Sentences with phrase «just as his activist»

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

Financed by Significant, MNM Creative, MACRO, and Cinereach, the film follows a young black telemarketer who finds success in the business world, quickly rising through the ranks, just as his activist friends are rising up in tandem against unfair labor practices.

Boots Riley (writer / director) / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

Boots Riley / Sorry to Bother You (U.S.A.): A black telemarketer with self - esteem issues discovers a magical key to business success, propelling him to the upper echelons of the hierarchy just as his activist comrades are rising up against unjust labor practices.

Not exact matches

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by PeltAs if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltas Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

As we are a team of unlikely activists — the anti-Wall Street Wall Streeters — the three ups / three downs system helps us work together, remain happier, and allows me to harness creative thinking from all angles, not just my own.

While reporting on a protest by a group of activists who had just forced the university's president to resign, he was pushed and harassed by the demonstrators, as well as by a faculty member.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Fellow activist Marcato Capital Management held just under 1 percent of the stock as of last quarter, Thomson Reuters filings show.

The condemnation descended on the president a day after he told reporters in a defiant news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan that «alt - left» demonstrators were just as responsible for the violence in Charlottesville last weekend as the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who instigated protests that led to the death of a 32 - year - old woman, struck down by a car driven by a right - wing activist.

Because liberal journalists, activists, politicians and entertainers are saying they believe and «hope» that that it is a right - wing terrorist, aren't hoping that the terrorism will just be treated as an isolated event.

Or will those churches now complete their sectarian withdrawal from the arena of public debate as their theologians and activists go on speaking to themselves as though they were living 350 years ago and economics were just a branch of biblical ethics?

This artistic model of the relationship between Christianity and culture is just as important as the social activist model.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence of natural rights / natural law discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways of justifying the abortion right in that mode of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement of African Americans through invoking God, the nature of things, and the Bible.»

She is far removed in her world of hyperabstractions that she is totally clueless as to the realities of being a passionate bisexual gay activist who just converted to... Catholicism?

Not recognizing that, not keeping that central, risks imbalance just as bad in the opposite direction: accepting people where they are but not calling them to move closer to Christ; distorting Christ from Redeemer to mere community activist and organizer.

But recipients of the money, such as David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, see his impact as much greater than just a one - off activist.

We forget that just as our most heated discussions on social media emerge from the context of a cultural conversation, so too did the treatises of theologians and activists past.

As Father Daniel Berrigan said in the activist 60's — «don't just do something: stand there.»

Tanya Erzen is no sympathizer with what she describes as the Religious Right, although gay activists sometimes suggest that her sympathy for people in the ex-gay movement means she is just another conservative «homophobe.»

Every white supremacist doesn't go on a shooting rampage, just as every anti-gay activist doesn't beat a hom.ose.xual teenager to death or bully them to suicide.

-LSB-...] I think if Colin really just steps back, because to affect change, if you don't have a real solution, if you ain't seen as a true activist to go into these hoods and do these things on a daily basis and not just jump up and protest because you're sick of this one thing...»

I know many of the moms on Twitter are activists and involved in causes that speak to them, just as I am.

If you just want backpats from like - minded people (as I suspect is the case here) then you're not an activist!

They should also reach out to prominent online voices early, building relationships with relevant bloggers and Twitterers just as they would with local officeholders, party activists and journalists.

Just as online astroturfing can hide a corporate agenda behind a faux network of local activists, digital channels can let a small group — or a single loud voice — act like a substantial movement.

But Romney will just have to grind his teeth and grind his rivals down, week after week, state after state, driving away independent and alienating party activists simply by not being as conservative as they are, while President Obama and his people built his re-election campaign and prepares for the final showdown in the fall.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual conservative activists can learn from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the way).

One - state solutions 1: Many left - wing Palestinian academics and activists, and some far - left - wing Israelis, view a one - state solution with equal rights for all inhabitants as the only just solution to the conflict.

And just as the campaign would use new media tools to encourage voter turnout and other action in the real world, they built their list of online activists in part at physical events:

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run «bluer Democrats» in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Cuomo.

And a digest of the response of blogs to not just the video, but also the organization, points to a contentious relationship (as always) within the activist community about the best way to bring about change.

Still, most online followings will fade over time, just as any email activist list gradually dies off without an influx of new activists, but some (like MoveOn) will settle into being semi-permanent parts of the landscape.

I don't want to denigrate email advocacy as a tool, since I definitely think it has some good uses, but mass unedited messages are just about the least effective way for your activists to let their views be known to a Congress that already gets 300 million emails per year.

Serving as just one example of many reported incidents, on the eve of South Sudan's first anniversary of its independence a leading civil society activist, Deng Athuai, was found beaten into a coma and left by the side of the road.

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

The party has a reputation as a hard worker: its councillors run intensive local campaigns, its activists are highly visible in their local communities, and the party just gets things done.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

It's Primary Day here in New York state, as well as various cities around the country, and while turnout is expected to be low (just 15 % in NYC), we're going to keep our eyes on ways that candidates and / or activists are... Read More

well said, all the media attacking the internet and bloggers, leave it the professionals with editors they say, as if that ever stopped them before, all involved weren't just amateur bloggers but political activists / public relations people who worked for the partys at one time.

I will contact you as suggested but please be aware that I am not a Conservative Party activist, just a concerned voter.

As Tory activists gathered in Bournemouth for what Iain Duncan Smith regards as his make - or - break conference as leader, his newly appointed chairwoman, Theresa May, set the tone with a remarkable de nunciation of the party's past sins - still «unrepentant, just plain unattractive»As Tory activists gathered in Bournemouth for what Iain Duncan Smith regards as his make - or - break conference as leader, his newly appointed chairwoman, Theresa May, set the tone with a remarkable de nunciation of the party's past sins - still «unrepentant, just plain unattractive»as his make - or - break conference as leader, his newly appointed chairwoman, Theresa May, set the tone with a remarkable de nunciation of the party's past sins - still «unrepentant, just plain unattractive»as leader, his newly appointed chairwoman, Theresa May, set the tone with a remarkable de nunciation of the party's past sins - still «unrepentant, just plain unattractive».

Frank Morano, a long - time state Independence Party activist from Staten Island, announced this morning that he is resigning his state committee and executive committee posts, saying the third party no longer offers alternatives to the two - party system and in fact has «become just as bad, if not worse than the two major parties.»

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run «bluer Democrats» in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Morano, a long - time Indy Party activist from Staten Island, has since resigned as his state committee and executive committee posts saying the party had «become just as bad, if not worse than the two major parties.»

It comes as a poll of Tory activists for the ConservativeHome website last week found Rees Mogg, a committed Brexiteer, in second place as their preferred next party leader, just behind Brexit secretary David Davis.

There is never a shortage of issues and actions for Green Party activists but even if you don't think of yourself as an activist, by just registering Green, you are taking a strong stand against the establishment political system that is set on dismantling our democracy.