and empowers women to live a life most excellent - positively impacting their family, workplaces and society.

We are helping to build a global mindful movement, one that will have positive effects on society long after the event is over.

Knowing that time is ripe for catalytic campaign to evolve a powerful and coherent movement expressing a supranational identity and building new institutions for a planetary age the mission of TWC is to reenergize the dispersed and frustrated civil society towards advancing a diverse popular movement of engaged citizens the world over.

· Building a movement of teachers, school leaders, social entrepreneurs, policymakers and business people committed to ending education inequality across all areas of society.

I call upon governments to recognize the role of these social movements in building a critical mass of responsible citizens, who help maintain checks and balances in society.

The same building also held Blanch's Café and Blanchs Art Gallery, where the conflict stood between the conventional art view of the Academy of Fine Arts, and the opposition movement of the «Art Society» (Konstnärsförbundet), inspired by the French En Plein Air painters.

A leading light of the French feminist movement in art during the 1970s, Yalter built her reputation on a series of works (chiefly in the form of drawings, videos, photographic collages and performances) exploring the role of women in society and the plight of migrants and refugees.

Small institutions in North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming each received $ 1,000 for such purposes, among them the State Historical Society of North Dakota (for «House & Home,» about the American Dream and the representational power of objects, communities, and buildings); the Upcountry History Museum at Furman University (for «Spirited, Prohibition in America,» about the temperance movement and 1920s America); and Washakie Museum in Worland, Wyoming (for «Power of Children: Making a Difference,» about the stories of Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, and Ryan White).

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

«Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.»

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

We should note that environmentalism has not been nearly so successfully transmitted through less well - heeled strata of British society, much to the frustration of environmentalists, whose failure to build a mass movement has resulted in their turning against the masses.

To create and sustain a social movement on climate change, it is not enough for advocates of climate change policies to counter the false scientific and economic claims of climate change policy opponents, they must constantly seek to educate civil society about the causes of the grave injustices that climate change is causing if they seek to build and sustain a social movement on climate change.

We are a growing network of 22 New Zealand civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and social movements who support each other and our allies to take real action to protect New Zealanders and others from climate change, to protect New Zealand's unique environment, and build a more fair, just and safe New Zealand for us all.