Sentences with phrase «national movement against»

Duncan said he is committed to working with the GOP on a rewrite of the 14 - year - old law, itself a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and gave a nod to the growing national movement against standardized testing, urging Congress to set limits on how much time students should spend on state and district standardized testing — and to report to parents if they blow past those limits.

They protested for 17 - minutes as part of the national movement against gun violence and to honor the lives lost in the Parkland, Florida school shootings last month.

(Though outside the report's purview, one outspoken pastor in Zimbabwe drew international attention and started a national movement against his government's corruption with a Youtube lament.)

Some of the post-partition policies of the Indian government have antagonized a large section of those Muslims who supported the Indian national movement against Pakistan.

Not exact matches

Maudoodi entered the lists against the Muslim wing of the Indian National Congress by writing a book on Muslims and the Present Political Struggle, in which he argued so forcefully against the stand taken by the Muslim Congress that the Muslim Leaguers hoped he would come over to support the Pakistan movement.

As mentioned earlier, a factor which was prominent in the 1930s, and which influenced both the movements in forming the World Council of Churches, was a conviction about the universal church as against the national church.

Critical Zionist thinkers, however, have maintained that the official Zionist movement in effect adopted Jabotinsky's views when it decided in 1942 to go all out for a Jewish national state to be established and maintained against all opponents by whatever means were necessary.

As the people of Ukraine rose up against the kleptocratic and despotic government of Viktor Yanukovych last year, in the Maidan movement of national moral and civic renewal, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches faced a dramatic choice: stand in pastoral solidarity with the people, or stand with the state that was brutally repressing Ukrainian citizen - reformers?

is a call to defend life and freedom against this oppressive claws of corporate control,» stated Cristino Panerio, National Coordinator of the Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG), a local farmer - scientist movement in the forefront of campaigns against golden rice commercialization in the past decade.

Kaepernick began a movement in the NFL during the 2016 preseason when he began to sit and later kneeled during the national anthem as a way to show support for people of color who are being oppressed in the United States, and to take a stand against police brutality.

The school lunch standards are an important step in the national food movement and the fight against child obesity.

As a result, dams have received much criticism from academics in the social sciences, and national and international NGOs, culminating in anti-dam social movements like those seen against the Narmada project in India.

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

On Tuesday, after he announced the petition campaign, Astorino rejected the premise that his opposition to the Common Core was related to a national movement of Conservatives and Tea Party leaders against the standards.

When he's not whining over the jealousy of Carly's playboy boss (Patrick Dempsey), he's helping National Intelligence Director Mearing (Frances McDormand) and old friends, Captain Lennox (Josh Duhamel) and Simmons (John Turturro), with the resistance movement against the Decepticons who threaten the planet.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

According to the Harvard Crimson, «The effort is part of a larger national movement started by United Students Against Sweatshops that criticizes Teach For America, a nation - wide program that recruits college graduates to teach in low - income communities for at least two years, for undermining the quality of public education.»

The American Federation of Teachers union is unveiling a seven - figure advertisement campaign ahead of Dec. 9, a day that the group has billed as a «national day of action» against the education reform movement and push alternative solutions.

Professional development sessions at the National Charter Schools Conference will focus on a variety of issues facing the school choice movement such as finding and funding facilities, special education, and handling pushback against the expanding charter school movement.

In 2014, John led a movement to establish the National Coalition on Violence Against Animals.

Because back then, even though I knew — in fact had experienced firsthand — the vitriol against the No Kill movement by HSUS, the ASPCA and other large, national organizations, I believed that at the very least, these organizations were regulating our shelters by promoting and ensuring basic standards of care, as they have claimed, and still claim, they do.

Migrations examines how British art has been informed by a long and intricate history of the movement of people to and from the country, raising questions about the formation of a national collection of British art against a continually shifting demographic.

Theodor Adorno's 1947 «Theses Against Occultism» showed Adorno's knowledge of actual occultism to be limited, and he tended to lump both ancient and modern occult movements together and link them to German National Socialism and «irrationalism.»

In the late 1990's, Wallace and other activists led a resistance movement against a vigorous campaign by business interests to curtail the national Resource Management Act, a piece of legislation that provided important protection for natural resources.

National Center or Public Policy Research expert on global warming and the ozone layer (1996) Robert Wesson Endowment Fund Fellow (1993 - 4) at Hoover Institution Marshall Institute Expert bio: http://www.marshall.org/experts.php?id=38 A darling of the anti-climate movement, Baliunas has been a central scientist in the fight against action on climate change.

(See above paragraph, combine with economic alarmism, a great sense of solidarity, an easy issue — complex and futuristic — to do it on, and a huge tea party and right wing conservative movement predicated on the idea that markets «solve» everything even though by definition they can't solve externalities — hence along with justice and national defense why we even need just limited government in the first place, and an implicit inherent belief in the right to pollute (here it's really better characterized as just radical alteration against our interests, not pollution), since common area is «fair game,» and there we go.)

Shortly before Christmas, the Court of Justice delivered its highly anticipated judgment in case C - 104 / 16 P Council v Front Polisario, on appeal against the General Court (GC) judgment in case T - 512 / 12 Front Polisario v Council, an action for annulment brought by Front Polisario, the national liberation movement fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Citizenship of the Union — Extradition to a third State of a national of a Member State who has exercised his right to freedom of movement — Scope of EU law — Protection of a Member State's nationals against extradition — No protection for nationals of the other Member States — Restriction of freedom of movement — Justification based on the prevention of impunity — Proportionality — Verification of the guarantees provided for in Article 19 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

With two national newspapers and babyboomer conservatives such as Ian MacFarlane arguing against a 26 of January Australia Day holiday and one local council cancelling its traditional festivities, 2017 may be the year that the #changethedate movement goes mainstream.