Sentences with phrase «part of this political movement»

Senators Marco Rubio and Todd Young are a part of this political movement, but there are other efforts from the other side of the party line.

However, if they were part of a political movement that was influencing the gov» t to sell all its snow - blowers and sand trucks because this whole «winter is coming» thing is a hoax, I just might escalate the rhetoric!

Not exact matches

One might characterize New Atheism as a largely polemical movement that attacks a particular type of Christianity — the religious and political practices of the «far right» — and conflates the part with the whole of Christendom.

New Testament Scholars tell us that there are only three historical facts that we can be certain of about Jesus: (a) Jesus was part of the Kingdom of God movement, the belief in the divine sovereignty of Israel, and the desire for the divine expulsion of the Romans, (b) when Jesus came to Jerusalem to advance this movement, he was crucified, a penalty reserved specifically for those who posed a political or financial threat to the Roman Peace, and (c) a sect of the Kingdom of God movement continued in Jesus» name and memory, which was active in Jerusalem, and which lasted until 70 CE when the city was sacked and all the many different Zealot sects there were put down.

No, Weyrich insisted, what got us going as a political movement was the attempt on the part of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to rescind the tax - exempt status of Bob Jones University because of its racially discriminatory policies.»

Although maintaining an emphasis on individual transformation as the key, recent years have witnessed a movement beyond this exclusive focus to advocate the need for transformation on all levels — individual, interpersonal, institutional, and political — and the explicit valuation of social engagement as part of committed spiritual practice.

In a June statement on her web site decrying what she referred to as an «Islamic training center,» Lou Ann Zelenik, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Tennessee and a Tea Party favorite, argued that the center «is not part of a religious movement; it is a political movement.»

Crawford situates Wahhabism in the second part of the twentieth century within what he terms the formation of «hybrid» radical groups — Al - Qa «ida and ISIS, but also earlier groups such as the Awakening movement that took shape in the early 1990's that «infused [Wahhabism] with new ideas» and «drew the line between belief and unbelief at new points on the religio - political spectrum.»

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

The Islamist movement is «the part of Islam which embraces a clear political agenda for bringing nations under Muslim domination and shari`ah law,» according to Open Doors.

Of course, the numbers reflect a narrative that the Obama campaign would like to portray: that its donors are part of a broad - based movement representative of the country as a whole, not some kind of coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigOf course, the numbers reflect a narrative that the Obama campaign would like to portray: that its donors are part of a broad - based movement representative of the country as a whole, not some kind of coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigof a broad - based movement representative of the country as a whole, not some kind of coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigof the country as a whole, not some kind of coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigof coastal phenomenon dominated by the «liberal elite» or a handful of moneyed political bigwigof moneyed political bigwigs.

There is an irony in all of this: anti-Toryism is practically part of the SNP and independence movement's political DNA, yet the first referendum in 2014, and especially the prospect of another in two years» time, has provided the impetus for a Scottish Conservative revival which could deprive the still mighty SNP of several seats come June 8th.

It was not considered the cold economic doctrine it is today but a liberating movement that became a crucial part of political culture and national identity.

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.

An emergent issue in recent decades has been the rise of political nationalism and independence movements in other parts of the UK, including in Wales and most prominently in Scotland.

We are an independent local political party, and part of a global movement.

While politicians have to be alive to the fact the very status of political parties and their own positions as our «elected representatives» are changing, campaigners must ensure they offer everyone the chance to engage with and feel a part of their movements - making certain that everyone's voice is heard and listened to.

Tea Parties and State Legislatures is a research project facilitated by Ballotpedia's staff to investigate the extent to which political engagement in 2010 that can generally be defined as part of the «Tea Party» movement is making itself felt at the level of state legislative elections in 2010.

Westmonster is part of the growing movement in the UK and right across the world that wants to see radical political change.»

He has done this despite the default of the labor movement of which he is an active part as a Teamster; New York unions by and large have have rejected political independence and have chosen the path of least resistance, endorsing «winners» like Andrew Cuomo for governor, in the hopes of picking up a few fallen crumbs off the bargaining table.

Connecticut's Democratic political leadership is part of a larger network of progressive state leaders who are driving the resistance movement.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

I therefore urge you to shelve political bitterness and be part of the movement for a better Kwara», he said.

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.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

Ironically, the advocacy and organizing approach of these organizations mirrors the early work of the PTA, which was part of a nascent progressive political reform movement that changed the world of child welfare and children's education programs.

Rather than declare that charters are a universal solution, proponents might see that moving into affluent communities deflates the moral high ground they have used to political advantage in their characterization of charters as part of the new civil rights movement.

While more personal, these are no less political than previously; in his art, Dial's own story is always only part of a larger history, spanning the Jim Crow era in the South and the Civil Rights movement through such phenomena as the economic globalization and Great Recession of the 21st century, which have disproportionately affected African - Americans.

She worked as a journalist and editor as part of the French feminist movement from the mid-1970s, then settled in the United States in 1983 where she received a double bachelor degree in Political Science and Women's Studies with summa cum laude from the University of California, in San Diego, and a PhD in Political Sciences from Berkeley University in 1995.

includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement.

The artist says, «I was moved to witness, especially during these times, a growing movement embracing women from different ends of the political map and diverse parts of society, who believe that beyond the existing gaps and controversies it is important to sustain a dialogue of honor and friendship, and that it is possible to find a way to live in peace one next to the

The idea that black artists were part of a «movement» is misleading, and the Tate exhibition posits the era as a political intersection with an art history perspective rather than as a group of artists working for a common cause.

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).

These types of deliberations are only one part of the enormously important movement within conceptual art, highlighting the connection between political and art, which largely influences the contemporary art in general.

In the 1970s, Nengudi worked in Los Angeles as part of an emerging community of African American artists that engaged with multiple radical political movements underway in the United States and around the globe, including the Black Power movement and the feminist movement.

Pink Woman Torso was painted during a prolific period in the artist's career as the previous year he had begun a new series of his Women paintings centered, in part, on the image of the modern American women that was being forged by the social and political movements of the 1960s.

Parts of the green movement have become hijacked by a political agenda and now operate like multinational corporations, according to two senior scientists and members of the House of Lords.

The growth of a political movement will be in part by determined by how these relative responsibilities as we will see below will be addressed by climate politics and climate policies.

The IPCC is not HUMAN its a political think tank tossed together to control a part of the world along with the rest of the crack pot progressive radical green movement.

They thrive on others» energies and enjoy being a part of creative, political or social movements.