Sentences with phrase «social agenda of»

NOT PLAYING BY THE RULES GAMEHOTEL director, and host of the show, Bruno Beusch, kicked off the soirée with a vibrant appeal in favor of the long overdue recognition of video games as a profoundly contemporary form of expression with this statement: «GAMEHOTEL puts video games where they belong: right on top of the cultural, economic, and social agenda of the 21 century.»

«GAMEHOTEL closes this gap and places games where they belong: right on top of the cultural, economic, and social agenda of the 21st century.»

There is a disconnect between conservative notions of «small government» and the «thou shalt not» social agenda of the religious right, which is why the Libertarians gained even the small amount of traction they did.

Finally, under the heading of unintended consequences, I am very fearful that placing sole responsibility for standard setting with the federal government could result in the worst of all possible worlds: national standards and assessments that embrace the conventional wisdom and social agendas of the education «experts» who staff our schools of education, teachers unions, and national associations.

«The real reason for the hysteria is indeed the exploitation of the fears I have described above by extreme environmental groups, who often have little interest in the «science», but who have social agendas of their own,» he said.

Not exact matches

«There are a number of social - responsibility issues that will become part of our agenda as we grow,» says Mendelsohn.

Sharing your agenda or location on social media allows potential thieves to keep track of where you are, making it easier for them to time a crime.

In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

In 2005, he used the first policy convention of the then - new Conservative Party to take potentially divisive social - conservative issues like abortion off the party's agenda.

While the new president has a more pro-business agenda than his predecessor Hollande, he might be significantly constrained in his social and economic reforms if he needs the support of both mainstream right - wing and left - wing parties.

«If you continue just to add institution - by - institution guidelines, you will not create enough of an umbrella to protect anybody from the social consequences of a cyber event and, therefore, almost definitionally there will be one,» said Poloz, who expects the issue to feature prominently on the G7 agenda when Canada plays host next year.

Zuckerberg claims the election research commission will be «independent» of Facebook and will define the research agenda, soliciting research on the effects of social media on elections and democracy

Bernstein holds a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University and is the author and coauthor of numerous books for both popular and academic audiences, including his latest book, «The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity.»

Rejecting traditional campaign techniques in favor of social media, the party pushed its agenda of, first, ending the generous state subsidies and salaries paid to Italy's political parties and elected politicians and, second, replacing them with a vaguely conceived Internet - based representation system.

Rick Santorum can play to the high - mindedness of the social conservative agenda because in Iowa those voters have two loaves of bread under each arm.

Developed by search engine industry legend Danny Sullivan and social media guru Neil Patel, the agenda for this event mixes strategic direction with plenty of practical advice sessions ranging from social news to social bookmarking to social networking with a double dose of Wikipedia on day two.

Taking the example of the Quebec Liberal government's austerity agenda, Lanctôt explained how major cutbacks in the health and social services sector have imposed an unsustainable burden on both those who provide and those who use the services, the majority of whom are women.

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

«The support and expertise of a global exchange leader will be invaluable as the Centre strives to harness the momentum of the impact investing agenda to tackle Canada's social and environmental problems in new and innovative ways.»

TLC's agenda is to develop initiatives and partnerships that will foster economic equivalency and enhance overall business, economic and social development of Latinos.

Wildrosers had a history of refusing to moderate, but Kenney learned political leadership at the feet of fellow social conservative Stephen Harper, who excelled at letting certain elements hijack the party agenda for strategic advantage.

Despite the explosion of cryptocurrencies, including many with clear social impact agendas, big challenges remain in the process of making them part of mainstream society and to the successful implementation of their social objectives.

«Organizations are looking to leverage social communities for marketing, but all too often, people just jump into it,» Kim Collins, Gartner's managing vice president of CRM and agenda manager for marketing and sales strategies, processes and technologies, told SearchCRM.

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.

Social engineering was the preoccupation of the Nazis, and this holds true for every other genocidal agenda.

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.

Hmm... try it in the original language, instead of a million translations — and a ridiculous social agenda — later.

If the liberal definition of who Jefferson is is found to be faulty, it follows the foundation stones of much of the liberal political and social agendas are turned into sinking sand.

Now they blatantly take on the Republican and conservative voters of American with a purely Roman Catholic social agenda?

The Republican Party is most vulnerable because the Religious Right, a substantial voting bloc, is adamantly against gambling, This was evident recently in an Alabama gubernatorial primary race, when the challenger said that he «would not rule out new gambling rules» and lost, while Governor Fob James agreed to almost all of the right's social agenda, and won renomination.

The problem, however, is that after World War 11 a Party of fundamentalists again adopted the evangelical label to express a «neo-evangeliical» agenda that included an intellectual apologetic for the theological articulation of classical Protestantism, a repudiation of fundamentalist separatism in favor of a more inclusive ecclesiology, and a renewed social agenda.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

We can not consign children to a bleak future dependent on the whims of Mum's latest boyfriend and occasional visits from a social worker committed to the sort of agenda described above.

Some research of my own on the issue quickly revealed a well - prepared social and political agenda for bringing those proposals to fruition.

This is not a fair caricature, but what would happen if we really believed that the gospel (not the government, a political party, or a social agenda) was the source of our hope?

He makes a fool of the conservative social agenda, then embraces it in the end.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

It is just a bunch of books — not the writings of men wrestling with a god any more than other thinkers who never mention gods and also have political or social agendas.

Why can't we find politicians that are more realistic representations of the composition of the U.S. I am a registered Republican but I disagree almost entirely on their social agenda and I hate the Democrat's fiscal agenda.

From Brian: Liberation Theology is often criticized as reframing the gospel as a social / political agenda at the expense of the message of forgiveness of sins through Jesus.

Sabio: Are you saying that the biblical writers wrote what they did only out of political or social agendas without any sincere attempt to talk about what they called God?

Obama's version of Christianity (and most of society's for that matter) seems to consist of spiritual altruisms from the Bible mixed with popular opinion or a social agenda.

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Obama's home church in Chicago subscribes to liberation theology, a strain of theology rejected by main - stream Christians pretty much since its inception for the manner in which it mixes in Marxism and often reject core christian beliefs in favor of using the Christian message to serve a social agenda that is not inherent to Christianity.

This is how someone identifies another Christian now, with scary words: liberation theology, strain of theology, mixes in Marxism, social agenda that is not inherent to Christianity, and the Unitarian sound.

In rejecting Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind as yet another example of «that old - time [Platonic] Philosophy» which presupposes an objective foundation for an elitist social agenda, Rorty quite properly endorses Dewey's view of the need to develop literacy in all our citizens.

I consider myself a devout Christian, but I and my wife are far more concerned with social justice involving the needs of the poor, underprivileged and «least of these», to quote Jesus again, than we are with following the conservative Christian 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...).

Second is the linkage between homosexuality and a comprehensive agenda of social change.