Sentences with phrase «not apolitical»

This was not an apolitical act or a renunciation of politics, but a sign that the Church was a different sort of political order.

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Corporations prefer to be seen as apolitical creatures — governments change, and customers come in all stripes — but at this highly polarized and media - socialized moment, it's become mighty hard not to upset at least a few people.

Being fairly apolitical in those days, I really couldn't care less whether the guy was a Democrat or Republican, but I was thrilled to get to know one of the great quarterbacks from my childhood at our annual strategy meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Gateway Student Journalism Society is a not - for - profit, apolitical society that publishes the Gateway, the student newspaper at the University of Alberta.

Those secure in their beliefs do not, as Mr Mnuchin did, seek to de-publish studies by apolitical civil servants.

Not the posture of value - detachment and apolitical objectivism but the articulation of one's social location, interpretive strategies and theoretical frameworks are appropriate in such a rhetorical paradigm of theological studies.

Those candidates may give wonderful speeches, but in the absence of institutions that can speak directly to the apolitical, the voters won't hear them.

In that speech he endorsed black nationalism as his political philosophy, thereby separating himself not only from the civil rights movement but, more important, from Muhammad, who had defined the Nation as strictly religious and apolitical.

The results of several surveys indicate that charismatics and Pentecostals are not as apolitical, otherworld, bent on «speaking in tongues, the «hard - driving engines fueling the global spread of Christianity that is usually the stereotype.

As a result, moreover, that book could not but appear apolitical.

I'm not religious, but everything I've heard about them suggests the atmosphere of apolitical spirituality and inclusiveness that you're demanding.

I think that Muslims, uneducated, dirty, rude and vile toward women and children should be returned to their home countries for saying like what he just said, becaus eit is obvioulsy not a religion but apolitical terorist group bent on upending the world for their religious beliefs... as he just said... Death to the world becasue we are Muslim... not too nice, is it World?

I have more complicated reasons for why city kids don't play and watch baseball anymore but I think they are way more political for a fun, apolitical, baseball blog on a Monday.

Although the idea for new apolitical movement is novel in the UK, it is not uncommon on the continent, particularly in the new democracies of central and east Europe, where «traditional parties» constantly compete against ephemeral movements of local notables.

I don't care if it's a liberal, conservative or apolitical, did you or did you not continue a chain of e-mails that were offensive to the president, had racial overtones... We just had two governors back - to - back that were losers, we're looking for somebody who's going to put their head above this personal flotsam and jetsam that has paralyzed the office.»

It is a more lowbrow alternative to Uncensored, not shying away from apolitical local news and celebrity stories.

But the NYPRIG Fund won't have to disclose the donors funding its lobbying: The 2011 lobbying reform does not apply to such apolitical 501 (c) 3 charities.

The installation of the statues was a highly political act, when they were erected, which is my point: Not the installation was apolitical, but it was in the past, that's what I mean by «historical».

«As part of our administration's change mantra, it has been confirmed and repeatedly reported that this empowerment programme is not only impactful but apolitical by all standard and measures.

Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usm an also stated that People should therefore not read this development out of context., because military must remain apolitical and professional at all times.

Mr. Recchia, a Democrat, was not present at the press conference, and Mr. Cuomo explained the Democrat's absence by claiming the occasion was apolitical.

We like to think of ourselves as apolitical, but I don't believe that's possible in good conscience right now.»

Far from empty - headed, though, Stardust is a deeply meaningful series of sweet - nothings, wholly apolitical even in a macho supporting character revealed as a cross-dresser and hair stylist; and by its end, it wins not in spite of being so exuberant in its indulgence of flamboyant clichés, but because it is.

It seemed unlikely that the Globes would be political at all, given that they were being hosted by the apolitical Jimmy Fallon, who doesn't do controversy, he just rubs Donald Trump's head for laughs.

I would overhear hushed conversations on the bus about Republican relatives who won't stop gloating; directors would introduce their films, even the most purportedly apolitical, with sly allusions to the new President; a woman even struck up a conversation with me before a screening to complain about the film industry's closed - minded attitude towards her particular brand of libertarianism (I didn't have much to add).

Bergman's tortured husband (Max von Sydow) is apolitical, thrown into a spiritual chasm by Chinese nukes, while Schrader's is a radical environmental activist (Philip Ettinger) who can't bring a child into a doomed world.

In other words, if you are a conservative, moderate, apolitical teacher or just don't think the unions have any business getting into non-education issues, «Shut up... but keep those dues coming, and be sure to indoctrinate the kids while you are at it!»

Rather than making «change» an apolitical call towards some amorphous future that is better than the present, we need to ensure that we have a common understanding of what must change and what is at risk if we don't.

And the show's organizers — Johanna Burton, director and curator of education and public engagement at the New Museum, working with Natalie Bell and Sara O'Keeffe, assistant curators — have included a substantial amount of entirely abstract work of a kind 1982 audiences perceived as apolitical, though here it is not.

MB: Yeah, I don't believe the rhetoric around this hermetic, internalized force that works through you that you have to block out the world, and it has to be apolitical, and a painting is a painting.

Commenting on the political role of AE, Saunders points out: «One of the extraordinary features of the role that American painting played in the cultural Cold War is not the fact that it became part of the enterprise, but that a movement which so deliberately declared itself to be apolitical could become so intensely politicized» (275).

'» Lewis confounded critical categorization in part because his activism was not immediately evident in his art, although, as Anfam argues, his abstract works were far from being apolitical.

Many critics of these younger artists — if not of the entire younger generation in China — fault them for being narcissistic and apolitical.

The fact is that by casting these critical issues as a matter of consumer choice and lifestyle is deeply apolitical and it means that they won't make the cut.

But bear in mind as we parse some of the results that the very purpose of the survey was to determine how best to veer the national conversation on climate change towards apolitical territory, not to elicit head - shaking and «I told you so's» from liberal environmentalists.

The good news is that ithis new novel of Cricton's is boring — that's according to some apolitical types who don't think about climate change very much.

But I think what it highlights is the instability of mass movements which are essentially apolitical: it wasn't really a movement for anything, and somewhat preoccupied with something very emotive, which does not lend itself to formulating an analysis, or project of any meaningful kind.

Isn't there something a bit odd about a Euro Commissioner (apolitical civil servant, and all that) supporting an internal political campaign to influence a vote in the British Parliament?

We are proudly non-partisan, though not always apolitical.

Josh, No not really it was just a muse on my part; a little political mischief of an apolitical person.

I don't have a side, but am no less an investor than anyone else and an apolitical look at the associated funding may lead to a reduction of the noise of who funds whom.

I can't begin to imagine what a frank, honest, apolitical climate scientist or physicist would have to say about all the assumptions and statistical legerdemain that goes into coming up with such precise «measurements» of global average sea level.

Given that fact, liberals and conservatives alike argue, why not drop the pretense of apolitical judges and support or oppose nominees on the basis of their party label or ideology?

One of the worst aspects of crypto culture is the idea that because math and code are supposedly apolitical, we do not have to be polite.

Joined LinkedIn and Twitter (immediately Jack Layton followed me, and not long after, Justin Trudeau — seeing as how I am apolitical, and had no political specific affiliation, I had to scratch my head in womderment), and never used the sites.