Sentences with phrase «much better advocate»

In this the real professionalism of FitzGerald shines through: «[Acting for] all sorts... makes you a much better advocate because you see both sides of the argument and therefore understand things from the other point of view.»

Not exact matches

«The idea is that by adopting this suite of recommendations, chickens will have much better lives,» said David Coman - Hidy, executive director of nonprofit farm animal advocate The Humane League.

Much better would be a «shoot only when you see the whites of the eyes of inflation» paradigm of the kind I have advocated for the past several years.

Both the Bush and Obama administrations have relied too much on endless and unproductive diplomacy and commissions, and have failed to take the concrete actions advocated by the likely GOP nominee, Mitt Romney (as well as this author and other economists).

In his historical blindness and moral excitability, today's same - sex marriage advocate resembles no one so much as the temperance woman who, one century ago, encouraged a social change contrary to good sense and human nature.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

Based on what the Bible advocates and the supposed actions of God in it, there is a good chance that those other options could involve much nicer and kinder creators.

Unfortunately, the advocates of believer's baptism have not done much better.

Presumably Hare and Madden are in reality advocating a kind of quasi-coercive power which would not so much frustrate the desires of finite entities that already are in the scheme of things as prevent new desires and aims from coming into being if they do not stand a very strung chance of gaining satisfaction or if they greatly disrupt the harmony and rhythm by which desires are guaranteed a better chance of satisfaction.

Well as far as this subject goes it is pretty simple, any religion that advocates murder for offensive statements, can't be much of a religion.

The much better looking Grudem, a professor at Phoenix Seminary and past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, had similarly jarred me two years before when, speaking at a fundraising dinner ostensibly focused on the stewardship of creation, he smilingly advocated the extinction of a species to satisfy human appetites.

Marsden might well agree with much of this, even though the stance we advocate bears the unmistakable marks of liberalism.

Well, GES advocates have been much satisfied with their claim that Romans 1:16 does not refer to the message preached to the lost but rather refers to general truth preached to believers for salvation from God's wrath (even though the Bible teaches believers are NOT subject to God's wrath).

During my natural birth classes they were pretty much attachment parenting advocates (within limits) but they showed balance by saying that sometimes after you have done everything to calm and comfort a crying baby to no avail, if it you gets to the point where you are frustrated to the point of snapping and possibly harming the child, it is better to put him or her down step back and possibly call for help (grandparents, trusted friends) if available.

Advocates of baby - led weaning point out that our babies know better than we do what they want to eat, and how much they want to eat.

In my role as an advocate for athletes involving coach - athlete sexual abuse, athlete - on - athlete sexual abuse, athlete cyber-bullying, athlete sexual hazing as well as many forms of athletic abuse in general, much of the work I do with Safe4Athletes tends to be less with the athletes than with parents of young athletes who have been abused, bullied or harassed.

I would not have tried this when she was much younger because I wanted her to be able to understand what we were telling her, and am not an advocate of CIO methods in general, but I also believe that misinformation and fear - mongering (in the form of psuedo - science) have made some parents so confused and anxious that they suffer and allow their babies to suffer through unhealthy sleep patterns well into their toddler years.

This is good time to have your partner or other advocate shield you from these negative influences so you can focus on the positive — breastfeeding — and get as much rest as possible.

I know it's highly unorthodox for a breastfeeding advocate to call other breastfeeding advocates out when their intentions really were good, but I see so much poor advice online that it's really starting to get to me.

Often providers who have had good experiences with cloth diapers at daycare become much more comfortable with accepting cloth diapers from other parents, and many even become advocates for cloth diapers!

Responding after receiving the report, Governor Ambode commended members of the Committee which included Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana; Partner of SimmonsCooper, Mrs Victoria Alonge, among others, for the painstaking efforts put into the report, saying that their passion in ensuring that the State Government recovers its lands, buildings as well as disputed quarters were very much appreciated.

If you're advocating for better Social Security benefits, you probably won't have much luck recruiting college students.

Good - government advocates wondered how Terry has been able to secure so much government work given his personal and professional problems.

