Sentences with phrase «promoted by activists»

We see clearly in the result of the 2016 presidential election that political outcomes can act as a brake on runaway cultural agendas promoted by activists and elites at the extremes of public opinion.

It is certainly very true that the majority of his audience comprises left - leaning Guardian readers, predisposed to believe in the line — heavily promoted by the activist journalists who write for the Guardian's environment pages — that AGW is a fact and that anyone who disputes it is evil.

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The lawsuit was promoted to the media by an anti-Trump, anti-abortion activist named Steve Baer, a conservative activist and donor with a very influential email list.

The proposed «Bring Business to Texas and Fairness in Disclosure Act» (the «Texas Act») is purportedly intended to «foster and promote the immediate and full disclosure of the individual ownership of persons who are activist investors» and «prohibit discrimination by a proxy advisory firm.»

How many human rights activists would so willingly embrace a secular worldview if they realized that by doing so they throw out the foundational basis on which their tireless work to promote human rights rests?

Indeed, it is the rhetoric used by activists that promotes the images of «war.»

I may be a bit ahead of the blog posters, but in the news yesterday there was an article of a b.i.l.l.b.o.a.r.d that was put up just outside of Parisberg Pennsylvania, promoted by Er.nest P.e.r.c.e, an ex-minister that read: S.L.A.V.E.S, OBEY YOUR MASTER Colossians 3:22 This lesson brought to you by: THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE and the House of Representatives paid for by Americanatheists.org and PANonbelieving.org and was torn down by some Civil Rights Activists, because the message also displayed a picture of a N.e.g.r.o s.l.a.v.e in bondage.

Similarly, the CREDO petition (started by a CREDO member, BTW, but being promoted by CREDO itself) asks activists to «Tell NBC News: Correcting Republican lies is part of your job.»

He signed a pledge, promoted by Americans for Prosperity — a Koch Industries - funded conservative activist group — promising not to vote for any climate change legislation that would raise government revenue.

Activists then promoted community pressure groups to protect the «democracy and development» gains made by the mass movement during the PNDC era.

Of all the issues that were laid before me in this competition, I could not help but feel that by supporting this group of scientists and activists in their fight for the planet, we would also be promoting the ideas that knowledge / literacy is power — that other species should be treated with respect — that everyone deserves the basic rights of food, safety and equality — that despite our differences, our common ground is the planet we live on — and that unless we make a serious commitment to protect it, the problems of the future will be too big for any organization to tackle.

None more so than the Viva Project, which stands for Vision, Idea, Voice, Action, and was started by a Chicago - based community organizer and policy activist involved in promoting the spread of charter schools in the state.

Our current education system is the product of multiple generations of previous reforms, also promoted by well - meaning activists and educators.

You see, once a law like this goes on the books at the state or local level, it becomes much easier for lawmakers — and the activists who have their ears — to promote similar legislation in other places by using precedent as justification.

When these lawmakers are approached by animal - rights activists promoting legislation that would effectively do away with our right to have pets, they will have a powerful response to avoid supporting such misdirected legislation.

For the most part, the legislation being proposed around the country is being promoted by a few very well - funded national animal - rights organizations and then embraced by local activists.

About The Studio Museum in Harlem Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, The Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of outstanding artists of African descent.

First as a magazine journalist and later as a nonprofit development and communications specialist, she has been inspired by the stories of the artists, small business owners, local farmers, and community activists she has had the opportunity to cover and promote.

This grant is part of the foundation's Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grants initiative, a program that advances the values promoted by the artist and activist Robert Rauschenberg during his lifetime and career.

Founded in 1968 by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists, The Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in promoting the work of outstanding artists of African descent.

Spanning the emergence of Black feminism, debates over the possibility of a unique Black aesthetic in photography, and including activist posters as well as purely abstract works, the exhibition asks how the concept of Black Art was promoted, contested and sometimes flatly rejected by artists across the United States.

The opening night of the GreenShows — the place to be for greenies during New York Fashion Week — provided a platform for Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Tiffany & Co., and model and activist Summer Rayne Oakes to promote action against deforestation — primarily driven by top fashion brands» custom packaging and shopping bags — in Indonesia's rainforests.

But with Trump's inauguration it will be the beginning of the end for the Green Blob — that sinister cabal of corrupt politicians, UN - and EU - technocrats, bent scientists, shrill activists, rent - seeking corporatists, blood - sucking lawyers and gullible journalists which has held the world to ransom these last four decades by promoting the man - made climate change scare story and other, related environmental scams.

As their campaign against ExxonMobil stalls both in legal courts and the court of public opinion, green activists are attempting to restart the effort by promoting a study by two prominent professors.

I mean it's like people, I think it's promoted I used to believe it by the way when I was an anti-nuclear activist.

What most definitely is scandalous is the vile hypocrisy of Soon's harrassment by the warmist establishment, which receives billions every year from the US government, left - wing charities, and billionaire activists like Tom Steyer and George Soros to prop up their bankrupt cause by promoting exactly the kind of junk science which Soon (and similarly principled scientists) have made it their business to shred.

Because most meteorologists are employed directly or indirectly by governement and academia, they are all to often intimidated with retaliation and denied the right to exercise free speech to combat the hijacking fof the profession, their professional associations, and the science by a minority of political activists inside and outside their profession, who have promoted their likeminded collaborationists into positions of leadership.

George Monbiot, a British environmental activist and writer, said that by promoting doubt, industry had taken advantage of news media norms requiring neutral coverage of issues, just as the tobacco industry once had.

On the solution side, activists and organizations that promote low - carbon development strategies and climate change adaptation will be strengthened by embracing population factors in determining investment priorities.

By aggressively promoting change and advocating unconventional practices, activists become associated with hostile militancy and unconventionality or eccentricity.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».

Activists in several states are promoting the practice of jury nullification as a way to prevent the miscarriage of justice by the judiciary and the police.

They are kept on paper instead, a move heavily promoted by gun - rights activists who seek to limit gun regulations.

Moreover, popular trends, un-backed by research, and promoted by political activists, permeate the MHP and lay literature, then the MHP recommendation - making, and finally, court decisions.