Sentences with phrase «leading advocate against»

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Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

«All of us had been national, progressive advocates, leading organizations that needed urgently to solve big problems, and we found ourselves banging our heads against a brick wall.

ILRC actively advocates on transportation issues and is a lead plaintiff in a case against BART for failing to ensure that people with disabilities can access the regional mass transit system.

Former world number one Navratilova, who is a prominent advocate for LGBT rights, has led the criticism against Court, labelling her comments as «sick and dangerous», while those tennis players willing to give their views on the controversy have universally condemned the Australian's attitude.

Indeed, it was Fosdick's influence, along with that of Walter Rauschenbusch and other advocates of the social gospel, that led me to experience considerable alienation from the evangelical community during my years of graduate study on secular campuses in the 1960s, when I joined protests against racial injustice and marched against the Vietnam war.

you think just because i advocate tackling in that scenario, i'm somehow against love — but it's simply a failure to understand that it is precisely Love that leads to such an action.

«AS AN INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICANS — including a sizable number of American Jews — question the act of male circumcision, a group of San Francisco activists are advocating to ban circumcision, or what they call male genital mutilation... Many of the leading activists against circumcision around the country are Jewish.»

We do not advocate that all homebirth practices follow our lead, but we argue against the statement that NICUs are sustained by the admissions of home born babies and rather, hospital births and their subsequent NICU admissions need further investigation.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) warns against the kind of structured feeding routines some parent - led schedulers advocate.

In their book On Becoming Baby Wise, they advise against feeding babies on demand around the clock and instead advocate a parent - led feeding, wake, and sleep schedule.

Martin Luther King advocated Ghandi's non-violent protest, but in 1963 he was jailed for leading mass demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, which led to the city being dubbed «Bombingham» as attacks against civil rights protesters increased.

In the race for Public Advocate, technically the President of the City Council, the refreshing Bill deBlasio, who bravely chose not to pursue a third term as Council Member, has led the field to the runoff against the wretched has - been Mark Green.

A rally against gun violence today abruptly turned its fire on Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, as one advocate led several top - caliber elected officials in a salvo of attacks on the top cop's recent comments about hip - hop.

A group of Bronx housing advocates led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. rallied against the New...

Still, some council members chafed at her role: The councilwoman who led the fight against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to build a West Side Stadium in 2005, one argued, had suddenly become the most visible advocate for a new Manhattan arena.

A rally against gun violence today abruptly turned its fire on NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, as one advocate led several top - caliber elected officials in a salvo of attacks on the top cop's recent comments about hip - hop.

Lhota, a deputy mayor under former GOP Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former head of the city transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral election.

«I led the way by filing an amicus brief in support of an appeal in New Jersey Appellate Court, fought side - by - side with environmental advocates and won the battle against LG's plan to forever ruin the verdant bluffs that we enjoy so much.

Slaughter was a lead author of the Stock Act, passed in 2012 to curb insider trading among lawmakers and congressional aides, a co-author of the Violence Against Women Act, and a longtime advocate for women's rights and funding for women's health programs.

«There are people in this world who are criminals, who steal things,» said Quinn, who leads the City Council and is running against the public advocate in the Democratic mayoral primary.

He was largely considered a leading opponent against Public Advocate Letitia James, who announced her candidacy earlier this week.

He said that Moya is a leading advocate on immigration and workplace protection and that Powers cares about affordable housing and protecting against predatory equity.

Literally across the country school choice advocates have stood up against the NAACP in defense of charter schools these past couple of weeks leading up to the vote.

As the founder, along with leading public education advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformers.»

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

These actions have led education advocate and activist Jonathan Pelto to ask the state's Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families to investigate «the abusive bullying and punishment that is being perpetrated by some local school superintendents and local school officials against those who have been opted out of the SBAC testing.»

One of the editors at Tor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, mentioned on Charlie Stross» blog that he's been advocating against DRM at Macmillan for years, so hopefully Tor's experiment will lead to Macmillan eventually dropping DRM for all their imprints.

In addition, people who advocate against children playing violent video games argue that such games lead to violence in real life.

The fact that its leading advocates often make the case against Buy - and - Hold is compelling.

Critics have argued that some tactics employed by animal advocates, including protests, risk turning public opinion against the animal advocacy movement.178 While these activities make up a small proportion of L214's work, they do organize and participate in protests and demonstrations.179 Investigations make up a larger part of L214's work and have sometimes led to a slightly different type of backlash in which industry and government respond by attempting to pass laws that target advocates, such as ag - gag legislation in the United States.180 While L214 tries to maintain good relationships with media and the government, and France does not have ag - gag laws, they have sometimes been the target of lawsuits by industry because their footage is taken without permission.181 L214 has sometimes suffered negative consequences as a result of these lawsuits, such as fines or the requirement to take footage down from their website.182, 183

His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive paintings — frequently featuring bold black shapes against fields of color — but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School.

She was a leading voice against the exhibition in 1979 at Artists Space in New York of Donald Newman's The Nigger Drawings, and also advocated for women's equal representation in galleries.

In a video touting the new climate rule, Obama's lead environmental advocate, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, said that if the rule moves forward, «We'll know we're doing all we can, together, to take action against climate change.»

America Rising Advanced Research has launched an aggressive social media campaign against leading figures in the US environmental movement, including creating the website Core News which features attacks on prominent climate policy advocates including Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Few were really against cleaning up the pollution from coal that led to acid rain and few were advocating shutting down all the coal plants in the 70's.

Blocking any meaningful agreement, ignoring their mitigation obligations, advocating for market based approaches - which are all false solutions, just as having the private sector lead the charge against climate change -, and blackmailing other less vocal delegations are just some of the actions that clearly indicate their priorities and whose interests these governments represent.

Anthony's expertise has also been recognised by the Legal 500 2017 edition, where he is recommended as a Leading Silk in Band 2 in crime as «a well - prepared, thorough and engaging advocate — his legal arguments are consistently impressive» and as a Leading Silk in Band 3 in the civil liberties and human rights category as being «well known in the field, especially in claims against the police.»

Washington, DC About Blog American Society of Nephrology leads the fight against kidney disease by educating health professionals, advancing research, and advocating the highest quality care for patients.

As one of the nation's leading advocates and providers of women's health care, including reproductive health services, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauds U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D - NH), Barbara Boxer (D - CA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) for authoring a resolution (S.Res.187) condemning violence against women's health care providers and honoring the late Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death at his church on Sunday, May 31.

Unfortunately, every leading GOP candidate has advocated for a repeal to the ACA, including its protections against being charged more for being a woman or being denied coverage for preexisting conditions that in the past even included domestic violence abuse — many, such as Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, have specifically targeted access to no - copay birth control.