Sentences with phrase «political background of»

Part I sets out the legal, historical and political background of each country on the subject of prisoner isolation and justifies a comparative analysis.

In this conversation with Sabine Trieloff, the director of the Migros Museum and curator of the exhibition, Heike Munder, talks about the political background of Josephine Meckseper's work, the concept and the key works of the exhibition.

Along the way we witness the political background of coups and elections which form an undercurrent of unrest to individual daily lives.

There is a case to suggest that the social, economic or political background of an individual affects the way that you deal with, and acknowledge, the effects of extreme weather in both your neighbourhood and on a national level.

Most governors have a political background of some sort.

If one speaks to a European audience on Luther and the Reformation, one can assume at least a basic knowledge of the spiritual, cultural, and political background of the Reformation period.

While Trump may not have the political background of the other candidates, his empire is responsible for the creation of thousands of jobs — a sorely needed aspect of the current U.S. economic situation.

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That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

«Read through Zhang's apology and it is quickly apparent that this is a mea culpa made under extreme political pressure, in which Zhang, an engineer by background, ticks the necessary ideological boxes to signal his intention to fall into line,» David Bandurski, co-director of the China Media Project, wrote on the site.

But in today's political environment, such transparency carries a heavy cost for any politician, regardless of party affiliation or background.

The political context «comes against the background of a quite difficult economic situation,» Mitov told CNBC.

«In the background, there was a game - of - thrones political war raging within the ranks of upper management in the infrastructure engineering organization,» Fowler wrote.

The memo also confirms news reports which said earlier this month that despite the Nunes memo's claims, the DOJ made the FISA court aware on multiple occasions of Steele's background and credibility, and the political motivations behind the dossier's funding.

Best of all, it shows them relating to and having important conversations with men of different races and religions, as well as economic and political backgrounds.

The Blockchain Cruise gathered people of very different backgrounds: from founders of blockchain startups, crypto traders and investors to top lawyers in the field and influential political figures.

Some of my peers came from liberal arts background, teaching backgrounds, government / political policy backgrounds, sports backgrounds and science backgrounds just to name a few.

Woods, whose background is in downstream activities, wants to emphasize this aspect of the company's business in part for the political benefits: The Trump Administration's focus on expanding U.S. exports and building American infrastructure in order to produce new jobs clearly factored into Woods» address, which emphasized the «thousands and thousands» of new manufacturing and highly - skilled jobs the initiative would produce.

Our educational and political leaders keep suggesting that bringing people together from diverse backgrounds — whether it is racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, or some combination of the above — makes for better schools, more effective workplaces, and even morally superior environments.

All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward suffering in the contemporary world.

As Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the USA, Christians from all political backgrounds have been having their say.

The EPRDF has successfully kept religion as a background political discourse by placing the focus of democratic life around ethnic and regional identities, which go together.

One of the glories of science is that people come together to do it who have all sorts of religious beliefs, philosophical views, cultural backgrounds, and political opinions.

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In such a background King Jr. propagated the doctrine of non-violent direct action to achieve the social, economic and political institutionalization of freedom for the Americans Blacks.

Diversity: My youth group attracted kids from a variety of homes, and I benefited enormously from a diversity of religious perspectives, socioeconomic backgrounds, personalities, and political persuasions.

Tyagi Bill supported by the Prime Minister Desai restricting religious conversion and also the discrimination of scheduled caste converts to Christianity in the special benefits to people of the scheduled caste background, may be mentioned as violations of the covenant on the part of the State; and the Christian people have been unhappy at giving up minority communal safeguards and many efforts to organize Christian political parties off and on have been made in several states especially in the South by Christians.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

There's nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, religious background, sexual orientation, physical abilities, physical traits, age, education, job, socioeconomic status, primary relationship status, parental status, taste, value systems, political views, length of time in the community and accent.

These positions of leadership required extensive travel in America, Europe and the Far East, and enabled him to discuss the problems of International Christianity against a background of almost unrivaled political as well as religious knowledge.

The acceptance of the importance of political action and the recognition of the essential equality of all human beings can be understood best against the background of such Christian influences.

This, then, is our deep political problem, as Levin sees it: We want to endorse various politics of freedom against a background of stability.

His book suggests a background of foreboding about our present political culture, turning to the South Dakota struggle for statehood in order to identify sources for renewal.

Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.

What I have tried to do is to see the movement of primitive Christianity as a whole and against its total background, political and economic as well as religious....

Hegel's political philosophy, when seen against the background of his fundamental notions, is at least a political theology in nuce, if indeed it needs working out in detail.15

But a decade later, I've become aware that 12 - step programs are home to people from every religion, denomination, sect, cult, political tilt, gender identity, sexual preference, economic strata, racial and ethnic background, believers in gun rights and abortion rights and the right to home schooling, drinkers of coffee and tea, whiskey and mouthwash, people who sleep on their sides or their stomachs or sidewalks.

Let's squeeze in a little tighter to make enough room for people of all political persuasions, all religious backgrounds, all ethnicities, and all denominations.

This is a volume which does not simply enrich our understanding of Newman; it also brings a human note to the larger religious and political dramas of Victorian England and thus to the background of this, our present age.

The New Testament does not get even this far, since it ignores political theory and pushes the political character of Jesus» Messiahship into the background or into heaven («My kingdom is not of this world,» John 18:30).

Telling this story involves not only reading the lectures, but also knowing the social, political and intellectual background of the various lecturers.

Everything is centered around this one moment where people of all ages, gender identities, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, political beliefs, and backgrounds are welcome to come to the table and receive the elements.

You will attract people of all backgrounds and races, political persuasions and theological preferences.

While others in the burgeoning Christian Right wanted to organize only among their own flocks, the Moral Majority chief pushed an idea called co-belligerency: people of different religious backgrounds setting aside theological differences to pursue common political goals.

Executives who have run large, profitable private sector companies should be welcomed as candidates, but they should also be aware of the political liabilities of their backgrounds.

This theoretical vision does not take account of the fact that the partners are not equal and that it is often the weakest who pays the cost of these operations, whether they are vulnerable due to their class, their ethnic background, their gender, their lack of political power or their cultural weakness.

Alec Ross» political background includes working for President Obama's 2008 campaign as well serving as a senior advisor for innovation under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, 743 - 752 Flouri, E. (2004) Parental background and political attitudes in British adults.

We were a group of women from many different backgrounds and I'm sure we all had many differences of opinion regarding other social / political / religious issues.

In Boris v. Ken the authors look at every aspect of the campaign, including the political background, the candidates, the campaigns and the election itself.