Sentences with phrase «result of his activism»

In part as a result of their activism, Taylor resigned and was later convicted of war crimes; he is now serving a 50 - year prison sentence.

He has been a free agent since 2016, which some believe to be the result of his activism.

As a direct result of their activism, Chase - Riboud and Betye Saar became the first African American women to show at the Whitney.

As a result of his activism, John Baird received letters both supporting and opposing his stance.

Not exact matches

This growing activism is partly a result of the recession, which left many companies beat up and undervalued, yet reluctant to act.

Put another way, the gains resulting from institutional activism are a species of public goods.

They feel that they can avoid the subjective trendiness of «60s liberal Protestant activism, as well as the discouragement that resulted from the intransigence of the problems the liberals faced.

The cracks in the church's foundations resulted from pressures that built to the breaking point because of neglect, and the effects of social activism in the «60s and early «70s.

Here's the pattern at hand: a) discouragement or disgust with radical politics or the undeniable impact of some conservatism - friendly facts, results in a move away from political statements and activism, a retreat, into counter-culturalism, self - discovery, and artistry - for - artistry's sake, b) shifts in the political situation, or disgust at «apathy,» provoke a passionate recommittment to the leftist cause or a new articulation of it, and then, at some point, the rock - bohemian returns back to a).

This point of view has been popularized by the phrase «Do your own thing,» and it has resulted in an affirmation of just about every goal imaginable within the plethora of possible objectives that people could choose — pleasure, power, wealth, prestige, even violent activism for social betterment.

As a result of her civic and political activism, Simon has a unique understanding of community concerns at a grass roots level.

And that's the real check on the passion underlying any kind of activism: if you can't persuade people that their actions have some realistic path to success, or at least SOME kind of beneficial results, they'll lose that self - loving feeling and drift off to another cause or interest.

In the weeks before the midterms, polls of congressional races were starting to register the results of the rising dissatisfaction with Obamacare, combined with the surging wave of Tea Party activism.

In the «Rally for Refugees» march, participants addressed their safety concerns as a result of Trump's order, solidarity in resisting the Trump administration through activism and supporting refugees in Syracuse.

McDormand's performance, already resonant in the #MeToo moment, has become only more relevant in the wake of the Parkland shooting and the resulting outpouring of grief, anger, and activism.

A study that looked at stock returns in targeted companies in the days around the announcement of activism showed the following results:

Best of all, shareholders can leave all the heavy lifting to Pageant Holdings, and particularly to One51 — in terms of their activism & its potential results.

In 2010, an unprecedented level of citizen lobbying, grass roots activism and electronic networking resulted in the passage of the strictest high volume breeder bill ever introduced in our state.

Employees who have spoken out about PETA's killing say it is the result of the deeply disturbing version of animal activism promoted by PETA founder and President, Ingrid Newkirk.

McGowan, who quit acting as a result of Hollywood's pervasive sexism, has been channeling her anger into art and activism.

Since the shocking results of our recent election cycle, I've been exploring Judd's writing on activism in the 1970s, where, conflicted, he admits to the political implications of the artwork he had wished to make in isolation from the turbulent political climate of his day.3 In fact, during this time he had also marched in an anti-Vietnam protest alongside Ad Reinhardt, organized artists against Robert Moses» Lower Manhattan Expressway, and advocated for a Jeffersonian model of self - governing townships.

The fracas eventually culminated in the creation of the ad - hoc organization Action Against Racism in the Arts (AARA) and ushered in an era of lively public debates about institutional racism in the art world.1 As a result of this sort of multicultural activism and affirmative action policies, elite art schools like Yale came under greater political pressure to accept students of color.

The motif of black activism is communicated in the silver gelatin print, The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club (Kiss), though the theme of black identity and notions of African «otherness» underlies most works in the exhibition, which provides a unified result.

We also observed the role of artistic collectives, the power of art activism, how process was as important as the end result (the art object), and the role that feminist art methodologies played (and plays) in what we understand as contemporary practice today.

The video programme Virtual Agoras, presented at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art as part of the Berlin Biennale, is the result of ongoing research into creative and artistic online activism related to the uprising in Syria.

Nuclear could be well below 25 % of current cost by now if not for 50 years of anti-nuclear activism resulting in bad regulation.

The criminalization of environmental activism: Goldman Prize winners such as Yul Choi and Marc Ona faced jail time, fines and persecution from their governments as a result of their advocacy work.

Gazprom, a large Russian oil company, stands to benefit if Russian - funded environmental activism results in reduced levels of fracking and natural gas production in the United States, Smith and Weber tell Mnuchin.

So is the issue of the absurdity of using political activists to rate abstracts on the subject of their activism, and giving them the power to create the results they wanted.

«I believe that [the public's] environmental consciousness is actually lower in Russia as a result of years of propaganda framing environmental activists as agents of the West, taking orders from outside the country,» says Gazaryan, 39, who today received the Goldman Prize for his grassroots environmental activism.

Now that same activism is useless, the result of persistently asking «the wrong questions.»

At the maximum extent of «judicial activism» this could result in the finding of a duty binding upon the political actors on the basis of the telos of Article 20 TFEU and Article 50 TEU.

The Bingham Centre makes the valid point that the fact that cases such as Al Rawi (allegations of rendition and torture by the security services which resulted in a large civil settlement) have meant courts ordering more disclosure from the security services may be more a result of policy changes by the security services than of judicial activism which needs to be reined in.

The process by which the court struck down WCAT's right of reconsideration was the result of an unusual instance of judicial activism, and in my view it was quite unsatisfactory.

Nobody expected the controversy to result in calls for the resignation of McLachlin, with critics citing bias and judicial activism.

The Superior Court found persuasive the reasoning of the trial court that imposing a duty here would greatly expend judicial resources and would result in judicial activism.