Sentences with phrase «one's public role»

The ethics challenge: The breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization that might prepare young people for their increasingly public roles as media makers and community participants.
And this is what is missed in attempts to define a proper public role for scientists in public life.
The press conference announcing the Women.NYC website would have provided a rare chance to quiz McCray, who has taken on a more public role in recent months while considering a possible run for public office.
The architecture itself, Kilde argues, «trumpeted the new public role of evangelical religion» as a source of order and stability that would reach out to and protect the larger community.
The majority of Ryan's August campaigning for down - ballot candidates will be through private events and fundraisers, the aide said, but he may take a more public role in the lead - up to the November elections.
In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.
Unfortunately, even by the end of Elizabeth's reign the dynamics of London theatrical economics and increasing Puritan hostility were undermining theater's unique public role, unprecedented since the days of Periclean Athens.
The Spanish case is particularly interesting given the explicit public role which republican theory played under the previous Socialist government.
Meanwhile the chancellor was accused of cowardice for not taking a greater public role in defending a controversial budget policy reversal and instead leaving a junior colleague to carry the can.
The cult of victimhood anoints some with special public roles.
Its churches are dwindling in numbers, but their allegiance to the ascendant middle - class culture will probably guarantee their continued public role.
Beyond the question of change in religion in general, the issue of religion's changing public role in contemporary societies has been of particular interest, especially because of the political implications of these changes.
But it remains to be seen whether the Church of England can really provide a core public role that incorporates minority faiths remains to be seen.
Until now those judged to be «politically exposed persons» (PEPs) were defined as all those in an important public role in another country.
The idea of automatic entitlement for some very senior public roles is not a legal mechanism but a convention arising from figures entering the Lords on their own account.
The most public role of Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, the former police chief and Mayor of Rochester, has been to introduce Governor Andrew Cuomo at events.
The online video that launched former U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner's New York City mayoral campaign Wednesday featured someone who until now had played a limited public role in his political life: his wife, Huma Abedin.
For playing this invaluable public role, TNTP has been rewarded with political headaches and union vitriol.
Written with eloquence and grace and illustrated with electrifying photographs of Graham in action, this biography reveals the art of the dancer and her revolutionary public role.
Thomas More's first public role was as a pageboy in the household of Archbishop John Morton, Henry VII's right - hand man, who liked to tell dinner guests that the witty, self - possessed child would one day be a great man.
In his authoritative, detailed and absorbing Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty, Jon Kukla explores Henry's crucial public roles as an early leader of opposition to the Stamp Act and other repressive measures, as well as a key legislative strategist, an outstanding orator and, perhaps most importantly, a very effective five - term governor of Virginia, his first election to the position coming in 1776.
However, reading is still really popular and writers and intellectuals occupy a prominent public role — points out the Global Ebook Report.
Given the continuing unrest in Iran, and his unintentionally public role in the demonstrations, Hejazi expressed doubts in a recent BBC interview (above) about whether he would be able to return to Tehran any time soon.
A natural redhead himself, Knights has experienced personally the negative perceptions that come with being ginger, and, having no red - haired male public role models to persuade him otherwise, he grew up feeling ashamed of his red roots.
Over the past 25 years or so, we've seen the emergence of a new (or newly restored, some would say) legal and cultural understanding of religion, driven in part by the insight that for many believers, religious faith isn't a private «hobby» that can be relegated to the home and church; rather, religious belief and identity are integral parts of a person, necessarily and appropriately informing public roles and the public sphere.
He also discussed the importance of the Article 8 rights in these specific circumstances and highlighted that, although the couple are members of the Luxembourg Royal Family, they have no official public role either in Luxembourg or in this jurisdiction.
Indeed, they hand over that public role of theology to the coercive tactics of a resurgent reaction announcing itself as the «Moral Majority.»
In addition, Berns largely ignores the practice of the founding generation, which accommodated a far more public role for the free exercise of religion than the American Civil Liberties Union now tolerates.
Kasowitz could take on a more public role as a result of legal team changes, according to the National Law Journal.
After initially ceding ground to Chinese sensitivities on Tibet and refusing to explicitly acknowledge official interactions with the Dalai Lama, a more public role for the monk is now presented as an essential part of the Indian response to China.
The architecture school declared that free undergraduate education was «an essential attribute» of Cooper Union's «unique public role
In a wide - ranging, warmly - worded letter to Mangano Friday — citing the views of Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Becket, and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on public service — Batra wrote: «Permit me to gently and graciously resign» from the appointment, due to a «full plate» including a private practice and public roles which include service on a state ethics panel.
An appearance on BBC2's Newsnight by Chloe Smith, the economic secretary to the Treasury, was widely judged to have been a disaster, leading to accusations on social media of cowardice being levelled at the chancellor for not taking a greater public role in defending the government's latest budget policy reversal.
But Quinn's own list on her e-mail shows that she's keeping busy — from teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School earlier this year to taking a very public role in the Cuomo administration — a team that typically has only one member who is out front and public.
9:30 - 10:00 am Policy Contexts for Public Roles in Intentional Climate Intervention Elisabeth Graffy, SFIS and LW, Arizona State University
«It has been hard and it will continue to be hard, there's not a day William and I don't wish that she was still around and we wonder what kind of mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have and what a difference she would be making,» Prince Harry said.
The Knightscope bot was designed to be a «really smart eyes and ears that are mobile in nature,» but because the robots occupy such a public role, problems sometimes arise not with the machines but with the humans.
Obama has become more comfortable with her public role over the years.
Generally speaking, people who see themselves as strikers tend to enjoy prominent, public roles.
The pope insists, as part of his demand for truth, that the Church «has a public role over and above her charitable and educational activities: all the energy she brings to the advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity is manifested when she is able to operate in a climate of freedom.
Especially as a new bishop, I want to set an example that part of the responsibility of the Christian leader is to take a public role.
Over several decades, the partisanship of the liberal oldline churches brought the public role of religion into deep discredit.
This article is adapted from an essay forthcoming in Quietly Influential: The Public Role of Mainline Protestantism (University of California Press), edited by Robert Wuthnow and John Evans.
Though in a world of skyscrapers and office towers churches are no longer so prominent, the public role of church buildings to sacramentalize the heavenly city and redeem the earthly one remains critically important and demands new and compelling expression.
The congregations intended to have a public role that extended well beyond the boundaries of their buildings.
Politicians, it is said, must be concerned in their public role not about citizens of other countries, however impoverished; rather, they must focus on the wants and needs of their own country's citizens.
Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.
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