Sentences with phrase «part in social action»

And taking part in social action — things like campaigning, fund - raising and volunteering in health and social care - means young people benefit at the same time as improving the lives of others.

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That could help curtail a true drug crisis with devastating economic and social impacts — and which was sparked, in large part, by the actions of huge pharmaceutical companies.

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

Thanks in large part to his personal verve and social action within and without, the church reaches more people at Yale than on any other campus I know about.

Not only are intentional human actions in large part given their specific shape and significance by their cultural «location,» but they are also guided by human interests that themselves have specific social, economic, and cultural locations.

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Many ministers discerned the vital need of social action in the time of the liberal social gospel in the earlier part of this century.

But more important is that the discrete region of Christian social action has foundations in a certain way of interpreting the Christian faith, a way which is native to theological schools and for the most part foreign to Protestant congregations.

The development in the civil rights movement of doubts about the full effectiveness of non-violence may represent in part a yielding to emotions less disciplined by ethical considerations; but it also reflects the discovery of some complexities of effective social action.

There were, of course, excesses in the «60s on the part of many Christians who seemed to believe that social action was the only legitimate expression of the Christian life.

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Their decline is in part the result of their taking the faith seriously by engaging in prophetic social action, thus making the church pew an uncomfortable place for many who had once found it easeful.

We invite all the parts involved in the conflict to prudence, to social solidarity, and to action aimed at constructing peace.

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Tools are not causes of social actions, but parts of socio - technical action, things that help us do some things, hinder others, and are integral to how we live, act, and see ourselves — this is also how I hope people will think of the role of social networking sites and other technologies in the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, not as causes, or as irrelevant, but as tools (for protesters, though sometimes also for security forces)-- in North Africa, even with a less than open internet, some of those involved in recent events certainly seemed to produce their own role as active citizens partially through the use of everyday tools and technologies.

The main party in power are Social - Democrats who have a significant nationalist / conservatism part within their ideology (or at least their political actions show this):

Then there's the individual as the vector of social change, the perception that Society is immanent in each individual action and can't simply be hypostasised as the State, imposed from above or evoked through fugitive concepts such as «public opinion» It's a view that's been quite strong since the late 1960s and is shared (the «desiring subject» for example) by what remains of the libertarian part of the Left.

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In fact, while the film never excuses their actions, it gives the characters context with a bit of social introspection — not a huge part of the film, but it does add a bit of depth and relevance.

Jason Riley challenges the value of affirmative action and liberal social reform precisely 50 years after their birth as part of the «Great Society» conceived by President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration in 1964 and 1965.

A goal for the latter part of the book is to try to reconstruct a thicker view of how to connect knowledge to public action, one that recognizes the importance of values, welcomes democratic decisionmaking, is aware of the limits of different forms of knowledge, and is not utopian in its aims but is still hopeful about how we can make public progress on a range of social problems.

The work forms part of the government's commitment, set out in the recently published [Social Mobility Action Plan], to identify and spread «what works» so that successful approaches can be adopted more widely.

This schools pilot is part of a major # 134m four - year action plan to help to transform mental health in Greater Manchester, announced in July by Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.

Integrity is part of the Compass Advantage (a model designed for engaging families, schools, and communities in the principles of positive youth development) because integrity is the basis of social harmony and action.

There is a growing belief that youth social action — for example, volunteering in the community, taking part in Scouts or the Duke of Edinburgh Award, or...

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This Storify aptly captures the story of many of the schools who took part in the Friday day of action through the social media posts of those involved.

February 2015: CWC Schools Co-Founder and CEO Kriste Dragon, as part of the Aspen Action Forum, pledges to develop social and emotional learning skills to improve academic performance in more than 10,000 students over the next 15 years.

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An interest in this artistic current forms an important part of Marte Johnslien's artistic practice and her research on the relation between abstract art, spirituality, politics and social action.

Living As Form (The Nomadic Version) at TheCube Project Space will be divided into two times: Part I — International Papers (國際篇) will present more than 20 international works and action files, and Part II — Local Papers (在地篇), opening August 24, plans to invite local creators and artists that are deeply involved in Taiwan's social movements.

