Sentences with phrase «parties than a movement»

Unfortunately this advice is more likely to result in a glut of well - intentioned, deeply - felt climate documentaries and neighborhood dinner parties than a movement capable of staving off catastrophe.

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And white evangelical Protestants, the base of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey analysis released earlier this year.

White evangelical Protestants are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, Pew found.

This advocacy effort appears to be gaining even more momentum than the movement to release Church of Iran pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (which CT covered regularly), especially now that 80 members of Congress «from both parties signed a Feb. 12 letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry to «exhaust every possible option to secure Mr. Abedini's immediate release.»»

The conclusion seems inescapable that, though Heidegger was an official member of the National Socialist Party for a little less than a year, the movement of his thinking traveled along the same waves as other proto - Nazi thought of his day.

And in the Republican Party, too, there was more than the usual pressure exerted against incumbents early on, coming from a vast and energetic new movement, the Tea Party.

As expected, Americans who consider themselves part of the Tea Party movement are significantly more non-Hispanic white than the general population (80 percent vs. 69 percent of Americans overall).

Debs consistently opposed the war but had for some time ceased to be more than an eloquent spokesman for the movement.23 He was alienated by the factional politics that plagued the party.

They firmly believe technology is «inevitable» and more powerful than any political institution, party, or movement.

Manson got his start blogging about dating for men; started coaching men on having luck with the ladies at a time when the world traveler was partying and sleeping around; came out with a self - published book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, written when he was on the fringes of the PUA movement; and along the way gathered millions of avid readers and more than his share of detractors.

, built as it was from the emerging Labour movement, any more than Labour could «strangle» the environmental movement and Green Party or the Liberal Democrats (despite your best efforts: little sign of success post-1974); or any more than the LibDems could conceivably «destroy and replace» the Labour Party in the next decade or two.

The Labour Party at present is little more than a protest movement against itself.

In the UK, the tendency has been for Labour to shift from movement politics to consumer politics - a focus group of eight people sipping wine in Kettering having more weight than policies developed within the party and decided by conference.

Perhaps the biggest community movements we have are the trade unions, many have a link with the Labour party - something that modernisers thought out - dated rather than a vital connection with grassroots activism.

Political parties increasingly resemble empty brands, seeking a reason to exist, rather than political movements.

However, Liberal Democrat movement on economic issues was more than offset, to my mind, by the party's outlook on a whole set of other ones.

Mr. Cuomo has historically been a more moderate Democrat than the mayor, especially on fiscal issues, but he's raised the minimum wage in the past and over the last year he has heavily leaned into the $ 15 movement, a major priority of the progressive wing of the Democratic party that he has locally named for his late father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

«All wings of the Labour party which support the notion of the Labour party as a party aspiring to govern, rather than as a fringe protest movement agree on the tragedy of the Labour party's current position.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

Backing Ms. Warren in a Democratic primary would likely put the Working Families Party on a different team than a typical ally, and another champion of the progressive movement, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Certainly I think Tristram Hunt is in the wrong party (and he is a worse than useless in shadow education to boot), while we have incurable imbeciles like Danczuk and Mann with their talk of coups «from day one» that should never have got to be representatives of the movement to begin with, and hopefully if their local CLPs are sufficiently revived they will be removed in due course, and what on earth is wrong with that?

MSNBC actually ran more 4/15 tea party coverage than Fox, a clear sign of how liberal - leaning shows can't get enough of the movement.

Nothing illustrates better the ideological and policy differences at all levels of the Labour Party than the contradictory opinions being offered on the issue of free movement.

It was how the workers» movement and its small farmer allies were able to build movements to win the universal franchise, to organize labor unions and cooperatives, and to effectively compete in elections against the older top - down parties of the landed and business elites that were based on their legislative caucuses and wealthy sponsors rather than a formal membership with democratic rights in their party.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 yParty gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 yparty campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

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 cyParty 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 cyparty initiative coming out of the New Left movements to have sustained itself for more than three decades over many election cycles.

