Sentences with phrase «political stance taken»

The majority of players and critics have enjoyed the chaotic mess but some gaming sites have criticized Ubisoft's passive political stance taken during the story.

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From legal action against President Trump's executive orders to numerous Super Bowl ads, many brands have chosen to take a stance in the current political climate.

Customers want the retailer to take a political stance, as does President Trump.

Often, when companies take political stances, critics will say they should «stick to business.»

The political turn for The Swift Life is particularly interesting due to the fact that the pop singer herself famously avoids taking any political stance (with some critics arguing that her neutrality is a gambit aimed at maintaining the broadest possible appeal), with Swift even declining to denounce racist supporters who call her an «Aryan goddess.»

In the past, it's been considered a sound business practice for brands to avoid taking public political stances on hot topics.

Taking political stances on social media — Facebook and Twitter, in particular — has been a hot trend for months.

More and more, we're seeing business leaders take a stance on social and political issues.

Across the political aisle, Merkel's main rival for the chancellery and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) front - runner, Martin Schulz, has taken a much harsher and more outspoken stance against Trump and his administration.

With opposition to abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken on a distinctly political direction.

The Church of England has not taken as radical a political and social stance as the Episcopal church in the USA.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

The churches like to take what they call a «prophetic stance» toward economic and political issues.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

Facism is a political ideology which does not take stances on faith.

As Society points out, the sacastic mocking was meant to micmic the «sales pitch» not to take a political stance himself.

While Hendra treats a host of subjects as worthy of careful sifting, he takes his political stance as axiomatic.

The LDS church does not take a political stance, but does encourage people to be «politically involved.»

i'm tired of this nonsensical political stance wenger takes, although it has been successful for him at the cost of the club winning trophies.

I don't think the anthem is necessarily political as no political stances are made within it unlike someone who takes a knee during it for explictly political reasons.

During the World Series Championship parade Wednesday in San Francisco, Giants relief pitcher Sergio Romo took a political stance wearing this shirt.

But injecting your political worldviews into the most random discussions while bristling at any personal scrutiny is a funny stance to take.

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There are plenty of political discussions to be made which do not specifically involve the politics of the Labour party or taking a partisan stance on the governments record.

Former head of the Political Science Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has described as «irresponsible» the stance taking by the Electoral Commission on the call for new voters register.

For much of his business career, Romney did not take public, political stances.

NYC Councilman - turned - Senator Tony Avella sent a letter today to his erstwhile political foe, Mayor Blooomberg, accusing him of taking an «unconscionable» stance on the so - called holiday «bonuses» he's trying to eliminate as part of his pension reform push.

Mr. Díaz has often complained that social conservatives like himself — he takes more liberal stances on fiscal issues — are alienated in the city political establishment.

«Although I don't take a party political stance... I don't think the Government has done enough at...

For the many congressional Democrats in the region who haven't taken a stance on President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, political pressure has intensified as the White House courts their support and the pact's opponents escalate their lobbying efforts.

«Although I don't take a party political stance... I don't think the government has done enough at all.»

However, instead of simply taking the populist stance that polticial parties are part of the problem, we need to recognise the important role they play in connecting the vast majority of voters to our political system.

Political party representatives who spoke on the programme, as usual, took opposing stance on the issue.

Do you recall the e-mail or letter we got from this gentleman, who was upset about a particular political stance that we took and cited something that we had done and said we would never have done that in the past?

Neutrality on political issues was once the norm, but millennial spending power and political polarisation mean it's now riskier to be neutral than to take a stance.

So Venice — while admittedly also a bastion of thoughtless tourism — united both her interest in classical culture, and her penchant for taking a political stance.

In this context, taking a stance on socio - political issues can be a powerful way to foster a strong company culture and burnish an employer brand.

Will Ferrell takes an American stance while Zack Galifianakis shows his love for puppies in this latest look at the upcoming political comedy.

Despite Bigelow wisely taking little to no political stance on the war in Iraq I can only assume that all the Awards recognition this film recieved were in some way a form of western propaganda.

But, perhaps the most notable thing about the film is that it is a great work of art that is a political work of art, and achieves this greatness solely on the basis of its art: How it tells its tale, not the stances it takes on the issues.

The Duchess of Cambridge, in line with royal protocol which forbids members of the British royal family from taking a political stance on public issues, wore a dark green dress.

As I've gotten older, I'm become more and more cynical about movies that seem like blatant crowd pleasers — I can see right through those middlebrow films taking on fairly obvious and safe political stances, playing them off as something progressive.

Unaware that universities took official stances on contentious political questions, I asked what that «line» might be.

of traditional teacher certification programs (i.e. passing state tests, taking a political stance through teachers unions, etc.) when they choose alternative teacher certification programs.

This enabled me to take a neutral stance on all the political aspects and simply use them as tools for plot and character development.

was business as usual for the BoC, the federal banker finally threw off its neutral position on the economy — a stance taken when political campaigns are in full swing — to offer Canadians and economists a glimpse into where the Bank believes the Canadian economy is heading in the near future.

British artist Tracey Emin takes a sexually provocative stance to her work, as a way of locating it within a feminist tradition — the personal as political.

AH: What political stance did your exhibition at Gavin Brown take in relation to global investment in New York real estate and why is it important to you?

His work, which includes documentary, fiction and experimental narratives, takes a critical stance on modern - day social, political and cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society from its margins.

These found materials bring history and context while taking on strong political and social stances to offer commentary about their world.