Sentences with phrase «public stance in»

Indeed, she took a very public stance in 2011 when two books on Natalia Goncharova, with a mass of paintings of dubious authenticity, were published in the West.

Didn't support the Burnaby School Board's policy banning homophobia and transphobia: The premier didn't stand up for the board's progressive policy, missing a key opportunity to take a strong public stance in favour of protecting LGBT students.

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In recent months, President Obama has taken a public stance favoring a reclassification of broadband providers under Title II.

The change also follows a public stance taken by the White House, with President Obama saying in November he favors maintaining net neutrality by using the heavy regulatory approach of Title II.

On Monday former chancellor Norman Lamont defended Hammond's stance, saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme that «it is unavoidable that we have restraint on public spending,» adding: «it is not right for cabinet ministers to gang up on the chancellor in this way.

In the past, it's been considered a sound business practice for brands to avoid taking public political stances on hot topics.

So if you're rethinking your own company's level of LGBT policies and activism in the wake of the Nike - Pacquiao news, keep in mind that your culture's openness to LGBT employees is more than just a rating in an index, or a public stance against a celebrity's remarks.

During Starbucks's 2013 investor meeting, he squared off in person against a shareholder who complained that Schultz's public stance on same - sex marriage was alienating customers and hurting earnings.

Perkins's remarks reflect a wider trend among white evangelicals (81 percent of whom voted for Trump in the 2016 election): Many choose to disregard Trump's decidedly debauched, decades - old public persona to focus on his anti-LBGTQ and anti-abortion stances.

[8] While the details of the RBA Board's decision had been made public in a press release at the time of changes in monetary policy, they had not been made public when the stance of monetary policy was left unchanged.

This time last year, Sinn Féin attracted just 10 per cent support in polls, suggesting its anti-austerity stance is proving popular with the public.

The NRA has lately remained defiant in its unequivocal pro-gun stance, despite growing public pressure for lawmakers, regulators, and, increasingly, corporate America to do something on guns.

The coalition then crafted questions to determine where the politicians stack up when it comes to, say, their stances on faith - based initiatives, public prayer and support of the word «God» in the Pledge of Allegiance.

For example, if what you say in a public debate makes more «sense» than what Driscoll says, then you're more than likely to gain support from the masses because your stance is more logical.

First there is a tendency, owing perhaps to its MacIntyrean inspiration, to conceive of this «option» primarily in practical or political terms, that is, as a kind of «communitarian» stance within an increasingly hostile public square.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

The militia movement's stance on such issues as gun control or abortion or the sightings of UN troops in the American heartland do not threaten the Jewish community and thus need not trigger the public opposition of the Jewish community.

In a blend of words from his public speeches, imagined conversation, and fictional situations, the book highlights Obama's real stance on social justice and, in particular, economic and political empowermenIn a blend of words from his public speeches, imagined conversation, and fictional situations, the book highlights Obama's real stance on social justice and, in particular, economic and political empowermenin particular, economic and political empowerment.

And to my ordained colleagues I say, since it is in God's presence that we exist or, more literally, before whose face we are standing, there is no essential difference in our stance before an Obadiah or before the altar; and quite deliberately I seize this moment of the text to urge that in preaching and in the conduct of public worship, laughter be permitted, encouraged, elicited.

And the public, as Morgenthau establishes, is so denuded of power that it is unable to force its government (or the private governments in the wings) into a different moral stance.

This stretch is bad enough but what's worse is how Prothero's disdain for Santorum manifests itself repeatedly throughout the piece in a petty ad hominem like «Saint Santorum» and resurrecting the deliberating misleading conflation of Santorum's personal beliefs about birth control with his public policy stance.

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

The stance of conditional acceptance is that all rights should be accorded homosexuals, including ordination, but they draw the line with public displays of gay affection and they would not be happy with a gay spouse in the vicarage.

the program would afford an unparalleled opportunity to dramatize the interest of the Christian Church in the creative process in the arts, would encourage the production of films and programs of the highest standards, would give public support to those individuals in the film and broadcast industries who are striving to lift the general level of production, would present the Church in a positive rather than a negative stance in relation to these media, and would provide the opportunity for the Church in general and the B.F.C. and its members in particular to enter into significant conversations with the entertainment industry on standards, values, and goals.

The Soviet «evil empire» has certainly not come into the kingdom, but the Christian presence in Russia and in China, the example of Billy Graham, the late moves of their hero Ronald Reagan in the age of glasnost, the prospect of government dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (Israel being a favorite of this camp), will surely alter the evangelicals» public stance.

