Sentences with phrase «more powerful actor»

If we ignore the power inequality between Greer and student trans rights activists - or even assume the students are the more powerful actors - allowing Greer to speak on campus is a neutral act and no - platforming her is an aggressive use of force.

Even more problems will result from including the ICS in the negotiations with more powerful actors, such as China and the USA (currently on hold).

Not exact matches

That social mobilization for human rights can have an impact even where such powerful actors are concerned is exemplified by the adoption of a resolution by the Human Rights Council in June 2014 to move towards the elaboration of a binding treaty to prevent human rights violations by transnational corporations Click here for full WABA Press Release See Right To Food and Nutrition Watch 2014 Press Release Download the Watch 2014 report For more information also see: rtfn - watch.

The detention of several powerful Saudi figures and members of clergy, can not only be seen in terms of domestic reforms and consolidation of power intended by Mohammed bin Salman, but also as giving him more room to manoeuvre in developing closer ties with Israel, given the hostility Saudi regime would have faced from actors that are anything but pro-Israel.

The conflict might be heavy - handed without Phoenix's face — his irresolution somehow more powerful than other actors» resolve.

Based off of the novel written by David Ebershoff, director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and actors Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex-Machina) beautifully illustrate the powerful Read More →

For more than 30 years, Hollywood actor Blair Underwood has been a powerful staple in Black Hollywood.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

The occasion was a 1960 showing of William Wellman's 1931 The Public Enemy, which Macdonald defined as «James Cagney's picture,» adding, «Wellman uses Cagney with subtlety, keeping him in the background much of the time while secondary characters occupy the foreground... So it is all the more powerful when Cagney moves into the foreground at the big moments; our taste for this extraordinary actor has not been blunted by seeing too much of him.»

I believe that everyone working as individuals to change their own lives added up will be far more powerful than any one politician or actor can accomplish.