Sentences with phrase «political purposes as»

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Every minority - government budget is to some great extent a political document, purpose - built for two contradictory goals: persuading at least one opposition party to support it to keep the government afloat, while also serving as a de facto election platform if no one bites.

«DonorsTrust makes grants only to other publicly supported 501 (c)(3) organizations,» Whitney Ball, the President and CEO of DonorsTrust said via email, «and as a condition of accepting any grant the grant recipient must agree that grant funds will not be used for lobbying or other political purposes.»

The economist who originally devised the measure of all the cash flowing through an economy, Simon Kuznets, warned the world not to use his invention for the very purpose it has served: as a guide to political and economic choices.

AggregateIQ is now among 30 companies being investigated by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

The company's activities are being looked at as part of a wider investigation by the ICO into the use of data analytics for political purposes.

Last month the UK's data protection agency obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica — as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of data analytics for political purposes which it kicked off in May 2017.

In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes, reports indicate Facebook will contribute raw, anonymized data to a new Social Data Initiative via what is described as an independent, transparent and peer — reviewed process.

His entire political purpose, as he put it in coming out as an aspiring politician, is economic.

Besides that, anxieties in Ukraine are diminishing now, and gold's purpose as a hedge against political instability isn't presently needed.

Reports that Facebook harvested and abused users» data for political purposes emerged Friday, as the company's former partnership with the voter - profiling company Cambridge Analytica was exposed.

Swann's bill defines PACs as «a corporation or group established or maintained for the primary purpose of accepting political action contributions and incurring political action expenses to engage in political promotion but does not include (i) a registered party, or (ii) a registered constituency association.»

But, he said, the church must respond to the new political / social / spiritual environment, which did include the end of the Cold War and other global shifts, as the WCC discerns and defines its purpose.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none, and that it is the greatest heresy of modernity is precisely to see politics as a matter of conviction: as though one could recuperate, at the level of political purpose, the consoling certainty which once was granted by religious faith.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

The prime proponents of ID are the fine folk at the Discovery Inst / itute who openly admit that they purpose is NOT to teach what they think is true, but rather to use ID as a «wedge to defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural and political legacies» and to separate science from it's allegiance to «atheistic naturalism».

They have seen daughters as a burden and as only having value for breeding purposes or in higher circles for forging political alliances.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

the article is irresponsible in not making clear to the reader that these images were created hundreds of years after the fact by enemies of Christ (Romans) who subsequently saw it as political beneficial to gain political control of the otherwise uncontrollable christian cult for the purpose of expanding the roman empire.

The comprehensive purpose exiled from modern moral and political thought is reasserted as the purpose of human rights.

As a political principle, however, freedom to choose one's religion in this sense implies the freedom to choose one's explicit belief about reality and human purpose as such, even if that belief is merely philosophical or ideological in naturAs a political principle, however, freedom to choose one's religion in this sense implies the freedom to choose one's explicit belief about reality and human purpose as such, even if that belief is merely philosophical or ideological in naturas such, even if that belief is merely philosophical or ideological in nature.

The problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicization we're confronting the purpose of which is to give one American political party a strategic governance position while ignoring the reports from US Border agents as to who is coming over the border.

A number of my fellow rock - bohemians hungered to get «our 60s,» our movement that would unite our generation with purpose — it was feeling I felt throughout my 80s teenage - dom, but I became disturbed at the way the «political» longings were increasingly so content - empty, not seriously seeking any overall account of things, and thus seeming ready to embrace any ol' something to be against that would serve as an excuse to protest.

The significance of an educated clergy, colleges and seminaries under religious auspices, and even places of worship that can double as meetinghouses for political purposes should not be overlooked.

Asked on the call how his faith had shaped his success as a businessman and his political career, the presidential candidate spoke about «a conviction that life is eternal, that your family is your greatest prize, that ultimately what we accomplish in life is of little significance compared to the interests of the savior Jesus Christ and his purposes.»