The one thing which I never understood is stance of not criticizing his team in public.

When asked for his stance on the futures of Nasri and Fabregas, who have been strongly linked with moves, Gazidis said: «We don't conduct our business in public and I am not going to throw my voice into the mix.

Cynicism aside I think there's tremendous signaling effect in making McConnell take a public stance.

While pro leagues take a tough, anti-sports betting stance in the legal world, some leagues, like the NBA, take a completely different approach when discussing the issue in public.

Hillary Clinton too has found opportunities to let voters in on her stances about breastfeeding in public — and in her favor is the fact that she herself has seen it all, and done it all before.

Here are five key points from me, and Scary Mommy contributor Annie Reneu, to fortify the feeding - in - public stance:

Larrichiuta told members that in her answer, Curran stuck to her public stance that she would not raise taxes.

Nixon, an actress known for her role in the HBO series «Sex and the City» is a prominent advocate for public education funding and has often pushed Albany to spend more money on schools, criticizing Cuomo's stance on funding issues.

Our Legislative Chambers were filled with law enforcement officials from towns and villages to support me and the majority of the Legislature for our public safety stance in restoring these vital positions.

Even his most conspicuous successes: the attack on Rupert Murdoch on phone hacking, his stance on bankers» bonuses and his opposition to intervention in Syria in 2013 earned praise from the parliamentary party and broad respect in the media, but did little to rehabilitate his rather pathetic public persona.

At the start of the war, the many retail societies in the Co-operative movement grew in both membership and trade, in part because of their very public anti-profiteering stance.

On Tuesday, both the WFP and the Alliance for Quality Education lashed out at Cuomo over his public budget stance in the negotiations.

A day after another Wikileaks dump revealed an email in which NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio told Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta the nominee's private speeches to financial firms are «hard to defend,» the mayor insisted it is still his «absolute conviction» that Clinton will honor her progressive public stances.

Among the questions: why would it be bad (in the mayor's view) for Tim Wu, who is to the left of Kathy Hochul, to be LG, how does the mayor square City safety concerns with Hochul's past stances on guns, whether as a past New York City Public Advocate de Blasio supports Tim Wu's idea that the lieutenant governor should act as a statewide public advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary oppoPublic Advocate de Blasio supports Tim Wu's idea that the lieutenant governor should act as a statewide public advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary oppopublic advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary opponents.

Greenberg says the public may not agree with every stance the governor has taken, but they seem relieved that someone in state government is acting like a leader.

That's when New York's lieutenant governor stepped in with a public response: «@Delta, as one of your most frequent flyers, know that the NY LG admires your principled stance.

Conservative MPs have held back from criticising their leader in public, but senior figures such as communities secretary Sajid Javid may well have been hoping that May would take a tougher stance.

McCluskey, who launched a hard hitting attack on the Labour leadership in a Guardian article published in January following the decision in the New Year to endorse a continuation of the government's public sector pay freeze, admits that the stance has led to a fracturing of trust between Labour and trade unions.

Other elements of the complaint are speculative, such as the charge that future public communications in the district made by New York Jobs Council could represent an in - kind contribution to the Heaney campaign, given its anti-Faso stance.

She is not liked statewide and Romney keeps shooting her in the foot with stupid things like his public anti-gay marriage stance.

In response to the devolving condition of New York's public housing and the recent lead paint inspection scandal, the federal government is taking a firm stance.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took heat over his tough stance on charter schools during an appearance on MSNBC's «Morning Joe» on Monday, and countered that he's acting in defense of the many more students who go to traditional public schools.

Faso, in a recent debate on public television, parsed his stance on Trump carefully.

In 2009, Mario Cuomo endorsed de Blasio in his successful bid to become public advocate, even though the two men had taken opposing stances on the term - limits debate, and, as the Times noted, «Former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo rarely plays the endorsement game when it comes to Democratic primarieIn 2009, Mario Cuomo endorsed de Blasio in his successful bid to become public advocate, even though the two men had taken opposing stances on the term - limits debate, and, as the Times noted, «Former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo rarely plays the endorsement game when it comes to Democratic primariein his successful bid to become public advocate, even though the two men had taken opposing stances on the term - limits debate, and, as the Times noted, «Former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo rarely plays the endorsement game when it comes to Democratic primaries.