Sentences with phrase «one's political convictions»

Nothing much beyond the scale of his ongoing, city - to - city project suggests a depth of political convictions or even a willingness to take artistic chances.

The Left have secured a monopoly on political conviction.

Do you have a friend, family member or co-worker whose political convictions tend to run opposite your own?

It was a project born less out of political conviction and than out of social engagement and intrigue.

The same applies to players with political convictions.

The artists of ONE YEAR: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles are united in their desire to inspire awareness, as well as manifest their deep political convictions through their art.

(In Schwarzenegger's defense, I totally recall Mark Steyn noting before he was elected that he has had political convictions for a while and that he married into the Kennedy family)

Media - generated imagery of icons Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, and Helen Keller, not unlike those used by Warhol, is combined with quotations expressing political conviction, resulting in a new form of humanist Pop portraiture.

Both Benjamin Franklin and his youngest sister, Jane, were bright and inquisitive people with deeply held political convictions.

Obviously, the degree of alarm with which one perceives these two sets of militant American mullahs will depend on one's own political convictions.

There's nothing wrong with being a conservative Christian, or indeed, a liberal one; where this becomes hazardous is when faith is viewed as a function of political conviction rather than the other way around.

Jack Kirby was a goalkeeper of such political conviction that he refused to give the Nazi salute before each game of Derby County's tour of Germany in 1934, despite overwhelming pressure from German authorities and club officials alike.

The death of Bob Crow and Tony Benn was presented as the passing of socialism, but in truth it was more about political conviction of any stripe.

They have to demonstrate political conviction.

Today's conviction comes just weeks after Mr. Bharara scored another major political conviction when a jury found former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat who had ruled that body for decades, guilty of corruption charges.

I look forward to the 5 byelections when the councillors concerned put their new political convictions before the voters who elected them as Labour councillors last year.

Kenner, best known for the agitprop doc «Food, Inc.,» follows the lead of the book in trying to raise awareness of how untrustworthy «experts» can be, and he also attempts to understand the real political convictions of paid misinformers.

The film raises worthy questions about how a celebrated artist's iconic status affects his Socialist political convictions.

Hopper is compared rather unfavorably to his contemporary George Bellows, «a magnificent, generous talent, fuelled by political conviction... the dour, hard bitten Republican Edward Hopper was Bellows» opposite.»

As in past presidential transitions, the lawyers donate their time for a mix of reasons, including political conviction and party loyalty.

Well, political convictions aside, the general traits of the authoritarian personality are in similar to those discovered a decade later (in the 1960s) by developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind in her famous study on parenting styles.

An outspoken human rights activist, Ai Weiwei infuses his sculptures, photographs, and public artworks with political conviction and personal poetry, often making use of recognizable and historic Chinese art forms in critical examinations of a host of contemporary Chinese political and social issues.

Some may think that he truly believes everything he says and that he holds deep political convictions that he hopes to achieve with his campaign; others may think he's willing to say anything in order to stay at the center of attention.

Gov. Bobby Jindal tried to block the test and the Common Core standards, saying they represented federal overreach, and some parents have chosen to boycott the tests based on political convictions or a concern the tests are useless or even harmful.

Indeed, some contain puns and others express political convictions.

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

When God begins the sorting of the flock, it is not to divide the good from the bad or administer litmus tests of faith or political conviction.

Religious differences need not fracture political peace if religious adherents are concerned above all with the truth and, therefore, are willing to advocate their political convictions in full and free public debate.

Here, too, members want the pastor to address moral issues only as long as the position conforms to their moral and political convictions.

I don't know about you, but I've made a habit out of rejecting the people who challenge my privilege, the people who strike me as over-the-top or too theatric, the people who don't share my theological or political convictions but nevertheless produce the fruit of the spirit in their lives, the people whose Kingdom work is quiet and slow and a walking indictment of my own impatient lust for gratification, popularity, and power.

Although I've often been uncomfortable with that term, I find that as my political convictions develop, the term fits me more and more, as if I'm growing into it.

If we constantly try to work out optimistic syntheses and happy reconciliations it is because we have not yet seen that we are besieged no less severely than Hezekiah was by our comforts and our economic systems and our political convictions.

No longer defined by its original ethos — spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ — evangelicalism has been reduced to little more than a voting block, and I get the idea from many of my evangelical friends that so long as a person shares their political convictions, it matters not how they live their life or speak about other people; a person is on the Christian «team» as long as he votes for conservative candidates come election day.

Children don't have genuine religious and political convictions.

He notes that many professors have «deep moral and political convictions» but are unable to defend them because they are captives of moral relativism.

Degradation of the Representative System into a Bi-party System (the blue against the red, or the right vs the left, etc), and this happens cause the rational ignorance of the people, many people have a political conviction that is suppressed by the parties alliances.

I am secular and liberal, but I do not mind (too much) when parties tie their political convictions to the tenants of their faith.

How Blair came to his political convictions was not through the sort of examination favoured by the «intellectual types» he disdains, but through an enthralling first encounter with parliamentary stateliness.

Not exactly his daddy, and it sure ain't his boy Hank III (whom you got ta go see if you haven't — imagine country music played by terrific musicians with a fiendish punk - rock intensity), but Bocephus can sleep well, knowing he has done his political convictions proud.

What's more, by the sound of things he will be playing a very similar role as he did under Blair, providing evidence - based policy to a government that has on occasion seemed bereft of ideas and more driven by marketing than political conviction.

Political conviction should not be confused with a religious belief, where hallowed shibboleths can not be challenged.

Aside from independence, he appears to have no political conviction whatsoever.

The activists «appreciated» those who «had the courage and political conviction» to support Columbus.

It is my ongoing desire to provide a healing space that is safe for individuals of any skin color, ethnicity, religion, spiritual practice, national origin, appearance, political conviction, sex, sexual preference, gender identification, mental and physical ability, culture, education level, socioeconomic level, body size, substance use, personal and family history, or age.

Garrel mimics Godard's mannerisms well, but the script conveys neither his political convictions nor creative process.

Her ideals and political convictions are never revealed, nor is much information about her past.