Sentences with phrase «lone voices who»

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.

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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.

Gioia is an articulate and passionate lone voice in the wilderness who would reignite the Catholic imagination with a vigorous Catholic literature placed high on a hill.

This included a letter to Children and Families Minister Sarah Teather — who had blocked the enactment of joint birth registration, despite it already being on the statute books as part of the 2009 Welfare Reform Act — a legislative change for which the Fatherhood Institute has campaigned long and hard (often as a lone voice and in the face of opposition from other quarters).

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.

You bet that Mommy blogs have a strong voice online but the bigger point it is this: don't underestimate the viral impact of a lone blogger (who belongs to a strong online community) AND please, please, please monitor the «Net for what's being said about your topic.

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.

Interest in rural education, let alone research dollars to understand and address its challenges, has been nearly nonexistent but for a few visionaries who often felt like lone and neglected voices.

In kindergarten, he is the kid itching for recess, the lone voice chattering through quiet time, the boy who is always in «time out.»

Tom Russo: I came upon value investing at the Stanford Business School in the early 1980s when Berkshire chairman, CEO Warren Buffett came to our class and it was a class taught by Jack McDonald, who is a lone voice in Palo Alto towards thinking about investing as though you are acquiring pieces of companies and then assessing whether you think that the company had competitive advantage that would endure and then coupling those two discoveries into the process of investing regardless of the environmental concerns or academic principles that might be in contradiction to the bold assertion that one might just identify a company with superior economics and a strong culture that could pose the investment for the lifetime of the investor.

In his Go Tell It series, from which the exhibition takes its name, Mario Ybarra, Jr. evokes the social activist as a lone figure, asking who has the ability to voice protest and who is there to hear it.