Sentences with phrase «standard bearer at»

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I believe, on the contrary, that it is a matter of the greatest importance to make clear the true implications of the negation of sexual difference and to debate publicly what is at stake rather than falling back on principles, such as equality, that flatter those who set themselves up as their standard bearers, even though the way these principles are invoked to justify the homosexual - marriage agenda does not stand up to critical scrutiny.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

This year, the state Independence Party has tapped Democratic AG Andrew Cuomo to be its standard - bearer in the governor's race — a contest in which the party must win at least 50,000 votes in order to maintain its ballot line.

Party leaders even debated holding the vote to decide on their standard bearer on the very first day they gather at the Sheraton in Manhattan — June 1 — with down - ballot races like AG and state comptroller bumped to the second or even third day.

Some powerful state Democrats are ecstatic over nutty Rent Is Too Damn High Party standard - bearer Jimmy McMillan's show - stealing performance at last week's gubernatorial «debate,» but not for the reasons many may think.

That would be very good for the WFP in advance of the 2013 NYC mayor's race, and also for NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who — at the moment, anyway — looks to be the likely standard - bearer for the labor - backed party in the battle to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

At the time, the reasoning for the WFP was that if the party didn't nominate Cuomo as its standard bearer and went along with a stand - alone candidate for the first time in its history, it's ballot status could be jeopardized.

Paterson didn't even attend the Democratic convention in Rye at which Cuomo was unanimously selected to be the party's standard - bearer — a role the governor hoped would once be his — opting instead to remain in Albany to work on the budget.

At this point, there is no clear indication who would be the Democratic standard - bearer in a recall election.

THE battle to determine the standard - bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, on Thursday, shifted to the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, as Governor Timipre Sylva told the five - man panel, headed by Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, that the PDP had invoked its jurisdiction in order to stall hearing of the substantive matter at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, 520 U. S. 351, 354 - 355, n. 4, 359 (1997)(recognizing party's right to select its own standard - bearer in context of minor party that selected its candidate through means other than a primary); id., at 371 (STEVENS, J., dissenting); Eu v. San Francisco County Democratic Central Comm., 489 U. S. 214 (1989); Democratic Party of United States v. Wisconsin ex rel.

While the state Democratic Party is neutral on the ballot measure and its standard - bearer and two U.S. senators are all opposed, Chairman John Burton gave a one - word answer to the San Francisco Chronicle back in April when asked at the party's convention what will bring out young, first - time Barack Obama voters again: «pot.»

But I am also confident that Labour can again be the standard bearer for the progressive majority at the heart of British society.

They lashed out at Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican standard bearer, who on Thursday denounced Trump during a speech in Utah.

But Rachel Pendergraft — the national organizer for the Knights Party, a standard - bearer for the Ku Klux Klan — told The Washington Post that the KKK, for one, has a new conversation starter at its disposal.

«At a time when New York needs to show the country an alternative way, Andrew Cuomo has become our standard bearer,» Applebaum said.

The regional chairpersons made their intention known to the the immediate past President of the country who was also the standard - bearer of the National Democratic Congress during the 2016 general elections in which the party suffered defeat at a meeting on Thursday 9th November, 2017.

Paladino, the 2010 Republican standard bearer, sees a kindred spirit in Trump and has spent more than a year boosting him at rallies across the state.

According to Oye, at the appropriate time, the statutory organs of the party would take a position on the party's standard bearer for the presidential election.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente said, «The investment made in the Adirondack Bank Center at the Utica Memorial Auditorium by Governor Cuomo will bring to a close the renovations that have transformed an already magnificent arena into the standard - bearer for the AHL.

Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton and his Queens counterpart, Phil Ragusa, are scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. this afternoon to try to settle their differences over picking a standard - bearer for the NY - 9 seat vacated by ex-Rep.

At the same time, the state Democratic Committee, for which Cuomo is the standard - bearer, has been compelled to condemn Democrats in the Senate who have formed a power - sharing coalition with Republicans, an arrangement that progressives have faulted Cuomo for not breaking up.

