For this show LA artists will be invited to either work outside their comfort zones and explore our landscape with traditional painting / drawing or to make more conceptual /
political work pointing towards the numerous ecological issues facing our city.
Not exact matches
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.
You start to build up those data
points and you can very accurately say «Well, I don't know this person's party
political affiliation, but I do know they have a Barber and a Land Rover and a dog and they like shooting and
work in merchant banking, therefore, they're likely to be a Tory.
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said, «It's insane to me that something that
works this well, that's been so bipartisan, is jeopardized to score
political points.»
He said he did not want to turn what was happening at the Tata
works into a
political point - scoring battle.
No matter how many data
points and geo -
political analyses and expert opinions and astrological charts we have to
work with, history shows we're not very good at predicting the future.
The executives repeatedly appear to brag about their behind - the - scenes efforts to influence
political outcomes in Mexico, Australia and Kenya, at one
point teasing that they're beginning to
work in China, too.
With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and
political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only
point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to
work in times of dislocation.
When any religion, in this case islam, espouses ideas that are in direct conflict with the Constitution and openly
work to impose an alien
political / religious system called sharia on the United States, at some
point the right to claim constitutional protection is lost.
Such a concern is echoed by those who
point out that the inadequacies of several classical formulations of the significance of the person and
work of Christ did not take into account the social setting and the
political implications of the ministry of Jesus.
Castro for his part clearly recognized the
political gain in an alliance between liberation theology and Marxist revolution: «From a strictly
political point of view» and I think I know something about politics» I believe that it is possible for Christians to be Marxists as well, and to
work with Marxist Communists to transform the world.»
however this statement actually weakens the «controversial» aspect that He
pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant
political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's
work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.
He
pointed to the Ku Klux Klan, which decades ago was «a functioning, dominant
political force in American society which identified (itself) as a Christian organization, carrying out «God's
work,» branding the flaming cross as (its) symbol,» he said.
Several of Shakespeare's most notable
works have satirical elements
pointed toward everything from societal standards to direct
political analogies.
While others are listening to words of
political wisdom from the mouths of golden orators, the little blacks silently and successfully approach from the four
points of the compass, and set to
work upon the scraps of good food which yet remain.
Under present conditions, the intense consciousness raising about the «rightness» of personal choices that
worked so well in the early days of the women's movement will end up escalating the divisive finger -
pointing that stands in the way of
political reform.
If I sound cynical about the redistricting process, I have a right: my first substantive
political experience was
working for a member of the Texas House of Representatives during a special session devoted to redrawing those precious
political lines in 1992, during which at one
point I quite literally walked into a smoke - filled room.
A fantasist libertarian - anarchist «free market» is a very silly baseline, but... and this is a very obvious
point, and of course those
political philosophers you mention must have dealt with it... but I don't see how equality can be a «baseline» either, not while we live in world where some people
work hard and save their pennies, while others don't.
The
point of the talk was that the media turns a blind eye to these issues that affect
working Americans in the name of
political correctness.
Although the
point surrounding Trump could partially be talked of as a backlash against globalisation etc etc and that, it's undeniable at least that at least some portion of the
working class electorate are inherently on the
political right
At last week's «Data - Crunched Democracy» conference, Obama 2012 Chief Scientist Rayid Ghani
pointed out a real difference between the data
political campaigns
work with and what commercial marketers have at their fingertips: volume.
Commercial marketers usually have a wealth of data to
work with, from demographics to credit history to homeownership, but when he started
working in politics, Ghani was struck by the fact that
political campaigns are trying to build voter models based on a handful of data
points.
Established think - tanks across the
political spectrum such as the Fabian Society, ippr, Demos, Policy Exchange, the Social Market Foundation, Civitas and so on will make a
point of stating who the funder of any piece of
work or any event is.
He has made a
point of
working across the
political spectrum — hosting David Cameron and housing the progressive Conservative project, alongside that of James Purnell and Open Left, and publishing Nick Clegg on liberalism.
First, it's a piece of music intended to make a
political point about a modern conflict, one inherent in the nature of networked digital communications — authors and copyright holders have long profited from creative
works by charging to distribute them, but in a digital world, books, music and movies can be made in unlimited copies and shared essentially for free.
The basic
point: just as commentors on mainstream sites can speak directly to those sites» readers,
political campaigns are
working hard to reach voters directly online, without needing the support or even the notice of prominent bloggers to do so.
