Sentences with phrase «poor political move»

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Norris Magnuson has shown in a recent dissertation, «Salvation in the Slums» (University of Minnesota, 1968), how close contact with the poor moved the «mission workers» toward new social and political positions that favored the oppressed.

The political scientist Peter Hoberg (the great Richard Jenkins, who had a similar role as the lonely economics professor in The Visitor), welcomes him with great affection but turns out to be a poor guide when it comes to moving on in life.

I fear your advisors, especially those allied with the teachers unions, have convinced you that pulling back on your previous support of charter schools is a «gimmie,» a political move that costs you nothing... (R) apidly expanding charters offer many poor and minority children their best chance of emerging from K - 12 schools ready for a job or further education.

As the number of poor kids moves from 51 to 55 percent or more [of the overall school population], it'll be more difficult to reach a political consensus on a strategy to help them.»

As the head of the Globalization Response Program for the Integrated Social Development Centre, Amenga - Etego's soft - spoken integrity, warmth and his unique ability to move between the worlds of the powerful and the poor helped elevate water privatization as an important political and public health issue not only on a global scale, but on a deeply human one as well.

This undemocratic move takes power — literally, and in the political sense — away from the public, only to go on to lecture the poor about their opulent lifestyles... «Let them eat cake».

Pants suits have gotten a bad rep for women due to some poor choices by many political figures but when one moves away from rainbow color choices and boxy cuts they can be very feminine and flattering.