Sentences with phrase «other powerful groups»

The threat which alarms us may also alarm legislators and other powerful groups, prompting some appropriate response.»

Not exact matches

But there are a number of other LGBT executives that OUTstanding, the networking group, considers incredibly powerful and who are poised to make a difference in the corporate world.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

I believe that his current political stances are not generally based on his own personal Mormon beliefs, but on a desire to please other powerful religious groups in the Republican part, namely conservative evangelical Christians.

As Kaufman states, two groups of American Christians currently rely on these images of God in their responses to the nuclear situation: one group claims that if a nuclear holocaust comes, it will be God's will — the Armageddon — and America should arm itself to fight the devil's agent, Communist Russia; the other passively relies on the all - powerful father to take care of the situation.

The opportunities for religious reform movements to achieve their goals were largely determined, therefore, by the relations present among the state, state church, and other powerful interest groups.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

Though we might not want to call up all our friends tonight and ask them to gather around the living room piano for a group hymn sing, we can use the hymnals for powerful corporate and personal use in other creative ways.

Actually, the nature of life on Earth makes more sense with a group of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each other and don't really care about humans than it does with a single all - powerful loving God.

Their argument ignores the common practice of imposing environmental risks on one group (usually poorer, less powerful, and often rural) for the benefit of others who suffer none of the environmental risks.

While this may not seem like much compared to the extensive relief efforts of other groups, it is a significant gesture given the powerful, negative emotions that the memory of Aum Shinrikyo evokes to this day.

Moderates now are in a kind of wilderness, Sherman contends, and need to take steps to utilize energies provided by powerful moderates who run state conventions in Texas and Virginia, plus other new moderate groups in Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Illinois.

Around the table sat Mr. Cuomo; the leaders of New York's most powerful labor unions; Joseph Crowley, the top - ranked New York Democrat in the House of Representatives; and the two rival Democratic leaders of the State Senate — Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who leads the main group of Democrats, and Jeffrey D. Klein, who leads the breakaway group — among others.

Opposing the convention is a broad array of powerful interest groups — including most of state's unions and environmental advocates — who argue that it would give business interests and other well - financed groups an avenue to weaken existing labor and environmental protections.

This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.

Powerful new partnerships with the common aim of achieving a more environmentally and economically sustainable future can be forged by community action groups and local authorities - which often regard each other with mutual suspicion and mistrust according to social scientists.

Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill their promise to swiftly repeal the Affordable Care Act.

And so the two houses of the Legislature aligned against each other, each backed by a powerful interest group: charter school advocates who have contributed generously to Senate Republicans (and Gov. Andrew Cuomo) and teachers» unions that are core supporters of Assembly Democrats, and see charter schools as a persistent threat.

Since 2005 Deisseroth's laboratory — at times in collaboration with leading neuroscience groups — has assembled a powerful tool kit based on channelrhodopsin - 2 and other so - called opsins.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Since nitrites are powerful carcinogens, Duesberg thought this explained why gay men frequently developed the cancer Kaposi's sarcoma but other risk groups, such as hemophiliacs and heterosexual drug abusers, rarely did.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

In your new book you get into some quite serious stuff about how self - deception fuels warfare and other evils... Regarding warfare, if you can get the group believing the same deception, you have a powerful force to impose group unity.

The research group's studies show that IFNL4 has a powerful antiviral activity in the laboratory, and behaves in every way like any other member of the interferon family.

This study, which will be published Oct. 24 in eLife, and two other new Northwestern studies in Oncotarget and Cell Cycle by the Peter group, describe the discovery of the assassin molecules present in multiple human genes and their powerful effect on cancer in mice.

Furthermore, pioneering nanotechnology research from other groups has demonstrated that aerolysin could be used as a very powerful tool to sequence DNA.

Intertwining local news and reviews with others» opinions in your network is a powerful touch and Yahoo is definately doing a good job of integrating 360 into it's Local Search, Music and Groups.

Striving to blend in with the other students in his high school, a young man (Alex Pettyfer) with supernatural powers discovers he is next on the hit list of his powerful enemies who are systematically eliminating a group of alien teens.

You can hit each other if you're not careful, and most groups of hunters are only a few bad swings away from things going completely bananas, especially against some of the more powerful monsters.

Released in 2004, at the height of that propagandistic time, we have the story of a powerful garrison stationed in a faraway land, banding together for no reason other than fellowship and duty, to protect one group of freedom - loving primitives from another, more aggressive band.

While young people do not, in the main, like to see others bullied (Batsche & Porter, 2006) they might join in the bullying to avoid being bullied themselves or to remain in a powerful group.

It will raise costs; undermine efficiency; block rich instructional options; restrict school choice and parental influence; and strengthen the hand of other interest groups, including but not limited to already too - powerful teachers unions.

They were controlled by powerful interest groups who cared about things other than student learning.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Culture is built on trusting relationships, the relationships people have with each other in the workplace exerts a powerful influence on the behavior of the working group.

These institutional practices and policies communicate a clear message that certain student groups are not as valued as others, and play a powerful role in student achievement and future aspirations.

NEW YORK STATE In New York State, the Alliance for Quality Education and other community organizations are fighting against a powerful group of hedge - fund managers bent on privatizing the state's education system.

Teachers reported favoring online PD because of its flexible access (e.g., «Teachers can complete the online modules and practice at their own pace»), variability, (e.g., «join different Twitter chats and get ideas about technology integration from different groups of people»), and interactivity (e.g., «PLNs have been really powerful once I realized there are people from other places I can learn from»).

Typically, they are not community - based but are run by charter school management companies, backed by hedge fund groups and other powerful sectors of American society.

If Piech, Winterkorn and the powerful union leader Bernd Osterloh fail to agree on a candidate, the group may be split into two separate units, one serving as roof for luxury and sports cars, the other one being the new home of the volume brands.

One of the most powerful factors that sustain the idea that «I am a member of a group, identified by common interests, and those who are not part of my group are somewhat, if not fundamentally, inferior, or in some other way, opposed to me.»

«It's a powerful book,» Barrouillet says, «about immigration and how different groups interact with each other.

If all of this turns out to be true, Verizon has a powerful pre-holiday lineup; I can only hope that the other major carriers have such an exciting group of devices ready to go!

Two other powerful lobbying groups — the Chicago Veterinary Association and The American Veterinary Medical Association have also put on the pressure.

For mobile games, more so than for any other gaming platform, women are a powerful consumer group to tap into.

Beyond simple one - on - one fights, you might be hooked up with other players for team matches or work together as a group of three against an uber - powerful AI fighter.

On the other hand, we were greeted by the strange miniaturist refinements of Kai Althoff, who made a very powerful impact with a group of small paintings and drawings, some of them abstract.

Other non-linear connections between parts of the painting may be revealed, such as the repetition of a particular tone or the grouping of close tones in one part of the painting that form a powerful shape.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

When either group becomes powerful enough to silence the other, we all lose.