Sentences with phrase «groups speaking out»

Although Students For Education Reform has yet to file their IRS forms for this past tax year, in their first three years of business the group collected at least $ 6 million from corporate education reform groups, including a major start up grant form Democrats For Education Reform, an anti-union, anti-teacher, pro-charter group that have run attack ads against the Chicago Teachers Union and other groups speaking out for the rights of teachers and students.

A host of organic stakeholders representing thousands of organic farming families, organic certifiers and organic policymakers — along with leading retail brands and groups speaking out for millions of consumers — have supported the suit as declarants harmed by the USDA action.

«Since the filing of our lawsuit last September, a host of organic stakeholders representing thousands of organic farming families, organic certifiers and organic policymakers — along with leading animal welfare and retail groups speaking out for millions of consumers — have joined our challenge,» Batcha said.

The written ruling became public this week and sparked outrage on Portuguese social media, with rights groups speaking out.

You can read more about Achieve Hartford's claim that Perry is above the rules and laws that apply to everyone else at: Corporate funded education reform group speaks out for Steve Perry.

Digital advocacy groups speak out against pending bitcoin regulation currently before the California Senate.

This was just after the national Industry Leaders Group spoke out about the need for substantial change at provincial and national levels of organized real estate.

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When I am done speaking, there is often a group of people that will want to come up to me to chat, or I seek out the most engaged person to talk to.

Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

David Shulkin, U.S. secretary of Veterans Affairs, told reporters on Wednesday that as a Jewish American, he was «outraged» by neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups and felt obligated to speak out against them.

Get out and speak to service groups, schools, clubs and any group that uses speakers.

We spoke with nutritionists and eating disorder experts about the close correlation between restrictive diets that sometimes cut out entire food groups and orthorexia: a new classification of eating disorder that combines the fear of gaining weight with an unrelenting obsession with eating healthy foods.

I was out at meetings with patients» associations, meetings with provider groups and individual providers, speaking with payers and health systems and really trying to understand what they want and what we want.

Many instead believe strongly in corporate engagement, by urging CEOs and senior executives to meet with elected officials, to speak out and to give financial support to civil rights groups advocating for equality and nondiscrimination under the law.

Now, if you speak American English, you won't be shocked to find out that it's the dominant group on your website.

So how do you ensure everyone gets a turn to speak, but that the loudest of the group don't monopolize the meeting and drown out other good ideas?

2/5 I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group SFBARF and speaking out frequently about the need to lower cost of housing.

«Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to speak to our group.

That prompted the the nation's top trade group for video game companies to speak out Wednesday.

Groups tend to be unproductive for several reasons: the flow of conversation is often chaotic, some people do not dare speak out of fear of being judged, and group members tend to focus on consensual ideas.

Central Albertans are waiting longer for surgery, and the lives of some are even at risk, that's according to a group of doctors speaking out.

For example, I was recently in Austin for a speaking engagement and ended up hanging out with a friend and colleague who I met through a Facebook group!

(CNN)- As the Palestinians push for statehood recognition this week at the United Nations, perhaps no group has spoken out more against the gambit - or has been more outspokenly supportive of Israel - than Christian Zionists.

Well I can't speak for any religious group, satanists included but personally I've managed to drink an entire bottle of wine and still figure out how to put on a wrapper.

I speak out against your ilk and any other group for that matter when they attempt t use their belief to dictate rights... LGBT rights; women's rights; education rights (in a secular country, no single religion has a place in the school system - teach about one, teach them all - fair is fair).

A decision by the United Nations» Security Council (UNSC) last week to investigate the allegations has been welcomed by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)- a Christian group which speaks out against persecution - as a «really important first step».

In fact such leadership might free the group up — allow them to stop constantly be looking inwards to their own structures and face out to the world that needs people with the balls to speak out for injustice.

In particular, NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic nuns that speaks out on social justice issues, went on a bus tour around the country to protest the Ryan budget.

Filmed with about 50 girls wearing headscarves, one girl is picked out of the group and made to speak.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

A few years back i was being led by god to help some homeless people.I'll tell you about the first homeless lady.my girls and i were driving by a liquor store and i seen a girl a lady sitting next to her cart.god showed me through his eyes the hurt she was living with.he spoke to my heart and said, don't pass her up.i turned around whent back and asked her if she was hungry.she was in shock and said yes.god told me to tell her that she is loved.she started crying and had me call her family so she can go home.anyways after that i joind a church and told them and asked to start a homeless ministry.i was told yes and all of a sudden i started getting pushed aside and they took over the homeless ministry.i feel lost and hurt.now i feel like god is telling me to leave the church.i quit going out with the group because of what happened.i don't know what to do.now i feel lost.

For the rest of the group, for a few brief years, Mike and I connected via one community and that the Ooze — after our falling out, I remained in contact with Spencer and was asked to speak at the last Soularize.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have surprised some Christian groups by speaking out in favour of the proposed assisted... More

Speaking of the moment that he and his wife, Beki, felt called to move out of their affluent west London suburb, Cris says, «Every time we read the Bible it seemed like Jesus was going to the group no one else would go to.

So he will speak out against groups that do that.

Scripture does speak of a group coming out of the Great Tribulation; but whether some will be from those left behind, or not, was not made clear to me in this dream - vision.

A conservative Church of England group is calling for action against the Bishop of Buckingham after he spoke out in favour of gay marriage.

Two Christian organizations were among several groups that spoke out against the town's efforts to prevent the mosque's construction and filed an amicus brief on the Islamic Society's behalf, including the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the National Association of Evangelicals.

For the sake of the people, for the sake of the poor, for the sake of the Gospel, for the sake of the planet, I'm begging you to maintain this group, to build this group, to speak out as a group, to challenge your own as well as the others, to see your contribution to Christianity as the spiritual globalization of the seven capital sins.

We're all different, and in truth we don't have a unified voice (for obvious reasons), groups like these «American Atheists» are just looking out for their own interests, they certainly don't speak for me.

The Sikh Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group, on Monday released a mobile application on iPhones and Android phones giving passengers who feel they've been racially or religiously profiled a way to speak out against screeners with the Transportation Security Administration.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

Christian groups have spoken out against a possible new policy that would automatically assume everyone... More

At the same CSW meeting, however, several women's groups with diverse political perspectives spoke out to demand U.N. action.

Given that mainstream Christianity rejects this ridiculous prediction I feel bad for Christians who will now as a group get another slap in the face because of some out spoken jerk.

While a small group of conservative evangelical leaders — including Samaritan's Purse's Franklin Graham, the National Religious Broadcasters» Jerry Johnson, and the American Center for Law and Justice's Jay Sekulow — have spoken out in defense of Trump's plan, the open letter in the Post further cemented the growing consensus among evangelical experts that Trump's executive order on refugees is unnecessary and harmful.

NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic sisters that speaks out on social justice issues in particular, will be hitting states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in order to reveal «how federal budget cuts proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, (R - WI), and passed by the House of Representatives will hurt struggling families in these states,» a release by the group reads.

Animal protection groups have since spoken out repeatedly about the abuses endemic to the trade, uncovering case after case of systemic cruelty to Australian animals exported live.

There are already formed supporter groups that protest and speak out against the AFC board so tune in to this

After my book came out, I would sometimes speak before groups of teachers or child - development professionals.