Sentences with phrase «former leaders of those movements»

Efforts intended to reverse sexual orientation through prayer and counseling, once popular within evangelicalism, have proven not only ineffective, but destructive, leading to multiple apologies from former leaders of those movements.

Not exact matches

Cameron and the vast majority of Britain's most senior politicians advocated for «Remain» while the «Leave» movement was fronted by now Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and former leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage.

Former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Gordon Humphrey, a leader in the «Never Trump» movement, holds a business card in front of his face as he arrives on the floor.

Such was the case with the former neo-Nazi leader Ingo Hasselbach, who reports that the East German National Socialist skinhead movement was born of disaffected but essentially apolitical youths who discovered Nazism only when the state and other hated authority figures labeled them as «neo-Nazis.»

In 1989 the U.S. hosted Lech Walesa, leader of the former Solidarity labor movement and the newly elected president of Poland.

In l956 the leaders of most of the former colonies of the world met in Bandung to organize a «nonaligned» movement which established their group as a buffer between the proponents of capitalism (First World) and those of communism (Second World).

Why the former head of the Christian Coalition is drawing attention as a leader in the grassroots conservative movement.

This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead.

Donohue's past endorsement of Republicans (namely former Gov. George Pataki) became an issue during this campaign, with the New York labor leader arguing perhaps more vociferously than his brothers and sisters in the movement that Democrats should not take them for granted and automatically expect to receive their support.

There hasn't been a lot of movement on ethics reform in Albany, as the legislative leaders remain at odds on key provisions like banning outside income and stripping pensions from convicted former public officials.

Its grass roots are based in the trade union movement, as its founder and former leader Joe Bossano was the District Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU).

Compared with the previous government, «only the tone has changed,» complained Alain Trautmann, a former leader of the researchers» movement Sauvons la Recherche, in Le Monde.

The leader of the movement, former London Mayor Boris Johnson, has a mixed history of statements on climate change.

Earlier this week, Mike Petrilli argued that leaders of the charter school movement have also become more focused on progressive arguments in a way that may have caused support for the schools to erode among former allies.

Indeed, here is a widely discussed 1967 prediction from former teacher Robert Doherty and labor leader Walter Oberer (from their book Teachers, Schools Boards, and Collective Bargaining: A Changing of the Guard): If the «movement to improve the status of teachers by collective action is successful, if... teachers... come close to realizing what they seem to be striving toward, the concern over purely employment matters will decline.

Leaders of the march — current and former educators among them — say they're determined to build a grassroots movement that has staying power beyond the gathering this summer and «restores» a central role for educators, parents, and communities in policy decisions.

Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers» union in the 2013 mayoral election.

The laureates, former Vice President Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan leader of an African movement to curb poverty and advance women's rights through tree planting, made their pitch at a Manhattan meeting on forest conservation, economic development and climate.

So as the «Keep It In the Ground» movement continues to push for a completely impractical 100 percent renewable transition, it is important to keep the words of pragmatic leaders such as former Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe in mind:

Prominent AGW «defectors» include Dr. Judith Curry, professor of climatology and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Dr. Patrick Moore, chemist / ecologist / activist co-founder of Greenpeace and former director of Greenpeace International; Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a leader in the European environmental movement and «green» energy; Dr. Richard S. J. Tol, IPCC author and professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Dr. James Lovelock, inventor / scientist / ecologist and formulator of the «Gaia hypothesis.»

The environmental movement seemed to have a leader in former Vice President Al Gore, whose documentary film An Inconvenient Truth had raised more awareness of the issue than McKibben's books ever could.