Sentences with phrase «political people often»

This also gets at a deeper issue in the online advocacy world — that political people often think of the internet as technology, when really it's communications.

Not exact matches

«People often stay in the same industry, the same religion, and the same political party.»

Says Agrawal, «There's definitely pushback, often, from people who believe that we shouldn't be talking about anything political.

Many people point to the National Flood Insurance Program, which was created to boost financial resilience in flood zones, but has been criticized from just about every political and technical vantage point as too often working to subsidize, instead of mitigate, vulnerability.

It is pretty clear that in the often fractious environment of Canadian federalism, Canadians do better when multi-levels of government and political parties work together to put people's well - being first.

The documents show Ailes to be an engaged, brilliant, and often catty adviser with an obsessive, almost evangelical focus on the power of television to manipulate people for political purposes.

People are piling into bitcoin in developing and frontier markets, where the virtual currency is often viewed as a haven from political and economic turmoil.

Craft - Brewery Tours Are Hot Political Photo - Ops It's been said that people will often vote for the candidate they'd most like to have a beer with.

Too often during campaigns we never really learn who the person is behind all the political rhetoric.

To Peter, I think you will appreciate the following, which I often have occasion to use during CNN's political discussions: «Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.»

As Pope Francis says in his robust critique of modern - day political economy, «unbridled capitalism» often promotes a «logic of profit at any cost» and «exploitation without looking at the person».

God whispers His truth to all people, and this truth shines forth (though often dimly) through the writing of other religions, through literature and art, through music and movies, through shifting political winds, through the longings of men's hearts and dreams, and through the cries of people for justice and equality (Stark, The Human Faces of God, 238).

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

I often hear from «Mainliners» who essentially say, «Hey, we're much more open to science, social justice, political diversity, and LGBT people.

Very often this diversity is delineated entirely in terms of the sex, race, or ethnicity of the person or group speaking rather than any substantive difference in moral or political aims.

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

Its self - contradictory dynamic is evident in the way those who have most recently arrived in suburbia are often the people most vociferously opposed to its extension (the political phenomenon that has come to be known as NIM BY - ism — «Not In My Back Yard»).

Well, theology in southern Africa has had a political edge, because people have had to maintain their faith within a system of oppression which itself often had a Christian theological justification, as in South Africa.

In an article on Think Progress, Zach Beauchamp cites a study by political scientists Thomas Carsey and Geoffrey Layman which shows that over time, people often change their abortion attitudes to match the political party they generally support.

There is an irony to all of this, in that often the very same people who decry American exceptionalism as a political conceit seem to embrace that conceit when it comes to American Catholicism.

So often now people confusing «Gospel» with «Cultural Bias» or «Political Persuasion»... They really have no clue.

By those who held the corporate life of the people to be of supreme importance, especially in Rome, political theology was often given pride of place.

• Speaking of obsession with politics, you might be surprised to know how often I encounter people who say they love the magazine but are put off by the political commentary.

The people of the Bible, like any other people, wanted economic security and national prestige, got jealous of foreign groups and often of each other, connived for political or economic or personal advantage.

Oh that there were some way to make the church look like Jesus rather than like so many of the things it often resembles — A club, a political organization, a group with an agenda that often seems to not include loving people.

Powerful well - funded agencies, often promoted by the State (I avoid the word «Government» as I do not want to speak in party - political terms), are mounting a relentless onslaught upon the family and especially the moral sense of our young people.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

Rationalism in politics often has dire consequences, because the Rationalist tends to have inordinate faith in policy solutions, slogans, and political machinery to guide citizens toward a good the Rationalist has chosen, while neglecting to understand how people actually live and think, what they actually do and need.

One can avoid dealing with such a question, as often done by political leaders, by simply responding that people out there do not like us because of our values of freedom, democracy, and entrepreneurial spirit.

So they often perceive us primarily as political adversaries or allies, rather than people primarily motivated by beliefs.

Though I often blog about those who wish for theocracy over secular democracy ruling the political will of all people — my own life's experience tells me this isn't representative of most Christians.

Although Lincoln is often praised for this remark by those who oppose the mixing of religion and politics, it contains three of the most controversial ideas in American politics: that it is legitimate to invoke the name of God within the realm of political discourse; that God's existence isn't merely symbolic, but that he is always right; and that since God takes sides on certain issues, some people will be divinely justified while others will stand in opposition not only to their political opponents but to the very Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

The result is often tepid, tentative exchanges by people fearful of sinning against political correctness.

At night, a cloud of terrible sadness often enveloped him — then he would see only the bad things, the increasing violence in the countryside, the warring of the political authorities, the failure to get people to live by the Word, enemies to the left, enemies to the right, and his own unfaithfulness.

In more recent times, people often leave bad situations — war; famine; political, economic, social or religious oppression — and go to a place where they hope their lives will be better.

In turn, political legitimacy (or political risk as I call it in The Paradox of Regulation) rests on the horns of a dilemma between «keeping the economy going» (which often translates into responding to business demands) and «making people feel safe» (essentially, reassurance).

But believe me, when I blog on political sites as I do often, i slaughter all bad political people, very much including TRUMP.

For instance, political campaigns frequently push people to volunteer sign - up or donations pages, while advocacy groups will often promote email - your - Congressmember campaigns and similar political actions.

How often do we see the people who run Twitter accounts for companies, big nonprofits, political campaigns and...

The political left has taken up this principle with enthusiasm - in fact, it often feels like there's an army of white middle class left - wingers looking for things to be offended by on other people's behalf.

Mainstream media and the pundit class often seem obsessed with the political blogs to the exclusion of the rest of online campaigning, but it remains true that each major lefty blog and online community gathers politically passionate people who are disproportionately likely to be active in supporting (or opposing) campaigns.

The systematic distortion of news and impossibility of talking about the future in public (when perhaps as many as 1 in 8 people are in government pay as spies) mean visions are often impressionistic and political conceptual frameworks incredibly simplistic.

The process is complex and often holds back people who can't afford a political consultant when they launch their campaign.

It is often presented as participation by political equals but actually blogging doesn't present people as equals.

It's difficult to appreciate why some learned persons at bar or bench would often make some «political utterances» against certain individuals or group of persons perceived or believed to be affiliated to NDC with impunity.

Moreover, Machiavelli offers the same, often brutally immoral advice to political actors — princes and magistrates, peoples and elites — in both books.

When you factor in that the people most affected by the rise in commuting fares (especially season tickets) are middle - class and often located in marginal constituencies, rail fares get a lot of political attention.

People often point to Daily Kos as a model for a successful blog, since it's one of the top destinations in the progressive political web and features an impressive legion of regular contributors.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.