Sentences with phrase «ideological agenda»

The misuse of research to advance ideological agendas has not helped us sort out the sound evidence from the hype, however.

Much less desirable is that a highly dubious ideological agenda is driving this effort.

World Trade Center «The brilliance of this film is how it subverted expectations that it might have been a movie with some kind of ideological agenda.

With respect to the last comment, it is extremely dangerous to equate so - called social justice law (really just activist lawyers with ideological agendas and patron funding) with justice system reform or access to justice.

Dennis Van Roekel, the outgoing president of the National Education Association, described the California lawsuit as «yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools.»

In his own words, environmentalists and their allies «threaten to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.

Powerhouse painter Gerhard Richter has been a key player in defining the formal and ideological agenda for painting in contemporary art.

Miers was not extremist enough for groups that seek to impose a narrow ideological agenda on all of us,» said PPFA Interim President Karen Pearl.

«This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public education.»

The use of these «informational» texts has opened a huge avenue for states, school districts, and teachers to push ideological agendas under the guise of English and reading comprehension.

«A No vote on H.R. 1 represents a Yes vote for women's health, since H.R. 1 uses the misleading cover of deficit reduction to push an extreme ideological agenda designed to take health care away from women.

There's no equivalent conservative or libertarian bias in the field, probably because there are virtually no conservatives or libertarians in the field, and if they framed their research around similar ideological agendas it would be an easy catch for a leftist field.

As played by Michael B. Jordan, Erik is a kind of avenging angel whose violence is relentless, yet fueled by a clear ideological agenda that is not entirely wrong.

«This is in sharp contrast to H.R. 1, which, under the guise of deficit reduction, pushes an extreme ideological agenda, including the complete elimination of the national family planning program as well as prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funds for preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, and STD testing and treatment, including HIV testing.

And we have watched as scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas.

She explores «how the right has systematically used crises - real and trumped up - to push through a brutal ideological agenda designed not to solve the problems that created the crises but rather to enrich elites.»

«Bush public relations appointees were muzzling scientists at other agencies, or altering scientific information in official agency reports to fit a preconceived ideological agenda,» Otto reports, with reference to a New York Times article detailing the actions of an oil industry lobbyist in the White House environmental office to manipulate goverernment climate research communication.

We've certainly seen posters whose positions were fleeces hiding ideological agendas, but there's no reason to jump to the conclusion that Crabber is anything but a bit uninformed.

The Left have a bottomless pit of money (our money) and tireless dedication to their anti-US ideological agenda.

I suspect there is a reason behind the mainly leftist ideological agendas that still prevail.

If the Church intended to set the spiritual and ideological agenda for the nation, these members thought, then she could not do without a general line.

Post-Brexit Britain faces the threat of an unholy alliance of the right, inspired by a similar ideological agenda.

The MPs have no obvious ideological agenda, but Russell has a record as a Lib Dem maverick.

Government employee unions have a clear ideological agenda, and there is a lot of overlap between their worldview and that of the «Occupy Wall Street» protestors:

There are numerous questions as to whether the WWF and other similar groups can present objective science, as they often push ideological agendas.

«My fear,» Heaphy said, «is that the new department is not as mindful of those resource constraints and seems to want to pursue a more ideological agenda, and I think that could be both ineffective and costly.»

Postol is just trying further his ideological agenda by claiming his analysis is science.

It might well be queried why these schemes continue to be promoted in pharmacies and schools.They are not cheap to run and, in an environment where resources are particularly scarce, there seem to be only two explanations: either policy makers are simply ignorant of the evidence or there is an ideological agenda at work.

As we have suggested, some people had an ideological agenda.

The spiritual aridity, the rebarbative prose, the programmatic subordination of literature to an ideological agenda - all make the book an exemplar of the discipline, which is to say, they make it an exemplar of a discipline in crisis, a discipline that has lost its way.

The very term reveals the ideological agenda.

The division was forced by the intolerance of the churches most proud of their tolerance, who demanded conformity to an ideological agenda much more rigorously than did the leaders of organized labor.

The reality is, however, that Western «partners» are not disinterested and often have ideological agendas: Western partners are not the brothers that Africans hope to find in them.

Will New York's Junior Senator take a stand for unity and civility in political discourse by condemning Harry Reid's remarks, or will she continue to be just another reliable rubberstamp that Reid can use to pass his ideological agenda?

Francesca Preece's take on the strikes inspired anger in Matt: «Unions are there to harness the mass of members towards augmenting the power positions and ideological agenda of the union leadership.»

The party in government is therefore seen by many critics to be advancing an ideological agenda divorced from the socially liberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat supporters.

Labour peer David Puttnam says there had been an attempt to impose «ideological agenda», and credits PM and chancellor for their response

«Greg Barker has let the cat out the bag about the ideological agenda behind this Tory - led government's deep cuts to public services,» she said.

Guiliani's abortive post-mayoralty presidential campaign in 2008 and speculation about Bloomberg's national ambitions were based on their putative mayoral achievements, not on their commitment to an ideological agenda.