Sentences with phrase «great national movement»

Just as the founding of the NHS in 1948 was a great national movement creating a health service for everyone, today all sectors of society — from employers, teachers, designers, manufacturers, as well as citizens, community groups and government — need to come together to improve the health of the nation.

Not exact matches

Thus, on the first national celebration of Martin Luther King Day in 1986, Jesse Jackson decried the widespread focus on King's great, unifying «I Have a Dream» speech, and stressed instead King's opposition to the Vietnam War — an opposition, be it noted, that King came to only after long agonizing with his conscience, and that he always carefully distinguished from the position of the extremists within the anti-war movement.

• «The road from Stonewall, June 1969, to Stonewall, June 2011, was a trajectory of greater social acceptance of difference and nonconformity,» writes National Review's deputy managing editor on the magazine's website, describing the scene the night New York approved homosexual «marriage» at the famous gay bar where the riot that started the homosexual rights movement began.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

Moreover, such criticism has been made by those involved, and it has been taken with increasing seriousness as the movement has attained greater maturity and impact: witness the large representation of poor and minority women at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston.

Following this pressure, the National Pork Board recently reported that a majority of pork producers are in the process of switching to alternative housing methods that afford pigs greater freedom of movement.

The National Restaurant Association's annual predictions of top culinary trends are out — and it looks like 2015 will be another great year for the fast - growing Good Food movement.

For some, this is also partly the reason for the uprising of far - right movements such as the Front national in France, UKIP in Great Britain and the AfD in Germany.

A movement that began in our great state of New York, and where two years ago Governor Cuomo signed a law that ended marriage discrimination, has finally received the national attention that it deserves.

In closing, Under Secretary of the U. S. Department of Education Ted Mitchell, who shared that his father was a high school guidance counselor, spoke of the great importance of equity in education and the national movement to expand college readiness, college access, and college completion.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

NatureMapping (NM) uses student data to help create a national biodiversity database, which offers scientists a great tool to learn about animal movement, behavior, and population changes.

Caputo - Pearl sees this as a threat to UTLA's very existence, which makes it strange when his two national affiliates may both end up supporting Clinton, who once said, «I stand behind the charter school / public school movement, because parents do deserve greater choice within the public school system to meet the unique needs of their children.»

Held in conjunction with National Charter Schools Week, Advocacy Day is a great opportunity to grow the advocacy strength of the movement by connecting the charter community with legislators in Sacramento.

Thanks to your activism, 2012 has been a great year for the growing national assessment reform movement.

«This award shines the spotlight on the charter school movement's next great challenge, which is to achieve quality with scale,» said Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

SFER (Students for Education Reform) is a student - led movement that champions educational equity... SFER organizes students to be a powerful force for K - 12 education policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kids.»

Modeled on the international Healthy Parks Healthy People movement that originated in Australia, Healthy Parks Healthy People US complements President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative, a multi-agency effort that has sparked a national conversation on how to conserve open spaces and reconnect Americans to nature.

MEDIA CONTACTS: Cindy MacKenzie or Kat English MacKenzie Communications [phone] [email protected] INSTITUTE AT THE GOLDEN GATE SPURS NATIONAL «PARK PRESCRIPTIONS» MOVEMENT Institute Unites Cross-Sector Coalition to Advance Health and the Outdoors; Program to be Highlighted in «America's Great Outdoors» Listening Session on August 31 SAUSALITO, CA, August 27, 2010: The Institute at the Golden Gate takes its message to «connect, collaborate, inspire and act» to the national stage next week as a cross-sector coalition of physicians, environmentalists, park managers, health insurers, government officials and youth leaders gather in Chicago to advance the growing Park Prescriptions mMOVEMENT Institute Unites Cross-Sector Coalition to Advance Health and the Outdoors; Program to be Highlighted in «America's Great Outdoors» Listening Session on August 31 SAUSALITO, CA, August 27, 2010: The Institute at the Golden Gate takes its message to «connect, collaborate, inspire and act» to the national stage next week as a cross-sector coalition of physicians, environmentalists, park managers, health insurers, government officials and youth leaders gather in Chicago to advance the growing Park Prescriptions movementmovement.

Without fences inhibiting the free movement of game between the reserves, Timbavati becomes part of a vast unspoilt natural wilderness area that lies within the Greater Kruger National Park.

16 October: Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris at National Portrait Gallery — This exhibition explores the life and artistic career of the great Victorian artist, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

Not only were the great collections that changed hands in the 19th and 20th centuries lost by the Corcoran to institutions in other cities and later to the National Gallery and the Smithsonian, but seminal movements in American art, such as the emergence in the 1950s and»60s of abstract expressionism, pop art and even the Washington Color School (which started in its own back yard!)

Primary themes may include imagery of national unity, nativism, regionalism, and immigration; artistic interchange between America and Europe including modernism; African American artists and movements, especially the Harlem Renaissance; government patronage and the Great Depression; art by and about women; and the «end» of American Art.

About the Abstract Expressionist movement and his fellow artists Motherwell said: «But really I suppose most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or in that sense to any national art, but that there was such a thing as modern art: that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to participate in it, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way here as it had elsewhere, because beyond national differences there are human similarities that are more consequential...» (5)

Okies began their migration slowly, with movement from the South and Great Plains to the West Coast picking up as droughts got worse and the national economy collapsed.

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

As the chair of the League Board of Directors, I had the great pleasure of introducing Alex Doty the new Executive Director and an established leader in the national active transportation movement.