He urge minimum wage advocates to continue to demand a better deal, both to include tip workers but also a much higher initial wage.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo called special elections (much to the chagrin of the good government advocates and the New York Times) to run concurrent with the Sept. 13 primary to fill six vacant Assembly seats and the House seat formerly held by ex-Rep.

Advocates for the bill in Wyoming said that the legislation protected good teachers while making it much easier to remove poor educators from classrooms.

It is an invaluable tool for reporters, good government advocates and gadflies - provided lawmakers, PACs and other committees actually abide by the rules and file, which is something NYPIRG has repeatedly demonstrated the state Board doesn't do all that much to insure occurs.

Affordable housing advocates, as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James, say the plan will leave out large swaths of the city who make nothing near that much.

They would have preferred no changes at all, but the end result was so watered down and loophole ridden that, according to good government advocates, that it didn't post much of a threat to the G.O.P. majority's many lawyer - lawmakers.

I am a true advocate of good health and fitness and realise how much it can make a difference to your mind, body and soul.

Of course, I'm a coffee drinker and I'm not advocating avoiding coffee, just brewing it in an environmentally and health conscious way (that also tastes much better, for the record).

I am a bog advocate for any and all barbell movements, and these are the main focus of much of my personal training, both Olympic (the clean, jerk, and snatch) and powerlifting (squat, bench, and deadlift), as well as associated accessory lifts.

I'm not a raw advocate, but that «raw» indicates a lack of processing - which can be much better than over-cooked or processed.

All in all, I think it was a good discussion but if it is to continue either the very low carb advocates will need to come up with better arguments and better evidence, or the topic will have to shift to exploring the merits of high - carb diets — a topic which the ancestral community hasn't spent much time discussing.

HI Beverly, while doctors can help, please know that the push to get better has to come from you, so be sure to learn as much as you can and be your own health advocate.

You watch a lot of my videos, you know I'm a huge advocate of a high - fat diet, simply because so much of our hormone function requires a high level of good fats.

«Advocates for young people's sexual well - being will always best... relationships between young adults and much older adults can still «bring happiness» to both...

Instead of devoting so much energy to dismissing the standards movement, small - schools founders and advocates would do well to engage the discussion and help refine or redefine state standards and statewide accountability systems in the name of equity.

Charter advocates in the Bay Area seem to subscribe to a «survival of the fittest» ethic, which holds that because running a successful charter school requires so much capacity, if potential operators are scared off from pursuing an application without a lot of handholding, it's probably for the best.

Much is happening in our profession that needs action in advocating for what is best for teachers, their pupils, and schools in general.

All that sounds good, education advocates and parents said Thursday, but many said it was unclear how much these plans would actually boost student learning, and how the nitty - gritty details would play out.

Those efforts would be better served with you teaching parents how to self - advocate, as the families of the movement add much more power than any Twitter / Facebook / Media debate.

EdSec Betsy DeVos surprised many folks this week when she delivered a speech at the National Association of Public Charter Schools conference in which she warned as well as praised charter school advocates about their work — and didn't make all that much of accountability.

As much as I want to believe that my informal arrangement at my charter school was not the best way to go, without the formalized union involvement, as teachers, we had more opportunities to voice our concerns and advocate for ourselves directly.

Higher education leaders across the country are stepping forward to advocate for more ambitious academic standards in high school because better prepared students are much more likely to succeed in college.

Teachers, their unions and public school advocates recognize that there are much better teacher evaluation models that could be used and don't rely on the use of standardized tests to determine which teachers are succeeding, which teachers need additional training and which individuals should be removed from the classroom.

[4] Wealthy communities are able to invest much more into their schools through private donations and fundraising, while some elected officials are able to advocate more effectively for additional resources for well - heeled districts.

Two quite different groups of people advocate this view: one group (not much concerned with equity) believes that if school professionals were more highly motivated, problems of low student achievement would be solved; a second group (passionately concerned about equity) believes that the solution is much more complicated but believes that even to acknowledge such complexity decreases the school's motivation to achieve high standards with children who, traditionally, do not do well in school.