Sentences with phrase «sort of advocacy»

But that sort of advocacy doesn't earn you a lot of friends on the Republican side of the aisle.

The sort of advocacy employed by AGU and the other organisations I mentioned is largely responsible for empowering extremist NGO's who then mislead the MSM, the public, policy advisers and governments so we have had 20 years of advocacy of policies that have no chance of success.

This sort of advocacy is indeed problematic.

«People still saw Artists Space as a sort of advocacy organization that should promote young artists» careers,» Mr. Kalmár said, «that we should essentially test run artists for the market, and I don't think that's what we should do.

While CLASS is comprised of different sorts of advocacy groups — from InnerCity Struggle to Educators for Excellence — the broad - based coalition shares the same overarching mission: close the achievement gap in LAUSD.

More visible, for now, are two of the other trends that Schuster saw in 1982: Many state - level officials are now scrambling to develop their own capacity to take the lead on K - 12 education, and all sorts of advocacy groups are scrambling to figure out how they can wield influence effectively in this new environment.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, his repeated discussions of his own history and conversion begin to feel like a sort of personal advocacy, as though his chief hope in writing is to gain his freedom.

Nonetheless, I think it is fair to ask whether it is consistent with the vision of contemporary universities to discriminate against religiously informed views, when all sorts of other advocacy and intellectual inquiry are tolerated.

Mainstream breastfeeding advocacy has acknowledged the power of these emotions as a valuable tool for increasing breastfeeding rates - albeit in a quiet, underlying sort of way.

This whole thing is raising all sorts of questions for me about blogger - brand relationships, once again... I feel like this kind of lobbyist - created advocacy changes everything.

The announcement, a rally of sorts, included Charles King, the CEO of Housing Works who is also the member of ACT UP New York, an - anti-AIDS advocacy group.

Tristan Laurent, President of advocacy group Online Dating Rights said,»... Americans (have) to divulge all sorts of highly personal information to a complete stranger or scammer abroad before the American can even say hello or know to whom he is writing.»

The issue is whether a federal statistical agency — intended to be immune to every sort of policy agenda and political interest — should outsource its data - gathering efforts to advocacy groups.

This is in no way any sort of political issue for me, nor associated with any sort of author advocacy cause.

As a result, animal advocacy research may be subject to various sorts of bias.

«My life's journey is to continue thinking and mining this notion of femaleness, and feminism, and advocacy for women through the sort of fictional, sci - fi narratives that I create.»

However there's nothing to stop having a separate international body of some sort devoted to mitigation and advocacy of some sort.

To what extent are they influenced in their view by inherently political advocacy of the sort that took place in the hearings?

As a scientist, Judith, you don't have to agree that your activity around climate change amounts to irresponsible advocacy, or even advocacy of any sort, but as a scientist it does seem that you have an obligation to address counterarguments to your position in a manner that at least attempts to control for you biases.

For almost 15 years now, I've been doing human rights and environmental advocacy work — most of it in Washington, D.C. Just about anyone who has done that sort of thing for more than a decade in the belly of the beast (a.k.a, the nation's capitol) can attest to how it jades you.

Another option is think tanks / advocacy groups (e.g. GWPF, Cato, Environmental Defense, etc.), but they may not want to promote reports that do not originate from their organization, although GWPF seems open to this sort of thing.

Recent entries in the legal directories describe Anton as a «superb advocate and draftsman, absolutely top - notch»; «the sort of lawyer every corporation should have»; «attracting praise for his superb advocacy skills and insightful analysis of matters»; «always on top of everything, and seems to absorb information at an incredible rate»; «very intelligent and perceptive on the legal issues and easy to work with».

Sources describe Nick Brett as «a genuine specialist in financial crime and fraud» and commend his dedication: «He is dogged and tireless in his support of and advocacy for his clients, and is the sort of solicitor that anyone would be lucky to have in their corner.»

«[I] t seems to be sort of an anonymous advocacy site that seems to want to deny that there is a problem in the profession, when the evidence — as Convocation clearly felt — clearly shows there is a problem,» Has he even been to the site?

«[I] t seems to be sort of an anonymous advocacy site that seems to want to deny that there is a problem in the profession, when the evidence — as Convocation clearly felt — clearly shows there is a problem,» he says.

Given that the Mountain States Legal Foundation is exactly the sort of right - wing advocacy group that Justice Scalia bases his jurisprudence around, you'd think he'd take it easy on this guy — and he basically did after getting this first dig out of his system.

«Naval brings a certain amount of Silicon Valley credibility to what is otherwise sort of a weird, strange crypto community phenomenon,» says Peter van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, a Washington crypto think tank and advocacy group.

The advocacy day sort of began two days ago with the submission of a letter, signed by 826 national and state organizations advocating for and serving youth and families, to party leadership and members of key Congressional committees.