Sentences with phrase «major national movement»

As a second generation co-founder whose father, Francis Battista, found the property that became Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Judah literally grew up under the auspices of the people who created a major national movement to end the killing of dogs and cats in shelters.

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Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

One of Stiefel's major concerted contributions in the last three years was the Reason Rally, an event held on the National Mall in Washington, which was billed as a watershed moment in the atheism movement.

It was a very busy offseason in terms of player movement with Max Scherzer signing with the Nationals, Jon Lester joining a talented young Cubs roster, Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval adding to an already potent Red Sox offense and the San Diego Padres making a wealth of moves including the addition of three major bats (Justin Upton, Matt Kemp and Wil Myers) to their outfield.

Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) EWEC is a global movement that mobilizes and intensifies international and national action to address the major health challenges facing women, children and adolescents.

If as predicted this becomes the first general election in which people vote in much larger numbers for the Scottish National Party (SNP), it will accelerate a major movement away from Scotland's prominence in Westminster.

For the mayor, the national ramifications are larger — de Blasio is trying hard to lead a broad progressive movement, and to show that an ideologically driven mayor can efficiently run and reform a major city.

One major exception was reforming language on sexual harassment, a rare shared priority among both Democrats and Republicans and a political demand during the national reckoning known as the #MeToo movement.

Certainly not a major teachers union leader at a time when the national movement is toward holding teachers accountable.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

At the same time, the civil rights movement achieved major gains, and the schools became the focus of national legislation and Supreme Court rulings that required desegregation.

I was at the Foundation when two major reforms were sweeping the national landscape: the Teacher Effectiveness and Common Core State Standards movements.

He is also a major player in the national charter school movement.

New Orleans has not typically been located at the forefront of any major postwar American art movements, so the analysis of its characteristic visual art forms is missing from most accounts of national art of the past half century.

In a guide to intriguing art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.»

In September 2004, Blow exhibited in the movement's first major show in a national museum, The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the Liverpool Biennial.

In recent years, both within and outside Japan, interest in the post — World War II Gutai art movement has increased considerably, with major museum exhibitions appearing at such venues as the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, Switzerland, the National Art Center in Tokyo, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as solo and group shows at commercial galleries in New York (Paula Cooper, McCaffrey Fine Art, Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Richard), London (Hauser & Wirth), Antwerp (Axel Vervoordt) and elsewhere.

The 45 environmental groups were selected from among the major national environmental organizations analyzed by political scientist Christopher Bosso in his book Environment Inc: From Grassroots to Beltway, an award - winning study of the history, financing and political strategies of the U.S. environmental movement.