Sentences with phrase «more conservative organization»

One of the consistent differences between the two is that the Boy Scouts have always been a much more conservative organization; even on moves that have widespread support, the Boy Scouts will often lag anywhere from ten to thirty years behind the Girl Scouts.

Not exact matches

«The Taliban is a much larger organization, controls roughly 10 - 12 % of the population of Afghanistan, has conducted a lot more attacks, and has some support among Afghanistan's conservative rural population,» Jones said.
(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)
Because boards tend to grow conservative over time, every year, the Amazon board gave a report of an organization that was diminished by the «institutional no» — doing more analysis and take fewer risks.
The AIIB's willingness, for example, to fund projects the more conservative Asian development bank won't because of pressure from developed market non-governmental organizations is arguably good for future globalization.
Christian Zionists work closely with religious and secular Jewish Zionist organizations and the Israeli government, particularly during periods when the more conservative Likud Party is in control of the Israeli Knesset (parliament).
Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.
The World Council had more success in bridging the gap between the Churches of a more conservative theological orientation and those of a more liberal orientation than had any previous pan-Protestant organization.
Most metropolitan councils in fact have been essentially conservative, white - dominated, establishment - run organizations that engaged in nothing more radical than sponsorship of the training of clergy in hospital visitation or publication of a hesitant statement on some controversial issue.
(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.
So now, even before Emma Benson, a field director for the conservative political organization Americans for Prosperity, knocks on a door, she has more than 700 data points about the person behind it, like magazine subscriptions, car ownership (make, model, year), propensity for voting, and likes and dislikes mined from Facebook and Twitter, from rock bands to baseball teams.
And it's hard to think of a more establishment figure than Dick Armey, a former House leader now in charge of an organization that's been pushing the economic conservative message for over 25 years, a point Jon Stewart hit repeatedly when Armey recently appeared on his show.
Caputo said more than 1,500 volunteers are carrying Paladino's petitions including Republican organizations, Conservative Party rank - and - file, gun clubs, pro-life activists, Tea Party and 912 groups, family, and friends.
Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.
Gibson, who served three terms and is not seeking re-election because of self - imposed term limits, joins more than 60 other local and state leaders, committees and organizations who have endorsed Faso in the race, including state and local GOP and Conservative party leaders, elected officials from the 11 - county district, CNBC television host Larry Kudlow, noted political science professor Dr. Gerald Benjamin and the state Conservative Party, among others.
One of the more prominent supporters was the American Action Network, a conservative dark money organization that spent roughly $ 28 million for activities that included «carrying out grassroots organizing at town halls to build momentum for a tax system that lowers rates and prioritizes working families and jobs creators.»
Today in New York and Connecticut, the more conservative elements in the Democratic Party are trying to eliminate fusion voting, and it remains to be seen whether the WFP and its allies in community, labor, civil rights, environmental, student and feminist organizations can stop them.
She has also run on a more conservative - minded platform and nabbed the support of the state Conservative Party earlier in the year, which was seen as a blow for Turner, who had the backing of the third - party organization when he defeated Democrat Dconservative - minded platform and nabbed the support of the state Conservative Party earlier in the year, which was seen as a blow for Turner, who had the backing of the third - party organization when he defeated Democrat DConservative Party earlier in the year, which was seen as a blow for Turner, who had the backing of the third - party organization when he defeated Democrat David Weprin.
New Yorkers For Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative Christian organization, blasted the measure, saying lawmakers should conduct a more public airing of the bill through hearings.
The creation of an organization backed by conservatives that focuses on winnable issues is a more likely avenue to success than the ballot box.
Still, to many old - school Democrats, it's a business organization and more or less conservative Republican.
Since the county organization endorsed his campaign, Mr. Gentile has not shied away from attacking Mr. Donovan by trying to tie the low - key prosecutor to more conservative Republicans in Washington.
More recently, less visible channels of funding have been revealed such as the Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, organization that that has been called the «ATM of the conservative movement», distributing funds from those who don't want to be publicly associated with the anti-environmental work product of organizations like the Heartland Institute.
While there are a number of conservative resources that profile organizations and individuals on the Left (such as David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org, Heartland Institute's LeftExposed.org, Berman and Company's ActivistFacts.org and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's UndueInfluence.com) CDC will build upon and complement their efforts adding value through its more comprehensive coverage, superior search engine optimization, and wiki - style format,» (Capital Research Center, Grant Proposal Record, 8/16/2016).
The Center for Education Reform, a Washington, D.C. — based organization supported by conservative foundations, coordinated the placement of a full - page ad in the New York Times, in which a number of prominent researchers both criticized the methodology of the AFT study and took the newspaper to task for failing to subject the report to a more rigorous and skeptical review.
More than likely because our «conservative» friends have gotten far too much mileage for far too many years by claiming that inadequate teachers can't be moved out of the profession after they're tenured and, thereby, successfully convinced the unwary, the unwise, and the ignorant that the teacher's professional organizations are what's «wrong» with our educational system,...
According to 2013 Canadian Federation of Humane Societies» statistics, more than 119,000 cats, 53,000 dogs and 15,000 other animals were admitted to shelters in 2012 (a number the organization says is conservative, since it is estimated from the responses of only 102 shelters that responded to a survey).
The group, which represents 45,000 churches and more than 60 evangelical denominations, took no action on a letter sent by 25 conservative Christian leaders demanding that the organization restrain its Washington policy director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, from putting forward his views on global warming.
Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.
From the article:... On Sunday, Post reporters Tom Hamburger, Joby Warrick and I reported that the conservative - leaning American Legislative Exchange Council is stressing that (in our words) it «does not deny climate change» and has been «overhauling their organization to be more transparent and more welcoming to divergent views.»
It's almost become a cliche to point out that Fox News is less a reliable news organization and more of an ideological agenda - setter for the American conservative movement.
Usually in more conservative industries such as the law it is only the smaller organizations that are nimble enough to take advantage of social media.
Based on the feedback, we believe that lower revenues than expected and the uncertainties in the current political climate have caused some organizations to take a more conservative approach when it comes to hiring.
The Steely resume template is well - suited for financial planners, bankers, hospital administrators, and those in the legal field when applying for positions within government, nonprofits, law firms, and other organizations with a more conservative personality.
This organization style is conservative and may be appreciated by management in more conservative and established hotels.
In 2017, a century and a year into the organization's existence, its supporters and architects are continuing to look forward, hoping that the next hundred years will bring less misguided attacks from conservatives, less politicization, and more access to the reproductive care we all need.
Online services sometimes are offered by minimally trained and unlicensed therapists, as these counselors do not need to abide by the rules of more conservative mental health professional organizations such as the professional associations of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and marriage and family therapists.
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