Many activists I talked with during the movement's rapid rise considered him «antithetical to everything the Tea Party stands for,» as one Wisconsin Tea Party leader told me, and their philosophy of fiscal restraint and limited government was much closer to the libertarian - leaning Kochs than to Rove and the party establishParty stands for,» as one Wisconsin Tea Party leader told me, and their philosophy of fiscal restraint and limited government was much closer to the libertarian - leaning Kochs than to Rove and the party establishParty leader told me, and their philosophy of fiscal restraint and limited government was much closer to the libertarian - leaning Kochs than to Rove and the party establishparty establishment.

It is the tribal tone of the dispute, rather than its content, that is the focus of the second front in this battle — the Conservative party's pre-election offensive against Labour's links to the trade union movement.

«Rather than battles at Labour party conference over detailed constitutional amendments, it's more important to get this year a real discussion about how this party becomes a social movement.

The gains of the far - right, anti-immigrant AfD party were also bigger than predicted, and the party could establish itself as a vocal opposition movement to the right of Merkel's CDU.

More than that, though, he represents the kind of not - ready - for - primetime candidates the tea party movement churned out in Senate races across the country.

«We go forward as a movement and a party, stronger, bigger and more determined than we have been for a very long time... We are going to reach out to everyone in this country, so no one is left on the side, so everyone has a decent place in society.»

In light of the #MeToo movement and the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against high - profile Hollywood men like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K. and many more, though, the Golden Globes are set to be more than just a frothy, champagne - fueled, back - patting party this year.

As previously reported, the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards were more than just a frothy, champagne - fueled, back - patting party in the wake of the #MeToo movement and the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against high - profile Hollywood men like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K. and many more.

- the eight protagonists won't have similar stories to each other because the team wants players to enjoy different experiences - the other six protagonists will have jobs different from Orberic (Swordsman) and Primrose (Dancer)- Orberic and Primrose were chosen for the demo because their starting points are closer to other party members - each protagonist will have different starting points, so there may be a gap in the progress difficulty - the team is trying to even things out, but they don't want every character to have the same difficulty, as that would be boring - the demo has surpassed 1 million downloads worldwide - a demo was released because they thought simply publishing screenshots and trailers wouldn't convey this game's fun factor - more than 80 % of the overseas player base found the game interesting - there was one player who won against a high - leveled NPC in a Duel, and another who defeated all bar customers - the team had expected the former, they didn't expect the latter - the music was received very well, which comes from composer Yasunori Nishiki - overseas players complained of hard - to - read text, because the UI was based on the Japanese version, which will be adjusted - the biggest complaints were about slow map movement, and the lack of fast - travel - both of these features have been implemented, with faster movement and fast - travel between cities - players also found the screen too dark, so devs are adding waypoints for paths and also bigger roads - there will be an Event Skip feature, as well as the ability to freely watch events that have been already seen.

And half of them don't even know that there's anything more than carbon involved in global warming while the other half are only there to party or are remnants of the New Age movement.

* «Old Labor» people in the more conservative unions and the Labor Party who take a narrowly economic view of workers» interests and have a dislike of environmentalists and other new social movement activists which is affective rather than intellectual — indeed, is anti-intellectual.

Republicans who agree with the Tea Party movement are much more likely than other Republicans to say that there is no solid evidence that the earth's temperature has been rising.

Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that spontaneously developed in 2009, the Tea Party has developed over time, in part through decades of work by the tobacco industry and other corporate interests.

(My experience is that aboriginal justice circles are empowering, healing... it feels like there is movement in the process, rather than parties being locked into a fixed power structure.)

Still, by partnering with a genuinely popular third - party platform, Docomo is doing more than most other carriers to embrace the proliferation of chat apps — a movement which could otherwise be seen as a threat that hijacks bandwidth while rendering lucrative services obsolete.