Sentences with phrase «numbers of advocates»

These e-mail alerts have been able to mobilize a larger number of advocates in a shorter time, as when thousands of people swamped congressional representatives with e-mails concerning House bill 426, which condemned Yasir Arafat and placed all the blame for the conflict on the Palestinians.

It fails to include resources from philosophy, or, more particularly, from that contemporary movement in philosophy called «environmental philosophy,» which, as articulated in a journal such as Environmental Ethics, has a growing number of advocates in Western Europe, the United States, and Australia.2

For non-monogamy's growing number of advocates, total candor is the non-negotiable admission price to liberation; «ethical dishonesty» remains an oxymoron.

The opponents have far outspent a smaller number of advocates who urge a «yes» vote on the November ballot.

As Karen DeWitt reports, the opponents have far outspent a smaller number of advocates who urge a yes vote on the November ballot.

Special education reform is notoriously difficult in New York City; Bloomberg's sweeping special education reforms have been criticized by a number of advocates in recent years.

We can not change the fact that vocational routes are currently underrepresented in Parliament by politicians with direct experience of them — but we can change the number of advocates in Westminster and beyond.

Whether due to cutbacks of public pensions, the lack of retirement plans offered by private employers, or workers forced to raid their savings, it appears to a growing number of advocates and politicians that many Americans will be forced to keep

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

However, a number of advocates who spoke to Gotham Gazette on background said they now have a lot better understanding of where legislators from both houses are on the various issues contained under the «Raise the Age» banner, and they hope to expedite action on alternative sentencing and other programs where there does appear to be consensus.

A number of advocates for women are calling for targets to be included in the final version of the plan, which will be completed by the end of this year and take effect next April.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

In fact, this same caution applies to any number of advocates seeking standalone funding for a specific niche in the education system.

An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college - or career - prep course online to earn a high school diploma.

We believe there is great value in increasing the number of advocates thinking rationally and strategically about ways they can use their resources to help animals.

«Thankfully, a large number of advocates, including cat colony caregivers and animal welfare organizations, testified against the bill and it failed to move forward.

- Reduction in the number of advocates used in cases and a requirement for litigators to provide «adequate support» to counsel in the Crown Court.

«If, as we suspect, a large number of advocates are considering not signing the contract... and do not do so, particularly on a chambers basis, it will be an inevitable inference that some intervening event has caused a change of mind since they allowed their names to go forward in solicitors» tenders.»

Not exact matches

Before we get started, I do want to be clear: I'm not advocating being deceitful, but instead providing a number of options that will help you grow your business by adjusting positive perception of your organization — which if done effectively, can allow you to accomplish a lot with a little.

Consumer advocates told the FCC these wrong number calls to reassigned numbers «are largely the result of inadequate calling practices and a pervasive environment of industry indifference.»

Though targeted at foreigners, the surveillance also collects data on an unknown number of Americans — some privacy advocates have suggested it could be millions — without a search warrant.

Currently, a victim of identity theft can not change their Social Security number, which is the primary reason why White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce is advocating for a new system.

In the 13 years since he left office, President Clinton has been a relentless and forceful advocate for a number of causes: the fight against HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, and the need to stem greenhouse gas emissions.

Take my word for it, if you're not out there and in control of your story, to the extent that it's even possible any more, the vacuum will readily be filled by any number of other people — employees, ex-employees, competitors, advocates for a million causes, etc. — with their own good and bad axes to grind.

According to a number of news reports, users who have been banned include Pax Dickinson — a former Business Insider executive who was let go for making racist comments — as well as Richard Spencer, who runs a so - called «alt - right» organization called the National Policy Institute, which advocates for racial separation.

Privacy advocates have said the billions of images Facebook is thought to be collecting could be even more valuable to identity thieves than the names, addresses, and credit card numbers now targeted by hackers.

Before Warner's call, Senate Intel member Ron Wyden — one of the biggest privacy advocates in Congress — issued a letter to Zuckerberg seeking answers on a number of detailed points on Monday, including how many privacy audits the company has conducted for apps on its platform and if Facebook has ever notified individual users of privacy violations of this nature.

Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.

«It's certainly very hypocritical for the Conservative government to say that a member of parliament that advocates on behalf of a business in his or her constituency who advocates in favour of temporary foreign workers who meet the criteria as set out in the program, if somehow that's illegitimate for a member of parliament to advocate for a temporary foreign worker permit in his constituency,» Mr. LeBlanc explained, «then the Conservatives should ask themselves why under their watch the number of temporary foreign workers has doubled.

Having hosted Minister Wilson - Raybould a number of times in her previous role, The Vancouver Board of Trade is very confident she will be a strong advocate for B.C. in Ottawa, and we look forward to hosting her and the other new ministers in the near future.

Measuring and assessing your startup's Net Promoter Score can help you reduce churn, improve customer retention and increase the number of referrals you receive from your existing customers (brand advocates).

With Congress failing to pass more than 100 gun control bills as the number of casualties from mass shootings piles up, it's easy for gun control advocates to think nothing will be accomplished.

However, the large number of animal advocates on their board does provide a positive indication that GFI will stay focused on areas that are most likely to help large numbers of animals.

These nondisclosing organizations can engage in a number of activities, including buying ads that advocate for or against a candidate, running phone banks and making contributions to super PACs.

With so many companies now investing in programs to empower their employees as brand advocates in social media, the number of software vendors pitching the space is increasing quickly.

In a number of states, these agencies are dominated by teacher unions and public school advocates who have made it virtually impossible for some religions to operate schools in accordance with their religious principles.

The typological method, which has been advocated by a number of sociologists of religion, serves the function of bridging the gap between the two extremes: the richer and finer it is developed the more it will serve to combine wealth of detailed information with keen structural analysis.

Oh, I think you'll find that most atheists freely admit that Stalinism and its various children advocated a state policy of atheism and killed an obscene number of people.

No wonder this poorest and most backward segment of India's population is constantly exploited: by politicians for their votes; by religious leaders for their numbers; by their self - styled advocates for power.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

However, his number is still far too high for Open Doors, a leading advocate for the persecuted church, which uses a much narrower definition of martyr.

For months they railed against the so - called proposals «to license journalists,» even though Recommendation Number 50 of the MacBride Report specifically states that «the commission does not propose special privileges to protect journalists in the performance of their duties, although journalism is a dangerous profession,» and neither the UNESCO Secretariat nor any member state had formally advocated the licensing of journalists.

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

A number of their bodies were found huddled together, protecting each other — no one advocating for them or insuring they had a safe environment for their creative expression.

Though still in a minority, the advocates of full Christian acceptance are increasing in number.

When Christians have advocated for safety, it has resulted in countless numbers of people being killed both domestically and internationally.

Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.

I say this having read a number of the things advocates of «pro — life violence» have published over the years and having corresponded at length with Paul Hill, who is on death row in Florida for a double murder outside an abortion clinic in 1994.

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«We've been advocating for a number of years now to get that loophole closed, so that to make any nutrition claim it has to be a healthy product, because at the moment it's really a marketing strategy.»