Sentences with phrase «political agenda for»

Hansen was the man who in 1988 told a senate committee «it was time to stop waffling... the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here,» and thus put global warming on the political agenda for the first time.

The Representative Assembly is the annual conference for the NEA, the nation's largest labor union, which gathers each summer to set its political agenda for the coming year.

President Donald Trump outlined his political agenda for 2017 in his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, aiming a broadside directed straight at the «burdensome» drug approval process at the FDA.

After Ed Balls's unconvincing response to Chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement, Miliband had a unique opportunity to set the political agenda for 2014.

These two issues will dominate the political agenda for the coming months and years.

«As we look forward to a vigorous political agenda for 2012, including a Presidential primary, a US Senate race, and newly drawn line for Congressional and legislative districts, this leadership team, along with our tremendous staff in Albany and New York City, ensures that our State Party is fully prepared to meet the challenges ahead,» Cox said.

The issue is taken off of the political agenda for a substantial period of time, allowing decisions to be made at the national level without being unsettled by constant doubts about Scotland's continuing membership of the Union.

The UN-initiated Global Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative is actively demanding a priority spot on the political agenda for breastfeeding.

The Islamist movement is «the part of Islam which embraces a clear political agenda for bringing nations under Muslim domination and shari`ah law,» according to Open Doors.

Thus, an activist socioeconomic and political agenda for theology concerned itself solely with the activity of God in the world; it ignored the intracommunity celebration of Christian liturgical activity, which nurtured and sustained the Christian community on its journey toward a full celebration of life.

Defunding Planned Parenthood — which provides the majority of abortion procedures in the United States — has been at the center of the Republican political agenda for nearly two years.

Some research of my own on the issue quickly revealed a well - prepared social and political agenda for bringing those proposals to fruition.

This leads to differences in their respective political agendas for the 2017 election.

I perhaps don't think it the worst thing in the world if some of those throwing stones are mindless zealots with nothing but political agendas for a motive.

As we round the corner toward 2018 and the midterm elections, we know one issue that should be front and center on the hearts, minds, and political agendas for all candidates running for office: a plan to support and strengthen the early childhood workforce as part of an investment in an industry that addresses all four of those intertwined issues and contributes substantially to the American economy.

Not exact matches

The Bank of Canada governor is laying the groundwork for the return of deficit spending to the political agenda

Earlier this year, a company called Event Shares filed a prospectus for a Republican Policies and a Democratic Policies fund to invest in companies that will benefit from the respective parties» political agendas (neither has launched yet).

«The presidential candidates and their respective political parties are committing a disservice to all Americans by failing to outline their agendas for the small business owner.»

Cyber security is «very high on the agenda» for the right - leaning government, but also for the broad selection of Danish political parties negotiating a new defence strategy for the coming six years, he said.

From there, growth has never been far from the agenda at Vox Media, which now operates eight niche media brands, including Polygon for gamers, Vox for political newshounds, and Racked for fashionistas.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

The deal may also be a major political victory for the Harper Conservatives, who have made expanded trade a key plank of their economic agenda.

Our work is cut out for us, as clearly demonstrated in the Sustainable Development agenda adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 — and perhaps just as much by the global political developments of 2016.

Item No. 1 on the agenda for both legal and political reasons is the push to override Governor Hogan's veto of a measure requiring most companies to provide their employees with the chance to earn paid sick leave.

In short the need for actions and policies on many fronts has never been so great — yet the political comprehension and agenda is bankrupt of the will deal with the most salient matters facing the human condition.

And I think that you know the biggest reason for this hasty hard for proposal or program is really a political agenda rather than you know a sound technical argument.

Austin argues that this is only the case for state - directed enterprises, which do operate according to a more prominent political agenda by the state.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

«U.S. stocks sold off and volatility mounted Wednesday as renewed political turmoil in Washington cast doubt on whether President Trump can push forward with a pro-growth agenda that had helped drive stocks to repeat records,» Sue Chang reported for MarketWatch.

As for the «evangelicals» who hitched their wagon to the blasphemous Romney thinking that Jesus would have voted for someone who openly denies His Diety and sovereignty, and who hijacked the discussion of faith in this country to hide their actual agendas of hate, racism, division, and greed, the election result is another lesson to them to not drag Holy God down into the vile realm of man's political systems.

«The bishops» blanket opposition appears to the serve the interests of a political agenda, not the needs of the American people,» Salt continued, e-mailing his group's support for the White House to tens of thousands of Catholics nationwide.

They eventually found (or made) a political home for themselves in the Socialist party, which has set the agenda of French politics for the past generation.

Steve Chalke sets the agenda for a new series of Faithworks articles — this month «why the Church needs to get political».

Oh, how I miss it when CNN was a legitimate news organization, rather than a political ad for the liberal agenda.

(Romans 13:4 - 5) For the author of this blog to ignore this obvious and decisive distinction suggests that he himself is trying to promote his political agenda by twisting the Bible to promote his own views.

Those on the right, who want to capture the jobs, programs, and networks for their opposing political agenda, also have little interest in dialogue.

Surprisingly, many progressive Reform Rabbis have expressed public support for the Christian Zionists and the Christian right, knowing full well that the Christian right's theological and political agendas are contrary to the Reform Jewish community's longstanding progressive stance on civil liberties and human rights.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

Liturgies for the homeless, for AIDS victims, for the oppressed peoples of the earth, for the whales, for an end to Florida's recounts, for whatever are objectionable not only because they are kitschy and not only because they bind worship to a political agenda.

Jesus did not teach hate and intolerance he did not reject health care he healed the sick he did not preach for profit and he did not deny anyone there rights he did not look down on others and he did not bear false witness the right wing conservatives have hijacked the word of god to fit their political agenda.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

This dilemma has become particularly acute because, for all its animus toward modernity, the Christian right has made one of the most characteristic of modern political beliefs the foundation of its entire agenda.

Oh for the goodness sake... stop quoting from texts as the word of GOD when those texts were cleary written and re-written by men and tailored to suit their political agendas during their power struggles... Does the council of Nicea ring a bell?

Currently it is also very fashionable to engage in interreligious dialogue for the purpose of facilitating cooperation on this or that socio - political agenda; if one approves of the agenda» a very large if» then this motive for dialogue is quite acceptable, too.

Anyway, I had no political agenda or goal in publishing this... I had no idea it was going to be a political point for the Republicans in 2014.

The right wing nut GOP who hijacked the term «Christianity» for their brand of fundamentalism is no better than the jihadists that hijack Islam for their own political agendas.

True religion is not a dogma that can be hijacked and manipulated for a political agenda.

Religious freedom is a basic right here and can not be compromised for political agendas that repress many.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

The religious community must do its part by keeping the tragedy foremost on the political agenda, as it did for the southern war.