Sentences with phrase «of activist»
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, something of an activist, cleared the way for dredging with an executive order.
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He said, «I think personally it was unnecessary and I was particularly saddened because former president John Mahama is not an ordinary opposition leader but someone who has occupied the high office of the land before, you can have some of us activist talking that way but when you have the former leader of the country to make such a comment then that was a direct attack on the personality of the sitting president».
Those unions are also likely to yank their support for a constellation of activist groups that have worked with the WFP over the years and have been critical of Cuomo.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio says Trump's immigration authorities engaged in a «provocative action» when they detained a prominent Trinidadian - American immigrant activist last week and appeared to defend the NYPD amid criticisms over its treatment of protestors and elected officials rallying in support of the activist.
Lord, a columnist for The American Spectator, has been harshly critical of the activist he tweeted at, Angelo Carusone, and the liberal group of which Carusone is president, Media Matters for America.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says President Donald Trump's immigration authorities engaged in a «provocative action» when they detained a prominent Trinidadian - American immigrant activist last week and appeared to defend the NYPD amid criticisms over its treatment of protestors and elected officials rallying in support of the activist.
«Labour is more comfortable than the Conservatives with the idea of an activist state: the Conservatives have reason to fear a political contest organised around which party can best promote growth rather than which party can best reduce spending,» Mr McClymont wrote.
Aetna published its 2011 «Political Contributions and Related Activity Report» on Aug. 24, which included money for politicians and various groups, though a group of activist investors said the report didn't include all of Aetna's political payments.
A variety of activist groups and City Council members gathered outside City Hall on Wednesday morning to call for attention to their respective causes.
The split came after the governor urged the unions to withdraw funding from any of the activist groups supporting Nixon, one of the former stars of the TV series «Sex and the City.»
Mark Levine, Council Member - elect, Manhattan «This agreement heralds a new era for the City Council and for the city at large — a time of activist progressive policy - making to address the growing gap of inequality here.
In the party's early years the Independent Labour Party (ILP) provided much of its activist base as the party did not have individual membership until 1918 but operated as a conglomerate of affiliated bodies.
In 2004, the party was given an unexpected boost by winning the support of former Labour MP and television presenter Robert Kilroy - Silk, who got himself elected to the European parliament, was appalled by the reactionary politics of his new colleagues, failed to win the leadership and, in the words of an activist, «disappeared in a puff of vanity».
Yet still Corbyn seems determined to hang on, and to force a contest in the wider party, hoping to retain the support of his activist base.
Grechen Shirley said she and other members of activist groups known as «pop ups» had worked for Democrat Christine Pellegrino's successful state Assembly election, which Schaffer sat out, and planned fundraisers for Democratic county legislative candidates.
He would like you to think he's some sort of activist, but in reality if you strike that from his resume, you have another unqualified candidate running in a district where he doesn't even live and has never been seen.
He also helped form the Uptown Community Democrats club and was a founding member of activist group Northern Manhattan is Not for Sale, which is currently engaged in opposition to the proposed Sherman Plaza project in Inwood.
[As an aside, back in 2000 I briefly flirted with a national campaign for a certain third - party candidate, but the dalliance ended for good when they lost a hefty chunk of their activist list to a server crash — I was already a little turned off by what seemed to be a dangerous level of disorganization, and I ran away in disgust when they didn't even have a backup copy of the one database they desperately needed to hold on to.
«I'm reaching out to the wide variety of activist groups that were put in place and continue to grow since the last presidential election,» Gipson said in a Talk - 1300 radio interview on Monday.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon visited Crown Heights, receiving the endorsement of the activist group New York Communities for Change.
And Eliot Spitzer would be one hell of an activist shareholder.
«We can't address any concerns they might have if we don't know what they are... he might have been targeted because of his activist work or even just because he is from Eastern Europe we just don't know.»
M&R Strategic Services has a report out on how to contact new members of your activist list.
