Sentences with phrase «political voices in»

Sarasota, FL — According to a recent poll by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood is one of the most popular and trusted political voices in America.

It was crushing news from one of the most passionate political voices in British cinema.

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).

The NYT determines there is «near - universal agreement,» that though de Blasio is «on more of a glide path to re-election in New York City than any mayor in a generation, he is still struggling to project his political voice in a job that has long produced towering national figures.»

County Executive Molinaro was cited by the Poughkeepsie Journal as an «important political voice in the mid-Hudson Valley», in the Albany Times Union as one of Albany's «true reformers,» and by the Capitol newspaper as one of our state's «forty under forty» leaders.

Throughout his life Motherwell endeavoured to find a personal and political voice in his abstraction.

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In the past, the conference arguably was too American, overly focused on the dominant political and commercial voices that fuel and fund its host's activities.

While in prison and since her release, Manning has remained a highly visible political voice, with growing support from leftists within and outside the Democratic party.

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.

He cast Clinton as a Washington insider, digging up past scandals and reframing her decades in the political arena as a liability in a year when voters voiced increasing frustration with the political status quo.

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.

Unless he is the first over the wall in a large - scale Conservative jail break, Rathgeber's decision to resign from Stephen Harper's caucus and sit as an independent, means he will likely become a short - term political novelty, a dissident whose voice will be silenced as the political circus moves into another ring.

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.

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.

Johnny Monro says its time for Christians must become «slow to anger» and «abounding in love» if their voice is to be heard in mainstream political... More

The church's first pontiff from Latin America cited in particular the problems in Venezuela, voicing hope the country would «find a just, peaceful and humane way to surmount quickly the political and humanitarian crises that grip it».

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.

He argues that «liberal» and «conservative» voices in the church tend to mimic the groups that share those labels in the wider political culture.

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.

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.

But religious voices (conservative and liberal, Christian and non-Christian) must be included in the curricular conversation, not to save religion, but to be consistent with our educational, political and constitutional principles.

In fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years pasIn fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years pasin years past.

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.

Although political and ethical proposals similar to his are being discussed, it is not clear that his is an influential voice in the debate.

Churches in the US will have greater freedom to voice political views, under a new executive order to be issued by President Donald Trump on Thursday.

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.

There is and should be room for individuals, like the «pioneers» in Greider's tale and the Romanian - born auto mechanic in Wight's, to find their own voices in economic and political life.

She said: «I do feel that I have a responsibility as a person who has a big voice in this country to use it to promote justice, and kindness and goodwill in the world,» she said, «but it never has felt to me that it was supposed to be political and it still does not feel that to me.»

«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».

Otherwise these creatures will have no voice in the political processes.

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

(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.)

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

Many of us work jobs and careers in which we can not make political statements during work time but that does not prohibit us from voicing our opinions outside of our work duties.

The presentation comes in the guise of innocence and earnestness, but it has a powerful political meaning, one applying not only to the current campaign, but to the essence of human nature.A sweet voice begins,....

When the church is consumed and possessed by mortgages, capital campaigns, membership numbers, qualifications for membership or deacon or elder, the variety and format of financial reports, redecorating, ordination policies, the proper delineation of committee responsibilities, the aggregation and strengthening and protection of church hierarchical authority, the preference for political associations and prominence instead of being a voice and influence for justice and compassion, seasonal vestment colors, the abandonment and refusal to acknowledge congregations who dare to be excited by their proclaiming and provoking and living and sharing the Good News, the continual choosing and preoccupation with better organization over better outreach, or what styles of worship are to be offered — then it is time for an earth - shaking, stone - rolling, curtain ripping, hurricane - strength, fiery and noisy transformational revolution that will resurrect the Good News in the body and spirit of communities and individuals.

In consequence, Christian voices were prominent among those who served as mouthpieces and who created entire networks of political support for these regimes in the WesIn consequence, Christian voices were prominent among those who served as mouthpieces and who created entire networks of political support for these regimes in the Wesin the West.

«The Evangelistic Witness is directed towards all of the ktisis (creation) which groans and travails in search of adoption and redemption... The transfiguring power of the Holy Trinity is meant to reach into every nook and cranny of our national life... The Evangelistic Witness will also speak to the structures of this world; economic, political, and societal institutions... We must re-learn the patristic lesson that the Church is the mouth and voice of the poor and the oppressed in the presence of the powers that be.

The problems of teen - age sexuality and the fact that conservative political and religious groups have put these problems on their agendas suggest that it is urgent for mainline denominations and liberal churches to recover a credible voice in matters of human sexuality — both the ethical and the practical.

He's scared out of his wits over Republican political ascendancy and he shows no willingness to seriously engage responsible conservative Christian voices in public life.

From the George Fox Web site: In a time when «evangelical» has more of a political connotation than a convictional connotation, we need bright voices that can help sort through the noise and imagine a way forward for those who call themselves evangelical Roger E. Olson is professor of theology at Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, TexaIn a time when «evangelical» has more of a political connotation than a convictional connotation, we need bright voices that can help sort through the noise and imagine a way forward for those who call themselves evangelical Roger E. Olson is professor of theology at Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texain Waco, Texas.