Sentences with phrase «political backbone»

Or, at the very least, a federal government with the political backbone to say no to environmentally destructive fossil fuel projects.

An initial devoted cohort can serve as the political backbone for bringing mindfulness to the larger school community.

More than just a crystallization of the political moment, Black Panther is a solid, if far from perfect, superhero film, a Marvel flick with a muscular political backbone and a clear sense of its own identity.

He said that it is «conceivable» that de Blasio might develop a «political backbone» without reelection pressure and force changes such as ending broken windows, abolishing the quota system that mandates a certain number of arrests and summonses and dismissing and suspending officers who engage in abusive practices without pay.

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In addition to becoming the social backbone of the consumer web, Facebook is also hoping to become the place people go online to express political citizenship.

And the political and perverted way in which his writings were immediately used to supercede Jesus» teachings became the backbone of the early church, thus rendering it perverted and corrupt from the very beginning.

The covenant — this oneness of God with the people and of God's people with one another — is the backbone of books written over more than a thousand years, in widely varying political and religious circumstances, and in diverse geographical locations.

post all the social / political articles you want, but have the backbone to hear what the site's users have to say.

They saw that online organizing has become as central to modern political campaigning as direct mail, field organizing, advertising and media relations, and that the the internet can in fact become the backbone of campaign functions from fundraising to turning out voters on election day.

But there are also a confluence of events that are leading to an estrangement between the WFP and Democratic elected officials in New York and a broader political split between labor and the activist groups that historically were the two backbones of the party.

He noted that if local farmers were to take control of the agriculture sector, the political rhetoric that agriculture is the backbone of the economy would be matched with the use of appropriate methods to achieve food self - sufficiency.

At a time when the world is filled with political unrest and bravado, it's time for some true heroes to emerge — with plenty of «backbone» and a whole lot of love.

The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth benefited greatly from their political undercurrent while also tapping into horror and folklore, respectively.

It is not only the backbone of civil society organizations and social and political movements but also of many health, education, housing and environmental programmes.

Although the techniques of descriptive, analytic, and experimental epidemiology provide the conceptual etiological backbone for this umbrella, its inclusive nature is defined by the myriad of complementary fields composing the breadth of the «Prevention Science Umbrella» (i.e., anthropology, sociology, political science, communications, epidemiology, economics, statistics, managerial science, laboratory science, preventive medicine).

He also began crafting the performative self - portraits - «selfies» avant la lettre - that form the backbone of his artistic practice, exploring the questions of personal and political identity that preoccupied many artists of his generation.

Initially, PED showed backbone, standing up to political activists pushing the state to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards view of climate change, which promotes the false claims that the science on climate change is settled, that we know human activities are driving dangerous climate change, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant that's dangerous to human health and the environment, and that we fully understand how to counteract the effects of climate change or control long - term global temperature.

It's time for progressives to learn from the right wing that sometimes having a backbone can be good political strategy.

Professionals in the UK form part of the backbone of the services - based economy, play key roles in the political process, and, perhaps most importantly, provide vital services in our day - to - day lives.

The catalyst working behind the success of a political party meeting or an official event or professional fair and conferences, it is the volunteers who act as the backbone making everything significant and comfortable.