Sentences with phrase «kind of activist»

It is an entirely new type of protest made by a new kind of activist, which has emerged as the more traditional protest groups have dwindled.

Clearly, it will take more than a few petitions to move the president's and the would - be-president's to commit to exploring climate policy solutions, but this kind of activist mobilization helps push some important pressure points — on both the media and the candidates themselves.

The same harrassment is going on with so - called skeptical scientists today, and the kind of activist / extreme environemntalist mentioned above is taking part in it.

The changing context for art that has any kind of activist impulse, the changing context for thinking about AIDS and everything to do with identity, makes his work seem especially pertinent.

«I have a lot of resistance when people say the work is a kind of activist practice.

It was really quite remarkable, especially since none of these parents and teachers had completed any kind of activist training that some parent organizations deem necessary.

To be entirely clear; group A contains any kind of activist while group B contains both «climate skeptics» (except, of course, those who fit in group A) and people supporting the general paradigm of «global warming / antropogenic climate change» (again not those in group A).

While it's unlikely the North Korean leader wants to become a new kind of activist investor — despite the generous compensation — the hacking of Sony reignites the issue of whether the Japanese conglomerate should spin off its entertainment unit as Loeb's Third Point suggested.

The first kind of activist can create significant value for your portfolio.

«We should be asking them, «What kind of activist are you?»»

Millstein acknowledges that being his kind of activist director is hard work, much harder than just spending a few hours at eight board meetings each year.

Not exact matches

«That kind of leads him in the path of consumer activists, because they're kind of trying to do the same thing, for different reasons.»

Patagonia's mission, for example, has attracted the kind of authentic, activist employees that has led it to continually put its money where its mouth is and inspired deeper customer loyalty.

«I was kind of hoping (police) would have showed up at 6 because we had a lot of people there,» said Wahilani, a Native Hawaiian activist who considers himself a subject of the Hawaiian kingdom.

Really: «There also is a kind of buddy system among activist investors, some say.»

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A new study by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace are home to rapid job and population growth — but some local officials and activists say too little is known about what kinds of jobs are being created in the area, and who is benefiting.

Say no to spying on advocates for First Nations children, or in fact on any activists of any kind in Canada.

I almost feel like it was not a war buffet type of deal is more like Icahn kind of thing like an activist approach.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

Thus I was surprised some years later to find the kind of people with whom I'd grown up — the leftists, the intellectuals, the activists, the public - spirited — suddenly alarmed at the growth of homeschooling.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

Reparations activists consequently run the risk of conjuring up all kinds of irritations in commission testimony, without any guarantee of a substantive result.

We can see this ambivalence, Appleby explains, in the two kinds of religious activists, or «militants,» on the scene today: extremists, on the one hand, and peacemakers, on the other.

Granted, He wasn't a judgmental a-hole about it, but still, I think reducing Jesus to a social activist is kind of missing the point as well.

The same political and populist activists form a kind of «protection racket,» seeking to brand as «liberal» those Christian voices that wish to speak about matters such as racial justice.

Animal rights activists see the Muslim and Jewish slaughter methods as unnecessary cruelty and calls to ban this kind of butchering have grown in Europe in recent years as halal meat has become increasingly available in shops and restaurants.

These kinds of findings have prompted environmental activists pushing to reduce or end the use of disposable plastics.

There are activists right now campaigning for all kinds of human rights abuses.

Erin Endress doesn't have the kind of history you might expect for a budding social activist.

We are activists: We join with the community for all kinds of things.

Unfortunately, at least in the states, many lactation activists do have this kind of attitude.

But some coaches, volunteers and community activists wonder what kind of message is sent to students when their ball fields are trashed.

Whether the messages were sent to known anti-government activists or just blasted out to phone numbers at random, this kind of direct and personal threat would dampen just about anyone's revolutionary fire.

We know clicktivism can represent the kind of deep engagement we need from grassroots activists, which is an important development.

Republican activists won't be quiet, assuming that Tea Partiers and evangelicals aren't completely disenchanted with the eventual nominee, but so far we're not seeing the kind of organization and training that will help Republican candidates hold their own in the ground war next fall.

A quick and dirty communications strategy of the kind some NGOs and activists would be proud.

The issue, the activist said, is the party machine — designed to take people and «spit them out as corporate kind of manifestations, as representatives of the billionaire.»

[3] If Brown is also to include Nelson Mandela, who arguably made his name as much by his actions before gaining political power than after, then a discussion of political activists such as Emmeline Pankhurst or, perhaps even more so, Eleanor Roosevelt who successfully campaigned towards removing, or at least alleviating, a different kind of apartheid from their respective societies would have also made a welcome addition.

What happens if activists can tie human rights horrors like the this one with other consequences of the same kind of lawlessness, like the impending extinction of African elephants in the wild?

And politicians seeking donations, votes and other kinds of support may look to tap into this new generation of self - selected, point - and - click activists.

Nevertheless, it does limit the potential for Momentum to encourage activism if they are only interested in certain kinds of Labour supporters, and if these supporters are then viewed with suspicion by other elements of the party and therefore likely to get a frosty reception from non-Momentum activists.

That phrasing — with its intimation that gays might prey on children — hardly seems the kind of guarantee sought by the United States and other Western governments and human rights activists.

Dr. Becker has been a doctor, successful small businessman, town councilman, and local activist in the Hudson Valley for the last three decades, and that's the kind of experience we deserve in a Representative.»

Anti-poverty activists are urging Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for - profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts.

A room of Democrat activists at the height of Clinton's popularity wouldn't have shown the kind of spirited approval these people did for Bush at the nadir of his popularity and power.

Local tea party activists abhor this kind of federal spending.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito assembled a coalition of female activists today to launch the Young Women's Initiative — a group she said would combat racial and gender inequality and be the first of its kind in a nation with many similar initiatives aimed at young men of color.

Now, two Democrats running for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat in 2010 are seizing on the chance to score points with liberals and party activists - the kind of people who vote in Democratic primaries - by pledging to «to help lead the fight for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.»

«He's done some good things, and he's kind of fallen short on other things,» said Katrinna Martin - Bordeaux, a Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter activist from Buffalo who supported Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign.

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE A town hall meeting that featured senior officials from the de Blasio administration showed that AIDS activists have reached a kind of détente with the city agencies they were picketing not long ago.