Sentences with phrase «new powerful movement»

We have a new powerful movement called the New Sanctuary Movement, which is organizing in solidarity with immigrant families and refugee families in Philly.

It was fun at first, doing all these new powerful movements, the likes of barbell squats, deadlifts, bench presses and rows.

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As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

(14) This message of elevation of the socially despised is, of course, antithetical to current commercial advertising and the consumer society, though it is likely that should such genuine Christianity become a powerful expression again the industry would mold it into a new image as it did with the counter-culture movement in the 1960s.

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.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told students at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn that their movement is «powerful.»

In a clear appeal to voters on the left of the party, Smith said: «New Labour tried so hard to make sure it didn't alienate the powerful that I'm afraid too many people in our country, too many people in our movement found it impossible to distinguish between the Labour party and the institutions we were created to challenge.

MANHATTAN — Icons of the civil rights movement, the city's most powerful politicians and hundreds of regular New Yorkers jammed into Riverside Church in Morningside Heights Wednesday to pay their respects to Harlem's Percy Sutton, who died last month at the age of 89.

New York State's largest teachers union was once a powerful force behind the opt - out movement.

But Jeremy Corbyn's most powerful ally in the trade union movement has provided a clue in the form a blistering article for the New Statesman.

The 21 in ’21 Initiative, a group that launched last year to elect more women to the New York City Council, is quickly gaining steam, fueled in part by activism inspired by Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement, as well as the powerful support of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Astronomers in Japan found evidence for the new object when they turned a powerful telescope in the Atacama desert in Chile towards the gas cloud in the hope of understanding the strange movement of its gases.

Shifting coop politics spurred two record Women's Marches, the #MeToo movement, and a powerful new era for women's rights.

Launched on Jan. 1, this new movement to empower women in the entertainment industry and beyond took shape just six days before Hollywood's biggest stars and most powerful people will come together to celebrate the onscreen achievements of 2017.

But once you get the clunky movement and rhythm down, the Great Sword has the potential to be one of the very best and most powerful weapons in all of the New World.

Bilal aligns with this new movement and its followers, now powerful enough to warrant a military response from entrenched interests, leading to armed conflict.

He is the architect of a powerful new movement that promises to unite Venezuelans behind an alternative vision of democracy, free enterprise, -LSB-...]

Knowing that time is ripe for catalytic campaign to evolve a powerful and coherent movement expressing a supranational identity and building new institutions for a planetary age the mission of TWC is to reenergize the dispersed and frustrated civil society towards advancing a diverse popular movement of engaged citizens the world over.

In their continuing efforts to extract more school spending from state legislatures through the courts, advocacy groups recently acquired a powerful new weapon: the standards movement.

The growth of youth organizing groups signals that the new generation can be a powerful voice in the movement toward equity and excellence in the public schools.

Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers» union in the 2013 mayoral election.

Diane Ravitch offers a powerful critique in her New York Review of Books review of «Class Warfare» of hedge - fund managers who have claimed leadership of the reform movement as their pet cause.

Ever since billionaire Eli Broad and a few other powerful figures in the school reform movement announced plans of a massive investment in new charter schools for LA Unified, the district's teachers union has been aggressively mobilizing opposition to it.

Using upgraded hydraulics, an innovative torque converter and powerful software, the new automatic «box responds to the slightest movement of the throttle pedal with reaction times increased by 40 per cent, and shift times halved.

The QX80 brings a new commanding presence with powerful muscularity and enhanced horizontal movement.

ConnorsRSI is a powerful new composite indicator, developed by Connors Research, that helps swing traders take advantage of short term movements in the equities markets.

The new Kinect is so powerful that Microsoft claims it can detect muscle movement and will be able to tell when your heart is racing during a workout.

• New movements and tactics • New 3D fluid animations • Various difficulty modes • Full controller and gamepad support • Simple yet powerful touch controls with timing control • Automatic or Manual Running • Record, replay and share your best moments • 100 different soccer teams to choose from • Match statistics • Compete with your friends with the integrated world ranking leaderboard • Smooth animations with 60 frames per second

Okwui Okpokwasili, whose movements are as powerful and provocative as Cave's politically charged art, is praised for her kinesthetically powerful and «ruthlessly clean and clever» performances (TimeOut New York).

Painted in the immediate aftermath of the 1960s civil rights movement, and at a time of continued racial and gender inequality, Renoir is a powerful proclamation of a new era in artistic representation.

Two decades later, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire recognized flânerie as the powerful engine of a new art movement in Paris and, inspired by Poe's man of the crowd, promoted it in his landmark 1863 essay «The Painter of Modern Life,» which heralded the arrival of the quintessential artist - flâneurs — the French impressionists.

Curated by Wow x Wow's founder, the Scottish artist, curator and writer, Tim Maclean, Lightning Bolts & Little Sparks will feature the work of over 90 artists, and gathers together a powerful roster of both established and emerging talent from within the international New Contemporary Art movement.

More powerful during the 1960s, were the events and happenings staged by the Fluxus movement, founded by the Lithuanian - American art theorist George Maciunas (1931 - 78), which began in Germany, before spreading across Europe and establishing itself in New York.

And I started to see signs — new coalitions and fresh arguments — hinting at how, if these various connections were more widely understood, the urgency of the climate crisis could form the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system.

And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.

It helps create movement to something more powerful, new and meaningful.