Sentences with phrase «society groups in»

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Just a day before Facebook announced its ad changes, civil society groups in Myanmar criticized Mr. Zuckerberg, arguing that he had mischaracterized his company's effectiveness at detecting and quashing messages encouraging violence in the country.

Many civil - society groups in Britain welcome such rhetoric, but are not convinced the words will be translated into effective action because so many existing policies, from transport through regulation of the building industry, point in the opposite direction.

We are not affiliated with any political organizations nor any other humane society groups in or outside the United States.

The seminar was to engage municipal agriculture directors, district officials, youth and women groups, party activists, traditional leaders and civil society groups in the District and across the Region to explore potentials in the agriculture sector for employment creation and to reduce poverty and dependency resulting from unemployment.

This attracted barrage of criticisms from civil society groups in the north, the Minority in Parliament and some appointees in government.

Civil Society Groups in the Volta Region a have marked this year's International Democracy Day with a call on President Akufo - Addo and leaders of the various Regional bodies to intervene in the crisis in Togo.

«It is on this backdrop that we, the Civil Society Groups in the region, on this day, call on the President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to intervene in the situation in Togo.

Shehu was reacting to a protest staged by a coalition of civil society groups in Abuja, asking Buhari who has been receiving medical attention in London, United Kingdom since May 7 to either resume work or resign.

He therefore recommended strongly that «erring officials and security operatives found wanting on election duties should be severely punished according to the dictates of the law while other civil society groups in Ekiti State should tow the path of Democracy Vanguard in sensitizing the electorates».

Sixty - five green and civil society groups in February demanded each political party respect B.C.'s greenhouse gas targets.

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

A civil Society group in the mining sector, WACAM, is calling for a decisive action from government against all forms of what they term irresponsible mining.

Not exact matches

In Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.&raquIn Baltimore, the FBI's operatives in the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.&raquin the Black Panther Party were instructed to denounce Students for a Democratic Society as «a cowardly, honky group» who wanted to exploit the Panthers by giving them all the violent, dangerous «dirty work.»

If the plan had gone ahead, the merger of CIMB, RHB and Malaysia Building Society would have overtaken Maybank as the largest banking group in the country.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

It is among at least 4,000 signatories of the National Agreement on the Right to Decide and the Referendum Agreement, a group comprising of political parties and civil society organisations in favour of the independence vote.

The demutualisation was opposed by a group of members, some involved in the founding of the society in the early 1960s to offer an alternative to banks, which at the time were regarded as unfriendly to consumers.

(Saguil is also chair of the Law Society's equity advisory group and contributed to the recent landmark report on racism in the legal profession.)

The Commerce Undergraduate Society («CUS») is the umbrella group for all the student organization in the Haskayne School of Business.

He mentioned the company's plan to hire «dozens» of Burmese language content reviewers as the first part of a three - pronged approach in Myanmar, also noting a partnership with civil society groups to identify hate figures in the country rather than focusing on removing individual pieces of content.

In his work at Altimeter Group, Solis studies the effects of disruptive technology on business and society.

It's viewed better as a group of people, group of members who come together with a common goal and agenda, and a common sort of direction for how they want to help Bitcoin grow, help promote Bitcoin, in the face of challenges and push - backs from governments and other aspects of society.

During a talk at the Japan Society in New York, the CEO of the Monex Group made connections between the derivative market in the early 1980s and the current state of cryptocurrency.

Daniel graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class degree in Economics and Management and was previously the co-chair of the Value Investing Special Interest Group of the UK CFA Society.

As the third round of NAFTA negotiations are set to begin in Ottawa, civil society groups will be holding their own meetings.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

The latter position means opposing any Constitution amendment which grants special privileges or status to one group in Canada (such as recognition of Quebec as a distinct society).

The Basque militant group ETA is announcing that it has «completely dissolved all its structures,» in a letter sent to Basque institutions and civil society groups.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

I grew up in the 1990s, in a very extreme group that would have liked to place the blame for all of society's woes squarely at the feet of miniskirt - and bikini - clad women.

I'm familiar with the problems which occur in Israel when Haredi and non-Haredi groups meet; they do not, in general, bleed into the wider society.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

Bellah and his colleagues praise religion because they note that religious groups, unlike other groups in our society, are concerned not only with the common good of the nation but also with the common good of all human beings.

For in America today, the usual secularist reaction in dealing with any message brought to society by a particular community is automatically to assume that the message is from a «special interest group,» one whose motives are those of self - interest, even when hidden behind a rhetoric of altruism.

A «small army» of social workers and charitable groups managed their arrivals» from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society workers in their white enamel badges to the volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (light blue silk armbands).

Kenyan Christians and wider society have been subject to numerous attacks from Somali - based Islamist group Al - Shabaab in recent years.

But the teaching went to the other ways of guilty, scare of evil, hell, persecution,, which becoming anti-belief for different interest of different groups in society from time to time.

Nazis believe they are the victims of reverse bias, and anarchist Antifa groups believe they are the victims of Nazism, capitalism and society in general.

and the disabled, poor, non white, ill educated... I just blogged about that today as I was at a conference where we were talking about how to reach unreached groups or sections of society, but we don't let anyone else in to play.

In 1988, he was banished when he was ordained into a breakaway Catholic group called the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).

He will wait and delay as long as he possibly can to do the basic things that any other group in society would have done years ago.

This delusion has infected groups that are presumed to be the most highly educated, sophisticated, and worldly-wise in our society.

I am tired of religious groups demanding to be exempt from rules set up by the larger society in which they exist.

Then, last Wednesday an op / ed appeared in the Daily Princetonian that attacked the Anscombe Society, claiming the group «promotes discrimination against fellow Princetonians,» that «the literature from the Anscombe Society serves only to reinforce anti-gay bigotry,» and that the group believes that «working mothers are ruining the country.»

With his path now clear to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is on the verge of becoming the first Mormon to head a major party's presidential ticket, a new milestone in America's embrace of religious groups that were once shunned by society.

The good life, the good society, was one in which all sorts of groups — families, clubs, co-operative societies, small towns run by boards of elders — lived the lives they wanted to live in a creative interaction governed by the spirit of living and letting live.

A more controversial group also dealing with suicide is the Hemlock Society, founded by Derek Humphry, who assisted his wife to take her own life in England several years ago.

Elsewhere, I have indicated how this field - approach to Whiteheadian societies allows for a trinitarian understanding of God in which the three divine persons of traditional Christian doctrine by their dynamic interrelatedness from moment to moment constitute a structured field of activity for the whole of creation.6 Here I would only emphasize that thinking of Whiteheadian societies as aggregates of mini-entities with one entity providing the necessary unity for the entire group is reductively much more impersonal and materialistic than the approach sketched in these pages.