So great is the change in the political climate that it seems likely we will have to pay more attention to the danger of uncritical enthusiasm for religion in public, especially when religion is promoted as an instrumental good for the achievement of sundry purposes public and personal.

But as Father Coughlin «s broadcasts turned highly political and sometimes seemed anti-Semitic, CBS adopted the NBC policy of refusing to sell time for religious purposes, instead apportioning a limited amount of free time to major Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faith groups.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

As C.T. Kurien has written, the State has to discipline capital both domestic and international if capital is not to discipline the state to serve its purposes; and for it the State needs not only political power but also some economic power derived from public corporations.

Hence, the use of technology for good purposes runs into three tough problems at once: (1) balancing private wants and social needs; (2) harmonizing the plans made by individual experts with the decisions of the public as a whole; and (3) devising long - range policies in a political system which responds best to immediately felt needs, fears, and wants and which has a generally ill - informed electorate.

This controversy only began in May, and it began as a result of some politicians who decided to use this for certain political purposes.»

And, as soon as the Marxist party seizes power, it manufactures an official history for political purposes which are even worse.

A republic as an active political community of participating citizens must have a purpose and a set of values.

Social - welfare organizations are permitted to engage in a range of political activities promoting their causes or beliefs, so long as these activities aren't their «primary purpose.»

For while the media, and particularly television, serve mainly as mediators of the culture, the political and economic interests of the media controllers pass the culture through discreet but generally well - defined filters which are effective in serving their own purposes, namely reinforcing the economic status quo and suppressing challenge in the form of specific critique or overall diversity.

In effect, the Court makes it impossible to have anything other than a procedural common good as a motive or purpose for political activity.

Space does not permit elucidation of the specific principles on which they worked, but it may suffice for our purpose to note that the law, the shari`a, as built up by the founders and generations of commentators, embraces all the rules of God's prescription for the conduct of men — domestic life, political and social activities, religious and ritual duties.

We have applied for charitable status in the past, but the Charity Commission views our work on regulating the baby feeding industry to protect parents and babies as a «political purpose».

The purpose of political districting is to ensure local representation - something that is valued as itself in the US.

Technology itself is politically neutral; but every technology can serve as a tool to achieve some defined political or social purpose.

Clearly PH has reached a point where their polls can be used for political purposes, just as we hit a critical stage ahead of the election.

This growing emergence of an urban (metropolitan) dimension to national (and international) discourses on shared values, imaginations and common purpose has come to challenge the nationalisation thesis formulated as part of «political modernisation» (Hofferbert and Sharkansky, 1971), and its primary focus on territorial states as expressions of an existing and cohesive civil society, or as «nationalisers» seeking to shape a national identity (Brubaker, 1995).

The situation is even made worse as some of the youths for pecuniary benefits work across purpose while others have settled for political crumbs that fall from «the masters» table.

The People's Forum - Ghana in the recent past has done some works to protect the sanctity of our State institutions such as The Bank of Ghana (BoG) and the Statistical Service of Ghana (SSG) from the effect of the works of political speculators who sought to cast doubts on the efforts of our hard working professionals, only for the purpose of gaining political advantage.

The purpose of terrorism is to exploit the media in order to achieve maximum attainable publicity as an amplifying force multiplier in order to influence the targeted audience (s) in order to reach short - and midterm political goals and / or desired long - term end states.»

Open Britain has emerged as a cross-party political force since the referendum, with the purpose of campaigning against a «hard, destructive Brexit».

She says the committee, which is formed as a not - for - profit 501c4, is using rules intended to protect givers to charitable and civil rights concerns as a «cloak» to «shield from disclosure» names of donors who give money for more purely political purposes.

The lecture itself can be summed up as the usual humdrum, a rehashed litany of half - truths, abject lies, and a scare - mongering escapade for mere political purposes.

Liberal Labour would cut off the ideological purpose of this party, so Labour taking seats in this region, as part of a re-colonisation of the political centre, should be possible too.