Sentences with phrase «political voice of»

Roberts then asks us to panic about the possibility of the political voice of fat Americans being used to demand, elevators, escalators, and other forms of labour - saving mechanisation, which in turn worsens the cycle of increasing fuel use, carbon emissions, and the world's waistlines.

Some of the secretive funding uncovered in the Hedge Clippers report also went to anti-union Prop. 32, a measure that would have silenced the political voice of educators and other employees.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Bella Savitzky Abzug, who with her election to the US House of Representatives in 1970 from a West Side district became the embodiment of the rising political voice of America's women, was honored in March, the 20th anniversary of her 1998 death, with a street naming at the corner of Bank Street and Greenwich Avenue in the West Village.

ella Savitzky Abzug, who with her election to the US House of Representatives in 1970 from a West Side district became the embodiment of the rising political voice of America's women, was honored in March, the 20th anniversary of her 1998 death, with a street naming at the corner of Bank Street and Greenwich Avenue in the West Village.

Since 1983 the 504 Democratic Club has been the political voice of persons with disabilities in NYC.

Stuart Appelbaum, an ESPA board member since 2008, told Gay City News that he has been in conversations with other community leaders about «a new model for expressing the political voice of the LGBTQ community.»

There is also now a real opportunity for the Tories to become the political voice of aspirant Blue Collar workers.

Over at The Political Voices of Women, guest blogger Deb Della Piana from Turn Left asks women to Use Your Brains, Don't Vote for McCain.

Not exact matches

It has been at the heart of political revolutions, such as the Arab Spring, it has given a voice to individuals who have been wronged and those socially disenfranchised, such as the impact it has had on raising awareness of the #metoo movement, or the GoFundMe campaign that raised over $ 200,000 for a homeless veteran.

Once heralded as the voice for emerging markets, the BRICS group consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is now plagued by economic and political weaknesses.

In the case of people using Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel as a means of voicing political outrage, users are finding creative ways to illustrate an important point.

The post-Soviet generation of engaged and wired Russians who are loudly finding their political voice remains small in number for a country of Russia's size.

The political blog Guido Fawkes put together this video that compares the voice from the ISIS video and archive footage of Rumaysah.

«While I never expected to have this heightened platform — and stepping into the political fray was daunting — I recognized both the privilege and the opportunity to use my voice to dramatically advance an important conversation that benefits parents and families nationwide,» she wrote, emphasizing the importance of paid family leave.

I hope we all start listening to McCain and the few other voices of reason telling us that our current take - no - prisoners approach to political disagreement is getting us nowhere fast.

Many of the users locked out of their accounts were conservative voices on the platform, leading to calls of political bias, which the company denounced.

Published 6 times per year, their mission is to reflect and amplify the voices of entrepreneurial women; to share their stories of risk and success; to chronicle their growing political, economic and social influence and power; to celebrate their triumphs; to provide solutions to their problems; and to identify and promote a new generation of leaders, along with role models and mentors for tomorrow's leaders.

We are quick to point out any wrongs all sides of the political spectrum, but this piece was specifically about Christy Clark return to the public stage and what she chooses to raise her voice about.

The problem with allowing companies a voice in the political process is that all it really does is give a handful of company executives the authority to finance their personal political views at the expense of their shareholders.

That's why an increasing number of voices on both sides of the political spectrum have been pressing for additional reforms that would reduce the chances that the federal government will have to step in to save another big, dumb bank.

Instead of shaping the outcome of this or that political race, they've sought to amplify the voices of activists and intellectuals who share their suspicion of government power.

Former caretaker prime minister Panagiotis Pikramenos, his voice at times breaking as he addressed the lawmakers, noted he had only been in office for 35 days at a time of political and economic turmoil in Greece.

There is a widening gap between individuals who have benefited from the policies of governments and those who have seen little relief, and that gap is particularly wide in autocratic countries where people have inadequate ability to change those policies or to voice their political opposition.

Germany viewed the laws of history as favoring national planning to organize the financing of heavy industry, and gave its bankers a voice in formulating international diplomacy, making them «the principal instrument in the extension of her foreign trade and political power.»

