Sentences with phrase «people by fighting»

For this exhibition Victoria Miro is proud to be working with Reprieve — an organisation dedicated to helping the world's most vulnerable people by fighting extreme abuses of human rights.

Not exact matches

And I'd been guilty of perpetuating this sort of prejudice by perpetuating stereotypes of psychics as shifty, exotic people or as being unreal, unable to be found as mothers or neighbors or activists like Emily, who's active in social justice - based causes, particularly the fight for transgender equal rights.

However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

But when people live in a constant state of fight or flight that's triggered by all the things they're trying to squeeze into a week, this can lead to really poor decisions and life - threatening health problems.

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

Immune cells modified by CRISPR - Cas9 were inserted into a lung cancer patient at the West China Hospital in Chengdu in the hopes that they'll be able to fight tumors, and 10 people total will receive injections of CRISPR re-engineered cells in order to assess the method's safety.

«These are two humans who, by technology and science, have created ways that they can fight crime and get rid of bad people,» said deGrasse Tyson.

Expectations had run high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.

Employing 43,000 people around the world, including 20,000 in Britain, Carillion has been fighting for survival since July, when it revealed it was losing cash on projects and had written down the value of its contract book by 845 million pounds.

In an interview published Wednesday by The Times, Thiel said «it was worth fighting back» against the outlet, which in 2007 published an article titled «Peter Thiel is totally gay, people.»

Longtime Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen is fighting the seizure of his records by federal investigators in New York, but people close to the president are fretting he might fold if he faces severe charges.

We have a long way to go, but by organizing people in their home communities, building voting blocs in key ridings, mobilizing around key decisions, slowly reframing big stories and fighting to lock in systemic changes, we are fundamentally re-balancing power in British Columbia.

ACEM is a non-profit organization whose mission is to fight poverty and exclusion by helping people who have an economically viable project.

The thought of stolen email addresses and PII (personally identifiable information), and hackers being able to read private text messages and listen to baby monitors may be the things that get people motivated to fight back by switching to more secure email providers, turning on 2 - step verification, and buying their first cybersecurity products.

It is inevitably something that can be achieved by the will of the American people without sending 60 or 80 or 100,000 soldiers to fight, U.S. soldiers, to fight in the Middle East, something I would not advocate for.»

I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.»

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

Companies proved from recent fights with the National Rifle Association and legislation targeting bathroom use by transgender people that they can be more finely tuned to public opinion than politicians.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

Is that at the end of my campaign when it appeared that Clinton was going to win, and certainly after she won the nomination, what the... what the Russians were doing was flocking to Bernie Sanders Facebook sites, and they were saying to Bernie Sanders supporters, as they were by the way to Black Lives Matter supporters, people who were fighting for social justice.

These days must pass, this nation needs to rise up and fight back, in the name of every fallen soldier and every other person who is affected by the hate these vile being spew.

Intelligent people know they have to survive if possible by choosing their fight by guerlilla action or secret resistance groups.

If you want to fight hatred and violence — fight the hatred and violence our government (chosen by the people) commits everyday.

We (collectively) did not win that fight by ripping the bible out of everyone's hands, but by a reasoned approach showing that when the bible is used to exclude and marginalize classes of people it is being employed wrongly.

Now think back on what it took for African Americans and women to get their civil rights, it took good people fighting the prejudice and bigotry of those brainwashed by ancient beliefs.

I fear that by trying to guilt people into keeping their butts in the pew, pastors will be fighting against what God is doing in the church.

A person who accepts someone's right to conduct business and smoke weed unmolested by the government will not have the passion to fight against a woman's right to control her own body.

At the time of Jesus, there were people like the Zealots who wanted to establish the kingdom of God on earth by force, by fighting the Romans.

To them it seems obvious that when the forces of imperialism and colonialism contend violently against the peoples who are now assimilated to the poor of the gospel, those forces can be countered only by violence; it is only through fighting that man will win freedom.

I get that you see this outside of religion but my point here, finisher is basically stating that we are wrong by insulting and indirectly fighting for christianity... you don't win people over with hate.

While the people, led by Joshua, fought, killed and were killed, Moses went to the top of the hill and held up his hand.

What thinking and feeling person would want to share the name of those who seem to fight tooth and nail for the sanctity of life by protecting the unborn but refuse to help better our education system or quality of life for those not as well off.

The mountains are being fought for by the persons who live among them, those whose houses perch precariously close to the streams, who garden the patches, who hunt in the hills, who love the land.

Many people suggest that this new context renders the just war tradition obsolete: its restraints are unsuited for the demands of combat characterized by evasion and small - scale fighting in civilian terrain.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Though disease germs know nothing of prayer, the spirit of the person on whose body they feed can by calmness and care fight a good fight against their onslaughts.

I have said that conservatism is 5 % people who game the system (like the slave holders of old) and 95 % useful idiots those who fight for them but have no interest in the outcome (used by the system — manipulated)!

These churches and mosques are indeed fighting an uphill battle; they can not totally counter the pervasive influence on black people, especially black youths, of the sexual and violent images purveyed by mass media.

People flee in huge numbers from the fumigations (which are carried out by the army) and from the fighting between guerrillas and paramilitaries.

Pro-life groups like Students for Life may be involved in work that pro-life advocates see as important and effective, but by perpetuating a controversy — if that was their intention — they risk isolating the very people who are fighting for the same cause.

Lots of people do receive the notice that they've been officially dropped by the insurance company they then have to fight to get added insurance after having a cancellation.

«What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and the reproduction of our race... so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe...» Mein Kampf

However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment, in the era of globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Al - Tawba sura 09: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger nor, acknowledge the Religion of Truth from among the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.»

Whether it's something major like the fight for something as basic as an education for girls in the developing world or something seemingly minor like major Christian bookstores who won't stock my book, people want to know, aren't you discouraged by this?

I often get responses from people who lean toward Option 1 as well, but in my experience, most of these people are having thoughts and ideas about Option 2, and it scares them, so they fight against it by leaving comments on blogs like mine.

The ONE campaign, an advocacy group co-founded by the rock star Bono to help alleviate poverty and fight AIDS in Africa, hoped the metaphor would carry on to their project to get people more involved in AIDS advocacy.

«What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and the reproduction of our race... so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe... Peoples that bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.»