Sentences with phrase «political involvement»

It is also complicated by his long history of political involvement — and penchant for making enemies.

While many people seem to have mixed emotions about political involvement in this matter.

The exhibition Power to the People focuses on fundamental questions and examinations of the phenomena of and potential for political involvement.

Political involvement by former judges is a relatively recent development.

Here the emphasis is more on community and direct political involvement.

Does political involvement in education have to do with the lack of staying power?

If this meant political involvement, even revolutionary engagement with forces of injustice and oppression, then so be it.

Work and community / political involvement demands on my time were pretty intense for several years, and gaming took a back seat.

We believe political involvement is critical for holding governments accountable to their constituents and for creating policies that ensure a sustainable world with safe food and clean water.

She's a lawyer and founder of an influential tech non-profit, and she has a track record for political involvement.

What good does political involvement do in the final analysis?

That's why our REALTORS ® Political Involvement Committee has begun tracking member involvement.

Learn how to talk to your members about political involvement in a way that educates and inspires.

His request is likely to draw criticism from parents and members of the public, who have previously raised concerns about Paladino's political involvement with the candidate.

It's all too easy to see how we may become a country in which the big rewards are reserved for people with the right connections; in which ordinary people see little hope of advancement; in which political involvement seems pointless, because in the end the interests of the elite always get served.

Both have led to dramatic political involvement, in the forms of preserving and overthrowing.

Observers suggest Colson will likely be best remembered for his prison ministry, behind - the - scenes political involvement, work on evangelical and Catholic dialogue, and his cultural commentary.

My Marxist political involvements as an undergraduate made me vulnerable, during the McCarthy period, to pressures that made me decide to go to Canada in 1955.

Religious groups have a public presence even when they officially eschew political involvement.

Fundamental to this difference between Sojourners and The Reformed Journal over political involvement and strategy is a conflicting understanding of hermeneutics.

Partly, too, this explains why more liberal political involvement is found in those denominations with more members of high economic standing.

But the Republicans benefitted greatly from changes within another religious tradition, as Evangelical Protestants simultaneously moved away from Democratic partisanship and toward both greater political involvement and Republican partisanship.

Albert Schweitzer consistently refused political involvements and judgments, though he did join in protest against the use of nuclear weapons.

All this — together with his various political involvements, both ecclesiastical and secular — may explain why he regarded sloth as much as pride to be at the root of human sin.

Their call for a new political consciousness in the culture of America, accustomed as older Americans are to viewing political involvement as a decidedly secondary activity if not a dirty one, is a mighty affirmation of the human capacity for action and a long needed antidote to the «just do your job, take care of your family, and stay out of controversial matters» philosophy of most Americans.

Republican activist E. O'Brien Murray filed an ethics complaint against US Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, claiming Gaspard broke the federal law barring political involvement by government employees by assisting de Blasio in last year's mayoral contest.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, but a hung Parliament could be just what we need to get the rusty wheels of political involvement running again.

There are no specifics about Jenkins current clients (he's a close friend and advisor to Bronx Democratic Chairman Carl Heastie) or his past political involvement, which includes former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's 2006 campaign (he was deputy campaign manager there, too).

Similarly, data points to an increase in black and minority political involvement following President Barack Obama's election in 2008.

Ahmed's political involvement began as a volunteer for the 2008 Obama campaign.

David Wilmot, Ph.D, Co-Founder and President of Ocean Champions will join Salud Carbajal, Santa Barbara County Supervisor and Angela Howe, Esq., Legal Director of Surfrider Foundation for a timely examination on how grassroots advocacy and full political involvement is needed to ensure healthy and thriving oceans and coasts.

Avoiding political involvement is a losing strategy in politics.

As Sir John Houghton, co-chair of TAR Working Group I, once put it: «Any move to reduce political involvement in the IPCC would weaken the panel and deprive it of its political clout....

«I really feel a tangible difference,» said Jack Shifrel, a longtime activist in the Broward Democratic Party whose first political involvement was as a 22 - year - old, living in New York and working on Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.