Sentences with phrase «new leader of the movement»

With his organizational skills, Wesley quickly became the new leader of the movement.
After the death of Brent, Archbishop William Temple, of England, became the new leader of the movement.

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Former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Gordon Humphrey, a leader in the «Never Trump» movement, holds a business card in front of his face as he arrives on the floor.
Be a leader of the new movement of entrepreneurs building thriving business while also enjoying life to the fullest.
That includes many of the students from Stoneman Douglas, including one of the #NeverAgain movement's leaders Cameron Kasky, who tweeted after posting a link to the New York Times op - ed:
Now they were new men in a new world, confident, courageous, enterprising, the leaders of a movement which made an immediate impact and went forward with an astonishing impetus.
And while there are signs of hope to be found in renewal movements and new forms of Catholic community across the continent, the continued embrace of Catholic Lite by too many western European Catholic leaders and intellectuals bodes ill for a European Catholicism that can inspire Europe to reject demographic suicide and rediscover the joy of creating the future through having children.
It will not be easy to stop accommodating Christendom and start accommodating both bothersome faith movements — which are the enemy of complacency — and nettlesome, nonconformist leaders who pursue vision quests and new religious practices with passionate intensity.
We witness the movement of God's Spirit calling on new leaders and generations of persons to take a stand on behalf of the most vulnerable.
I am the leader of the new Jebus movement, Just send me your money and I will take care of you... just have faith... and send me money!
Thirty years ago, I traveled much of Africa studying new religious movements and was honored to meet the leader of one sizeable movement who was, he assured me, John the Baptist reincarnate.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
As a result of the initiative, more than 7,500 lives have been saved from abortion; 33 abortion facilities have closed; crisis pregnancy centres that offer real choices for life and for unborn babies have flourished; previously uninvolved church communities have become active in supporting the pro-life cause; new leaders have emerged in the pro-life movement; and a whole variety of newcomers have got involved in pro-life activities.
However, for Crossan (and to some extent Borg) the Jesus of history was the center of a Galilean Camelot, the halcyon days when Jesus and his band roamed the countryside, disregarding societal structures, defying hierarchical patterns, irritating elites and confounding the powerful, creating a grass - roots movement with nobodies while at the same time refusing to be its leader or mediator of the New because that would be brokering the kingdom.
Amid the clamor and negotiations, it would be easy to overlook one new movement, working to heal eastern Congo: Small groups of Congolese church leaders, including influential local women, are volunteering to solve and prevent conflicts one at a time, without fanfare.
Honig Vineyard and Winery — known as an industry leader in the green winery movement — is looking to forge new connections in Sweden, Mexico and Norway during its time in Bordeaux, according to Stephanie Honig, director of sales and public relations.
This relatively new movement, which is also sometimes called student - centered learning, has its roots in the progressive strain of American educational thought, but its current incarnation is also based on the modern belief, common among corporate executives and other business leaders, that there is a major and potentially calamitous disconnect brewing between the historical structures and traditions of the American public school system and the labor - force demands of the 21st - century American economy.
Donohue's past endorsement of Republicans (namely former Gov. George Pataki) became an issue during this campaign, with the New York labor leader arguing perhaps more vociferously than his brothers and sisters in the movement that Democrats should not take them for granted and automatically expect to receive their support.
At 10:15 a.m., leaders from New York's organized labor movement will hold a news conference as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Janus v. AFSCME, the latest in a series of attacks by the wealthy and corporate interests against ordinary working people, outside the Senate lounge, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.
Join the movement to recruit, train, and elect the next generation of Democratic women leaders across New York State.
In New York, parent leaders of the anti-testing movement observed that Washington's retreat from issues of teacher accountability would leave Albany with sole responsibility.
Kearns is one of the leaders of the movement to stop the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center from merging with the Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
Instead, we hope she will join Eric and the leaders of New York's progressive reform movement who endorsed him today in a debate about who has the best vision of how the attorney general's office can help the working men and women of New York.»
So was Lincoln Restler, a leader of the anti-Lopez reform movement in the form of the New Kings Democrats.
James Parrott delivered this presentation at the Community Church of New York for the Real Living Wage NYC Educational Forum, a gathering of New York City faith leaders committed to a «faith - based movement for racial and economic justice.
As the movement gains traction and as it evolves, natural leaders will emerge, said Lessig, pointing to a few of the diverse leaders currently pushing for campaign finance reform: Zephyr Teachout who is campaigning to become the democratic candidate to challenge New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Heather McGhee of the think tank Demos and George Washington law professor Spencer Overton.