My job was to describe the empirical social science that, in part, explains why more climate science hasn't led to more climate - smart energy action, but also hints at paths forward even in an era of intense political polarization.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

As part of their contribution to the #FollowTheFrog campaign, Dreams Punta Cana Resort & Spa will be hosting an awareness lecture on Environmental Education and Social Responsibility Actions to the children of the El Yonu Elementary School, located at the rural area of Yonu in the La Altagracia Province, only 10 minutes from its hotel.

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Jennifer is part of a «Resilience Circle» in Greenbelt that meets to learn about the economy and the environment, engage in mutual aid, and take social action.

This may in part be due to the fact that action on climate change is widely seen as a progressive goal, says Hulme, and being a generally progressive sort of bunch, social scientists might be reticent to impede proceedings, or to be seen to give succour to right - wing «denialists».

These trends aren't limited to law schools or the profession as deep structural changes are occurring in wider society as well, but it's changing the profession slowly and eliminating what I consider some of its best parts: defence for the downtrodden, zealous advocacy on social justice issues, or the ability to contest (and stop) governmental action.

There is also currently no clear commitment from the EU institutions to give some teeth to the EPSR, either in the form of its implementation as part of the EU acquis or in the form of a Social Action Programme laying down future legislative and non-legislative initiatives to enforce each of its principles.

Tamara has vast experience of all forms of Property law representing landlords and tenants as well as Lenders in proceedings ranging from standard possession claims to more complex issues of art 8 and unreasonableness, undue influence in mortgage fraud (Ertridge), Judicial Review and reasonableness of action on the part of social housing authorities, co-habitee and family resulting / constructive Trusts, injunctions and applications under s91 of the LPA 1925 to the High Court for orders for sale in mortgage possession proceedings.

When we last spoke in Part 1, I briefly mentioned my work on developing a statewide action plan and social network analysis for Alaska's Justice For All project.

Since 2000, Micah has presented the Pennsylvania Bar Association's annual marketing ethics program (as part of its three times per year «Ethics Potpourri» programming in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), changing the focus each year to address ethics topics that have included an analysis of U.S. Supreme Court cases, advertising ethics opinions across the country, lawyer rankings and ratings, use of social media, blogs, traditional marketing approaches and missteps, internet marketing, solicitation, multi-jurisdictional practices, and state - by - state advertising requirements as they relate to everything from pre-approvals, language limitations, disciplinary actions, and the myriad of ways a law firm can (often unknowingly) violate the Rules of Professional Conduct.

Although part of the Days of Action in Toronto and coalitions across the province to oppose massive cuts to public programs and social services, injured workers were unable to prevent the cuts to benefits and privatization of vocational rehabilitation services.

Drawing upon some of the materials embedded in the social justice accounts of tort law, [16] Part IV clarifies why creating an intermediate retributive sanction under the right safeguards to the tort system is a superior way of punishing and preventing misconduct than strictly relying on compensatory damages, class actions for compensatory damages, extra-compensatory damages for victim - vindication, the criminal justice system as we know it, or even a privately enforced criminal justice system.

If social workers investigate potentially abusive parents without any malice or bad faith on their part, then seemingly, they are given carte blanche to pursue a course of action / line of inquiry which may result in fundamental damage to the parents — by effectively criminalising them — to the family unit, and crucially the children of the family, and may even ultimately destroy the family.

Heffernan was part of a group of social activist organizations that began an action in 2010 against the Crown and the attorneys - general of Canada and Ontario seeking a declaration that the federal and provincial governments have a duty under the Charter, which they have breached, to:

If you need to gather some more evidence of your skills, consider taking part in charity or community work (known as social action).

I couldn't see a way to bring a citizen dimension into therapy without «changing the subject» when clients came to sessions with personal concerns or environmental stresses — this despite the fact that in another part of my career I'd been engaging fellow community members in social - action projects.

Maybe what is new is the democracy theme, which assumes that everyone has a stake in the public domain, can be affected by public stress, and can be part of the solution through personal action (such as talking about issues in their social network) and collective action (by joining with others to work on change).