Sentences with phrase «out of the political movements»

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The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

It was inevitable that if one of the two traditional parties could not meet the needs of westerners, a new political movement would grow out of the prairies.

Guilt by association has been a frequently invoked form of polemics — and an effective one, since the ecology movement has been a bizarre congeries of political reactionaries, romantic conservationists, political cop - outs, solitary poets, anarchic life - stylers, as well as genuine political radicals, serious - minded reformers, and level - headed natural scientists.

I must say (and I want readers to be absolutely clear about this) that all the political and social movements which Christian friends of mine have joined precisely because they wanted to help the poor — that these movements very rarely show a concern to seek out, to find, to help the really poor.

Coming out is simultaneously a political movement and the mighty rush of God's Spirit carrying us on.

A heyschast shift in evangelicalism, into the depths of spiritual silence instead of out into imagined political glory, would be less a retreat back into Fundamentalism than a maturation of the movement in an hour of exceptional need.

As soon as NGOs move out of this perspective and support social or economic movements they are regarded with mistrust and the political and economic powers try to control them or to use them to their own ends.

We can detect the reality of this Spirit most vividly in present social, political, environmental, and religious movements that seek the full inclusion and unity of those beings and persons who have been left out by our restrictive social, political, economic, environmental, and religious practices.

Yet in another sense, leaders of sovereign nations and of political movements and parties all too often look out on the world from a viewpoint of «Gott mit uns.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The world views Christianity as more of an angry political activist movement than a spiritual organization devoted to handing out hope and healing to a hurting world.

But to be more concrete, an important reason for the drop in terror attacks by Palestinians is that Palestinian political movements - at least their military wings but not just those - have been driven out or have left, partially or wholly, centers of activity outside of Palestine; most prominently, Jordan in 1970 and Lebanon in 1982 etc..

Although he spent much of the next and last eight years of his life in and out of prison, often on order of the House of Commons, sometimes the Lords, and finally Cromwell's Council of State, he nevertheless started a political movement which became a major source of constitutional ideas and a popular reforming movement.

Supporting and affecting political movements from New York's Zuccotti Park and Egypt's Tahrir Square, «Facebook revolutions» and «Twitter revolutions» are conceived of as borne out of social media networks; they oscillate between the Charybdis of an anarchic freedom and the Scylla of surveilled repression, utilized by both citizens and the state.

Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee, and a one - time activist of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC, Carl Wilson, has told Citi News his decision to lead a new political movement to bring Ghana the development it desires, is not borne out of hatred for the NDC or its candidate, President John Dramani Mahama.

Hence, its more natural that one would see more innovation by those who feel left out of the political system as that was a large part of the development of the machinery / tools of the modern conservative movement.

It was a line he returned to hours later as WFP staffers rushed to draft and email out highlights from the meeting, before adding with some defiance: «What you're seeing, in this and lots of others around the country, is the emergence of a new national political movement that is saying to the Democratic Party, put working families first, not your donors, or get out of the way.»

Taking the podium, Nixon thanked the committee members for their «courage» and called the WFP, which has come under assault this week from inside and out — with two major unions leaving the fold in protest after it became clear Nixon was all but locked into the endorsement — the «political home for progressives in New York State, and a source of grassroots muscle for the movement.»

I was for example not going to run in a front seat, as number one in my constituency but we could only find one woman out of six constituencies to take leadership and I felt it was really bad to create a political movement with no women in the front.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

Out of nowhere, One Day Without Us has become not just a campaign, but an incipient social movement whose members come from many political and social backgrounds.

A Former Chairman of the Confiscated Vehicles Allocation Committee, and a one - time activist of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC, Carl Wilson, has told Citi News his decision to lead a new political movement to bring Ghana the development it desires, is not borne out of hatred for the NDC or its candidate, President John Dramani Mahama.

United as our political elites are in their attachment to the decidedly one - way special relationship, they inevitably downplay the domestic turbulence caused by the decision to go to war, but the truth has trickled out in the last few years of how close the anti-war movement came to stopping the war and bringing Blair down.

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

Uncharacteristically silent since the results started trickling in in the early hours of Monday morning, Grillo has not yet commented publicly on what for his movement could prove a huge blow — even if some observers pointed out that, for a political formation fighting its first European elections, a showing of more than 20 % and placing second was nothing to sniff at.

The Green Party is the only independent political party initiative coming out of the New Left movements to have sustained itself for more than three decades over many election cycles.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

Although associated countries must allow free movement of labor — a political red - line for Brexiteers — Tindemans thinks the European Union might be willing to compromise, pointing out that Israel is an associated country without free movement, for example.

Spanning most of the Northern Hemisphere, we suggest that this cold phase be considered as an additional environmental factor contributing to the establishment of the Justinian plague7, 8, transformation of the eastern Roman Empire and collapse of the Sasanian Empire1, 2,5, movements out of the Asian steppe and Arabian Peninsula8, 11,12, spread of Slavic - speaking peoples9, 10 and political upheavals in China13.

Subtitled «The Politics of Food» the conference focused on exploring the political strategies being used against the growing farm - to - consumer food movement, and laid out strategies for protecting small family farms and artisan food producers.

What we now call school reform isn't the product of a gradual consensus emerging among educators about how kids learn; it's a political movement that grew out of one seed planted in 1983.

Barnum argues that this and other decisions made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan «helped lead to a politically disastrous opt - out movement, a radicalization of teachers» unions, and ultimately a loss of political support for federal education policy.»

It was in the face of this discrimination and corruption that Taylor started his rebel movement to kick Doe and his followers out of their political offices.

As the vanguard of an anti-testing fervor that has spread across the country, New York's opt - out movement has become a political force.

They are trying to make some kind of political statement and treat it as a big «movement» and believe anyone who has a different plan or path is, as you say, a sell out.

Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers — wars, political movements, technological advances — and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians... and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

Our clients» portfolios have been carefully constructed to give investors exposure to a globally diversified range of assets and our long - term horizon can withstand short - term market movements whilst the political debate plays out.

More recently, Occupy Museums evolved out of the Occupy Wall Street movement and has staged protests and interventions — and secured a spot in the highly political 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Rather, this grouping helps to bring the artists and the movement out of a contentious political background, showing that their unique styles and innovations are not solely tied to post-war upbringings.

As a painter of political ideas — and, often, the grotesque and cruel — Luc Tuymans is a historian of images that appear banal but reveal sinister workings: colored blobs are actually disembodied eyeballs; a bare room with flattened perspective is the site of uncountable murders; a limp cloth turns out to be the emblem of a growing nationalist movement.

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).

Abstract Expressionism was a post World War II art movement that grew out of a resistance to war, to artistic and political isolationism and to international economic depression.

With its racially charged implications, the title also references arte povera — an Italian movement born out of the country's political upheaval during the 1960s that emphasized the use of «common» materials.

It's more important than ever to learn from the successes and failures of past political movements so that we can generate future social change without leaving anyone out.»

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If opposition movements are to do more than burn bright and then burn out, they will need a comprehensive vision for what should emerge in the place of our failing system, as well as serious political strategies for how to achieve those goals.

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

Although I voted for the Greens for the last ten years or so, it was simply out of political loyalty to the general social and environmental agenda of the movement plus a great deal of admiration for Bob Brown.

«it is particularly evident that environmentalism has not advanced through debate, and is not born out of democratic engagement in the way other political ideas and movements became established.»

While this trait isn't unique to environmentalism, of course, it is particularly evident that environmentalism has not advanced through debate, and is not born out of democratic engagement in the way other political ideas and movements became established.