He was caught in a pincer movement between the new leader of the Tory Party, Boris Johnson, who had accused Ed Miliband of complete surrender to Brussels and the Green and Justice Party which said that Europe had become too enslaved to monetary orthodoxy and austerity to be supportable.
When Angela Merkel meets David Cameron in London today, one topic could cause embarrassment to both leaders: Cameron's association with the German anti-Islamist movement, Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), which was condemned at the New Year by the German chancellor.
With the political winds seemingly at its back, New York City's charter school movement staged a splashy rally in Albany with an enthusiastic mix of thousands of students, a raft of state leaders and a pinch - hitting pop star.
Rep. Keith Ellison, a leader in the national progressive movement, caused a stir in liberal New York political circles when he posed for a selfie with state Sen. Marisol Alcantara, a fellow supporter of Bernie Sanders and a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.
«I hope that Jeremy will accept a different role in the party and the Labour family can come together in a comradely fashion behind a new leader who reflects the values of the movement and has the capacity to realise them.»
From Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the movement, which began in New York on Sept. 17, captured the attention of mainstream America.
New Yorkers Against Corruption also reported in - kind donations in the form mostly printing of palm cards and advertisements in the Chief Leader, a newspaper that reports on the labor movement.
Teachers» union leaders still refer to her as «Evil Moskowitz» and say they would welcome the chance to defeat the new leader of the reform movement.
Hang is one of the leaders of the anti-fracking movement that led to a ban on hydrofracking in New York State in late 2014.
Part of the reason it hasn't happened is that many CLPs are wedded to the «leader leads» model which is, for them, a reason to prevent a grassroots movement emerging (i.e. it's not that new members are simply «consumer members» who only want to vote in the leadership election).
She was an early leader of America's suffragist movement, working closely with another New Yorker, Susan B. Anthony.
Mario Cilento, the leader of New York state's AFL - CIO, said Janus» legal fees are subsidized by several groups funded by major figures in the conservative movement, including the Koch brothers.
The new leader said the party had «moved mountains on the political landscape» and was the «change movement of the United Kingdom».
Scientific publisher the Public Library of Science (PLOS) became a leader in the movement when it announced a new policy in February requiring authors in all its journals to archive the raw data used in PLOS papers.
Clinically, the genetic and trauma - caused conditions are very similar, with bone formation in muscle leading to pain and restricted movement, according to the leader of the new study, Edward Hsiao, MD, PhD, an endocrinologist who cares for patients with rare and unusual bone diseases at the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
To achieve it, Fisher has become a leader of the movement to change the way scientists collect and describe new species, mainly with the help of computer technology and DNA sequencing.
Trader Joe's has long been the leader of the pumpkin enthusiast movement, and gourd - lovers wait with bated breath every September to see what new spiced goodness the co-op will release next.
When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).
Directed by Raoul Peck on the heels of his triumphant I Am Not Your Negro, and co-written by him with the perpetually waggish Pascal Bonitzer (who has helped the likes of Raul Ruiz and Jacques Rivette invent unexpected gifts), The Young Karl Marx is to the best of my knowledge something new, both in buddy comedies and romantic costume adventures: the story of a scheme to shoulder aside the leaders of the League of the Just and rededicate the organization to a bold new movement, marrying descriptive sociology to post-Hegelian theory!
This provocative new book by E.D. Hirsch (dedicated to the late Al Shanker) poses fundamental challenges to both of the dominant reform movements in American education — challenges that their leaders would do well to ponder.
As a new Administration takes shape in Washington, with an education leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter school movement needs to redouble its efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter schools and school choice.
Ras Baraka, now mayor of Newark but at the time a school principal and leader of the opposition to the new strategies, was an unusual kind of opponent to the reform movement:
In a new article for Education Next, Derrell Bradford of 50CAN examines the political and social forces limiting opportunities for prospective leaders of these single - site, «mom - and - pops,» and why the future of the movement depends on their success.
To help more mom - and - pops succeed, and, in the process, help expand and diversify the movement as a whole while advancing its political credibility and sustainability, Bradford recommends fostering better industry - wide support for single - site leaders, including building flexible networks of consultants; recruiting from non-traditional sources to diversify the pool of potential leaders, in terms of both race and worldview; and, allowing new schools more time to produce tangible results.
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