Sentences with phrase «earlier fought for»

Scathing of drugs companies and the way they often put profits before human life, he had earlier fought for the rights of victims of the drug thalidomide.

For example, Christian dalits in India, who were earlier fighting for justice as Christians, basing themselves exclusively on biblical resources, now realize that there are resources in other religious traditions as well to undergird the struggle for justice.

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Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.

Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton will file for personal bankruptcy protection as early as Monday after losing a fight in a Florida court for a shield against a judgment in a breach of privacy case involving professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, according to a person familiar with the matter.

In the early days of the fighting, he called for more aggressive action, with an emphasis on destroying Hamas's subterranean infrastructure.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

In early March, as rebels fought for control of the country's east coast ports, where much of the country's oil is refined or shipped abroad, the price of the American crude contract (West Texas Intermediate, or WTI) broke US$ 100 for the first time since 2008.

Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, known for his early bet on Uber, said on Tuesday he was taking a leave of absence from his venture capital firm and the startup he co-founded to fight allegations of sexual harassment.

Surrounding himself with bright people that were willing to not only speak their minds but fight for their ideas — was key to Apple's early success.

Earlier in January, Hardee's and Carl's Jr.'s workers protested Puzder's nomination in 20 cities across the US, organizing with the Fight for $ 15 movement to raise the minimum wage.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called for a special session of the legislature to censure LePage, who earlier this year fought off an impeachment effort.

One of the earlier adopters in the fight for diverse talent was tech leader, Apple.

Earlier the industry fought rules for mandatory power backup.

Earlier this month, Carrey — who has gained a reputation for being a political artist on Twitter — tweeted a drawing of Hannity as a WWE wrestler fighting InfoWars host Alex Jones in front of an audience, writing «if you believe wrestling is real u may even believe Fox News,» but «wrestling doesn't harm viewers.»

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I've always been an advocate for fighting early.

But he acknowledged a potential Russian role for the first time earlier this month when he said that «patriotically minded» Russian citizens might have taken it upon themselves «to fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

In the early days of human existence, for example, it served a survival purpose, helping us fight back when we were attacked by predators or other humans.

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

Charo, his former classmate, said Cruz had earlier been suspended from Stoneman Douglas High for fighting — and also because he was found with bullets in his backpack.

Democrats temporarily shut down the government earlier this year as they fought for that protection.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

We also fight for strong and accessible public services such as universal health care, education, worker training, elder / home care and child care and early learning.

Author Patricia Bernstein's two presentations on her book «Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan» and two fundraisers for Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options (JAFCO) highlight late April and early May events in Palm Beach County.

By holding this unusual vote, Valeant forced Allergan into an earlier and more intense fight for its shareholders» loyalty than you normally see in hostile M&A battles.

But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early human life nothing but «a bunch of cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those lives?

«Often the Church fights its own corner, we play our identity politics card too early in the conversation, we speak up for ourselves earlier than others who are oppressed,» says author and theologian Krish Kandiah.

Earlier in this century we fought a war to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

The early centuries were turbulent ones as different sects fought for supremacy within the Church (Ebionites, Marcionites, Gnostics, etc.).

It's no secret that C.S. Lewis fought for the British Army in his early years of life.

I have since my early voting career fought for financial responsibility, these Johnny Come Lately's, conversatives that voted for President Johnson's Great Society have no one to blame but themselves.

To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

The early colonists knew that freedom was worth fighting for.

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

Bowman was recently charged with tax evasion, but he fought the case, and earlier this month, he won a major legal victory, and the charges were dropped — for now.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Other early Jesuits, especially the missionaries among them, the Xaviers, Brébeufs, Jogues, were objective minds, and fought in their way for the world's welfare; so their lives today inspire us.

However this morning after a pain filled, tossing and turning night, I awakened far to early, after trying for an hour to go back to sleep, with the events of this last week going round and round in my mind, filled with anxiety, every muscle in my body tense, fighting to not be engulfed by the blackness of depression, I cried, Father I can not do this.

How often the alcoholic or his relative says in retrospect, «If I had only been aware of the early symptoms, I could have looked for help rather than trying to fight it through myself.»

One early issue the committee fought for was supplies of tin for crowns to seal beer bottles.

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Tooth & Nail Wines are estate grown blends highlighting renditions of James Audubon's art work from the early 1800s that provocatively shows nature's battle to protect, defend and fight for survival.

The transaction comes amid heightened interest in Australian dairy assets, following the hard fought battle for control of Warrnambool Cheese & Butter, which was eventually won by Canada's Saputo earlier this year.

If there is anyone who should have come back early for pre season training, it should have been Podolski.He is fighting for a starting berth and did not do much in Brazil.But he was also on holiday for four weeks!

our pathetic story about arsenal title contenders fade away in a month... and all those shitty players always come out and say how arsenal is fighting for the title (arteta, giroud etc...) time for a new menager, one who will not speaking to the journalists how transfer window should shot down earlier but he is the only one trying to do something in the last day of the transfer window or he is pretending that he is doing something, but no... he flew to the france to be a pundit for france game... I am sick and tired of this man, can't stand it anymore...

The Finnish racer thinks it's too early for Mercedes to start chucking its weight behind one driver in the F1 title fight...

He said he'd give up the win for teammate Michael Schumacher (who was fighting Fernando Alonso for the title), but when Schumacher dropped back with a puncture early on, that looked unlikely.

i want to see him keep doing what he's doing in mma just so i can see for myself if he can be beaten more convincingly if anyone is able to weather his early storm the way Nate did in their first fight.

Tocco, Liston's old trainer from the early St. Louis days, prepared him for the fight against the man known as the Bayonne Bleeder.