Sentences with phrase «greatest political work»

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So while the interests of fairness argue for a dramatic scaling back of seniors» discounts — or at least greater use of income testing to ensure only those in real financial need are accessing them — political dynamics are actually working to expand their scope and cost.
Wildrose Leader Brian Jeanâ $ ™ s political fortunes during the Great Fire have worked out a whole lot better than those of predecessor Danielle Smith during the 2013 southern Alberta floodsâ $» even thoug...
In addition to serving as front man for the glam band Night Years, Poulos has studied for a Ph.D. in political theory at Georgetown University, covered the 2012 presidential campaign for Vice magazine, and briefly, with the greatest reluctance, worked as a lawyer.
With regard to existing political and economic arrangements, it can support them within limits despite imperfections, but at the same time it works toward a greater approximation of justice in these arrangements.
Explaining his thought at greater length, Ossa says, «there is no place for a religion that tries to impose, only for a religion (or several) which tries to serve; no place for a religion that possesses the truth, only for one which looks for meaning with all those who look for meaning; no place for one which tries to ingratiate itself with political power, only for one which works with others in solidarity.
In 1968, at Uppsala — in a time of great social, political and theological confusion — a commission was authorized to work on a reform of WCC structures.
But for those of us who work in political and social philosophy (and theology), a great question remains: What is the proper relation of Christian faith to the open society?
Despite all his great scholarly works, and his political achievements in helping to bring about the fall of communism, John Paul II gave an instant response when once asked how he would like posterity to remember him: as the Pope of the family.
The ambition of the World Forum for Alternatives and all the organisations and individuals who wish to be associated with it is to set up working groups on each of these themes, drawing together a great diversity of analysts and social and political leaders.
There is a long standing effort to overcome the political and economic conservatism that has been the great handicap of the Church in reaching the working classes.
These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.
Headed «The greatest Australian competition reforms in 20 years» the piece works through the political context to the Review, the «extraordinary» breadth of the review, the panel and timing of the review, the «likely appetite for further deregulation», possible agency reforms, possible «trimming» of the laws, small business issues and more - it runs for eight pages and is well worth reading.
I am sick and tired of listening to how great Arsenal is Arsenal have to prove on the pitch that they are great ant thing else is just noise annoying noise the reality of the matter we are below the tenth position in the premier league and this political noise dose not make any difference what so ever to our standing in fact it devises our club into small segments the for the against and the in betweeners and the essence of a strong club its in its unity and hard work in proving to the masses that this club is a great club because of it unity its work and ethics and remember how we got here and the principles behind it
It took me by such force - a great early awakening which linked personal experiences with political activity, and which certainly played an important role in my decision to work in politics.
«The Great State of Texas» they called it in every political speech I can remember, a phrase we short - handed to «TGSOT» when I worked in the temple of reason — or something like that — known as the Texas Legislature.
It was a really great day and bought together all strains of practitioners, campaigners, bloggers and academics working in this area and supportive of progressive political aims (you can see how it panned out by following our twitter hashtag here).
Greater Manchester led the way in establishing the first combined authority and making it work, despite the political and organisational frictions this entailed.
«The Great State of Texas» they called it in every political speech I can remember, a phrase we short - handed to «TGSOT» when I worked in the temple of reason — or something like that — known as the Texas...
The success of greater Manchester isn't just down to political geography, but also to the way in which the leaderships of the 10 local councils have managed, despite major political differences (and the usual rivalries), to work together.
The work RAP Index is doing is part of a larger trend toward greater use of technology and data in the political and public affairs arena.
Second, note that while Phillips comes from the technology / strategy side, Lee deals with people on the web — he's been a blogger himself and has great relations with the lefty political blogs (MyDD is pleased, while Aravosis just about blows a gasket over the guy), plus he has the sharp political experience of working with the DCCC in a very successful 2006 election cycle.
We were hungry, and willing to try anything that might work, and the internet seemed to have great promise to counter what progressives saw as Republican domination of the political narrative in the traditional communications sphere.
«The purpose of our work has been, against the background of perhaps the greatest political media scandal of a generation, to look at the future of investigative journalism in the light of the problems currently facing the media and the technological revolution unfolding in this area.»
«She's a great fit for the district and has a well - established network for political support and fundraising in the state while offering a fresh perspective,» said Democratic consultant Achim Bergmann, who owns a home in the district but is not working with Rosen.
