Sentences with phrase «lone voice»

It's telling that among the few lone voices praising the governor's budget — aside from Republican legislators and the state comptroller — are organizations representing businesses.

There were a few lone voices of dissent over the competition, which critics have called the hunger games, after the popular movie about a fight to the death competition among young people in a futuristic dystopia.

His tone, as much as one can tell tone on here, well... restrained anger can come out as sarcasm and it can't be easy being an (almost) lone voice on here.

There was a time when lone voices cryed out to teach the things you seem now even more expert in.

Shameless would be a better comparison as Dafoe plays a similar lone voice when all around him is chaos.

As you point out, the sugar industry fights very hard to suppress anything negative about sugar, and the few lone voices who speak out about it are often fairly easily discredited as people out on a limb.

At first, the critics of orthodoxy were often lone voices that could be quickly silenced.

While admitting that Libertarians have been quite used to being a «lone voice in the wilderness,» Erie County Libertarian Party chairman Edward Garrett is among those sending a loud message to frustrated voters this year: you don't have to choose between a «lesser of two evils.»

Independence Day: Resurgence sees Jeff Goldblum return as Earth's lone voice of interplanetary reason.

When you first start out on Twitter, you're a lone voice in the wilderness, talking to yourself.

Public Interest Advocacy Centre director John Lawford, who is sitting in on a couple of panels, is perhaps the lone voice of the public — Wind Mobile's two representatives could maybe be included — in what is otherwise an industry love - in.

But is he a lone voice?

@ David Johnson You are perhaps the lone voice of reason here.

But it is important to understand that C.S. Lewis was not a lone voice crying in the wilderness of the twentieth century.

I've learned that whatever our culture is doing, it can be hard to be a lone voice and swim against the tide.

If he was a lone voice then, he is a sane voice today whose interest in spirituality is manifest.

It made me feel like I have their full support as if I am being sent out for the work of the Gospel, as if I've got a big family behind me cheering me on, as if I'm not a lone voice but part of a great company.

Hurston was a lone voice, and she presented a character whose insights came largely from individual experience.

He is the lone voice of truth against the politicized, bureaucratic inefficiency of the Unabomb Task Force.

It's not like Rachel is some lone voice in the wilderness stirring up trouble.

The lone voice of dissent is that of Evangelical political scientist Mark Amstutz, who, while praising the bishops for their concentration on Christian responses to poverty, is critical of their proposed means to end it.

Boral chief executive Mike Kane is a lone voice because most companies do not have the wherewithal or courage to stand up to the construction union, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says.

I know that I am not the only Arsenal fan to still think that Arsene Wenger is the right manager to take the club forward and should be getting respect from the Arsenal fans rather than having to run a gauntlet of abuse as he gets on a train, but sometimes it feels like I am a lone voice in the wilderness.

And then read your lone voice comment, disagreeing.

Ramsey has more reason than most to be happy about Wenger's new deal, I suppose, as the Frenchman has shown great loyalty to the player and was almost a lone voice when Rambo was struggling to come back and find any sort of form after his long injury lay - off.

«This could be a blessing in disguise,» claims a lone voice at the back of the train carriage, just as you're edging away from Euston heading back north.

The blogging community has a wide and diverse range of views and sometimes one can feel like the lone voice on any given subject but the blog exists to allow debate and the airing of those views.

Reluctant as we are to be seen to support a baby milk substitute manufacturer (we are keen advocates for breastfeeding — and pretty much a lone voice in emphasising how crucial dads can be in supporting it), SMA offers an interesting example of an advertiser which seems to be getting on board with the involved fatherhood agenda.

I am so so glad Dr. Tuteur is here as a lone voice of reason.

The lone voice in the wilderness is often ignored.

I've long felt like the lone voice out there promoting minimally processed food as a way to address poor eating habits: I think that when we insist on fresh, we are turning our back on all kinds of good foods, and people who can't afford fresh foods then just throw in the towel and go for junk.

The lone voices of reason are myself, a woman who is an anesthesiologist and another woman whose husband is a pediatrician and 1 - 2 others who are planning hospital births.

A small but growing number of women who seek to avoid aggressive medical techniques like induced labor, epidural blocks and Caesarean sections find they are a lone voice among their friends and doctors.

yes I link to Hari's piece in the Independent, as he has (as far as I'm aware) been a lone voice in raising the issue.

As the prime and first ministers shook hands for the assembled media there were no demonstrations or banners, just barriers and police officers, while a lone voice yelled, slightly incoherently, «vote yes for independence Mr Cameron».

Everyone knew it, but only the precocious Ms Short was going to say it, and hers was a lone voice of disapproval.

Thanks Nick for setting the record straight, but unfortunately for your colleagues YOU ARE LONE VOICE!

Initially he was greeted with warm applause, but a minute into his leaden, formulaic speech, a lone voice bellowed out, «Justice».

Terribly slowly, some lone voices in the Westminster village have started to suggest Labour might just be crazy enough to get into a campaign without a Budget.

As part of a «nationalist bloc» in Westminster, Wood knows that her party could get much more for Wales than it has been previously able to as a tiny, lone voice.

On his own part, Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha appealed to Anambra people to give him a brother - governor to be with him in Abuja to strengthen his lone voice during arguments among the party's governors» caucus.

At the moment I'm a lone voice.