Sentences with phrase «own ideological agenda»

«My fear,» Heaphy said, «is that the new department is not as mindful of those resource constraints and seems to want to pursue a more ideological agenda, and I think that could be both ineffective and costly.»

Postol is just trying further his ideological agenda by claiming his analysis is science.

In his own words, environmentalists and their allies «threaten to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.

If the Church intended to set the spiritual and ideological agenda for the nation, these members thought, then she could not do without a general line.

It might well be queried why these schemes continue to be promoted in pharmacies and schools.They are not cheap to run and, in an environment where resources are particularly scarce, there seem to be only two explanations: either policy makers are simply ignorant of the evidence or there is an ideological agenda at work.

The spiritual aridity, the rebarbative prose, the programmatic subordination of literature to an ideological agenda - all make the book an exemplar of the discipline, which is to say, they make it an exemplar of a discipline in crisis, a discipline that has lost its way.

The reality is, however, that Western «partners» are not disinterested and often have ideological agendas: Western partners are not the brothers that Africans hope to find in them.

And doubtless some of their post-sixties conformism is less a matter of an ideological agenda than of unexamined assumptions.

Post-Brexit Britain faces the threat of an unholy alliance of the right, inspired by a similar ideological agenda.

The party in government is therefore seen by many critics to be advancing an ideological agenda divorced from the socially liberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat supporters.

Labour peer David Puttnam says there had been an attempt to impose «ideological agenda», and credits PM and chancellor for their response

«Greg Barker has let the cat out the bag about the ideological agenda behind this Tory - led government's deep cuts to public services,» she said.

Guiliani's abortive post-mayoralty presidential campaign in 2008 and speculation about Bloomberg's national ambitions were based on their putative mayoral achievements, not on their commitment to an ideological agenda.

«It's an ideological agenda that's really based on a religious agenda superseding public health and science.»

And it is perceived to be removed from committees of voices that don't agree with an ideological agenda.

«There was a feeling that our research had been hijacked by Wade to promote his ideological agenda,» Nielsen says.

It's a shame to be throwing all that work away in pursuit of a narrow ideological agenda.»

World Trade Center «The brilliance of this film is how it subverted expectations that it might have been a movie with some kind of ideological agenda.

Their radical ideological agenda would spark within Visconti a taste for Marxist ideals.4 Visconti threw around a number of ideas for his first movie, including an adaptation of Giovanni Verga's realist story L'amante di Graminga, a proposal rejected by Italy's then Fascist government censors.

Much less desirable is that a highly dubious ideological agenda is driving this effort.

Each of its three centers (for research, statistics, and evaluation) would be headed by a presidential appointee also serving a fixed term and under statutory stricture to guarantee that agency activities were «free from ideological agendas and undue political influence.»

When the leader of a key division at NRC is engaged in promoting his own ideological agenda, all kinds of misleading reports can emerge from an allegedly scientific agency dependent upon government funding.

Dennis Van Roekel, the outgoing president of the National Education Association, described the California lawsuit as «yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools.»

«This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public education.»

Responding to the Vergara decision, National Education Association leader Dennis Van Roekel informs us that, «This lawsuit was never about helping students, but is yet another attempt by millionaires and corporate special interests to undermine the teaching profession and push their own ideological agenda on public schools and students while working to privatize public education.»

Privatization and an «ideological agenda?»

The misuse of research to advance ideological agendas has not helped us sort out the sound evidence from the hype, however.

The Common Core's flaws are due less to ideological agendas than to hubris and a lack of intestinal fortitude among proponents.

I'm not naïve enough to think that those with an ideological agenda will stop inventing fake controversies and omitting important facts, and that's why it is important to set the record straight, as I've done in this post.

The No campaign «successfully connected charter school expansion to dark money and to a market - based ideological agenda,» revealing the Wall Street businessmen, conservatives, and New Yorkers that they argued were pouring money to dictate what's best for Massachusetts.

Powerhouse painter Gerhard Richter has been a key player in defining the formal and ideological agenda for painting in contemporary art.

He simply slips past stereotypical cultural assumptions and ideological agendas...»

«a designed ideological agenda... to affect ideological change... is the soup you swim in... Ideological regimes can't understand that there is a free media somewhere, because they take marching orders.»

We knew that the Canadian government wasn't fond of environmentalists (now Finance Minister Joe Oliver accused them of trying to» hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.»

And we have watched as scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas.

In particular, strong regional newspapers have historically helped citizens identify and understand important regional interests that cut across partisan and ideological agendas, serving as a partial counterweight to partisanship in Congress.

You can continue pick out these points in isolation and seem plausible and then use the convenient excuse to ignore the recommendations in the theses fields, when they donâ $ ™ t suit your ideological agenda, even though their stance is backed up by those qualified in that relevant field (like the link above).

It specializes in «prescriptive grantmaking» to advance its ideological agenda rather than conducting an open and objective grant - application process.

This is part of the problem with such subsidies: The distribution of funds taken from taxpayers is doled out in a way that has been dictated by an ideological agenda.

She explores «how the right has systematically used crises - real and trumped up - to push through a brutal ideological agenda designed not to solve the problems that created the crises but rather to enrich elites.»

Until you do so, I would think it wiser to listen to them that to a couple of «science journalists» with a rather obvious ideological agenda.

If the CAGW alarmists are genuinely concerned about CAGW (as opposed to using it to push other ideological agendas), they need to enthusiastically advocate removing the barriers to cost - competitive, low - emissions energy.

George Will has a pattern for Will - ful disdain for facts if they get in the way with his ideological agenda.

Rejection of it is almost certainly indicative of an ideological agenda whether it's rejected for being too little or too much to suit the agenda.

These are currently being «adjusted» due to ideological agendas.

What common sense tells us, Fan...... is that despite the growing disparity between models and what robust measuremrents we do have, the overwhelming majority of government - funded climate scientists endorse the alarmist worldview tells because that is what benefits their paymaster and ideological agenda.

Science is not about the inquiry to discover truth, but a mask to achieve an ideological agenda.

There are many who favor such an approach, because it fits their ideological agenda: socialists who want to shut down the Industrial Revolution, would - be «aristocrats» who want to acquire power through institutionalized control of everybody's energy, others with motivations even less savory.

But I still think Gleick's role was significantly different if his HuffPo confession was true (as to the strategy memo having been supplied to him anonymously) versus if the confession was itself another layer of deception.If Gleick forged the strategy memo himself, after he phished the legitimate documents, then he's willing to knowingly lie to the public in pursuit of his ideological agenda.

They have the choice to either expose or suppress the truth, and such is their almost 100 % «progressive» groupthink, their obsession with the superficial «look» of things, and their disdain for their role in democracy, that they choose according to their ideological agenda.