Sentences with phrase «on apolitical»

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Raised in an apolitical family, Rempel says it was those speeches — one completely uninspiring, the other galvanizing — that set her on the path to Parliament Hill.

When Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump's fashion line earlier this month, the retailer tried as hard as it could to present the decision as apolitical, emphasizing that the decision was based on sales.

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.

Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies on the century - old phenomena.

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.

The move to cut these programs is about symbolic grievances and perceived bias and a result that gets these agencies funded in a manner that causes these agencies to be more apolitical or to try to be more balanced on a liberal - conservative perspective would be considered a win by the partisans on the right.

He has endorsed both Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate races across the country this cycle, with an apolitical litmus test that depends on whether they fought for either his own city's interests or for the mayor's own pet causes, such as gun restrictions or education reform.

Cuomo put on a good show — asking and answering his own hypotheticals, shouting to emphasize his seriousness — in claiming that he's doing the apolitical thing by handing the cases off to an independent counsel, retired state judge Judith Kaye.

Its founders were determined to be independent of the Rochester City School District and apolitical, with a focus on helping students in city schools become successful adults.

«That said, to the extent that the march organizers maintain their emphasis on a positive and apolitical message regarding empirical science and its role in decision making, I expect that, at a minimum, ASPB will support the participation of its members in the march.»

Labeling the film apolitical is a laugh, especially if attention has been paid to Captain Smith's narration on the potentialities of the New World for Europeans, and watched how power and love pervert his ideals eventually forcing his flight.

Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's pleasant, informative feature, which unfolds in as apolitical a manner as possible, is clearly a broadcast - tailored item that will make its debut on the Discovery Channel in August.

One of the effects of the film in following a single soldier and one who appears seemingly apolitical, is to convey the chaos and the senselessness of the violence on both sides of the conflict.

Though unabashedly pro-life in point - of - view, October Baby is nonetheless an apolitical coming - of - age adventure apt to touch the hearts of audience members on either side of the abortion issue.

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).

Without giving too much away, it seems like much of the drama from Homeland Season 4 will center on the conflicted, apolitical Aayan, as he weighs whether to become a CIA asset or seek vengeance for the death of his entire family and turn to terrorism.

One of the most common lines (usually used in praise) on our newly - crowned Best Picture winner is that it's deliberately apolitical, taking no sides in the Iraq conflict as it aims simply to present the soldier's experience on the ground.

Of course there's plenty of apolitical or even conservative - leaning content that appeals to middle America on Netflix.

Instead, we should have apolitical schools teaching a rigorous curriculum based on national standards and assessments.

This year's LM - 2 is filled with goodies that are sure to warm the cockles of leftist teacher union members, but apolitical educators, centrists and certainly those on the right just may have a different opinion.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s essay on Frederick Douglass is very empowering, and at the end he says, «Even a lecture about something as seemingly apolitical as photography or art in the end must by definition be engaged within and through Douglass's state of being as a black man in a white society in which one's blackness signifies negation.»

Alongside cheekily apolitical slogans («Hi Mum I'm Still Broke») and gallows humor («I Am a Little Upset»), Landy's protesters represent political stances both left and right on topics local and global, their expressions ranging from polite to vulgar, angry to jovial.

The starting point of the scene, where radical and apolitical stances cohabited, was The Times Square Show, an exhibition co-organized by Colab and Fashion Moda in a former massage parlor on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 41st Street in June 1980.

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).

Having spent his childhood and teenage years growing up in the contested grounds of Gaza, Palestinian artist Hazem Harb's artistic output serves as an apolitical, first hand ACCOUNT of this on - going conflict.

By comparison, Thaddaeus Ropac's elegantly refurbished 16,000 - foot gallery in a Georgian townhouse in Mayfair, which opened on Wednesday, appears to be a more apolitical operation.

On May 28, a peaceful, apolitical crowd of demonstrators set up camp in Taksim Gezi Park to prevent its redevelopment into a shopping mall.

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.

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

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?

Much of the content on the account was apolitical, evincing positive portrayals of Islam and Muslims and debunking some of the very Islamophobic myths Russia was simultaneously deploying through other accounts.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is an apolitical, open - access decentralized protocol whose unit of account (BTC) is an inexorable part of its blockchain, the most secure and censorship - resistant public ledger in the world today.