De Gruchy might have placed more Catholic voices in his litany, including Pope Benedict XV, who commended forgiveness and reconciliation to European nations at the end of World War I, and Pope John Paul II, who also advocated mercy and forgiveness as political practices.

The moral, cultural, and political life of our country needs the persistent, reasoned, and persuasive voice of First Things.

Those who lose the vote rarely feel that their voice has been heard, and they are likely to feel that they are bowing not to the Word of God but to a stronger and better organized political faction.

It was easy to recognize, in the words of this latest exhortation to more faithfully follow the gospel in the economic and global - political realm, the voice of our dear shepherd» to see the sharp intellectual and moral challenge of his mind, coupled with the loving understanding of his heart, so passionate to bring Christ to the world and the world to Christ.

However, the loudest cheers at the rally went not to these political leaders but to a voice relatively unknown to the secular media, Christian radio personality Janet Parshall, host of the nationally syndicated Janet Parshall's America.

The issue has so far been ceded — by default — to pseudo-moralists like Richard Lugar, Pat Buchanan and the Christian Coalitionist's Ralph Reed, who have been the only major political voices to speak out against the proliferation of legalized gambling... The highest formulaic expression of the New American Economy might just be «casinos plus part - time jobs.»

It may well be that liberal voices such as Fathers Charles Curran and Richard McBrien, along with the National Catholic Reporter and kindred spirits, are largely responsible for the religious, cultural, and political convergence of evangelicals and Catholics they now fear.

A group of retired political figures who have had a voice in many situations around the world but are no longer «players» within the organisations they gained their notoriety in.

Voices on all sides of the religious and political spectrum have begun to recognize — not least because of the increased presence of Islam in Western societies — that a purely secular, liberal approach to public discourse is not sustainable in a world increasingly shaped by religions.

One is political theology in Europe, chiefly Germany, which is best characterized as the voice of the bourgeoisie questioning its own religious and cultural assumptions and its own economic and political systems.

Amnesty International has added its voice to the growing demand within Colombia for an end to mass arrests, torture of political prisoners, repression of labor organizations and other violations of human rights.

But while experience shows that the Catholics» answer to the fundamentalists lies in the base communities, only a minority of bishops have strongly pushed for them because of the Vatican's frequently voiced concern that they are too «horizontal» — meaning that they are a democratic influence on a hierarchical church — and liable to become involved in social and political issues.

Third, the Christian church has little access to or influence on the major policy making institutions of our society, in spite of the noisy presence of reactionary church voices and political campaign allusions to religious values.

Yet none of the voices from the journalistic and political establishments dared criticize Imus because he sells their books big time.

Comedy Central's president stated: «Through his unique voice and vision, «The Daily Show» has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come.

Although there have been some clever moves in political philosophy to explain why the religious voice should not be a part of our public debates, such theories wind up describing debates from which deeply religious people are simply absent.

In recent years, however, Pannenberg has voiced caution concerning one of the offspring of European political theology, South America's liberation theology.

The theory that human beings in pursuit of their own interests will automatically establish a harmonious society, provided everyone has an equal voice in political affairs, is no more true than the corresponding thesis in economic affairs.

We hold that only the voice of God is to be treated as the voice of God, but with respect to political sovereignty that declaration is a keystone of democratic government.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

One reason was notdissimilar to the suspicions of the Foreign Office traditionally voiced in British political circles: that it is run by people whose instinct is to «go native».

The voices I hear today, in both political parties, are voices of adolescence.

Mr. Spiliakos, the most able and independent political voice in the blogosphere (check out his contributions at NO LEFT TURNS), opens below on the saddest of supermen (not Obama).

(Other speeches in the past, for example, had Obama as the one voice of civility in a climate of political incivility, or the one post-partisan in a world of partisanship.)

It is not surprising that there were a number of people who wished to silence a dissenting voice, and who wanted to claim that scientific and military questions can be kept separate from political and moral ones.

The expense of political campaigns gives the poor less and less of a voice in government and society.