Sentences with phrase «make common cause»

Some of the shareholders threatened to withdraw their capital, to form a new enterprise in competition, even to make common cause with a French company projected by Henry IV.

It showed that we can pull together and make common cause with diverse coalitions to protect indigenous sovereignty and land rights while working to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Regardless of what you think about global warming, I would be happy to make common cause with anybody fighting the destructive and pointless push to corn - based ethanol.

You may be looking at the best chance ever encountered for authors — of all stripes, Ms. Rowling, as Hugh Howey tells us — to at last come together, to make common cause, and to speak as one with a force this industry has never known.

The respectful mind accepts, indeed welcomes, the differences among human individuals and groups and tries to make common cause with the rest of humanity.

The extent to which we can support each other, and make common cause with our union brothers and sisters to identify common interests, objectives and strategies, will determine whether we will be successful.

Should we ignore motivation and make common cause when possible, or should we be concerned about the larger agendas of our allies?

Though Vander Ark and other senior foundation staff believed that competition could stimulate improvement, the Gates were initially reluctant to make common cause with right - wing advocates of market solutions.

Now, though, grinding progress on education reform is at risk of coming to a complete halt, as Republicans in Congress unwittingly make common cause with the same teachers» unions their state counterparts are trying to destroy.

After all, education has long been one place where those from across the political spectrum could make common cause.

Meanwhile, even some leftwing Labour MPs are privately enthusiastic about the Lib Dems» success, convinced a hung parliament should give them leverage they have been denied under New Labour rule — as well as the chance to make common cause with the Lib Dems» radical wing.

He told Analysis he would be happy to make common cause with Tory Eurosceptics if he concluded it would advance his cause.

Probably better for most moderates to scuttle back and make common cause with JC.

And now today Ed Milliband is reported as seeking to make common cause with those few Liberal Democrats who had actually kept their word.

Conservative opponents of reform will be able to make common cause with Labour to insert a call for a referendum in the bill, something the Liberal Democrats oppose.

It makes sense that Labor, that poor bride who keeps getting stranded at the altar while her groom is off having sex with corporations in the dressing room, should make common cause with us.

But where there is common ground or common interests, one supposes that even presumptive enemies can make common cause.

Any attempt to create a new framework for our politics should begin with widening the space in which we can make common cause with people who share our values, rather than harping on about the things that separate us.»

I.e. that members of losing parties will tend to make common cause with either the winner or with other losing parties until there are only two parties.

Armed only with a hashtag (#FRD2103), Jamie Oliver today will bring thousands of people together from around the world to make common cause in support of real food and cooking literacy.

He had seen at last that he had the French beaten for the moment, that the Turks were contained, that he could make common cause with the Pope and could now at last use military force to bring the Protestant states to order.

Believing passionately in the importance of a particular issue — there were a great many of them — ardent partisans would brook no suggestion that they might have to give a bit to make common cause with people who were not quite «pure» on the issues vital to them.

Actually, most of them are out in civilian life, trying to function in society after their sacrifices of the self in the Mid East in wartime If we will make common cause with the enemy that put them in that state, I say we owe them their limbs back.

Of course, those committed to the pacifism of the messianic community may in some political contexts make common cause with liberal pacifism, for we do not presume that people committed to the pacifism of the messianic community, on the one hand, and those committed to liberal pacifism, on the other, are self — contained, making sense only to themselves.

Rather, it is the Evangelical signatories (presumably in their haste to make common cause with the Catholic Church in the «culture wars») who have been theologically careless and remiss.

is to replace policy with law, and to make common cause.

Or the world can make common cause with perversions of the counsels, against the authentic reign of God, just as widespread Catholic unchastity is cited as justification for enshrining anti-humanism in law via the Affordable Care Act.

At the extreme, religious groups claiming the sole way to truth make common cause with fascist politics.

The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could work together in evangelism and make common cause for the evangelical movement.

We need many more opportunities and ways to make common cause with others in the faith.How else can we learn to deny own wills in following after Christ, or foster a resilient moral commitment on the part of our children?

How hard life would be without opportunities to make common cause with others in responding together to desires that God inflames in all of our hearts.

Under John Paul, the Church found a voice with which to make common cause with people who had felt alienated from the Church - Jewish people, Christians from groups which had long broken with Catholicism, politicians, campaigners for various causes.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

You would make common cause with terrorists and extremists from other religions?

China, whose support for state - owned firms and restrictions on outside investment have long frustrated politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, presents another opportunity for Europe and the United States to make common cause.

In an opinion piece published in November, The Wall Street Journal said AFL - CIO President Richard Trumka «and his liberal allies are on to something here, and we hope to make common cause with them in seeking more information on the important questions about Mr. Lew that were never answered in 2013.»

The so - called «Sunni awakening,» in which many former foes of the U.S. - backed Iraqi government made common cause with that government against al Qaeda in Iraq, was a major contributor to its eventual defeat.

And if Canada wants to promote LGBT + rights globally, it could do worse than making common cause with governments like Timor - Leste's that are taking a stand on this issue.

I disagree with him, however, on the one point where he makes common cause with Pannenberg: namely, that apart from the apocalyptic horizon, the disciples» experiences can only be regarded as subjective hallucinations.

Why, throughout history, have we not made common cause against Moloch?

Though it is difficult to document the exact degree of Revivalism's influence in encouraging a new ideology critical of British rule, it is nevertheless interesting to note the number of leaders and laity from the ranks of Revivalism who made common cause with the leaders of the Revolution.

At first they made common cause with Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army.

It was easy for the pro-Europeans to portray them as extremists, especially since they made common cause against the common market with left - wingers like Anthony Wedgwood Benn and Arthur Scargill.

Anyway, he says that Labour and the Tories are now making common cause on the beached whale - sorry, Prime Minister.

In the run - up to the 2014 elections, Breitbart, under Mr. Bannon, set up a London office and made common cause with populist conservatives in Europe.

Linda Marchiano made a religious argument against pornography while also falling in with mainstream feminist heroine Gloria Steinem and two hugely divisive intellectual flamethrowers from the most radical wing of feminism, Andrea Dworkin and Catherine Mackinnon, who at times made common cause with the religious right in their efforts to destroy the porn industry.

Because if the director's previous film, The Master, charted the quest for meaning in affluent Eisenhower - era America, then this one shows where the search fetched up, in the fracturing counter-culture of southern California, where LAPD cops moonlight as B - movie actors and the Nation of Islam makes common cause with the Aryan Brotherhood.

So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message of attacking liberal reformers as crypto - allies of the GOP.

But in the world of edu - politics, folks from the conservative Heritage Foundation have made common cause with their counterparts at the libertarian Reason Foundation with plenty of room in the big tent for Democrats for Education Reform (DFER).

But CTU has been relentless in making common cause with low - wage union members and public school parents, and framing its struggle as one about the conditions of teaching and learning.