Sentences with phrase «of public dissent»

And in this there is a ghastly mimicry of the language of Marxist - dominated regimes with a political ideology which similarly allowed of no public dissent.

Not exact matches

Ben Bernanke, for his part, was determined to avoid any further public displays of inter-FOMC dissent.

Undomesticated Dissent: The Public Virtue of Religiously Motivated Dissent Tuesday, April 24 Baylor University Press invites you to attend an event featuring speakers Robert Louis Wilken, E. J. Dionne, Melissa Rogers, and Curtis W. Freeman.

They will discuss the sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously motivated dissent and how this virtue remains essential for democracy's flourishing.

More visibly, the release of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae rocked the American church, leading to unprecedented public dissent.

As we renew our commitment to religious pluralism in the public square, we should embrace debate, welcome dissent, and encourage civility as we work together for the sake of the common good and of a country we are all unreservedly blessed to call our home.

Gorsuch also argued on behalf of public religious displays in dissenting opinions for cases involving Ten Commandments monuments and roadside crosses.

Thus did academic and theological dissent promiscuously issue permission slips for an era of wink - wink, nudge - nudge, the consequences of which are now on scandalous public display.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

For Baptists, the great doctrines of the Reformation were refracted through the prism of persecution and dissent which informed their intense advocacy of religious freedom and, especially in the American setting, the separation of church and state (which does not equal the divorce of religion from public life).

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of....

Declaring early in American history that the Constitution was «godless» because it failed to acknowledge the authority of Jesus Christ, the church up until a generation ago practiced «political dissent,» not allowing members to vote, hold public office, or take oaths of allegiance to the flag or the Constitution.

Since the legalising of same - sex marriage in the United States this summer, surprisingly few Catholics have voiced their dissent, either in pulpit or public square.

Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step.

The coming battle is really several different battles: a struggle within the Church to combat ignorance, misunderstanding and dissent; a political fight to maintain the freedom of religion for Catholics; and a public policy battle to form the law of the land.

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

Any public dissent becomes explosive, because it threatens the legitimacy of our current social system, which is characterized by an increasing concentration of wealth and power among just a few at the tippy - top.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

It is understood that to show dissent to officials, even out of the glare of the public eye should still be punished.

Professor Brabazon's research is concerned with the nature and role of law in the neoliberal period, particularly in relation to reconfigurations of public debate and dissent.

It is true that the Church and other religious bodies are no longer immune from public criticism or scrutiny, and that it is no longer considered acceptable for the religion of the majority to drown out dissenting voices.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Mr Rowley added: «It is clear from the discussion yesterday that dissent in public from the leadership view is perceived as disloyalty, but I am convinced we need a fundamental change in direction and strategy and therefore can not sign up to your leadership as one of your shadow team.»

Seven of the 25 Moreland Commissioners dissented from the view that public campaign financing would solve problems.

While a majority of Moreland Commission members backed a recommendation in a preliminary report to create a public financing system, seven members joined a dissent that argued against the proposal, which is backed by labor groups and good - government advocates.

«There is dissent and there is a political division on the question of public financing,» Cuomo said.

Rice also played down the dissent over public campaign financing, saying: «We had more than a majority of people saying (that) was the way to go.»

The majority of the members on Moreland Commission on Public Corruption recommended in a December report that the state create a public financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissePublic Corruption recommended in a December report that the state create a public financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissepublic financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissenting.

«Individual legislators rarely if ever even attempted to exercise the traditional prerogatives that we expect of congressional legislators: voicing serious dissent, pushing an individual legislative agenda, conducting open hearings on contentious issues of public policy,» he wrote.

This wasn't a particularly good thing, from a good - government perspective: The Democrats» unassailable majority, and the combination of loyalty and fear that Silver inspired in his members, meant little dissent, debate or — aside from the occasional prosecutorial or investigative - journalistic breakthrough — public scrutiny of the chamber's activities.

If Ukip beat Labour on Thursday in the European election, expect much of the dissent currently rumbling just beneath the surface across both the right and left of the PLP, to explode into public view.

Incredibly, the bill ended up passing both the Senate (62 - 0) and the Assembly (121 - 0) without a single dissenting vote — a disturbing sign of the Legislature's weak and pandering approach to public employee union issues in general.

A dissent from seven of the Moreland panel's 25 commissioners disputed the efficacy of public matching, especially after the expansion of loosely controlled «independent expenditure» spending unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

«There are a lot of other elements of the report where there was no dissent and there was no division,» Cuomo said, referring to proposed changes in bribery laws, enhanced disclosure by public officials and retooled enforcement of campaign finance laws.

In light of the threatened departures, Benn's future is thought to be safe if he is prepared to promise not to dissent from his leader in public and limit disagreements to private discussions.

A report in the New York Daily News said the commission may be considering a voter referendum on public campaign financing, or might only recommend a public system as part of a dissenting opinion.

The two dissenting votes were from Carl Paladino and Larry Quinn, who walked out of their meeting in protest when the board decided to discuss the deal in private, rather than in public.

His views caused dissent in an audience of party members uncomfortable with the idea of the party endorsing the increased involvement of the private sector in the delivery of public services.

They employed accusations of scientific conspiracy, selective use of evidence and dissenting scientists to contradict public health experts and confuse the public.

Among the CSFR / OSFR early professional ethics initiatives, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked the committee to review proposed regulations regarding issues of technical dissent with the agency, OSFR staff surveyed 241 professional societies asking them about the extent of their organization's professional ethics issues and efforts, and the CSFR, the President's Commission on Ethical Problems in Medicine and Research and the group Medicine in the Public Interest cosponsored a workshop on whistle blowing on fraud in biomedical research.

We feature a small number of dissenting voices in our coverage, not because we seek to be impartial between «scientific fact and sceptic fiction», as Bob Ward suggests, but because reflecting the different sides of an ongoing debate is very much in the public interest.

Mark Lynas, a former anti-GMO activist who now considers GMO fears a «conspiracy theory,» notes that GMO opponents use the same rhetorical tactics beloved of climate deniers: cherry - picking evidence, emphasizing a few dissenting «experts» over the scientific consensus, and attempting to «capture and control the public - policy agenda to enforce its long - held prejudices.»

The signs of war and general dissent are shown in the aftermath as bodies pile up in public spaces and absurd scenes become the norm.

By coincidence, a few days after the front - page story with my public dissent, I participated in a «webinar» conducted by the New York State School Boards Association on the subject of — you guessed it — «recruiting and hiring.»

Get Rid of Compulsory Schooling In the April 1924 issue of The American Mercury, journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken ginned up a well - constructed piece on the true purpose of public education: «The aim... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.»

Likewise, Justice Breyer's dissent begins and ends with warnings of «religiously based social conflict» resulting from allowing parents to use public funding to send their children to sectarian schools.

The abuse of power by some on the Hartford Board of Education was called into question after politicking and bullying behaviors ruled and dissenting voices were silenced at last week's regular public meeting.

One member of the board dissented in each ruling, saying the New Orleans charter boards are equivalent to public school boards and are political subdivisions of state government.

What is happening in New York is indicative of a groundswell of popular dissent — what Peter Rothberg, a journalist for the Nation and a New York City parent, called a «nationwide movement» — against the overuse and abuse of standardized testing in public schools.

In his book Possible Lives, educator Mike Rose calls for a «capacious critique» of public education in America, one that encourages «dissent and invention, fury and hope.»