Sentences with phrase «claim against the movement»

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Since claims of sexual harassment in the workplace ignited the #MeToo movement last year, companies have been struggling to handle accusations against star employees.

The growing #MeToo movement and sexual harassment claims against business leaders as well as a growing body of evidence that diversity boosts success and returns have heightened scrutiny of all - male or male - heavy boards.

Von Hayek and his comrades assert that the roots of the crisis are to be found in the ominous and excessive power of unions, and in a more general way, of the labour movement; according to them, unions have undermined the base of private accumulation (of investment) by their salary claims and by their pressure against the rise by the State of the parasitical social expenses without end.

All such religious claims not only attempt to solidify and freeze the life and movement of the divine process, but they foreclose the possibility of the enlargement and evolution of faith, and ruthlessly set the believer against the presence of Christ in an increasingly profane history, thereby alienating the Christian from the actuality of his own time.

A veteran of the anti-gay movement, Lively has been actively propagandizing against LGBT people since the early 1990s, but he's perhaps best - known for co-writing the thoroughly discredited, Holocaust revisionist book The Pink Swastika: Hom.ose.xuality in the Nazi Party (1995), which claims that the Nazi party was full of gay men who, because of their «sava.gery,» were able to carry out the Holocaust.

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

That weekend further muddied the message of a movement that many claimed was a protest against the United States itself — and often, more specifically, its troops.

First, ISIS doesn't do all the attacks (it just claims to do so) and not mainly for inflicting fear on its targets or anything because, as your question presumes well, against NATO - like military organisations, no movement - no matter how well equipped it is - can resist and though it is unreasonable, ISIS knows this for a fact and thus it tries to become a symbol.

[1]- Ironically, many true liberals in classical liberalism sense are currently trying to re-brand things back, by reclaiming «liberal» label for their left - libertarian positions (one of the most notable examples is Dave Rubin), while branding former - progressives - now - called - «liberals» as «progressive» again, on the basis that current US progressive movement is claimed by many to be against many individual rights and the basis of classical liberalism

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

The skeptical comments fly in the face of the message of the popular #MeToo movement — focused on believing women when they say they've been harassed and assaulted and pushing back against accusations that women make up such claims for attention or other supposed benefits.

Despite repeated rejection by the scientific community, it has spawned a movement, led to thousands of legal claims, and even triggered occasional harassment and threats against scientists whose research appears to discredit it.

• Shire City accused Free Fire Cider of instigating a movement against them, and claimed we were making unreasonable and false demands.

When Colbert brought up the allegations, Franco said that he supports the Time's Up movement within Hollywood — but claimed that the accusations against him are inaccurate.

This year's Oscar ceremony had viewership at an all - time low, which some claimed had to do with the heightened political and social messages surrounding the awards ceremony in the wake of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements against workplace sexual harassment and assault.

Cantor later backed away from those comments but still claimed the Occupy movement was divisive and pitted Americans against other Americans.

The success of the charter school movement in most of the country undercuts the claims leveled by opponents to turn Washington voters against a proposal for change, one which had bipartisan approval of the Legislature and Democratic governor Gary Locke.

Because back then, even though I knew — in fact had experienced firsthand — the vitriol against the No Kill movement by HSUS, the ASPCA and other large, national organizations, I believed that at the very least, these organizations were regulating our shelters by promoting and ensuring basic standards of care, as they have claimed, and still claim, they do.

Since this was a time the PC Master Race movement was gathering steam (No Pun intended), it became a means of claiming superiority by their opponents in the Console supporters camp, leading to petitions to Rockstar Games for and against porting the game to PC.

Right from the very start, he reacted against the popular expressive use of paint by most artists of the abstract expressionist movement, instead claiming that opting for flatter surfaces normally found in the arsenal of Barnett Newman or Jasper Johns.

And, as evidence of the utter intellectual shamelessness of delusionism, you can't beat the campaign against wind power, driven by the kinds of absurd claims of risk that would be mocked, mercilessly and deservedly, if they came from the mainstream environmental movement.

It acknowledges that any plausible path toward climate mitigation will involve a lot of nuclear energy, carbon capture and natural gas, pushing back against the delusional claims of the mainstream environmental movement that deep reductions in emissions can be accomplished with present - day wind, solar and energy - efficiency technologies alone.

We wrote Cryptoassets to cut against the grain of thinking that claimed bitcoin and its digital siblings were a niche movement, and instead to emphasize to investors that this represents the greatest opportunity for investors and entrepreneurs since the Web.