Sentences with phrase «radical position on»

The second questionable way in which minorities in the once mainline churches try to re-form the churches is by identifying true Christianity with the adoption of what are perceived as radical positions on various contemporary issues of personal and social ethics.

You can bet your bottom privatization dollar that as soon as these edu - tourists hear any reasonable, evidence - based rationale refuting their radical positions on teacher evaluation, tenure or the use of Value - Added Measures, they will inevitably blurt out the one magic incantation they believe will repel all attacks, confident in its power to tug at the heartstrings of any parent / voter: «But, it's all about the kids!»

His fund raising is on the below average side though possibly due to his too radical for even radicals position on some things, like Republica Del Norte.

Not exact matches

Bergson's insistence on this radical continuity of time leads him to startling and seemingly contradictory positions.

Does this new emphasis on a «radical» and «substantive» evil mean that we can no longer place Buber in that middle position which regards evil as real but redeemable, thus refusing to ascribe to it an absolute and independent reality?

The magazines move from the strongly traditional viewpoint of Moody Monthly (a viewpoint carrying on the social ethic of late nineteenth century American revivalism), through the moderately conservative stance of Christianity Today (a stance that seeks perhaps unconsciously to revive the social activism of American fundamentalism prior to the repeal of Prohibition and the Scopes trail), to the socially liberal commitment of The Reformed Journal (a position seeking to be contemporary, and yet faithful to Calvin's thought) and the socially radical perspective of Sojourners (a perspective molded in the Anabaptist tradition).

The more radical and on the whole more competent critics took the position that Jesus expected momentarily the decisive act of God which would suddenly inaugurate the new age of righteousness and peace.

We stated our position on this in a little book published in 1970, Movement and Revolution, billed as a conversation between a conservative and a radical.

To expand on Nicolas Holthaus» excellent comment: in a modern western society, if you're in a position to make your opinions on «populism» widely heard, you're close enough to the top of the social hierarchy that radical social change would be very much against your class interests!

Only Boris Johnson is really banging the drum for radical change after Brexit, but even his position is largely based on rhetoric.

«In the gubernatorial race, they'll choose between Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has served as a strong voice for New Yorkers and consistently taken on corruption in both government and the private sector, and Carl Paladino, a radical Republican candidate who is out of touch with New Yorkers — and whose positions appear to be growing more extreme by the day.»

No matter what your starting position is, if the circumstances allow for radical reform, you might as well go for proper PR instead of some complex new variant on STV.

If a new leader is elected and a bold radical policy programme is formulated, and integrity among politicians is established the Labour Party will be in a unique and highly rewarding position of taking on and resoundingly defeating the Conservatives.

Amid debates about renewing the party's position on issues such as austerity, immigration, patriotism and Brexit, one of the themes that came up repeatedly at fringe events was how Labour could to start to rebuild trust and support across the country by setting out a radical programme for devolution.

«Central New Yorkers won't be fooled by his desperate attempts to hide from his radical and well documented position on this issue.»

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Yet the administration's position is much more radical, stating clearly that a «policy that is neutral on its face» and «administered in an even - handed manner» can still «result in unlawful discrimination» if it has a «disproportionate and unjustified effect on students of a particular race.»

«Just one month ago, California Federation of Teachers President Marty Hittleman - the same man who called the Parent Trigger the «lynch mob provision» - confidently predicted to the media that Governor Brown would immediately remove me from the State Board because I had used my position to advocate for radical kids - first change, ominously stating that I would not be serving on the State Board «in a month or so.»

Those who followed the debut of the O'Reilly Tools of Change Author (R) evolution Day conference in New York last month are familiar, for example, with agent Jason Allen Ashlock's positioning of this new stance as the «radical advocacy» of an industry professional whose partnership with clients can take on new depths and collaborative detail.

As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor of the building's entrance to capture the footprints of those entering and exiting.10 The creation of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution of Rauschenberg's works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes.»

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Through it, Oldenburg asserted his radical artistic position, stating: «I am for an art that is political - erotical - mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

-LSB-[So to conclude my position: Let us put radical changes on hold until around ~ 2020 or so.

The network has frequently made the connection between extreme weather and climate on air, and last fall, it released a public position statement that warned of «radical and irreversible changes.»

Today, Stern is celebrated by radicals, liberals and lefties, while he advances the climate change cause, and positions himself to take financial advantage of the carbon markets created by the regulations that he was instrumental in devising, which foist «sustainability» on both the developed and developing world.

O'Neill's position is portrayed the «radical» or «strong» form of the argument, maintaining that both states should succeed to the EU and that automatic succession is possible (see his posts on the eutopia blog here, here and here).