Sentences with phrase «promote social agendas»

The answer clearly lies in the NEA's constant quest to promote social agendas and gain political clout.»

Not exact matches

Canadian embassies and trade commissions have aggressively promoted the mining industry's agenda on foreign soil, while large - scale public media campaigns, both at home and abroad, promote corporate social responsibility practices.

Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.

When we give in to this need for self exaltation, and organize others around our cause, then we recognize it as the warped type of social engineering you describe, where the goal is uniformity, not unity — promoting our own agenda, rather than participating in God's mission.

It's a travesity that EVERYONE tries to use Jesus Christ like a propaganda piece to promote some social / political agenda.

However, in the end, the dominant influences in this campaign were anonymous: they were the people who decided to fund and promote the «equality» agenda wherever and however possible; the editors and sub-editors of influential publications who carefully manipulated the presentation of the issues so that reasoned argument always looked cold and uncaring, and above all, the educators who decided to teach social inclusion by means of a series of examinable clichés rather than do the hard work of equipping people to think for themselves (but that is for another long article...).

But there are also huge areas of overlap - the most noticeable, perhaps, being on social justice, and the agenda for change formed during the last Parliament by Iain Duncan - Smith and promoted in this one especially by Liam Fox.

WHEN the documentary film March of the Penguins came out in 2005, some Christians tried to exploit it to promote a conservative social agenda.

Action on the other proposals — which make up the so - called «social issues» agenda of legislation promoting greater family choice in education and Christian values for youth — is being pushed by Congressional conservatives and pro-family...

Hence, NEA's myopic drive to advance its own brand of social justice has led it to a very bizarre and contradictory place — a coalition with an organization that promotes a product and behavior that runs counter NEA's own agenda.

Committee for Children focused on one aspect of our state legislative agenda for Advocacy Day — promoting Social Emotional Learning.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

Images from news reportage and photographs that provide social commentary or promote personal agendas all shape how we see our world and alter our view of the past.

The Paris climate deal and the follow - up climate gabfests such as in Marrakech are merely a ruse to market and promote «climate change» as an imminent and dangerous threat in order to promote many of the Left's social agendas like wealth redistribution, power, control and the elimination of capitalism as the dominant system of economic freedom and prosperity in favour of a centrally planned system i.e socialism / communism.

People like the AD are primarily about the culture wars, and only became interested in climate change as an issue when it could be seen to be a vehicle for promoting their broader social agenda.

My point, in a nutshell, is that much of what we call legal work for the public interest is essentially selfserving: Lawyers use public interest litigation to promote their own agendas, social and political — and (on a wider plane) to promote the power and the role of the legal profession itself.

(Though I do not promote or agree with this family court incentive to the «local community» for various reasons, one of which it goes to promote training that is for an agenda that is more than often used as a brainwashing of the judiciary and family court personnel in some skewed social engineering for power and more incentive funding scheme that results in process with negative results.)