Informal polling showed that Westin, a clinical oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, was running second to attorney Lizzie Fletcher in a crowded race to choose a Democratic standard bearer for the seventh congressional district in Texas.

There is a refreshing hint of irony about the ultimate standard - bearer for Reason placing himself at times beyond reality's reach, and even in his stable moments Darwin believed in «water cure» quackery to treat his feverish mystery illness.

In a cinematic world where James Bond and Jason Bourne are the current standard bearers for spy movies, something like «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» should have come as a nice breath of fresh air... a low tech and character based look at the type of material that usually involves shootouts and explosions.

The piece, by the Hechinger Report's Sarah Garland, an exceptionally thoughtful education reporter, traces Zimba's career from Rhodes scholar and David Coleman's business partner to «obscure physics professor at Bennington College» and unlikely standards bearer for the math standards that he had so much to do with creating.

Teacher delegates, who formed a large and highly visible presence at the convention, hailed the selection of Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas as the party's standard - bearer.

Diane Ravitch, our movement's standard - bearer for real reform, at the AFT national conference On July 28, 2012.

Lynn Stinnette - Barbour, Senior Associate, National School Reform, has led numerous initiatives at CTAC including the implementation of the Standard Bearer Schools process in multiple districts throughout the nation.

The 16 % of the faculty they represent (going back to the bell curve statistics and graphic) become the standard - bearers for their peers, and their successes at implementing new practices will influence the rest of the faculty.

As part of the dramatic changes at Belmont, the entire school community engages in the Standard Bearer Schools process.

In 1961 the Carnegie Corporation of New York called on renowned researcher, IDA standard bearer, and Samuel T. Orton Award winner, Dr. Jeanne Chall, Director of the Reading Laboratory and Professor of Education at Harvard University, to review the controversy.

Donald Trump, the Republican standard - bearer, and a succession of other speakers at the GOP convention in Cleveland July 18 - 21 barely discussed education beyond a few perfunctory nods to school choice.

Unveiled halfway across the world at a special event in the glamorous and amorphous Middle Eastern capital of Dubai that's chock full of skyscrapers and mega malls, the fourth Corvette to wear the ZR1 badge is not only a standard bearer for Chevy, but for the Corvette brand as a whole.

NEW YORK (March 24, 2016)-- Today at the 2016 New York International Auto Show, Nissan officially unveiled the standard bearer of its family of TITAN pickups — the 2017 TITAN Crew Cab, powered by Nissan's 5.6 - liter Endurance ® V8 gasoline engine.

They're halos and at the same time standard - bearers.

It also gets you into the segment at a price premium of more than a thousand dollars less than the Mini Cooper S and nearly $ 2,000 less than the standard - bearer Volkswagen GTI.

But I'm also going to take a look at Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita, Jr.'s «Avengers» # 1 this week, to see how it fares as the standard - bearer for the new age of heroism at Marvel.

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

At the same time, the small - minded presidency of George W. Bush, during which the status of the United States as an international political standard - bearer has atrophied, is reflected in American artists» increasing disenchantment with universal themes and greater fascination with the mundane, the non-visual, the personal, and the transitory.

No figure so dominated the art criticism scene at mid-century as Greenberg, who was the standard - bearer of formalism in the United States and who developed the most sophisticated rationalization of it since Roger Fry and Clive Bell.

OBA President Lee Akazaki presented the President's Award to LEAF, the Women's Legal Educational and Action Fund during the event at the Park Hyatt Hotel in downtown Toronto, hailing the organization as a «standard - bearer» of constitutional judicial review of state actions.

It would become standard rhetoric at association meetings as the organizers worked to establish themselves as the standard bearers of the «square deal.»

At a time when brick - and - mortar stalwarts Sears and Macy's are shuttering dozens of stores in an attempt to stop bleeding billions in losses, shopping center standard - bearer J.C. Penney is expanding.