Sentences with phrase «political act»

At age nine, he performed the first of many political acts of his life.

Now that being a better person seems to have become a radical political act, it's something that is on my mind a lot.

You would have it that this is an overt political act, because the original statements were quite clearly political.

Head - shrinking your political opponents is as political act as any form of apartheid.

Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form.

Pecou's recent exhibition GRAV • I • TY framed the fashion trend of sagging (wearing pants below the belt line) as a similarly subversive political act with complicated history.

Default would be a deliberate political act not a financial necessity.

Part Two of How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010 Using the internet for politics may seem new, but most online campaigning at some level just reincarnates classic political acts in digital form.

However, it has long been observed that popular sovereignty tends to diffuse responsibility for political acts, particularly acts of war.

Celtic could end up facing a stand ban from UEFA who do not take kindly to political acts from fans.

(Putting up a pro-PR amendement is primarily a symbolic political act to keep the issue open; the question for all pro-PR forces will then be what to do about the referendum we are going to have, where most long - standing pro-PR groups campaigners think campaigning for a Yes is important.

Much of the discussion centered on campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, but state races came up constantly as well, and for good reason: the state legislators and governors elected in three short months will oversee the single most important political act in our system of government, the redrawing of state and congressional district lines based on the results of the census.

The installation of the statues was a highly political act, when they were erected, which is my point: Not the installation was apolitical, but it was in the past, that's what I mean by «historical».

Nicholas Watt: In his last political act Philip Gould voted against the NHS bill but advised Labour not to abandon the mantle of reform

Since the early 2000s the artist has explored the social and cultural implications of political acts through painting, sculpture, installation, and performance — both live and filmed — using himself as protagonist, proxy, and test subject.

Hauerwas himself stresses more mundane political acts.

, claimed that celebrating the Eucharist is a profoundly political act.

He goes on explain that «Gathering for Communion on Election Day seems fitting, for the practice of Communion is an inherently political act.

To build a mosque adjacent to the site where 3,000 people were murdered in the name of Islam is a provocative political act... and will be stopped.

Laughland does not seek to excuse these defendants» atrocities, but objects to clothing essentially political acts in legal form.

I remember also reflecting at the time that her speech was a more substantial political act than any from David Cameron a self - proclaimed moderniser who did not challenge his party's orthodox views on the role of the state and the provision of public services.

As your decision to post this question in this forum illustrates, this is also a quintessentially political act.

Meanwhile, GOP State chair Ed Cox called the order an «outrageous power grab» and a purely political act «designed to appeal to radical primary voters and satisfy his presidential ambitions.»

Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral political act with domestic and international legal consequences, whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state).

According to its Audit of Political Engagement, people are more likely to sign a petition than engage in any other political act.

His most conspicuous political act had been to persuade his party's conference to defy the advice of its leader, David Steel, and vote for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Yesterday, a decade to the day after he was sentenced to serve a year and a day for corrupt political acts, Rowland was again sentenced, this time to 30 months, after being convicted of engaging in the same crime.

McGovern was born and bred in the Wirral where her first political act was as a seven year old with her friend «writing a petition to our head teacher to allow girls to be able to play football in the playground».

Gov. Cuomo also ripped the decision — calling it a «gross political act that launches another missile at the heart of New York.»

It is the most egregious political act I have seen — not since the Civil War have you seen the states this divided.»

«The BOE owes the people of New York an apology for such a flagrantly political act.»

Comedian - turned - activist Russell Brand calls for revolution: «I feel it is a far more potent political act to completely renounce the current paradigm.»

While that may have been a little unfair, the almost total absence of Canberra from the 300 - strong gathering was inevitably seen by those present as a conscious political act.

Therefore, the compromises Barbara makes to retain her patient's human dignity can be seen as political acts devoid of rhetoric or posturing.

It felt like a revolutionary political act in 2011 to make a film that focused on a female protagonist who was depressed because her business failed and she was broke.»

Morris just happens to make code breaking a lot harder and a more overtly political act.

By looking and looking again, he is able to truly see Hibba and know who she is outside of any political rhetoric, which in the present climate is paradoxically an implicit political act.

There is a purposeful, political act behind Hoseini as director of these scenes in which she creates a new, collective social sphere, free with possibilities for both artist and subject.

The Congress for Cultural Freedom (the CIA front) threw its weight behind abstract painting, over representational or realist aesthetics, in an explicit political act.

«I still think that speaking up is itself a vital and powerful political act.»

I disagree with scientists who believe scientists should refrain from such political acts, and I gather that Pielke does too.

Treason is a crime, not a legitimate political act.

For Hoffman, to steal his book was a constructive and moral political act; to steal a library book to advance oneself and disadvantage one's classmates is a destructive and immoral one.

«Tom McDonough's rich and fun compilation of statements, reflections and pleas by philosophers, artists and filmmakers advocates boredom as a state of mind from which thoughts and ideas spark... this anthology encourages its readers to reclaim their own latent state of boredom as political act.»

By snatching away subjects from the jaws of time and permanent loss, and by fixing them in memory, the works become poetic and political acts of preservation.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

If you take the older artists in Line — Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Tom Marioni and Fred Sandback — their visual language is stripped right back; they were working when the dematerialization of the art object was the most important political act for an artist.

Sorting this out is a highly political act.