The first described her as a «law professor and reformer who has worked to stop government corruption and served as a national director of an organization advocating for greater political accountability.
While 2018 has marked a watershed moment with regard to women running for elected office, we know that there is still much work to be done to ensure greater gender equity, including more opportunities for women to have many seats at the political and business leadership table.
Political activity is far more «professional» at the local government level in urban areas where there are far fewer governments and far fewer elected officials per capita, and a far greater supply of people with higher education and high level managerial and professional work experience.
These policy positions are not revolutionary nor - by some distance - are they the work of a great political mind.
(I believe the guy next to Clinton is Michael DeLoach, a former Paterson administration aide who is now working for Healthcare Education Project, the joint political arm of SEIU 1199 and the Greater New York Hospital Association.
Donald Trump's newly installed campaign chief sought to assure members of the RNC that the GOP frontrunner recognized the need to reshape his persona and that his campaign would begin working with the political establishment that he has scorned to great effect.
There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work
Anthony Rivieccio mentions all the great community groups that are active in the area.We know and appreciate all the organizations, political and otherwise, that are involved in good works in our communities.
Up to July 2015, he worked in Parliament through the All Party Parliamentary Group APPG for East Asian Business which he chaired, the All Party Parliamentary China Group [32] of which he was the vice-Chair (special focus on Hong Kong), and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment [33] of which he was treasurer to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia and work to encourage the next generation of East Asians and other diaspora to develop the leadership skills to play a greater role in public life, in society, and business, and in harnessing the resources that East Asians have globally and locally both financial and non-financial to address global and local problems today.These groups were discontinued after the May 2015 election.
(Full disclosure: I've worked for City & State editor, Morgan Pehme, on a political campaigh; he's a great guy, but myself and my Council Member James Vacca are both pertpertubed about this editorial he wrote yesterday suggests Brooklyn is basically a more awesome borough than the Bronx and thus deserves it's own Deputy Mayor.
«I believe Labour needs to work out how to build an economy that generates a much greater degree of prosperity, is much more successful at tackling inequality and poverty, and which is radical in pursuing more democratic and inclusive political chance, such as electoral reform.
«Storms are a great opportunity to look really good or really bad,» said Michael Dawidziak, a Bohemia political consultant who works primarily for Republicans.
We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.
I personally have benefited a great deal from the fact that I have lived and worked in three different political, and hence three different health care, systems.
The discovery is important for reasons beyond the city's age — it throws into question many assumptions on which a great deal of archaeological work is based, because the inhabitants of Caral built a social and political structure, not to mention monumental architecture, without the trappings of writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.
Smirnova see the greatest challenges for those working in grids at the administrative and political levels, rather than the technical one.
Its objective is to encourage work of great value to humanity, of a mainly scientific, educational or artistic nature, and to reward such work by means of prizes or study grants, excluding any profit motive and regardless of political, trade union, philosophical or religious convictions.
The best of the odd - numbered Star Trek films, Insurrection doesn't boast nasty villains or terrible dangers but plays like a great extended TV episode, with a compelling plot that works as a smart political commentary on Western imperialism.
Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller; a closing title reveals that Chambers was literally declared a national hero for his work with Mendez, and it's the movie's sly mission to get us thinking of him as a figurative one as well, for all those great ape makeups.
What's funny is that while the film isn't overly serious, it works great as a political satire.
Having turned in a couple of ill - received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to Britain and, practically at the very end of his career, made another great film on the trail of the works that had given him the title of the master of suspense and the macabre.
It's funny how the Western's greatest summation work — a triumph of buried political commentary and purest epic cinema — happened to be made by Italians.
But Escape From New York really ascends by nailing the biting political commentary that would also come to define many of John Carpenter's greatest works, more effectively than ever before and arguably ever since.
Based on the bestselling novel by former spy turned author John le Carré, the movie looks like a throwback to those great, low - key political thrillers from the 1970s, and if that's not enough to pique your interest, then a brief glance at the cast list — a veritable who's who of the best British actors working today, including Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch of «Sherlock» fame — will almost certainly change your mind.
But, perhaps the most notable thing about the film is that it is a great work of art that is a political work of art, and achieves this greatness solely on the basis of its art: How it tells its tale, not the stances it takes on the issues.
However, it's easily the smartest and savviest political sketch of the night, showcasing some great work by the show's production design team.
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