Sentences with phrase «social reform at»

The appointments of Ms Truss and Ms Greening, as well as Patrick McLoughlin becoming Conservative party chairman, were cited by Downing Street of the «commitment of the Prime Minister to putting social reform at the heart of her Government».

I would say that social reform at its best in a gospel setting needs to be accompanied by holy living.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, discussed how people of all faiths need to unify to help others overcome social problems in the United States at an interfaith discussion of clergy leaders in Palm Beach County...

But De Gregorio acknowledges the challenge they present going forward and fears that, particularly at a time when growth in the region is slowing and external circumstances are changing, a flair for populism and the power of vested interests might undermine the process of continued economic reforms needed to foster, among other things, shared prosperity and social inclusion.

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

Communalism was stopping the movement towards social reforms aimed at justice for women and the depressed groups.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

The not - so - hidden agenda was to make evangelical Christianity the spearhead for social reform — at least partly, one suspects, to gain credibility for it as a theological alternative.

Unfortunately spirituality itself has been elaborated within the later Christian tradition very much in an individualistic manner: seeking inner purification and saving one's soul or advancing towards personal liberation, without an effort at a reform of the unjust social relationships and structures.

As the Catholic church transformed itself internally at Vatican II and as the place of Catholicism in American society lost its old distinctiveness during the 1960s, they fragmented and lost whatever faint hope they might once have had of presenting a coordinated program of religion - based social reform.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially aSocial Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially asocial battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

At the close of the «80s, Agudath Israel opened an office in Washington, D.C., where once Reform's Social Action Center and secular Jewish agencies had this turf to themselves.

What has to be avoided at all costs, in other words, is a blueprint for social reform which in the end favors only one group in society in its quest for greater economic and political self - determination.

The fatalism of the Orient and social despair such as that voiced by Ecclesiastes in a later age did not preclude efforts at reform.

While it is encouraging to see religious concerns permeate the secular culture, at the same time social reform without a vital connection to religious conviction tends to end in disillusionment and cynicism.

We noted at the outset that reformed spirituality is concerned to emphasize not only the cultivation of this personal triadic relationship with God and others, but also to cultivate a sense of responsibility to the larger social dimension of our lives, including the affairs of state and nation.

In 1968, at Uppsala — in a time of great social, political and theological confusion — a commission was authorized to work on a reform of WCC structures.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

At the helm was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inaugurated social reforms on a broad scale and so virtually initiated America's approach to the welfare state, important to Roosevelt's success in bringing the nation along with him was the human touch he displayed in what he said and did.

Amid general social unrest the demand for church renewal and reform expanded in a flurry of writings by Luther that evoked an equally strong response from Rome issuing in Luther's excommunication and a papal bull commanding his appearance for trial at the Diet at Worms.

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In this slim volume, Tough pulls together decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.

The comments come as Labour published a letter showing executives at PCTs threatening critics of the health and social care bill with disciplinary action if they publicly criticise the reforms.

The update of the social security information of employees on the payroll system was aimed at cleaning the mechanized payroll database, which forms part of the Public Financial Management Reform program

Among those to pen chapters are Joe Twyman, YouGov's head of political and social research, and Chris Terry, researcher at the Electoral Reform Society.

Because they were aimed at «social,» as well as economic reform, American liberalism took on the connotations of socialism.

At a partisan level, also during the Thatcher era, the cause of constitutional reform was taken up by the SDP - Liberal Alliance made up of the Social Democratic Party, which had split off from the Labour Party in 1981, and the more established Liberal Party.

What Labour needs is a new social democratic revisionism, that heavily focuses on restructuring the welfare state, to unite communitarian and cosmopolitan voters, in an era of globalization, high inequalities, increased demands for choice, and an ageing population This requires applying the principles of solidarity, reciprocity and individual empowerment, in relation to reforming the welfare state, to make it more effective at tackling poverty and providing economic security, and to satisfy rising demands for choice.

He iwas a a visiting professor at the Centre for Social Sciences (Tbilisi State University, Georgia) from 2010 to 2013, and has a strong interest in higher education reform in the former Soviet Union.

Unfortunately for her, Theresa May's attempt at a sort of neo-Bonapartism project over both Brexit and national social and economic reform is clearly failing.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

Her attempts at radical social reform have mainly also foundered because of (again) of Brexit, which has sucked the oxygen away from any other policies.

Andrew Dilnot, the author of the report that provided a blueprint for the reform of social care, is giving an interview to the World at One.

David Cameron has called on the coalition to provide a «strong, decisive and united government» in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for «division and navel - gazing» at a time of social and economic insecurity.

He is currently working at The Shaftesbury Partnership working on designing and delivering social reform, specifically around unemployment.

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

«Brown did not suffer defeat because he wasn't good enough at selling himself or his vision for the country — insufficiently «touchy, feely», as he suggests in the book — but because he never seemed able to reconcile a robust and renewed modernisation agenda, which combined reform as well as investment, with his commitment to social justice.»

«At the heart of next week's reforms will be a new contributory principle that gives women a fairer entitlement to the basic state pension more quickly, while ensuring that we value social contributions equally with cash contributions,» Mr Hutton said.

Major issues during the 2015 legislative session included a budget deficit estimated at $ 200 million, social security tax reform, a structural deficit expected to reach $ 400 million by 2019, education funding, and ending homelessness among the state's veterans.

At best, he has cut spending and taxes for the rich while pushing popular social reforms.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

The Office's goals are to enhance the economic, civic, and social integration of immigrant New Yorkers; facilitate access to justice for immigrant New Yorkers; and advocate for continued immigration reforms at all levels of government in order to eliminate inequities that impact New York's immigrant communities.

At 6:30 pm on Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton will take part in a discussion with the New School's Maya Wiley on «key issues impacting civil rights, social justice, and criminal justice reform in NYC and nationally.»

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

In today's culture, with the social climate at an all - time high with all the fear - based news and conflicts happening, shared information is needed for a conscious global reform.

To celebrate these two momentous occasions, join the Hoover Institution, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Education Next on April 25 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. for a look at ed reform's progress since the 1980s and an examination of what the latest NAEP scores mean for America's future economic growth and social vibrancy.

To be clear, I continue to question whether the ed reform movement at large is properly viewed as a race - focused «social justice» movement or a broad school improvement initiative benefitting all children, thereby serving social justice ends.