Sentences with phrase «ideological positions taken»

Part of the Si Cuba Festival in May 2011, it was presented at the Metropolitan Pavilion and presented the varied, and often dissimilar aesthetic and ideological positions taken by artists based in Cuba.

Not exact matches

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

He took this job after spending years staunchly opposing a playoff in college football while acting as executive director of the BCS, using increasingly absurd arguments to defend his ideological (and financial) position.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

We have a clear ideological direction on how this country should be run and to that extent we have always taken the consistent position against capitalist policies of privatization and deregulation and that explains our opposition to hike in fuel prices.

Nowadays, especially as candidates represent ideological positions instead of a given allotment of land, the unfairness of rolling up a diverse populace under a single winner - takes - all representative has become quite noticeable.

Julian Glover's assumption that senior Tories might well benefit from improved clarity as to their intentions might result in an ideological war that Labour may think it can capitalise on (by taking the Coalition's necessity argument at face value, Labour will be able to uphold the seemingly reasonable position - that there are no social democratic ends by stateless means.)

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this in itself is a deeply ideological position, involving the wholesale adoption of the economic model of neoliberalism that had swept the world under Thatcher and her allies 10 or 15 years earlier.

Lindzen (1990); Kerr (1989b); «stuck with a role,» quoted Grossman (2001); Lindzen has been accused of obfuscation, taking extreme ideological positions, and unjust ad hominem attacks, see e.g., Gelbspan (1997), pp. 49 - 54, but the accusation that Lindzen has been in the pay of industry is based only on lecture fees that Lindzen received.

However, when elements of ideological diversity result in the exclusion of diverse individuals from positions of leadership in law, the latter will always take the priority.