If the proposal to mandate season shutdowns starting next year were truly meant to cripple Indian
Point, it would represent the boldest assertion of
political muscle by Cuomo in the service of that goal at least since his first year as governor, when his aides reportedly informed Entergy that the administration intended to
work toward the plant's closure.
McCray joined the podcast to discuss the various components of her
work, where she sees the de Blasio administration at this
point in its tenure, the administration's struggles with getting its message out, her
political future, and more.
County Executive George Latimer has always made a
point to highlight his
political history of
working with Republicans in a bipartisan manner, whether it was giving committee chairmanships to Republicans when he served as chairman of the BOL, or getting Republican support for his bills while in the State Senate.
To try to make the relationship
work, and try to get something done, rather than devolve into this finger -
pointing,
political, everybody blames everybody.
She's currently employed by the
political PR firm SKDKnickerbocker, which
works with Quinn and now, after a poll found him trailing Spitzer by nine
points, Stringer too:
It is time to get beyond scoring
political points and get back to finding common core values and passing legislation that will help grow our economy and get more people back to
work.»
He looks a little sheepish when confronted with his clear - cut politics, having just declared NationBuilder's unique selling
point as being «impartiality», in contrast to the partisan
political consultancies doing relatively similar
work:
«We have consistently called for proper negotiations on the key issues of paying more and
working longer for less, but the government has refused at every
point, leaving us with no choice but to oppose what is nothing more than a
political attempt to make the least culpable pay the highest price for the failings of the banks.
Toolman - sympathetic to your
point about term limits; but the main reason there is such a strong case for term limits nowadays is because the districts have been made so dafe for one party or another that it's very difficult for my preferred check and balance (aka «an election») on past - their - sell - by - date
political hacks to
work normally.
The former miners» club provided a solid Welsh
working class reference
point for Wood's own
political background, and she recalled impressions -LSB-...]
As Douglas W. Rae
points out in the standard reference
work The
Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, majoritarian electoral systems are extremely rare for multi-seat legislatures, only being well established in Australia, and for second round voting in some French elections.
Isabel Oakeshott, the
political editor of The Sunday Times who
worked with Vicky Pryce to expose her taking of Chris Huhne's speeding
points, has said she «really doesn't feel responsible for what has happened to her».
Facing numerous analyses showing his signature jobs programs misallocated resources and put few New Yorkers to
work, Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued today that any such assessments are only a matter of
political point of view.
There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good»
working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing
political agenda — while there is in any case no
point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad»
working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of
work.»
Nassau County and its three towns say new or strengthened ethics laws will curb nepotism, but more than 100 current or former elected officeholders, high - level appointees and
political club leaders — Republican and Democrat — have had at least one family member
working in local government at some
point since 2015.
CSEA has offered the governor numerous alternatives to save even more money but the governor is only interested in ideas that inflict pain on the
work force to make a
political point.
«Governor Cuomo's proposal can only be viewed as an attack on
working people to score some cheap
political points,» Donohue said.
What's being revealed at trial of how the pay - to - play culture
works in New York, which has resulted in a $ 30 million
political war chest for the governor, is a case in
point.
«
Working New York» is a half - hour talk show hosted by New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes and addresses a wide range of social, political and economic issues from the point of view of working
Working New York» is a half - hour talk show hosted by New York State AFL - CIO President Denis Hughes and addresses a wide range of social,
political and economic issues from the
point of view of
working working people.
Through those records and interviews with government and
political party officials, Newsday confirmed that at least 102 county
political figures had a total of at least 141 relatives
working in public jobs at some
point since the end of 2014.
In a news story on Sunday and in an online database, Newsday showed that more than 100 current or former elected officeholders, high - level appointees and
political club leaders from both parties have had at least one family member each
working in local government at some
point since 2015.
«What we need right now is for leaders to step up and
work together, not hastily thrown together press releases drafted to score cheap
political points — New Yorkers deserve better.»
Nassau County and its three towns say new or strengthened ethics laws will curb nepotism, but more than 100 current or former elected officeholders, high - level appointees and
political club leaders — Republican and Democratic — have had at least one family member
working in local government at some
point since 2015.
He continued: «There will be calls for a «government - of national unity», to get
political adversaries round a table
working - together rather than
pointing fingers at each other.