For one thing, it looks at nurturing «supervolunteers» — the 5 % of your activist list that can turn around and produce more than half of your total volunteer work if you support and guide them properly.
For one thing, it looks at nurturing «supervolunteers» — the 5 % of your activist list that can turn around and produce more than half of your total...
To learn more about this Renaissance woman, be sure to check out her site, her line of activist t - shirts (Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Milano are fans, no lie!)
I also don't put myself into any type of activist stance when it comes to how families decide to bring their babies into the world — as long as women feel empowered, supported, and grateful for their experience, that's all that matters.
, the Annual Festival of Activist Street Bands (Somerville)
But when it comes to what women will be doing, I am encouraged by what Mill Valley photojournalist Paola Gianturco has documented — another global women's movement, the rise of the activist grandmother.
Defenders of Wildlife News, the trade journal of activist conservationists, is the only U.S. publication that has mounted a continuous program against the deliberate toxification of the U.S. «What is to be the eventual result year after year of this relentless poisoning of our biota and lands?»
«It's really encouraging to see such a drop in consumption of bottled water among young people, because as they grow up, the overall market is definitely going to decline further,» says Jon Dee, the managing director of activist group Do Something!
«It's made me more of an activist,» she says.
It was during this time that his whole life took the shape of an activist.
Whitehead answered, «Encourage»; this was in June, 1884; he was not enough of an activist to say, Make them.»
As a result, there has been a secular shift in our judiciary away from the rule of law toward the rule of activist, policy - making, social - engineering judges.
As for Mr. Trump, defender of traditional culture and religious freedom against «secular judges,» that forlorn hope is belied by the warm welcome afforded proponents of lifestyle libertinism — the principal driver of activist federal judging - as - legislating — at the Republican convention in Cleveland.
Some laymen, of course, share the visions of their activist leaders.
: Hearing the Voice of God (Seattle: YWAM Publishing, 1984); Nora Smith Holm, The Runner's Bible: Spiritual Guidance for People on the Run (GA: Acropolis Books,, 1st ed., 1998); Jim Wallis, Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (New York: Random House, 2000); Anderson Spickard and Barbara R. Thompson, Dying for a Drink (Waco, TX: Word Book Publishers, 1985); Edward E. Decker, Jr.» «Praying Through»: A Pentecostal Approach to Pastoral Care.»
True, these things have become common, and one result has been that only those people with large amounts of money, or those with the backing of an activist minority, have any chance in electoral politics.
«Another objection to moral relativism is called by Fred Feldman «The Reformer's Dilemma,» which describes the situation of an activist who sees a society in need of improvement and feels compelled to propose some alteration for its citizens.
It made me more of an activist.
William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
Scalia, the most conservative of the activist Roberts court once wrote in Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith: «We have never held that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate.»
The Israelis closed the mosque after the shooting of an activist who campaigns for Jews to be able to pray at Al Aqsa, Islam's third most holy site.
«It's giving people confidence that despite the scrutiny of activist investors, companies can really add value through M. & A.,» Mr. Carr of Goldman said.
Our investment thesis highlighted: 1) a negative divergence between GAAP and economic profits; 2) slowing organic growth; 3) high profit growth expectations embedded in the stock price; and 4) the unlikely sale of the company despite the presence of an activist investor.
«In a minority of cases, activist hedge funds may bring some lasting value for shareholders but largely at the expense of workers and bond holders; thus the impact of activist hedge funds appears to take the form of wealth transfer rather than wealth creation.»
The Texas Act would also apply to any proxy advisory firm that «publishes or otherwise provides an analysis or a recommendation to one or more shareholders» of a Texas - based public company concerning a nomination to the board or a shareholder proposal of an activist investor.
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Greenback'd posted the July mega-list of activist investor situations.
The latest wave of activist - investor involvement has led to a record number of spinoffs, divestitures and various other strategic reorganizations in 2014, many of which often elicit cheers from shareholders.