Sentences with phrase «national movements like»

While there are other leaders who oppose gambling, as well as local movements and national movements like Focus on the Family, Grey's leadership is undisputed.

Not exact matches

Tarr and other students like Emma Gonzalez (the senior with the shaved head) and David Hogg (targeted by conspiracy theorists because his father once worked for the FBI) have, virtually on their own, turned what could have become another impotent «thoughts and prayers» response to a massacre into a national movement to transform the nation's gun laws.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

This time, student survivors sparked a movement that's put Republicans, like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, on the spot over campaign donations from the National Rifle Association.

A vivid illustration of the death obsession driving the movement, transhumanist popularizer Zoltan Istvan just completed a national speaking tour in a bus made to look like a coffin as part of his pseudo campaign for president on the Transhumanist party ticket.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

The National Restaurant Association's annual predictions of top culinary trends are out — and it looks like 2015 will be another great year for the fast - growing Good Food movement.

Ozil is a class player and it's not like we have them in abundance.Sign Mikki and Abua and play them up top with Laca.Skill pace and desire in all of them.Ozil is at his best when he has technically astute players in front of him which is why he was voted German National Team Player of The Year 5 times in 6 years.Giroud - No movement and pace and only dangerous when attacking balls in the box.Despite what is said his hold up play is awfull and goes to ground like he's been shot with a Buffalo Gun at the slightest contact.Walcott - Pace but no brain.The stats tell a better picture of a player who was NEVER good or consistent to ever be considered anything other than average at best.Wellbeck - Good pace and effort but little to offer as a goalscorer.Back - up at best.This is what Ozil has had to work with (I have photo shopped Sánchez from my life forever).

Gotze was pilloried for sharing a joke with good friend and Barcelona keeper Marc - Andre ter Stegen after Bayern's 3 - 0 Champions League semi-final defeat at the Camp Nou and attacked by national icon, Frank Beckenbauer, for his alleged lack of desire («Sometimes in his movements, he's like a schoolboy player, who loses a challenge and stands there.

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.

So, how exactly does Ba'athism compare with movements like Integralism, Fascism, National - Socialism, National - Solidarism, Juche, Maoism, Stalinism and / or other movements that promote Authoritarianism and / or a one - party state in combination with Socialist principles and Nationalist principles?

Plastic straw bans — much like the waste they target — are spreading across the globe, polluting city councils and national parliaments alike with environmentalist movement's good intentions and undegradable bogus statistics.

Although awareness of dyslexia is steadily growing due to campaigns by grassroots movements like Decoding Dyslexia and national organizations like the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), many educators are still unfamiliar with what dyslexia is and how to accommodate it in the clnational organizations like the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and the National Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), many educators are still unfamiliar with what dyslexia is and how to accommodate it in the clNational Center on Learning Disabilities (NCLD), many educators are still unfamiliar with what dyslexia is and how to accommodate it in the classroom.

«It sounds to me like a savvy local official who wants to escape accountability, signing onto this national movement to defang this law,» says Robert Maranto, assistant professor of political science and public administration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia.

Since 2006, Hidalgo has been part of the Early College High School Initiative, a national movement that minimizes obstacles for those traditionally underrepresented in higher education, like low - income students.

«A national movement needs people like Eva who are willing to take it to the streets and stand up and defend her position and ours,» said Nelson Smith, a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Operators and a member of the Broad Prize's revienational movement needs people like Eva who are willing to take it to the streets and stand up and defend her position and ours,» said Nelson Smith, a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Operators and a member of the Broad Prize's revieNational Association of Charter School Operators and a member of the Broad Prize's review board.

A national movement, spurred by competition for federal grants like President Barack Obama's $ 4.3 billion Race to the Top, is aiming to change that.

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

Milestones like National Charter Schools Week and the 20th anniversary provide a natural opportunity for all of us in the movement to celebrate that fact, to invite others to join with us, and to reflect on where we've been and where the next 20 years will take us.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Over the last 35 years, the DPE movement has developed an approach using local money in concert with national money to promote charter schools, denigrate public schools and campaign for privatization friendly policies like unified enrollment.

While labor activists like to think of the strikes as a sign of a resurgent labor movement, a recent article by Jason Walta, senior counsel for the National Education Association, the largest teachers» union in the country, strongly indicates otherwise.

And make no mistake — it is a «movement» — with people like Michelle Rhee leading the charge and hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into the national effort.

Instead, the former San Francisco 49er launched a nationwide movement and global conversation surrounding things like racism, police brutality, discrimination, and white privilege when he was the first player to refuse to stand for the National Anthem prior to the start of a game.

If at present American racial equality is fitfully advancing, race relations remain marred by retrograde episodes like the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown and movements like the Tea Party, which signal a heavy national residue of racism.

According to a release, participants will «explore the ways in which the politics of race are changing in America and France in a time of both growing extremism and the rise of activist movements like Black Lives Matter; what the rise of the populist right in both countries means for national identity; and what both countries» attitudes toward immigration have done to shape its interaction with the broader world.»

We also spoke endlessly about grassroots organizing strategy and they picked my brain on how to build a national grassroots network in Russia, like the one I've managed for Orion magazine, to underpin a new Russian ecology movement.

It felt like being their sharing the American perspective gave the Canadians hope that they should continue their movement towards a national carbon tax.

Facing heavy government scrutiny and restricted use of tools like email or social media, 2015 Goldman Prize winner Myint Zaw launched a national movement that successfully stopped construction of the... Read More

Facing heavy government scrutiny and restricted use of tools like email or social media, 2015 Goldman Prize winner Myint Zaw launched a national movement that successfully stopped construction of the Myitsone Dam on Myanmar's treasured Irrawaddy River.

The #NoDAPL movement has garnered national attention, much like the Keystone XL fight did, for creating a formidable opponent to the fossil fuel companies invested in transporting more oil and gas through their ever - expanding pipeline network.

There were subplayers like national security / pronuclear advocates in the mix but now it's a Greenshirt leftist movement almost exclusively.

But in what reads like an essay in Hegelian dialectics, Yale labor law professor Benjamin I. Sachs argues that the stagnation of federal labor law and the dysfunction of the National Labor Relations Board is giving rise to a reinvention of labor law and a new dynamism within the labor movement.

Now, Buchwald and his friend Zach Hibshman are starting a national movement to get semi-automatic rifles — like the AR - 15 — used in both school shootings off store shelves.

There have been reports that the National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security are taking a more active role in making sure there is a strong movement in favor of disclosure, he told TechNewsWorld, «but we'd like to see more transparency, such as public reporting about how the process works,» which is requested in the litigation, «as well as some way of understanding the volume, number of vulnerabilities the government handles, and even the budget devoted to it.»

Since then, these survivors have used social media to spin their pain and outrage into a national movement, the likes of which hasn't been seen in decades.

The National Rifle Association «wants more people just like this, with that exact firearm, to scare more people and sell more guns,» said David Hogg, who has become a leading voice in the student movement to restrict assault weapons.