Sentences with phrase «of activism by»

The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) was enacted following a long period of activism by Aboriginal people throughout Australia for recognition of their prior ownership of, and traditional connection to, land and waters.

These conditions have led to an unprecedented level of activism by law departments.

The climate science standards won out in part because of activism by students like Senior Emily Her, of Timberline High School in Boise.

Witnessing this show of activism by her fellow students causes Britta (Gillian Jacobs) to struggle with the unsatisfactory number of causes she currently supports.

That fact doesn't dismiss the possibility of activism by an individual who is anti-gun.

Not exact matches

The boards of some major US and Australian companies have responded to shareholder activism by becoming more active in their pursuit of best practice.

This most recent strain of activism bears little resemblance to the greenmailing and hostile takeover tactics favoured by»80s corporate raiders.

This is part of the long - running worry that the new monetary policy activism inspired by the financial crisis threatens central banks» political independence.

But for us to do so requires nothing less than a very substantially heightened degree of direct political activism by people who really care about the survival of our country.

But every win — especially every hard - fought win — endangers his business model, by increasing the incentives of companies to build stronger protections against activism.

Described by the New York Times «a super-specialist» in human rights activism, Simon Billenness has over 25 years of experience in advising investors on shareholder advocacy.

A student at an elite Chinese university accused the school of trying to muzzle her #MeToo activism in an open letter that set off a scramble by the country's censors.

Indeed, its precepts have come to be widely regarded as a model for «good governance» and for the brand of investor activism illustrated by the Allergan story.

The ISS study — which looked at directors nominated by dissidents and by the boards themselves in response to activism — found that women made up 8.4 percent of this group, compared with 25 percent of new directors at all S&P 1500 companies in 2015.

We discuss implications for disclosure by institutional investors; regulation of their fees; stewardship codes; the rise of index investing; proxy advisors; hedge funds; wolf pack activism; and the allocation of power between corporate managers and shareholders.

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

Mid-decade activism by CalPERS, for example, reportedly was «fueled partly by the political ambitions of Phil Angelides, California's state treasurer and a CalPERS board member,» who planned on running for governor of California in 2006.

The theory is that activism has free - rider problems: The activist, if he is right and successful, raises the value of the company by $ X, but if he only owns 5 percent of the company he only captures $ 0.05 X.

Women's activism to correct this injustice has been building, as evidenced by the rising tide of financing options for -LSB-...]

On activism and information management, see also ««Best Ideas» Conference Presentations: Challenges Faced by Hedge Fund Managers Under Federal Securities Law (Part Two of Two),» The Hedge Fund Law Report, Vol.

Interviewed by Gregory Millman of The Wall Street Journal's Risk and Compliance Team for a story on shareholder activism in Canada, May 15, 2015.

«During this month of... activism against domestic abuse, we really need to be characterised by the rule of love and really need to honour each other.

The NEA failed to reach its goal, however, not just because it was dumb enough to finance the infamous Piss Christ, the anti-Catholic propaganda of homosexual activism, along with Robert Mapplethorpe's sadomasochistic sex photographs, but because it became somehow seized by the wrong - headed notion that art is good only when it sets itself against the political and social status quo.

Redemption, it would seem, is effected by a kind of Green Party activism.»

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

The content of that record was influenced by Bono's activism, the Jubilee 2000 campaign and a book Bono had been reading: Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace?

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

Often it is hidden by the false claims of that movement that «gay is normal» and by strident political activism.

Though the school still hobbles along doing its best to teach the Western canon, it's been critically wounded and is sure to be one of many institutions gutted by such ruthless activism.

In addition to leading activism efforts in our local communities and providing pastoral care to those devastated by the verdict, we also took to Twitter, blogs, pulpits and conference podiums to call upon white Christians to wake up to the reality of racism in America.

Dear Father Editor, As anti-family legislation gathers pace, as recorded by John Deighan's articles, -LCB- Faith, «Learning from homosexual Activism» March 2009, «The Undermining of the Family: Where are we at?»

Particularly impressive is an account by Kabron Henry, a postgraduate at the University of Manchester, who tells of the success of pro-life activism in defeating a pro-choice motion in the student's union.

So the Supreme Court, when it practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.

Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.

Today we see the major difference of opinion from Physcs about gay marriage and we see the same activism by the agenda going on.

But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.

The late 80s and 90s saw an intensification of the rock identification with leftist activism that had always been there, but which had suffered through some hesitant and confused years when punk and new wave crashed onto the scene with their anti-hippie and sometimes even anti-Labor ire in the late 70s and early 80s, a confusion heightened by the Thatcher / Reagan victories and the mainstream «morning again» mood they brought.

A closer look at Pepler's writings may be «a distinctive way» of looking at things, especially since he proposes that the imagination that is cultivated by grace is able to maintain the connections between creation and the sacraments against a background of increased industrialisation, technology and activism.2

The point I am leading up to is that for many laymen the gospel of liberal social activism offered to them by many pastors, denominational headquarters, and ecumenical leaders has not come as good news.

The achievements in the area of social justice, initiated by the socio - political activism of people such as Nelson Mandella, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, attest to the fact that God is present and when political activism, in the area of social justice is being carried out by Believers.

Evangelicals, he says, can be recognized by these four traits: they are biblical Christians who proclaim the centrality of the Cross, emphasize the necessity of personal conversion, and do all of this with zealous activism.

There is no need to recount here the well - documented story of how the civil rights movement inspired political activism by other groups with grievances about their status in America and their treatment throughout American history.

The emptiness facilitated by Will's basically apolitical brand of libertarian judicial activism is what pushes us most forcefully down the road to serfdom.

Public and direct activism of this sort by Catholics hasn't been characteristic of contemporary French politics.

This point of view has been popularized by the phrase «Do your own thing,» and it has resulted in an affirmation of just about every goal imaginable within the plethora of possible objectives that people could choose — pleasure, power, wealth, prestige, even violent activism for social betterment.

[18] Finally, trapping has been the subject of political activism [19] by animal protectionist groups seeking to restrict and / or ban trapping altogether.

This Sunday, many American churches will observe «Stand with the Persecuted,» a day of activism sponsored by the Family Research Council, Open Doors, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, Voice of the Martyrs, In Defense of Christians, Christian Solidarity Worldwide — USA, International Christian Concern, and the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative.

CNN: Utah gay pride parade draws hundreds of Mormon participants A gay pride parade in Mormon - heavy Salt Lake City drew thousands of participants, including a few hundred Mormons, whose church has been criticized by gay rights activists for its activism against same - sex marriage.

He warned that much of what was going on was being distorted by self - justifying activism.