Sentences with phrase «by activists like»

Because you will see that they completely undercut the allegations made by InsideClimate News in its series about ExxonMobil — allegations that were subsequently echoed by activists like Bill McKibben and Naomi Oreskes.

From 1915 to 1918, with Picabia, Duchamp was settled in New York, to which he brought what was to be the spirit of the Dada movement, as expressed by activists like Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963).

Directed by Sarah Gavron, the historical drama chronicles the fight for women's suffrage in 1910s England, led by activists like Emmeline Pankhurst (Streep).

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And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

She wanted to acknowledge activists like Diane Nash, who co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Annie Lee Cooper (played by Oprah Winfrey), who has been called the «Rosa Parks» of Selma's push for voting rights.

The series was produced by Jeff Skoll (of eBay fame) and his activist company Participant Media, And it serves to underscore once again the «you - are - there» power of VR — as opposed to the two - dimensional flat - screen experience of a film like An Inconvenient Truth — when it comes to getting out the message of urgency about climate change.

And it also sparked discussion about the validity of demands by black activists and others at a number of universities for what some have called «safe spaces» — that is, a space without intrusive or divisive elements like the media.

She is now working with like - minded politicians and activists to try to overturn the law by passing a brand - new measure aimed specifically at preventing domestic violence.

Major clients like Unilever and Procter & Gamble Co. have been cutting marketing costs under pressure from activist investors, while companies disrupted by new technologies have been shaving their advertising budgets.

This thought system has been embraced not only by hedge fund activists like Ackman but also by institutional investors more generally, along with many boards, managers, lawyers, academics, and even some regulators and lawmakers.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

HOFFMAN: Usually hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.

Usually hairpin turns like this are delayed by turf wars, fights in the boardroom, activist shareholders circling in and calling everyone morons.

Parkland student - activist David Hogg has doubled down on his attacks on Fox News host Laura Ingraham, by slamming the conservative host for her criticism and lack of apology to sports figures like LeBron James.

It may have seemed like a shrewd move by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley last year when she named prominent environmental activist Tzeporah Berman to the new Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG).

Like these evangelicals, who point to genuine hardships suffered by Palestinians under occupation, those church activists cited often genuine injustices by the U.S. and its allies in their struggle against the Soviet Bloc.

A school whose concrete identity is that of a church - like community tending to understand God by way of contemplation is likely to include more course work in spirituality, especially ascetical theology, than is a school whose ethos is that of a cadre of clergy tending to understand God by the activist way.

Yet, as noted, activist population programs have been embraced by governments presiding over something like four - fifths of the people of the Third World.

Homosexual activists like the playwright Larry Kramer and the writer Gabriel Rotello, author of Sexual Ecology — an important weaving together of ecology theory, epidemiology, and sexual politics — have been ferociously attacked by their fellow gay activists for publicly acknowledging that AIDS results as much from human behaviors as from specific microbes.

By dragging an atheist activist group in the soldier attempted to bully the military officers into allowing the soldier to do whatever he / she felt like during the ceremony.

Perhaps it will come as news to Giberson and Stephens, but the idea that counseling groups like the APA have been mau - maued by homosexual activists isn't exactly news.

Unfortunately, I think most popular «newsertainment» programs approach issues from a fundamentally conservative point of view — whether it's Larry King looking at anti-vaccine activist Jenni McCarthy like she just landed from Mars or John Stossel and his pals at 20/20 turning their mustaches up at women making choices that haven't been approved — or made for them — by some male - dominated organization (like the AMA).

Your condescending manner is aimed at homebirth activists, but is really just proving to lay - people (most significantly, the moms who stumbled here by accident, like myself) that your blog is serving one purpose: to push your own agenda.

This came in response to years of lobbying by environmental health watchdogs like the Safer Chemicals Healthy Families Coalition; Healthy Child, Healthy World, The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and The Environmental Working Group; physicians like Dr. Alan Greene; authors like Stacy Malkin of «Not Just a Pretty Face,» Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse, Jennifer Taggert of The Smart Mama's Green Guide, and Nena Baker of «The Body Toxic,» and yes, activists like Moms Rising and bloggers like my Green Moms Carnival friends.

I'm happy to share my positive experiences, but I feel like by doing so I get shoved into the same category as those overzealous activists.

There is anger on main street, but Obama has allowed this anger to be channeled by the tea party activists, supported by rich billionaires like the Koch brothers.

All this is made even worse by the fact that Corbyn has been a social activist since the 70s — to many it looks like he's still fighting the same battles with the same ideas.

That sounds awfully like the activist shareholder model that's currently being exercised by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who has sought to squeeze reforms from major companies the state's pension fund has invested in, including greater disclosure of their political activity.

In today's Republican party, by placing their ticket in the hands of their most committed activists — the ones who'd drive to Richmond for a weekend of politicking — they might as well have ensured the nomination of someone who says things like this:

Super PACs like those, as well as secretive nonprofit groups — both spurred by the 2010 Citizens United decision and other federal court rulings — allowed extremely wealthy activists to play in presidential and congressional politics like never before.

Nolan was well - liked by journalists but allies of Fletcher's described the Wirral - based activist as «useless».

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

Activists groups, like El Grito de Sunset Park, have highlighted such arrests — which statistics show primarily involve non-white residents — as the route by which undocumented residents become known to federal authorities, even in so - called sanctuary cities like New York.

They were countered by anti-nuclear activists who pushed for the shutdown of the power plants so the state can begin its transition to renewable energy source like wind and solar power.

Progressive conservatism pressure group Bright Blue launched its new, trendily titled book Tory Modernisation 2.0: The future of the Conservative party yesterday afternoon, which comprises progressive visions for the party's future by politicians, journalists and activists, a foreword by Francis Maude MP, and a quirkily - angled front cover the typeface of which looks suspiciously like Helvetica.

The accusation of being «out of touch» hangs like an axe over the heads of journalists, politicians and activists who know that their careers are partly the by - products of an inherited middle - class advantage.

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

In India radicals like Nehru and M N Roy were humanists, supported in this country by activists such as MP and humanist Fenner Brockway.

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

Why couldn't we have heard more speeches like these on the final day in Manchester from young MPs and activists throughout the week, instead of ministerial dirges punctuated by gaps in the programme and an early finish at about 4.30 pm every day?

Kingofzouk is obviously the Stephen Colbert - like avatar of a liberal activist attempting to advance his / her views by portraying conservatives as ridiculous.

As for Eric Pickles, activists who met him at the Crewe Campaign HQ liked his good humour and respected the fact that he understood that to win the by - election was going to be a team effort from everyone, not just the party staff behind the laptops.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon launched her challenge to two - term incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo by calling him a fake Democrat who has governed like a Republican and only takes progressive stances when they are politically expedient or he has no choice.

He'd love to see Cuomo battered if not beaten, especially by an activist who would run to the left of Cuomo and make him look like a relative centrist.

Democratic hopefuls occupy a wide swatch of the political spectrum, from moderates like Tedra Cobb to more progressive candidates like Patrick Nelson, a Stillwater - based activist and former legislative aide who has largely adopted many of the campaign platforms highlighted by Funiciello, including sharply deriding the role of money in politics and calling for a less interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

Romney, like most of the Republican candidates, has largely embraced positions held by party activists: committing to repeal the health - care law signed last year by Obama; calling for reduced federal spending, but no tax increases, to balance the budget; and opposing same - sex marriage and abortion.

By winning local council seats, party activists established a power base in cities like Liverpool, and success in local government revitalised their national ambitions.

Other organised protesters who've received the BBC blessing of warm approval recently, accompanied by woolly reporting about who they are, are the Russian protesters who apparently would like to be governed by oligarchs and the Socialist Workers Party activist who confronted Andrew Landsley for the cameras.

There have been tensions in the party between the more traditional northeastern Republicans like Cox, and leading state Senate Republicans, and the more right wing activist sector of the party, influenced by 2006 gubernatorial candidate and Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.