Sentences with phrase «by activists such»

This inconsequential muck - raking has been given superficial journalistic and academic credibility by activists such as George Monbiot and academic activists such as Naomi Oreskes, and lastly by Andrew Revkin.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

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

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By guaranteeing such a high level of anonymity, Tor lends itself well to information freedom activists, libertarians, and those who simply want to take their Internet safety to the extreme.

Costs are both financial, including listing fees and the expenses associated with mandatory disclosures and other regulatory requirements, and less tangible, such as the perceived burden of quarterly earnings releases, the risk of being targeted by activist investors, and higher visibility that can result in political or competitive pressure.

Gun control activists are fighting to end Del Mar gun shows by claiming such shows are not «healthy» for the area's community.

Management Corporate Boards Led by investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Jeff Smith, and targeting companies from DuPont to PepsiCo, campaigns by activist investors have become a common occurrence in the United States in the past few decades.

Such uncertainty has caused the stock to tank, but if changes pushed by the activist investor prove successful, prices could rebound.

Their rebellion has been fueled not by the tape - recorded sermons of clerics but by the tweets and Facebook messages of people such activist Wael Ghonim, who's on leave from his job at Google.

Maybe this is why I am so against this push by the gay activists to make life even more confusing for kids: Lets be really clear: nearly every country on Earth has outlawed homosexuality in its not too distant past, and most of them won't allow such silly games as SSM.

He points to the growth of bio-regionalism, «green» political organizations, and confrontations by activist ecological groups such as Greenpeace and Earth First!

All this was refuted from those that were pressured by the gay activist groups to say there was such a thing as the gay gene.

In the public relations game plan of responding, with the whole world watching, to relentless activists possessed by an insatiable appetite for vengeance (a.k.a. closure), the bishops adopted the alien vocabulary of «zero tolerance» and «one strike,» a vocabulary in which there is no place for words such as conversion, repentance, soul, and redemption.

The mobilization had been called by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, one of the first such efforts by the activist group now known as Clergy and Laity Concerned.

Elliot Mineberg, legal director for People for the American Way, was troubled by Scalia's remarks «because they so closely resemble those used by Christian activists such as Pat Robertson and Patrick Buchanan, who have asserted that the country is rife with anti-Christian bigotry.»

Inspired by examples of American civil rights activists, such as the freedom riders of 1961, HRPM members travel at a moment's notice to fight injustice and defend villagers thrown off their land, persecuted believers of any religion, and the human rights of all.

One of the problems is that, in spite of efforts by such ecumenical leaders as M. M. Thomas (the Reinhold Niebuhr of Asian Christianity), who has been closely associated with the activist groups, most have not been able to, or have not been interested in, clarifying the theological bases of their action.

Thus, by abandoning the man - woman distinction in favor of the heterosexual - homosexual distinction, homosexual activists demand not parenthood (paternity or maternity), but the right to some new abstract parental status that reduces the role of the «parent» to the exercise of certain functions such as education.

Many activists feel a woman leader is vital given a party with such commitment to diversity has been so overwhelmingly represented on the green benches by middle - aged white men.

On the other hand, if you're trying to reach a handful of influentials, such as, say, political activists in the mountain states in the West, you're going to get better results by focusing on the specific blogs and newsletters that these people read — and where possible, to contact potential opinion leaders individually and directly.

Humanist of the Year award has been won in the past by Philip Pullman, Terry Pratchett, Alice Roberts and Richard Dawkins, as well as human rights activists from around the world such as Gululai Ismail.

A coalition of social justice and community activists Thursday demanded that Buffalo lawmakers override Mayor Byron W. Brown's plans to increase the city's police department budget by $ 500,000, arguing that such an increase is unjustifiable given what they characterized as the department's poor record on solving homicides and making residents feel safe.

[3] If Brown is also to include Nelson Mandela, who arguably made his name as much by his actions before gaining political power than after, then a discussion of political activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst or, perhaps even more so, Eleanor Roosevelt who successfully campaigned towards removing, or at least alleviating, a different kind of apartheid from their respective societies would have also made a welcome addition.

Thus, for example, a group of scholars and activists working on borders recently occupied the discursive terrain by introducing new keywords in migration and borders, such as «militant investigation», «counter-mapping» and «bordering» among others (Casas Cortes et al. 2014).

Against the backdrop of alleged plans by some activists to block the popular third mainland bridge in Lagos, the police command has issued a stern warning saying such action will be met with consequences.

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.

The demo in 2003 took a lot of organisation, by numerous individuals, activists, anti-war organizations, all connected through personal contacts as well as social movements such as the European Social Forum and World Social Forum, which were platforms for discussion and organisation.

Internet discussions have been dominated by such concerns and some activists have branded themselves «the Rons» - Remove Osborne Now.

Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.

