Sentences with phrase «particular agenda as»

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Here, Denton had very specific advice, particularly for publications with a specific ideological bent: In this era, stating your agenda upfront doesn't work; the more effective method for spreading your ideas far and wide is to use subtopics as vehicles to subtly share a particular perspective.

* that * is why this particular agenda is being perceived as «an attack on religion» (regardless of whether one defends the Arizona bill).

@End, True, I wouldn't claim to know that religion won't be classified as a mental illness on those grounds, but it would be so inconsistent were that to happen that, barring political agendas, I would imagine that the field would reel from such an obvious bias against one particular type of delusion while ignoring so many others.

For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.

As events at this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego show, the putative alliance between the religious right and the Republican Party offers little solution; and the truth is that grave dangers exist regardless when the independence of a religious mission is married to a particular political party's agenda.

It should be emphasized that to say this is not thereby to invalidate any particular claims made on behalf of the liberal agenda for the society — just as one does not invalidate a political program simply by pointing Out that it may benefit the business community.

On the other hand Conservative Home and, yes, Next Left, have a particular axes to grind - and while they may use their sites in different ways, they do have a «perspective» and often an «agenda» which may not reflect the agenda that others, even in the parties that they are likely to be sympathetic to would necessarily agree with... That Conservative Home is keen to sell itself to the MSM as the voice of the grassroots is itself interesting - as I go round assoications I am not certain that they truly reflect the diversity of opinion that exists in that grassroots and I can not tell you the number of times I am told, «Yes, I read Conservative Home, but I would never contribute...»

But as it fights to secure a substantial renewal of mayoral control this legislative session, City Hall is trying to show that support for the governance system should transcend support for a particular politician or set of agenda items.

«What has become clear through this heavily litigated process is that listing the polar bear as a threatened species is not about protecting the polar bear but rather advancing a particular political agenda,» Sen. James Inhofe (R — Okla.) said in a statement.

But a more productive response is to recognize that the unions are frustrated by the same things that have frustrated conservative school reformers in recent years — the eagerness of the Obama administration to impose its particular school - reform agenda on states, as rapidly as possible and by whatever means necessary.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the new rules will stop «secularist campaign groups» from targeting faith school admission «as part of a particular agenda».

The discussions will highlight in particular the history of successful water cooperation initiatives as well as identify emerging and burning issues on water education, water diplomacy, cooperation across transboundary waters, financing cooperation, and linkages with the Millennium Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda, among others.

To be sure, that doesn't stop people from laying blame or using the scores to advance a particular educational agenda (a practice that some education insiders refer to as «misNAEPery»).

Winograd's marketing plans shift like the wind, but to understand why this particular plan is being sold at this moment, it is important to realize who Winograd's backers are and why they get him to market these agendas — the breeding industry, that has been promoting him for years and advancing him as representing their financial interests.

Rather than the work being a victim of subject - matter - shoehorning, as is often the case when a curator has a particular exhibition agenda which might not have actually factored in the works creation.

Working within a medium specific agenda presents particular challenges as curators.

I am not sure whether to read that as a broader shift within contemporary artistic practice or just a result of a particular curatorial agenda.

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.

Expect technology transfer, and in particular, the responsibility of developed countries to facilitate technology transfer to developing countries, to be a key agenda item on China's climate change policy as international climate talks reach a critical phase.

Could the researcher and / or publisher of the document be perceived as having a particular bias or agenda?

It's as if university departments had not been established to inform particular policy agendas.

They're the adults now who don't have any particular interest in science but «remember the science from school» and so unlikely to question whatever the AGW green agenda pushes, and even those in actual science fields where real knowledge of gas properties isn't relelevant, but what I find astonishing though, is how many in actual science fields who come together to discuss AGW continue to not question something as basic as the difference between heat and light claims in the AGW energy budget which is well known still in the real science world.

The public is coming to think of scientists as just another political pressure group with a particular agenda that scientists push with all the intellectual honesty of any other pressure group — which is to say very little.

Adaptation has been a central part of UN and IPCC deliberations from the very beginning, gaining particular prominence in political negotiations in the mid 2000s (when adaptation could be described as «the most fashionable item on the climate policy agenda»).

The views of organisations such as the IPCC come to be given undue weight and in the particular case of AGW their false status is a godsend to anyone with a suitable agenda who desires to overcome the constraints of normal democratic procedures.

In particular: i) the emphasis on reconstructions of historical temperature records; ii) the over-sensitivity of climate models; iii) the exaggeration of positive feedback mechanisms and the opposite with respect to negative feedbacks; iv) the over-statement of second and Nth - order effects of warming on natural processes and society as «impacts»; v) the IPCC reports are not written exclusively by scientists, but in the case of WGII and WGIII especially, are, as has been discovered — by sceptics — written by academics from other disciplines, often without any remarkable expertise, and by activists, with particular agendas.

If you are welcome in polite company, you probably see Brown v. Board of Education (which ended segregation in public schools) as obvious, even inevitable — not as a political necessity or acquiescence to a particular political party's agenda.

One of the strengths of this report is that it brings an outsider perspective to the discussion of legal education.12 Certainly major legal educators participated, including Judith Wegner, the former dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law, but this report is not identifiable as inspired by legal education insiders with a particular agenda, such as the clinicians with respect to the MacCrate Report.

They are social or economic constructs into which a Regulator pours its requirement to carry out its particular social and economic agenda (referred to as a «Culture Shift» by our Law Society).

In other instances, however, they will be more focused on particular issues (rather than places) and will be seeking to advance a particular policy agenda in as many contexts as possible.

It devotes particular attention to the degree to which this field communicates the issue of early childhood development as part of its overall policy and programmatic agenda.