Sentences with phrase «group called american»

A group called American Atheists challenged this practice in a 2005 lawsuit, arguing that the crosses were an endorsement of Christianity by the Utah state government, and therefore unconstitutional.

In the wake of the Cuccinelli witch - hunt, the astroturf group called the American Tradition Institute sued to obtain Dr. Mann's emails from his tenure at the University of Virginia.

People attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week are the target of a $ 2 million advertising and PR blitz by a coal industry - funded front group called the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) whose goal is to sell the idea that coal is somehow clean.

The $ 35 million «clean coal» campaign, spearheaded by a coal industry front group called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (formerly known as Americans for BalancedEnergy Choices), is nothing less than a nationwide effort to paint coal white.

And that's exactly what a group called American Clean Skies Foundation did in order to help make the case for closing down a dirty, 60 - year old coal plant in Virginia.

Alexandra «Sandy» Liddy Bourne runs an oil industry front group called the American Energy Freedom Center with former ExxonMobil lobbyist Randy Randol.

Walmart's Walton family and many wealthy donors use a front - group called American Federation for Children to funnel money into the Hoosiers for Economic Growth PAC (see its new name below), which, in turn, funds the politicians who support school privatization.

Student advocacy has a long history going back to at least the 1930s, when a youth - led group called the American Youth Congress presented a list of grievances to the US Congress including public education.

Florida's tax credit scholarships was recently ranked No. 1 in the country by a group called the American Federation for Children.

AMY GOODMAN: The DeVoses have bankrolled their school deregulation and privatization efforts through a dark money group called American Federation for Children, a major contributor to the right - wing corporate education movement.

A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.

What this group called American Atheists did, was organize.

«A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's...

A new group called the American Association of Pastoral Counselors is attempting to certify the abilities of individual ministers and also to accredit the counseling centers.

The Post's editors and Bezos, who has met with Trump as part of a White House advisory group called the American Technology Council, have declared that he is not involved in any journalistic decisions.

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Since the election, groups on the right have called for boycotts of Kellogg's (for pulling ads from alt - right site Breitbart News), Starbucks (for vowing to hire refugees rather than jobless Americans), and Nordstrom (for dropping Ivanka Trump's clothing line), among others.

Lawmakers are calling for a deeper look into of HNA Group's pending and past takeovers of American companies, which could result in repealing the approval of earlier deals.

So - called self - regulatory organizations like the National Association of Securities Dealers are relatively toothless; trade groups like the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants stubbornly protect their own.

Business groups as diverse as the National Stone and Gravel Association and the American Beverage Association have called for more spending.

«If you looked at the entire American diet 10 years ago, and the diet today, the thing that has increased most is this product called yogurt,» says Harry Balzer, the chief food analyst at market research firm NPD Group.

Immigrants to the U.S. are nearly twice as likely to start businesses than native - born Americans, the group found, and more than half of privately held American companies worth $ 1 billion or more (so - called unicorns) had at least one immigrant cofounder.

Common Cause, the left - leaning watchdog group, strongly believes that the McDougal payment was not a legitimate press function, and has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against both Trump and American Media Inc. over the payment, calling it «an illegal corporate in - kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.»

CARACAS A group of Venezuelan rock bands hope to popularize songs against President Nicolas Maduro by handing out a CD called «Rock Against Dictatorship» during a summit of Latin American and North American countries in Lima this week.

Amy Bohutinsky, Chief Operating Officer at Zillow Group, talks about The Home Project: «At Zillow Group, our mission every day is to help millions of Americans find the place they call home, and we are uniquely positioned to understand the challenges some face and impact their housing outcomes.

And here again he showed more of his hand — once again refusing to confirm if Facebook will implement «the exact same regulation» for North American users, as some consumer groups have been calling for it to.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Among the most vocal opponents of the new fee is the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, which called it a «backdoor border adjustment tax.»»

SoftBank Group intends to call off merger talks between subsidiary Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) and American rival T - Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) as soon as Tuesday, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.

The group aims to raise awareness about the implications of NAFTA, pressure the Canadian government to ensure that the negotiation process is transparent, democratic and participatory, and coordinate actions to call for a fairer North American trade relationship that benefits all people.

«American farmers appear to be the first casualties of an escalating trade war,» said Max Baucus, a former Democratic senator from Montana and a chairman of a group called Farmers for Free Trade.

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Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

Marrying mostly among themselves, and at a high rate (in 1989, Helmreich reports, 83 percent of survivors were married, compared to 62 percent of American Jews in the same age group), they often resorted to what Helmreich calls «pragmatic marriages»» made more for a bed, a blanket, and security than for any grander dreams.

Washington (CNN)-- Senior members of the White House staff called key American Jewish interest groups on Sunday to tell them about the impending nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary and to try to answer their concerns about his record, several sources familiar with the calls told CNN.

His family later started a non-profit group called «The American Syringomyelia Alliance Project».

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

In 2012, an American group called the Center for Consti > tutional Rights, representing a Ugandan group called Sexual Minorities Uganda, sued Lively in federal court in Massachusetts, where he lives, for crimes against humanity.

The Council on American - Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, called on the NFL to make its rules about on - field celebrations more clear.

Kyle Haselden, the late editor of the journal, explains that at a conference on Church and Society, convened by the National Council of Churches, one of the so - called «work groups» declared that American society is guilty of overt violence against the poor and maintains an unacceptable order of injustice, and that the church supports this exploitation by its own «systemic» violence.

As a student, Lin led what the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship calls a «family group,» a small group devoted to Bible study and praying for others.

The administration has done little to deliver on that pledge, so Muslim groups are urging American Muslims to call the White House today and hold its feet the fire.

On the one - year anniversary of President Obama's address to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt, a coalition of American Muslim groups are pressing him to keep his pledge to make it easier for American Muslims to give to Islamic charities, a religious obligation called zakat.

Only one in 20 Americans does not believe in God, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and of that group, only a quarter call themselves atheists.

CNN: Vatican blasts American nuns, calls for reforms The Vatican is turning up the heat on a group of nuns it says are operating outside of the Roman Catholic Church's doctrines.

Despite laments over their decline, such groups remain an important force in American life — indeed, the recent attention devoted to their so - called decline may actually help their vitality as it emphasizes their importance.

Asked to characterize the American groups, sometimes called «orthodox Episcopalians,» Leslie Fairfield, professor of church history at Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, said in an interview: «In general, they are Anglo - Catholic in liturgy, evangelical in theology and charismatic in piety.»

The Bible and the Quran contain «horrific material, and to say you get your morality from there» is a problem, the head of the American Humanist Association said Tuesday as the group launches what it calls the largest, most extensive advertising campaign ever by a godless organization.

In 1997, a group of unipolarists led by Cheney, Libby, Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Frank Gaffney, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz and Donald Rumsfeld founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which issued a statement of principles that called for an aggressive American policy of global domination.

So her group, which seeks to provide what it calls «a progressive voice for American Hindus,» recently mounted a «take back yoga» campaign, including appearances at conferences and attempts to raise media awareness of the practice's Hindu origins.

With strong emotion he called us» Americans searching for the roots of liberty, Eastern Europeans so lately liberated» to the authentic path of freedom and holiness, centered in the sacrifice of Christ, and raised the host to unite our group in a bond far stronger than argument.