Sentences with phrase «many social activists»

It's a technology conceived by the mysterious creator of bitcoin — the digital currency championed by a motley crew of privacy - obsessed libertarians, social activists, and some criminals.

Rise, the lead backer, was cofounded by Bill McGlashan, managing partner of TPG Growth, along with Bono, frontman of U2 and well - known social activist, and Jeff Skoll, an early eBay (ebay) exec, philanthropist, and film producer.

The program drew attention from social activists on topics, including abortion, who orchestrated boycotts of Berkshire subsidiaries or their products.

You can describe Jordan Hewson in many ways — a social activist, a first - time tech entrepreneur, a 27 - year - old living in Brooklyn, New York.

To see both sides, Theroux meets with both the Milwaukee Police Department's homicide division as they patrol District 5 - where the homicide average is over 12 times the national average - and with families and local social activists in the area.

A super interesting social activist, he helped author a paper that led to the Istanbul Protocol on documenting torture at just 21 years of age.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

These costs include bankers» and lawyers» fees, the risk of class - action litigation, the need to reveal commercially sensitive information that could benefit rivals, and the prospect of fights with corporate raiders who want juicier returns for shareholders and social activists who want executives to pay heed to their values.

Nationally recognized designer, brand strategist, musician and social activist, Ken heads up our marketing efforts.

JERUSALEM (AP)-- A group of former Israeli politicians, security officials, artists and social activists on Monday urged the government to hold a national referendum on the future of the Palestinian territories.

Oliver, 35, told me he comes from a family of social activists — and went into capital markets mainly to find ways to get institutional funders to offer microloans to entrepreneurs in the developing world.

A social activist for over 30 years and a former teacher, Seth holds a BA in international relations, a BEd from the University of Toronto and an MA in political science from Simon Fraser University.

And it's not just radical when they behave like a missionary or social activist in their free time.

This artistic model of the relationship between Christianity and culture is just as important as the social activist model.

It offers such metaphors of the Christian life as «ambassador for Christ» — a favorite of evangelicals — and «citizen of God's commonwealth,» a favorite of social activists.

«Their kidnapping took place», continued the BBC report, «during a period of massive state repression of left - wing activists, union leaders and social activists which became known as the «Dirty War».

In a 2004 interview with PBS host Bill Moyers, Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun and social activist, gave voice to this common complaint.

Today, under the leadership of the Thai Buddhist and social activist, Sulak Sivaraksa, thousands of Buddhists in the United States and elsewhere identify themselves with «socially engaged Buddhism.»

Social activists and counselors in many disciplines have long concerned themselves with the relation — or lack of it — between personal growth and social change.

The mountaintop experience, in the lives of great social activists such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., motivates them to descend from the mountain and work for the transformation of the world.

And if you want to really understand the history of that time, what instigated her assassination, please read about Operation Blue Star and how the media and social activists were not allowed even a peep into what happened there in the Sikh shrine.

Reconciliation as transformation calls for ministerial leadership with a vision that transcends the conflict between evangelicals and social activists.

At the same time, it provides grounds for a sympathetic critique of the charismatic movement's foibles, as well as of the foibles of evangelicals and social activists.

Bishop Bernard Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and a host of other enterprises, and Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, a pioneering liturgical reformer and social activist, also receive chapter - length attention.

In some churches today, it has become popular to think of Christ as a social activist, or a political revolutionary.

Address to the Get - together of Social Activists of the a Programme for Social Action at Chilika 1993 expanded from notes taken at the time and published in the PSA Report: Strike a New Note: Student Power.

As Christian social activist D.L. Mayfield wrote, «we should all be engaged in the brokenness of our communities.

Adenauer may have been Catholic, but as Langner remarks, «the Catholic Adenauer can not simply be equated with the Catholic social activists in the party and their practical - political demands of the time.»

The social activist movements of those years also contributed to the seminaries» guilty conscience, so that they made at least token attempts to become sources of societal change as well as exemplifications of equity and justice.

She, along with many other national leaders and social activists of different stripes, began fasting on November 12th while staked out in a tent on the National Mall in Washington D.C..

For example, Editor Harold Fey disliked Chicago social activist Saul Alinsky's confrontational methods of neighborhood organizing.

Granted, He wasn't a judgmental a-hole about it, but still, I think reducing Jesus to a social activist is kind of missing the point as well.

So was Jesus merely a social activist?

It is also shared by many Catholics and Jews and also by some spiritually minded social activists who do not identify with any traditional institution.

Roberto Verzola12, a social activist of the Philippines, comments that in the same way that colonization was the trend one hundred years ago, globalization is, today.

However, the Good News is that in embracing healing prayer, the Christian social activist embraces the fullness of the Kingdom of God.

Later they would become social activists, I hoped.

I remain less confident than social activists that any of us will achieve ideal alternatives, or even better structures.

A Fourth Merton, one still well known, is the Social Activist.

I hope we will maintain and develop interests entirely outside our social concern and cultivate friends who are not social activists.

[11] His views are shared among some social activists who are close to the North American unions, in spite of the fact that many economists, by far the majority, have argued that the analyses to which Cobb and the unions appeal are questionable.

Because of this, some may regard this as a book on «prophetic preaching» designed for «social activists.»

In practical terms these claims are challenged both by the rapid recent development of democracy and human rights in several East Asian societies and by social activist and scholarly discourses which challenge these claims directly.

Such projects are typically of a social activist mode that was accurately described as «left over from the sixties.»

Talk to the gathering of social activists in the Annual Get - together of the Programme for Social Action at Pithora 1992.

Certainly here, I am going beyond our common commitment as fellowship of secular social activists.

It not only revealed that formula companies were out for the bottom line and apparently had no concern for the infants they were claiming to nourish, but also led morally driven scientists and social activists to question the formula - accepting status quo.

Social activist Geoffrey Canada, who is among that number, is creating a new education project that goes beyond schools, and tries to better children's lives in the community.

She was honored in 2005 where community leaders, including a generation of women who became mothers and social activists under her guidance, honored Katsi's leadership and extensive body of work.

Erin Endress doesn't have the kind of history you might expect for a budding social activist.