Sentences with phrase «controversial language used»

Not exact matches

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Most controversial, however, will be the use of inclusive language for human beings.

Atlanta (CNN)- Christian recording artists often shy away from controversial subjects in their music and cautiously avoid the use of harsh language, but Christian hip - hop artist Amisho «Sho Baraka» Lewis wanted to do just the opposite with his latest album.

Likewise this phenomenon has drawn much attention from the mainstream media, who seem eager to point out the apparent discord that religious believers would flock to such a controversial figure, one who flaunts his past moral failings, publicly uses indecent language, and «isn't sure» if he's ever asked God for forgiveness.

Finally, the language we use to speak about our faith has become controversial, dividing rather than uniting us.

With Suarez having been banned for a combined total of 20 games in less than three seasons for multiple misdemeanours — including using racist language towards Manchester United defender Patrice Evra and biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic — Rodgers could almost have been forgiven had he capitalised on Arsenal's summer interest and sold the controversial Uruguayan for a modest profit in August.

The powerful use of language in a headline is used to attract general public attention to reports on controversial topics affecting Australian maternity care.

South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner has accused Nick Clegg of using irresponsible, emotional and exaggerated language in his opposition to Sheffield city council's controversial tree - felling programme.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Don't write controversial blog posts (or use foul language) while job hunting.

A recent damning report about the questionable use of contractor management fees triggered some of the controversial language in the COMPETES bill.

(In the design of its own Core - aligned tests, New York State wisely pushes the envelope by allowing test designers to use excerpts from books that «include controversial ideas and language that some may find provocative» — but the actual passages used in the assessments can not themselves exhibit those qualities.)

Baltimore school officials announced last week that they will scale back the use of a controversial middle school language arts program, after a review panel pointed to flaws in its implementation.

And now for what was likely the most talked - about event of the gaming world this week: Blizzard's controversial decision to end this year's Blizzcon with a video of Cannibal Corpse's singer using homophobic language to describe his hatred of World of Warcraft's Alliance faction.

Known for his forensic audio investigations and advocacy work, Lawrence Abu Hamdan reflects upon the hybrid nature of accents in Conflicted Phonemes (2012) and the controversial use of language analysis to determine the origin of asylum seekers.

Performance and video artist Andrea Fraser is known for her institutional critique in works such as Official Welcome (2001), in which she delivered a monologue satirizing the bombastic language used when presenting art exhibitions and prizes, or the controversial Untitled (2003), a videotaped encounter in which a collector paid $ 20,000 in exchange for sex with the artist, posing the question of whether art is prostitution.

«Indeed controversial» is academic language; but to politicians, this sounds like «praising with faint damnation» — a politician is apt to assume «is indeed controversial» means «is a hot research area» rather than «was asserted in one paper that used at best controversial methods to reach its claimed conclusion» — eh?

The story would have continued with a more frequent and enthusiastic use of the device under Dickson's leadership, with almost a dozen solid examples that included some of the must urgent and controversial issues of the day as the language question continued to heat up and the Charter jurisprudence began to take shape.

In a press release, the Harper Government Announces the Coming into Force of the Notice and Notice Regime, using the same language they used to promote the controversial bill.

Facebook vice-president Andrew «Boz» Bosworth said in a controversial, highly offensive internal memo that the company's obsession with growth «is justified,» even its «questionable contact importing practices» and the «subtle language» it uses to help people stay searchable by friends.