Sentences with phrase «by women politicians»

Ferreras said she hoped the multitude of endorsements by women politicians would encourage women voters to vote for Weprin.

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The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

But that doesn't make Roy Moore — a man credibly accused by multiple women of horrible things, a man who has said he does not believe Muslims or women should be politicians — a better choice simply by default.

Tory - supporting men and women, usually white and middle - aged, amble around the Escher-esque creation, listening to speeches and talks by politicians who, in many cases, have enjoyed some of the most expensive educations the country can offer.

Statuettes of Britain's leading politicians by Simon Bingle, and photo collages by Julian Bray, connect the art more closely with the men and women stalking parliament's corridors.

«Parliamentary Pioneers: Labour Women MPs 1918 - 1945», written by the Labour MEP, Mary Honeyball, paints a fascinating portrait of political trailblazers — from Margaret Bondfield to Stella Creasy — who have much to teach the wannabe politicians of today.

The move comes after calls from politicians and members of the public to keep the popular new statue — which was installed facing Wall Street's iconic «Charging Bull» earlier this month by State Street Global Advisors in observance of International Women's Day.

It's appalling that NY politicians (including Andrew Cuomo and Bill DeBlasio) would condemn the the oppression of women by those abroad yet kiss the behinds of Hasidic leaders here in NYS.

The ticketing barrage, previously reported by DNAinfo, came weeks after politicians launched a push to clean up the square, spurred on by days of tabloid headlines that denounced the topless women who work for tips.

Alongside that troop of northerners yet to appear, we were told this would be an opportunity for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband to promote more women — the PM because he's pledged to get a third of government posts filled by female politicians by 2015 (and the number of women in cabinet fell last time), the Labour leader because, well, he's got loads of good ones.

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Responding to a concern raised by one of the speakers, Kate Henshaw (a Nollywood star and politician) in her presentation about youth participation in the electoral process, the INEC Chairman said, «women, youth, People Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) have always been at the fulcrum of the Commission's plans.»

But, by allowing a whispering campaign to develop against one of the party's leading women politicians and apparently sanctioning the undermining of a Member of Parliament, he is giving us a foretaste of what his Government could be like.

The trio based on investigations by DAILY POST in the five geo - political zones of the state; Ibadan, Ibarapa, Ogbomoso, Oke - Ogun and Oyo have started running after politicians, party men and women and various interest groups including youths and socio - cultural organisations in ensuring that they clinch the ticket of the umbrella party and eventually emerge as next governor of the state.

She said the ability of American women to manage their families» household budgets has been made impossible by «career politicians like Mr. Weprin.»

Until those facts are detailed and presented publicly, our priority ought to be ensuring that the women who bravely stepped forward are respected and not further exploited by politicians looking to score campaign points.»

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

This book deals with the nexus of women, development and democracy — as a post-Enlightenment, post-modern and global feminist project of the West — by focusing on the political leadership of one of the best - known women politicians the United States has produced in recent times...

And yet, the suffragettes, as the women were called, persevered, continuing picketing and, frustrated by the unwillingness of politicians to yield, resorted to terrorism.

Its soldiers and strategists, politicians and prisoners, workers and wounded are all men, and while the odd wife or secretary is there to murmur supportive admiration, the crucial roles played by women are completely overlooked.

Based on the memoir of the same name by Molly Bloom and adapted by Sorkin himself, the film follows a young woman as she goes from an Olympic athlete to running an exclusive high - stakes private poker game catering to Hollywood's finest, athletes, billionaires, politicians, and financial titans.

In fact, Victoria's loyalty to Melbourne, combined with her political naivete, brings on her first crisis as queen: when Melbourne is defeated by Tory politician Sir Robert Peel, Victoria ignores the custom of replacing her Whig ladies - in - waiting with Tory women, and Peel resigns, returning Melbourne to office.

We [women] have to stand up for ourselves, and challenge the ideas and philosophies put forth by politicians and people who are granted automatic power, especially as things are shifting so quickly in my country.

A colony on a distant planet is rocked by poverty and civil unrest, and a young woman named Rose and her small band of supporters fight desperately to protect the population from marauding criminals and uncaring politicians.

Great video, but who can blame the woman... she — like all of us — has been misled by our politicians, mass media and NGOs.

The CEO of controversial data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was suspended today after he was filmed by undercover journalists appearing to encourage the use of beautiful women to entrap politicians as part of election influence campaigns.

Yesterday, voters across the country sent a clear message by defeating extreme politicians who threaten to interfere in the health care decisions of women and families,» said Cecile Richards, PPFA president.

«By rejecting Amendment 62, Colorado voters have again sent a strong and clear message that personal, private health care decisions should be made by women, their doctors, and their families, not by politicians,» said PPFA President Cecile RichardBy rejecting Amendment 62, Colorado voters have again sent a strong and clear message that personal, private health care decisions should be made by women, their doctors, and their families, not by politicians,» said PPFA President Cecile Richardby women, their doctors, and their families, not by politicians,» said PPFA President Cecile Richardby politicians,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund was created because decisions made by politicians, by state executive councils, and by presidents impact the everyday lives of women and their families.

The continued attacks by extremist politicians in Washington on women's health are part of a dangerous agenda to roll back access to reproductive health care and ban abortion, leaving millions of patients across the country devastated by stripping them of the basic health care they need and deserve.

He also sided with politicians trying to deny women and men access to basic health care like STD tests and reproductive health care education services provided by Planned Parenthood health centers.

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America «Birth Control: We All Benefit» campaign reminds Americans and their elected representatives that we all benefit when women have access to affordable birth control, despite the continued attempts by some politicians and for - profit companies to take away the no co-pay birth control benefit provided through the Affordable Care Act.

To protect her health and the health of her family, a woman must have access to safe, legal abortion without interference from politicians, as protected by the Supreme Court for the last 40 years.»

Even though President Obama lifted the global gag rule more than four years ago, we are still fighting efforts from politicians who want to impose this draconian measure that harms women's health by further restricting the availability of family planning and other reproductive health services around the world.

«Decisions about women's health must be made by women with their doctors, not mandated by politicians or judges,» PPGG President and CEO Dian Harrison said.

Despite efforts of anti-women's health politicians to cut family planning, the bill passed by the committee today protects Title X — the nation's only federal program for birth control that 4 million women count on each year — and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that provides young people the tools to plan for their futures.

The campaign will remind Americans and their elected representatives that we all benefit when women have access to affordable birth control, despite the continued attempts by some politicians and for - profit companies to take this benefit away.

Violence against women in Indigenous communities has been highlighted by politicians and the media as an issue of national importance, but less is known about Indigenous experiences and viewpoints on the issue.

«Alarmed by media reports and politicians who claim that violence among young women is skyrocketing, we initiated a study conducted over the summer that looks at the myths and facts around young women's use of violence.

Anti-women's health politicians in states like Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin continue to try to chip away at women's health care, but Ohio Governor John Kasich outshone them all this week by signing a budget that included a number of provisions designed to restrict women's health and rights.

We will not, must not, stand by while cynical politicians — in Congress, the White House and state capitals — play politics with women's health, lives and rights.