The activist advised the government to «ignore calls by armchair critics that the CBN governor should be sacked over recession», saying such move would worsen the economy.

Supporters of Council member Chin point out that any proposal floated over the years to focus on one section of the neighborhood, such as Two Bridges, has been denounced in the strongest terms by some local activists.

The Wall Street Journal broke the news of a possible run by the actress and activist Cynthia Nixon last week, as well, though her representatives declined to comment on such speculation.

A day after activists and the families of civilians killed by police demonstrated outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Midtown office, they joined him at John Jay College as he signed an executive order making Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the special prosecutor for all cases statewide in which an officer is responsible for a civilian's death — making New York the first state to create such a role to oversee the controversial issue of police - involved homicides.

For me the lesson should be an end to such recommendations on behalf of the left made by a tiny number of activists in the name of the left.

«The police counted on our shame,» he said, but with the encouragement of activists such as Mendez and his friend Brendan Fay, he overcame his «embarrassment» and stood up not only for himself but for others being damaged by the sting.

Nevertheless, with substantially more than a million apps already in Google Play and the number growing by the day, such a system might help developers detect problems with their apps before they are marketed and could help make spotting violators of laws a more manageable task for regulators and privacy activists.

The list of speakers this year was dominated by environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth, climate researchers, and self - proclaimed activists, so climate change was inevitably high on the agenda.

Leslie brings home the cost of such projects by following an engineer, a bureaucrat, and, most powerfully, activist Medha Patkar, who has threatened to drown herself in the rising waters behind India's giant Narmada dam.

Through marketing, anti-GM activists, aided by big corporations such as Whole Foods Market, have sold this rationale to a segment of the consumer population.

with frequent attacks on laboratories by animal rights activists from groups such as the Animal Liberation Front.

Actors such as Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, and Emma Watson further expressed their support for the victims of abuse by choosing to bring various gender and racial justice activists as their dates, including Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, and Ai - jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.

The execution of this story, though, avoids anger and resentment against such a system (A dead - end character of an American exchange student - turned - activist, voiced by Greta Gerwig, provides that angle to little narrative or thematic effect).

They will be joined by other artists and activists such as Alice Braga, Ananda Everingham, Anastacia, Ashton Kutcher, Avan Jogia, Becca, Bill and Melinda Gates, Cate Blanchett, Chelsea Islan, Christina Hendricks, Criolo, Daniel Craig, Diamond, Diego Luna, G.E.M., Gilberto Gil, James Chau, Jamie Oliver, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, UN Messenger of Peace Lang Lang, Liverpool Football Club captain Jordan Henderson and team mates, Lenine, Mia Maestro, Mafikizolo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mena Suvari, UNDP Champion Michelle Yeoh, Meryl Streep, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Boniadi, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Paul Wesley, Phoebe Tonkin, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Richard Branson, Robert Pattinson, Robert Redford, Rodrigo Santoro, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Hawking, Sun Yang, UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder, Tom Hiddleston, Thanh Bui, UNICEF supporter Wagner Moura, Yemi Alade, and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for China Zhou Xun among others.

She remembers inspiring lectures by famed educators, activists, and writers such as Robert Cole, Marian Wright Edelman, Jonathan Kozol, and Paulo Freire, who she says «had such an impact on my life» when he taught for a year in 1969.

And the school likely wouldn't have such classes, some teachers here say, if the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights hadn't forced the Salt Lake City district to bolster its services for English - learners in response to a complaint by a local activist in 2001.

Now a remarkable website started by a group of young Chicago activists — all women between the ages of 12 and 22 — is collecting the personal stories of such students in print, video, and audio and combining them with survey research, popular education, art, and more.

Prior to NYOT, Jessica worked as a technology consultant for global brands such as Accenture and Deloitte, and has been named an Entrepreneur in Residence at General Assembly, a 2015 Wells Fargo Millennial Activist, a 2015 Camelback Ventures Social Innovation Fellow, a 2016 Points of Light Civic Accelerator Entrepreneur, a 4.0 Schools Launch Entrepreneur, a JPMorganChase Global Enterprise Technology Leader, a Morgan Stanley Emerging Leader, a Deloitte Future Leaders Apprentice, and one of 50 Visionary Women Leaders to Watch in 2015 by Innov8t iv Magazine.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

Parent Power activists such as the Connecticut Parents Union are already gearing up for a fight with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association over expanding the reach of the state's Parent Trigger law; the fight is particularly tinged by revelations earlier this year of the AFT's presentation on how it unsuccessfully attempted to kibosh the passage of the Parent Power law and how it exacted revenge by ousting Jason Bartlett, the legislator who led the passage of the law and the neutralizing of his former colleague, Gary Holder - Winfield.

The new Common Core math and reading standards adopted by 45 states have come under a firestorm of criticism from tea - party activists and commentators such as Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin.