Sentences with phrase «people a voice at»

«Having the first elected Co-Chairs of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a voice at a critical time in the nation's history.

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You know, you look at all the outgrowth of Me Too, and See Her, and Black Lives Matter, and people standing up and having a voice, and saying, «I want to know where brands stand on issues.

The Cord Project will be shutting down its main service, which lets anyone send 12 - second voice messages to one person or several people at a time.

«As a consumer you have a voice, and people are beginning to look at those voices,» said Bonnie Caver, the president of the reputation consulting firm Reputation Lighthouse.

I'm not perfect at matching voices to what people look like but for some reason this was a red flag to me.

Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim - majority nations.

The Mid Scotland and Fife MSP was backed in the short term by Unite's Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty who said: «Under Alex Rowley's interim leadership we are confident that the voices of Scotland's working people will be heard loud and clear at Holyrood.»

It has certainly given voice and hope to people who didn't like all that liberal championing thrown at them on CNN.

When asked about the culture at Rent the Runway, board member Friend says, «You're not the first person to voice that question.

Misapplied pattern recognition continues to offer temptation incessantly throughout the course of building a company — and at every turn, people provide strongly voiced opinions as to the «right» path.

The crux of the company's «personalized human voice solutions» offering is a sophisticated splice - and - dice digital audio technology that allows companies to precisely tailor both their inbound and outbound customer service messages to the person at the other end of the line.

If you see someone raising his voice at employees, stuttering nervously in front of a group or avoiding admitting when he's wrong, that's a person who is just starting out.

«Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work,» Coles told Business Insider.

However, it's always pretty easy to tell when the holiday season officially begins — Mariah Carey's voice is suddenly inescapable and people have a lot of opinions about the cups at Starbucks.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

«If the people around you are glaring at you, chances are, you need to lower your voice.»

Gibney's voice narrates the film in the first person and he uses Jobs as a lens to look at how we interact with our gadgets, particularly our iPhones and iPads.

If you're having trouble getting through, leave a voice - mail message that you want to talk to the person directly or will stop by his or her office at a designated time.

While customers will only be able to order one item at a time completely by voice, Google exec Brian Elliott said that's because the tech giant has found that people want to review larger orders on a phone or computer before completing a transaction.

His famous training events and videos, listed at the bottom of this page, inspire millions of people to start anew, find their voice, live more fully, and make a greater difference in the world.

If those 100 people held a rally — a form of social organization designed to amplify individual voices — and at that rally chanted slogans for or against a particular candidate, that would be perfectly legal.

The average Facebook user (someone who uses the site a few times per day) was half as likely as other people to say they would be willing to voice their opinion with friends at a restaurant.

This is the first premeditated mass shooting at this scale that involved people who both grew up entirely in a world in which mass shootings were common and which targeted people old enough to have a voice.

This structural break coincides with the attainment of a voice in politics by ordinary people in developed economies: since voters rarely opt for economic pain, their elected representatives soon found they had to avoid it at all costs.

Laura Copeland, the head of community at Lyft, describes having created an «advisory council» of seven drivers to make sure that the people on the street have a voice in the company.

I write songs by looking right at Jesus from my heart and actually singing to a real person who is listening and moving at the sound of my voice.

With that in mind, the prophetess as God's voice, as judge, as apostle, as leader has precedence in the scriptural history of God's people as far back as at least Judges and as recently Acts, to saying nothing of those who have been recognised as particular saints since then (although I'm not RC I don't deny there are people worthy of particular honour).

Religion — at least when I look at what this article is about — is not a delusion of people thinking they are hearing a nonexistent loving voice consoling them.

While I totally respect your opinon - and your right to voice your opinion at that - and I do actually agree with you about the sadness of people's negativity, I think it is time that somebody told you that it is of NO surprise to ANYBODY that a «Southern Christian» can be a jerk.

These facts aren't exactly news, but this report, which was produced by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU, gives a voice to the people actually affected by drone strikes in Pakistan.

I don't understand where people get this idea, that to voice anger at one injustice somehow means that you don't care about any other injusticies.

He said: «I believe that the media really needs our prayers because, at its best, the media gives a voice to the voiceless, it does hold people to account, it does highlight unjust practises as well as keeping us informed.»

We claim to honour the «least of these» and to be a people who lay down power, who believe that the greatest is the servant, and that the way to really get ahead in the Kingdom of God is to put others first, to amplify other voices, to make room at the table.

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

Whereas The Broken Covenant was the voice of a prophet crying in the wilderness, alternately denouncing and lamenting for his people, Habits and its successor volume The Good Society, written by the same five authors and to be published in 1991, speak as one group of citizens to our fellow citizens, criticizing some things but also encouraging, offering examples of effective citizenship and church membership, and looking forward, if not with optimism, at least with hope.

Hey dog, in ten or twenty generations no one will even know you ever existed, but at the name of Jesus every knee will bend and every tongue will say «Jesus is lord» People have loved Jesus for over two thousand years and his sheep (Including me) know his voice and follow him.

«We» can mean different groups of people in different contexts, and honestly I often have to point out that the «we» too often excludes non-White voices at the table.

Kaplan, however, was neither the first nor the only voice arguing that at the core of Jewish identity was the idea of an organic Jewish people.

We are afraid that our valid, limited, friendly criticism, when voiced, will help prepare people psychologically to accept the conclusions offered at the savage extreme.

«What our Congress is doing is hurting poor people who have no voice to stand in front of you at the National Press Club and say, «Don't do this.

At the same time, his book is written in the voice of «We Bobos,» and it is not always clear when he is distinguishing himself from the people he is describing.

In a rare unscripted moment at the Democratic National Convention this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a voice vote to pass an amendment to the party platform reinstating language that identified Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel and that referred to people's «God - given potential» in its preamble.

Rare indeed in philosophical works are passages like the one in the City of God where Augustine marvels at how some people can wiggle their ears, others can perfectly mimic the voices of other men, and some can even «produce musical sounds from their behind»!

One of the people voicing concern was David Newman, an English professor at Odessa College and father of a 12 - year - old student.

His principal message at present is about evangelisation, echoing the call of recent popes, and giving voice to a widespread concern about a sense of life having lost its meaning for many people «There is this reduction of living to a general soft - core list of things: money, health, individualism.

We're in a time when I believe that the voice of God's people is desperately needed: we need to see a glimpse of what life looks like the way that Christ intended it at creation.

It is a source of great frustration because even though women, people of color, and people of various sexual orientations and identities are raising their voices and sometimes being heard, those at the control center are straight white men who may be or pretend to be sympathetic to their voices but are unable or unwilling to change the landscape because they're hopelessly entangled in it.

Why is it when a poor person hears voices to tell him to do things, we lock him up and call him crazy while at the same time if a rich, white person says that we say «he's been called by God»?

Only in this way can they have a perceptible impact on such pastoral - prophetic local issues as how sick people can get better care, how the homeless can find decent housing, and how the voice of the church can be heard in the din of competing voices at city hall.

The United Methodist Church in the USA is silencing the voices of LGBTQ people at their General Conference this year.